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We Look Forward to Seeing You There! \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////// L I V E w i r e from H P C w i r e [ ] 74310 ) Empowering New Frontiers Come Visit us in Phoenix, Arizona at SC2003, Booth #2625 Brought to you Live from SC2003, PHOENIX, ARIZONA *** Nov. 18, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 46B *** For a Free Trial Subscription to HPCwire E-mail trial@hpcwire.com or Go to the HPCwire Booth #735 FEATURES ============================================================================ [ ] 106463 ) WRITING THE BOOK OF THE UNIVERSE By Trish Barker, NCSA Senior Science Writer A simulation devised by researchers at the Uinversity of California- San Diego (UCSD) shows how energy rippling out from quasars ionized the intergalactic medium of the universe. [ ] 106464 ) INTERVIEW WITH MAXINE BROWN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, EVL By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Maxine Brown, of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois-Chicago. [ ] 106465 ) THE TRUTH ABOUT BENCHMARKS: AN INTERVIEW WITH LARRY DAVIS By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Larry Davis about benchmarks, such as the Linpack and the IDC Balanced Rating. [ ] 106466 ) SANDIA LABS USE HONEYPOTS TO PROTECT SC2003 Sandia researchers are trying a new tack in their war against hackers: create a meaningless digital universe to bog them down and carefully study their tactics. [ ] 106467 ) INDIANA UNIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTED AT SC2003 With a focus on economic development particularly in emerging technologies, life sciences and advanced computing architecture, Indiana University researchers are presenting the latest technological innovations at the conference. [ ] 106468 ) LOS ALAMOS OFFERS 3-D THEATER, EXPERT PRESENTATIONS AT SC2003 SC2003 features a booth showcasing spectacular simulations from Los Alamos and its sister national laboratories, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia, a separate booth that features Los Alamos supercomputing achievements, and a wide variety of technical presentations, papers and panels. [ ] 106469 ) GUIDING LIGHT Photonics may be the wave of the future in computing and communications, with big help from PSC's LeMieux. [ ] 106470 ) INTERVIEW WITH JILL MESIROV By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Jill Mesirov, associate director and chief informatics officer director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. [ ] 106471 ) MPI SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY ENABLES NCSA'S NEW DELL CLUSTER Named "Tungsten," the cluster has a theoretical peak performance of 15.67 teraflops and ranks currently as the world's fourth most powerful computer as measured on the Top 500 List of supercomputers. [ ] 106472 ) INTERVIEW WITH PHIL FRAHER, C0O, VISUAL NUMERICS By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Visual Numerics' chief operating officer, Phil Fraher, about what's on the agenda for his company. [ ] 106473 ) SGI USER GROUP TO HOST EXECUTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION This elite gathering of prominent HPC visionary leaders will discuss the experiences of their organizations, from acquisition to implementation, of various configurations of SGI Altix systems, with many of them going on to realize record-breaking accomplishments. [ ] 106474 ) INTERVIEW WITH STEVE WALLACH, VP, OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHIARO HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Steve Wallach about supernetworking and the OptIPuter, among other topics. [ ] 74311 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery [ ] 74312 ) 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 -- GRIDS@SC ============================================================================ [ ] 106475 ) ALTAIR, HP TO DELIVER HPTC SOLUTIONS The companies will continue to work together to optimize the performance of PBS Pro on HP hardware and deploy the integrated high performance technical computing solution within client computing environments. [ ] 106476 ) CISCO PLATFORMS W/ IPv6 ACCELERATE ADV. NETWORKING SERVICES At SC2003, Cisco demonstrated the