Newsletter - April 2005
Previous issues of Sun Grid News are available at our Grid Community web page under the Resources section (toward the bottom): http://www.sun.com/edu/commofinterest/gridcomp/ To receive future issues subscribe by sending an email to: grid-sig-request@sun.com Grid Solutions a Major Focus of Sun Network Computing '05(NC05Q2) Sun Microsystems Unveils Breakthrough Sun Connection - Extends its Sun Grid Services; Washington D.C. Event Profiles Solutions for Data Center Pain Points http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-05/sunflash.20050503.1.html Registration now open for HPC Consortium Europe 2005, Grid SIG High Performance Computing Consortium -- Europe 2005 "INNOVATION MATTERS"
When: June 20, 21 - Main Program, Dinner Event
June 21 - Grid and Comp. Bio. Special Interest Group Meetings
(Prior to the ISC2005 conference, http://www.isc2005.org/) This meeting our theme will be "Innovation Matters." There will be talks from Sun and AMD as well as customers such as Cambridge, Boeing, U. of Ulm, USC, U. of Aachen on the many different challenges facing Universities and Research Institutions to carry on state-of-the-art computational science and engineering today. The talks will cover a wide range of topics, and there will be meetings of the Grid & Portal Computing and Computational Biology Special Interest Groups. More agenda details will follow soon. Sun Expands Grid Computing Lineup Sun Microsystems Announces Momentum for Sun Grid and Expands Grid Computing Lineup: Building a Grid has Never Been Easier for Customershttp://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-05/sunflash.20050503.6.html For customers who want immediate benefits from a standardized, open, grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis, Sun announced Sun Grid Storage Utility, as well as a sneak peek of its Sun Grid Compute Utility. For customers who want in-house grid computing environments, Sun announced the Sun Grid Rack System and the Sun Grid Solution, new offerings which include pre-integrated racks with flexible configurations for fast and easy deployment, and tailored services for architecting, implementing and managing customer grids. LeSC announces Grid Engine integration with Globus Toolkit 4 The London e-Science Center has announced the availability of Sun Grid Engine integration packages for Globus Toolkit 4. These packages allow the WS-GRAM service provided with the Globus Toolkit distribution to run submitted jobs on a Sun Grid Engine cluster. Please see http://www.lesc.ic.ac.uk/projects/SGE-GT4.html for more details. Sun's dual-core Opteron V40z servers lead industry benchmarks http://www.sun.com/2005-0421/feature/index.html Highlights:
- SPECfp_rate2000 of 138, a new world record for all 8-way x86-compatible systems Globus Toolkit 4 Broadens Choices, Challenges Teams eWeek, 5/2/05; Peter Coffee In an opinion piece, Coffee discusses version 4 of the Globus Toolkit, which is a "Web services-oriented platform that signals the readiness of grid computing for mainstream enterprise applications as well as research and supercomputing tasks." Coffee points out that Sun, a member of the Globus Consortium, "has put forward considerable amounts of its own code for open-source grid development including the Sun Grid Engine." Commenting on grid use in the enterprise, Sun executive Bjorn Andersson says, "If you have what we might call a stateful application, such as a large database, that will run on one of the larger SMP systems; there are other applications that will be more embarrassingly parallel that will run well on a grid." Satyam/Sun Solution Center to Focus on 'Hot' Paradigms, Grid http://www.ciol.com/content/enterprise/2005/105041301.aspSatyam Computer Services Ltd. and Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. announced launch of the Satyam Customer Solution Center on Sun Technologies. This is the first such center in India that would focus on building, testing and delivering leading-edge solutions around hot technology paradigms. The Solution Center will initially focus on identity management, Grid computing, voice-enabled solutions and J2ME applications. Sun Gains Market Share, Customer Traction in HPTC Market http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-04/sunflash.20050426.2 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) closed out CY2004 with strong customer momentum in the high performance and technical computing (HPTC) market and solidified itself as the number one vendor in unit market share for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest research from IDC. Sun's range of servers powered by AMD Opteron processors fueled Sun's growth in overall unit market share on a year-over-year (Y/Y) basis as the company exited 2004 more than 15 share points ahead of its nearest competitor. Developers, Enterprises grapple with open source issues InformationWeek, 4/7/05; Charles Babcock At the Open Source Business Conference Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discussed how open-source software-code licenses must change to avoid hindering software innovation in developing countries. InternetNews.com, 4/7/05; Susan Kuchinskas The Open Source Business Conference focused on what end-user businesses should do to avoid becoming targets for lawsuits. Sun Senior Counsel Julie DeCecco notes Sun carefully audits the code in its products. DeCecco states, "If you want to supply to a company, you'll find increasingly that you'll be asked to produce evidence of any open source software you're using, and that you're in compliance with those licenses."  Back to top
Sun Joins Forces With China's Dawning IDG News, 4/8/05; Sumner Lemon Sun teams up with Chinese high-performance server maker Dawning Information Industry in a broad partnership, which both companies hope will help them better meet the needs of Chinese users. Under the terms of an agreement, Sun and Dawning will establish a joint applications lab and cooperate on the development of hardware and software products. Grid: What's in a name?
In case you missed it, this is a very interesting opinion article from
GridToday: "At the National High Performance Computing and Communications Conference held this past week in Newport, R.I., (www.hpcc-usa.org) "Grid" was definitely not a four letter word." |
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