Announcements
Oracle Open World
September 18-22, 2005
San Francisco, California USA
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Gigaspaces Wins Duke's Choice Award
At the JavaOne 2005 conference, Sun presented a Duke's Choice
Award to GigaSpaces for its innovative Enterprise Application Grid (EAG)
software. The EAG software had been named the Featured Software for January 2005
by GridSummit.com.
Global Grid Forum
to Collaborate with Standards Organizations
GGF will coordinate with the Distributed Management Task Force
(DMTF), the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(OASIS), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and the Tele
Management Forum (TMF) to develop standards for managing networked resources. To
support the collaboration, the Global Grid Forum is establishing a public
working group known as the Standards Development Organization Collaboration on
Network Resources Management. The SCRM Working Group will review standards for
discovery, deployment, event handling, lifecycle tracking, notification,
resource availability and state management of resources such as data objects and
physical devices.
BNP Paribas Expands Grid with 150 Servers
BNP Paribas, a French banking group, has expanded its grid
computing project by adding another 150 servers. The grid uses DataSynapse
GridServer technology to distribute processing across 300 dedicated processors.
BNP Paribas had been planning grids for the interest rate derivatives group and
structured credit group, but the organization is now considering a global grid
to include data centers in London, New York and Tokyo.
Based on data from Quocirca Grid Index Report (April 2005)
Platform Computing and Macrovision Collaborate on Grid Software License
Management Solution
Software licensing issues have slowed grid adoption in enterprise computing
environments with an infrastructure of commercial software, but Platform
Computing and Macrovision Corporation promise a solution. Platform and
Macrovision have entered into an agreement to deliver a comprehensive license
management system for enterprise grids. The new system will bundle Platform LSF
License Scheduler and Platform LSF Analytics products with Macrovision’s FLEXnet
Manager and FLEXnet Connector.
DataSynapse and Milliman Announce Partnership for Insurance Pricing and
Projection System
DataSynapse, a provider of virtual enterprise grids,
and Milliman, Inc., an actuarial and management consulting firm, entered into an
agreement to produce software for the insurance industry.
The collaboration will produce a grid-enabled version of MG-ALFA, Milliman’s
pricing and projection software. MG-ALFA is used for product development,
decision support and financial management. A grid using the DataSynapse
GridServer will distribute the processing to evaluate insurance products and
entities.
Nimrod Project Releases Nimrod/G 3.0
The Nimrod Project released version 3.0 of Nimrod/G, a research prototype of
a parametric modeling system. Nimrod/G is a grid-aware version of Nimrod.
Release 3.0 uses Globus Toolkit 4 for discovery of grid resources. Sponsors of
the Nimrod Project include Monash University, University of Queensland,
Distributed Systems Technology Centre, and the Australian Research Council.
ASPEED
Software Ships ACCELLERANT 3.1
ASPEED released the ACCELLERANT SDK that enables developers to exploit grid
technology. Developers can use the SDK to enhance their applications by adding
parallel execution across multiple processors. It supports execution on various
Linux and Windows platforms.
Web Presence Report Card
for Technology, Research and Media Web Sites
Ken North Computing released a white paper with rankings for web sites
belonging to computer and software companies, open source initiatives, media
organizations, and companies that provide information technology (IT) research.
Section 5.3.3 discusses grid computing sites.
Dell Unveils New Four-Processor Servers for Data Centers
Dell unveiled new multi-processor server lines targeted for data centers looking
at server consolidation and replacing RISC systems. Dell
PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 servers use the 64-bit
Intel Xeon
processor MP.
Executives Debate Grids and the Future of the Network Machine
In a March 2005 panel
discussion, computing industry executives discussed grid trends. The panel
participants included Robert Fogel (Intel: Director of Worldwide Grid Strategy
and Business Development), Michael Feinberg (HP: Vice President and CTO of
Network Storage Solutions), Alexander Gebhart (SAP: Development Manager,
Netweaver Enterprise Grid Computing), David Martin (IBM: Program Director,
Internet Standards and Technology), Rob Redford (Cisco: Vice President, product
and technology marketing), and Franco Travostino (Nortel: Director of Advanced
Technology).
GridIron Software and Microsoft Partner for Video Encoding Grid Solution
GridIron Software provides a grid computing solution that is embedded directly into
software applications. It has been working with Microsoft
to develop grid solutions for high-definition video encoding with Windows
XP.
