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[ ] 74356 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 106696 ) FEATURES: DAN REED: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON A CAREER IN HPC | | [ ] 106702 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: OSCAR 3.0 RELEASED | | [ ] 106705 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: MICROSOFT REVAMPS FOR NEXT WINDOWS RELEASE | | [ ] 106710 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NEW CHIP TECHNOLOGY ELIMINATES SOFT ERROR THREAT | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74357 ) Learn more about Windows-based High Performance Computing solutions www.microsoft.com/hpc FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 106696 ) DAN REED: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON A CAREER IN HPC..........9.1K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Dan Reed shares some personal views regarding his work with NCSA, his recent decision to leave and the Center's subsequent future without him. [ ] 106697 ) INTERVIEW WITH PETER BRAAM, CTO CLUSTER FILE SYSTEMS.........4.2K by Tim Curns, Assistant Editor Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s Peter J. Braam, Founder, President and CTO, comments on the first commercial release of the Linux cluster file system in use at 4 of the top 5 Linux supercomputers in the world. [ ] 106698 ) A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM........................................9.2K by J. William Bell NCSA Science Editor Numerical simulations of light passing through photonic crystals reveal "unexpected and stunning new physical phenomena." [ ] 106699 ) RESEARCHERS DEVELOP FIBERS THINNER THAN LIGHT WAVELENGTHS....6.5K Researchers have developed a process to create wires only 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick. Because the wires are thinner than the wavelengths of light they transport, the material serves as a guide around which light waves flow. [ ] 106700 ) RESEARCHERS AT SDSC TRACK DoS ATTACK AGAINST SCO GROUP.......6.6K Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have tracked the progress of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the Internet against The SCO Group, a software company in Lindon, Utah. [ ] 74358 ) Linux Networx Complete Cluster Computing Systems For Maximum Sustained Performance & ROI Read our Five Points of Proven Value to Learn More [ ] 74359 ) Intel, Industry Leaders 'Challenge' The Global 500 To Test Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2-Based Systems CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 106701 ) PRIMECLUSTER AVAILABLE FOR NOVELL'S NTERPRISE LINUX SERVICES.2.4K Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Novell announced that the cluster product suite PRIMECLUSTER has been successfully tested and customized for the soon-to-be-released Novell Nterprise Linux Services and is available for mission-critical business solutions. [ ] 106702 ) OSCAR 3.0 RELEASED.............................................2K The OSCAR working group has released a new version of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit, OSCAR 3.0. [ ] 74360 ) HP Integrity Servers Trounce the Competition On Linpack and SPEC Benchmarks _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74361 ) Linux Networx Clusterworx(TM) 3.0 Provides Total Cluster Management From One Interface [ ] 74362 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.Patran 2004 ============================================================================== [ ] 74363 ) New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor [ ] 74364 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 106703 ) SUN ENHANCES SUN FIRE V1280 FOR GREATER VALUE, PERFORMANCE...4.2K Sun Microsystems, Inc. continues to increase the value and performance of its midrange systems with enhancements to its three-time world record-setting Sun Fire V1280 system. [ ] 106704 ) IBM, RED HAT TO DELIVER LINUX v.3 ACROSS IBM eSERVER SYSTEMS...6K IBM and Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, Red Hat's newest offering, is now available across the entire IBM eServer product line. [ ] 106705 ) MICROSOFT REVAMPS FOR NEXT MAJOR WINDOWS RELEASE.............1.9K Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it is reshuffling its Windows business and creating a new group that would dedicate more of its efforts into developing Windows. [ ] 106706 ) MSC HELPS KINETIC BRING SUSPENSION TECH TO GLOBAL MARKET.....3.3K MSC.Software Corp. announced that Kinetic Suspension Technology utilized MSC.ADAMS/Car in the design and test of the Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (KDSS) which will be included in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. [ ] 106707 ) SGI ENABLES EFFORT TO ACCELERATE OIL MODELING, SIMULATION....5.4K Marathon Oil Company's Reservoir Description and Management group recently installed an SGI Altix 3000 system driven by 12 Intel Itanium 2 processors for the modeling tasks needed to describe the subsurface and predict fluid flow at Marathon fields. [ ] 74365 ) Mellanox Technologies Announces General Availability Of Low Profile PCI-X InfiniBand Adapter QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 106710 ) "The information technology revolution drove national economic growth and productivity in the 1990s. Yet, state-by-state, the telecommunications industry that made this possible is struggling. Broadband deployment will revive the telecom and technology sectors and help put our states on a sound financial footing." -- Dr. Wayne Brough, Chief economist CSE Freedom Works Foundation [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74366 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! ORACLE