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 *** August 15, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 32 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 237 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74033 ) 1964- Lockheed Build's the World's Fastest Airplane 1997- The Thrust SSC Team Build's the World's Fastest Car 2002- Linux Networx Builds World's Fastest Linux Supercomputer Celebrate this Landmark Computing Achievement And Receive a Free History of Supercomputing Timeline Poster ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 105727 ) FEATURES: LINUX NETWORX LANL WIN - HPCwire INTERVIEW | | [ ] 105731 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: DATADIRECT SYSTEMS CHOSEN FOR NCSA CLUSTER | | [ ] 105734 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: LANL SELECTS LINUX NETWORX FOR CLUSTER | | [ ] 105745 ) NEWS BRIEFS: GOOGLE ANNOUNCES ENTERPRISE SEARCH CUSTOMERS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74034 ) Intel - Celebrating 35 Years of Innovation FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 105727 ) LINUX NETWORX LANL WIN: HPCwire INTERVIEW....................2.3K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire conducted a Q&A interview with Linux Networx about some of their recent announcements, company wins and future goals. [ ] 105728 ) REPORT: SUPERCOMPUTER RESEARCH NEEDS EQUALITY................2.5K According to a new report, the government should undertake a more stable and balanced path toward supporting research in custom and off- the-shelf technology in the supercomputing world. [ ] 105729 ) GETTING THE TRUTH OUT OF A DATA WAREHOUSE...................13.1K by Gary Mehler, Director of Software Development, SAS This article explores how upgrading a data warehouse is possible through a couple of new metadata services. [ ] 105730 ) "SPINTRONICS" COULD ENABLE FUTURE ELECTRONIC DEVICES.........5.1K Physicists at Stanford and the University of Tokyo think they've found a way to solve the dissipation problem of electronic devices, by manipulating a neglected property of the electron -- its "spin". [ ] 74035 ) SGI To Scale Linux To 128 Processors In A Single-System CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 105731 ) DATADIRECT STORAGE SYSTEMS SELECTED FOR NCSA CLUSTER.........3.7K The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is creating one of the most powerful computer clusters in the world with help of DataDirect Networks. [ ] 105732 ) HP BUILDS ON LINUX MARKET WITH CLUSTER TECHNOLOGIES.........15.4K HP announced new Linux-based management and clustering solutions designed to help enterprise customers realize a better return on information technology (IT) through the use of open systems. [ ] 105733 ) VOLTAIRE GARNERS SUCCESS WITH IBM CLUSTER....................2.5K Voltaire, a leader in intelligent connectivity for high performance InfiniBand solutions, was honored for its key contributions to IBM's DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (ICE) for Linux. [ ] 74036 ) HP Maintains Lead In High-Performance Computing _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74037 ) Linux Networx & Fluent Offer Integrated CFD Cluster System [ ] 74038 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.ADAMS 2003 ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 74039 ) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 105734 ) LANL SELECTS LINUX NETWORX FOR INFINIBAND CLUSTER............3.8K Linux Networx announced Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected Linux Networx to build a 256-node Evolocity cluster system, which will be the largest InfiniBand cluster announced to date. [ ] 105735 ) SGI SUPERCOMPUTER TO STUDY EARTHQUAKE PHENOMENA..............6.9K The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has invested $3.25 million (U.S.) in powerful SGI supercomputing technology as part of an initiative to increase Australia's research abilities in earth sciences and earthquake phenomena. [ ] 105736 ) IBM AND LEGO COMPANY BUILD FOR SUCCESS.......................4.3K IBM announced a major deal with LEGO Company, the Danish-based leading manufacturer of play materials. [ ] 74040 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 105729 ) "Unlike the Ohm's Law for electronics, the new 'Ohm's Law' that we've discovered says that the spin of the electron can be transported without any loss of energy, or dissipation. Furthermore, this effect occurs at room temperature in materials already widely used in the semiconductor industry, such as gallium arsenide. That's important because it could enable a new generation of computing devices." -- Shoucheng Zhang, physics professor at