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 *** April 16, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 15 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 266 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74559 ) ALTIX(TM) FAMILY OF SERVERS AND SUPERCLUSTERS SGI Combines the Industry Leading Performance Of the Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2 Processor With a Production-Class Linux(TM) Soltion ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107444 ) FEATURES: HACKERS PUT TERAGRID ON QUARANTINE | | [ ] 107454 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: NASA DEPLOYS FORCE10 E-SERIES | | [ ] 107459 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: SGI SELLS ALIAS SOFTWARE BUSINESS | | [ ] 107470 ) NEWS BRIEFS: AL QAEDA'S INTERNET USE GROWS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74573 ) FREE CASE STUDY Orbital Sciences Deploys Evolocity CFD Cluster Faster Simulations = $130,000 ROI Linux Networx P r o v e n FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107444 ) HACKERS PUT TERAGRID ON QUARANTINE...........................3.5K Security experts are concerned over recent attacks on supercomputers at colleges, universities and research institutions which have resulted in online network research crashes. Can these machines now be used to infiltrate certain Web sites or parts of the Internet? [ ] 107445 ) HEC ANALYSIS: THE HIGH-END COMPUTING PRODUCTIVITY CRISIS....25.2K Commentary from the High-End Crusader The High-End Crusader takes a comprehensive look at the productivity crisis in high-end computing, focusing on the increasing time to program new applications at mission agencies, the difficulties of parallel programming, and productivity models and metrics. After trying his hand at coding parallel list ranking, he calls for new programming models and languages to replace the current practice of parallel assembly-language programming. [ ] 107446 ) TOWARD AN HPC RENAISSANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN BLATECKY...8.2K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire spoke with Alan Blatecky, an expert in Grid computing, middleware, advanced networking and research program development to gain further insight regarding the recent announcement (http://www.tgc.com/breaking/1738.html) that he will join RENCI as Deputy Director. [ ] 107447 ) HPCX INDUSTRY DAY AT CCLRC DARESBURY LABORATORY.............12.5K by Christopher Lazou Over 50 people attended HPCX Industry Day, made up of potential users of the HPCx service from the industrial sector, a selection of software and hardware vendors, academic researchers and Research Council officials with high-performance computing interests. [ ] 107448 ) NCSP RELEASES INDUSTRY FRAMEWORK AND CALL TO ACTION..........6.7K NCSP released a management framework and call to action to industry, non-profits and educational institutions, challenging them to integrate effective information security governance (ISG) programs into their corporate governance processes. [ ] 107449 ) PUNE SEARCHES FOR PASSWORD TO GET BILL GATES LAB.............3.7K A three-member Microsoft team, led by its Corporate Vice-President Daniel T Ling, will be at the University of Pune (UoP) to check the chances of setting up a research laboratory in the city. [ ] 107450 ) HPC USER FORUM EXPLORES STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, NETWORKING.....13.3K A record 117 people attended the semi-annual HPC User Forum meeting held this week. The major focus of the two-day Dearborn meeting was on user requirements for structural analysis, interconnects and I/O. [ ] 74574 ) New Processors Drive Lower Cost, Entry-Level Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2-Based Systems CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107451 ) VERARI ACQUIRES MPI SOFTWARE, PATENTS KEY COOLING TECHNOLOGY.5.7K Verari Systems, previously RackSaver Inc., announced the acquisition of MPI Software Technology Inc., the leading independent provider of high- performance software products and related services for parallel and cluster computers. [ ] 107452 ) MYSQL AB LAUNCHES MYSQL CLUSTER..............................4.9K MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, launched MySQL Cluster, a new open source database clustering technology for applications requiring continuous availability. [ ] 107453 ) TOPSPIN, NISSHO ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP FOR JAPAN..4.6K Topspin Communications, a leader in switched computing, and Tokyo- based Nissho Electronics Corporation, announced that Nissho will distribute Topspin's InfiniBand-based server switch products in Japan. [ ] 107454 ) NASA DEPLOYS FORCE10 E-SERIES................................4.5K Force10 Networks announced that the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has deployed the E300 in its Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the largest organization of combined Earth and space scientists and engineers in the U.S. [ ] 107455 ) EMIC NETWORKS SECURES $7.5M IN FUNDING.......................3.5K Emic's Application Cluster (EAC) products are designed to provide best price/performance cluster platform for horizontal scaling of Open Source database and Web Enterprise applications. [ ] 74572 ) THREE NEW, GROUNDBREAKING GRID REPORTS RELEASES Three New, Groundbreaking Grid Reports from IDC, Economic Strategy Institute and Micron Technologies to be Released at Gt'04 and will be included with conference registration. http://www.gridtoday.com _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74562 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74563 ) Husqvarna Sweden Adopts MSC.Software's MasterKey License System For