Newsletter - August 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 Invitation: Sun HPC Consortium 2005-2006 You are invited to the upcoming HPC Consortium events! SEATTLE, 2005: The next HPC Consortium will be held in Seattle, Washington, on November 12-13, 2005, in conjunction with the IEEE SC2005 conference. SINGAPORE, 2006: The HPC Consortium will come to the Asia-Pacific region for the very first time! The Consortium will be held May 14-15, 2006 in Singapore, in conjunction with GridAsia. GERMANY, 2006: The Consortium will be joining the U. of Aachen for their annual HPC training, March 13-17, 2006 AT&T to offer utility computing service based on Sun Source: http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,103718,00.html AUGUST 05, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - AT&T Corp. will launch a managed utility computing service late this year based on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. as one of several improvements to its hosting service, AT&T executives revealed in interviews this week. New Sun Blueprint Using Host Groups and Cluster Queues in the Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 System http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0805/819-3165.html SAVE THE DATE: JXTA Kitchen Sept. 26-27, 2005 http://www.jxta.org/ WHEN: Monday, September 26, 2005 - All day group event WHERE: Sun Offices, Santa Clara Campus (Building #21 and others) Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days. Sun launches open-source digital rights community http://www.openmediacommons.org/ After years of work, Sun Microsystems has begun trying to rally
corporate allies behind a neutral standard for digital rights
management, technology that governs how music, video or other
information can be used or copied. New Sun Center of Excellence Launched in India http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-08/sunflash.20050805.1 His Excellency, Dr A.P.J Kalam, the Honorable President of India will formally inaugurate the Centre For DNA Fingerprinting And Diagnostics (CDFD) - Sun Microsystems Centre of Excellence at the new premises of CDFD in Gandipet on August 5, 2005. New Resources for Academic Software Developers http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/developer/ Sun Sets up Open-Source Office CNET, Stephen Shankland; August 18, 2005 Sun launches an office dedicated to open-source matters, signaling a new elevation of the collaborative programming philosophy within the company. Sun Open-Source Officer Simon Phipps says, "Sun is now heading in the direction where all its software is going to be based on open source. It's become more important than ever to have coordination to promote best practices and ensure consistency in the way Sun behaves with open-source communities." Sun Adds Identity Management to Open Source http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1116891,00.html Sun taps into the pulse of the identity management market with its Web single sign-on (SSO) offering open source and the announcement of high profile implementations of its Java-based identity management software. Universities Grapple with ID Theft http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5838784.htmlReuters, Staff; August 18, 2005 Universities across the United States are finding themselves on the front lines of the battle against identity theft. With their huge databases, universities may rival financial institutions as attractive targets for the crime, estimated to affect over 9 million Americans a year at the total cost of more than $50 billion. According to the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center nearly half of the publicized incidents of data breach since January occurred at universities. Enterprise Grid Alliance publishes on Grid Security The Enterprise Grid Alliance publishes its first paper on the unique security requirements of grids. The 37-page paper aims to help end users, vendors and standards groups identify the risks associated with enterprise grid computing. Sun Sheds Light on StorageTek Plans
SSearchStorage.com, Beth Pariseau, August 23, 2005 Mark Canepa, executive vice president of Sun's networked storage group, sat down with SearchStorage.com to discuss the integration of StorageTek, the future of networked storage and how Sun plans to take down EMC. Sun and AMD in the News AMD's Server Share Leaps 10 Percent Mark AMD claims 11.2 percent of the market for x86 server chips in the second quarter, a major milestone for the company. Sun, AMD Tighten the Binding Cord Sun and AMD tighten their cooperation, focusing on the internals of AMD's flagship Opteron processor. Executive VP of Scalable Systems Group David Yen says Sun and AMD's collaboration will result in joint work on the 64-bit processor Sun Says it will Help Develop Opteron Sun Executive VP of Scalable Systems David Yen says the collaboration between the S un and AMD will lead to cooperative efforts on AMD's flagship processor. Yen believes, "Over time, more intimate cooperation inside the processor chip will definitely happen." Solaris 10 x86 getting good reviews, 11,000 licenses a day
http://www.theregister.com/2005/08/16/solaris_x86_not_too_shabby Review: If Sun gets very serious about Solaris 10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish it, Linux vendors had better get very worried. That's because, in the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a good chance of catching up quickly if it has the will, whereas in the many areas where Solaris is miles ahead, the Linux community will be hard pressed to narrow the gap. In this series of articles, we take a careful look at Solaris x86, examining the good, the bad, and the ugly, with Linux as our chief point of reference. Sun Adds Two Millionth Solaris 10 License Sun adds licenses for its Solaris 10 operating system at a rate of about 11,000 day and has distributed more than 2 million free registered licenses. Sun VP of the Operating Platform Group Tom Goguen says, "We've had tremendous momentum behind the Solaris 10 release since we began making it available broadly to the public. We are really building up the ecosystem around Solaris and gaining acceptance across the board." |
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