Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mumbai will be the Indian participant in the mammoth and first-of-its-kind 35 million rupees multi-country project called FLOSSWORLD supported by the European Union (EU) in the area of Open Source Software. This 2-year project involves 17 partner institutions across 12 countries worldwide, jointly receiving RS 3.5 crore from the EU's 6th Framework Research Programme. C-DAC's participation in the FLOSSWORLD project supported by NASSCOM, reinforces its strong commitment to Open Source Software as a major thrust area of research.

Brigham Young University (BYU) has installed six new Dell supercomputing clusters at its Provo, Utah campus, helping to enable students and faculty across the university to enhance research ranging from business and engineering to agriculture and physics.

PathScale Inc. and Absoft Corporation have made available Absoft's new High Performance Computing Software Development Kit (HPC SDK) optimized for clusters based on AMD's 32- and 64-bit AMD Opteron processors running Linux and featuring top-performing Fortran and EKOPath C++ compilers from PathScale.

HP is the worldwide leader in software license revenue and market share for distributed performance and availability management software for the third consecutive year, according to a recent IDC market report. According to the IDC study, HP worldwide distributed performance and availability management software license revenue grew by 15.8 percent in 2004, outpacing the overall one-year growth of 11.6 percent for the market category. HP maintained its first place ranking in worldwide market share with 24.1 percent, more than double the market share of each of the next two closest competitors.

IBM has launched the IntelliStation M Pro 6218, a workstation utilizing a dual-core Intel processor built from the ground up with server design teams and rigorous xSeries Server Proven testing. IBM customers typically use IntelliStation workstations for critical business operations to facilitate tasks such as mechanical design, electronic design, drug discovery and digital content creation.

Microsoft will sponsor the establishment of a new '.NET Lab' for the University of Melbourne's recently launched Master of Engineering in Distributed Computing, believed to be the first of its kind in the world. The Director of the University's Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) laboratory, Dr. Rajkumar Buyya says that graduates of the Masters programme are likely to be in great demand as the technology continues to expand.

Monash University is embarking on a major shift in research with the establishment of a $3 million centre devoted to nurturing the use of e-research. E-research uses high-performance computers (or clusters of these computers), huge databases and massive or multiple scientific instruments, to link research teams internationally and solve previously intractable problems in areas as diverse as aeroplane engine design, climate modelling and drug design.

The GridKa 2005 school will be hosted by GridKa and the Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR) @ Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe from Monday, September 26 till Friday, September 30, 2005. GridKa School, now in its third year, is an annual computing school covering topics related to scientific Grid Computing. It is targeted at postdocs, advanced undergraduate and graduate students. While it originally solely served the needs of High-Energy Physics, the topics discussed are general enough so that students of other scientific disciplines will benefit as well.

IBM has introduced Grid and Grow, a packaged set of software, hardware and services that will deliver the benefits of Grid computing to businesses large and small. The offering is built on IBM's experience implementing Grid computing solutions worldwide.

The OASIS team composed of research scientists from INRIA Sophia Antipolis, the I3S CNRS laboratory and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, just beat a world record in computing and demonstrated the advantage of computing Grids to solve increasingly complex computations.

Voltaire, specialized in interconnect solutions for high performance Grid computing, has achieved a new world record result for price/performance for a 3 Terabyte (TB) TPC-H benchmark. The new mark was achieved using the IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (DB2 ICE) and Voltaire Grid Interconnect solutions and delivered the best price/performance in the 3 TB category.

Platform Computing has joined the Cognos Technology Partner Programme.Platform participated in the recent Cognos Forum 2005, where it demonstrated the Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) technology d coupled with Cognos ReportNet.

Xilinx and Siemens Medical Solutions have signed a collaboration that is expected to result in innovative 3D medical imaging solutions. Siemens has selected Xilinx as its FPGA (field programmable gate array) supplier in the development of its next-generation 3D image processing platform which will be used in future image processing products. Siemens also plans to offer the technology as an imaging development platform solution to enable similar applications throughout the industry.

Two thousand years ago in the sands of Egypt, grieving parents put their tiny child to rest in a way that was customary even during the time of Christ. They removed all of the youth's organs except for the heart, packed the remains in salt to cure them, and wrapped them in linen coated with perfumed resin. Like all Egyptians of the age, they were certain that their careful efforts would prepare their loved one to someday come back to life. Today in Silicon Valley, a team of world-renowned experts proved those parents right - although the mummy's high-tech resurrection may not quite be what ancient Egyptians had in mind. Researchers allowed attendees to literally come face to face with the rare mummified remains of the ancient Egyptian child. Equipped with the most detailed 3D models ever created of a mummy, the team of experts showed how 60,000 exceptionally high-resolution 2D scans helped them give life to the mummy without disturbing its delicate form.

Increased demand for global IP solutions among enterprise customers is prompting Sprint to double network capacity to and throughout Europe to address global access, performance and security requirements. Sprint's IP solutions have proven popular with U.S.-based and global multinational corporations (MNCs) seeking to integrate existing technologies or migrate to IP-based solutions.