Stanford [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74041 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! OSDL RELEASES POSITION PAPER ON SCO AND LINUX IBM TO CREATE POWERFUL LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105737 ) Tarari Has Racor Sell Reconfigurable HPC Content Processor...3.1K [ ] 105738 ) AMD Opteron Processors Power LinuxWorld Cluster..............1.9K [ ] 105739 ) Fulcrum Founders Bring Advances To Clockless Chip Design.....1.8K [ ] 105740 ) NIST Helps Chip Industry Measure Features By Counting Atoms..1.9K [ ] 74042 ) HP Fuels Industry-Standard Approach to Web Services Management SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105741 ) Oracle: Linux Is Here To Stay................................2.9K [ ] 105742 ) BMC Software Expands Enterprise Support For Linux............6.2K [ ] 105743 ) TGEN, ASU, IGC Selects Altair's Workload Management Software.3.2K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 105744 ) Researchers Create Fastest Computer Simulations Of The Net...3.6K [ ] 105745 ) Google Announces Enterprise Search Customers.................2.5K [ ] 105746 ) New Grid And Tools Deployed Across NPACI Partnership.........6.6K [ ] 105747 ) ONI Selects nCircle For Proactive Network Security Solution..2.9K [ ] 105748 ) Indian Teenage Hacker Spurns Jobs For Studies................2.1K [ ] 74043 ) Myrinet Used In 178 of the June 2003 TOP500 STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 105749 ) IBM Collaboration Eases Data-Sharing Among Scientists..........3K [ ] 105750 ) DataDirect S2A Provides Wide Range Of Storage Needs..........3.7K [ ] 105751 ) VERITAS Delivers First Cluster File System For Oracle9i......2.4K [ ] 105752 ) Electronic Database May Help Predict Crime...................2.9K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 105753 ) PSSC Labs Participates In AMD's Validated Server Program.....2.2K [ ] 105754 ) Interns Super-Compute In The Arctic............................2K [ ] 105755 ) Former IBM Executive Joins Cray..............................2.1K [ ] 105756 ) X3D Technologies Presents Garry Kasparov VS. X3D Fritz.......4.5K [ ] 105757 ) Study Uses Global E-Mail Chains To Test Noted 1967 Theory....1.1K [ ] 105758 ) Single Photon Detector Conquers The Dark Side..................2K [ ] 105759 ) Mellanox Technologies Provide Linux Cluster To LANL............2K [ ] 74044 ) 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 SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 105760 ) Product Watch: Software Tree Announces JDX 4.1 OR-Mapper.....5.2K BMC Software Expands Linux Support. [ ] 105761 ) Financial Update: HP Sees Service Earnings Boost.............5.7K Intel To Make Malaysian R&D Investment. NVIDIA Reports Operating Results For Q2. [ ] 105762 ) Corporate Liaisons: IBM/Sequent's UNIX Contract Ends.........6.4K Australia Joins MS Security Program. IBM Joins HyperTransport Consortium. [ ] 105763 ) People and Positions: BEA Appoints Google CFO To Board.......8.3K Raindrop Geomagic CEO Receives Award. Sun Hill Software Gets New Advisor. [ ] 74045 ) "GRID COMPUTING-A VERTICAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE 2003-2008 a report by Insight Research Corporation This 150+ page report is the most complete and comprehensive Grid market and industry report available. EXCLUSIVE OFFER - BUY NOW AND SAVE $200 JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Full Employment Opportunity Listing From: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), NEC Solutions, Linux Networx, Mississippi State, University National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, California Institute of Technology(Caltech, *Oak Ridge National Lab.(ORNL) * Indicates New Listings [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 08.13.03)..............10K [ ] 74046 ) LCI - Linux Cluster Institute Mark Your Calendars For Our Upcoming Workshops August 18-22, 2003 October 13-18, 2003 December 8-12, 2003 http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/ [ ] 74047 ) The HPC User Forum - HPC@IDC Committed to the Global HPC community September 16-18, 2003 Princeton, New Jersey www.idc.com/hpc [ ] 74048 ) SC2003 IGNITING INNOVATION November 15-21, 2003 Phoenix, Arizona, USA www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/ Registration now open www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/registration.html [ ] 74049 ) SC2003 Education Program November 15-18, 2003 Call for Participation 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 leading HPC solution providers | | 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. | | [ ] 550) @XI Computer Corp. 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