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 18, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 15 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 352 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73749 ) HP Expands Connectivity, Improves Performance Of HP OpenView CASA Replication Software ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104833 ) FEATURES: INTERVIEW - AMD DISCUSSES MOMENTUM IN HPC MARKET | | [ ] 104844 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: QUADRICS HELPS LINUX CLUSTER GET FASTER | | [ ] 104855 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: HP SEEN AS ORGANIC IT DATACENTER LEADER | | [ ] 104872 ) NEWS BRIEFS: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED FOR CLUSTERWORLD | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73750 ) New Intel Software Tool Speeds Development Of Applications For Hyper-Threading Technology FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104833 ) INTERVIEW: AMD DISCUSSES RECENT MOMENTUM IN HPC MARKET......16.2K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief To learn more about AMD's position in the HPC market segment, HPCwire interviewed Marty Seyer, Vice President, Server Business Segment, Computation Products Group, AMD. [ ] 104834 ) IDC FORUM HIGHLIGHTS MAJOR HPC TRENDS........................6.1K A record 96 attendees gathered in Sundance, Utah last week for the HPC User Forum's semi-annual meeting. The main focus of the Sundance meeting was on the future of high-bandwidth, high-end systems. [ ] 104835 ) POINCARE CONJECTURE REPORTEDLY PROVED........................6.3K The Poincare Conjecture, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics, reportedly has been proved by a Russian mathematician. [ ] 104836 ) GOOGLE EMERGING AS POWERFUL MARKETING MEDIUM.................9.2K Google has become a powerful player on the Internet by offering its quality searches as a free public service. Now those who run the company are rewriting the rules of Internet advertising. [ ] 104837 ) AMD PUTS HOPE INTO ITS OPTERON CHIPS.........................6.8K Over the past few years Advanced Micro Devices has tried to gain ground against the power of Intel and its Athlon XP processors but has not had great success. The company will soon release its Opteron server chip, which puts updates on a familiar technology. [ ] 104838 ) MORE TALK, LITTLE ACTION IN WAR ON CYBER TERRORISM...........2.7K At a time when war in Iraq has heightened fears of terrorism, the technology industry is not moving quickly enough to guard against intrusions from hackers, identity thieves and more concerted attacks by rogue governments, computer experts said. [ ] 104839 ) HACKERS RUN INTO A DATA-SPLITTING ROADBLOCK..................1.7K A new data-splitting technology has been released by RSA Security. This new technology called Nightingale is designed to stop hackers from breaking into company secrets contained in sensitive files. [ ] 104840 ) SECURITY LEADERS COLLABORATE FOR INDUSTRY-WIDE MANAGEMENT....4.5K Four leading security solutions providers announced the formation of the Open Security Exchange, a collaborative group that is defining best practices and promoting vendor-neutral specifications for integrating the management of security devices across the enterprise. [ ] 104841 ) BUBBLES ARE KEY TO LIQUID-COOLED COMPUTATION.................4.6K Purdue University researchers have made a discovery that may lead to the development of an innovative liquid-cooling system for future computer chips, which are expected to generate four times more heat than today's chips. [ ] 73751 ) 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!! CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 104842 ) INTEL AND HP PROVIDE KTH WITH ITANIUM 2-BASED CLUSTER........4.9K Intel and HP announced that Sweden's largest engineering school, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), is increasing its high performance computing capability through the deployment of a 180-processor cluster. [ ] 104843 ) LINUX NETWORX SUPERCOMPUTER POWERS ANTITERRORISM RESEARCH......3K Linux Networx announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using a Linux Networx Evolocity cluster supercomputer to study smallpox genomics in light of the threat of