Sun Introduces
Pay-Per-Use Grid Computing Utility
Sun announced a grid computing service priced at $1 per cpu-hour and $1 per
month per gigabyte of storage. (View
a demonstration by Sun President Jonathan Schwartz).
Vendors Launch Globus Consortium
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Nortel, Sun and Univa announced formation of a new
consortium to promote the use of the Globus Toolkit in the enterprise. One
objective is to enable IT managers to view distributed computing resources as a
single, unified data center.
Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle Partner for Project MegaGrid Launch
To develop standards and best practices for enterprise grids, Dell, EMC, Intel
and Oracle announced an initiative called Project MegaGrid. Other contributors
include Cramer (application software) and F5 Networks (Big-IP switches).
RG4MS: Java Source
for Reliable Messaging for Grid Services Released
Since 2003, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC have cooperated to develop middleware for
grid computing. They've released the Java source for a message delivery service
named Reliable Messaging for Grid Services (RM4GS), which implements the OASIS
WS-Reliability standard. RM4GS can work with Message Driven Beans and its
implemented as a J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) resource adapter.
Univa Corporation Launched to Support Enterprise Grid Computing
The creators of the Globus Toolkit (Dr. Ian Foster, Dr. Carl Kesselman, Steve
Tuecke) have formed Univa Corporation to provide software and services for grids
built with the Globus software.
Grids for .NET
Alchemi is a framework for grid computing in a .NET environment. The framework
includes an Alchemi Manager and Alchemi Executors (agents) distributed across
the grid. Alchemi is open source software from the Gridbus Project at Grid
Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of
Melbourne, Australia.
Grids and Early Adopters
in "Panel discusses SQL,
XML, Web Services, and Grid Computing", Ron Bourret writes about a panel
discussion with Rick Cattell (Sun), Peter Coffee (eWEEK), Daniela
Florescu (BEA), Jim Gray (Microsoft), Jim Kleewein (IBM), and Jim Melton
(Oracle).
Listen to
part
1
part 2.
Ron wrote:
In a panel discussion at Software Development 2004 entitled "Marrying SQL, XML, Web Services and Grid Computing", Peter Coffee of eWEEK magazine best summarized the state of these four technologies when he said that customers would not abandon SQL, wanted to use XML to repurpose data, and considered Web Services the default implementation strategy for many projects. On the other hand, they felt grid computing was still three to five years away.
Peter Coffee was discussing feedback from eWEEK readers, who are more likely to be in the enterprise computing crowd than the academic and scientific community.
OGSA-DAI Release
6.0
The OGSA-DAI Project announced version 6.0 of its software is available for
download from the project
website. Source and binary files are available. The OGSA-DAI software
builds on Globus 3.2 and provides a Java client toolkit. It support access to PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases, message-level security and
encrypted role map files.
Grid Computing Spreads to SARS
The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases is using a grid to search for
cures for several diseases. Computers run Drug Design and Optimization Lab
(D20L) software to search for a cure for SARS, anthrax, smallpox and ebola. To
donate idle computer time, download the D2OL
software.
HP, Oracle, Sun
Form New Grid Consortium
Don Deutsch of Oracle is the president of the Enterprise Grid Alliance. Grid
technology has enjoyed great success in scientific and academic communities. The
EGA consortium will focus on increasing grid adoption in the enterprise. Sun
and HP are also members of the new consortium.
IDC Forecasts
Grid Computing Market to Reach $12 Billion by 2007
An IDC research report forecasts the grid computing market will $12 billion
revenue by 2007. The report say the grid market will split into three segments
(compute, data, and optimization). To purchase this study, call IDC Sales
(508-988-7988) or email sales@idc.com.
Next big thing: grid computing
Dr. Wolfgang Gentzch, managing director of Grid Computing and Networking
Services at MCNC Research and Development Institute, discusses grid computing.
In this interview, he describes three waves of grid adoption.
Sun Announces
Alliance with 20 New Grid Computing Partners
Sun Microsystems announced it has added 20 new High Performance and
Technical Computing (HPTC) Alliance Partners. The new grid computing HPTC
Alliance partners include Avaki ClearSpeed Critical Software, DataDirect
Networks, DataSynapse, Dothill, Engineous, Enigmatec, Exludus, GridIron,
GridXper, Level 5 Networks, Meiosys, Paremus, Pathscale, PGI, Scali, StorageTek,
Streamline Computing and United Devices.
"Sun's 20 new HPTC alliance partners represent some of the hottest technologies
in the industry and can contribute to building a complete Grid solution," said
Shahin Khan, vice president of the HPTC Business Unit at Sun.
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