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 *** October 18, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 41 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 371 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73355 ) HP Wins Euro60 Million Comprehensive Outsourcing Contract with The CAT Group Deal with European Automotive Logistics Company to Reduce Costs by up to 30 Percent Over 5 Years ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103708 ) FEATURES: CAMERAS AND COMPUTERS COULD HELP SOLVE CRIMES | | [ ] 103712 ) SCIENCE NEWS: NEC SX SYSTEMS USED TO STUDY STORM EFFECTS | | [ ] 103721 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: GARTNER SAYS 50% OF SOFTWARE FIRMS TO VANISH | | [ ] 103739 ) NEWS BRIEFS: FASTER ETHERNET ROUND THE CORNER | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73356 ) SGI Enables Groundbreaking Biomedical Research at National Cancer Institute (NCI) Supercomputing Center FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103708 ) CAMERAS AND COMPUTERS COULD HELP SOLVE CRIMES................5.1K By John Tierney For The NY Times It may seem impossible to pick out a serial killer roaming the highways of a metropolitan region, but the task of solving crimes may be far from hopeless, with the use of cameras and computers. [ ] 103709 ) CYBERCRIME COSTS WORLD BILLIONS................................3K Cybercrime is costing the world economy billions of dollars and is on the increase, President Bush's cyber-security adviser said. [ ] 103710 ) FORMER FBI CHIEF TAKES ON ENCRYPTION.........................3.9K By Declan McCullugh, CNET News.com Louis Freeh may have lost his battle against allowing encryption when he was at the FBI, but he is continuing the fight now that he's left the federal agency. [ ] 73357 ) 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... SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103711 ) NEW SOFTWARE SYSTEM DETECTS CYBERATTACKS.....................4.8K An early version of a new software system developed by University at Buffalo researchers that detects cyberattacks while they are in progress by drawing highly personalized profiles of users has proven successful 94 percent of the time in simulated attacks. [ ] 103712 ) NEC SX SYSTEMS USED TO STUDY STORM EFFECTS ON SEAWALLS.......8.4K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants, Ltd. A UK academics department along with two NEC supercomputers will simulate wave impacts on seawalls during storm events as part of a European coastal protection project. [ ] 103713 ) NASA SCIENTIST SIMULATES SUB-MICROSCOPIC PARTS...............5.6K Growing atomic-scale 3-D computer circuits that may lead to human-like sensory systems is the latest simulation effort of a NASA scientist who recently won a medal for years of work. [ ] 103714 ) AS THE ODCase MAY BE.........................................8.7K By J. William Bell, NCSA Senior Science Writer Theoretical chemists at Rutgers University are using Alliance resources to search for the elusive mechanism of one of the world's most proficient enzymes. [ ] 103715 ) PROTEIN FOLDING PHYSICS MODELED AT THE ATOMIC LEVEL..........4.4K Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first computer simulation of full-system protein folding thermodynamics at the atomic-level. [ ] 103716 ) SC2002: DISCUSSIONS TO COVER COMPUTATION AND CONTROVERSY.....5.9K Attendees of SC2002 will be treated to a thought-provoking set of panel discussions on topics from homeland security to innovations in high-end computing to the impact of the Earth Simulator. [ ] 103717 ) GAIT RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY MAY AID HOMELAND DEFENSE.........6.4K Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and elsewhere are developing technologies to recognize a person's walk or gait. these new identification methods may hold promise as tools in the war on terrorism and in medical diagnosis. [ ] 103718 ) NSF'S $35 MILLION AWARD EXPANDS TERAGRID PROJECT.............7.1K The National Science Board approved awards of about $35 million to be made by the National Science Foundation to three research institutions to expand the previously funded TeraGrid project. [ ] 103719 ) PITTSBURGH RESEARCHERS RELEASE VISIBLE HUMAN BROWSER.........5.5K Researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have publicly released the PSC Volume Browser (PVB). The PVB provides a self-teaching resource in human anatomy for medical students and a tool for planning of surgery and radiation therapy. [ ] 103720 ) OIL COMPANIES TAKE 3D TECHNOLOGY TO NEW DEPTHS.................5K Visualization technology for subterranean formations could help companies reach more crude at a lower cost, extending the life of conventional production. [ ] 73358 ) HP Installs $22 Million Supercomputer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in U.K. System to Double WTSI's Computer Power to Expand Genomic Research; Deal Continues HP's Success in High Performance Computing _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73359 ) 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 [ ] 73360 ) 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. ============================================================================== [ ] 95005 ) Indiana University Research computing news from Indiana University Research in Indiana 2002 at SC2002! http://www.research-indiana.org 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103721 ) GARTNER: 50% OF SOFTWARE FIRMS SOON WILL VANISH..............3.8K Industry research giant Gartner Inc. is predicting that half of today's software vendors will have gone under within the next two years. [ ] 103722 ) HP INTRODUCES TWO INDUSTRY-STANDARD PROLIANT SERVERS.........2.7K HP has introduced two industry-standard ProLiant servers that deliver technologies for an adaptive infrastructure, allowing customers to achieve virtual presence and control, along with increased levels of memory protection. [ ] 103723 ) PLUME TRACKERS CHASE HOMELAND SECURITY NICHE.................6.4K SGI, which has sold supercomputers to the U.S. military for more than 20 years to run flight simulators and other programs, is working with two other technology companies to protect cities from terrorist attacks. [ ] 103724 ) IDC: BUMP FROM ENTRY SERVER SALES TO HELP SERVER MARKET......3.7K With IT spending still sluggish, IDC's latest batch of stats reveals a