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GRID: A WORK IN PROGRESS WITH $4B POTENTIAL
MCNC FIRST TO JOIN GGF, EGA
VOLTAIRE LENDS SUPPORT TO CERN GRID PROJECT
Special Features
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GRID: A WORK IN PROGRESS WITH $4B POTENTIAL
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- GRIDtoday recently sat down with
HP's marketing manager for Grid
computing, Sara Murphy, to find out how more about managing Grid computing
expectations, and to find out what Grid projects HP is working
on.
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MCNC FIRST TO JOIN GGF, EGA
- MCNC's goal is to work with
members of the organizations to help establish
a mutually beneficial relationship between the Global Grid Forum standards
organization and the commercial-focused Enterprise Grid
Alliance.
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BUSINESS WEEK NAMES SDSC'S BERMAN TOP WOMAN OF
TECHNOLOGY
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
(SDSC) Director Fran Berman has been named
one of the top women in technology by the editors of Business Week magazine.
Berman is featured along with seven other elite women in the technology
industry including Susan Bostrom of Cisco and Lorrie Norrington of
Intuit.
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TurboWorx CEO: BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS TO DRIVE GRID
DESIGN
- In an interview with GRIDtoday,
TurboWorx President and CEO Jeff Augen
discusses, among other things, the formation of the difficulties surrounding
commercial Grid computing and what the future holds for Grid
technology.
Systems/Enterprise
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DASSAULT AVIATION JOINS ObjectWeb
CONSORTIUM
- Dassault Aviation, a leader in
top-of-the-line business jets, has joined
ObjectWeb, a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from
around the world that have joined forces to produce advanced components for
distributed software infrastructures.
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GE FINANCIAL WINS AWARD FOR USE OF GRID
TECHNOLOGY
- Grid computing has helped the
company achieve a 10-fold improvement in
cycle time for complex actuarial models.
-
IDC: WEB SERVICES-BASED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES MKT
HEATING UP
- According to this study, services
firms report significant increases in
the number of projects, in project complexity, and in the penetration of Web
services in their every day services activities.
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GRID SPEEDS UP RISK ANALYTICS IN NEW
SOLUTION
- Full risk analytics on complex
option portfolios with 2,000 trades can now
be performed in less than 30 seconds. These improvements enable clients to
manage global, cross-asset class books containing volume vanilla instruments
and structured products in real time, 24-7.
Applications
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BASE ONE RELEASES TOOLS FOR BUILDING COMMERCIAL GRID
APPS
- This version of its programmer's
toolkit extends its successful software
for building Windows cluster and Grid computing applications with Visual C++
to support the other main .NET programming languages: C#, Visual Basic.NET
and ASP.NET.
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VOLTAIRE LENDS SUPPORT TO CERN GRID
PROJECT
- The InfiniBand technology from
Voltaire was chosen for CERN openlab
because it provides the CERN opencluster interconnects with four essential
features: low latency, very high bandwidth, low CPU overhead and powerful
connectivity to storage.
-
OnLine ToolWorks ANNOUNCES GENERAL RELEASE OF SmartBatch
2004
- With the Enterprise Edition of
SmartBatch 2004, customers can leverage
idle computing resources with a load-balancing application Grid. Any
computer in the Grid can be sent application activity.
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webMethods CUSTOMERS MOVE AWAY FROM PROPRIETARY APP
SERVERS
- The use of open source application
server technologies continues to grow
and take market share away from traditional proprietary application server
vendors. For example, the JBoss open-source application server is
experiencing high customer demand.
Breaking News
- Security
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New Book Lays Down Basics Of Web Services
Security
XML Firewall Secures SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft Web
Services
- Platforms
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Developer Resources For IBM Power Architecture Now
Available
Verari Offers Latest Opterons Across Server, Workstation
Lines
- Networking
-
Ammasso Unveils RDMA-Enabled Ethernet Server
Adapter
Coridan Releases Early Access Version Of DMF
Sun Appoints John Fowler As EVP Of Network
Systems
L-3's RedEagle KG-240 Receives NSA
Certification
- Storage
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ZANTAZ Grid-Based Archiving Solution Wins
Award
- Operating Systems &
Middleware
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BEA 'Beehive' To Accelerate Java Adoption
Server Developer, Security, Services Provider Bull Joins
OSDL
Marist College To Open OSDL Linux Research
Site
- General
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Callidus Increases Commitment To TruePerformance
Solution
Paremus Contributes To Enterprise Grid Alliance
Quote Of The Week
"With a keen focus on the implementation of standards
in vendor products to ensure interoperability among competitors, we consider
the Enterprise Grid Alliance to be complementary to the current Global Grid
Forum work." -- Wolfgang Gentzsch, Managing Director Of Grid,
MCNC
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