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 27, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 38 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 333 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73310 ) SGI Shatters World Performance Record... ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103554 ) FEATURES: AN INTERVIEW WITH SGI'S DAN STEVENS | | [ ] 103564 ) SCIENCE NEWS: PLASTIC SHOWS PROMISE FOR SPINTRONICS | | [ ] 103569 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HP'S FORECAST FOR BLADE SERVERS IS RED HOT | | [ ] 103587 ) NEWS BRIEFS: DATADIRECT DELIVERS NEW STORAGE APPLIANCES | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73311 ) 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 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103554 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH SGI'S DAN STEVENS..........................6.9K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief SGI's Dan Stevens discusses "Delivering Technology Leadership for Life Sciences," an executive summit hosted by the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and SGI on October 3 at the University of Delaware. [ ] 103555 ) SUN TO KEEP LINUX OUT OF THE HIGH END........................4.3K By Peter Galli, eWeek Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding another Linux piece to its overall product line, but don't confuse that with a strong endorsement for the open-source operating system. [ ] 103556 ) INSIDERS SAW SURVIVAL IN HP MERGER...........................3.8K By Ian Fried, Staff Writer, News.com Just months after the acquisition of Compaq Computer became final, services chief Ann Livermore says she is convinced HP CEO Carly Fiorina made the right call. However, she wasn't always so sure. [ ] 103557 ) ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: IS LINUX THE ANSWER?..................17.9K By Fred Vogelstein, Fortune Few people believe Linux will ever replace Windows on the desktop. But on the back end, companies have either finished reconfiguring big chunks of their servers to run Linux or are in the process of doing so. [ ] 103558 ) SILICON VALLEY CONCERN SAYS IT THWARTED SOFTWARE THEFT.........3K By John Markoff, NY Times A Chinese software programmer was arrested Tuesday after a Silicon Valley company complained that he had tried to steal software used in seismic imaging of oil fields, company officials said. [ ] 73312 ) 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 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103559 ) BAN THE BOMB...................................................9K By J. William Bell, NCSA Senior Science Writer Computational models of laser-aided chemical etching, completed on NCSA's SGI Origin2000, open the door for new methods of fabricating microelectromechanical machines. [ ] 103560 ) LINUX NETWORX TO BUILD LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER FOR LOS ALAMOS....4.6K Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected Linux NetworX of Salt Lake City, Utah, to build, integrate and deliver a 2,048-processor Linux cluster computer. [ ] 103561 ) THE "OPTIPUTER": A NEW PARADIGM FOR DATA COMPUTING..........10.2K The NSF awarded $13.5 million over five years to a consortium led by the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The funds will develop a cyber "infostructure" to support data-intensive scientific research. [ ] 103562 ) SDSC TO PLAY ROLE IN NSF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARDS.......9.3K The San Diego Supercomputer Center and the University of California will help develop the information technology underpinnings for tomorrow's research by playing a key role in six research initiatives announced by the National Science Foundation. [ ] 103563 ) NASA CLOCK COULD SET TIME FOR UNIVERSE.......................4.2K The time-keeping machine, engineered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is intended to provide more precise measurements for everything from interplanetary space navigation to the Global Positioning System satellite network. [ ] 103564 ) PLASTIC SHOWS PROMISE FOR SPINTRONICS..........................5K Researchers have expanded the possibilities for a new kind of electronics, known as spintronics. Though spintronics technology has yet to be fully developed, it could result in computers that store more data in less space and consume less power. [ ] 103565 ) MERCURY RECEIVES ORDER FOR NOSTRADAMUS RADAR.................3.1K Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced that its French subsidiary has received an order for its RACE++ Series multicomputers from ONERA, the French Aeronautics and Space Research Agency, for the Nostradamus early warning over-the-horizon radar. [ ] 103566 ) NOTED PHYSICIST FIRED FOR FALSIFYING INFORMATION.............3.9K An acclaimed physicist at Bell Laboratories has been fired after a panel found he falsified research that had been hailed as a revolutionary step in the development of powerful molecular-scale computing. [ ] 73313 ) 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__________________ [ ] 73314 ) 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. [ ] 73315 ) 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 [ ] 73316 ) 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103567 ) PORTLAND GROUP & AMD TEAM UP FOR COMPILER TECHNOLOGY...........4K The Portland Group Compiler Technology team of STMicroelectronics announced its collaboration with AMD to provide its acclaimed PGI CDK turn-key Cluster Development