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 *** May 16, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 19 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 322 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73805 ) California Institute of Technology Selects HP Itanium 2 Systems for Scientific Research on TeraGrid Project ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 105031 ) FEATURES: HPCwire INTERVIEWS SHAHIN KHAN & CLARK MASTERS | | [ ] 105051 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: NPACI ROCKS MARKS MILESTONES | | [ ] 105055 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: NEC INAUGURATES NEW HPCE COMPANY | | [ ] 105078 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CLUSTERWORLD REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73806 ) BP Deploys HP Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems For Seismic Imaging Research FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 105031 ) HPCwire INTERVIEWS SHAHIN KHAN & CLARK MASTERS..............12.6K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire recently sat down with Sun Executive Vice Presidents Clark Masters and Shahin Khan to discuss Sun's expanded HPTC business unit. [ ] 105032 ) GOOGLE-STYLE WEB RANKINGS NOW FIVE TIMES FASTER..............5.7K Computer science researchers at Stanford University have developed several new techniques that together may make it possible to calculate Web page rankings as used in the Google search engine up to five times faster. [ ] 105033 ) ARCHIVING THE UNIVERSE.......................................9.3K by Kathleen Ricker, NCSA Science Writer Using NCSA computing resources, scientists help construct the National Virtual Observatory, a digital framework that will make astronomical data accessible for research on a scale never before achieved. [ ] 105034 ) SENSOR BARES FAULTS IN ADVANCED CIRCUITS.....................4.2K A new scanning microscope developed at Brown University can uncover defects in the smallest and most complex integrated circuits at a resolution 1,000 times greater than current technology. [ ] 105035 ) SURFnet SELECTS GLOBAL CROSSING FOR NEW HPC LINK.............5.7K Global Crossing has been awarded a contract by the Netherlands national research network, SURFnet, to provision a 10 Gbit/s lambda link between the Dutch advanced optical infrastructure NetherLight in Amsterdam and the StarLight research facility in Chicago. [ ] 105036 ) NEW METHOD ZEROES IN ON GENETIC MACHINERY....................4.9K Using a new technique for recognizing patterns in biological databases, a team of U.S. and Israeli computer scientists and geneticists have developed a practical computational method that zeroes in on the genes responsible for controlling the genetic machinery of a cell. [ ] 105037 ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR.........................................2.9K In the following letter a reader responds to an article in the February 21st issue of HPCwire, involving PSC receiving $1.3M from NIH. [ ] 105038 ) GELATO MARKS FIRST YEAR BY DOUBLING MEMBERSHIP...............4.9K Overwhelming interest in running Linux on Itanium processors has helped to double membership in the Gelato Federation to 20 institutions. [ ] 105039 ) NCSA CHOOSES EIGHT AS FACULTY FELLOWS........................2.8K The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen eight faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in the 2003-2004 NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows program. [ ] 105040 ) VIRTUAL REALITY WITHOUT THOSE 3-D GOGGLES....................3.2K The University of Pennsylvania has installed a virtual reality system that allows a participant full-body interaction with a virtual environment without the hassle of bulky, dizzying 3-D glasses. [ ] 105041 ) OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS GET A BOOST............................4.9K The development of optical interconnects which can achieve 1,000 times the speed per power and volume of electronic interconnects will be overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [ ] 105042 ) DOE HOSTS COMPUTATIONAL SOFTWARE WORKSHOP....................4.5K The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hosting a workshop on the DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection, a set of software tools aimed at simplifying the solution of common and important computational problems. [ ] 105043 ) PROBLEMS IN DETECTION OF GLOBAL WARMING DISCOVERED...........5.2K Using a new analysis of satellite temperature measurements, scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have determined that uncertainties in satellite data are a significant factor in studies attempting to detect human effects on climate. [ ] 105044 ) PROBLEM-SOLVING COULD STOP COMPUTER ATTACKS....................2K Forcing computers to solve a puzzle could hamper a type of mass computer attack increasingly being used to target Websites, say US computer researchers. [ ] 105045 ) SCO ATTACKED BY ANALYSTS.......................................3K Analysts, resellers, rival vendors and users have attacked SCO after the vendor suspended its Linux distribution pending the resolution of the intellectual property issues surrounding the operating system. [ ] 73807 ) Linux Networx Case Study Cluster Delivers Fast, Accurate Simulations; One Week ROI CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 105046 ) SCI TO UNVEIL AMD OPTERON PROCESSOR-BASED CLUSTER............7.1K At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) Super Computer, Inc. (SCI), a leading game hosting and middleware solution