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 21, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 11 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 311 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73691 ) Iceland Gets HPC Simulation Help from Linux Networx ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104638 ) FEATURES: CENTRAL COMMAND PREDICTS LINUX VIRUSES TO INCREASE | | [ ] 104643 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: CLUSTERVISION, NEC PARTNER ON CLUSTERS | | [ ] 104657 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: MICROSOFT LOOSENS TERMS OF SERVER LICENSING | | [ ] 104663 ) NEWS BRIEFS: MAUI SUPERCOMPUTER GETS $4.3 MILLION UPGRADE | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73705 ) HPCwire's - 2003 People and Organizations to Watch Lee Holcomb, Tom Coleman, Tetsuya Satoh, Ken Neves, Bill Appelbe, Michael Levine, Ralph Roskies, Mark Seager, Chaitan Baru, Alan Blatecky, Jay Boisseau, Russ Miller, Bob Graybill, Christian Bischof, Cray, Shahin Kahn. From Lee Holcomb at Homeland Security to Tetsuya Satoh at the Earth Simulator, this year we've put together a list of must watch HPC luminaries!! FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104638 ) CENTRAL COMMAND PREDICTS LINUX VIRUSES TO INCREASE...........4.6K Central Command, Inc., a leading provider of PC anti-virus software and computer security services, warns of the importance of installing and maintaining current antivirus protection on the Linux operating system. [ ] 104639 ) THE STRANGE FLAVOR OF QUARKS................................11.9K by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center In the abstruse field of quantum chromodynamics, progress requires the most powerful HPC resources available. The most realistic QCD calculations yet are underway with LeMieux, PSC's terascale system. [ ] 104640 ) SCICOMP7: IBM'S SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING USERS CONFERENCE.......12.1K by Uwe Harms, Harms-Supercomputing-Consulting Uwe Harms reports on the Spring ScicomP7, which took place in Germany. The program discussed the usage, applications, tools, hardware and the IBM roadmaps in processors and software. [ ] 104641 ) REDESIGNING THE NET TO SAVE IT FROM SPAM.....................4.4K To halt spam cold, many experts agree, requires a radical technical solution at the heart of the Internet. [ ] 104642 ) RESEARCHERS MAKE ULTRA HIGH DENSITY NANOWIRE CIRCUITS........6.9K Researchers participating in the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at Los Angeles (UCLA) have invented a new technique for producing "Ultra High Density Nanowire Lattices and Circuits". [ ] 73692 ) HP Holds No. 1 Worldwide Position for UNIX, Windows and Linux Server Revenues CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 104643 ) CLUSTERVISION AND NEC PARTNER ON LINUX CLUSTERS..............2.8K ClusterVision announced that it is partnering with NEC HPC Europe to expand each company's High Performance Computing offering. The partnership will target the clustering markets in the UK, Ireland, Benelux and Scandinavia. [ ] 104644 ) SGI SUPERCLUSTER TO ASSIST TOKYO EARTHQUAKE INSTITUTE........3.4K The University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) has received a 108-processor SGI Altix system to be used as a shared supercomputing resource for ERI researchers. [ ] 104645 ) APPRO DEMONSTRATES HYPERBLADE SERVER CLUSTER.................3.4K Appro, a leading developer of high-density, high-performance servers, announced that it is demonstrating its new HyperBlade Server Cluster, 1U, 2U dual and quad servers based on AMD Opteron technology. [ ] 104646 ) ALTAIR ENGINEERING LAUNCHES PBS PRO 5.3......................3.3K Altair Engineering Inc., a leader in engineering, consulting and high performance computing technology, announced the launch of PBS Pro version 5.3 specifically designed for the improved utilization of IT resources. [ ] 104647 ) NEC HPCE BUNDLES LINUX WITH CLUSTERS AND ITANIUM-2...........2.7K The newly founded NEC High Performance Computing Europe (HPCE) GmbH in Duesseldorf, Germany, announced its offering of an optimised Linux- Package especially for its Itanium-2-HPC based servers of the TX7 series and its PC-based Clusters. [ ] 104648 ) SYBASE BOOSTS RELIABILITY OF SUN CLUSTER SOFTWARE............3.7K Sybase, Inc. announced that Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) now supports the Sun Cluster 3.0 software active-passive agent. [ ] 104649 ) APPLE INTRODUCES XSERVE CLUSTER CONFIGURATION................2.5K Apple Computer Inc. introduced a new Xserve configuration specifically designed for customers seeking clustering capabilities. [ ] 104650 ) MECHDYNE, MODVIZ PROVIDE CLUSTER VISUALIZATION SOLUTIONS.....3.8K Mechdyne Corporation and ModViz, Inc. formally announced an agreement to provide affordable and accessible immersive visualization solutions for a wide range of industry customers. [ ] 73693 ) Interoperability without services! AutoParalellization Turboworx.com _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73694 ) Linux Networx Cluster Used to Investigate Iceland's Weather And Geothermal Energy Sources [ ] 73695 ) Western Scientific Unveils 1U 6-Processor Rack Server ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 73696 ) Intel Discusses Innovations Driving Future Enterprise And Communications Infrastructure Growth VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 104651 ) SGI CHOSEN BY GERMAN WATERWAY INSTITUTE FOR HPC..............7.7K SGI announced that Germany's Waterway Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) heavily invested in SGI technology for high-performance computing (HPC) to meet challenges in future numerical simulation projects. [ ] 104652 ) HP TO BECOME PREFERRED VENDOR OF RED HAT LINUX...............2.9K Hewlett-Packard Co and Linux software distributor Red Hat Inc. said they had struck an agreement making HP a preferred provider of services to support Red Hat's Linux