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 28, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 47 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 338 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73485 ) Do More with High-Productivity Computing. SGI Again Leads IDC Supercomputing Ranking with Most Systems in Top 25 Across ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104001 ) FEATURES: DOMESTIC SECURITY - A TECH BONANZA | | [ ] 104004 ) SCIENCE NEWS: LOS ALAMOS BUILDS LARGEST INFINIBAND CLUSTER | | [ ] 104013 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: MICROSOFT TEASES AMD OVER 64BIT .NET SERVER | | [ ] 104020 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SUN'S MCNEALY TOUTS NEW SOFTWARE STRATEGY | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73486 ) Unbeatable Price/Performance NAS Systems - Delivered in Silicon. BlueArc SiliconServers, Starting Below 2 cents/MB Through December. FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104000 ) FUSION SIMULATION SOFTWARE NEEDS WORK........................4.5K By Scott R. Burnell, UPI Science News The Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee endorsed a report calling for a 15-year Fusion Simulation Project to build a system capable of modeling a complete fusion reactor. [ ] 104001 ) DOMESTIC SECURITY: A TECH BONANZA............................6.7K By Heather Fleming Phillips, Mercury News There's one increasingly bright spot for Silicon Valley in an otherwise gloomy economy: The federal government's New Department of Homeland Security. [ ] 104002 ) ECMWF WORKSHOP USER EXPERIENCE WITH NEC SX-6 AND IBM P3/4...12.3K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Christopher Lazou, of HiPerCom Consultants, reports on some user experiences with the NEC SX-6 and IBM P3/4, presented at the ECMWF workshop on meteorology. [ ] 104003 ) AGENCY WEIGHED, BUT DISCARDED, PLAN RECONFIGURING THE NET....7.8K By John Markoff, NY Times The Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a database of electronic transactions and analyze them for potential terrorist activity considered but rejected another surveillance idea. [ ] 73487 ) Free History of Supercomputing Poster by IDC and Linux NetworX SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 104004 ) LOS ALAMOS BUILDS LARGEST INFINIBAND CLUSTER.................3.4K Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has turned to server maker RLX Technologies Inc. to build what it claimed is the largest Beowulf cluster to date that uses the fledgling Infiniband interconnect. [ ] 104005 ) LOSS OF MAJOR HUB CITIES COULD CRIPPLE INTERNET..............5.1K A terrorist attack or other disaster that destroyed key telecommunications equipment in major cities would disrupt the Internet much like severe storms at airline hubs ties up the nation's air traffic, a new study suggests. [ ] 104006 ) UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA USES VIRTUAL SURGERY PROTOTYPING......10.6K Researchers at the University of Florida are taking technologies traditionally used for virtual prototyping of mechanical systems and extending them to more complex and variable biomechanical systems like predicting joint contact stresses and motions. [ ] 104007 ) FROM DARWIN TO INTERNET AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT................4.9K Internet traffic jams may become history if European Space Agency (ESA) succeeds in developing new technology to see nearby Earth-sized planets. [ ] 104008 ) MICROORGANISMS MAY ENABLE NANOELECTRONICS....................2.6K To enhance the efficient manufacture of tiny technological devices, scientists have now employed some suitably sized workers: bacteria. Proteins produced by microbes living in extreme environments might be used as building blocks for nanoelectronics. [ ] 104009 ) SC2002 BANDWIDTH WINNERS SET NEW NETWORK PERFORMANCE MARKS...3.6K The High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge awards announced last week at SC2002 established new records for network performance, with one winning application demonstrating a five-fold increase over the previous top-mark set last year. [ ] 104010 ) "STIPPLING" SPEEDS 3-D COMPUTER IMAGING......................3.7K Engineers at Purdue University have created a new kind of computer- imaging software that uses stippling to quickly produce complex pictures of internal organs and other renderings. [ ] 73488 ) Intel And Los Alamos National Laboratory Will Build Industry's Largest InfiniBand Cluster _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73489 ) Sun Microsystems Unveils Sun Fire Link Interconnect Technology; Ushers in New Generation of Superclusters [ ] 73490 ) 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 [ ] 73491 ) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times COMMERCIAL NEWS ============================================================== [ ] 104011 ) MICROSOFT'S SERVER U-TURN....................................8.2K Microsoft has argued that servers containing only a handful of processors are good enough for most of the world. But now, with the advent of huge