provider, announced it is working with AMD and RackSaver to unleash the world's first AMD Opteron processor-based cluster. [ ] 105047 ) INFINICON ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR ITS CLUSTERS......5K InfiniCon Systems, a provider of shared I/O and switching solutions for next-generation server networks, announced strategic management and networking additions to its InfinIO product family. [ ] 105048 ) NEWISYS INKS RESELLER AGREEMENT WITH RACKSAVER...............2.6K Newisys Inc. announced a reseller agreement with RackSaver, a leading provider of high-density individual rack-optimized servers and supercomputing clusters. [ ] 105049 ) U.S. ARMY TO USE SCI'S GAMING MIDDLEWARE PLATFORM............4.2K Super Computer, Inc. (SCI), a leading game hosting and middleware solution provider, running one of the world's fastest gaming cluster environments, announced that the U.S Army will utilize SCI's Andromeda gaming middleware platform. [ ] 105050 ) ALTAIR AND SGI ANNOUNCE GLOBAL RELATIONSHIP..................2.3K Altair Engineering announced a global relationship with SGI. The agreement allows SGI to market and sell Altair's PBS Pro distributed computing technology with its SGI Origin 3000 systems and SGI Altix 3000 superclusters. [ ] 105051 ) NPACI ROCKS MARKS MILESTONES...................................7K Researchers with the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) at SDSC marked significant milestones for the NPACI Rocks toolkit, which enables users to more easily set up and manage powerful yet inexpensive cluster computers. [ ] 73808 ) Intel and HP Provide KTH with Itanium 2-based Systems to Analyse Complex Life Science Issues _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73809 ) Linux Networx Supercomputer Powers U.S. Government Antiterrorism Smallpox Research [ ] 73810 ) MSC.Software Strengthens Strategic Agreement with nCode To Provide Durability Solutions ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 105052 ) IBM DELIVERS WORLD'S TOP PERFORMING TRANSACTION SERVER.........2K IBM announced a new record for transaction processing. A new eServer pSeries system and DB2 Universal Database used half the number of processors to beat HP's Itanium 2-based Superdome running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. [ ] 105053 ) SUN TO PROVIDE SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT FOR CALTECH...........3.1K Sun announced that it has teamed with Sun iForce partner Perfigo Inc. to secure and manage the campus-wide WLAN deployment at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. [ ] 105054 ) ETNUS ANNOUNCES TOTALVIEW 6.2................................3.8K Etnus, a leading provider of debugging solutions for complex code, announced the availability of TotalView 6.2, for Intel Itanium 2-based HP servers and workstations. [ ] 105055 ) NEC INAUGURATES NEW HPCE COMPANY.............................6.5K by Chris Lazou NEC inaugurated a new HPC Europe GmbH company in Duesseldorf. This company is targeting the science and technology market in Europe as a high quality HPC solutions provider. [ ] 105056 ) IBM DEBUTS WORLD'S MOST SOPHISTICATED SERVER................11.6K IBM introduced a new sophisticated server and announced that customers of all sizes will now be able to access the unprecedented capabilities of the IBM mainframe through new on demand services from IBM Global Services. [ ] 105057 ) LINUX NETWORX EXPANDS MANAGEMENT TEAM..........................3K Cluster supercomputing vendor Linux Networx announced the addition of six new executives as part of a long-term growth strategy. [ ] 105058 ) INTEL TO SET UP $41M FACILITY IN BANGALORE...................2.5K Intel Corporation announced that it would invest $41 million in building a new campus in Bangalore. It is also developing the new Intel Xeon processor in its Bangalore laboratory. [ ] 105059 ) SUN DRIVES COMPUTING DINOSAURS TOWARD EXTINCTION.............4.4K Underscoring the success of its robust alternative to the costly, complex, closed mainframe environment, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has hit a major milestone with the 1000th mainframe rehosting customer installation at Europ Assistance Group. [ ] 105060 ) FUJITSU HIGH-END SERVERS ACHIEVE UNPRECEDENTED RESULTS.......4.5K Fujitsu Technology Solutions announced that they had achieved a score of 13,000 SAP SD Benchmark users in the two-tier SAP Standard Application Sales & Distribution (SD) Benchmark with a 128-processor Solaris. [ ] 105061 ) BIO-KEY HIGHLIGHTS PUBLIC SECTOR SECURITY SOLUTIONS..........2.7K BIO-key International will present their identification and security solutions at the e-Gov 2003 exhibit in Washington, DC. Hewlett-Packard invited BIO-key to conduct their presentations in the HP pavilion at the Washington Convention Center during the show. [ ] 105062 ) NAG DEPLOYS F95 COMPILER FOR AMD64 AND LINUX.................3.7K At the AMD Opteron processor launch, a leading provider of mathematical and statistical algorithms, the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), announced the availability of the NAG f95 Compiler for AMD64 and Linux. [ ] 73811 ) 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 ============================================================ [ ] 105031 ) "I think the HPTC area, as I like to say, is an area that if you've ever worked in it, you get permanently inspired by it, shall we say; it is something that gets in your blood. That's sort of what I see in everybody across the company and, in fact, across the industry, who have, in fact, worked in HPTC." -- Shahin Khan, Executive Vice President, Sun