possible bioterror attacks. [ ] 104844 ) QUADRICS HELPS LINUX CLUSTER GET FASTER......................5.6K Supercomputing systems are seeing dramatic increase in the number of large linux-based clusters. Most notably is the MCR system at LLNL. Quadrics and others have worked together to optimize the performance of MCR, which has now reached a figure of 7.63 Tflops. [ ] 104845 ) SGI ALTIX 3000 SUPERCLUSTER POWERS COSMOS PROJECT............6.9K SGI has announced a contract to provide an SGI Altix 3000 supercluster to the U.K. COSMOS consortium led by Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge as part of a long-term agreement between the two organizations. [ ] 104846 ) RACKSAVER EXPANDS ENTERPRISE MARKET WITH HIVE CLUSTER........3.5K RackSaver announced a new product to fill out its "blade" server offerings. The HIVE (High-density, Interconnected, Vertically cooled, Enterprise) cluster is a twist on RackSaver's extremely popular BladeRack design. [ ] 104847 ) ORACLE DATABASE CLUSTERS SET PERFORMANCE RECORD..............4.5K Oracle Corporation, one of the largest enterprise software companies, announced a new world record APB-1 OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) benchmark for Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. [ ] 104848 ) XIOtech DEMOS GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED CLUSTER.............4.3K XIOtech Corporation, a networked storage pioneer, announced it is featuring its MAGNITUDE storage platform at the 2003 Spring Storage Networking World's Interoperability and Solutions Demo (SNW ISD). [ ] 73752 ) New E2 from Linux Networx A Powerful Cluster Solution with a sub U density _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73753 ) Linux Networx Cluster Used to Investigate Iceland's Weather And Geothermal Energy Sources [ ] 73754 ) MSC.Software Achieves LSB Certification For MSC.Linux Distribution ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 73755 ) HP Wins $100 Million Contract to Help Deliver World's Biggest e-Learning Project VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 104849 ) CRAY REPORTS CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE OF CRAY X1 SYSTEM...........4.1K Cray Inc. reported the first customer acceptance of a full-production version of the new Cray X1 supercomputer system. [ ] 104850 ) INTEL RELEASES 800 MHZ FSB, I875P CHIPSET....................1.3K Intel has released its 875P chipset, featuring support for an 800 MHz Front Side Bus; it implements Intel Performance Acceleration Technology with dual-channel DDR400 memory configurations to get high performance from the memory interface. [ ] 104851 ) SGI CHIEF ENGINEERS DRIVE FUTURE HPC INNOVATION..............6.2K SGI announced that Rocky Rhodes and Kenneth Yeager have joined the ranks of the most prestigious employees within SGI: chief engineers. [ ] 104852 ) MSC.SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTS MSC.LINUX AND VPD CAMPUS SYSTEM......5.2K MSC.Software announced that Eurocopter Germany has invested euro 148.000 ($159,000 USD) in two MSC.Linux Clusters from MSC.Software and is planning to introduce MSC.Linux as their standard CAE platform in Germany. [ ] 104853 ) MICROSOFT OUTLINES PLANS TO SIMPLIFY SECURE COMPUTING........8.1K In his keynote address at RSA Conference 2003, Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Security Business Unit at Microsoft, outlined the next steps in an initiative to better enable secure computing environments for computer users everywhere. [ ] 104854 ) SUN, SYMANTEC INTRODUCE INTRUSION DETECTION APPLIANCE........5.4K Sun Microsystems and Symantec Corp. announced the planned release of iForce Intrusion Detection Appliance, which addresses enterprise and service providers' increasing security needs. [ ] 104855 ) HP SEEN AS ORGANIC IT DATACENTER LEADER......................3.1K HP announced that it was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its Forrester Wave Brief titled, "HP and IBM Lead As Organic IT Contractors." In this evaluation, HP was cited as a leader in overall Organic IT datacenter development. [ ] 104856 ) SGI ANNOUNCES ORIGIN 350 MIDRANGE TECHNICAL SERVER...........6.6K SGI announced the release of the SGI Origin 350 midrange technical server, which caps the company's recent