Highlights this month include Globus GRAM, GridFTP, and MDS.

The Globus Consortium (founded by IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, Nortel, Univa and Cisco) today published the latest issue of the “Globus Consortium Journal.” The newsletter focuses on open source Grid computing projects - and this month features developer interviews with the leaders of the three most important services in the Globus Toolkit.
LinuxElectrons - Grid Computing Newsletter Looks at Key Open Source Development Efforts

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PBS Professional(TM) 7.0SP1 supports HP MPI and LAM-MPI.

Altair Engineering, Inc., a global leader in innovative product development, advanced engineering software and grid computing technology, today announced the release of PBS Professional(TM) 7.0SP1, the next generation of the company’s PBS Professional technology. PBS Professional technology optimizes the utilization of enterprise computing resources by aggregating hardware and software assets, and intelligently scheduling computational workloads based on business policies.

IBRIX(TM), Inc. today announced that Electromagnetic Geoservices AS (emgs), the Seabed Logging Company, has implemented the IBRIX Fusion(TM) Parallel File System, an enterprise-class fully-integrated single namespace software suite, for generating more sophisticated oil and gas analyses and surveys and accelerating its delivery to oil and gas customers worldwide. Emgs provides valuable information that helps exploration professionals locate commercial hydrocarbon reservoirs and rank prospects for drilling, reducing the risks and costs of drilling dry holes. As the company has expanded its offerings to include intensive modeling, data acquisition, processing, and interpretation services, demand for its services has increased, resulting in the need for increased computational power.

ADTmag has published a long article regarding Apps on the Grid. Below are basic ideas of this article.

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BREAKING THE GRIDLOCK

Grid is widely adopted by major integration company as a promising glue for legacy softwares.

DataSynapse, Inc., the global provider of virtual application infrastructure software, today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of enterprise data integration software, under which the two companies will collaborate to interface DataSynapse’s award-winning GridServer(R) technology with Informatica’s PowerCenter data integration platform for the seamless deployment of a shared computing infrastructure.

Oracle surveyed state of grid technology in business sector.

"The report reveals that India leads the world’s perceptions of moving towards a grid IT environment with 60 per cent of the organisations polled stating that grid-based IT infrastructure is inevitable or very probable. Moreover, nearly half (48 per cent) of organisations polled have already made or are in the process of embracing grid technology," Sundar Ram, Senior Director, Database Technologies, Oracle Asia-Pacific, said at a conference on the eve of Oracle OpenWorld event here.

The results of the latest Oracle Grid Index research indicates an increased awareness of enabling technologies such Services Oriented Architecture and Blade Servers, he added. |Read more Finance news.|