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Log onto HPCwire.com at the beginning and the end of your day for up to the minute news and information in the HPC industry. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** May 31, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 21 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 288 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article retrieval instructions at end of this file more@hpcwire.tgc.com For subscription information, email sub@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73086 ) Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Uses Linux NetworX Cluster to Aid in Drug Discovery Linux Cluster Helps Pharmaceutical Company Improve Efficiency and Save Time ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 102809 ) FEATURES: LINUX GROWS ON GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS | | [ ] 102819 ) SCIENCE NEWS: CATERPILLAR'S METAMORPHOSIS | | [ ] 102823 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HP INTRODUCES HIGH-DENSITY SUPERCOMPUTER | | [ ] 102832 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SGI'S IRIX FIT FOR MILITARY SERVICE | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73087 ) The New HP is The Market Leader in HPTC HP's HPTC Strengths Compaq's HPTC Strengths *high capacity servers and workstations *large capability systems *mechanical engineering *national laboratories *government defense *scientific research *electronic design simulation *life sciences *modeling *materials science The New HP *43% market share *The Best Technologies from HP and Compaq *Full-Range Product Set, From Desktops Through Multi-Teraflop Capability Systems FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 102809 ) LINUX GROWS ON GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS............................5.3K Linux, the open-source operating system with an outsider mystique, is now proliferating on powerful government computer systems in the United States and abroad with technology giants increasingly providing support. [ ] 102810 ) SHOULD HIGH PERFORMANCE STORAGE MEAN HIGH COST STORAGE?......5.2K By Geoff Barrall, CTO, BlueArc Corporation Geoff Barrall continues to look at the issue of disk performance and how it may lead to slower access speeds or underutilized storage from an operations-per-second standpoint. [ ] 102811 ) LINUX VENDORS GANG UP ON RED HAT.............................4.9K By Peter Galli, eWEEK A number of Linux vendors will announce that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try to take on Red Hat Inc.'s dominance in the industry. [ ] 102812 ) INTERNATIONAL GROUP EYEING IT SECURITY PRINCIPLES..............4K An international body representing more than 30 nations, including the United States, is developing a set of information security principles intended to help in the development of IT security standards. [ ] 102813 ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR.........................................4.6K In the following letter Earl Joseph II, IDC Research Director and HPC User Forum Executive Director, talks about the recent IDC supercomputing rankings and thanks the HPC community. [ ] 102814 ) SUPERCOMPUTING COMING TO A CLOSET NEAR YOU?..................6.6K By Ashlee Vance, IDG News Service Three Los Alamos researchers unveiled a potential breakthrough in high- performance computing: a 240-processor, Linux-based cluster dubbed Green Destiny. [ ] 102815 ) BIOTECH DEMANDS TO LIFT TECH SPENDING..........................2K The computing power needed by companies working with genes and proteins will fuel a boom in technology spending by the life sciences industry, experts said at a conference in Singapore. [ ] 102816 ) SMALLER, SLOWER SUPERCOMPUTERS SOMEDAY MAY WIN THE RACE........8K by Jim Danneskiold, LANL The supercomputers of the future will never crash and will cost far less to run than today's machines. At least that's the vision of a prominent scientist at the National Nuclear Security Administration. [ ] 102817 ) WILL MAC SERVERS EVER RUN THE ENTERPRISE?....................5.5K The arrival of Apple's new Xserve line of rack-optimized servers has caused industry watchers to pose a serious question that would have drawn only snickers in the past: Can Mac servers run the enterprise? [ ] 73088 ) Introducing the Sun Fire 12k Server The Ideal Platform for Large-Scale High Performance Computing SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 102818 ) INTEL OFFERS VISION FOR STANDARD BLADE-BASED SERVERS.........5.7K Intel Corporation outlined an industry vision for standards-based modular communications servers and equipment that will increase flexibility in the development of standards-based, blade-based communications servers and solutions. [ ] 102819 ) CATERPILLAR'S METAMORPHOSIS..................................7.8K Caterpillar garners the NCSA Private Sector Program's 2002 Industrial Grand Challenge Award, honoring more than a decade of breakthroughs. [ ] 102820 ) NCSA TEAM "UNFOLDS" THE UNIVERSE IN DISCOVERY CHANNEL SHOW...6.8K People will soon get a glimpse of stunning simulations computed by scientists with the National Computational Science Alliance and turned into digital animations by visualization artists and programmers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. [ ] 102821 ) SC2002 WILL HOST HIGH-PERFORMANCE BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE........3.2K SC2002, the conference for high performance networking and computing, will be the site of this year's High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge, an annual competition for leading-edge network applications developed by teams of researchers from around the world. [ ] 102822 ) EMC GARNERS ATTENTION FOR REAL-TIME WEATHER MODELING.........4.8K Led by Senior Research Meteorologist John McHenry, EMC has developed a real-time system that provides forecasters with an interactive and directed process for investigating high-resolution computer model forecast fields. [ ] 73089 ) Register Now For MicroWay's Symposium New Directions In Cluster Technolgies September 18-19, 2002 Plymouth, MA USA _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73090 ) The Portland Group Announces an