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 30, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 17 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 280 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107549 ) FEATURES: DELL'S ROOHOLAMINI ON THE STATE OF LINUX CLUSTERS | | [ ] 107559 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: J. KEPLER U LINZ INSTALLS DANUBE CLUSTER | | [ ] 107561 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: IBM PREVIEWS VIRTUALIZATION ENGINE | | [ ] 107581 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SENSORS, SOFTWARE TESTS TO HELP PROTECT PENTAGON | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74574 ) New Processors Drive Lower Cost, Entry-Level Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2-Based Systems FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107549 ) DELL'S ROOHOLAMINI ON THE STATE OF LINUX CLUSTERS............9.8K by Derrick Harris, Assistant Editor HPCwire interviews Reza Rooholamini, Dell's Director of Operating Systems and Clustering, about the current state and future of Linux clustering. He is a keynote at the upcoming Linux Clusters Institute's Linux HPC Revolution 2004 Conference. [ ] 107550 ) NSF AWARDS $500,000 TO LSU COMPUTER SCIENTIST................2.2K LSU assistant professor of computer science and CAREER award winner, Bijaya B. Karki, was recently funded by the National Science Foundation to further develop his computer animated research on the Earth's mantle. [ ] 107551 ) SCIENTISTS POST A LOWER SPEED LIMIT FOR MAGNETIC SWITCHING...6.5K An experiment at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) found that the ultimate speed of magnetic switching is at least 1,000 times slower than previously expected. The result has implications for future hard disk computer drive technologies. [ ] 107552 ) HIGH-SPEED NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS COULD LEAD TO FASTER COMPS...4.8K Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that transistors made from single-walled carbon nanotubes can operate at extremely fast microwave frequencies, opening up the potential for better cell phones and much faster computers. [ ] 107553 ) SPINTRONICS HOPED TO YIELD NEW BREED OF TECHNOLOGY...........1.4K By manipulating electrons' magnetic spin, IBM and Stanford University hope to create a new breed of energy saving tools. [ ] 107554 ) SANDIA/UNM PROCESS FORMS DURABLE NANOCRYSTAL ARRAYS..........5.6K In this week's journal Science, researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico describe a simple, commercially feasible method for arranging nanocrystals and preventing them from clumping. [ ] 74577 ) High Performance Technical Computing @HP CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107555 ) SUN'S MID-RANGE THROUGHPUT SYSTEMS PROPEL PRODUCTIVITY.........5K Continuing its leadership in the UNIX server market, Sun Microsystems, Inc. is now shipping the first of its mid-range UltraSPARC IV processor-based throughput computing systems, the Sun Fire E4900 and E6900 server systems. [ ] 107556 ) DELL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD GIVEN TO NCSA.....4.8K Dell presented the Dell Centers for Research Excellence award to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to recognize the important research conducted on its supercomputing cluster. [ ] 107557 ) QLUSTERS PARTNERS W/ RACKABLE TO PROVIDE UTILITY COMPUTING...3.9K Qlusters, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Rackable Systems to integrate and co-market a comprehensive enterprise management solution. [ ] 107558 ) INFINICON POWERS CHINA'S NATIONAL ED AND RESEARCH PROJECT....6.1K InfiniCon Systems announced that Shandong University of the People's Republic of China has selected InfiniCon to supply a 10Gbps switch fabric for a 96-node, InfiniBand-based cluster that will be an integral site in the China Education and Research Grid. [ ] 107559 ) J. KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ INSTALLS DANUBE COMPUTING CLUSTER..4.6K With the Danube Cluster, another computing cluster for high performance tasks went operational at GUP Grid and Cluster Computing Lab (G2C2), which is located at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. [ ] 74573 ) FREE CASE STUDY Orbital Sciences Deploys Evolocity CFD Cluster Faster Simulations = $130,000 ROI Linux Networx P r o v e n _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74562 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74563 ) Husqvarna Sweden Adopts MSC.Software's MasterKey License System For Virtual Product Development ============================================================================== [ ] 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 VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107560 ) SGI CONFIGS COMPLETE RESERVOIR CAPABILITIES AT TOTAL.........4.1K SGI announced it has sold a second 256-processor SGI Altix 3700 