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For more contest details retrieve this article. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** October 25, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 42 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 329 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73372 ) 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 Please visit us at booth #1509 at SC2002 ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103762 ) FEATURES: CRAY & AMD WIN $90M SUPERCOMPUTER CONTRACT | | [ ] 103770 ) SCIENCE NEWS: IBM PUSHES AUTONOMIC COMPUTING | | [ ] 103776 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: FIORINA SEES GROWTH IN HP'S TECH SPENDING | | [ ] 103783 ) NEWS BRIEFS: 3GHZ PENTIUM 4 ON THE WAY | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73373 ) Myricom to Demonstrate Myrinet-Ethernet Interoperability at SC2002 Please visit us at booth #1017 at SC2002 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103762 ) CRAY & AMD WIN $90M SUPERCOMPUTER CONTRACT...................4.9K Cray announced it will collaborate with Sandia National Laboratories to develop and deliver a new supercomputer called Red Storm, which will utilize AMD Opteron processors. [ ] 103763 ) KEY INTERNET SERVERS HIT BY ATTACK...........................3.6K Nine of the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic were crippled by a powerful electronic attack this week, officials said. [ ] 103764 ) U.S. SUPERCOMPUTER USERS CALL FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE TESTS...5.3K At a meeting of the new High-Performance Computing User Forum, representatives of leading U.S. supercomputer user organizations called for the creation of better performance tests for use in procurements. [ ] 103765 ) ITALY'S AEROSPACE RESEARCH REVITALIZED - USING NEC SX........7.4K By Giacomo Polosa & Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom CIRCA, the National Italian Centre for Aerospace Research, is using The NEC SX-6 computational resource to help revitalize Italy's aerospace research. [ ] 103766 ) CHESS CHAMP A LITTLE TOO HUMAN...............................3.6K By Robert McMillan, wired.com An epic battle of brain versus silicon concluded. Since Oct. 4, world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik had been engaged in a grueling eight- game struggle with a German chess computer called Deep Fritz. [ ] 103767 ) DO NOT PASS GO...............................................9.4K By David Levy for The Guardian Computers can beat the world's best chess players but have yet to master other classic games like Go, writes David Levy. [ ] 103768 ) BREAKING CHIP BARRIERS......................................10.2K By John G. Spooner, for ZDNet It's all but certain that new substances will supplant silicon as the material of choice in computer chips, says computer scientist Stan Williams, who directs quantum science research at HP Labs. [ ] 103769 ) NET ATTACK COULD BE FIRST OF MANY, EXPERTS WARN................6K The distributed denial-of-service attack launched against all 13 of the Internet domain name system root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn't mean that more attacks won't follow and succeed where this week's attack failed. [ ] 73374 ) Do More with High-Productivity Computing SGI Enables Groundbreaking Biomedical Research at National Cancer Institute (NCI) Supercomputing Center Please visit us at booth #1521 at SC2002 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103770 ) IBM PUSHES AUTONOMIC COMPUTING.................................6K IBM plans to announce that it has established a new Autonomic Computing group, which will act as Big Blue's hub for research and product development in computers that incorporate abilities like self- diagnostics. [ ] 103771 ) INTELLIBADGE DEMO TO CREATE A "SMARTER" SC2002 CONFERENCE....6.6K A demonstration of "smart" technology called IntelliBadge will allow participants in SC2002 to track people with similar interests, monitor conference events, and view visualizations of patterns of people flowing through the conference. [ ] 103772 ) HP'S TECH HOPE -- SUPERCOMPUTERS FOR SCIENCE.................7.8K HP is now one of the big sellers of computer systems and information technology services to companies, government agencies and academic institutions doing biological and drug research. This could bolster HP's bid to become a tech powerhouse. [ ] 103773 ) IBM eSERVERS TO RESEARCH HOW STARS ARE BORN..................3.5K The University of Rochester announced it has installed five new IBM eServer supercomputers to power a wide range of advanced research, from designing smart microprocessors to understanding how stars are born. [ ] 103774 ) IBM SCIENTISTS BUILD WORLD'S SMALLEST OPERATING CIRCUITS.....6.4K IBM researchers have built and operated the world's smallest working computer circuits using an innovative new approach in which individual molecules move across an atomic surface like toppling dominoes. [ ] 103775 ) UNIVERSITY PAPER DISCUSSES CIRCUITRY FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING...2.8K A paper published recently in Physical Review Letters has proposed an experimentally realizable circuit and an efficient scheme to implement scalable quantum computing. [ ] 73375 ) 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 Please visit us at booth #1509 at SC2002 _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73376 ) 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 [ ] 73377 ) 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103776 ) FIORINA SEES GROWTH IN HP'S TECH SPENDING......................2K Hewlett-Packard expects slow growth in technology spending next year as corporations conserve cash and learn to better use what they have, Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said. [ ] 103777 ) IBM PLUGS IN NEW BLADE SERVER................................4.8K IBM unveiled a new blade server prototype that uses its Power processor, putting