industry's first IPv6 multicast digital video transmission over a trans-Atlantic link using Cisco 12000 Series routers while also using the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches to aggregate IPv6 traffic at the SURFnet site in Amsterdam. [ ] 106477 ) GlobusWORLD WORKSHOPS COVER THE WATERFRONT IN SAN FRANCISCO By Tom Garritano Of The GRIDS Center GlobusWORLD 2004 begins Jan. 20 with three days full of keynotes, sessions and dialogues on Grid computing. Then, to dive even deeper, attendees should stay for one of the workshops offered Jan. 23, on topics of importance to the Globus Toolkit (GT) community of users and developers. [ ] 106478 ) NMI CREATES CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING By Tom Garritano, The GRIDS Center As a leading part of the emerging cyberinfrastructure, NMI software and services are used by thousands of researchers and educators in the United States and far beyond. [ ] 106479 ) U.S. DoD SELECTS PLATFORM TO BRIDGE HPC RESOURCE CENTERS The U.S. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program has chosen Platform as its partner to build a common job management environment for all users accessing its shared HPC resource centers across the United States. [ ] 106480 ) SUN CHOOSES MRV SOLUTION FOR NEW COMPUTE GRID RACK SYSTEM MRV Communications Inc, a leading provider of unlimited connectivity solutions for mission critical networks, announced its LX-4048 Secure Remote Console Server was chosen by Sun Microsystems for the remote management solution in its new Sun Fire V60x compute Grid rack system. [ ] 74313 ) Demand More from HPTC. Get More from HP. Join HP @ SC2003 Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center Phoenix, Arizona Booth # 2813 November 17-20, 2003 [ ] 74314 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface _______________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS______________________ [ ] 74315 ) Linux Networx Clusterworx(TM) 3.0 Provides Total Cluster Management From One Interface [ ] 74316 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.Patran 2004 ___________________________________________________________________________ [ ] 74317 ) Force10 Networks Come See Us At SC2003, Booth #1711 [ ] 74318 ) 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 LIVEwire NEWS BRIEFS =========================================================================== [ ] 106481 ) Altair Engineering's PBS Pro Selected By Cray [ ] 106482 ) AMD Opteron Processor Makes Grand Entrance On To Top500 List [ ] 106483 ) Appro Delivers 1U Linux AMD Opteron Clusters For NASA JPL [ ] 106484 ) Cray X1 Supercomputer Up To 25X Faster On Scientific Apps [ ] 106485 ) EI Announces New Products, Grid Wars [ ] 106486 ) Etnus TotalView Now Supports AMD Opteron Processors [ ] 106487 ) Force10 Networks Demos Resiliency, Performance Of E-Series [ ] 106488 ) Foundry 10GbE Powers Premier Supercomputing Demos At SC2003 [ ] 106489 ) Platform Enhances Commercially Supported Globus Toolkit [ ] 106490 ) Report: Use Of IBM Supercomputing Power Reaches All-Time High [ ] 106491 ) InfiniCon Showcases Power, Scale Of InfiniBand Architecture [ ] 106492 ) SGI Altix Fuels Japan's Institute Of Statistical Mathematics [ ] 106493 ) Linux Supercomputer Delivers 11.1 GB/s Parallel I/O [ ] 106494 ) World's Most Extensive SMP Library Announced By NAG [ ] 106495 ) NASA Ames Installs First 512-Processor Altix Supercomputer [ ] 106496 ) Paracel Introduces Comprehensive Linux Cluster Solution [ ] 106497 ) Procket Networks Powers Bandwidth Challenge At SC2003 [ ] 106498 ) Rackable Systems Adopts Low-Power AMD Opteron Processors [ ] 106499 ) RackSaver Unveils First Intel Itanium 2 Based Server Blade [ ] 106500 ) IBM To Resell Scali Message Passing Interface Software [ ] 106501 ) SGI To Showcase 128 Processor Altix System At SC2003 [ ] 106502 ) Spirent AX/4000 Used To Measure Performance At SC2003 [ ] 106503 ) Spinnaker Networks To Be Featured At SC2003 [ ] 106504 ) Sun To Use AMD Processors In High-End Servers [ ] 106505 ) SGI Altix Achieves World Record Memory Bandwidth Of 1 TB/s [ ] 106506 ) Cray Reports X1 Processors Most Powerful On "Top500" List 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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