offerings for large corporate customers. [ ] 104653 ) SUN 6800 SERVER SETS RECORD WITH PEOPLESOFT 8 PAYROLL........2.1K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced record-breaking performance for PeopleSoft 8 Payroll on the Sun Fire 6800 server. [ ] 104654 ) MSC.SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF MSC.EASY5 VERSION 7.0......3.8K MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of simulation software, services and systems, announced the availability of MSC.EASY5 Version 7.0. [ ] 104655 ) NEW INTEL PRODUCTS ACCELERATE TRANSITION TO FASTER ETHERNET..6.1K Intel Corporation introduced several advanced Ethernet products that help speed data between desktop PCs and servers over enterprise networks. [ ] 104656 ) SUN AND TOPSPIN LEAD IN DELIVERING ON INFINIBAND TECHNOLOGY..4.1K Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Topspin Communications, announced that they have entered into a joint technology development and software licensing agreement. Sun has selected Topspin to provide both the Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet I/O modules. [ ] 104657 ) MICROSOFT LOOSENS TERMS OF SERVER LICENSING..................2.7K Microsoft Corp. said it would change its licensing policy to allow customers to pay for fewer copies of a range of programs used on corporate servers. [ ] 104658 ) SUN MICRO HIGHLIGHTS FIELD FOR 2003 COLLEGIATE CHALLENGE.....4.1K Sun Microsystems, Inc. and TopCoder, Inc., a company committed to identifying and promoting computer programming talent through competition, announced the top fifty Java and C++ programmers remaining in its 2003 Collegiate Challenge. [ ] 104659 ) MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES DYNAMIC SYSTEMS INITIATIVE...............6.2K Microsoft announced the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). This initiative unifies hardware, software and service vendors around a software architecture that enables customers to harness the power of industry-standard hardware and brings simplicity to IT operations. [ ] 104660 ) VIPER BITES BACK AGAINST CRIMINALS.............................7K Storage services company and IBM Business Partner Sagitta announced its collaboration with West Yorkshire Police to provide the IT infrastructure for the VIPER (Video Identity Parade Electronically Recorded) National Bureau. [ ] 104661 ) SUN PROPOSES JAVA BUSINESS INTEGRATION SPECIFICATION.........4.6K Sun Microsystems announced that it has submitted a proposal to the Java Community Process (JCP) that would expand the way Java developers build integration solutions. [ ] 104662 ) REAL-TIME COLLABORATION ON DATA SETS RAISES PRODUCTIVITY.....9.5K by Michael Brown A new trend in real-time collaboration makes critical information from large data sets easier to access and understand and enables companies to increase the overall value of the data. [ ] 73697 ) 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 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 104641 ) "SMTP was developed some 20 years ago for a totally different type of Internet, one that was very open and trusting. Today, the Internet is not those two things." -- Paul Judge, director of research, CipherTrust [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73698 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! STUDY: POLITICS IS KEY BARRIER TO GRID COMPUTING SDSC RELEASES NEW VERSION OF DATA-GRID SOFTWARE *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104663 ) Maui Supercomputer Gets $4.3 Million Upgrade.................1.3K [ ] 104664 ) Donation Bolsters Supercomputing Effort......................2.9K [ ] 104665 ) Call For Participation In 21st TOP500 List.....................4K [ ] 104666 ) Researchers Come Closer To Ultra-Thin Fibre Circuits.........3.4K [ ] 104667 ) Toronto Research Developes Lens For Image Enhancement........1.8K [ ] 73699 ) HP Enhances Network-attached Storage Family, Broadens Storage Services SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104668 ) CADKEY, TSA Develop New Free Viewer With HOOPS Technology....4.7K [ ] 104669 ) SPECopc Software Gets Closer To Real-World Behavior............3K [ ] 104670 ) Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite Makes Internet Access Easy.....5.1K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104671 ) Web Meta-Search Engine Organizes Documents From Anywhere.....3.5K [ ] 104672 ) Avanex Showcases Superior OADM Solutions During OFC 2003.......4K [ ] 73700 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104673 ) NCAR's Data Archives Reach The One-Petabyte Stratosphere.....3.8K [ ] 104674 ) Spinnaker Offers Integrated ATA Disk Storage Option..........6.4K [ ] 104675 ) Astute Networks Kit To Help Build Intelligent Storage..........4K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104676 ) Sun Microsystems To Invest In India..........................1.2K [ ] 104677 ) HPC In Science And Engineering '02 Book Announcement.........3.5K [ ] 104678 ) Workshop On Parallel Global File Systems Announcement........1.1K [ ] 104679 ) Cluster Conference For Scientific Applications Announcement..1.9K [ ] 104680 ) Earth System Modeling Community Meeting Announcement...........1K [ ] 73701 ) HPCwire on Tour: Photo Gallery Visit the Photo Gallery To See Images from HPC Tradeshows and Conferences SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104681 ) Product Watch: Omnicore Releases CodeGuide 6.0..............10.2K SPECapc Releases New Software Benchmark. Ixia Enhances Bit Error Rate Capabilities. [ ] 104682 ) Financial Update: HP Says Revenues Up 3 Percent................6K Oracle Reports Q3 Earnings. SAND Secures $6.2M Services Contract. [ ] 104683 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sun To Use Compuware's Java Platform....12.3K MS, Network Associates Form Alliance. [ ] 104684 ) People and Positions: SDSC Member Elected Pres Of ISCB......19.6K ICANN To Get New Leader. SAP Says Founder To Step Down. 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