HPCwire's "Breaking News" 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. www.hpcwire.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** April 4, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 13 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 371 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73720 ) Intel Launches Open Collaborative Research Lab At The University of Cambridge ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104734 ) FEATURES: U.S. GOV'T WILL REVITALIZE HPC | | [ ] 104746 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: IBM AUSTRALIA WINS $1M LINUX CLUSTER DEAL | | [ ] 104754 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: NCAR USES SGI NETWORK FOR SCIENCE | | [ ] 104766 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SUN LEAVES ITS OWN LINUX, SUPPORTS OTHER VENDORS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73721 ) HP and Red Hat Expand Relationship To Offer Customers New Linux Options FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104734 ) U.S. GOV'T WILL REVITALIZE HPC...............................1.9K The U.S. government has decided to create a high-end computing revitalization task force aimed at improving research and development, accessibility and procurement of high-end systems. [ ] 104735 ) NCSA'S IBM POWER4 AVAILABLE TO RESEARCH COMMUNITY............3.9K NCSA's new IBM POWER4 p690 supercomputer, capable of performing two trillion operations per second, became available to the general scientific research community. [ ] 104736 ) OCEANIC MODEL HELPS SCIENTISTS STUDY COASTAL SYSTEMS.........8.8K by Karen Green, NCSA Assistant Director, Public Affairs A Regional Oceanic Modeling System is helping scientists at UCLA study coastal systems in all their complexity. [ ] 104737 ) IBM - U.S. GOV'T TO ENHANCE SUPERCOMPUTING FUTURE............3.7K IBM and high-level government agencies are teaming up with an agenda for the future of U.S. supercomputers and to resolve their differences on the subject. [ ] 104738 ) AMERICA UNDER A HACKER ATTACK................................5.7K Record numbers of war protesters and computer hackers are assaulting United States government (.gov) and military (.mil) Websites "in digital retaliation" for the war in Iraq. [ ] 104739 ) QUEEN'S RESEARCHERS INVENT "PAY ATTENTION" COMPUTERS.........5.5K Researchers from the Human Media Lab (HML) at Queen's University have developed a new concept that allows computers to pay attention to their users' needs. [ ] 104740 ) INDIA REVEALS "PARAM PADMA" SUPERCOMPUTER....................2.7K India has launched an advanced supercomputer known as Param Padma. The advanced supercomputer was launched in the southern city of Bangalore. The Param Padma has 1 teraflop of power, which means it can make 1 trillion processes per second. [ ] 104741 ) PRIONS OFFER NANOTECH CIRCUIT BUILDING TOOL..................4.2K The same characteristics that make misfolded proteins known as prions such a pernicious medical threat in neurodegenerative diseases may offer a construction toolkit for manufacturing nanoscale electrical circuits. [ ] 104742 ) BIO-ITWORLD UPBEAT ABOUT LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY............9.9K Bio-ITWorld attracted 4,292 life sciences and IT professionals last week. Exhibiting companies showcased the newest technology products for the life sciences, disseminated information about customer success stories and sought out new business partnerships. [ ] 104743 ) FUTURE OPTICAL NETWORKS SEE LIGHT SLOWED DOWN................4.9K A small, simple new device developed at the University of Rochester may let you outpace a beam of light. At 127 miles per hour, the light travels more than 5 million times slower than normal as it passes through a ruby just a few centimeters long. [ ] 104744 ) FROM BIOLOGY TO COMPUTING AND BACK AGAIN.....................5.4K Researchers are exploring how computational innovations can lead to a greater understanding of how the components of life interact at levels larger than chromosomes and smaller than populations -- or generally in the context of cells, organs and organisms. [ ] 104745 ) OREGON 3D INTRODUCES THE FUTURE OF 3D ANIMATION..............2.9K Animation featured in Hollywood's blockbusters of the future, the next generation of video games, or computerized