Virtual Product Development ============================================================================== [ ] 74575 ) HP and TCAG Collaborate to Advance Medical And Environmental Genomic Discovery in Life Science VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107456 ) PROCESSORS DRIVE LOWER COST, INTEL ITANIUM 2-BASED SYSTEMS...5.3K Intel Corporation announced two Intel Itanium 2 processors. Servers based on the new processors are approximately 28 percent lower in price and up to 25 percent higher performing than previous dual processor Itanium 2-based servers. [ ] 107457 ) IBM TO RESELL STMICROELECTRONICS PGI COMPILERS...............3.5K The Portland Group Compiler Technology team of STMicroelectronics announced an agreement under which IBM will resell PGIā Fortran, C and C++ compilers and development tools for a new line of IBM Departmental Supercomputing Solutions. [ ] 107458 ) N.TECH INVESTS IN MSC.SOFTWARE MASTERKEY LICENSING SYSTEM....4.5K MSC.Software Corp. announced that N.Technology, an Italian developer of race cars and part of FIAT AUTO, is expanding its use of MSC.Software products under the MSC.MasterKey license system. [ ] 107459 ) SILICON GRAPHICS SELLS ALIAS SOFTWARE BUSINESS.................4K Silicon Graphics announced it has reached a definitive agreement for the sale of its Alias graphics software business to Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm. [ ] 74557 ) HPCwire's - 2004 List of People to Watch Daniel Reed, Larry Davis, Suresh Shukla, Wu Feng, Stephenie McLean, Earl Joseph, Peter Ungaro, William Turnbull, Paul Muzio, John Grosh, Ed Seidel, Deborah Estrin, Mark Graff, Bernard Daines, Apple, Anwar Osseyran, Kimmo Kaski From Dan Reed at North Carolina to John Grosh and Larry Davis of the Department of Defense, this year we've put together a list of HPC's heavy hitters!! QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107478 ) "In a movie, you may see a computer on a starship, and the computer takes into consideration new information as soon as it comes. This is how computers work in the imagination of movie directors, and this is how people expect computers should work. Our project will help make this a reality." -- Jan Mandel, UC-Denver mathematician [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! INTERNET2 CAN CHANGE WAY SCIENTISTS CONDUCT RESEARCH JAPAN'S LARGEST GRID PROJECT USES LINUX NETWORX CLUSTER http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107460 ) Creating Semiconductors Atom-By-Atom...........................2K [ ] 107461 ) New Molecule Heralds Breakthrough In Electronic Plastics.....4.4K [ ] 107462 ) Vitesse Sets Industry Record -- 152 GHz Circuit Performance..2.2K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107463 ) MSC Announces Release Of MSC.FEA Education Edition 2004......2.9K [ ] 107464 ) Web-Based Program Calculates Effects Of An Earth Impact......6.5K [ ] 107465 ) Oracle Database 10g Sets Record For Linux-based SMPs.........1.4K [ ] 107466 ) MIT Lincoln Lab, Ohio Researchers Deploy MatlabMPI Solution..1.4K [ ] 107467 ) Entopia Announces Entopia K-Bus Software Development Kit.....2.8K [ ] 107468 ) SearchBlox Unveils High-Performance J2EE Search Software.....2.4K [ ] 107469 ) NVIDIA Launches GeForce 6 Series.............................5.3K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107470 ) al Qaeda's Internet Use Grows................................2.1K [ ] 107471 ) Amazon Joins Crowded Web Search Field........................3.1K [ ] 107472 ) Pedestal's UBS Delivers 3 Mbps Line-Powered ADSL With QoS....5.3K [ ] 107473 ) Foundry Intros High Security And Load Balancing Switches.....4.9K [ ] 107474 ) Radware Awarded US Patent For Its Technology.................1.3K [ ] 74576 ) Silicon Graphics Delivers SGI InfiniteStorage Data Lifecycle Management Server STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107475 ) SGI Offers Interoperability w/ Broadcast, Prod Solutions.....8.7K [ ] 107476 ) ActionFront Announces SignalTrace Technology.................4.6K [ ] 107477 ) NetApp Moves To Storage Grids................................5.2K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107478 ) Researchers To Create High-Tech Wildfire Fighting Solutions..5.3K [ ] 107479 ) PITAC Reviews Importance Of Info Tech In Health Care.........4.1K [ ] 107480 ) CACI Awarded $45 Million Blanket Purchase Agreement..........2.2K [ ] 107481 ) Winners Of Excellence In Cluster Tech Awards Announced.......5.7K [ ] 74567 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107482 ) Product Watch: Network Associates Intros Netasyst Solution..6.9K Keyspan Ships USB Server For PCs And Macs. Lindows, Inc. Announces New Product Name. [ ] 107483 ) Financial Update: Intel Profit Surges on Worldwide Spending..4.5K Infosys Plans To Recruit 500 In U.S. Cortina Raises $20 Million In Financing. [ ] 107484 ) Corporate Liaisons: Microsoft, InterTrust Settle Litigation..6.3K Mercury Systems To Acquire TGS Group. Compuware Supports IBM zAAP. [ ] 107485 ) People and Position: Alan Blatecky Leaves SDSC Joins RENCI..12.2K CA Execs Plead Guilty. CSC's Copeland Appointed VP Of IT-ISAC. [ ] 74568 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution JOB BANK ===================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Accenture, Adaptec, Australian National University, C-DAC, *Clearspeed, Computer Assets, Cray, Indiana University, *ITaP Discovery Resources, *NCAR, PNNL, OctigaBay Systems, OSC, Radstone, SAIC, ShaoLin Microsystems, University of Edinburgh [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 03.12.03)..............10K [ ] 74569 ) LCI - Linux Cluster Institute April 12 - 16, 2004 IBM T. J. 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