Alliance With Linux NetworX to Offer Integrated Cluster Development Software. [ ] 73091 ) Grid Computing, Applications & High End Visualization Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) Conference 19-20 July, 2002 Glasgow, Scotland http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc [ ] 73092 ) What Scalable Storage Networking Solution Easily Handles Multi-Teraflop Environments? Find out what Sandia National Laboratory Knows... Storage Networking Appliances from DataDirect Networks. [ ] 73093 ) AVAKI Announces Three Customers to Accelerate Drug Discovery Using Comprehensive Grid Software Product AVAKI 2.1 is the First Commercially-available Software Product to Combine the Power of Compute Grids and Data Grids ______________________________________________________________________ Reed Presents Distinguished Lecture NCSA and Alliance Director Dan Reed was the speaker at a National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture on April 10. The lecture, which addressed the emerging infrastructure for computational science that promises to transform the way scientists and engineers conduct research, is archived on the NSF website at http://www.cise.nsf.gov/lecture_2002_04_10.htm . The lecture series is sponsored by the NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE). INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS Offering Technology Solutions for Industry. ============================================================================== Centers Actively Seeking Partners [ ] 95000 ) Pacific Northwest National Lab [ ] 95005 ) Indiana University [ ] 95002 ) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [ ] 95003 ) Ohio Supercomputer Center COMMERCIAL NEWS ============================================================== [ ] 102823 ) HP INTRODUCES HIGH-DENSITY SERVER AND SUPERCOMPUTER..........4.9K HP introduced the HP AlphaServer DS20L server and HP AlphaServer SC20 supercomputer which deliver to customers in fields as diverse as entertainment to defense the power of a supercomputer in a space- saving, rack-mounted configuration. [ ] 102824 ) IN-STAT/MDR ANNOUNCES NETWORKING QUARTERLIES RESULTS.........4.4K In-Stat/MDR, a high-tech market research firm, announces the results of its Networking Quarterlies reports for the first quarter of 2002. [ ] 73094 ) Intel(TM) Business Computing: Case Study BriefHigh Performance Computing Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) Architecture: Ensuring Smooth Sailing for Fluid Turbulence Research QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 102819 ) "One of the strengths of partnering an active research institution with a Fortune 100 company is that you get different perspectives on solving problems. The academic environment encourages people to think about wild and crazy ideas. Some of those wild and crazy ideas turn out to change the world." -- Dan Reed, NCSA director [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73095 ) Black Hawk Down Visual Effects Company Selects BlueArc Mill Film chooses BlueArc as the only storage system that performs and scales to meet demanding business requirements *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 102825 ) Intel's Itanium 2 Performance Twice That Of Itanium..........2.1K [ ] 102826 ) Agilent Technologies Delivers High-Performance ASICs To HP...2.3K [ ] 102827 ) Intel Network Processor Enables Time-Saving Designs..........2.8K [ ] 102828 ) Bull To Demonstrate 16-Way Intel Itanium 2-Based Server......3.7K [ ] 102829 ) World Chip Demand Edges Up In 2002...........................1.8K [ ] 102830 ) SandCraft Selects Circuit Semantics..........................3.4K [ ] 102831 ) Samsung Develops Industry's First DDR-II SDRAM...............4.5K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 102832 ) SGI's IRIX Fit For Military Service..........................3.4K [ ] 102833 ) Medasys And Scali Partner To Offer HPC Cluster Solutions.....1.5K [ ] 102834 ) Singapore Harnesses Cheap Supercomputing With Software.......2.9K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 102835 ) Grid Platform Selected To Accelerate Diabetes Treatment......3.9K [ ] 102836 ) FAST Unveils Real-Time Information Retrieval Solution........4.5K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 102837 ) Linux NetworX Offers Oracle-Certified Clusters...............2.6K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 102838 ) SGI Powers Superlab At Sci-Quest...............................7K [ ] 102839 ) NEC Scientists/Execs Scheduled To Participate At Supercomm...2.9K [ ] 102840 ) ICANN Chief To Step Down In 2003.............................2.2K [ ] 102841 ) TeraConnect And Mindspeed Prove Optical Interoperability.....3.7K [ ] 102842 ) New HSF Specification Announced By The OpenHSF Initiative....2.7K [ ] 102843 ) Partnerships Begin New Network For Testing IT Technologies...4.3K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 102844 ) Product Watch: Pentium Prices Take A Tumble.................11.6K PSS Delivers Fast 1Mb Flash Memory. Dot Hill Gets Cluster Certification. [ ] 102845 ) Financial Update: Nortel Plans Further Cuts. ..................4K Callixa Gets Funding From Intel Capital. [ ] 102846 ) Corporate Liaisons: Dot Hill Signs Agreement With Sun........4.9K Nazomi Communications Sues ARM. Alcatel To Buy Telera. [ ] 102847 ) People and Positions: NCGR Appoints Bioinformatics Leader....6.4K ACM SIGGRAPH Announces Award Winners. AMI CEO Gives keynote Speech. [ ] 73096 ) Compaq Lines Released By HP JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* New Listing) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)(Kernel Programmers) Los Alamos Nation Laboratory (Computer and Computational Sciences (CCS)-1 Group Leader) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)(Director of center for Applied Scientific Computing) California Institute of Technology-CACR (Manager, Computing Resources) University of California (HPC Consultant) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73097 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. WEBINARS ============================================================================== SEE NCSA's "WHAT IS THE GRID?" 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