Big Blue a step ahead in the race to squeeze high- end chips into compact servers. [ ] 103778 ) NEC DEMONSTRATES NETWORKING SOLUTIONS AT NPC 2002............6.1K NEC Electronics Inc. announced it will demonstrate technologies and products from its broad range of networking solutions at the Network Processors Conference 2002 (NPC 2002). [ ] 103779 ) INTEL MOVING TO NEXT-GENERATION MANUFACTURING................2.5K Intel plans to have some 90 percent of its microprocessors made with its latest-generation manufacturing technology by the end of 2004, helping it to cut costs and boost production. [ ] 103780 ) CONSUMER RELUCTANCE SECURES GIGABIT ETHERNET.................4.8K Hesitation on the part of customers to invest in new applications, and a resulting avoidance of new LAN core switching infrastructure, is stagnating the roll out of new technologies in this space in 2002. [ ] 103781 ) START-UPS AIM FOR WEB SERVICES NICHE.........................3.9K By Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com A new crop of software companies are emerging to tackle the managing and monitoring of Web services in big companies. [ ] 73378 ) 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... Please visit us at booth #1909 at SC2002 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103774 ) "These structures (molecule cascade circuits) are so small, that even if traditional semiconductor technology continued to improve at today's Moore's Law pace -- doubling feature density every 2.5 years -- it would take 45 years to get down to these circuit dimensions." -- Don Eigler, IBM Fellow [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73379 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! IAN FOSTER = GRID COMPUTING BUSINESS READY TO EXPLOIT GRID COMPUTING By Om Malik By Zack Medicoff, The Globe LINUX GRID CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTERS EATS ITANIUM By Stephen Shankland, ZDNet News *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103782 ) Fujitsu And Toshiba Update Status On SoC Collaboration.......6.5K [ ] 103783 ) 3GHz Pentium 4 On The Way....................................2.4K [ ] 103784 ) HP Supercomputer To Be Deployed At OSC.......................3.9K [ ] 103785 ) Fujitsu Delivers Parallel Scalar Supercomputer To NAL........1.1K [ ] 103786 ) RSA Encrypting AMD's Hammer Chips............................2.6K [ ] 103787 ) Sharp Unveils "Computer-On-Glass" Display....................3.7K [ ] 73380 ) HOW TO WIN A $50,000 RESEARCH GRANT Microway, Inc. 20th Anniversary Cluster Contest Please visit us at booth #1022 at SC2002 SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103788 ) Microsoft, Siebel In Joint Software Pact.....................3.9K [ ] 103789 ) IBM Uses Linux On Workstations For Crash Simulations...........2K [ ] 103790 ) British Software Company To Help U.S. Track Terrorists.......4.2K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103791 ) Veridian To Provide U.S. Army With Network Services..........2.1K [ ] 103792 ) IBM Announces New PowerPC Processor For Networking...........2.5K [ ] 103793 ) Charter Selects Cisco Universal Broadband Router.............5.1K [ ] 103794 ) F5 Unveils New Web Traffic Management Technology.............1.6K [ ] 103795 ) Level 3 Bolsters Caltech Bandwidth...........................2.9K [ ] 73381 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. Please visit us at booth #1016 at SC2002 STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103796 ) HP Eases Storage Management For $1.5 Billion Company.........3.1K [ ] 103797 ) Highly Secure SAN Demonstrated At Storage Networking World...6.6K [ ] 103798 ) Trebia Readies IP Storage Chips..............................2.2K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103799 ) NEC Goes Independent To Explore European HPC Business........4.2K [ ] 103800 ) OMG To Form Model Driven Architecture User Group.............6.7K [ ] 103801 ) ProClarity Named One Of The Fastest Growing Tech Companies...4.7K [ ] 103802 ) Journal Of Parallel & Distributed Computing: Special Issue...3.1K [ ] 103803 ) Concurrency And Computation: Special Issue...................4.1K [ ] 73382 ) Fujitsu Launches PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 Supercomputer Massively Parallel Scalar System Boasts Record Performance, Scalability Please visit us at booth #907 at SC2002 SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103804 ) Product Watch: Agere Introduces Faster Switching Chip........7.5K Mozilla 1.2 Beta Emerges. CA Releases Advantage Gen 6.5. [ ] 103805 ) Financial Update: Cray Announces Third Quarter Results......11.5K SGI Reports First Quarter Results. Microsoft 1st-Quarter Profit, Sales Surge. [ ] 103806 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sun, Siebel Extend Alliance..............9.7K PeopleSoft, IBM Expand Partnership. Rosetta Biosoftware, Agilent Team Up. [ ] 103807 ) People and Positions: Ian Foster Receives Lovelace Medal....13.3K Cisco Exec Joins Sutter Hill Ventures. SGI Names New Board Member. [ ] 73383 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. Please visit us at booth #1743 at SC2002 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 [ ] 73384 ) STMicroelectronics Announces Collaboration with AMD to Supply the Portland Group Compiler Technology Please visit us at booth #1504 at SC2002 CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 10.23.02)..............10K [ ] 73385 ) The Third LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters The HPC Revolution 2002 October 23-25, 2002 St. Petersburg, Florida, USA [ ] 73386 ) HPCwire is proud to be exhibiting at SC2002 From Terabytes to Insights Baltimore, MD November 16-22, 2002 [ ] 73387 ) 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/ [ ] 73388 ) Plug in the power of Western Scientific's High-Performance computing solutions, with AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, and Apple Xserve technologies. 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