server market that may soon see the light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to increased spending in the entry server space. [ ] 103725 ) AMD RELEASES OPTERON BENCHMARKS..............................4.8K Advanced Micro Devices released prospective performance benchmarks for its upcoming server chip Opteron, and it appears the chip could land near the head of its class. [ ] 103726 ) NEW SuSE LINUX IS FIT FOR THE ENTERPRISE.....................3.4K SuSE has made available the beta version of its new Linux distribution, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 -- powered by UnitedLinux, aimed at the enterprise market. [ ] 103727 ) NCS TO HELP FORD LOGISTICS SAVE $70M.........................3.5K Ford Logistics, a division of US auto giant Ford Motor Co, is set to save up to $72 million a year, thanks to specialised IT solutions from Singapore's National Computer Systems. [ ] 73361 ) HOW TO WIN A $50,000 RESEARCH GRANT Microway, Inc. 20th Anniversary Cluster Contest QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103708 ) "We have a great deal of focus nowadays on weapons of mass destruction but we need to be aware of the proliferation in cyberspace of weapons of mass disruption." -- Howard Schmidt, President Bush's cyber-security adviser [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73362 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! POWER TO THE GRID LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TAPS THE GRID By David L. Margulius By Kendra Mayfield and Melanie Liew GRID COMPUTING WITH OFF-THE-SHELVES MIDDLEWARE TECHNOLOGIES By Christian Perez and Thierry Priol *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103728 ) Intel Looks To 1 Billion-Transistor Chip.....................1.9K [ ] 103729 ) Apple To Buy New IBM 64-Bit Processor........................2.8K [ ] 103730 ) NUS System Could Be Among The World's Top Supercomputers.......3K [ ] 103731 ) Intel Adds New Processor To Its Embedded Roadmap.............3.5K [ ] 103732 ) Unisys ES7000 Delivers Best Price/Performance Benchmark......5.2K [ ] 103733 ) Mercury Delivers PowerStream MP-510 Systems To Raytheon......2.2K [ ] 73363 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103734 ) Sun's Solaris 9 Update Speeds Up Networks....................3.2K [ ] 103735 ) Software Innovator ANSYS Named To FORBES Top 200 List........3.5K [ ] 103736 ) Quadrics Helps With Fastest Linux Cluster System.............4.9K [ ] 103737 ) Magsoft Introduces The Release Of GiD 7.0....................2.9K [ ] 103738 ) Software Provider ProClarity Debuts On This Year's Inc 500.....5K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103739 ) Faster Ethernet Round The Corner.............................2.6K [ ] 103740 ) Quadrics Networking Technology To Support Intel Servers......1.5K [ ] 103741 ) IBM Helps Wal-Mart Suppliers With Web-Enabled EDI............4.2K [ ] 103742 ) Internet Society Wins Control Of ".Org" Domain...............2.4K [ ] 103743 ) Lucent Supplies Next-Generation Korean Network Project.......3.9K [ ] 103744 ) Global Crossing Infrastructure To Help Future Internet.......9.8K [ ] 103745 ) New Ethernet Enables Single Terabyte Data Transfer.............6K [ ] 103746 ) Firm Says New Browser Views Full Web Pages On Phones...........3K [ ] 73364 ) STMicroelectronics Announces Collaboration with AMD to Supply the Portland Group Compiler Technology STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103747 ) Imation Awarded Grant To Develop Multi-Terabyte Storage......4.6K [ ] 103748 ) Quantum To Spin Off NAS Division.............................2.8K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103749 ) SGI Hires Bernhardt Agency For Public Speaking Services......5.9K [ ] 103750 ) OMG, ITCM Project Plan Crisis Management Advisory Council......5K [ ] 103751 ) HiPC 2002: Call For Participation............................3.2K [ ] 103752 ) LISA '02: System Administrators Tackle Today's Challenges....4.5K [ ] 103753 ) CGarchitect.com And ART VPS Partner For CG Scholarship.......4.3K [ ] 103754 ) Computer History Museum Purchases New Building.................4K [ ] 103755 ) Chess Champ Humbled By Computer..............................2.4K [ ] 73365 ) Plug in the power of Western Scientific's High-Performance computing solutions, with AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, and Apple Xserve technologies. SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103756 ) Product Watch: Intergraph, Partners Present GIS Solutions....4.6K SuSE Bundles Linux Extras For Biz. Stratus Delivers Crash-Proof Servers. [ ] 103757 ) Financial Update: IBM Reports 2002 3Q Profits...............26.3K Intel Posts $686 Million 3Q Profit. Microsoft Wins Software Case. [ ] 103758 ) Corporate Liaisons: Hyosung And FalconStor Team Up...........8.6K Datawatch Acquires Auxilor Inc. [ ] 103759 ) People and Positions: Keith Uncapher, Net Pioneer, Dies.....10.4K United Devices Names CTO Of The Year. VRCO Names New President/CEO. [ ] 73366 ) Fujitsu Launches PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 Supercomputer Massively Parallel Scalar System Boasts Record Performance, Scalability JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) [ ] 65280 ) *Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Systems Programmer) [ ] 65279 ) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Director, Computational Sciences & Mathematics) [ ] 65278 ) Mississippi State University (Associate Research Professor) [ ] 65276 ) University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (Computational Genomics Consultant) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73367 ) Myricom to Demonstrate Myrinet-Ethernet Interoperability at SC2002 CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 10.16.02)..............10K [ ] 73368 ) The Third LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters The HPC Revolution 2002 October 23-25, 2002 St. Petersburg, Florida, USA [ ] 73369 ) HPCwire is proud to be exhibiting at SC2002 From Terabytes to Insights Baltimore, MD November 16-22, 2002 [ ] 73370 ) All New -- STUDENT DAYS SC2002 - High Performance Networking and Computing Education Program November 20-21, 2002 Baltimore Convention Center http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2002/ [ ] 73371 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. 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