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UCSD ALLIANCE TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES TO SHARED INFRASTRUCTURES
UCSD and four technology leaders (AT&T, HP, Alcatel, QUALCOMM) have committed approximately $9 million over three years to the Center for Networked Systems, a university-industry alliance focused on developing technologies for robust, secure and open networked systems. Faculty from SDSC and Cal-(IT)2, among other institutions, also are contributing.
NTT DATA ANNOUNCES FIRST GRID APPLIANCE, 'cell computing BOX'
"cell computing BOX," is a turnkey system that consists of United Devices Grid MP software, server hardware and database software as a plug-and-play package. "cell computing BOX" can also be purchased pre-bundled with applications for life sciences and other industries.

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3PAR, COMPUTACENTER TO DELIVER UTILITY COMPUTING TO U.K. MARKET
3PAR, a provider of utility storage, and Computacenter, a European IT infrastructure services provider, announced a comprehensive partnership to deliver utility computing to financial services and government organizations as well as SMEs in the United Kingdom.
NEC DEVELOPS GRID MIDDLEWARE FOR DATA CENTERS
NEC plans to incorporate the newly developed Grid middleware into NEC's VALUMO product series combined with the results of the Business Grid Computing Project that NEC is participating in, which is led by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
UTT DEPLOYS CONTIVO TO SPEED PETROCHEMICAL PROCUREMENT
Contivo's recently expanded capabilities and platform support enable data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and Web services.

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US UNWIRED SELECTS CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND
US Unwired will deploy Corio Applications on Demand at their own site, and application services will be administered 24-7 through Corio's global network of Application Management Centers (AMC).
NRC BUYS SUN SYSTEM TO AMP UP BIOINFORMATICS GRID
Replacing two older enterprise class systems, the National Research Council of the Canadian Bioinformatics Resource chose the Sun Fire E20K server for its tremendous scalability and throughput computing potential.
SDSC ENHANCES ZONE SRB TO SUPPORT LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATIONS
New versions of Jargon (Java API for Real Grids On Networks), the SRB Java API and SDSC Matrix have also been released. Matrix can be used as either a Grid workflow management system or for SRB Web Services, and uses the Data Grid Language (DGL) to communicate between Matrix Web Service clients and the server.

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"The emergence of Grid computing and pervasive connectivity has given rise to complex open, dynamic systems of global reach. Understanding the behavior of these networks as interdependent systems requires sophisticated online and offline measurement and analysis, as well as modeling and experimentation in which CNS (Center for Networked Systems) will excel." -- Larry Smarr, Director, Cal-(IT)2

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