Newsletter - June/July 2005

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Save the dates: Sun HPC Consortium 2005-2006

The recently held Sun HPC Consortium in Heidelberg, Germany, was a big success, with two very full days of talks. Presentations will be on line soon at http://www.sun.com/edu/hpc/consortium.html

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. Dates to be announced.

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Sun Miicrosystems to work with NLR to extend Grid Computing

http://www.nlr.net/20050711-PR.html
Cypress, CA—July 11, 2005—Sun Microsystems Inc. and National LambdaRail (NLR) today announced a joint initiative to extend Sun's grid efforts, which provides flexible access to distributed high-performance computing resources. NLR, a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies, owns and operates a national-scale fiber optic infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications. According to Marc Hamilton, director of technology for Sun's Education and Research group, "It was an easy choice for Sun to participate with NLR on this project since many of our largest education and research customers are already using NLR. We believe large commercial users of Sun grids will in the future be able to benefit from using the kinds of networking resources NLR provides.”

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Internet2 Consolidation with National LambdaRail

http://www.internet2.edu/consolidation/
The boards of Internet2 and National LambdaRail each passed resolutions to begin discussions towards consolidation of the two organizations. These resolutions endorse the recommendations of reports recently completed by Group A and Group B, both of which were convened by the National LambdaRail Board and the Internet2 Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council, with the endorsement of the Internet2 Board.

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Sun to Open Source Web Single Sign-on

http://internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3519651
InternetNews, Clint Boulton; July 13, 2005

Sun is freeing up code from its Java System Access Manager software to let programmers create single sign-on over the Internet. The Open Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project will include source code for authentication and single domain SSO. Sun will include software hooks to connect the Web site authentication and SSO technologies with the Sun Java System Web Server and Sun Java System Application Server.

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Call for Papers: "Bridging Gaps in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics"

Call for Papers: "Bridging Gaps in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics",

Research Triangle Park, NC, 9/22-23/2005
http://www.sun-registration.com/CB

A wide range of Speakers will be presenting. Initial speakers include:

Todd Smith, GeoSpiza
Tarynn Witten, Virginia Commonwealth U
Ken Buetow, NCI Center for Bioinformatics
Lawrence Hunter, U. Colorado
Dan Reed, U.NC
Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM
John Wilbanks, Harvard School of Law

URGENT: Please submit proposals for the Conference as soon as possible. Directions are on the website.

NOTE: Also, we may have a Sun CB-SIG on Friday afternoon, Sept 23 following the Conference. Please send brief paper proposals for the Sun CB-SIG to stefan.unger@sun.com.

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Sun Unveils Mobile SPARC Workstations

IT Week, Daniel Robinson; July 11, 2005
http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2139581/sun-unveils-mobile-sparc-workstations

Sun ships its first mobile workstations based on UltraSPARC processors. The laptop systems deliver all the performance and functionality of a Sun Blade workstation in a mobile unit, enabling engineers and other professionals to run its Solaris UNIX environment in the field.

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Linux-Powered Sun Ray Dazzles

IThe Channel Insider, Sean Gallagher; July 14, 2005
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article2/0,1895,1836593,00.asp

"Sun Ray with the Java Desktop environment is especially well-suited for environments where workers don't have a designated workspace, share a desk or move from one desk (or counter top) to another over the course of a day—places like a call center, or in education, laboratory or health care environments."

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