Newsletter - March 31 2005

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Announcing HPC Consortium Europe 2005, Grid SIG

High Performance Computing Consortium -- Europe 2005 "INNOVATION MATTERS"

When: June 20, 21 - Main Program June 21 - Special Interest Group Meetings (Prior to the ISC2005 conference, http://www.isc2005.org/)

Where: Crowne Plaza Heidelberg Kurfurstenanlage 1, Heidelberg, 69115 Germany

Registration: Registration will be on-line in April. The registration fee is 199 Euros.

Housing: We have a block of rooms at the Crowne Plaza at special price from June 19 to 21. In addition the ISC2005 conference offers hotel bookings for the entire week.

Information: hpcconsortium-info@sun.com

This meeting our theme will be "Innovation Matters." There will be talks from Sun and AMD as well as customers such as Cambridge, Stanford, Ulm, USC, 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.

If you are interested in giving a talk, have suggestions or comments please email us at hpcconsortium-info@sun.com More agenda details will follow soon.

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eWeek Highlights Grid Security

Grid Computing Can Allow Security Threats eWeek, 3/30/05; Ryan Naraine http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1780849,00.asp

Security experts recommend that IT administrators clearly identify and understand the security risks associated with large-scale grid computing deployments. At Ziff Davis Media's Enterprise Solutions Virtual Tradeshow, Lenny Mansell, senior security consultant at Triad Information Security Services LLC, warned that greater sharing of information and resources across traditional trust boundaries will result in increased risks that must be addressed as a matter of urgency.

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Secure by design

Feature article about what Sun is doing in Security. Includes "Ten Steps to Better Security" http://www.sun.com/2005-0215/feature/

Solaris10 Security http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/security.jsp The Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) includes advanced security features that were once only available to customers of the Trusted Solaris OS. The Solaris 10 OS is designed to provide comprehensive, indepth security, protecting the enterprise at multiple levels, such as system security, strong authentication, encrypted communications, access controls, and accountability.

Identity for the Virtual Enterprise (Virtual Organization) http://www.sun.com/2004-1026/feature/

Sun Security Blueprints: http://www.sun.com/blueprints/browsesubject.html#security

Solaris 10 Perk to Block Bogus Binaries internetnews.com, 2/25/05; Michael Singer http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3485726 Sun prepares a new security feature for Solaris 10, which the company claims could spell the end of viruses, worms and illegal downloads.

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Tony Hey speaks on OGSA, Global Grid Forum

WSRF? WS-*? Where is GGF's OGSA Headed? By Tony Hey, Contributing Editor http://news.tgc.com/msgget.jsp?mid=342708

"The GGF [Global Grid Forum] urgently needs to focus on an OGSA abstraction that is neutral about how the low-level Cyberinfrastructure has been implemented. The global academic community urgently needs such a rallying point to build their e-Science applications around."

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International Symposium on Globally Distributed Data

http://www.opensolaris.org The Solaris operating system is being released under the terms of the OSI-approved, Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Version 1.0. Millions of development hours worth of code and over 1,600 patents are being contributed to the open source community. We know that innovation happens everywhere. And we're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with you. To push Solaris. And see how far we -- together -- can take it.

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OpenSolaris.org now "open" for business

http://www.opensolaris.org The Solaris operating system is being released under the terms of the OSI-approved, Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Version 1.0. Millions of development hours worth of code and over 1,600 patents are being contributed to the open source community. We know that innovation happens everywhere. And we're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with you. To push Solaris. And see how far we -- together -- can take it.

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New JXTA releases for J2SE and C

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Solaris10 supported for NAGs newest release

NAG Extends its Library of Numerical Algorithms to make it the largest currently available. Mark 21 of the NAG Fortran Library now features over 1,450 routines. http://www.nag.co.uk/show_article.asp?articleID=352

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Optical communications: coming to a chip near you

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0411/068.html Article highlighting Sun's HPCS research work with Luxtera for optical communications.

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Sun Product News: upgraded V20z, UltraSPARCIV

Sun Fire[tm] V20z Server with AMD Opteron 252 Processor http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/index.jsp

The Sun Fire^TM V20z server's new standard configuration offers AMD Opteron 252 or 2.6 GHz processors and supports the fastest 400 MHz Double Data Rate (DDR) memory that is available for AMD Opteron processors. With these enhancements, the Sun Fire V20z can assist enterprises solve complex technical problems even faster then before, reducing time-to-market for their products and services.

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-02/sunflash.20050223.1.html The new UltraSPARC IV 1.35 GHz processor, available immediately, gives customers over 2x the throughput(i) at 34 percent better price/performance when compared to the fastest UltraSPARC III systems.

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