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 *** September 6, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 35 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 302 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73269 ) HP Rises to Tie for No. 1 Position in Worldwide Server Revenue; Maintains Strong No. 1 Position in Unit Shipments Company No. 1 in Linux, Windows and Mid-range UNIX Market Share ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103410 ) FEATURES: THE CHANGING FACE OF THE UNIX BOX | | [ ] 103411 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SGI IS ENHANCING THE WAY SURGERY IS DONE | | [ ] 103415 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HP RELEASES NEW UNIX SERVER LINE | | [ ] 103420 ) NEWS BRIEFS: INTEL CUTS PRICES ON ITS CHIPS UP TO 52 PERCENT | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73270 ) The Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster, when delivered to LLNL, will be the fastest Linux cluster machine ever built. It is expected to be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world... FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103409 ) PLANS EMERGING FOR NATIONAL SECURITY DATA SHARING............4.9K By Dan Verton for IDG Hundreds of IT experts from the defense and intelligence communities gathered to share ideas and plans on emergency responses to a terrorist attack on the nation. [ ] 103410 ) THE CHANGING FACE OF THE UNIX BOX............................3.1K By Rachel Chalmers for the451.com In the past few years the blossoming of the storage market has created a new and important role for the Unix box. As prices for storage fall, it seems enterprises no longer delete old data - they move it offline. [ ] 73271 ) HP sets new records with Alpha and PA-RISC servers *Makes business users more productive with quicker application response times and performs more work, faster *Enables improving your business operations by obtaining better businessdata, faster SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103411 ) SGI IS ENHANCING THE WAY SURGERY IS DONE.....................8.7K In a successful experiment that could help to benefit the way surgery is performed, surgeons have begun viewing and manipulating 3D medical images of the very patients on whom they are operating while the operation is in progress. [ ] 103412 ) SCIENTISTS DEVELOP ATOMIC-SCALE MEMORY.......................5.5K An atomic-scale memory chip, made by removing individual atoms from a silicon wafer, has been created by a team of scientists led by Franz Himpsel, professor of physics. [ ] 103413 ) NERSC HELPS CLIMATE SCIENTISTS WITH MODELING APPLICATION.....6.1K Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have just completed a 1,000-year run of a powerful new climate system model on a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. [ ] 103414 ) FREE SOFTWARE PREDICTS HOW AND WHEN STEEL BEAMS WILL BUCKLE..5.6K A free computer program developed by a Johns Hopkins civil engineering researcher allows designers of thin-walled structures, including buildings and bridges, to test their stability and safety before a single beam is put into place. [ ] 73272 ) Plug in the power of Western Scientific's High-Performance computing solutions, with AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, and Apple Xserve technologies. _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73273 ) Free Web Conference Aug 21: Brought To You By Intel, HP, and MSC.Software. MSC.Nastran running on the Design Chain Accelerator. Featuring the latest Itanium-2 Benchmark data. [ ] 73274 ) 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 [ ] 95004 ) San Diego Supercomputer Center COMMERCIAL NEWS ============================================================== [ ] 103415 ) HP STRENGTHENS UNIX PORTFOLIO WITH NEW SERVER LINE...........9.3K HP extended its industry-leading UNIX server portfolio by introducing HP's 05 series, a new range of servers spanning from 1 to 8 processors running the HP-UX operating environment. [ ] 103416 ) LSI IN ITS BIGGEST PRODUCT LAUNCH IN NEARLY A DECADE.........4.6K LSI Logic Corp. will unveil its biggest new product push in eight years, targeting what it sees as an $11 billion emerging market for custom-designed chips that can be built at low cost. [ ] 103417 ) SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH SEEN AT 7-9 PERCENT.....................3.7K The global computer chip production industry is on track for 7 percent to 9 percent sequential growth in sales for the third quarter over the second quarter, a U.S. trade group predicted on Tuesday. [ ] 103418 ) MOTOROLA ALLIANCE TO PRODUCE NEXT GENERATION MICROCHIPS......2.9K U.S. based Motorola said on Friday its partnership with two other semiconductor makers will probably be the first to produce a new generation of microchips, beating Intel by at least six months. [ ] 73275 ) Microway Announces CW Cluster Series Based on Platform Clusterware... QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103411 ) "SGI Visual Area Network technologies are improving the accuracy of surgery, giving surgeons and physicians separated by hundreds of miles or even continents the ability to visualize, manipulate and share complex data in a way that was impossible just a few months ago." -- Chodi McReynolds, SGI's director, Industry Marketing, Sciences [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103419 ) SGI Origin 3000 System Powers Early-Warning Radar............4.1K [ ] 103420 ) Intel Cuts Prices On Its Chips Up To 52 Percent..............2.3K [ ] 103421 ) China's Legend Unveils New Supercomputer.....................2.1K [ ] 103422 ) Raytheon Awarded $14M For High Performance Computers.........1.7K [ ] 103423 ) eMPOWR And NSERC Begin $1M Initiative For Hardware Research..3.8K [ ] 73276 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103424 ) Platform Releases Grid-Enabled Workload Management Solution..5.3K [ ] 103425 ) SunNetwork Conference 2002 Attendees Receive Free Software...4.2K [ ] 103426 ) SPEC Releases Application Server Benchmark...................2.7K [ ] 103427 ) Axis Systems Releases Xtreme Tool For Software Integration...3.9K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103428 ) SGI Systems Verified As Interoperable With Brocade Network...4.4K [ ] 103429 ) Intel Expands Metropolitan Network Capacity..................3.7K [ ] 103430 ) More Than 2000 Dell Network Servers To Power Research..........4K [ ] 103431 ) SGI, MDC Contract Delivers World-Class Networking System.......6K [ ] 103432 ) ServerWorks Begins Sampling 1st Gigabit Ethernet Chip..........7K [ ] 103433 ) INRANGE Announces New Scalable 2 Gbps Directors..............6.4K [ ] 73277 ) Kaohsiung City Government Targets Intel(TM) Architecture For Next-Generation Infrastructure Government and Intel Agree to Technology Collaboration, Including Intel(TM)Itanium(TM)Processor Family-Based Bio-Informatics Grid STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103434 ) IBM Heats Up Storage Wars....................................4.8K [ ] 103435 ) Mellanox To Feature 2nd Generation InfiniBand................4.6K [ ] 103436 ) NSC Acquires 200 Node Cluster With Scali ClusterEdge.........3.4K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103437 ) Cray Receives $10 Million In New Financing...................2.2K [ ] 103438 ) Intel Still Investing Despite Uncertain Outlook..............1.5K [ ] 103439 ) IBM Launches Life Sciences Center In Taiwan..................1.8K [ ] 103440 ) ICANN Serves Breach Notice On VeriSign.......................2.4K [ ] 103441 ) Intel CEO Sees China, Russia As Top Investments..............2.1K [ ] 103442 ) Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture Proved.......................2.1K [ ] 103443 ) NSF-NIH Grants Will Integrate Mathematics And Biology........1.2K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103444 ) Product Watch: Motorola Launches New Processor Blade........11.9K BitBlitz Releases New Serial Transceiver. iTerra Introduces New Line Of Logic Devices. [ ] 103445 ) Financial Update: Intel To Sell Share Of Software Division...8.4K More Job Cuts Coming At IBM?. Platform Debuts New Financial Services. [ ] 103446 ) Corporate Liaisons: IBM To Acquire Access360.................7.3K ServGate Signs Distribution Agreement. [ ] 103447 ) People and Positions: Neal Bertram Wins IEEE Award..........17.4K The ISCB Elects New Board Members. StorageNetworks Gets New CTO. JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) University of New Mexico (Associate Director, Information Technology) University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (Computational Genomics Consultant) Maui High Performance Computing Center (Lead Network Engineer) Ohio Supercomputer Center (Executive Director) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - NERSC (Advanced Systems Group Leader) Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL (Senior Unix Systems Programmer) Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation - QPSF (Chief Executive Officer) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73278 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. 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