renderings of new city skylines, may well have their roots in the new Oregon3D, The Center for Visualization Technologies. [ ] 73722 ) ClusterWorld Conference & Expo June 23 - 26, 2003 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA www.clusterworldexpo.com CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 104746 ) IBM AUSTRALIA WINS $1M LINUX CLUSTER DEAL....................1.6K IBM Australia has won a $1 million deal to supply a Linux supercomputer cluster platform and bioinformatics tools for biotechnology research in Victoria. [ ] 104747 ) SPINNAKER NETWORKS TO SHOWCASE CLUSTER SOLUTIONS.............4.2K Spinnaker Networks will be showing its SpinServer line of enterprise storage solutions as part of SNIA's SAN Pavilion featuring Network Storage and Security at FOSE 2003 in Washington, D.C. [ ] 104748 ) DELL, ORACLE EXPAND PARTNERSHIP FOR CLUSTER SOLUTIONS........6.3K Dell and Oracle announced an expansion of the companies' strategic alliance, including a global sales agreement, new low-cost configurations of Dell PowerEdge servers with Oracle9i Database and jointly delivered services. [ ] 104749 ) SISTINA GFS SOFTWARE ACHIEVES RED HAT READY STATUS...........4.1K Sistina Software, announced that the Sistina Global File System (GFS) has achieved Red Hat Ready status for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v2.1) platform from Red Hat, Inc., a premier open source and Linux provider. [ ] 104750 ) APPLE SHOWCASES CLUSTER CONFIGURATIONS.......................4.5K Apple Computer recently showcased its Xserve cluster configuration at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. [ ] 104751 ) TOPSPIN INTRODUCES WORLDWIDE CHANNEL PARTNERSHIPS............3.1K Topspin Communications announced global channel partners that will resell its InfiniBand-based switched computing solution for applications such as high-performance computing clustering. [ ] 104752 ) CLUSTERWORLD CONFERENCE TO SERVE CLUSTERING MARKETS..........5.7K ClusterWorld Conference & Expo, one of the world's premier event on clustered solutions for customers in commercial, research and academic computing, will launch June 23 through 26 at the San Jose Convention Center in California. [ ] 73723 ) 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!! _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73724 ) Linux Networx Cluster Used to Investigate Iceland's Weather And Geothermal Energy Sources [ ] 73725 ) MSC.Software Achieves LSB Certification For MSC.Linux Distribution ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 73726 ) HP Beats IBM and CA as Management Software Champion VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 104753 ) MICROSOFT RELEASES WINDOWS XP 64-BIT EDITION VERSION 2003....3.2K Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003 is optimized for customers to take advantage of the performance enhancements in the Intel Itanium 2 processor. [ ] 104754 ) NCAR USES SGI NETWORK FOR SCIENCE............................7.9K SGI announced that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., has installed SGI Visual Area Networking (VAN) technology aimed at ushering in the next generation of very-large-data exploration and collaborative computing. [ ] 104755 ) LINUX NETWORX POWERS SPECIAL EFFECTS IN "THE CORE"...........3.6K Linux Networx announced its collaboration with CIS Hollywood in the production of the Paramount Pictures film, "The Core." CIS Hollywood used a Linux Networx Evolocity render farm with 50 AMD Athlon MP processors to create visual effects in the science fiction movie. [ ] 104756 ) MSC.SOFTWARE RELEASES SIMULATION DATA MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK.....5K MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of virtual product development tools including simulation software, services and systems, announced the availability of MSC.SDM (Simulation Data Management) Framework 2003. [ ] 104757 ) MICROSOFT SET TO LAUNCH FLAGSHIP SERVER SOFTWARE.............2.3K Microsoft Corp., said it completed work on its flagship server software for managing computer networks, which will ship as scheduled on April 24. [ ] 104758 ) PORTLAND GROUP ANNOUNCES NEW COMPILERS FOR AMD OPTERON.........5K The Portland Group Compiler Technology team of STMicroelectronics announced the availability of a Beta Release of the