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Special Features
- AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMMUNITY
By Tony Hey, Director of e-Science, EPSRC
- In this letter, Tony Hey espouses the benefits and goals of the $444
million U.K. e-Science initiative, including the the e-Infrastructure
(Cyberinfrastructure in the United States), and attempts to correct any
misapprehensions about e-Science that are still out there in the
international computer sciences community.
- IBM ANNOUNCES SLEW OF GRID PROJECTS, INCLUDING EPA
- Among those IBM has helped with Grid solutions are the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Nippon Steel, Siemens Mobile and NTT Communications. Big
Blue also announced it has completed work with 10 leading software companies
to ready their applications for Grid computing.
- SURA GRID INITIATIVE ENDORSED BY SOUTHERN GOVERNORS
- The Southern Governors' Association endorsed an IT initiative of SURA --
efforts to enable Grid computing, thereby enhancing science capacity and
improving economic competitiveness in the southern United States. Gov.
Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana announced that the state would commit $40M over
the next 10 years to support and expand utilization of this new research
tool.
- GGF'S WALTER STEWART LAYS OUT SOLID CASE FOR GRID
- Recently, GRIDtoday had an opportunity, on the eve of GGF12, to speak to
Walter Stewart, SGI's global coordinator of Grid strategy and co-chair of
the Plenary Program at GGF, on his views on a variety of Grid issues.
- G-CLUSTER GRID BRINGS HIGH-END GAMING INTO HOMES
- The Amino set-top box connects to G-cluster's Grid of computer servers in
the service provider's central office via broadband connection and receives
game graphics and sound to display on the television screen in real time.
Systems/Enterprise
- ACTUATE COMPLETES IBM GRID COMPUTING ENABLEMENT PROGRAM
- Actuate's Grid-enabled platform allows companies to more cost-effectively
deploy financial management, customer self-service and sales management
reporting applications and ensure that these strategic applications are
always available.
- MAZDA, NEC TO TEST GRID-BASED CORE SYSTEM
- Mazda Motor Corp and NEC Corp announced that Mazda will test Grid
computing technology, which will be incorporated into its core system, in
order to efficiently utilizes the IT resources of many servers in various
locations and provide countermeasures in case of disasters.
- CALLIDUS SPEEDS ROI WITH EIM'S ONLY GRID-BASED ARCHITECTURE
- The TrueComp Grid meets the unique incentive management requirements of
Global 5000 enterprises, allowing them to process millions of transactions
for tens of thousands of employees, in the shortest time period.
- LogicaCMG ENTERS GLOBAL SAP NetWeaver PARTNER INITIATIVE
- SAP NetWeaver works with existing IT infrastructures to facilitate and
manage change, as well as enabling the Enterprise Services Architecture,
SAP's blueprint for service-oriented business solutions.
- ORACLE GRID LETS PARTNERS DELIVER SOLUTIONS ON DEMAND
- The new offering, Oracle On Demand for ISVs, allows ISVs to remotely
manage and deliver their applications leveraging the Oracle On Demand Grid
as their technology infrastructure to seamlessly provide their customers
with on demand solutions that are secure, scalable, cost effective and easy
to manage.
Applications
- BERKELEY'S BOINC LETS HOME USERS JOIN CLIMATE PREDICTION GRID
- A new computing platform developed at the University of
California-Berkeley, called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
Computing), now lets users participate in many Internet computing projects
and tell their computers how much time to devote to each. The latest project
to move to BOINC is Climateprediction.net.
- U.S. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ENTERS NEW ERA WITH Grid3
- Grid3 uses the Internet to combine the computational resources of 26
universities and national laboratories across the United States to serve the
computing needs of more than 10 research groups in particle physics,
astrophysics, bioinformatics and computer science.
- SUN MICROSYSTEMS TO POWER PROVINCE-WIDE RESEARCH IN QUEBEC
- New data resulting from this research will contribute to the advancement
in knowledge and treatment of brain diseases, such as Parkinson's and
Alzheimer's disease, as well as other neurological and mental illnesses like
schizophrenia, depression and epilepsy.
- GridIron EXTENDS USE OF GRID FOR DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
- In addition to faster preview processing, X-Factor 1.5 now speeds
rendering of the Adobe After Effects Render Queue, enables the use of large,
high-resolution digital video files on network drives and Storage Area
Networks, and supports the enhanced security features of Windows XP SP2.
- MERISANT SELECTS CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND
- Corio Inc, an enterprise application service provider, announced that
Merisant Company has chosen Corio Applications on Demand to support its
enterprise applications. Through the Corio Full Service delivery model,
Corio will provide infrastructure, application management and support
services.
Breaking News
- Security
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Web Services Leader Digital Evolution Acquires Flamenco Networks
Fortinet Introduces FortiGate 5000 Network Security Platform
XWall WS Firewall Released On Borland JBuilder 2005 Companion CD
Layer 7, Oracle To Deliver Flexible, Web Services Security
Novell Delivers Tools, Capabilities To Simplify ID Management
- Platforms
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Advertising.com Implements BladeLogic Data Center Software
IBM Unveils Second-Generation AMD Opteron-Based Server
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Virtual Server 2005
- Networking
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Intel Outlines Strategy For Improving The Internet
Force10 Intros TeraScale E-Series
- Storage
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HP Details StorageWorks Grid Strategy
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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Mindreef Connects Development, Testing, Support For Agile SOAs
Novell, Partners Establish Network To Promote Linux Adoption
FSG, OSDL Collaborate On Enterprise Linux Standards
Allstream To Develop Network-Resident XML Services
SPI Dynamics Becomes Microsoft Certified Partner
Versant Announces New Open Access Suite For JDO, .NET
Borland, Vignette Leverage J2EE, New Java Standards
- General
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Business Objects Positioned In Visionary Quadrant In ETL Market
DMTF Grows To 3,000 Members, Takes Lead In Utility Computing
Oracle Names Juergen Rottler EVP For Oracle On Demand
Systinet Senior Program Manager Elected OASIS Committee Co-Chair
Verari Systems Closes $13.275 Million Series B Equity Round
"Any organization that is content with the way it deals with
data today and sees little need to grow its ability to deal
with data can afford to ignore Grids -- particularly because
they are likely to be out of business in three years." -- Walter Stewart, Co-Chair of Plenary Program, GGF
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