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Special Features
- OPEN LETTER FROM GGF CHAIR LINESCH
- In his letter to the Grid community, GGF Chair Mark Linesch gives his
thoughts on the recent GGF12 conference and turns his focus to the future,
including an impending review of the overall GGF strategy and operating
model by independent consultants.
- CRAY EXTENDS OEM AGREEMENT FOR ALTAIR PBS PRO GRID TECHNOLOGY
- PBS Pro enables customers in the government, life sciences, energy,
research, logistics, manufacturing and financial industries to optimize
the utilization of their high performance computing environments by
aggregating computation resources into a virtual pool and intelligently scheduling
their computational workload across this virtual pool.
- DRI, NEVADA ACES LAUNCH COLLABORATION, VISUALIZATION FACILITIES
- DRI's new facility, which is a large, state-of-the-art meeting room
replete with 40-foot stereoscopic, three dimensional display, is the
anchor location for the Nevada state Advanced Computing in Environmental Science
Program (ACES), a National Science Foundation-funded, multi-year project
linking Nevada's university and research campuses.
- ALTAIR PBS PRO SELECTED FOR 'COLUMBIA' SUPERCOMPUTER
- As part of Columbia, NASA will integrate a cluster of 20 interconnected
SGI Altix 512-processor systems, for a total of 10,240 Intel Itanium 2
processors, to significantly increase the agency's capability and capacity
through creation of "the Space Exploration Simulator."
Systems/Enterprise
- KONTIKI SOFTWARE ELIMINATES GRIDLOCK ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS
- Kontiki's DMS eliminates network gridlock by securely delivering high
quality video, software and other digital content to virtually any size
audience at a fraction of the cost of alternatives by efficiently
utilizing existing computing and network resources.
- ORACLE LATIN AMERICA SHEDS LIGHT ON NEW ON DEMAND PROSPECTS
- Oracle senior vice president of Latin America Luiz Meisler provided a
comprehensive update on Oracle's business in Latin America, emphasizing
the three key points of the show -- to give attendees the opportunity to learn
about Grid Computing, the latest version of Oracle Applications (Oracle
11i10) and Oracle On Demand.
- PROXIMA TEAMS WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS ON N1 GRID INITIATIVE
- Proxima Technology announced Centauri Business Service Manager software
as an integral element of Sun Microsystems' much-heralded N1 Grid Instant
Provisioning Reference Architecture.
Applications
- AXCELEON OFFERS GRID MGMT SOLUTION FOR HP VOLUME CLUSTER SERIES
- As industry standard compute farms and clusters are becoming more
available and affordable, the lack of applications and the difficulty of
cluster management have become a problem. Using EnFuzion as the basic
resource manager, a wide range of applications can take advantage of these
scalable compute configurations.
- DataSynapse GRID-ENABLES MAINFRAME REPORTING, MS EXCEL APPS
- From document and report generation to complex spreadsheets, GridServer
enables organizations to run business-critical transactions on a Grid
environment, improving application processing speed, scalability and
resource utilization.
- ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING NOW POSSIBLE USING GRID COMPUTING POWER
- Vancouver-based Lumerical Solutions Inc developed the electromagnetic
simulation software, which allows engineers and scientists to model how
light interacts with wavelength-scale structured materials. This software
can now be used in combination with the powerful supercomputing facilities
of WestGrid.
- NEC, SOFTRICITY TO OFFER ON DEMAND, FAULT TOLERANT APP MGMT
- Starting immediately, the two companies will offer a joint solution that
combines Softricity's SoftGrid application management platform with NEC's
Fault Tolerant servers to provide a robust application business continuity
solution.
Breaking News
"NASA's project Columbia will greatly accelerate their
scientific and space exploration capabilities which will be
beneficial for many years to come." -- Bill Nitzberg, CTO for Grid Technologies, Altair
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