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NEW GRID 'ZERO MIDDLEWARE' FOR FORTUNE 1000s

SPACI SELECTS HP FOR STRATEGIC GRID COMPUTING IMPLEMENTATION

SUN EXPANDS COMPUTING POWER FOR MUSEUM WITH PARALLEL CLUSTERS

Special Features

SUN'S JINI HELPS PROPEL GRID CAPABILITIES: Although Jini is not a complete Grid framework, its core services provide a foundation for the construction of Grid-like heterogeneous systems. Several initiatives are under way to extend the core Jini services to provide further Grid-like functionality, such as scheduling and wide-area service discovery.
SPACI SELECTS HP FOR STRATEGIC GRID COMPUTING IMPLEMENTATION: SPACI's (Italian Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures) vision for the Grid is not only to pave the way for future collaboration between Italian public and industrial research, but to provide Italian industry with top level services and the knowledge of its scientists.
SUN EXPANDS COMPUTING POWER FOR MUSEUM WITH PARALLEL CLUSTERS: The Museum's Department of Astrophysics is utilizing the high-performance cluster to run simulations of star formation at many scales. Grid-based simulations at resolutions up to 2563 zones of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics model the formation of single star-forming cores at scales of 1,000 AU.

Systems/Enterprise

HP ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE STRATEGY HELPS MORE THAN 100 CUSTOMERS: Customers such as CitiStreet, Atmos Energy Corp and Aquila Inc are reaping the benefits that HP products, services and partners deliver to enable greater business agility -- the ability to respond rapidly to changes in market conditions or customer demands -- while lowering overall IT costs.
IBM PROVIDES NEW PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SERVICE: IBM plans to provide Lam Research Corp with a comprehensive, network-based solution for managing and archiving product design documents and processes, including knowledge management and collaboration features, in a security-enhanced environment.
MARSYS GUARANTEES END-USER SERVICE WITH GLOBAL UTILITY-BASED IT: MARSYS, a global provider of IT managed services and technologies, introduced its Global Utility-Based IT (GUBIT) services to guarantee service levels of business-critical applications to the growing small-to-medium business market (100-1,000 employees).
PLATFORM RELEASES PLATFORM SYMPHONY 2.1: With Platform Symphony 2.1, financial services organizations can achieve higher ROI by seamlessly deploying more applications to the Grid more quickly while improving application performance, scalability and reliability.
SYBASE, EGENERA TEAM FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA CENTERS: Egenera has certified Sybase data management and analytic engine software for its BladeFrame products, ensuring that transaction-intensive enterprises moving Sybase applications to the Linux operating system achieve peak data center performance and the cost savings of a utility-based environment.

Applications

NEW GRID 'ZERO MIDDLEWARE' FOR FORTUNE 1000s: From a functional perspective, the software breaks down traditional Java-based business applications into self contained tasks and distributes them across a heterogeneous network for simultaneous parallel execution.
HP GRID TECH YIELDS UP TO 100 TIMES MORE BANDWIDTH FOR CLUSTERS: HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share, based on HP's "storage Grid" architecture and the first commercial research product to use a new Linux clustering technology, called Lustre, which was developed through collaboration between HP, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and Cluster File Systems Inc.
LION bioscience LAUNCHES NEW VERSION OF SRS TO BROADER MARKET: By working within a Web services environment, SRS users can take advantage of distributed computing resources. This allows for easier deployment of analysis tools and leads to increased effectiveness within discovery processes dependent on bioinformatics.
AmberPoint SOFTWARE OFFERS ENHANCED SOA, WEB SERVICES MGMT: AmberPoint now supports real-time management of thousands of active service level agreements across multiple customers and services. To reduce complexity, it automatically discovers services and displays interdependencies across service-oriented systems.

Breaking News

Security: Identity Management Broadens Scope With Launch Of Epok
Reactivity Scores High With Thomson Prometric
SPI Labs A Partner Of Premier Services Alliance Partnership
Platforms: More Than Half Of Top 500 Supercomputers Running On Intel
30 AMD Opteron Processor-Based Supercomputers Among Top 500
ANSYS To Deliver Cost-Effective 64-Bit Computing Software
Fujitsu Achieves High Performance With PRIMEPOWER Servers
QlikTech, Intel To Drive 64-bit Business Intelligence
VMware Delivers Support For 64-Bit Computing
Networking: InfiniCon Intros Entry-Level InfiniBand Solution For Databases
CANARIE Expands Research Network With Nortel Networks Solution
Foundry Intros Family Of App Management/Layer 4-7 Web Appliances
InfiniCon Adds To InfinIO 9000 Series For Enterprise Grids
NetScout Announces App Monitoring, Reporting For Enterprises
Pivia Software Speeds Microsoft NT LAN Manager
Sarvega XML Context Router Enables Web Services Over WANs
Sprint, SUNET Set World Speed Record For Internet Data
Storage: Ascential Delivers On-Demand Data Integration To Harley-Davidson
Isilon Introduces SyncIQ Replication Software
USACE Selects EarthWhere Spatial Data Provisioning Application
Operating Systems & Middleware: Fitech Announces Availability Of xTier 2.1 For Java
IONA Exposes Untapped Enterprise Resources For Java Developers
NEOS Partners With Oracle For Latest Database Migration Package
Oracle, Red Hat Take 'LEAP' To Further Linux In Asia Pacific
Mobilize Remote Data Solutions Now Available On AIX, SuSE Linux
TimeSys To Deliver Certified OSDL CGL 2.0 Linux Distributions
Red Hat Announces New Courses, RHCA Certification
General: Cognos Appoints Neal Hill Sr. VP Of Corporate Development
Verari CEO Receives Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Award

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"To meet evolving business requirements, IT organizations must minimize underlying infrastructure complexity while establishing the foundation for a new era of virtualized, utility-based, adaptive infrastructure." -- Carl Greiner, SVP, Infrastructure Strategies, META GROUP

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