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 *** November 8, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 44 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 417 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73409 ) HP Server Outperforms IBM, Sun Systems on Secure Internet Transaction Benchmark Please visit us at booth #1509 at SC2002 ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103869 ) FEATURES: BIOITWORLD KEYNOTE VENTER - CANDID & PERSONAL | | [ ] 103878 ) SCIENCE NEWS: IBM POWER4 SUPERCOMPUTER TO AID NCSA RESEARCH | | [ ] 103888 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL DOUBLES CACHE ON NEW XEONS | | [ ] 103913 ) NEWS BRIEFS: HP AND MIT DELVE DEEP WITH DIGITAL LIBRARY | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73410 ) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times. Check it out at SC2002, Booth #1453 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103869 ) BIOITWORLD KEYNOTE VENTER - CANDID & PERSONAL................6.5K Last year at SC 2001 in Denver, Dr. Venter was the conference keynote speaker. His talk on Accelerating Discovery Through Supercomputing was one of the conference series' best ever. The following is a candid perspective from Dr. Venter. [ ] 103870 ) HPCWIRE CELEBRATES TENTH YEAR AS SGI CLOCKS IN AT TWENTY....16.7K By Mike Bernhardt, The Bernhardt Agency In celebration of HPCwire and SGI, Mike Bernhardt offers an executive profile of Bob Bishop, Chairman and CEO of SGI. SGI was in its fourth year when Bishop joined the team. [ ] 103871 ) INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE AT SC2002 - WHAT IS THE REALITY?....12.7K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Recently HPCwire's Alan Beck interviewed several Infiniband Company leaders about how IB will impact the HPC market and what IB products will be on display at SC2002. [ ] 103872 ) NEC DETAILS ITANIUM 2 PLANS....................................3K NEC will brief UK partners and the press on the progress of its forthcoming 32-way Itanium 2 system, called the TX7. The platform can support supercomputing applications such as vehicle design and weather forecasting, according to NEC. [ ] 103873 ) OPEN SOURCE COURSES THROUGH DOD................................4K What would happen if open source software were banned in the Defense Department? A recent study conducted by Mitre Corp. for DOD posed that hypothetical question and found an answer. [ ] 103874 ) UB JOINS NEW WAVE OF CYBERSLEUTHS............................7.4K The federal government has started an effort to educate its next generation of cybersleuths. In exchange for a free graduate school education, enrollees will be charged with protecting federal computer systems from identity thieves, hackers and terrorists. [ ] 103875 ) TOOL SOUGHT TO ID DATA LINKS.................................3.2K The Office of Homeland Security is evaluating technologies that could help tie together information held by different agencies, and eventually other levels of government and the private sector, without violating legal or privacy barriers. [ ] 73411 ) Do More with High-Productivity Computing. SGI Taps Exclusive Higher Education and Research Solution Provider for U.S. Institutions Please visit us at booth #1521 at SC2002 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103876 ) A NEW CRYPTOGRAPHY USES THE QUIRKS OF PHOTON STREAMS.........2.9K By John Markoff For The NY Times The quirky world of quantum physics, where mathematical elements can hold multiple values and objects can be in several places at once, is heading toward commercial products. [ ] 103877 ) WORLD-CLASS SUPERCOMPUTER COMES TO OAKLAND...................3.8K IBM engineers in downtown Oakland began assembling the nation's most powerful unclassified supercomputer for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The IBM device will be able to apply 10 trillion math operations a second to fusion science, biology, and astrophysics. [ ] 103878 ) IBM POWER4 SUPERCOMPUTER TO AID NCSA RESEARCH................4.3K The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced that it will deploy an IBM POWER4 p690 supercomputer to study a wide range of science and engineering problems. [ ] 103879 ) NSF RECOGNIZED FOR E-GOVERNMENT SUCCESS........................3K The National Science Foundation (NSF) was recognized as a 2002 E- Government Performance Leader at an awards ceremony hosted by a coalition of private-sector good-government groups led by the Performance Institute. [ ] 103880 ) SC2002: GORDON BELL AWARDS HIGHLIGHT HPC ACCOMPLISHMENTS.......6K Winners of the Gordon Bell Awards, one of high performance computing's most prestigious honors, will be announced at SC2002. These Prizes are awarded each year at the annual SC conference to recognize outstanding achievement in the field. [ ] 103881 ) BIOITWORLD: TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS TAKE CENTER STAGE.............6K IDG World Expo announced that next week's BioITWorld Conference & Expo will showcase new technology products and services from scores of companies