PGI Workstation 5.0 Fortran and C compilers for AMD Opteron processors. [ ] 104759 ) NETWORK PHYSICS PICKS UP NEW FUNDING, CEO, MARKETING MESSAGE.8.2K by Christopher Rose for the451.com Network Physics has picked up an additional $6m in funding from existing investors, while at the same time it has begun to give its marketing a makeover and has installed a new CEO and VP of sales. [ ] 104760 ) SGI TARGETS MIDDLE EAST FOR NEW HPC TECHNOLOGY.................6K Silicon Graphics announced new corporate strategies for delivering its breakthrough technology in emerging sectors to high-end clients in the Middle East. [ ] 104761 ) JNI CARD CERTIFIED FOR HP SERVERS............................4.3K JNI Corporation announced that its FibreStar FCE2-6412 dual-port PCI- to-Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) has been certified for the HP- UX operating system for HP Server rp7400, rp5400 and rp2400 series. [ ] 73727 ) New E2 from Linux Networx A Powerful Cluster Solution with a sub U density QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 104739 ) "We now need computers that sense when we are busy, when we are available for interruption, and know when to wait their turn v just as we do in human-to-human interactions." -- Dr. Roel Vertegaal, Human Media Lab director, Queen's University [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73728 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! WILL SERVICE-CENTRIC COMPUTING CREATE GRID OPPORTUNITIES? FSC SEES NO COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR GRID COMPUTING by William Fellows for the451.com *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104762 ) IBM Adds HPC configuration To Entry-Level UNIX System........1.1K [ ] 104763 ) Maxwell Introduces Grade Boards For Its SCS750.................4K [ ] 104764 ) U.S. Says Korea Unfairly Subsidized Chips....................1.2K [ ] 104765 ) UMC Delivering Customer IC's Built On 90nm Technology........2.8K [ ] 73729 ) 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 SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104766 ) Sun Leaves Its Own Linux, Supports Other Vendors.............0.9K [ ] 104767 ) Powerllel Software Boosts Performance Of Gerber Capital......2.2K [ ] 104768 ) UML 2.0 Infrastructure Adoption Highlights OMG Meeting.......3.2K [ ] 104769 ) PWI Announces Threat Prevention Software Plans...............2.8K [ ] 104770 ) IronGrid Unveils Essential Java Performance Tool.............6.8K [ ] 104771 ) Stream Theory Granted Patent For Software Technology.........5.1K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104772 ) Network Associates Gains Distributed Internet Search Patent..3.4K [ ] 104773 ) Cisco Launches New High-End Switch Parts.....................2.5K [ ] 104774 ) University Does More With Less Using AppareNet Network.......5.3K [ ] 104775 ) NeoMedia Patent Has Homeland Security Importance.............4.3K [ ] 104776 ) Reactive Network Solutions Offers Free Security Software.....3.7K [ ] 73730 ) Interoperability without services! AutoParalellization Turboworx.com STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104777 ) Xiran's DirectPath Bridges Storage And Networks..............3.6K [ ] 104778 ) LEGATO Qualifies DinoStor TapeServers For Use With NetWorker.2.5K [ ] 104779 ) AnVil Wins Bio-ITWorld Award For Data Analysis Software......4.4K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104780 ) NSF Workshop Links Modern Mathematics To Studies Of Cells....1.6K [ ] 104781 ) USENIX Technical Conference Announcement.....................2.9K [ ] 104782 ) Altera Announces 'Code:DSP' System Architecture Seminars.....3.6K [ ] 73731 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104783 ) Product Watch: Oracle Expands Application Server Offerings....26K CEI's Harpoon Mesher Sets New Standards. MandrakeSoft Releases Linux 9.1. [ ] 104784 ) Financial Update: Microsoft Says To Take Aim At Google.........5K Hitachi Invests In Mountain View Data. Dell Sees Revenue Rise Of 18 Percent. [ ] 104785 ) Corporate Liaisons: Hyperion To Acquire Alcar Assets.........6.8K Leitch To OEM ASACA FireFly. [ ] 104786 ) People and Positions: IEEE Honors Net Technology Leader.....12.6K PACCAR Member Wins DataFlux Award. Unisys Appoints New Communications VP. 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