Microsystems [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73812 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! SHAKING THINGS UP WITH NEESgrid By Tom Garritano GRID MAY FUEL NEXT IT BOOM *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105063 ) Intel's Ottelini Sees Strong Chip Demand In China............1.3K [ ] 105064 ) NVIDIA Unveils New GeForce FX 5900 GPU.......................3.7K [ ] 105065 ) Cray Announces $16M In Orders For X1 Systems.................0.7K [ ] 105066 ) Aeroflex Solutions Adopts HSIM For Full-Chip Verification....2.9K [ ] 105067 ) Cray X1 Supercomputer Demonstrates Processor Speed...........2.4K [ ] 73813 ) 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!! SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105068 ) Fujitsu Siemens To Sell Servers With SuSE Linux................1K [ ] 105069 ) SAIC Software Program Named As U.S. Govt's Top 5.............2.6K [ ] 105070 ) The MathWorks Announces New Image Acquisition Toolbox........4.9K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 105071 ) IBM, Marist College Team For Digital Media Infrastructure....2.4K [ ] 105072 ) Level 3 To Provide Dark Fiber Services To Internet2..........2.6K [ ] 105073 ) Altera Enables Network Traffic Over SONET/SDH IP Cores.......3.6K [ ] 73814 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 105074 ) StorageTek Advances Leadership In High-End Tape Drives.......2.5K [ ] 105075 ) Databeacon Makes Web Reporting/Data Analysis A Team Sport....4.7K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 105076 ) IEEE To Host EIT 2003........................................2.9K [ ] 105077 ) OMG's Workshop On UML For Applications Announcement..........2.9K [ ] 105078 ) ClusterWorld Registration Announcement.......................0.8K [ ] 73815 ) HPCwire on Tour: Photo Gallery Visit the Photo Gallery To See Images from HPC Tradeshows and Conferences SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 105079 ) Product Watch: Paradigm Demos Advanced Workflows............11.2K Sony Unveils New Solid Creation Systems. Pharmaprojects Launches Searchable PK Fields. [ ] 105080 ) Financial Update: Tellabs Gets Vivace Networks For $135M.....7.8K Interwoven Dramatically Cuts IT Costs. CA Declares Semi-Annual Dividend. [ ] 105081 ) Corporate Liaisons: IBM Buys Think Dynamics.................11.9K CDG Becomes Geomagic Reseller In U.K. Avanex, Alcatel, Corning Sign Agreement. [ ] 105082 ) People and Positions: NCSA's Dan Reed Named To IT Committee.18.9K Personal Computer Visionary Dies. Former Sun VP To Head Up InSilica. JOB BANK ============================================================================== * Indicates New Listings [ ] 667 ) Full Employment Opportunity Listing From: The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN), Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), * Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), * NEC Solutions, * Linux Networx [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 05.14.03)..............10K [ ] 73819 ) HPC User Forum Meetings May 20, 22, 2003 Bristol, UK and Annecy, France http://www.idc.com/hpc [ ] 73816 ) ClusterWorld Conference & Expo June 23 - 26, 2003 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA www.clusterworldexpo.com [ ] 73817 ) SC2003 IGNITING INNOVATION November 15-21, 2003 Phoenix, Arizona, USA www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/ [ ] 73818 ) SC2003 Education Program November 15-18, 2003 Call for Participation Applications due May 30, 2003 www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/edu_general.html HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== [ ] 670 ) Masthead........................................................2.2K [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals........................................2.6K [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles...................................1.6K [ ] 950 ) Index of Back Issues.............................................28K Comments regarding editorial content may be sent to: editor@hpcwire.tgc.com ______________________________________________________________________ | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 533) SRC Computers [ ] 946) Quadrics | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView | | [ ] 529) Linux Networx [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 541) MSC Software [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 539) Microsoft [ ] 902) IBM Corp. | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 932) Portland Group | | [ ] 536) Myricom [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 543) Western Scientific [ ] 537) PLATFORM | | [ ] 527) Intel | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: advertise@hpcwire.com | |______________________________________________________________________| -------------------- * -------------------- This year, HPCwire proudly celebrates its eleventh consecutive year of service to the scientific, industrial and commercial HPC communities: 1992-2003. *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] 104991 ) IBM PROJECT TO EXPAND SUPERCOMPUTING GOALS...................5.3K [ ] 104997 ) SUN INTRODUCES NEW SUN FIRE SUPERCLUSTERS....................2.9K [ ] 104999 ) IBM INTRODUCES NEW HIGH-END ESERVER SYSTEMS....................5K [ ] 104984 ) CREATION OF SINGLE-MOLECULE OPTICAL EMITTER....................5K [ ] 105083 ) TOP 20 REQUESTED ARTICLES FROM LAST WEEK'S HPCwire...........1.5K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you for your continued support of HPCwire. 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