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Special Features
- PRAGMA PUTS PEOPLE AT CORE OF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- Peter Arzberger, chair of the PRAGMA steering committee, talks with
GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about the recent PRAGMA 7 workshop (Sept.
15-17 at SDSC), what the future holds for this international assembly, and why
people are the most important resource of any Grid deployment.
- WILL FINANCIAL SERVICES DRIVE GRID ADOPTION?
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- On the heels of some customer wins in the financial services industry,
GRIDtoday was able to speak with Peter Ffoulkes, Sun's group manager of HPTC
marketing, about why he thinks financial services will be the driving force
behind Grid adoption across all industries.
- WORLD'S FIRST CITY SUPERCOMPUTER TAKING SHAPE
- The incubation of the world's first virtual city supercomputer was
announced with the AlmereGrid project kick-off in the city of Almere, The
Netherlands. AlmereGrid aims to perform specific research on how a
heterogeneous Grid can interconnect and use non-central computer resources
from individual participants and companies.
- GRID PROJECT PART OF $12M SENATE APPROPRIATION TO NASA
- The following is an excerpt from the 2005 Senate Appropriations Bill in
regard to funding for NASA. The Grid project will help improve data
distribution as a part of the ECS/EMD Synergy Program.
- TEXAS TO BUILD NETWORK, GRID FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION
- The state announced the approval of $9.8 million in funding to build the
high-speed Lonestar Education And Research Network for Texas higher
education institutions, and to construct the Texas Internet Grid for
Research and Education to enable these institutions to access and share
resources, collaborate on research, and facilitate online teaching and
remote learning.
Systems/Enterprise
- SUN MICROSYSTEMS UPGRADES GRID, HELPS BANK ADDRESS BASLE II
- Equity and Derivatives, a part of BNP Paribas group, which is a Fortune
500 stocks and derivatives company, acquired more than 100 Sun Fire V20z
servers. The servers, which are based on AMD Opteron processors, will be
part of the compute Grid which run the firm's risk management application.
- TOPSPIN ROLLS OUT 'GRID-TO-GO' PROGRAM
- Grid-to-Go can be used with commodity servers, and includes all of the
infrastructure and software required for a Grid architecture that unifies
applications, servers and storage.
- LeCayla SYMMETRY ENABLES BILLING, METERING FOR UTILITY COMPUTING
- Symmetry is the first software metering and billing infrastructure that
allows ISVs to provide packaged software on a pay-as-you-go basis. It allows
traditional software applications that are installed at a company's site to
be offered on the same commercial terms as Web-served offerings.
- PRIMA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF SOFTWARE FOUNDATION FOR SOAs
- Version 4.0 reinforces the key features required to implement a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an insurance organization available in
version 3.1 and delivers an extended set of functionalities improving its
effectiveness and usability.
- SERVICE INTEGRITY ANNOUNCES SOAdvantage
- The collaborative, cross-industry panel was created to help executives
share best practices for implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
- KEY ENTERPRISE BUYERS READYING LARGE INVESTMENTS IN SOAs
- According to a Yankee Group study of 437 enterprises across the United
States, senior enterprise buyers within manufacturing, financial services,
health care and wireless sectors are preparing to invest in service-oriented
architecture (SOA) infrastructure development.
Applications
- NCSA, PARTNERS TO DEVELOP COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY GRID
- The National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative has granted nearly
$3 million to a partnership of institutions, including the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications, to deploy tools to help computational
chemists take advantage of multiple computational resources.
- IBM THAILAND GRID PROJECT TO HELP STUDY SHRIMP DNA
- Currently, Thailand must import breeder shrimp from other countries. IBM
plans to encourage local researchers to utilize Grid infrastructure to study
shrimp DNA so they can develop good shrimp breeders that suit the country's
environment, which in turn would reduce imports.
- UNITED DEVICES UNVEILS GRID-READY LINUX CLUSTER SOLUTION WITH HP
- Grid MP Cluster provides several advantages to the Linux cluster
community, including seamless virtualization and provisioning of resources,
centralized data and application management, high levels of security and a
leading application framework.
Breaking News
"Grid typically means as many things as there are people in the
room." -- Peter Ffoulkes, Group Mgr of HPTC Mktg, Sun Microsystems
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