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 *** March 14, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 10 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 303 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73676 ) Iceland Gets HPC Simulation Help from Linux Networx ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104592 ) FEATURES: NERSC DEPLOYS 10 TERAFLOP/S IBM SUPERCOMPUTER | | [ ] 104606 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: ATIPA TAKES SUPERCOMPUTING INTERNATIONAL | | [ ] 104610 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: HP INTRODUCES NEW MULTI-PROCESSOR SERVER | | [ ] 104626 ) NEWS BRIEFS: TRUESAN AND SGI FORGE ALLIANCE TO OPTIMIZE SANS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73677 ) HP Enhances Network-attached Storage Family, Broadens Storage Services FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104592 ) NERSC CENTER DEPLOYS 10 TERAFLOP/S IBM SUPERCOMPUTER.........3.9K The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center put its 10 teraflop/s IBM POWER-based supercomputer into service last week, providing researchers with the most powerful computer for unclassified research in the United States. [ ] 104593 ) SOLAR-DRIVEN PUMPS, DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS....................9.8K By Katherine A. Caponi, NCSA Science Writer Argonne National Laboratory's phytoremediation program and a University of Illinois environmental engineering professor use NCSA's D2K to find patterns in large, inconsistent datasets. [ ] 104594 ) SUN PROVIDES FOR WORLD-CLASS MEDICAL IMAGING LAB.............5.2K Sun Microsystems, Inc. has selected Columbia University's Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Center as a Sun Center of Excellence in Neuroscience Research. [ ] 104595 ) SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY............5.3K The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is gearing up for its 10th anniversary with significant upgrades to all of its systems. [ ] 104596 ) TWINS CRACK FACE RECOGNITION PUZZLE..........................5.7K Two computer whiz-kids -- 22-year-old identical twins almost impossible to tell apart -- have applied a new technology to recognizing faces in a way that may yet revolutionize international security. [ ] 104597 ) ELECTROLUMINESCENCE PERMITS OPTICAL READ-OUT.................6.4K Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a new type of nanometer-scale optoelectronic device that performs addition and other complex logic operations, is simple to fabricate, and produces optical output that can be read without electrical contacts. [ ] 104598 ) HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPCOMING NPACI ALL-HANDS MEETING.............6K The annual NPACI All-Hands Meeting will be held at UCSD from March 18 through March 21, and it features tutorials, talks, posters, and demonstrations devoted to the overall theme: Making Grid Computing Real. [ ] 73678 ) Intel Discusses Innovations Driving Future Enterprise And Communications Infrastructure Growth CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 104599 ) FLORIDA UNIVERSITY PURCHASES IBM Z800 FOR CLUSTER............1.3K The University of Florida has selected the Linux-only IBM eServer zSeries 800 as the heart of the university's Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) laboratory. [ ] 104600 ) MORE HPCC CUSTOMERS EMBRACE DELL COMPUTING STANDARDS.........7.9K Dell announced that it has signed agreements with several high-profile customers in Europe to provide high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) solutions. [ ] 104601 ) INFINISWITCH CORP AND LANE15 SOFTWARE ANNOUNCE MERGER........4.2K InfiniSwitch Corporation and Lane15 Software announced the merger of their companies. This merger unites the leader in InfiniBand switch products for HPC and enterprise datacenters with the leader in management software for fabric computing. [ ] 104602 ) DATAMIRROR iCLUSTER IS IBM TOTALSTORAGE PROVEN...............4.4K DataMirror, a leading provider of enterprise application integration and resiliency solutions, announced that its iCluster software has successfully completed interoperability testing with IBM's TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) products. [ ] 104603 ) SDSC RELEASES NEW VERSION OF DATA-GRID SOFTWARE..............5.3K The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD has released a new version of its popular software that enables scientists to create, manage, and collaborate with data collections located on heterogeneous resources distributed across a network. [ ] 104604 ) DELL SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTERS HELP OXFORD RESEARCHERS.........3.9K Oxford University's world-renowned physics department will implement a Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) solution to conduct research that will assist in a project aimed to unravel the secrets of the universe. [ ] 104605 ) ILLUMINATA REPORTS STRONG BLADE POTENTIAL FOR SISTINA........5.6K Sistina Software announced that a published Illuminata research report acclaimed the Sistina Global File System (GFS) as a valuable enabler for managing enterprise blade-based computing. [ ] 104606 ) ATIPA TAKES SUPERCOMPUTING INTERNATIONAL.....................2.9K For many years, Atipa Technologies has deployed World-class Beowulf- class supercomputers in almost every major university and research laboratory in the U.S. Recently, Atipa has delivered Linux-based supercomputers across national borders. [ ] 104607 ) APPRO INTRODUCES HYPERBLADE CLUSTER AT INTEL FORUM...........3.3K Appro, a leading developer of high-density, high-performance servers, announced that it has demonstrated its new HyperBlade B221X cluster based on the Intel Xeon processors at the Intel Developer Forum. [ ] 73679 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73680 ) AVAKI Closes $4.2 Million Financing [ ] 73681 ) Linux Networx Cluster