series of high-productivity servers and supercomputers that are addressing the most complex computing challenges. [ ] 104857 ) I-SPATIAL SELECTS SGI TO DELIVER BROADBAND MEDIA SERVICES....4.4K I-Spatial Communications Pvt. Ltd. has selected SGI as the prime contractor to set up the television head-end infrastructure for a CDN for about 50,000 subscribers in the first year. [ ] 104858 ) SCO SHIPS SCO LINUX SERVER 4.0 FOR THE ITANIUM FAMILY........3.3K The SCO Group (SCO), a leading provider of Linux and UNIX business software solutions, announced the release of SCO Linux Server 4.0 for the Itanium Processor Family. [ ] 104859 ) SGI IRIX RECEIVES CERTIFICATION FROM DEFENSE DEPARTMENT......2.3K SGI and the Defense Information Systems Agency announced that the SGI IRIX 6.5.17 operating system joins the list of Common Operating Environment (COE)- compliant operating systems to successfully complete the COE Kernel Platform Compliance Program. [ ] 104860 ) OTTO SELECTS BEA WEBLOGIC AND HP SERVERS.....................2.3K BEA Systems, a leading application infrastructure software company, announced that the Otto Group, a leading mail-order company, has selected BEA WebLogic Server running on HP Superdome servers for its mission-critical core business applications. [ ] 73756 ) 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 ============================================================ [ ] 104834 ) "Anyone who says Linux clusters are toys is wrong." -- Mark Seager, manager, Platforms Program for the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASCI) Program, LLNL [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73757 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! TeraGrid DOMINATES NPACI MEETING MOVING TOWARDS THE WORLD WIDE GRID *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104861 ) Actuate, Sun System Raise The Bar In Business Intelligence...1.7K [ ] 104862 ) New 90nm Xilinx FPGA Reshapes Semiconductor Landscape........6.2K [ ] 104863 ) TimeLogic Gets Bioinformatics System Patent Approval.........1.9K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104864 ) ITI TranscenData Licenses HOOPS Technology From Tech Soft....1.9K [ ] 104865 ) Haestad Methods Delivers Solution For AutoCAD 2004...........2.5K [ ] 104866 ) Rudolph Technologies Deploys New EASy Expert System Software...3K [ ] 104867 ) University Of Toronto Team Designs Twist On Software.........1.5K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104868 ) Software To Detect Cyber Attacks Available For Download......1.5K [ ] 104869 ) PostX Implements Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Specifications.......3K [ ] 73758 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104870 ) StoneFly Networks Announces Storage Concentrator i2000.......3.4K [ ] 104871 ) StorageTek Drives High-End Success With T9940B Tape Drive....3.1K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104872 ) Keynote Speakers Announced For ClusterWorld Conference.......3.5K [ ] 104873 ) OMG Presents "Middleware That Works" Seminar Series............2K [ ] 104874 ) Call For Papers: AMOS Technical Conference.....................3K [ ] 104875 ) SIGKDD Data Mining Innovation Awards: Nominations Sought.....2.2K [ ] 104876 ) Semico's Impact Conference Announcement........................3K [ ] 104877 ) World Computer, Internet Law Congress Program Announcement...3.2K [ ] 104878 ) OMG Hosts Workshop On Distributed Object Computing.............2K [ ] 73759 ) HPCwire on Tour: Photo Gallery Visit the Photo Gallery To See Images from HPC Tradeshows and Conferences SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104879 ) Product Watch: Stratus' ftServer 3300 Shows Traction........10.5K CBT Nuggets Deploys Computer Training Server. Broadcom Introduces Security Cards. [ ] 104880 ) Financial Update: IBM Reports 2003 First Quarter Results....27.7K Microsoft Reports Third Quarter Results. Intel Reports Positive Financial Results. [ ] 104881 ) Corporate Liaisons: TeraChip And EZchip Team Up..............9.4K Xilinx Supports Spartan-3 Platform. MediaCrypt, Cryptomathic Team Up. [ ] 104882 ) People and Positions: Fujitsu Appoints New VP Of Sales......12.1K Level 3 Gets New Board Member. DENSO To Get New CEO In June. 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