Leading
Grid Solution
Providers
Request
Sponsor
Info |
This will be the last issue for the year.
Our first issue for 2005 will
be published
Jan. 10, and will feature an article on Web
services
and Grid standards by Tony Hey,
along with a Q&A with Oracle
executive, and
driving force behind the EGA, Benny Souder.
IN THIS ISSUE
Special Features
- GRID DOMINATES
FLOOR AT ORACLE OpenWorld
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris discusses
his impressions and shares his
experiences from two days at the Grid-heavy Oracle OpenWorld conference.
If attendees weren't familiar with Grid computing when they arrived, they are
now.
- GLOBAL GRID
EXCHANGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE
- An initiative of the WVHTC Foundation, the
Global Grid Exchange harnesses
the power of the Internet to aggregate the idle or unused computer
processing resources throughout the State of West Virginia.
- NCSA, UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA DEVELOPING DEPENDABLE GRIDS
- The National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) and the
University of Virginia have received a National Science Foundation
Information Technology Research grant of more than $2 million to research
and develop technologies for dependable Grid computing.
- DELL, EMC, INTEL,
ORACLE LAUNCH 'PROJECT MegaGrid'
- The four companies are combining certain
core technologies and technical
resources to ease the burden of integration for their customers, and to
develop a complete enterprise Grid computing solution that outperforms
traditional SMP offerings at a fraction of the cost.
- WS-I BOARD
NEARING APPROVAL OF SECURITY SCENARIOS FOR WS-I BSP
By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor
- The WS-I Board of Directors has commenced
review of the draft document,
"Security Scenarios for WS-I Basic Security Profile." This document was
already approved by the WS-I BSP WG which requested Board level approval.
Systems/Enterprise
- VIRTUALIZATION,
REGULATORY TRENDS WILL STIMULATE GRID
By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor
- One of two premier IEEE telecommunications
conferences each year, IEEE
Globecom was held in Dallas from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3. The conference
featured keynote speeches from industry luminaries, a telecom business
forum, design and developers forum, research-oriented papers and several
tutorials -- including one on high-performance global Grid networks.
- FUJITSU, IBM TO
PROMOTE OPEN STANDARDS FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING
- Initial areas of collaboration are expected
to include existing or new
standardization efforts related to the Web Services Distributed Management
(WSDM) Event Format, standardization of a set of actions to manage IT
resources, and standards related to software installation and deployment.
- FRANCE TELECOM,
FUJITSU ANNOUNCE GRID PROJECT
- Leveraging existing Grid computing
technology from France Telecom and
Fujitsu, the first phase of the initial project will have an internal
focus, to dramatically facilitate analysis of the huge volume of France
Telecom's
data, such as for data mining and customer billing.
- INFORMATICA
FURTHER EXTENDS GRID CAPABILITIES FOR PowerCenter
- Now offered as a complement to the
Informatica PowerCenter data
integration platform, Cassatt's Collage software for automating IT
operations for on-demand computing can help customers leverage
Informatica's industry-leading performance capabilities in a Grid environment
at an even
lower hardware infrastructure cost.
- SUN TEAMS WITH
ORACLE TO EASE DATA CENTER 'GRID'-LOCK'
- Sun Microsystems Inc and Oracle Corp
continue their joint collaboration
around a set of integrated Grid computing solutions designed to help
commercial enterprises harness the power of Grid computing and to achieve
better utilization of existing IT assets.
Applications
- ORACLE ENTERPRISE
MANAGER 10G RELEASE 2 HIGHLIGHTS GRID CONTROL
- Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Manager
10g Release 2, highlighting
new Grid control capabilities (Oracle Grid Control). This single, integrated
solution for provisioning, administering and monitoring applications and
systems is ideal for enterprise Grid computing environments.
- SUN MICROSYSTEMS,
AIST TO CREATE INNOVATIVE GRID ENVIRONMENT
- Sun Microsystems (Japan) and the National
Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) signed an agreement to collaborate in
R&D
for evaluating the practicability and performance of a large-scale Grid
computing environment.
- GigaSpaces
ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ENTERPRISE APPLICATION GRID
- This new version offers major enhancements
over previous versions, adding
powerful data Grid, messaging and parallel processing components and
delivering in-memory levels of performance as well as high reliability to
transactional, data intensive, business-critical enterprise applications.
- IBM TO HELP
PARTNERS QUICKLY BUILD, DEPLOY VERTICAL SOLUTIONS
- The technical resources are based on Grid
and IBM Virtualization Engine
technologies through the Virtual Innovation Center for Hardware, which
enables business partners to access a "virtual" pool of IBM resources.
Breaking News
"Mainframes have been the gold standard for performance for
40
years, but no longer." -- Larry Ellison, CEO,
Oracle
We Put Top Professionals in Touch with Top
Organizations.
Click Here for This Week's Career Opportunities
from:
Akamai - Intel - LSU - SAIC - Shaw Group
Tabor Comm. - TACC - Univ. of Manchester
GRIDtoday notes events and highlights of industry-related conferences,
exhibitions, meetings, etc.
GRIDtoday Information
Subscriptions & Removals
About GRIDtoday
Index of Back Issues
FAQ & Contact Info
Submitting Letters & Articles
Advertising Opportunities
Privacy Policy
GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication.
Last Issue's Top 5 Articles
|