Used to Investigate Iceland's Weather And Geothermal Energy Sources [ ] 73682 ) Western Scientific Unveils 1U 6-Processor Rack Server ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 104608 ) SGI ENABLES FIRST-PLACE WIN IN PROTEIN-FOLDING COMPETITION...6.2K Using the power of a 40-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer, the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (UW) in Ontario, Canada, has won the prestigious Critical Assessment of Fully Automated Structure Prediction (CAFASP) competition. [ ] 104609 ) FUJITSU PREVIEWS FURTHER ADVANCES TO PRIMEPOWER SERVER.......4.2K Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Inc. announced first shipments of its fifth generation Solaris compatible PRIMEPOWER models and a roadmap that shows how it will build upon its current momentum and success. [ ] 104610 ) HP INTRODUCES NEW MULTI-PROCESSOR SERVER.....................6.2K HP introduced a new industry-standard HP ProLiant server that elevates the standard for density in enterprise servers. [ ] 104611 ) INTEL INTRODUCES ITS FASTEST XEON PROCESSORS.................2.3K Intel introduced its fastest Intel Xeon processors, exceeding 3 GHz, for dual processor servers and workstations. The company also said that more than 9,000 companies around the world are now selling components or systems based on the Intel Xeon processor family. [ ] 104612 ) GATEWAY SERVERS PROVIDE BOOST WITH INTEL XEON PROCESSORS.....6.4K Gateway, Inc. is delivering enhanced server performance and responsiveness with the powerful new Intel Xeon processor 3.06GHz, available now on the Gateway 960 and Gateway 980 server lines. [ ] 104613 ) SUN EXTENDS JAVA LEADERSHIP WITH TECHNOLOGY CENTER...........4.1K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the establishment of a joint Java Technology Center located at the SAP AG headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. [ ] 104614 ) NEC EXPANDS INSTANT SILICON SOLUTION PLATFORM................8.5K NEC Electronics Corporation and its subsidiaries in the United States and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, announced significant expansion of their Instant Silicon Solution Platform (ISSP) offering. [ ] 104615 ) SUN SETS THE AGENDA FOR SUNNETWORK ASIA PACIFIC 2003.........2.5K Sun Microsystems has posted the agenda for SunNetwork Asia Pacific 2003 Conference and Pavilion being held at the Shanghai International Convention Center in Shanghai, PRC. [ ] 104616 ) SUN CONFIRMS PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR ITS UNIX OS.................2.7K Sun Microsystems confirmed with its customers and partners that it has licensing rights to UNIX code, on which the Solaris Operating System is based for both SPARC and recently available x86 systems. [ ] 73683 ) HP Holds No. 1 Worldwide Position for UNIX, Windows and Linux Server Revenues QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 104607 ) "Today, businesses require high-performance and high-density computing Linux based clusters that deliver a competitive advantage through greater cost efficiencies and respond more quickly to changing business needs. Customers also demand innovative blade server architecture with the performance and investment protection to scale across the enterprise." -- Daniel Kim, CEO and President of Appro International [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73684 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! WILL NEW NET PROTOCOLS AFFECT GRIDS? GLOBAL GRIDS ANALYZE ON DEMAND BRAIN ACTIVITY *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104617 ) Stratus ftServer Sets New Bar For Fault Tolerance............6.1K [ ] 104618 ) SAP Reports Significant Savings Possible With Blade Servers..4.4K [ ] 104619 ) Scientists Develop First Artificial Brain Section............2.1K [ ] 73685 ) Interoperability without services! AutoParalellization Turboworx.com SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104620 ) Cigital Addresses Software Quality Problems..................2.7K [ ] 104621 ) New Discussion Mailing List For Linux On Itanium Users.......1.4K [ ] 104622 ) Altair Enhances Product Suite With Veridian Technology.......4.4K [ ] 104623 ) Software Program Designed To Spot Musical Hits...............1.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104624 ) Alliance To Develop UCONN's Secure Network...................3.4K [ ] 104625 ) SC Global Seeks Innovative Network Solutions.................4.8K [ ] 73686 ) Plug in the power... of W E S T E R N S C I E N T I F I C Technology the Smart Way http://www.wsm.com STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104626 ) TrueSAN And SGI Forge Alliance To Optimize SAN Management....4.3K [ ] 104627 ) Engineering Firm Chooses Dell EMC Storage Solution...........2.6K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104628 ) Xilinx Announces Programmable World 2003 Industry Forum......2.4K [ ] 104629 ) Ebay Auctions Million Dollar Supercomputer...................0.8K [ ] 104630 ) The Enterprise Architectures Conference Announcement.........1.7K [ ] 104631 ) Call For Entries For The On The Road To A Gigabit Awards.....2.1K [ ] 73687 ) HPCwire on Tour: Photo Gallery Visit the Photo Gallery to see images from this year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York, USA SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104632 ) Product Watch: China Notes New 64-bit Chip..................23.2K Pivia Introduces New Server Software. Fortinet Launches New Antivirus Firewall. [ ] 104633 ) Financial Update: IBM Ranks #1 in Worldwide Revenue For HPC..5.3K SCO Files Lawsuit Against IBM. [ ] 104634 ) Corporate Liaisons: NEC Teams With Global Catalyst Partners..9.7K MSC.Software Teams Up With Boeing. Intelliun Selects Pervasive Database. [ ] 104635 ) People and Positions: Sun Names Six Engineering Honors......19.8K Army Scientist Joins Internosis. AMD Promotes Member To Senior VP. 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