Newsletter - May 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 Sun begins open-source Solaris era; Engineers blog! CNET News.com, Stephen Shankland; June 14, 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5745120.html 'If all goes according to Sun's plan, Solaris won't just be a product of the roughly 1,000 programmers inside the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company. "The work inside the firewall will begin to happen outside the firewall," Tom Goguen Sun Vice President of Software said.' Ever wonder what the engineers who designed and built Solaris are thinking about? Visit http://www.opensolaris.org/os/blogs and read the engineers are saying. One of my favorites is Eric Saxe's blog on CMT performance in Solaris! For a lot more about OpenSolaris and Solaris see http://www.sun.com and http://www.opensolaris.org HPC Consortium Europe 2005 Full Agenda Online 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/) The full agenda can be found at http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc Online registration is now closed, but you can register on site. Grid Engine 6 update 4 new features The latest refresh of the N1 Grid Engine Software, N1GE 6 update 4, has been released. New or improved features include:
For more information go to http://www.sun.com/gridengine N1 Grid Engine and open source Grid Engine: What's the difference? Two of the most frequently asked questions about Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 are:
We placed two White Papers the External web site that answer these questions: http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/whitepapers.xml - N1 Grid Engine 6 and the open source Grid Engine Project - ARCO: N1 Grid Engine 6 Accounting and Reporting Console Gridwise Technologies supports Grid Engine, Globus Toolkit 4 http://www.gridwisetech.com/?page=18
Now, Sun iForce Partner Gridwise Technologies offers a commercially supported robust integration services of Sun N1 Grid Engine 6, with Globus Toolkit 4 (GT4). They offer a full range of services and can customize installations for your requirements. Data Grid Software Maker Avaki purchased by Sybase For those who had not heard, Avaki (data grid pioneer) was purchased by Sybase: Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced continued investment in its information management technology portfolio with the acquisition of the technology and assets of Avaki Corporation, a market-leading, privately held provider of enterprise information integration (EII) software. Avaki helps companies in data intensive industries deploy their business information systems faster and at lower cost through better approaches to data integration. Sybase intends to incorporate the technology into its core group of information management solutions. Tony Hey Director of UK e-Science program joins Microsoft May 17, 2005, GridToday SIndustry luminary Tony Hey is joining Microsoft Corp. as a corporate vice president to coordinate the software giant's Technical Computing Initiative. One of the pre-eminent researchers in parallel computing, Hey is leaving his post as director of the UK's much-ballyhooed e-Science Initiative to report directly to Craig Mundie, Microsoft CTO and senior vice president for Advanced Strategies and Policy. In his new role, Hey reportedly will coordinate Microsoft's collaboration with the worldwide scientific community. Full article: Grid Computing Solutions from Sun and Oracle http://www.sun.com/oracle/grid With the introduction of Sun's breadth of options including AMD Opteron- based Sun Fire V20z and V40z servers, Ultra SPARC IV-based servers, Solaris and Linux, as well as enhanced manageability and scalability features in Oracle Database 10g, customers can now choose to leverage the power and economies of a grid infrastructure for their enterprise applications. OpenMP Specification Version 2.5 Released OpenMP Specification Version 2.5 Released The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) is pleased to announce the release of Version 2.5 of the OpenMP API Specification. This new version of the specification combines the previous Fortran Version 2.0 and C/C++ Version 2.0 specifications into a single document. Sun Product News: Dual-Core AMD Processor systems, AMD gives roadmap Sun Shipping X64 Server Line With AMD Dual-Core Processor
RedNova.com, Staff; June 14, 2005
Sun has introduced its first dual-core server based on the new industry-standard Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor, and announced dual-core for its entire x64 product line. John Fowler said the dual-core architecture is designed to help customers achieve twice the performance and power efficiency over competitive x64 single-core server offerings based on Intel processors, resulting in half the operational costs that include power and cooling - in some cases saving customers an average of $2M annually per year. AMD Lifts Its Veil AMD outlined some aggressive plans to improve its PC and server chips through 2007 and presented an unusually detailed look at its manufacturing procedures at a recent meeting with financial analysts. The company has already proved its ability to execute in building chips for servers and PCs, having signed up top-tier customers like Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. The company also said it is on schedule to begin operations at a new factory in Dresden, Germany, in the first half of 2006, adding to its existing plant there. Security Patches Available for Java Runtime Environment
Sun Squashes 'Critical' Java Bugs Sun rolls out patches for a pair of "highly critical" flaws in the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) sandbox and the Java Web Start technology. Security Patches Available for Java Runtime Environment
Sun's StorageTek Gamble Makes Sense The reporter writes positively about the acquisition of StorageTek, arguing that it will give Sun the storage resources it needs to become a force in the regulatory compliance market, and the ability to seize a large chunk of the storage market. Scott McNealy speaks out about Education and Bridging the Digital Divide Many grid projects have an economic or educational development component. Here is a great ComputerWorld article online by Scott McNealy on how we can all help bridge the Digital Divide.
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