Previous issues of Sun Grid News are available at our Grid Community web page under the Resources section (toward the bottom). To receive future issues subscribe by sending an email to: mailto:grid-sig-request@sun.com Globus, open source Solaris/x64 binaries available from APSTC The Asia Pacific Science & Technology Center has made available the binaries for Solris10 x64 for Globus4.0.1 with instructions for download from their website: http://apstc.sun.com.sg/s10port In addition to Globus, the Solaris10 porting project has ported BLACS, FFTW, Ganglia, GD, GPLK, HDF5, LAM/MPI, Libart, METIS, MPICH, Octave, PHP, R, readline, RRDtool, ScaLAPACKl UFsparse, and zlib. PathScale to be acquired by QLogic PathScale has agreed to be acquired by QLogic [NASDAQ: QLGC], the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches for $109M. The transaction is expected to close in April. ANSYS, a supplier of simulation software and technologies, has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fluent, Inc., a global provider of computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software. Open Source Software Survey Report Report on a survey, based on responses from more than 200 officials who are responsible for software selection at a range of higher education institutions. The survey found that two-thirds of chief information officers said they have ?considered or are actively considering using open source products, while about a quarter of institutions are implementing higher education-specific open source software. Quantum, Storagetek (Sun) Settle Patent Claims Reuters, Staff; February 28, 2006 Quantum and Sun's StorageTek settle a long-running patent infringement lawsuit through an agreement under which Quantum will pay Sun $25 million. In addition to settling all legal claims, the two companies reached a cross license agreement, under which they will have license to a limited number of the other's patents on a nonexclusive, worldwide basis. |
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