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Week of January 7, 2008 Vol. 6, No. 51

IN THIS ISSUE
Voltaire Enlightens the Market in 2007
Easing into 2008
IBM Buys Grid-Based Storage Vendor XIV
SETI@home Seeking Volunteers

From the Editor

Easing into 2008

GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris comments on this week's light issue, which should help everyone ease back into the daily grind after the holidays, and previews some of the features on tap for the upcoming weeks and months.

Special Features

Voltaire Enlightens the Market in 2007

From its Nasdaq IPO to partnerships with industry-leading financial services ISVs to a pairing of its GridVision software with Cluster Resources' Moab job scheduler, Voltaire had a big 2007. We spoke with senior vice president of marketing Patrick Guay to get his thoughts on the highlights, as well as what we can expect in the year to come.

OGF Makes Interoperability Real

Starting in 2008, Microsoft's Window's HPC Server 2008, Altair's PBS Professional and Platform's LSF products all will meet OGF's HPC Basic Profile Specification. End users will now be guaranteed that their use of these products will enable complete interoperability to manage resources in virtual organizations over multi-site, multi-vendor grids.

Scientific Applications

NYSGrid Partners with OSG

Under the MOU, the partnership will provide opportunistic access by OSG virtual organizations to NYSGrid resources, as well as support for use of the OSG software stack on NYSGrid computing and storage sites. NYSGrid and OSG will collaborate on mutually beneficial technical projects and will meet annually to discuss the partnership and its benefit to researchers.

Internet2, Collaborators Demo OGF Standards

At SC07, Internet2 demonstrated for the first time interoperability of its Dynamic Circuit Network with multiple regional and international networks. The interoperability of the Inter-Domain Controller protocol, being developed in a collaboration between GEANT2, Internet2 and ESnet, is made possible through emerging network markup language standards being developed in the Open Grid Forum.

Quote of the Week

"Reducing transaction latency may be the most important objective in the financial markets today. There are well-known studies that have shown a 1-millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million per year to an exchange or financial services firm."

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Events Calendar

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Last Issue's Top 5 Articles

1. IBM Buys Grid-Based Storage Vendor XIV
2. DataCore Announces Portable VM Starter SAN

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