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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 Brought to you Live from SC2003, PHOENIX, ARIZONA *** Nov. 20, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 46C *** For a Free Trial Subscription to HPCwire E-mail trial@hpcwire.com or Go to the HPCwire Booth #735 [ ] 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 -- FEATURES ============================================================================ [ ] 106507 ) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM ANNAPOLIS MICRO SYSTEMS INC By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire Annapolis Micro Systems Inc answers questions FPGAs and what we can expect to see from the company in the future. [ ] 106508 ) ClearSpeed TO DEMONSTRATE CS301 25GFLOP PARALLEL PROCESSOR The fully- programmable CS301 was demonstrated executing highly complex computational algorithms, running at the target clock speed of 200MHz while consuming under 2 Watts, a fraction of the traditional power requirements. [ ] 106509 ) ENGINEERED INTELLIGENCE EXPANDS CxC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire With its CxX product, EI is hoping to enable every scientist, not just computer science experts, to benefit from parallel computing. They want to focus on productivity for people who have never done supercomputing before. [ ] 106510 ) INTERVIEW WITH JOYCE WILLIAMS-GREEN, WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIV By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Joyce Williams- Green, Associate Provost of Information Resources/CIO at Winston-Salem State University. [ ] 106511 ) INTERVIEW WITH BARBARA HORNER-MILLER, ARSC By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Barbara Horner- Miller, director of user services at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. [ ] 106512 ) INTEL BOLSTERS FUTURE RESEARCH WITH $36 MILLION PROGRAM Intel launched the Advanced Computing Program (ACP), a three-year $36 million research and development initiative intended to enable traditional supercomputer users to quickly deploy scalable, high-performance computing systems that can be more easily used and managed. [ ] 106513 ) INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY KEPNER, MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Jeremy Kepner of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory covers Kepner's SC2003 panel, among other topics. [ ] 106514 ) INTERVIEW WITH TODD MATTERS, INFINICON By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Todd Matters of Infinicon. [ ] 106515 ) INTERVIEW WITH DAVE MORTON, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, MHPCC By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Dave Morton, currently technical director of the Maui High Performance Computing Center, and former director of hardware engineering at both Cray and SGI. [ ] 106516 ) INTERVIEW WITH CLIFF MILLER, MOUNTAIN VIEW DATA By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Cliff Miller of Mountain View Data covers, among oher topics, the latest news about Powercockpit. [ ] 106517 ) NLR ANNOUNCES LIGHTING FIRST PATH OF NATIONAL FOOTPRINT National LambdaRail Inc, a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies, announced that it successfully lit the initial segment on its national footprint between Chicago and Pittsburgh. [ ] 106518 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH DAN REED, DIRECTOR, NCSA By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Dan Reed, whose titles include: director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); director of the National Computational Science Alliance; and chief architect of the NSF ETF TeraGrid. [ ] 106519 ) INTERVIEW WITH EYAL WALDMAN, CEO, MELLANOX By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Mellanox's Eyal Waldman covers issues such as The Virginia Tech Cluster and the progress of InfiniBand. [ ] 106520 ) INTERVIEW WITH WU-CHUN FENG, LANL & OSU By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with Wu-Chun Feng of Los Alamos National Laboratory and The Ohio State University. [ ] 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 [ ] 74310 ) Empowering New Frontiers Come Visit us in Phoenix, Arizona at SC2003, Booth #2625 GRIDS@SC ============================================================================ [ ] 106521 ) THE GRIDS CENTER: SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, INDUSTRY By Tom Garritano, GRIDS Center, GRIDtoday Contributing Editor Still the largest of NMI's systems-integration projects, GRIDS specializes in the design, development, testing and deployment of Grid middleware, a key enabling technology for the emerging cyberinfrastructure. [ ] 106522 ) P-GRADE MAXIMIZES POWER OF GRIDS, CLUSTERS, SUPERCOMPUTERS P-GRADE helps to make High Performance Computing using Grids, clusters and super computers truly popular by maximizing the efficiency of computing power and simplifying the parallelization of complex software. [ ] 106523 ) DoD SELECTS PLATFORM TO BRIDGE HPC RESOURCE CENTERS Platform Computing announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) 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. [ ] 74317 ) Force10 Networks Come See Us At SC2003, Booth #1711 [ ] 74311 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery _______________________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 [ ] 74329 ) University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Informatics and Data Mining Group Manager ___________________________________________________________________________ [ ] 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 [ ] 74314 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface LIVEwire NEWS BRIEFS =========================================================================== [ ] 106524 ) Bull, Quadrics Team Up To Deliver NovaScale-Based Clusters [ ] 106525 ) InMon Provides 10Gb, Multivendor Monitoring, Analysis At SC [ ] 106526 ) Meiosys Debuts Transparent Checkpoint Solution For HPC Market [ ] 106527 ) Raptor Announces Significant True Wire-Speed Improvements [ ] 106528 ) RLX Accelerates Modular Computing 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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