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CHARLIE CATLETT SPEAKS ABOUT LEAVING GGF
SUN DEMOS MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER JAVA GAME SERVER PROTOTYPE
INTERNET COMPUTING FINDS MORE CANCER GROWTH INHIBITORS
Special Features
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CHARLIE CATLETT SPEAKS ABOUT LEAVING GGF
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
- GRIDtoday Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with the Global Grid
Forum's Charlie Catlett, who recently stepped down as GGF chair. Topics
covered include the futures of Catlett and the GGF, as well as competition
with other entities.
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NATIONAL LambdaRail GRID COULD BE BOON TO LOCAL ECONOMIES
- The benefits of being a part of the Grid are clear enough. Areas with
infrastructures capable of supporting the Grid will attract a lot of money
for academic, defense and commercial research. However, questions as to how
the Grid will work still remain.
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SINGAPORE GRID TO BOOST GRID COMPUTING
- Giz@NUS will serve as a testing ground for pilot projects on Grid
computing, so users can see how they can benefit from such shared resources.
It will also serve an educational role.
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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.
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SGI CTO TO DISCUSS NEXT-GEN. ARCHITECTURES IN HPCC KEYNOTE
- Goh will keynote this prestigious event for the second year in a row. His
presentation, "Factors Influencing the Design of Next-Generation High End
Computing and Visualization Architectures: facilitating scientific discovery
to planned serendipity," will take place on Tuesday, March 30 at 9 a.m.
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SMART NEIGHBORHOOD MECHANISMS FOR CHANGE MANAGEMENT
By K.S. Venkatram
- For the Grid Community, the article is a review of the Change Management
spectrum defined across my various investment opportunities and interests
for profits in Change Management, and planning Business Suites.
Systems/Enterprise
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GAME GRID COMPANY RAISES $10 MILLION TO EXPAND SERVICES
- Butterfly.net, an IBM-backed company aimed at creating an on-demand
computing infrastructure for running online games, said it has received
another $10 million in funding from supporters including networking
equipment giant Cisco Systems.
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DELL SAVES MONEY W/ MICROSOFT SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SERVER 2003
- Dell enhanced its server deployments and saved money by implementing
Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, according to Dell IT
executive LaVerne Council, in a keynote speech.
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HP, IDA IN $22M INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP GRID IN SINGAPORE
- As part of the collaboration, Singapore will become the first Asia-Pacific
node in the Global Operational Grid, which is built by a worldwide
consortium that counts HP as a member.
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INTRINSYC ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT W/ SAP FOR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
- Under the terms of the contract, SAP will be licensing Intrinsyc's Ja.NET
enterprise application bridging software and integrating this with SAP
NetWeaver, SAP's open and advanced technology platform for business
applications today.
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QLUSTERS ANNOUNCES DAVE MARTIN AS CHAIRMAN, CEO
- Qlusters Inc, a leader in enterprise cluster management, announced that
Dave Martin has joined the company as chairman and CEO. Martin brings with
him over 30 years of success in leading Enterprise IT companies and
providing strong CEO leadership capabilities.
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SUN DEMOS MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER JAVA GAME SERVER PROTOTYPE
- Sun will showcase Java technology for game developers at its booth and
kick off a Java Game Developer Contest with approximately $50,000 in prizes
donated by the contest sponsors IGN/GameSpy, AMD and Tapwave.
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS, VIGNETTE LEVERAGE JOINT TECHNOLOGIES
- Sun Microsystems Inc and Vignette Corp announced plans to bring to market
a joint collaboration solution to address the specialized needs of
medium-sized to large organizations.
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VISUAL MINING ANNOUNCES UNITED DEVICES AS NetCharts CLIENT
- To shorten development time, United Devices uses Visual Mining's NetCharts
Server to fulfill their graphical reporting needs, rather than develop their
own reporting and report serving software.
Applications
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LexisNexis USES CALLIDUS SOFTWARE FOR SALES INCENTIVE MGMT
- The company performed an extensive selection of many leading EIM solutions
and selected Callidus' TrueComp for its combination of scalability,
sophistication and flexible architecture.
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COVAD STANDARDIZES ON BEA WebLogic PLATFORM 8.1
- Covad, whose broadband network passes 45 million homes and businesses, has
been a long-time BEA customer, and has previous versions of BEA WebLogic
Server running on more than 120 processors.
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INTERNET COMPUTING FINDS MORE CANCER GROWTH INHIBITORS
- By using the spare computer time of thousands of PCs connected to the
Internet to form a large supercomputer, Find-a-Drug has been able to
evaluate the potential of more than 500 million molecules and produce a set
of molecules that are predicted to inhibit the growth of various types of
cancer cell.
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ESTABLISHED HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION CHOOSES RAINING DATA
- The combination of Pick Data Provider for .NET and Microsoft technologies
provides Landmark Healthcare performance improvements in real-time
integration with existing processes and also expands the reach of its
application by providing Internet and intranet capabilities.
Breaking News
- Security
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Apreo Announces Workstation PolicyShield
Certicom Announces Security Builder Crypto-C# For MS .NET
- Platforms
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Apple Begins Shipping Xserve G5 To Customers
Appro Server Delivers High-Density, Supercomputing Power
- Networking
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China Launches Next-Generation Internet
Cisco Intros Innovations For Catalyst Intelligent Switches
Coyote Point To Deliver Blade Server Load Balancing Solutions
Fujitsu Introduces 10GbE Switch Chip W/ 10GBASE-CX4 Support
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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PolyServe Clustering Software Adds Support For Oracle 10g
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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Novell Launches New Version Of SuSe Linux
Beijing Software Testing Center Joins OSDL
BitKeeper Doubles Pace Of Linux Development
Epicor Supports MS Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0
Novell Ships GroupWise For Linux
Opsware Expands European, Australian Presence
Candle Announces Two New PathWAI Solutions
Winternals Insight For AD Resolves Critical Failures
- General
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Red Hat Linux To Ship With IBM POWER Systems
Quote Of The Week
"I think it's not good to have competing activities driving or developing standards, because it confuses the market and dilutes the value of the work." -- Charlie Catlett, Chair, Global Grid Forum
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