GLOBAL GRID EXCHANGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE

Dec 13, 2004 | 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.
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GRID DOMINATES FLOOR AT ORACLE OpenWorld

Dec 13, 2004 | 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.
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DELL, EMC, INTEL, ORACLE LAUNCH 'PROJECT MegaGrid'

Dec 13, 2004 | 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.
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WS-I BOARD NEARING APPROVAL OF SECURITY SCENARIOS FOR WS-I BSP

Dec 13, 2004 | 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.
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IT VENDORS RELEASE ROYALTY-FREE SOFTWARE FOR RELIABLE MESSAGING

Dec 06, 2004 | Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Ltd, and NEC Corp announced that they are making available as open source their jointly developed messaging software that implements the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) standard, a messaging specification for Web services designed to ensure superior reliability.
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GRID COMPUTING -- HYPE OR TRIPE?

Dec 06, 2004 | Much is being said today about all the "hype" in the Grid computing market space, and how damaging it is to establishing a business case for Grid in commercial enterprises. In this column, Mike Bernhardt, CEO of Grid Strategies and GRIDtoday contributing editor, looks to clear the air ... and teach us a little about the many ways to prepare tripe.
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NCSA TO LEAD GridShib PROJECT

Dec 06, 2004 | NCSA and collaborators at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago will receive $1 million to combine the strengths of Shibboleth, developed by the Internet2 cooperative, with the Globus Toolkit, developed by the Globus Alliance.
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GridXpert CEO ON GRID MATURATION IN EUROPE

Dec 06, 2004 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with GridXpert CEO Sven Lung about his up and coming company. GridXpert is based in France, and Lung discusses, among other topics, the differences in Grid adoption between European companies and those based in the United States.
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TACC COLLABORATES IN LATIN AMERICAN GRID WORKSHOP

Nov 15, 2004 | This workshop will train Latin American computer scientists and developers to evaluate Grid software and requirements, to develop and deploy Grid technologies, and to port applications to Grids. Over 50 participants from eight Latin American countries are in attendance.
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NASA VET WARREN SMITH TO HEAD GRID GROUP AT TACC

Nov 15, 2004 | Warren Smith, a nationally-known Grid computing expert, has joined the Texas Advanced Computing Center as manager of the Distributed and Grid Computing group. Formerly with the Information Power Grid project at the NASA Ames Research Center, Smith will start at TACC in mid-January.
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SDSC, IBM ACHIEVE RECORD TRANSFER, SORTING RATES ON TeraGrid

Nov 15, 2004 | The SDSC/IBM team was awarded with the highest achieved StorCloud Bandwidth and I/Os per second for the Enzo submission. As part of the submission, the team also broke a world record by sorting a terabyte of random data in 487 seconds (8 minutes, 7 seconds), more than twice as fast as the previous record 1,057 seconds (17:37). The bandwidth achieved was 15GB per second.
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INDUSTRY-FIRST GRID COMPUTING RESOURCE GUIDE ON THE HORIZON

Nov 15, 2004 | Designed for IT editors and reporters, IT decision makers, and enterprise computing innovators, the guide will include complete listings of the suppliers of Grid hardware, middleware and enabling technology; information on the leading integration consultants; and descriptions of notable installations.
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EUROPE LOOKS TO CONTINENTAL SUPERCOMPUTER

Nov 15, 2004 | Several leading European HPC centers have devised an innovative strategy to build a terascale supercomputing facility with continental scope, called Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA). The resulting system will consist of more than 4,000 processors, a huge memory space and an aggregate computing power of over 22 teraflops.
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BUNSHAFT: WORLD COMMUNITY GRID NOT ABOUT TRUMPING COMPETITORS

Nov 15, 2004 | Large companies are always in the spotlight, and their motives are always questioned. However, in an interview with GRIDtoday, IBM's vice president of Grid computing, Al Bunshaft, makes it perfectly clear that IBM's motives in creating the World Community Grid were all about helping mankind and showcasing the power of Grid computing.
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GRID TO OFFER MORE COMPUTING FOR BIOMEDICINE IN TEXAS

Nov 15, 2004 | Texas biomedical researchers will soon be able to use the best computing resources in Texas, according to an agreement signed between the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UT Southwestern) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas (UT).
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS BRIDGE COMMUNITIES AT SC2004

Nov 15, 2004 | New developments from the Pervasive Technologies Labs center around networking and Grid computing. The Advanced Network Management Laboratory is demonstrating, for the first time, its Porcupine wireless network monitoring system (http://porcupine.iu.edu).
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IBM LAUNCHES ITS WORLD COMMUNITY GRID

Nov 15, 2004 | The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) announced that in partnership with IBM, United Devices and the University of Washington, it has launched the Human Proteome Folding Project on World Community Grid. This project, the first to run on the Grid will help predict the shape of human proteins and further efforts toward predictive, preventive and personalized medicine.
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LEAD SCIENTIST ON PROTEOME PROJECT ON WORKING WITH BIG BLUE

Nov 15, 2004 | GRIDtoday spoke with Dr. Rich Bonneau from the Institute for Systems Biology, lead scientist on on the Human Proteome Folding Project, about how Grid computing will help his cause, and what it was like working with United Devices and industry bigshot IBM.
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MANY UNIVERSITIES TURN TO SUN FOR GRID SOLUTIONS

Nov 15, 2004 | The College of William and Mary, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, and Pennsylvania State University are using Sun Microsystems' Grid computing technologies to enhance their academic research centers and improve their return on investment.
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OIF, GGF COME TOGETHER FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING WORKSHOP

Nov 15, 2004 | The OIF's invitation to the GGF to participate in a joint workshop arose through recognition by several OIF member company representatives that the GGF and the OIF share a common interest in the dynamic control of optical networks. Grid applications utilize wide-area distributed computing resources for large-scale computational tasks.
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GridCoord - COORDINATING EUROPE-WIDE GRID INITIATIVES

Nov 15, 2004 | GridCoord looks to strengthen cooperation among the funding agencies planning future activities, enhance collaboration between the research and user communities, and develop visionary national and EU programs and roadmaps enabling Europe to play a leadership role in Grid technologies and applications.
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SUN, STREAMLINE BUILD 3 TERAFLOP GRID FOR UNIV. OF NOTTINGHAM

Nov 15, 2004 | The new Grid built using AMD Opteron processor- based Sun Fire V20z servers, will rank as the second largest academic computer system in Europe to date, and the eighth largest worldwide.
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WEST VIRGINIA'S GLOBAL GRID EXCHANGE TO BE POWERED BY HP

Nov 15, 2004 | West Virginia will procure from HP the hardware required to support this innovative venture -- from desktop PCs for customer service personnel to robust and reliable high-end servers.
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WS SECURITY SPECS ADVANCE; DEUTSCHE BANK PRESENTS SECURE WS APP

Nov 15, 2004 | At the Nov. 2-4 meeting of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization, excellent progress was made on several WS Basic Security Profile specifications, sample applications and test tools. GGF had earlier decided that Grid security would be based on Web services security, so that makes the WS-I Security work of interest to anyone building a Grid.
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NCAR SELECTS PLATFORM COMPUTING GRID TECHNOLOGY

Nov 15, 2004 | Platform LSF HPC will enable NCAR to integrate its heterogeneous computing environment under a single workload management system and job scheduler, and to also evaluate, develop and deploy Grid-based computation and data management technologies.
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