HPCwire's LIVEwire Nov. 18, 2003 Dear Colleague: LIVEwire, HPCwire's onsite coverage of SC2003, is a free supplement of HPCwire. If you have received this document, you are authorized to retrieve the full text of every item listed. To retrieve text, compose an email message to more@hpcwire.com . On the subject line, type the number adjacent to the item you desire. No message text is required. * LIVEwire is available via email and on the Web at http://hpcwire.com * Visit HPCwire at SC2003 booth no. 735. [ ] 74298 ) HPCnow Supercomputing 2003 November 18-20th, 2003 Come by and Visit our Booth #3011 And receive Some Great Giveaways, Plus a Chance to Win an XBOX Package! We Look Forward to Seeing You There! \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////// L I V E w i r e from H P C w i r e [ ] 74299 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution Come Visit Us At SC2003 At Booth #2224 Brought to you Live from SC2003, PHOENIX, ARIZONA *** Nov. 18, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 46A *** For a Free Trial Subscription to HPCwire E-mail trial@hpcwire.com or Go to the HPCwire Booth #735 [ ] 74300 ) Empowering New Frontiers Come Visit us in Phoenix, Arizona at SC2003, Booth #2625 FEATURES ============================================================================ [ ] 106425 ) HPC INTERVIEW WITH DR. ANDREW CHIEN, UCSD By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire Dr. Andrew Chien of the University of California-San Diego discusses the creation of OptIPuter and integration of BigBangwidth's LightPath Accelerator technology. [ ] 106426 ) INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL KIM, CEO, APPRO By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire's Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck recently interviewed Daniel Kim, CEO of APPRO of Milpitas, Calif., about some of their recent announcements, company wins and future goals. [ ] 106427 ) CAL-(IT)2, UCSD TEAM WITH BIGBANGWIDTH TO SPEED "OPTIPUTER" The OptIPuter system will be installed at the University of California -San Diego (UCSD), and will act as an on-ramp for large data streams from high-performance workstations connected to packet-switched networks. [ ] 106428 ) DataDirect S2A TO POWER SANDIA'S RED STORM SUPERCOMPUTER With more than 110 Gigabytes per second of raw bandwidth, DataDirect's S2A storage system will provide Cray and Sandia with the highest storage networking bandwidth in the world. [ ] 106429 ) INTEL CHIPS NOW POWER FASTEST COMPUTERS According to the latest survey, 189 of the world's top 500 supercomputers run on Intel processors, up from 119 systems the previous six months. The Top500 list will be released to coincide with the opening of Supercomputing 2003. [ ] 106430 ) INTERVIEW WITH JAMES R. MCGRAW, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ISCR, LLNL By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire assistant editor Tim Curns' interview with James R. McGraw, covering topics from organizing a big event like SC2003 to McGraw's work with SISAL. [ ] 106431 ) PNNL SUPERCOMPUTER FIFTH FASTEST IN WORLD The latest list represents the first time the 11.8 teraflop supercomputer was ranked based on its full power. The machine consists of nearly 2,000 1.5GHz Intel Itanium2 processors. [ ] 106432 ) SGI UNVEILS PLANS FOR SUPERCOMPUTER OF THE FUTURE Using a new concept SGI calls "multi-paradigm computing," the groundbreaking machines will unite previously disparate computing architectures with SGI's scalable shared-memory technology. [ ] 74301 ) Linux Networx Complete Cluster Computing Systems For Maximum Sustained Performance & ROI Read our Five Points of Proven Value to Learn More -- Come see us at SC2003 Booth #1015 -- [ ] 74302 ) Force10 Networks Come See Us At SC2003, Booth #1711 GRIDS@SC ============================================================================ [ ] 106433 ) AXCELEON ENABLES POWER GRID ANALYSIS, SIMULATION SOLUTIONS EnFuzion on Windows platform provides an ideal solution for building compute clusters and Grids, resulting in radically reduced simulation time, which leads to more robust and higher quality engineering results. [ ] 106434 ) INTERVIEW WITH FORCE10 By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire Recently, HPCwire conducted an interview with a representative of Force10. The questions and answers follow below. [ ] 106435 ) SDSC TO SHOWCASE SUN COMPUTE GRID SUPERCOMPUTER The SDSC/National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Rocks cluster team will begin assembling the RockStar -- a 128-node Sun Fire V60x supercomputer at 7 p.m., Nov. 17, at