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 29, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 34 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 224 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74066 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 105799 ) FEATURES: PNNL SUPERCOMPUTER FASTEST OPEN SYSTEM IN U.S | | [ ] 105804 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: SGI ALTIX 3000 PERFORMANCE LEAD ROLLS ON | | [ ] 105807 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: MSC.SOFTWARE DESIGNS AN INFLATABLE DAM | | [ ] 105825 ) NEWS BRIEFS: IBM TURBO-CHARGES STORAGE NETWORKS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74067 ) Register for Technical Linux Cluster Training with Linux Networx FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 105799 ) PNNL SUPERCOMPUTER FASTEST OPEN SYSTEM IN U.S..................5K The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is now home to the United States' fastest operational unclassified supercomputer. [ ] 105800 ) EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SGI'S MARKETING VP GREG ESTES.......9.1K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire interviewed SGI's Vice President of Marketing Greg Estes concerning its recent restructuring plans. [ ] 105801 ) DNA BASIS FOR NEW GENERATION OF COMPUTERS....................6.4K It almost sounds too fantastic to be true, but a growing amount of research supports the idea that DNA, the basic building block of life, could also be the basis of a staggeringly powerful new generation of computers. [ ] 105802 ) COMPUTER DESIGN YIELDS METHOD FOR PREVENTING TISSUE DAMAGE...5.3K The tedious laboratory trial-and-error method for refining protein/peptide-based medicines could be accelerated and complemented by an innovative in-silico (on-computer) protein design method. [ ] 105803 ) BUILDING NANOCRYSTALS........................................9.4K By Katherine A. Caponi, NCSA Science Writer Using NCSA supercomputers, scientists calculate the electronic structures of molecules to predict how they will behave under a variety of different conditions. [ ] 74068 ) HP Builds on Linux Market Leadership With New Enterprise Management, Clustering Technologies CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 105804 ) SGI ALTIX 3000 PERFORMANCE LEAD ROLLS ON.....................5.9K Fortifying its unchallenged performance lead among all competing systems, SGI announced that its SGI Altix 3000 servers and superclusters continue to rule industry standard benchmarks. [ ] 105805 ) VERITAS DELIVERS NEW CLUSTERING CAPABILITY...................3.5K VERITAS Software Corporation, a leading storage software provider, announced the availability of a series of new application agents for VERITAS Cluster Server. [ ] 105806 ) INFINICON ANNOUNCES NEW LEVELS FROM INFINIBAND-BASED SYSTEM..5.4K InfiniCon Systems announced that its InfinIO family of products has attained unprecedented performance results in a series of key tests measuring application latency, bandwidth throughput, scalability, and I/O throughput. [ ] 74069 ) Intel - Celebrating 35 Years of Innovation _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74070 ) Linux Networx Opens State-of-the-art Solutions Center [ ] 74071 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.ADAMS 2003 ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 74072 ) 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 VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 105807 ) MSC.SOFTWARE UTILIZES MSC.MARC TO DESIGN AN INFLATABLE DAM...4.1K MSC.Software Corp. announced a completed project with Hollandsche Beton-en Waterbouw bv (HBW) to design and test an inflatable dam to be used as a storm barrier near the city of Kampen, Netherlands. [ ] 105808 ) SUN CONTINUES TO GROW AS TOP TRADITIONAL WORKSTATION VENDOR..2.4K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the company grew its share of the worldwide traditional workstation (TWS) market, showing an increase in revenue and unit shipment market share. [ ] 105809 ) SGI RESTRUCTURES: CUTS TO $100M QUARTERLY....................4.1K SGI announced that it is implementing additional actions to lower costs and intensify focus on new High-Performance Computing, Storage and Visualization products. [ ] 74073 ) New SGI Supercomputer Offers Remarkable Performance QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 105799 ) "We chose the HP system during our competitive procurement process because its overall system balance was best tailored to the needs of the complex computational chemistry done at PNNL. The additional power and speed will enable novel studies in atmospheric chemistry, systems biology, catalysis and materials science." -- Scott Studham, manager, computer operations, MSCF [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74074 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! COMMERCIAL GRID ACTIVITY UNDERWAY OSDL RELEASES Q&A ADDRESSING LEGAL ACTIONS BY SCO GROUP http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105810 ) SGI, SuSE Announce OEM Alliance, Development Agreement.......5.6K [ ] 105811 ) Univ Of Texas To Develop SuperChip...........................1.9K [ ] 105812 ) Technological Breakthrough In Silicon Photonics..............6.3K [ ] 105813 ) Irvine Sensors Demonstrates Complete Stacked Computer........2.6K [ ] 105814 ) ARSC Releases Portable BioLibrary............................1.4K [ ] 74075 ) HP Maintains Lead In High-Performance Computing SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105815 ) Sun To Aggressively Expand Solaris Operating System..........5.3K [ ] 105816 ) Versant Powers High-Performance Bioinformatics Firm Eidogen..3.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 105817 ) Microsoft Says It's Investing Heavily In Web Search............2K [ ] 105818 ) SoBig.F Breaks Virus Speed Records...........................3.5K [ ] 105819 ) Altera Simplifies Board Design With New Ethernet Devices.....3.4K [ ] 105820 ) Malaysian University Goes Paperless With Network From Avaya..4.9K [ ] 105821 ) Report Predicts RapidIO To Lead Bus Architecture Wars........1.3K [ ] 105822 ) Shakeup In The Enterprise Router Market Expected.............2.5K [ ] 105823 ) Denial Of Service Attack Leaves SCO Web Site Inaccessible....4.7K [ ] 105824 ) Electricity Grids Left Open To Hackers.......................3.7K [ ] 74076 ) Myrinet Used In 178 of the June 2003 TOP500 STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 105825 ) IBM Turbo-Charges Storage Networks...........................5.3K [ ] 105826 ) SGI TP9300 Adds Midrange Array To Storage Solution Line......5.3K [ ] 105827 ) Exabyte Announces LTO-2 Tape Automation Products.............5.9K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 105828 ) Intel To Build $375 Million Test Plant In China..............2.3K [ ] 105829 ) National Center To Use IBM Technology For Genomic Research...2.3K [ ] 105830 ) Intel CEO Sees No Low-Price Edge For AMD In China............1.9K [ ] 105831 ) Cornell Theory Center Joins The MathWorks....................2.7K [ ] 74077 ) 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 ================================================================== [ ] 105832 ) Product Watch: The MathWorks Ships New Fixed-Income Toolbox..5.8K Actel Unveils First Flash-Based FPGAs. MapInfo Updates Enterprise Mapping Solution. [ ] 105833 ) Financial Update: Intel Sees Higher Revenue..................3.3K Fujitsu Credit Rating Cut To Junk By S&P. [ ] 105834 ) Corporate Liaisons: Avanex To Acquire Vitesse's Assets......10.8K IMSI Signs Agreement To Acquire CADKEY. Agere Systems Acquires Massana. [ ] 105835 ) People and Positions: Gateway Promotes New CIO...............6.2K SCO Group Appoints New VP. Altair CEO Receives Award. [ ] 74078 ) "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. 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