developing solutions for the life sciences. [ ] 103882 ) SOFTWARE HEALS SYSTEMS WHILE THEY WORK.......................4.6K Researchers at Pennsylvania State University said they have developed software that can repair a database that has been attacked, even as it continues to process transactions. [ ] 103883 ) DEMO TO OFFER FIRST LOOK AT VIRTUAL EARTHQUAKE LABORATORY....4.9K The earthquake engineering community will see what it's like to conduct experiments through an online collaborative laboratory when researchers demonstrate an early version of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. [ ] 103884 ) ORBACH ADDRESSES BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE....4.4K The Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) met with DOE Office of Science Director Ray Orbach. Orbach and Patricia M. Dehmer, Director of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, laid out an ambitious agenda for the committee and the Office of Science. [ ] 103885 ) BERKELEY LAB TO SHARE COMPUTING EXPERTISE AT SC2002..........8.2K Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a leader in advancing scientific computing for the U.S. Department of Energy, will share its expertise with the high-performance computing and networking community at the SC2002 conference. [ ] 73412 ) BlueArc SiliconServers Chosen for Formula 1 Car Designs at British American Racing Please visit us at booth #1921 at SC2002 _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73413 ) NCSA and SDSC select Force10 Networks E-Series for cluster connection to National Science Foundation's TeraGrid [ ] 73414 ) Something New will be UP-FRONT at SC2002: High-end Visualization, Terascale Clustering, and Grid Computing from Sun Microsystems. "We Make the Grid Work" Please visit us at booth #1709 at SC2002 [ ] 73415 ) 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 [ ] 73416 ) 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103886 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH BIGBANGWIDTH'S DAN GATTI..................13.2K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Dan Gatti, CEO of BigBangwidth, was recently interviewed concerning the Debut of the company's new grid computing onramp technology solution at SC2002. [ ] 103887 ) IBM DELIVERS POWERFUL NEW XEON SERVERS.........................5K IBM announced powerful new eServer xSeries servers based on the latest Intel Xeon processors. [ ] 103888 ) INTEL DOUBLES CACHE ON NEW XEONS.............................5.7K Intel released three new Xeon chips for four- and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems. [ ] 103889 ) JUDGE OK'S MICROSOFT SETTLEMENT..............................6.6K A federal judge approved most of the provisions of an antitrust settlement between Microsoft and the Justice Department, largely setting aside concerns by some states that the sanctions were too light on the software titan. [ ] 103890 ) 64-BIT EXPECTATIONS ON THE DESK..............................3.5K If Moore's Law holds out, one can expect 64-bit computing systems to hit standard desktops within the next couple of years. This is due to the fact that Itanium is being touted as the next mass market processor. [ ] 103891 ) DATA HANDLING EASED WITH JOB SCHEDULING APPLICATIONS.........5.3K Enterprises faced with the daunting task of managing hundreds of thousands ?- if not millions ?- of records in data warehouses are finding that job scheduling applications can ease their data management headaches. [ ] 103892 ) BROCADE RESPONDS TO CISCO: BUYS INTELLIGENT SWITCH MAKER.....7.1K By John Abbott for the451.com Brocade Communications took two months to respond to Cisco's August acquisition of Andiamo systems with a move of its own. Brocade agreed to acquire intelligent switch startup Rhapsody Networks. [ ] 103893 ) GRAPHICS CHIP MAKER NVIDIA STILL ON TOP......................3.9K Graphics chip maker Nvidia has managed to continue gaining market share against rival ATI, despite delays in launching its speedy new processor, a report says. [ ] 103894 ) GLOBAL CHIP RECOVERY SEEN....................................4.2K Global sales of semiconductors are recovering and are forecast to rise 1.8 percent to $141 billion in 2002 and close to 20 percent in each of the next two years, according to an annual report issued by a leading trade group. [ ] 73417 ) FORCE10 NETWORKS TO DEMONSTRATE WORLD'S MOST SCALABLE CLUSTER/GRID NETWORK AT SC2002 High Performance Ethernet for Cluster/Grid ...................... - 336 GigE or 28 10GigE ports per chassis : Visit us at SC2002 : - True 10GigE line-rate performance : Booth #2035 : - Robust L2 switching and L3 routing ...................... QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103877 ) "It's basically the first time our facility won't have Crays in many years. Glorious tools in their day, the machines sit bagged and tagged until we can find a home for them." -- Jim Craw, leader of NERSC's computational systems group. [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73418 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! ANALYSIS: LOOKING FOR MORE GRID POWER GRID COMPUTING THE NEXT WAVE, SAYS IBM By Stephen Lawson and Ashlee Vance By Alastair Otter, ITWeb AN OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING By Stephen Withers, Technology & Business magazine *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103895 ) Cray X1 Systems Installed For Army HPC Research Center.......6.6K [ ] 103896 ) IBM Announces World's Fastest Silicon-Based Transistor.......4.2K [ ] 103897 ) $8.4 Million Order For X1 Supercomputer......................2.4K [ ] 73419 ) Myricom to Demonstrate Myrinet-Ethernet Interoperability at SC2002 Please visit us at booth #1017 at SC2002 SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103898 ) Iowa State To Test Software For X1 System....................3.2K [ ] 103899 ) NEC Claims First Linux-Operated Fault-Tolerant Server........1.5K [ ] 103900 ) Cray Selects J.D. Edwards 5 Software And Services............3.9K [ ] 103901 ) Government Aims To Cut Software Clutter......................3.1K [ ] 103902 ) Borland Retools JBuilder 8...................................2.2K [ ] 103903 ) Teleran Suite To Improve Pharmaceutical Database Security....6.2K [ ] 103904 ) CombineNet Announces Software License And Service Agreement..3.7K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103905 ) SGI Network Used To Analize Seismic Data From Oil Field......4.4K [ ] 103906 ) Hacking Victims' ID To Stay Secret...........................4.4K [ ] 103907 ) Canadian Researchers Launch Internetworked Supercomputer.....2.1K [ ] 103908 ) SDSC Deploys Blue Titan Web Services Networking Solution.....4.9K [ ] 103909 ) FBI Finds Source Of Internet Attacks.........................3.7K [ ] 103910 ) ICANN Approves Changes To Governing Structure................1.7K [ ] 103911 ) South Korea Claims Net "Super" Status........................1.9K [ ] 103912 ) inSORS AccessGrid Enables Global Forum Booth At SC2002.......4.3K [ ] 73420 ) HOW TO WIN A $50,000 RESEARCH GRANT Microway, Inc. 20th Anniversary Cluster Contest Please visit us at booth #1022 at SC2002 STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103913 ) HP, MIT Delve Deep With Digital Library......................3.2K [ ] 103914 ) ADIC StorNext File System To Be Used As SAN Foundation.......4.9K [ ] 103915 ) IBM Pushes Portable Storage To 80GB..........................2.6K [ ] 103916 ) IBM Reunites Storage, Server Divisions.......................2.5K [ ] 103917 ) NSF Awards $1 Million To Develop Protein Database At SDSC....3.2K [ ] 103918 ) EMC, Nortel Baptize Optical SAN..............................2.2K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103919 ) SGI Office Moves To Dubai Media City.........................1.7K [ ] 103920 ) Sun Opens Compute Ranch In Burlington........................1.8K [ ] 103921 ) Collaboration Made To Develop Image Informatics Solution.....5.1K [ ] 103922 ) Notre Dame Math Whiz Cracks Certicom Code Contest............2.7K [ ] 103923 ) Eight Schon Papers Retracted From Journal....................3.6K [ ] 103924 ) Platform Computing Builds "True Grid" At SC2002..............3.9K [ ] 103925 ) HiCOMB 2003: Call For Papers.................................3.5K [ ] 73421 ) STMicroelectronics Announces Collaboration with AMD to Supply the Portland Group Compiler Technology Please visit us at booth #1504 at SC2002 SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103926 ) Product Watch: RomaxDesigner Now Built W/ HOOPS Technology..26.9K No Starch Press Releases New Security Guide. SuSE Desktop Brings Linux To SMBs. [ ] 103927 ) Financial Update: ADVA Generates Stable Revenues In Q3......14.5K Brocade Acquires Rhapsody Networks. Cisco Profits Up, But Outlook Worsens. [ ] 103928 ) Corporate Liaisons: SGI, James River Technical Team Up.......9.8K CollabNet And Sun Microsystems Team Up. [ ] 103929 ) People and Positions: Avaki Names New Senior VP.............14.3K AMI Semiconductor Expands Its Team. Mind Electric Expands Management Team. [ ] 73422 ) Got Graphics? The HPCwire, DSstar, and GRIDtoday graphics contest is well underway. This is a great opportunity to show key industry players exactly what your organization has to offer, so what are you waiting for..... ENTER NOW! 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[ ] 73426 ) 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 *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] 103824 ) IBM'S "BLUE GENE" TO RUN ON LINUX............................3.2K [ ] 103811 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH NERSC'S BILL KRAMER..........................7K [ ] 103810 ) PALMISANO OUTLINES IBM'S $10B INITIATIVE.......................7K [ ] 103809 ) 1988 - 2002: SCxy MEMORIES - A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE.........18.4K [ ] 103930 ) TOP 20 REQUESTED ARTICLES FROM LAST WEEK'S HPCwire...........1.5K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you for your continued support of HPCwire. Paid subscribers have unlimited access to all HPCwire articles via our email and Web versions. 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