the conference and intends to be running applications approximately two hours later. [ ] 106436 ) INTEROPERABILITY OF AG TOOLKIT 2.0, INSORS IG2.0 CONFIRMED This technical milestone uniquely addresses the Grid community's interest in the open source framework of the AG Toolkit release, combined with priority commercial features such ease of use, application enhancements and support packages. [ ] 106437 ) PRAGMA DEVELOPS PacRim GRIDS PRAGMA has been founded as an open organization in which Pacific Rim institutions will collaborate more formally to develop Grid-enabled applications and will deploy the needed infrastructure throughout the Pacific Region to allow data, computing and other resource sharing. [ ] 106438 ) SDSC SHOWCASES SCIENCE, GRID INNOVATIONS AT SC2003 Visitors to the SDSC/NPACI booth, #2532, can witness breakthroughs in data movement, Grid technology, visualization, bioinformatics and Earth sciences. [ ] 106439 ) SUN TAKES GRID EVERYWHERE AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2003 Demonstrating the rich partnership available to Sun customers, the Sun booth features an array of solutions from the company's innovative business partners. [ ] 106440 ) TerraGrid: UNLEASHING CLUSTERED COMPUTING TerraGrid has been designed from the ground up to increase performance, deliver linear scalability and provide ease of manageability of huge datasets, while enabling clients to leverage the vast body of open-source tools, utilities and applications currently available for Linux. [ ] 106441 ) UNM-DEVELOPED TRIBAL CONSORTIUM FEATURED AT SC2003 The Tribal Virtual Network (TVN), a University of New Mexico-developed consortium of Native American museums and centers that uses technology to overcome the "digital divide," will be among a handful of special technology projects featured at SC2003. [ ] 74303 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery [ ] 74304 ) Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. Supports Matrix Computations, Array Types And Variable Precision Floating Point Types on FPGAS, With the 3.1.3 Release Of Its Corefire(tm) FPGA Application Builder Design Suite _______________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS______________________ [ ] 74305 ) Linux Networx Clusterworx(TM) 3.0 Provides Total Cluster Management From One Interface [ ] 74306 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.Patran 2004 ___________________________________________________________________________ [ ] 74307 ) Demand More from HPTC. Get More from HP. Join HP @ SC2003 Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center Phoenix, Arizona Booth # 2813 November 17-20, 2003 [ ] 74308 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface LIVEwire NEWS BRIEFS =========================================================================== [ ] 106442 ) IBM's Blue Gene Bursts On To Top 500 Supercomputer List [ ] 106443 ) DataSynapse Announces Integrated Linux Cluster Environment [ ] 106444 ) Gelato Federation Announces New Members At Stockholm Meeting [ ] 106445 ) HP Showcasing Performance, Scalability, Innovation At SC2003 [ ] 106446 ) InfiniBand Architecture Debuts No. 3 Supercomputer [ ] 106447 ) Juniper Platforms Provide Foundation For SCinet At SC2003 [ ] 106448 ) Level 3 Providing Bandwidth For SC2003 [ ] 106449 ) Real-Time, HPC Apps Optimized On Marconi Networking Platforms [ ] 106450 ) Intel's Montecito Chip To Run Multiple Applications [ ] 106451 ) Release 5 Of NAGWare f95 Compiler Unveiled At SC2003 [ ] 106452 ) OctigaBay Demonstrates Interconnect, Management Technologies [ ] 106453 ) Promicro, Intel Exhibiting Grid HPC Solution SC2003 [ ] 106454 ) PathScale Announces 64-bit Compilers For AMD Opteron Systems [ ] 106455 ) Rackable Systems To Help Power Demo Of TeraFlop Computing [ ] 106456 ) Raritan Partakes In HPC Demo Using Off-the-Shelf Equipment [ ] 106457 ) HP Dominates Top500 Supercomputer List Again [ ] 106458 ) Sun Drives Momentum On Top 500 Supercomputers List [ ] 106459 ) Topspin Selected As NEC Provider For HPC Solutions [ ] 106460 ) Visual Numerics Announces Support For HP Itanium 2 Family [ ] 106461 ) Voltaire Leads InfiniBand Industry To Open Source Model [ ] 106462 ) S2io Xframe Server/Storage Adapter Sets Performance Record LIVEwire INFORMATION ============================================================================ [ ] 670 ) Masthead [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles [ ] 950 ) Back Issue Index 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 | | | | | | [ ] 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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