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Harley Davidson T-Shirt - Nayda Santiago Harley Davidson Jacket - Bharathi Singaram Harley Davidson T-Shirt - Pu Liu Harley Davidson Jacket - Totti Makela [ ] 73473 ) BlueArc SiliconServers Chosen for Formula 1 Car Designs at British American Racing Please visit us at booth #1921 at SC2002 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////////////////////////// L I V E w i r e from H P C w i r e [ ] 73474 ) Simplify: Unisys Self-Managing, Self-Healing Server Systems Learn More About Breakthrough Unisys Server Sentinel Technology Please visit us at booth #1335 at SC2002 Brought to you Live from SC2002, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND *** Nov. 21, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 48 *** For a Free Trial Subscription to HPCwire E-mail trial@hpcwire.com or Go to the HPCwire Booth #1541 [ ] 73475 ) Myricom to Demonstrate Myrinet-Ethernet Interoperability at SC2002 Please visit us at booth #1017 at SC2002 FEATURES & COMMENTARY ============================================================================== [ ] 61148 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIARO NETWORK'S KEN LEWIS..................6.6K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire interviewed Chiaro Network's CEO Ken Lewis about his company's latest announcements regarding their high-end routing platform and involvement with future grid technology. [ ] 61149 ) INTERVIEW WITH SC2002 TUTORIAL PRESENTERS....................11.2K By Neil Alger, Special Correspondent Alice Koniges, David Eder, Dona Crawford, all at LLNL, and Rolf Rabenseifner, HPC Center, Stuttgart, spoke with HPCwire about their combined supercomputing tutorial at SC2002. [ ] 61150 ) MCNEALY: "COMPUTING IS RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX".................10.1K By Jim Kerstetter, BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Correspondent Jim Kerstetter recently conducted a candid interview with Sun's CEO Scott McNealy. McNealy spoke about his company's primary business challenges. [ ] 61151 ) UNIVERSITIES PARTNER TO SHOWCASE INDIANA AT SC2002............7.5K Indiana University, Purdue University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and the University of Notre Dame have teamed, for the third consecutive year, to demonstrate the growing array of new, advanced information technology applications at SC2002. [ ] 73476 ) Do More with High-Productivity Computing. SGI -Supercomputing Enters a Renaissance Driven by a Demand for High Productivity Please visit us at booth #1521 at SC2002 [ ] 61152 ) ONE PERSON'S PERSPECTIVE ON HIGH END COMPUTERS, PART III.......13K By Paul C. Muzio, Network Computing Services In part III of this historical overview, Paul C. Muzio of Network Computing Services documents the background of data-intensive computing - a story that provides some fascinating lessons. [ ] 61153 ) MARCONI DEMONSTRATES NEW VIRTUAL SUPERCOMPUTING SOLUTION........8K In a first for the telecommunications industry, Marconi will publicly demonstrate OC-192c (10 Gbps) ATM data transfer rates over its leading 480 Gbps BXR-48000 multiservice switch-router at SC2002. [ ] 61154 ) PHYSICIST STEPHEN WOLFRAM TAKES CENTER STAGE AT COMDEX........5.5K Physicist Stephen Wolfram took the stage at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, evangelizing a computing-centric view of the universe that might sit better with the technology industry than it has with some other audiences. [ ] 61155 ) SDSC REACHES DATA TRANSFER MILESTONE............................7K Movies and popular music are moving from tape to disk, but tape is still on a roll at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The center's huge, updated tape storage system has illustrated its effectiveness by transferring data at 828 megabytes per second. [ ] 61156 ) NSF FUNDS LOGISTICAL NETWORKING.................................6K The National Science Foundation has awarded $900,000 dollars to a group of Computer Scientists, led by Micah Beck at the University of Tennessee, to provision a wide area testbed for experiments in Logistical Networking. [ ] 73477 ) FORCE10 NETWORKS AND IXIA 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 ...................... 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