ON BOARD WITH CERN OPENLAB TELESCIENCE FACILITATES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON GLOBAL GRID http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 106708 ) Intel Developing Next Generation Chipsets In Bangalore.......1.3K [ ] 106709 ) Fujitsu Delivers 3Gb Serial SCSI Disk Drive Prototypes To HP.2.6K [ ] 106710 ) New Chip Technology Eliminates Soft Error Threat.............6.3K [ ] 106711 ) AMD Opteron Processors Power New High-End Workstation........2.3K [ ] 74367 ) Force10 Networks Delivering High Performance Ethernet SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 106712 ) IBM Expands Support For The Software Development Platform....5.6K [ ] 106713 ) Microsoft Unveils Beta Host Integration Server Solution......5.7K [ ] 106714 ) Sybase, Sun Deliver Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise........2.9K [ ] 106715 ) Visual Numerics Delivers Math, Stat Functionality To C, C++..4.9K [ ] 106716 ) Scali Partner-Proven For HP's ProLiant Server, LC Clusters...2.8K [ ] 106717 ) Hyperion Essbase Breaks OLAP Benchmark Records...............4.8K [ ] 106718 ) NSF Release Features Latest In Grid Services, ID Management..5.5K [ ] 106719 ) ESI Strengthens Virtual Try-Out Space With CAE Software......2.9K [ ] 106720 ) TechniCon To Integrate HOOPS 3D App Framework From TSA.......2.5K [ ] 106721 ) Torvalds, Morton Release Final Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Version....4.8K [ ] 106722 ) BakBone Supports SGI Altix Servers Running 64-Bit Linux......4.6K [ ] 74368 ) Linux Cluster Training Regardless of Your Knowledge-Level Register Today For Cluster System Fundamentals, Migrating to Clusters, Storage & Filesystems, Resource & Job Management, System Administration, and MPI courses. NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 106723 ) High-Speed Deployment Can Boost Cash-Strapped States.........3.6K [ ] 106724 ) Intusoft's IsSpice4 Selected For WEBENCH On-line Design Tool.2.3K [ ] 106725 ) Enterprise Traffic Management At Gigabit Levels..............1.7K [ ] 74369 ) HP Joins with BAE SYSTEMS, Others on Grid for Advanced Aerospace and Defense Design STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 106726 ) ExaGrid Systems Appoints Vice President Of Engineering.........3K [ ] 106727 ) NewWave Data Storage Solutions Based On XenData Software.....2.1K [ ] 74370 ) Wichita State University Sciences, Math and Engineering Researchers Benefit from Integrated SGI Altix 3000 Solution GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 106728 ) Sun Leads As Largest Volume HPTC Vendor......................3.4K [ ] 106729 ) TowerGroup Explores Security Of "Clean Room" Model For ATMs..3.8K [ ] 106730 ) Cornell Theory Center Offers HPC, Cluster Training Course....3.6K [ ] 106731 ) Google To Start Research And Development In India..............1K [ ] 106732 ) General Atomics Business Prompts Move To PTC Pro/ENGINEER....2.1K [ ] 74371 ) PHOTOS FROM SC03 HPCwire Presents Readers Choice Awards at SC03 Photos of SGI's Bob Bishop, Sun's Shahin Khan, Cray's Jim Rotsolk, Linux Networx's Dean Hutchings, IBM's Dave Turek and others. SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 106733 ) Product Watch: MathStar, Summit Release Visual Elite SysC...14.7K NetPro Ships DNSAnalyzer 4.0. Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Are 38% Faster. [ ] 106734 ) Financial Update: Bionumerik Raises Over $29 Million.........2.9K IBM Moving 4,700 Hi-Tech Jobs To Asia. Oracle Reports Fiscal Q2 Earnings. [ ] 106735 ) Corporate Liaisons: Reflex Security Partners w/ Kaspersky.....17K iRise, Wily Tech Partner. Agilysys Receives HP Linux Designation. [ ] 106736 ) People and Position: Samalam Joins SDSC As Program Director....5K Motorola Appoints Edward Zander As CEO. Windham To Help NSF. [ ] 74372 ) CALL FOR SPEAKERS GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition to focus on the emerging market for commercial business applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers We are looking for high-level speakers from commercial organizations to speak on applications and implementation of Grid computing http://www.gridtoday.com JOB BANK ============================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 667 ) AIST, *ARSC, CalTech, Fujitsu, GlaxoSmithKline, General Dynamics Decision Systems, HP, *Indiana University, Infosys, *Intel, LBNL, Linux Networx, Microsoft, PSC, Queensland University, SGI, University of California, San Diego, University of Manchester, University of Southern California, Sun Microsystems [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K [ ] 74373 ) CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION 4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004: IEEE support pending final approval) 19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004 CONFERENCES ================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 12.17.03) 0K [ ] 74374 ) LCI - Linux Cluster Institute February 2-6, 2004 NCSA UIUC, Urbana Champaign, IL REGISTER NOW Deadline: January 16, 2004 http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org [ ] 74375 ) globusWORLD The premier GRID conference featuring the Globus Toolkit January 20-23, 2004 - San Francisco, CA http://www.globusworld.org 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 | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 946) Quadrics | | [ ] 529) Linux Networx [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView | | [ ] 541) MSC Software [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 539) Microsoft [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 550) @XI Computer Corp. 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