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Charles Schwab moves to Grid Computing (Stacy Simpson)
message for comp.os.linux.announce (Bram Moolenaar)
sysstat-4.1.2 - System performance tools for Linux (Sebastien Godard)
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From: Stacy Simpson <stacysim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Charles Schwab moves to Grid Computing
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:31:05 CST
Charles Schwab is experiencing a 94% improvement in processing time on an
existing application, thanks to a Grid solution running Linux implemented
by IBM.
More companies are about to experience these gains as IBM today for the
first time is introducing a set of industry-focused Grid offerings. Grid
computing, one of the key enabling technologies of IBM's on demand
strategy, is taking a giant step out of research and into the enterprise
today with the introduction of ten Grid solutions targeting five key
industries – aerospace, automotive, financial, government and life
sciences.
IBM is replicating the research work done with customers, such as at
Schwab, and delivering the most complete set of Grid solutions based on
real-market experience. The Grid offerings bring together all areas of
IBM's expertise – hardware, software and services – to enable Grids in the
enterprise.
Stacy Simpson
Media Relations
IBM Corporation
Route 100, Somers, NY 10589
Ph: 914-766-4123 (t/l: 826-4123)
E: stacysim@us.ibm.com
IBM DRIVES GRID COMPUTING FOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESS WITH TEN NEW GRID
OFFERINGS
Grid Results At Financial Services Firm Reduces Processing Time To Seconds
ARMONK, NY, January 27, 2003…IBM is driving the benefits of Grid
computing beyond its academic and research roots and into business
enterprises with the introduction today of ten Grid offerings targeting key
industries – aerospace, automotive, financial markets, government and life
sciences.
Additionally, IBM announced that it's working with Charles Schwab on Grid
computing solutions at the financial services giant's headquarters in San
Francisco. The first Grid research and development project, just completed
there, focused on maximizing processor efficiency and reduced the
processing time on a financial application from more than four minutes to
15 seconds. The two companies are now looking to expand Grid research
into other areas of Charles Schwab's business.
"We believe that Grid computing built and designed around open standards
has the potential to greatly improve our quality of service and be a truly
disruptive technology that can help us improve our business," said Oren
Leiman, managing director of advanced technology at Charles Schwab.
IBM also announced today that it has established master relationship
agreements with two Grid middleware vendors – Platform Computing and
DataSynapse -- both of which will play key roles in helping IBM deploy
Grids in the enterprise. IBM also has agreements with middleware providers
Avaki, Entropia and United Devices.
"The benefits of Grid computing for e-business on demand are here; it's now
and it's real," said Tom Hawk, general manager of Grid computing worldwide
for IBM. "Working with our ISV business partners and the open Globus
community, we've developed a set of structured capabilities and offerings
that leverage IBM's unmatched experience in deploying IT solutions to help
businesses reap the benefits of Grid computing. The commercial market for
Grids is set to expand, particularly with the introduction of the Globus
Toolkit 3.0, the first OGSA-compliant Grid middleware."
>From Minutes to Seconds
IBM and Charles Schwab's Advanced Technology Group took an existing
application that ran on non-IBM systems and Grid-enabled it with the Globus
Toolkit running RedHat Linux on IBM eServer xSeries 330 machines. The
recently completed tests applied complex numerical methods in a dedicated
environment to an existing wealth management application. This
Grid-enablement reduced the processing time on the application from more
than four minutes to 15 seconds. If implemented, this could allow Charles
Schwab to increase customer satisfaction by responding to inquiries at a
faster pace.
New Grid Offerings
IBM's go-to-market strategy in 2003 is built around five Grid focus areas
that address the needs of the aerospace, automotive, financial markets,
government and life science industries. These focus areas, which were
based on customer feedback and customer Grid implementations, are Research
and Development, Engineering and Design, Business Analytics, Enterprise
Optimization, and Government Development.
Based on these focus areas, IBM is introducing ten Grid offerings for the
following markets:
· Financial Markets (Business Analytics and Enterprise Optimization
Focus) – For Financial Services customers, IBM is offering two Grid
options: an Analytics Acceleration Grid and an IT Optimization Grid. The
Analytics Acceleration Grid can help enhance a company's competitiveness
and agility in the financial trading market by accelerating its trading
analytics operations and increasing its computational throughput. The IT
Optimization Grid is designed to help customers exploit available,
underutilized compute and storage resources. IBM's work with Charles
Schwab, announced today, is one example of an Analytics Acceleration Grid.
