Different communities have their own focus, way of saying things and words for specific topics. From the drawing board it that could be obvious that tow communities should work together because they use the same slogans, while in fact they are looking at complete different topics. The only way to really know whether they have something in common is to bring the communities together and see whether some fruitful cooperation emerges. This is exactly what the European Commission did with a session called "The Semantic Grid: when the Semantic Web meets Grid" at IST2005 in The Hague. About hundred people from two communities, The Grid and Semantic Web met. Dieter Fensel discussed the status and ideas for a Semantic Grid from the Web services perspective; David de Roure did the same from the Grid perspective.

T-Systems and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have signed a strategic partnership that encompasses a world wide co-operation, primarily for computer workplaces and server infrastructure services. The companies are looking to jointly develop and market new solutions. The agreement extends the existing international hardware resale co-operation and framework contracts.

DAM (Military Application Department) of the CEA - the French Nuclear Power Agency - has selected Bull to provide a supercomputer delivering a power of over 60 teraflops or sixty thousands billions of operations per second. This supercomputer named Tera10 will increase CEA Military Applications Department's present supercomputing power by the factor of ten. It will be used for its Simulation Programme that guarantees the continuation of the French nuclear deterrent, following the cessation of nuclear testing.

Scali, specialized in high performance clustering solutions, has teamed with HP to deliver Scali Manage and Scali MPI Connect software solutions as a featured offering in HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio.

To power intensely real 3D image generation within a new tactical support and training system for its Gripen fighter, Saab Aerosystems has purchased four SGI Onyx family visualization systems from Silicon Graphics as the core hardware technology. Saab's new flight simulator, called PETRA (Planning, Evaluation, Training, Rehearsal and Analysis), can be used for planning, evaluating and debriefing of missions, either simulated or actual real-life missions as well as for basic training and rehearsal exercises, mission rehearsal in training and analysis of tactical scenarios.

Scali has appointed Andrew Sutherland as Vice President of Finance and Administration to focus on developing an international infrastructure to encourage future revenue growth.

Orad Hi-Tec Systems, specialized in scalable high performance image generators in the field of visual simulation and TV production technology, and Fakespace Systems Inc., a provider of large scale 3D visualization solutions, have signed an agreement allowing Fakespace Systems to provide Orad DVG high performance image generators to their customer base worldwide. Further, ORAD systems are now supported by Fakespace's Conduit software.

Silicon Graphics has launched the SGI Open Broadcast Initiative designed to deliver a more open system choice approach to broadcasters around the globe easing their transition to a digital IT infrastructure. Among the challenges facing broadcasters making this transition is equipment interoperability.