News and articles about grids and cloud computing technologies. http://www.GridSummit.com Copyright 2004-2009 Ken North Computing, LLC knc@SQLSummit.com knc@SQLSummit.com http://www.GridSummit.com/images/grid120by54.jpg http://www.GridSummit.com 120 54 GridSummit logo Altair Engineering has announced availability of the Personal PBS application. The freely-downloadable Personal PBS application enables users to manage job priorities and enqueue jobs for background processing. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm RNA Networks is providing a "third wave" of virtualization with its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP). RNA's products include RNAcache, which caches data and metadata in an environment linked by high-speed fabric, gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and InfiniBand connections. A second product, RNAmessenger, provides low latency and high throughput for applications such as electronic trading. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm In this conference presentation, Parand Darugar (Director of Software Architectyre at Yahoo) provides an explanation of distributed processing for cloud and grid computing. He discusses the Hadoop engine, Map/Reduce and other techniques for processing data in the cloud. (running time: 48:51). http://www.GridSummit.com/Multimedia/DSWorld/Hadoop.html The DataServices World Fall 2008 conference program focused on data services for grid, cloud, SOA and WOA environments. Several presentations, a workshop and a panel discussion explored services in distributed and cloud computing environments. The conference was co-located with SOAWorld, Cloud Computing Expo and Virtualization Conference. http://www.GridSummit.com/events/DSWorld.htm At a presentation during the LinkedData Planet conference in New York, m2mi CEO Geoff Brown discussed grid computing, cloud computing and semantic technology as being enablers for (fifth-generation) 5G networks. He demonstrated meshing two Apple iPhones running the m2mi software. http://www.GridSummit.com/Articles/5GNetwork.htm Middleware from DataDirect Technologies, a Progress Software Company, provides database connectivity and data access for applications and services using ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and XML. http://www.datadirect.com/?=http://www.GridSummit.com The RDF activity in the Open Grid Forum Database Access and Integration Services Working Group (OGF DAIS-WG) Group has released a draft version of a paper about accessing RDF data sources in a grid services environment. The RDF activity is working to produce two specifications for accessing RDF data via SPARQL and RDF Schema ontology handling primitives. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm GridGain Systems and GigaSpaces Technology announced a partnership to offer a grid computing platform for Java computing. The companies will integrate the open source GridGain computation grid framework with the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). GridGain will distribute GigaSpaces XAP Community Edition. http://www.GridSummit.com/Articles/news.htm FSMLabs released Enterprise Real-TimeNet which includes a networking stack that supports ICMP, IP, UDP and TCP. FSMLabs announced Enterprise Real-TimeNet will provide worst-case network round trip times of 50 microseconds using a fault-tolerant architect. http://www.GridSummit.com/Articles/news.htm Ken North Computing LLC has released a 90-page white paper about the role and importance of middleware for data access. "Middleware in Action: Industrial Strength Data Access" discusses the defining characteristics of best-of-breed middleware. The report describes performance and scalability scenarios, such as grid data access, SOA, business intelligence, transaction processing, information integration and content management. An executive summary is available as a separate document. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm The OGSA-DAI project announced the release of OGSA-DAI 3.0, a middleware product that provides web services to access SQL and XML databases. Developers can use OGSA-DAI to provide data access in grid computing environments. http://www.GridSummit.com/Articles/OGSA3.htm Univa Corporation announced an agreement with Sun Microsystems. The agreement provides for integration of the Sun Grid Engine into the Univa Globus Cluster Edition software. Under the agreement, Univa users will have access to Sun high performance computing (HPC) products and services, including HPC Cluster Tools. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm Recent announcements by cryptographers of efficient attacks on RSA encryption follow on the heals of cracks for MD5, SHA and SHA-1 and successful attacks on AES. These security vulnerabilities heightens concerns about digital certificates used for authentication and secure communications. http://www.GridSummit.com/index.htm In an exclusive interview, Ward Cunningham discusses software trends, social software and global collaboration for software development. Cunningham discusses Eclipse, wiki, agile development, extreme programming (XP) and his personal style of development (MP3 audio podcast, running time 20:01). http://www.SQLSummit.com/People/WCunningham.htm This article by Frank Siebenlist, Nataraj Nagaratnam, Von Welch, and Clifford Neuman describes grid security requirements, challenges and architectures. It's an excerpt from Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (Morgan Kauffman) http://www.GridSummit.com/Security.htm In this article, consultant Ken North discusses security amidst the evolution of grid services architectures, including OGSA, OGSI and Web Services Resource Framework. The discussion covers GSI authentication and XML-based security technologies. http://www.GridSummit.com/SecurityArchitecture.htm In a podcast and videos released this week, Network Resonance CEO Kevin Dick discusses a security taxonomy of distributed systems and web services. Network Resonance recently patented a technology for secure SSL auditing. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm#SecureTaxonomy