· Life Sciences (Research and Development Focus) – For the Life
Sciences industry, IBM is offering two Grid options: one for Analytics
Acceleration and another for Information Accessibility. The Analytics
Acceleration Grid is designed to dramatically increase the number of
calculations processed, which can result in accelerated times for drug
discovery. The Information Accessibility Grid can maximize the
exploitation of existing data resources and assets by providing unified
data access during the querying process of non-standard data formats.
· Automotive and Aerospace (Engineering and Design Focus) – For the
Automotive and Aerospace industries, IBM is offering four options – two for
each industry: an Engineering Design Grid as well as a Design
Collaboration Grid. The Engineering Design Grid can help companies in
these industries to manage their costs by optimizing the use of their
investment in existing infrastructure. The Design Collaboration Grid is
designed to enable data sharing and distributed work flow across partners,
which will enable faster design processes.
· Governments (Government Development Focus) -- For Government
agencies, IBM is offering an Information Access Grid that can help maximize
use of existing data resources and other assets across departments through
a unified data and file interface. This can help reduce the time and
effort required to capture, compile and analyze data and facilitate
information sharing.
In addition to the nine industry-targeted offerings above, IBM is
delivering a tenth offering in the form of Grid Innovation Workshops.
Customized to each organization, the workshops are designed to help
companies examine how Grid technologies can impact their organization.
The Grid offerings announced today are designed to operate in a
heterogeneous environment and will incorporate the Open Grid Services
Architecture (OGSA). IBM Global Services will support all elements of a
Grid implementation with both IBM and non-IBM hardware and software.
New ISV Business Partners
IBM today announced that it is working with five select Grid middleware
companies to deploy Grid solutions in the selected industries that IBM is
targeting. Two of the vendors – Platform Computing and DataSynapse --
have signed master relationship agreements with the company.
Platform Computing is a 10-year-old company that generates more than $50
million a year delivering Grid solutions to more than 1,500 customers
worldwide. Platform will be part of IBM's worldwide go-to-market Grid
strategy and is currently the only vendor that will engage in all five
industries IBM is targeting: aerospace, automotive, financial markets,
government and life sciences.
DataSynapse, a New York City-based provider of Grid and distributed
computing solutions will be part of IBM's go-to-market strategy in
industries requiring business analytics Grids, specifically the financial
services sector.
Avaki, a Massachusetts-based Grid software company plays a role in IBM's
solutions as a provider of distributed data Grid products that enable
secure wide area data access.
IBM also has agreements with two other Grid middleware vendors -- Entropia
and United Devices – and will engage with these vendors in industries where
they offer the greatest expertise.
Customer Testimonials
"PDVSA, the 6th largest Oil Company in the world, is in the process of
implementing Grid technology from IBM and Platform Computing to improve its
oil reservoir simulation modeling applications providing faster performance
and more accurate forecasting. Working with IBM to quantify the
significant business benefits, PDVSA is extremely excited about this new
technology and its application potential across its enterprise," said
Emilio Augustin, PDVSA Technical Operations Manager.
"Grid computing has already had a significant impact on our ability to meet
our business objectives," said Bridget-Anne Hampden, managing director and
CIO of Corporate and Investment Banking, Wachovia Corporation. "The
combination of IBM's infrastructure expertise and DataSynapse's ability to
enable a wide range of applications creates a compelling solution with
immediately realizable benefits. As a long-time customer of both IBM and
DataSynapse, we are excited about the partnership between the two companies
"
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take
full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about
IBM's Grid computing business, visit www.ibm.com/grid.
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From: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>
Subject: message for comp.os.linux.announce
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:02:42 CST
Please post this message in comp.os.linux.announce:
Subject: Call for Papers NLUUG Spring conference 2003
CALL FOR PAPERS
NLUUG Spring conference 2003
WEB APPLICATIONS
Zen and the art of internet programming
May 22, 2003, De Reehorst, Ede (Gld)
The internet hype is over. These days the web is a common way to order
products, do banking and read the latest news. More and more users
expect to find the information they need on the internet. Providers also
see the advantages. Central application control with a globally
accessible user interface creates new and unexpected opportunities.
