Platform Increases Financial Services Investment

Apr 16, 2007 | Platform Computing | Platform Computing announced the appointments of Jim Mancuso and Charles Jarvis as vice presidents of financial services for United States and EMEA, respectively. The hiring of Mancuso and Jarvis is the latest in a series of investments designed to further bolster Platform's position in grid computing for the financial services market.
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Legal Data Meets the Grid

Apr 16, 2007 | In this interview with GRIDtoday, Grant Peterson, vice president of product development for the LexisNexis Litigation Services group, discusses how the company's Applied Discovery application is able to handle twice the number of legal documents in the same timeframe since moving to a grid environment powered by DataSynapse and its application virtualization technology.
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Nancy Lynch Honored for Work in Distributed Computing

Apr 09, 2007 | Association for Computing Machinery | Professor Lynch is the first woman to receive this award since its inception in 1996. She was cited for her seminal impact on the reliability of distributed computing systems, which are used to power traditional wired networks, modern mobile communications systems, and systems with embedded computers, including factory machinery, vehicles, robots and other real-world devices.
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Back to the Future

Apr 02, 2007 | In his latest article, Tom Gibbs gets behind the wheel of a certain nuclear-powered DeLorean automobile and takes us on a journey through the last 40 years of high-performance computing, only to find out that in the world of processor development, history seems to be repeating itself.
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The Industry's Viewpoint on Oracle-Tangosol

Apr 02, 2007 | While most believe that Oracle's acquisition of Tangosol will serve to validate the distributed, in-memory data grid market -- a key enabler of extreme transaction processing -- there is much speculation among analysts, fellow vendors and industry watchers over what it will mean for competition in the space, as well whether this purchase will be the impetus for a spate of acquisitions.
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Oracle Buys Data Grid Leader Tangosol

Mar 26, 2007 | Oracle announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tangosol Inc., a leading provider of reliable in-memory data grid software. Coupled with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle TimesTen and Oracle Database, the combination will provide an integrated platform for businesses moving to this new model of transaction processing.
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B2B Goes On-Demand With Trading Grid

Mar 26, 2007 | With its highly successful Trading Grid infrastructure, GXS seems to dominate the business-to-business transaction market, boasting 41,000 customers worldwide. The Trading Grid itself is a collection of hardware and software services that manages information sharing between GXS customers and their trading partners (buyers or sellers).
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Sun Grid Takes Big Step Forward

Mar 19, 2007 | Sun Microsystems has added "click and run" functionality to its Sun Grid offering at Network.com by providing end-users with a catalog of applications from ISVs and open source communities. In the past, users were required to develop their own applications.
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UD Names Frank Falcon 2007 Grid Visionary

Mar 12, 2007 | United Devices | United Devices conferred its annual Grid Visionary Award on Frank Falcon of COLT Telecom in London. Falcon is a senior product manager within COLT's Managed Services team and is recognized in key international Grid forums as one of the leading evangelists for the deployment of Grid computing to create new innovative business models for enterprise customers and telecommunications companies.
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On Our Radar: A Conversation With Grid-X

Mar 12, 2007 | Although the company is still in stealth mode, we were able to conduct a brief Q&A with two members of the Grid-X team: Bill Poires, board member and acting director of business relations; and Mike, a source close to the company who wished to remain anonymous. The two shed some light on the company's 100 GbE offload technology, its target markets and what led to its formation.
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Majitek Brings Services to the Grid

Mar 05, 2007 | In this interview with GRIDtoday, Majitek Director of Marketing Rob Cumming discusses his company's Grid application platform, Software-as-a-Service and Device- as-a-Service solutions, as well as where he sees the future heading in terms of Grid and virtualization intersecting in the service-oriented environment.
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e-Science IDs New Weapons in Superbug Battle

Mar 05, 2007 | JISC/EPSRC | E-Therapeutics, a spin-out company from Newcastle University, announced the discovery of three drugs that are effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, such as that scourge of hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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Leveraging the Volunteer Spirit

Mar 05, 2007 | Since its inception in November 2004, IBM's World Community Grid initiative has perhaps become the gold standard for volunteer Grid computing projects, already boasting more than 265,000 members and 536,000 devices. Robin Willner, vice president of global community initiatives at IBM, shares her thoughts on this success and what to expect in the future.
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Grid Meets Web 2.0 at OGF19

