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10 APPLICATIONS POWERED BY GRID COMPUTING
GRID RENAISSANCE: INTERVIEW W/ ALAN BLATECKY
NEW ALLIANCE TO DRIVE ADOPTION OF GRID IN ENTERPRISES
Special Features
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GRID RENAISSANCE: INTERVIEW W/ ALAN BLATECKY
By Alan Beck, Editor-In-Chief
- On the heels of his leaving SDSC for RENCI (see orignal GRIDtoday article
at http://www.tgc.com/breaking/1738.html), Alan Blatecky talks with Alan
Beck about the reasons for his departure and his views on the future of Grid
computing, among other topics.
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GRID ATTACKS RAISE CONCERNS AMONG SECURITY EXPERTS
- Security experts are concerned over recent attacks on Grid-based
supercomputers at colleges, universities and research institutions which
have resulted in online network research crashes. Can these machines now be
used to infiltrate certain Web sites or parts of the Internet?
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DAMIEN COORDINATOR DISCUSSES APPLYING GRID TO INDUSTRY
- Specialized design problems can require massive computing efforts.
Middleware tools to harness the power of Grid computing have been proven to
work in real industrial applications, through the work of IST project
DAMIEN.
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NEW ALLIANCE TO DRIVE ADOPTION OF GRID IN ENTERPRISES
- The initial Enterprise Grid Alliance Board includes EMC, Fujitsu Siemens
Computers, HP, Intel, NEC, Network Appliance, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Other founding members are AMD, Ascential Software, Cassatt, Citrix, Data
Synapse, Enigmatec, Force 10 Networks, Novell, Optena, Paremus and Topspin.
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GGF RESPONSE TO ENTERPRISE GRID ALLIANCE
- Now that EGA has been formally announced, GGF is having discussions with
EGA to determine how to best collaborate in the best interest of the Grid
community, in both industry and research sectors.
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10 APPLICATIONS POWERED BY GRID COMPUTING
By Brooklin J. Gore, Senior Fellow, Micron Technology Inc
- This report, along with two other new, groundbreaking Grid reports from
IDC and the Economic Strategy Institute will be released at Gt'04 and
included with conference registration. www.gridtoday.com/04/conference/index.html
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GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH JANE PATTERSON
By Marc Strassman
- Jane Patterson is the executive director of the North Carolina Rural
Internet Access Authority. In this role, she has been instrumental and
effective in the process of expanding broadband Internet access into
underserved and often isolated parts of her state.
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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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SHANKAR NAMED TeraGrid SITE LEAD FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY
- In his new capacity, Shankar will facilitate the integration of IU's
substantial computing, massive data storage, visualization and networking
resources, as well as a number of IU's world-class scientific data
repositories, into the TeraGrid.
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DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR EXTENDING NETWORK SYSTEMS, SERVICES
By K.S. Venkatram
- In this article, I will proceed with the related Nth'Connection Core
Engineering, Interaction with Open Universal Technology Stations/Servers,
effectiveness in working with remote services and systems.
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AKAMAI COMPETING WITH GOOGLE?
- Akamai, a small company that went public in November 1999 with the fourth
most successful IPO ever, is utilizing a large network of computers to
possibly compete with Google.
Systems/Enterprise
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ASRC BROADENS COMMITMENT TO CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND
- Corio Development is a pay-as-you-go, on demand service to support
enterprise application development projects. Corio Development delivers a
secure, fully patched infrastructure "sandbox" environment in as little as
five days.
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EGENERA, 3PAR DELIVER UTILITY COMPUTING FOR DATA CENTERS
- The relationship between Egenera and 3PAR capitalizes on the IT trend
toward utility computing infrastructures within the data centers of large
enterprises and service providers.
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McNealy ON MICROSOFT: 'THEY'RE BIG.'
By Derrick Harris, Assistant Editor
- Sun chairman and CEO Scott McNealy used this week's Sun iForce Partner
Summit to discuss some recent changes at the company, including Sun's new
found partnership with rival Microsoft and the appointment of Jonathan
Schwartz to the position of president and chief operating officer.
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SUN HELPS HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMERS UNLEASH VALUE FROM INNOVATION
- From major financial enterprises such as Charles Schwab and Toyota
Financial Services to leading health care companies such as McKesson Corp
and BAYER Healthcare AG, organizations throughout across numerous industries
are benefiting from Sun's open, secure and price performant systems.
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VERITAS CMO WAXES TECHNICAL ON ENABLING UTILITY COMPUTING
- In a persuasive keynote at the International Oracle Users Group
conference, Jeremy Burton outlined a roadmap for extending the power of
Oracle databases across the enterprise utilizing the full range of VERITAS
utility computing software building blocks.
Applications
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JetBrains LAUNCHES EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM FOR IntelliJ FABRIQUE
- JetBrains Fabrique is a Rapid Application Development framework for
creating custom Web and enterprise applications. With powerful new tools and
extensive available libraries and components, Fabrique dramatically speeds
development of J2EE applications.
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TCP LINDA NOW AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS
- TCP Linda gives users without expertise or training in parallel
programming the ability to build new parallel applications or to
"parallelize" existing sequential applications easily and intuitively.
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OSRM CLAIMS LINUX FREE OF COPYRIGHT ABUSE
- Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), set up by lawyer and venture
capitalist Daniel Egger, plans to offer standard product liability insurance
to major Linux vendors, big corporate users and individual developers of
Linux.
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SUN HELPS DEFINE NEXT GENERATION OF WEB SERVICES
- With a small-footprint J2EE platform suitable for broad adoption and
embedding in third-party systems and applications, the Java System
Application Server Platform Edition 8 brings J2EE 1.4 technology into volume
markets.
Breaking News
- Security
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New Product Enables Management Of Local Group Policy Objects
Security Task Force Recommends Standards-Based Solutions
Company Awarded $337M For Homeland Security Data Network
Parasoft SOAPtest 2.6 Supports WS-Security
Core Internet Technology Vulnerable, Experts Say
- Platforms
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AMD64 Design Team Honored As Innovators Of The Year
- Networking
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BellSouth Provides Additional Data Transport Capabilities
S2io, Caltech, CERN, Microsoft Set Internet2 Land Speed Record
Silicom Announces New Product Line
- Storage
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Insider Analyzes Storage Virtualization
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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S2 Systems Uses CocoBase Enterprise O/R To DriveOpeN/2 Support
Middleware Company, DevelopMentor Form Community Alliance
NorduGrid Middleware Released
- General
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Virtual Reality Class Highlights Collaborative Technology
e-Suds Goes Into Full Implementation At Carnegie Mellon
Japanese Systems Integrator Ten Art-ni Joins OSDL
Qlusters Retains Michelle Arden As Executive Consultant
SC Global Seeking To Bridge Communities Through Presentations
Users Of GridIron X-Factor Plug-In See Dramatic Improvements
Quote Of The Week
"Comprised of a remarkable group of technology companies, the EGA was formed to accelerate the adoption of Grid computing in the enterprise." -- Donald Deutsch, President, Enterprise Grid Alliance
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