Intel machines and a new version of Windows that will run on them, the company is changing its tune. [ ] 104012 ) IDC: 2002 SEEN AS WORST YEAR FOR IT REVENUE GROWTH...........4.7K By Gretel Johnston, IDG News Service IT market researchers at IDC say the worldwide IT industry will suffer a drop in revenue of 2.3% this year, the largest decline ever. [ ] 104013 ) MICROSOFT TEASES AMD OVER 64BIT .NET SERVER..................2.6K Microsoft is playing wait-and-see with AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. The company has no definite commitment to ship a version of its .Net Server operating system for the new processor, though both will be available around April of 2003. [ ] 104014 ) DELL WILL SHIP ITANIUM 2 SYSTEMS.............................2.8K By Ashlee Vance, IDG News Service Dell has confirmed it will start shipping servers built with Intel's Itanium 2 chips, shifting what has been at best a lukewarm stance on the chip. [ ] 104015 ) S-A EXPANDS SOFTWARE OFFERINGS WITH CHANNELLOGICS BUY........5.4K By Jim Davis for the451.com Scientific-Atlanta isn't just sitting around and waiting for the slump in telecom spending to end. The company added to its product portfolio this week with the acquisition of Atlanta-based ChannelLogics. [ ] 73492 ) Simplify: Unisys Self-Managing, Self-Healing Server Systems Learn More About Breakthrough Unisys Server Sentinel Technology QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 104003 ) "Before people demand more surveillance information, they should be able to process the information they already have. Almost all of our failures to date have come from our inability to use existing intelligence information." -- Mark Seiden, independent computer security expert [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73493 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! IBM ITANIUM 2 SERVERS APPEAR IN MASSIVE NCSA GRID CLUSTER By Ashlee Vance IBM THROWS WEIGHT BEHIND GRID UTILITY MODEL By Jaikumar Vijayan *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104016 ) University Of Tokyo Purchases SGI Origin 3900 Supercomputer..3.2K [ ] 104017 ) TOP500 Lists Show Widespread Use Of Myrinet Technology.......7.9K [ ] 104018 ) Intel's Celerons Cruise Past 2 GHz...........................1.7K [ ] 104019 ) Taiwan Semi Sees Improved Demand For High-End Chips..........2.3K [ ] 73494 ) HP Retains No. 1 Vendor Position in TOP500 SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104020 ) Sun's McNealy Touts New Software Bundling Strategy...........2.1K [ ] 104021 ) IBM Touts WebSphere 5.0......................................4.1K [ ] 104022 ) Super Software Program Earns Sandia Major Honor..............2.5K [ ] 104023 ) Algorithmics Suite To Support DataSynapse Platform...........5.8K [ ] 104024 ) Kodak Software Assists Brain Research At Los Alamos Labs.....6.2K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104025 ) GridSystems Solutions Available At IBM Design Center.........3.4K [ ] 104026 ) LBNL Team Wins HPC Bandwidth Challenge At SC2002.............4.7K [ ] 104027 ) Australian Researchers Win Grid Competition At SC2002........1.6K [ ] 104028 ) Marconi Shows Off Supercomputing Grid........................3.2K [ ] 73495 ) HOW TO WIN A $50,000 RESEARCH GRANT Microway, Inc. 20th Anniversary Cluster Contest STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104029 ) HP Spruces Storage Portfolio.................................4.6K [ ] 104030 ) Lambda Database Demonstration Wins Award At SC2002...........6.7K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104031 ) NASA Cyber Lab Brewing Up New Planets........................2.5K [ ] 104032 ) Sun Aims New Products At Telcos..............................2.5K [ ] 73496 ) FORCE10 NETWORKS AND IXIA TO DEMONSTRATE WORLD'S MOST SCALABLE CLUSTER/GRID NETWORK High Performance Ethernet for Cluster/Grid - 336 GigE or 28 10GigE ports per chassis - True 10GigE line-rate performance - Robust L2 switching and L3 routing SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104033 ) Product Watch: Sun, Check Point To Develop Firewall..........7.6K Raindrop Geomagic To Offer Software. New Graphics Chip Enters Crowded Market. [ ] 104034 ) Financial Update: Sun Sees 2nd Quarter Sales In Line.........4.3K Brocade Posts 4Q Profit. [ ] 104035 ) Corporate Liaisons: Lucent And Sun Expand Alliance...........8.6K Feds Probe Computer Associates' Deals. [ ] 104036 ) People and Positions: Gerstner To Be Chair Of Carlyle Group.14.9K Computing Pioneer Joins HP. Rainfinity Gets New VP Of Sales. [ ] 73497 ) 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! [ ] 73498 ) STMicroelectronics Announces Collaboration with AMD to Supply the Portland Group Compiler Technology JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) [ ] 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) [ ] 65275 ) Maui High Performance Computing Center (Lead Network Engineer) [ ] 65274 ) Ohio Supercomputer Center (Executive Director) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73499 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. 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