Certification Magazine - October 2007 - (Page 9)

data, produce that data at an alarming rate,” Simms said. “I like to call it the data fire hose. If you’re going to capture the data, that means you’ve got to be able to ingest that data quickly, and if your simulations are running for a long time, you’ve got to have hundreds of terabytes of space to accommodate multiple streams of this kind of data from different departments. So, we set down this path: We started mounting the file system on multiple locations, tying local resources together.” This is where the TeraGrid comes into play. “By having this across a wide area, it frees you up from the overhead of data transfer, so you don’t necessarily have to, at every step of your work flow, control the speed of someone else’s schedule,” Simms said. Program Updates Cisco has announced the addition of an entry-level certification, Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician (CCENT), along with revisions to the Cisco You don’t have to research data transfer on your own. Just type it into CertScope, which yields a list of 46 CertMag articles and more than 252 Web sites. Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. The required exam for CCENT is ICND1 640-822, and the Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, Part 1, course is recommended. The required exams for CCNA are either ICND1 640-822 and ICND2 640-816 or the CCNA 640-802 composite exam. Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, Parts 1 and 2, are recommended courses for CCNA. The CCNA curriculum has been revised to include more networking topics and focus on performance-based skills. Changes to CCNA include upgraded coverage of security, additional wireless concepts and technology and increased coverage in the exam, as well as in the training of performance-based skills. 8 – Daniel Margolis, dmargolis@certmag.com http://www.CertMag.com http://www.wgu.edu/cm14 http://www.wgu.edu/cm14

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