Development of good internet applications is not a simple thing.
Fortunately, there are a lot of resources. This conference will provide
an overview of the available languages, the tools that can be used to
make applications work and the supporting middleware. From commercial
systems that provide a complete solution to handy scripts that make
daily maintenance a lot easier.
The program committee is looking for presentations about positive and
negative experiences with web applications, especially in a Unix
environment. What are the problems that were encountered? What are the
solutions?
Presentations and tutorials are being solicited in areas including, but
not limited to:
- (script) languages used on web sites: Python, PHP, Perl, etc.
- what is the best language for a certain application?
- use of databases
- client side solutions, such as Java and Javascript
- http servers and extensions: Apache, Zend, ISS, etc.
- interfacing between a web server and applications
- tools for the development of web applications: ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, etc.
- experience from the field
- security: ssl, certificates, cookies, etc.
- development of standards, such as XML and SOAP
- how about .NET?
The conference consists of presentations and a limited number of
tutorials. In a presentation the author presents his subject in about 40
minutes to the general audience. In a tutorial of up to three hours the
use of a tool or language is explained for a selected audience.
We invite everybody with an interesting tutorial or presentation to
submit an abstract before February 28, 2003. The abstracts will be
judged by the program committee. Abstracts can only be submitted through
the web:
http://www.nluug.nl/cgi-bin/vj2003-abstract-en
The selected speakers have to submit a paper before April 15, 2003 for
publication in the conference proceedings. These papers will also be
available on the NLUUG website after the conference.
The main conference language is Dutch, tutorials and papers in English
are also welcome.
Important dates:
February 28, 2003 - deadline abstracts
March 10, 2003 - notification to speakers
April 15, 2003 - deadline papers
Questions about the conference and suggestions for speakers can be
e-mailed to <pc-vj2003@nluug.nl>.
--
hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
62. If your doorbell rings, you think that new mail has arrived. And then
you're disappointed that it's only someone at the door.
/// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@Moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\
/// Creator of Vim - Vi IMproved -- http://www.Vim.org \\\
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From: Sebastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-4.1.2 - System performance tools for Linux
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:28:09 CST
Hi everybody,
Lots of small and not so small changes in this release. Among others,
sar -q now also displays load average for the past 15 minutes, and
option -P has been added to sar to display stats on a per processor
basis. As a consequence, the syntax of the sar command has changed a
little (read the manual page for more details).
sysstat 4.1.2 is a development version and is available on ibiblio's
Linux archive site (formerly known as Metalab):
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/
103kB sysstat-4.1.2.tar.gz
106kB sysstat-4.1.2-1.src.rpm
66kB sysstat-4.1.2-1.i386.rpm
The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools
for Linux. These include sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
To learn some more about sysstat, check out
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
Changes vs 4.1.1 are:
2003/01/24: Version 4.1.2
WARNING: Daily data files format has changed, and is *not* compatible
with the previous one! Delete existing data files in /var/log/sa
directory!
* sar -q now also displays load average for the past 15 minutes.
* -P option added to sar. This option enables sar to display stats on
a per processor basis. Options -U and '-I PROC' are deprecated. 'sar
-U ALL' is replaced by 'sar -u -P ALL', and 'sar -I PROC' by 'sar -I
SUM -P ALL'.
* Fixed iowait value displayed by sar on SMP machines with pre 2.5
kernels.
* When displaying CPU utilization on SMP machines, sar now
recalculates the interval based on current CPU's tick count.
* Always check that the number of CPUs has not increased when reading
/proc/stat (sadc, mpstat).
* sadc: Don't assume that the first line in /proc/net/sockstat
concerns sockets. Check it!
* Serial lines are ignored by sadc for every kind of kernels (UP,
SMP...) if SMP_RACE is defined. SMP_RACE is no longer defined by
default in RPM packages.
* Code cleaned: Dead code removed in iostat.c, some lines longer than
80 chars folded, etc.
* sar manual page updated.
* FAQ updated.
* NLS updated.
Enjoy!
--
Sébastien Godard <sebastien dot godard at wanadoo dot fr>
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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