Kit package of compilers and tools for the upcoming AMD Athlon and AMD Opteron processors. [ ] 103568 ) IBM READY TO BRING ON THE BLADES.............................4.5K IBM will make its second foray into the emerging blade server market later this year with a system that packs some of Intel's most powerful processors in a compact casing. [ ] 103569 ) HP'S FORECAST FOR BLADE SERVERS: RED HOT.....................2.4K HP announced it is has reached a milestone in its enterprise blade server product line by becoming the first vendor to surpass 1,800 blades sales per month. [ ] 103570 ) SUN UNVEILS FUTURE NETWORK DATA CENTER ARCHITECTURE..........5.8K Sun Microsystems, Inc. unveiled the roadmap for N1, its vision for the next generation data center. [ ] 73317 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103569 ) "The blade server market is taking off like a rocket and it's only the most agile and innovative vendors that can take advantage of this opportunity." -- James Mouton, vice president of enterprise servers, HP Industry Standard Servers [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73318 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! THE GRID COMPUTING LOOKING GLASS MANAGEMENT FOR THE GRID By Ahmar Abbas, By Dmitri Tcherevik, Editor at Large V.P. Research & Development, CA IS THE MONO PROJECT GOING TO BE MICROSOFT'S GRID? By John Biggs, The N.Y. Times *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103571 ) Cray Sells Two SX-6 Supercomputers To University Of Toronto..2.9K [ ] 103572 ) HP Installs $22 Million Supercomputer In U.K.................5.6K [ ] 103573 ) IBM Warns Of Blade Server Confusion..........................2.5K [ ] 103574 ) SGI Server Enables Groundbreaking Biomedical Research........5.7K [ ] 103575 ) SandCraft Places PCI Technology Into Future Processors.......5.6K [ ] 103576 ) Mercury Delivers New Imaging System To LLNL....................2K [ ] 103577 ) Agere Systems Ships Its Largest-Ever ASIC To NetContinuum....4.9K [ ] 103578 ) Unisys Introduces ClearPath Plus Server......................7.6K [ ] 73319 ) Microway Announces CW Cluster Series Based on Platform Clusterware... SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103579 ) Linux NetworX Announces New LinuxBIOS Utility................3.1K [ ] 103580 ) OpenGL Announces Adoption For Newest Graphics Specification....8K [ ] 103581 ) HOOPS 3D Product Suite Expands Educational Access..............4K [ ] 103582 ) SAS Releases Solution Adapters For Software Supplier.........5.3K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103583 ) Pirus Networks Joins Sun's Network Storage Organization......4.5K [ ] 103584 ) NCSA Consortium To Develop Crisis Response Network...........4.4K [ ] 103585 ) U.S. Puts Money On World Bank "Hacktivists"..................2.2K [ ] 103586 ) Citrix MetaFrame XP Now Supports EMC ControlCenter...........3.7K [ ] 73320 ) Fujitsu Launches PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 Supercomputer Massively Parallel Scalar System Boasts Record Performance, Scalability STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103587 ) DataDirect Delivers New Silicon Storage Appliances...........6.8K [ ] 103588 ) Rainfinity Announces Storage Router Breakthrough.............5.3K [ ] 103589 ) Auspex & Hitachi Verify Interoperability Of SAN-NAS Gateway..5.7K [ ] 103590 ) TRW Systems Deploys Objectivity Database.......................4K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103591 ) Ford Selects SGI Reality Center System.........................6K [ ] 103592 ) IBM, Applera Groups Consider Joint Drug Research Business....5.4K [ ] 103593 ) Record Number Of Exhibitors Set For SC2002...................1.6K [ ] 103594 ) Register Now For LCI's "HPC Revolution" Conference...........2.1K [ ] 103595 ) eXcelon CEO Joe Bellini To Present Vision At HP World 2002...4.2K [ ] 103596 ) BioITWorld Conference And Expo Announcement..................3.9K [ ] 103597 ) Suspected Computer-Virus Author Arrested.....................1.8K [ ] 73321 ) 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... SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103598 ) Product Watch: Toshiba Introduces New RISC Processor..........33K Motorola Launches New CompactPCI Blade. SWsoft Releases Virtuozzo 2.5. [ ] 103599 ) Financial Update: Microsoft Server Share Jumps In 2001.......3.7K HP Cutting 1,800 More Jobs. [ ] 103600 ) Corporate Liaisons: Microsoft, HP Form .Net Alliance........15.1K ESI Group Expands Relationship W/ VASci. KXEN Enters Agreement With Teradata. [ ] 103601 ) People and Positions: Bob Wallace Dies At 53................12.1K Oracle's CEO Departing Apple. LANL Gets New Program Deputy. JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) * Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Director, Computational Sciences & Mathematics) Mississippi State University (Associate Research Professor, Visualization, Analysis & Imaging) University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (Computational Genomics Consultant) Maui High Performance Computing Center (Lead Network Engineer) Ohio Supercomputer Center (Executive Director) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73322 ) 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 09.25.02)..............10K [ ] 73323 ) The Third LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters The HPC Revolution 2002 October 23-25, 2002 St. Petersburg, Florida, USA [ ] 73324 ) 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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