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NEW ACCESS GRID TUTORIALS RELEASED
DMTF ANNOUNCES NEW WORKING GROUP FOR UTILITY COMPUTING
IBM EMBRACES ECLIPSE ENVIRONMENT FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING
Special Features
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NEW ACCESS GRID TUTORIALS RELEASED
- The tutorials take you from determining whether or not your organization
will benefit from an AG, through installing, configuring, and operating
(including troubleshooting) an AG.
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DMTF ANNOUNCES NEW WORKING GROUP FOR UTILITY COMPUTING
- The DMTF Utility Computing Working Group will operate in close
collaboration with other organizations, like GGF and OASIS Web Services
Distributed Management Technical Committee, to develop standards related to
utility computing.
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NRC PIONEERING GRID COMPUTING IN CANADA
By Gabriel Mateescu, National Research Council Canada
- The Research Computing Support Group (RCSG) at the National Research
Council Canada (NRC) has designed and implemented a distributed software
system, called SpectroGrid, which provides remote access to spectroscopy
instruments located at the NMR facility and at other sites.
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OMG CHARTERS NEW SUBGROUPS, ELECTS ARCHITECTURE BOARD MEMBERS
- Reflecting the group's expanding range of interests, OMG members chartered
four new subgroups and elected architecture board members during its recent
meetings in Anaheim, Calif.
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THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT GRIDtoday NEWS ITEMS
By Rolf McClellan
- Following are brief evaluations of recent news stories from GRIDtoday.
Rolf McClellan has nearly 20 years of experience in the network and computer
industry.
Systems/Enterprise
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DCML DOUBLES MEMBERSHIP WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF INCEPTION
- The 10 new members of the DCML Organization include software, services and
Web management companies AssuredWeb, Blazent, Cadena Software, Covalent
Technologies, Etagon, NetContinuum, Peregrine Systems Inc, Qlusters,
Speedera Networks and Tideway Systems.
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FORCE10 POSTS 160 PERCENT GROWTH IN SHIPPED 10 GbE Ports
- According to the Dell'Oro Group's most recent quarterly Ethernet Switch
Report, Force10 experienced 160 percent growth in Layer 3 10 Gigabit
Ethernet port shipments, compared with third quarter 2003 shipments.
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PLATFORM COMPUTING APPOINTS PAUL MCFEETERS AS CFO
- In this position, McFeeters will align the company's corporate structure
and management processes with the continued acceleration of Platform's
growth and profitability.
Applications
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eSpatial ANNOUNCES COMPATIBILITY WITH ORACLE DATABASE 10g
- As part of the Oracle 10g beta program, eSpatial tested iSMART, its
flagship geospatial product for business applications, with Oracle 10g and
is ready to upgrade customers from Oracle9i to Oracle Database 10g
technology, which is now available.
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IBM EMBRACES ECLIPSE ENVIRONMENT FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING
- IBM announced the availability of an Eclipse-based Autonomic Computing
Toolkit for developing self-managing capability in IT environments. The
toolkit will be the first integrated collection of assets and tools, with
support provided, to assist software developers in designing and testing
autonomic solutions.
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ObjectWeb LICENSES J2EE TECHNOLOGY COMPATIBILITY TEST SUITE
- The ObjectWeb Consortium is demonstrating its commitment to the compatible
J2EE technology industry by joining the Apache Software Foundation and the
JBoss Group, which were the first open source organizations to license the
J2EE 1.4 platform specification and CTS.
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SUN ANNOUNCES AGGRESSIVE DEVELOPER PROMOTION
- The promotion includes a free AMD Opteron-based server plus extensive
tools, support and services to develop and test enterprise applications.
Breaking News
- Security
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Atmel Announces Trusted Computing Group 1.2 Security Processor
Eicon Networks Acquires Shiva Business BREAKING NEWs
Forum Systems' Web Services Firewall To Stop Hidden Threats
IBM, Cisco To Team Up On Security Technology
Imperva SecureSphere v2 Stops Known, Unknown Attacks On Apps
Netreo Introduces New Security Platform
Passwords Not Enough To Protect Complex Data
Reconnex Product Prevents Disclosures Of Critical Info
RSA Confirms Commitment To Industry Standards Organizations
Two NCSA-Developed Tools Set Sights On Network Attacks
SIIA To Use Rainbow SSL VPN To Conduct Codie Voting Online
- Platforms
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Appro Announces 1U, HyperBlade Servers Based On Itanium 2
IBM eServer Shatters Record For Computing Power
IBM Perfects Making Low Power, High Performance Processors
Intel, In Shift, Unveils 64-Bit PC Chip Feature
- Networking
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ADVA Announces Polish Supercomputing Center As Customer
Force10 Introduces Zero Packet Loss Hitless Technology
Tellabs Enhances 8800 Series Of Multi-Service Routers
Verilink Introduces New Router Products
Xilinx Introduces AdvancedTCA Development Platform
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition
to focus on the emerging market for commercial business
applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers
We are looking for high-level speakers from
commercial organizations to speak on
applications and implementation of Grid computing
- Storage
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TeraText Solutions Announces Database System Release 4.2
Texas Memory Systems, Sun Certify Ramsan-320 Solid State Disk
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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GreenTea Software Establishes Grids
IBM releases Free Q104 Software Evaluation Kit
Opsware Inc Unveils Opsware System 4 Japanese Edition
InnerAccess Partners, Seagull Software Strategic Partners
webMethods Integration Platform 6.1 Increases Performance
- General
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GDA To Offer Complete Set Of Advanced Switching IP Cores
Phoenix Launches Adv. Dev. Environment For Core Software
UNESCO, HP Install Grid In BiH
Quote Of The Week
"The collaboration will deliver the usability the industry requires, and provide standards that capitalize on existing efforts to deliver the management capabilities that will be essential to creating the tools and frameworks necessary for utility computing." -- Charlie Catlett, Chair, Global Grid Forum
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