Feb 19, 2007 | Pamela Fox's Web 2.0 developers' tutorial -- entitled "Web 2.0 Mashups: How People Can Tap into the "Grid" for Fun & Profit" -- was one of several invited talks at the workshop organized through the eScience OGF function, on Web 2.0 and the Grid organized at OGF19 by David De Roure.
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Geneticists' Gateway to the Grid

Feb 19, 2007 | Open Science Grid | In the field of genetics, the answers to scientists' questions are buried under mountains of complex data. Comparing new genomes to huge, and still growing, databases has become a task that is larger than one computer, even a supercomputer, can handle. Grid computing has stepped up to meet the challenge, with the help of the Genome Analysis Database Update tool.
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Second Workshop on Grid Reliability and Robustness

Feb 19, 2007 | The Open Grid Forum (OGF) recently held its Second Workshop on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems at OGF19 in Chapel Hill, NC on January 31, 2007. The workshop organized through the eScience OGF function, brought together researchers and engineers actively working on Grid computing systems with the goal of promoting better understanding of reliability issues and requirements.
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A Distributed Happy New Year

Feb 12, 2007 | What do the Chinese New Year, the Gregorian Calendar, the Great Western Railway of Britain, YouTube, and Bob Dylan have to do with Grid computing? Quite a bit if you're Tom Gibbs. In his wrap up of the year past and look ahead at 2007, Gibbs brings his considerable metaphoric talents to bear on the state of Grid computing.
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Grid Initiatives Part 2

Feb 05, 2007 | Part one of this article, which appeared in last week's issue of GRIDtoday, focused on the major results of the study on large community grid initiatives. The second and final part contains additional general information about these six grid initiatives: The ChinaGrid, D-Grid, EGEE, NAREGI, TeraGrid, and the UK e-Science Initiative.
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UD Embraces Virtual Infrastructure Management

Feb 05, 2007 | United Devices Chief Executive Officer Ben Rouse recently paused to talk about the future of his company in the growing world of infrastructure virtualization. It turns out UD's expertise earned while building global research grids over the past seven years produced technologies and know-how that are exactly what data centers and IT service providers need to manage the growing, complex, and costly infrastructure of physical and virtual resources.
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Crosswalk CEO Explains Storage Grid Solution

Jan 29, 2007 | Crosswalk Inc., a provider of intelligent storage grid systems that scale performance, access to data, capacity and resiliency, was recently voted the Most Innovative HPC Storage Technology or Product for 2006 by HPCwire readers. HPCwire asked storage industry pioneer Jack McDonnell, founder and CEO of Crosswalk, to provide his view on storage grids and their present and future impacts on HPC.
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Grid Initiatives Part 1

Jan 29, 2007 | Over the past 12 months, major grid projects have been studied to better understand how to successfully design, build, manage and operate large Community Grids, based on the experience of early adopters and on case studies and lessons learned from these grid projects. For this purpose, we have selected and analyzed the UK e-Science Programme, the US TeraGrid, Naregi in Japan, the ChinaGrid, the European EGEE, and the German D-Grid initiative.
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An Interview with TCI President and CEO, Debra Goldfarb

Jan 22, 2007 | Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI), publisher of HPCwire and GRIDtoday, named industry veteran Debra Goldfarb as president and CEO. The company also announced a significant business expansion effort with the launch of three new operating companies. In this interview, Goldfarb explains her decision to accept her new role as TCI president and CEO, and outlines a vision for the expanded organization.
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Making the Case for Enterprise Grids

Jan 22, 2007 | Last month Grid Computing Now! hosted an informative webcast seminar entitled "The Business Case for Next Generation IT Architecture." In the seminar, Steve Wallage, Research Director for the 451 Group, provides an analysis of the current state of Grid and Virtualization, while Shahid Mohammed, EMEA Database Team Manager for Marsh, gives an account of a Grid implementation for an eCommerce company and the benefits that were achieved.
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Protein Wranglers

Jan 15, 2007 | Kathleen Ricker & Herb Morgan, NCSA | NCSA staff and UIUC biophysics researchers collaborate on new techniques for studying molecular dynamics involving managing large numbers of simulations with a powerful Grid application.
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Grid Computing Moves from Research to Industry

Jan 08, 2007 | CORDIS  | From 27th November to 1st December, ETSI, INRIA and the European Network of Excellence CoreGRID, led by ERCIM, co-organised at ETSI the 3rd "GRIDS@WORK" event and Grid Plugtests. Over 200 delegates, representing 25 countries from all over the world, came to Sophia Antipolis, France, to discuss research projects and industrial requirements towards the implementation of grids as a key driver of tomorrow's 'Network-of-networks.'
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