Technorati Tags: C-DAC, Grid Computing, Cluster Computing

Pune based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Director General S Ramakrishnan today said the C-DAC would establish ’grid computing system’ at 14 locations in 40 institutions during current year.

Central to the Chicago group’s effort will be the creation of a distributed data warehouse known as the SID Grid (Social Informatics Data Grid), which will encourage data sharing and accelerate the development of standards for collecting and coding physiological and behavioral data. The SID Grid will be deployed as part of the larger TeraGrid, a suite of grid- computing resources available to the scientific community at large. The Chicago group will develop, test, and refine their data collection and analysis tools through research in three areas of inquiry: multimodal communication, neurobiology of social behavior, and cognitive and social neuroscienceNSF grant to fund project on behavioral psychology

Eventually, the rumour about  aka  has an answer from . It turns out that Google has just released  last night. What is Google Pack? Actually, it is a collection of desktop software developed by Google and companions. For Google itself, they produces 5 softwares listed below.

In addition, Mozilla, Symantec, Lavasoft, and Adobe also joined this campaign.

Actually, I have installed most softwares listed above except only Norton, Ad-Aware, and Google Pack Screensaver. The great advantage of Google Pack is . Actually, it seems to clearly show that Google plays on Desktop War in different way comparing to . Instead of Konfabulator-like APIs, Google offers low-level APIs. I guess that  could be able to run on Google Sidebar someday.

If you use WordPress 2.00 then please be aware of the following problem with new WordPress and Post2Blog that caused by error in WordPress: 

WordPress extended text entry tag not working in posts if you add new post using external application such as Post2Blog. This is can be fixed

Bytescout Software Blog » Blog Archive » WordPress 2.00 bug-fix

EMC is acquiring Acxiom’s grid-computing software for $30 million and will combine it with its own products for storage, information, and resource management. EMC and Acxiom, which will retain rights to continue using the software under the deal announced Thursday, also will jointly develop grid-based information and data analysis packages for Acxiom customers.
InformationWeek | Grid Computing | EMC and Acxiom Ink Grid Computing Deal

EMC has Documentum in its own basket so Documentum should be improved significantly.

SDN recently released 2 Sneak Preview products.

1. SAP NetWeaver 04 SP15 Full Java Edition
2. SAP NetWeaver 04s Full ABAP Edition (with Web Dynpro for ABAP)

For one interesting to try them out, just simply go to SDN at Download Center or directly link at here.

I wrote an installation guide for SP11 and here; however, I don’t have much time to try SP15 yet. Fortunately, someone wrote a comprehensive installation guide for SP15 already in PDF format.