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 13, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 36 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 367 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73281 ) 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 business data, faster ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103449 ) FEATURES: DKRZ INAUGURATES CLIMATE RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER | | [ ] 103455 ) SCIENCE NEWS: HP RESEARCHERS MAKE TINY MEMORY FROM MOLECULES | | [ ] 103459 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL DEMOS PROGRESS IN HPC | | [ ] 103463 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SGI SHATTERS WORLD PERFORMANCE RECORD | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73282 ) SGI Shatters World Performance Record... FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103449 ) DKRZ INAUGURATES CLIMATE RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER..............9.2K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants, Ltd. The German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), Hamburg, inaugurated one of Europe's fastest supercomputers in production, used for climate research. [ ] 103450 ) CHINA TOUGHENS OBSTACLES TO INTERNET SEARCHES..................6K By Joseph Kahn, NY Times An effort to block access to Google that began last week, appears to represent an unusually strong campaign to funnel Chinese Internet traffic into sites the government deems friendly and safe. [ ] 103451 ) YEAR AFTER 9/11, CYBERSPACE DOOR IS STILL AJAR..............11.6K By John Schwartz, NY Times Despite the heightened fears of cyberterrorism and online security that followed last September's terrorism attacks, few American businesses or organizations have responded with new computing safeguards. [ ] 103452 ) INTEL'S OTELLINI CITES SILICON AS THE ENGINE OF CONVERGENCE..5.2K Silicon will be the driving engine that will bring new capabilities to the computing and communications industries, predicted Intel President Paul Otellini at the opening day gathering of the Intel Developer Forum, Fall 2002. [ ] 103453 ) INDIAN IT INDUSTRY SEES LIGHT BEYOND SHADOW OF SEPT.11.......4.1K By Xiong Changyi Although the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States last year cast a shadow over the IT industry, the tragedy has waked up the corporate world to the need for stronger security and back-up plans. [ ] 103454 ) TOOLS SHOULD REDUCE, NOT INCREASE COMPLEXITY.................5.4K While development productivity and efficiency has long been the goal of development organisations, today's economic climate makes it even more imperative that tools increase a company's competitive edge and not add another layer of complexity. [ ] 73283 ) 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 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103455 ) HP RESEARCHERS MAKE TINY MEMORY FROM MOLECULES...............3.5K Researchers at U.S. computer company Hewlett-Packard said they had created a computer memory chip using new molecular technology that takes miniaturization further than ever before. [ ] 103456 ) NEW SIMULATION SHOWS 9/11 PLANE CRASH W/ SCIENTIFIC DETAIL...6.7K Technology experts at Purdue University have created the first publicly available simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what theoretically happened when the Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon last Sept. 11. [ ] 103457 ) PNNL EXPLORES THE LEADS TO BETTER SCIENCE......................7K Environmental remediation, nuclear nonproliferation, genomics and proteomics. These are but a few of the many areas of science explored at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. [ ] 103458 ) NCSA SHOWCASES LATEST INFINIBAND HPC CLUSTERS................3.8K The National Center for Supercomputing Applications announced that it will demonstrate the InfiniBand high-performance computing interconnect at the Intel Developers Forum. [ ] 73284 ) 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__________________ [ ] 73285 ) 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. [ ] 73286 ) 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 [ ] 73287 ) 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103459 ) INTEL DEMOS PROGRESS IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING...........2.6K Facing limited acceptance for its Itanium 2 microprocessor by mainstream server vendors, Intel is increasingly turning to manufacturers that specialize in high-performance, high-scalability computing to help spur sales of the 64-bit chip. [ ] 103460 ) SUN BOOSTS SUN FIRE V100 SERVER PERFORMANCE BY 30 PERCENT....4.8K Sun Microsystems, Inc. is continuing to provide additional value at aggressive prices by adding the more powerful 550 MHz and 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi processor to its Sun Fire V100 rack-optimized, low end entry server. [ ] 103461 ) INTEL SEES COMPUTING AS AN ADVANTAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE.......5.3K Embracing standards-based technologies that integrate communications and computing capabilities will provide a significant competitive advantage for corporate information technology operations, according to Intel officials. [ ] 73288 ) Microway Announces CW Cluster Series Based on Platform Clusterware... QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103451 ) "Sept. 11 made everybody in corporate America think about