supercluster, a 40-processor SGI Altix 3700 system, a 64-processor SGI Altix 350 cluster, and a four-processor SGI Altix 350 system, to Total, the major French oil and gas company. [ ] 107561 ) IBM PREVIEWS VIRTUALIZATION ENGINE...........................6.7K IBM plans to begin shipping its new Virtualization Engine technology in IBM servers and storage this year, including a capability to simplify the management of mixed environments of IBM and non-IBM systems. [ ] 107562 ) TRANSMETA'S PROCESSOR PROVIDES HIGH PERFORMANCE, EFFICIENCY..4.4K Transmeta Corporation's energy efficient Efficeon processor is now available in the HP Blade PC bc1000 as part of the HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) architecture. [ ] 107563 ) SUN, ORACLE PUBLISH FIRST SPECjAppServer2002 RESULT..........3.3K Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Oracle Corporation announced that Sun's first AMD Opteron processor-based server, the Sun Fire V20z, running Oracle Application Server 10g, has achieved an overall SPECjAppServer2002 price/performance world record. [ ] 107564 ) VISUAL NUMERICS, CTC WORK TOGETHER ON HPC SOLUTIONS..........4.7K Visual Numerics Inc. and the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) announced that they will combine their technology and knowledge to advance high- performance computing solutions. [ ] 74578 ) SGI Altix Configurations Complete Seismic Processing And Reservoir Capabilities at French Oil and Gas Giant Total QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107576 ) "Malicious threat attacks, such as distributed denial of service attacks caused by worms, pose a potential threat to the nation's ability to conduct business, defend itself and provide vital government service to its citizens." -- Erik Mettala, Vice President of McAfee Research at Network Associates [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! 10 APPLICATIONS POWERED BY GRID COMPUTING GRID RENAISSANCE: INTERVIEW W/ ALAN BLATECKY http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107565 ) U Of Central Florida Utilizes Unaxis SHUTTLELINE Systems.....1.4K [ ] 107566 ) Xilinx Ships RapidIO Solution For Virtex-II Pro FPGAs........3.5K [ ] 107567 ) Stretch Inc. Introduces A Software-Configurable Processor....7.4K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107568 ) Sun Announces Availability Of J2EE 1.4 APP Verification Kit..3.4K [ ] 107569 ) CAE Gets $13 Million Beznau Nuclear Power-Plant Sim Contract.2.7K [ ] 107570 ) ELISE Delivers New Speeds, Accuracy On Mega Data Searches....5.7K [ ] 107571 ) Fluor Corporation Signs Global License Agreement With Aveva..1.6K [ ] 107572 ) VirTra Systems Announces Simulator Sale To US Air Force........2K [ ] 107573 ) The MathWorks Releases Upgrade To MATLAB Mapping Toolbox.....2.3K [ ] 107574 ) Visual Numerics Announces Availability Of IMSL Library.......3.2K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107575 ) VCSY Granted Patent For Fiber Optic Image Transmission Work..1.8K [ ] 107576 ) Network Associates McAfee Research Selected To Support NSF.....4K [ ] 107577 ) AMCC Remains No. 1 Worldwide Vendor..........................2.3K [ ] 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!! STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107578 ) SDSC Selects Finisar's SAN Tools To Perform Analysis.........3.9K [ ] 107579 ) Microsoft Acquires ActiveViews' BI Functionality.............3.4K [ ] 107580 ) Insider Analyzes Storage Virtualization......................2.2K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107581 ) Sensors, Software Tests Will Help Protect Pentagon...........4.7K [ ] 107582 ) Recent Survey Identifies Most Influential Grid Journalists...3.7K [ ] 107583 ) Certicom Announces Elliptic Curve Cryptography Winner........4.1K [ ] 107584 ) ISB, PNNL Announce Partnership To Leverage Strengths.........3.8K [ ] 107585 ) Mathematicians Collaborate To Solve RSA Factoring Challenge..3.8K [ ] 107586 ) Annual Cray User Group Meeting May 17-20 In Knoxville, TN....2.6K [ ] 107587 ) DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease In Test Tube............3.5K [ ] 107588 ) NM Supercomputing Challenge Winners Announced................1.2K [ ] 74568 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107589 ) Product Watch: GDA Announces GRIO - Silicon IP Cores.......16.4K Freescale Semi Reveals PowerPC Core Roadmap. Interpeak Unveils Optimized TCP/IP Stacks. [ ] 107590 ) Financial Update: MS Reports Strong Third Quarter Revenue...13.5K SGI Announces Key Sales Wins For Third Qtr. RSA Security Announces First Qtr Results. [ ] 107591 ) Corporate Liaisons: Cray, Best Systems Sign Sales Agreement..5.2K IBM, Cisco Expand Alliance. DaimlerChrysler Signs Agreement w/ EDS. [ ] 107592 ) People and Position: Gray Resigns From EDS Board of Dir......9.9K CA Announces Interim CEO And New COO. SI Appoints Stenbit To Board Of Dir. 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