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 *** January 24, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 3 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 343 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73571 ) New SGI Altix 3000 Blows Away Competition with Across-the-Board Dominance in Performance ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104249 ) FEATURES: HP MAKES $2 BILLION IN SALES FROM LINUX | | [ ] 104256 ) SCIENCE NEWS: AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS TO USE SGI SYSTEMS | | [ ] 104262 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HP INTRODUCES NEW ALPHASERVER SYSTEMS | | [ ] 104275 ) NEWS BRIEFS: TELECOMS GET CARRIER GRADE LINUX | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73572 ) Interoperability without services! AutoParalellization Turboworx.com FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104249 ) HP MAKES $2 BILLION IN SALES FROM LINUX......................2.8K Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer maker, said it had annual sales of $2 billion linked to the Linux open computer- operating system, the fast-growing rival to Microsoft's Windows. [ ] 104250 ) U.S. GOVERNMENT PROPOSES $59 BILLION TECHNOLOGY BUDGET.........2K The federal government's chief information officer proposed a $59 billion technology budget for fiscal 2004. The majority of the 12 percent increase from the current year would pay for homeland security. [ ] 104251 ) IBM DELIVERS NEW LINUX OFFERINGS.............................8.8K IBM announced new offerings that can help companies expand Linux usage across an e-business infrastructure, making it easier to integrate access devices to servers with hardware, software and services on the open-source operating system. [ ] 104252 ) SCALING TO NEW HEIGHTS IN LINUX CAPABILITY..................17.6K Can Linux scale beyond its perceived limit, so it ultimately can drive the robust productivity tools that until now have been available only on proprietary platforms? The answers are in, and the news is good. [ ] 104253 ) WAR TENSIONS MAY LEAD TO SECURITY CRISIS.....................6.2K With a recent rise in electronic atacks against government and military computer networks, intelligence officials are growing more concerned that it may be the work of pro-Iraqi hackers. This may lead to a possible crisis in national security. [ ] 104254 ) AMD CEO HECTOR RUIZ STRESSES THE VALUE OF COLLABORATION......5.3K AMD President and Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz opened the LinuxWorld 2003 conference by asserting that early and open collaboration with partners and customers are the critical drivers of true innovation. [ ] 104255 ) MITNICK, NOW A HOLLYWOOD HERO, GOES BACK ONLINE................5K One of the world's most notorious computer hackers gets off probation this week and plans to dive back into the Internet, his former playground where breaking-and-entering landed him in jail for five years. [ ] 73573 ) New Intel Tools Help Developers Optimize Software Applications SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 104256 ) AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS SIGN ON TO USE SGI SYSTEMS.............4.1K SGI announced that the Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation (QPSF), a technology consortium of six universities in Australia's Queensland State, will shortly take delivery of two of the company's just-launched SGI Altix 3000 supercomputing systems. [ ] 104257 ) SDSC FINDS UNNECESSARY TRAFFIC SATURATING KEY NET SERVER.....4.9K Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD, analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet, found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries. [ ] 104258 ) RESEARCH PROJECT PROMISES FASTER, CHEAPER MICROCHIPS.........3.4K The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, has joined forces with Amtel, on North Tyneside in the North East of England, to create faster, cheaper "strained silicon" microchips. [ ] 104259 ) PENNSYLVANIA ENLISTS SIEMENS TO COMBAT BIOTERRORISM..........6.3K Siemens Medical Solutions, a unit of Siemens USA, announced the commencement of implementation of a "Health Surveillance Network" that will link emergency rooms across the state. [ ] 104260 ) TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SHOWCASES DMD DISCOVERY PRODUCTS...........5.7K Texas Instruments will be showcasing the company's new "DMD Discovery" product family, which is aimed at organizations looking to develop applications that will leverage the unique capabilities of Digital Light Processing technology. [ ] 73574 ) HP Introduces Most Powerful Generation of AlphaServer Systems _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73575 ) AVAKI Introduces Industry's First Commercial Data Grid Software for Enterprise IT Environments ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ============================================================== [ ] 104261 ) NORTH AMERICAN CHIP EQUIPMENT ORDERS UP IN DECEMBER..........3.2K Orders for semiconductor production and testing equipment from North American manufacturers rose in December, suggesting the chip capital equipment market is stabilizing, a trade group said. [ ] 104262 ) HP INTRODUCES NEW GENERATION OF ALPHASERVER SYSTEMS..........8.4K HP introduced its newest generation of AlphaServer systems including the most powerful system to date, the HP AlphaServer GS1280. [ ] 104263 ) IBM, CADENCE USE LINUX FOR ELECTRONIC DESIGN SOLUTIONS.......5.5K IBM and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced an agreement to jointly optimize and market electronic design solutions from Cadence using IBM's advanced Linux-based technology. [ ] 104264 ) MICROSOFT, SUN AGREE ON FORM OF INJUNCTION IN SUIT...........3.1K Microsoft Corp. and rival Sun Microsystems Inc. delivered a plan to a federal judge laying out how Microsoft will obey a court order to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its Windows operating system. [ ] 104265 ) SGI INTRODUCES WORLDWIDE USER GROUP..........................3.2K SGI announced plans to form a worldwide User Group. This Group will establish a community for SGI customers, enabling them to share information and learn how to get even more technical productivity from the company's high-performance computing systems. [ ] 104266 ) ORACLE'S ELLISON: ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY LESS?...............3.7K Speaking At Oracle AppsWorld, Oracle Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison painted a provocative picture of the role business applications can play to help companies "know more and spend less." [ ] 104267 ) CISCO ACCUSES CHINA'S HUAWEI OF COPYING SOFTWARE.............4.3K Cisco Systems Inc., a maker of gear that directs Internet traffic, filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., alleging China's largest telecom equipment maker unlawfully copied its operating software. [ ] 104268 ) ALTERA, MERCURY SUPPORT CSMB DESIGN SPECIFICATION............6.8K Altera and Motorola Computer Group announced that Altera's Stratix GX and Mercury FPGAs support the recently-approved CompactPCI Serial Mesh Backplane (CSMB) specification, which is intended to facilitate high- bandwidth systems for telecom networks. [ ] 73576 ) Supercomputing and the Life Sciences The Race for Discovery Using Innovative Cluster Technology QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 104254 ) "Linux serves as a consistent reminder for the semiconductor industry that the needs of our companies should never outweigh the needs of our customers." -- Hector Ruiz, AMD President and CEO [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73577 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! AVAKI AND GLOBUS ADVANCE GRID STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY IBM RETAILS THE GRID NCSA EXPLAINS THE GRID *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104269 ) Texas Instruments Teams With Silicon Logic Engineering.......4.5K [ ] 104270 ) Sun Servers Excel In The Higher Education Market...............6K [ ] 104271 ) Toshiba Launches SoCMosaic Custom Chip Platform..............6.7K [ ] 104272 ) NAG Announces Numerical Library For AMD Processors...........3.3K [ ] 104273 ) Tokyo Deploys Genome Analysis System On Sun Servers............4K [ ] 104274 ) Dell Doubles Density Of Its Supercomputing Clusters..........2.8K [ ] 73578 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104275 ) Telecoms Get Carrier Grade Linux.............................3.3K [ ] 104276 ) Network Associates Awarded Software Protection Contracts.....3.7K [ ] 104277 ) Fakespace Systems Supports U.S. Army Research Programs.......5.1K [ ] 104278 ) Cerius2 Available With Three New Scientific Modules............4K [ ] 104279 ) Autonomy Launches New Eduction Module........................5.9K [ ] 104280 ) SCO Releases Linux 4.0 To Support Unisys Platforms...........3.4K [ ] 104281 ) MelTec, Fraunhofer Institute To Develop I.T. Platform........3.8K [ ] 104282 ) HOOPS Technology Leveraged In Latest CoventorWare Release....5.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104283 ) IBM Transforms Mid-Market eServer With Integrated Software...6.5K [ ] 104284 ) SGI Demos Sharing Of Complex Medical Images In Real Time.....3.3K [ ] 104285 ) India To Set Up $20 Million Net Security Center..............2.1K [ ] 104286 ) Promia Releases New Cyber Security Product...................4.8K [ ] 104287 ) CSC Contract To Support Disease Surveillance Network.........3.4K [ ] 104288 ) ProClarity To Deliver Advanced Analytics Across Extranet.....6.6K [ ] 104289 ) VMEbus Switched Serial Standard Ratified.....................7.1K [ ] 73579 ) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo March 25-27, 2003 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusettes, USA www.bioitworldexpo.com STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104290 ) Sybase/SGI Products Provide Data Management Solutions........5.2K [ ] 104291 ) McDATA Storage Products Join HP StorageWorks Solutions.......4.8K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104292 ) U.S. Commerce Secretary To Keynote I.T. Conference...........2.4K [ ] 104293 ) National HPCC Conference Announcement........................2.9K [ ] 104294 ) Concurrency And Computation: Special Issue Announcement......4.3K [ ] 73580 ) 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! SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104295 ) Product Watch: Platform Software Helps HP Systems...........38.4K The MathWorks Delivers SimMechanics 2. CATC Delivers New Fibre Channel Analyzer. [ ] 104296 ) Financial Update: SGI Reports Second-Quarter Results........34.1K IBM Reports 2002 Fourth-Quarter Results. Microsoft Announces Common Stock Split. [ ] 104297 ) Corporate Liaisons: ANSYS To Support HP Alphaservers.........8.8K EMCORE Acquires Agere Systems. [ ] 104298 ) People and Positions: Microsoft's Privacy Chief Quits........7.1K Continuum Photonics Gets New Member. CA Science Council Gets New Member. 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