security. Sept. 18 made them think about cybersecurity." -- Richard Clarke, President Bush's computer security adviser [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103462 ) New Intel Xeon Processors Ship For Dual Processing Systems...3.6K [ ] 103463 ) SGI Shatters World Performance Record..........................5K [ ] 103464 ) IBM eServer Mainframe Sets New Speed Record..................4.3K [ ] 103465 ) NEC Rack-Mount Server Accommodates Two 2.4GHz Processors.....1.2K [ ] 103466 ) Intel & NEC Announce Record Processor Benchmark Result.......5.9K [ ] 103467 ) SGI & Trimension Power New Reality Center Solution...........5.9K [ ] 103468 ) S2 Systems' OpeN/2 Sets Performance Benchmark................6.1K [ ] 103469 ) Intel Says New Processors Will Add Security Features.........1.7K [ ] 103470 ) AMD Announces Performance Leap In Future Transistors.........3.5K [ ] 103471 ) TV2 Norway Purchases Its 10th Visualization System.............5K [ ] 73289 ) 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 ===================================================================== [ ] 103472 ) Microsoft Buys Security Software Company.....................2.8K [ ] 103473 ) Hole Found In Popular PGP Encryption Software..................2K [ ] 103474 ) HKS Launches New ABAQUS Software For Element Analysis........6.1K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103475 ) Platform, HP Sign Global System Integration Agreement........4.6K [ ] 103476 ) China Blocks 2 Major Search Engines..........................3.1K [ ] 103477 ) HP Posts World-Record Benchmark Results For The Internet.....2.9K [ ] 103478 ) OpenHSF Initiative To Present At VR World Congress...........5.1K [ ] 103479 ) Netliant Powers On-line Data Network Design Application......3.8K [ ] 103480 ) Lattice Helps Extreme Networks Enable 10-Gigabit Ethernet....6.9K [ ] 73290 ) 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... STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103481 ) HP, Hitachi To Share Information On Storage Systems..........1.7K [ ] 103482 ) eMag Solutions Introduces New Storage Management Software....2.7K [ ] 103483 ) Cornell Theory Center To Develop 16 Server Cluster...........3.3K [ ] 103484 ) Adaptec Introduces New External Storage Appliance............3.2K [ ] 103485 ) Tower Semiconductor To Establish System For Data Storage.......3K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103486 ) SC2002 Advance Program Now On The Web........................1.3K [ ] 103487 ) SGI/DBI Executive Summit Announcement........................1.1K [ ] 103488 ) HiPC 2002: Advance Program Overview.........................68.7K [ ] 103489 ) Call For Participation In 20th TOP500 List...................3.9K [ ] 103490 ) VRCO Participates In Millennium Challenge 2002...............2.9K [ ] 103491 ) ESI Group Announces AmeriPAM 2002............................2.6K [ ] 103492 ) Statoil Purchases Three SGI Reality Center Facilities........5.4K [ ] 103493 ) Battelle/Progress Forge Wins Technology-Development Contract.1.3K [ ] 103494 ) UC Santa Barbara Ecology Center To Receive NSF Grant.........2.6K [ ] 103495 ) Cluster 2002 Conference Announcement.........................2.8K [ ] 103496 ) Teradyne Announces Peter Hashem Memorial Scholarship.........1.4K [ ] 73291 ) Fujitsu Launches PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 Supercomputer Massively Parallel Scalar System Boasts Record Performance, Scalability SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103497 ) Product Watch: RackSaver Announces New High-Density Server..18.1K Force Announces New Single Board Computer. RedSwitch, Agilent Produce New Chip. [ ] 103498 ) Financial Update: Hitachi Cuts Profit Target After Q2 Sags...1.4K [ ] 103499 ) Corporate Liaisons: Voltaire To Co-Operate With Hitachi......7.6K Companies Team Up For Router Family. [ ] 103500 ) People and Positions: Computer Motion Names New VP...........5.1K JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) *Mississippi State University (Associate Research Professor, Visualization, Analysis & Imaging) 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 [ ] 73292 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 09.11.02)..............10K [ ] 73293 ) The Third LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters The HPC Revolution 2002 October 23-25, 2002 St. Petersburg, Florida, USA [ ] 73294 ) HPCwire is proud to be exhibiting at SC2002 From Terabytes to Insights Baltimore, MD November 16-22, 2002 HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== [ ] 670 ) Masthead........................................................2.2K [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals........................................2.6K [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles...................................1.6K [ ] 950 ) Index of Back Issues.............................................28K Comments regarding editorial content may be sent to: editor@hpcwire.tgc.com ______________________________________________________________________ | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 533) SRC Computers [ ] 946) Quadrics | | [ ] 532) Veridian / PBS Pro(tm) [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 937) Compaq | | [ ] 530) DataDirect Networks [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 529) Linux NetworX [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 902) IBM Corp. | | [ ] 948) Cray Inc. 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