News and articles about grids and grid computing technologies. http://www.GridSummit.com Copyright 2004-2008 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 The debut of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is expected to put a spotlight on the Grid built to support analysis of the volumes of data produced by LHC. The volume of data is so great it will be distributed to 11 global centers for analysis, including centers in Asia, Europe, North America. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm To encourage adoption of GridSQL for business intelligence and data warehousing, EnterpriseDB has released it under the GPLv2 open source license. GridSQL supports data distribution across a grid and shares resources at the database layer, enabling applications to treat distributed databases as a virtual database. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.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 DataServices World Chair Ken North announced the program for DataServices World 2008, which includes a stellar cast of speakers. The conference runs June 24 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm The program for LinkedData Planet has been announced. The distinguished faculty includes Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the W3C. The conference theme is the confluence of enterprise computing, semantics and data integration for web applications such as the Semantic Web and Web 3.0. 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 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. Ken North discusses the highlights of a new release that combines data access and workflow". http://www.GridSummit.com/Articles/OGSA3.htm The Open Grid Forum has released a group of documents for public review. The group included a grid computing overview, a strategy document and technical documents. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm GridGain Systems announced the release of GridGain 1.5, an open source computational grid computing platform for Java developers. GridGain operates with Java 5 or higher and Linux, Mac OS X, major Unix brands and Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista. http://www.GridSummit.com/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/index.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 Layered Technologies and 3Tera achieved a score of 42,540 with the UnixBench benchmark using a virtual private data center. The demonstration comprised of 443 CPUs, 920GB RAM and 47 terabytes of mass storage. The Virtual Private Data Center was showcased at HostingCon 2007 in Chicago. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm The Open Grid Forum (OGF) announced the publication of several OGF specifications, including the Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement), Information Dissemination in the Grid Environment - Base Specifications (INFOD), Interoperability Testing for The GridRPC API Specification and the WS-Naming Specification. The public comment period for two documents, JSDL HPC Profile Application Extension and JSDL SPMD Application Extension, closes 10 July 2007. http://www.GridSummit.com/news.htm KTVU reporter Tom Vacar interviewed Geoff Brown of m2mi about the company's partnership with NASA. The video was recorded during a technology showcase event at NASA Ames Research Center. Previously NASA announced an agreement with m2mi Corporation to evolve automated machine-to-machine (M2M) intelligence for space missions. Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corporation will transfer technology used to automate intelligence for computers, spacecraft and robots to other applications that use connected machines. Automated M2M intelligence uses a Semantic Web communication format to support conversations between interconnected machines. http://www.GridSummit.com/People/GBrown.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