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 *** May 21, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 20 *** 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) Solution ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107684 ) FEATURES: TASK FORCE CALLS FOR UNIFIED SUPERCOMPUTING EFFORTS | | [ ] 107690 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: ADOPTION OF LINUX CLUSTERS ON THE RISE | | [ ] 107692 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: CRAY ELABORATES ON ORNL SC COLLABORATION | | [ ] 107716 ) NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. ARMY USES SGI SUPERCOMPUTER FOR SIM CENTER | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74583 ) HP's Supercomputers Power TOP500 Advanced Simulation Computing FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107684 ) TASK FORCE CALLS FOR UNIFIED SUPERCOMPUTING EFFORTS..........2.2K A White House task force has agreed that supercomputer institutes must work together closely in order to propel the country's HPC efforts. Sharing resources and opening lines of communication will help to push computational power beyond current limitations. [ ] 107685 ) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: RESPONDING TO THE HIGH END CRUSADER..11.5K Readers respond to the High End Crusader's article, "ADVANCED ANALYTIC- SEARCH TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC STRIKE" [107638] published in HPCwire May 14, 2004. The HEC also provides a general response to readers' comments. [ ] 107686 ) SGI CEO COMMENTS ON HPC'S IMPACT ON NATION..................18.4K SGI's CEO, Bob Bishop, testified before the House Science Committee on the impact of high-performance computing on the United States and SGI's subsequent role in its development. [ ] 107687 ) DHS LAUNCHES NATIONAL CENTER FOCUSING ON DATA VISUALIZATION..4.9K The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the National Visual Analytics Center (NVAC) to be led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). [ ] 107688 ) DEFENSE DEPT RENEWS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CONTRACT W/ OSC......4.3K The U.S. Department of Defense announced that the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) would receive $650,000 to provide technical leadership and program management to MSU as it develops and improves high performance computing systems for the military. [ ] 74581 ) Sun Microsystems Helps Found The Enterprise Grid Alliance As Blue-Chip Technology Companies Drive Adoption Of Grid Computing CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107689 ) APPLE INTROS WORKGROUP CLUSTER FOR BIOINFORMATICS AWARD......3.6K The Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics makes it easy for scientists to harness the immense power of computational clusters. Now, Apple is seeking five of America's most important research projects that would benefit from a high-performance computational cluster. [ ] 107690 ) ADOPTION OF LINUX CLUSTERS ON THE RISE.......................3.5K Attendees at a recent cluster computing conference indicated a widespread and rapidly growing interest in the deployment of Linux clusters and revealed critical issues vendors must address in a survey conducted at the show. [ ] 107691 ) CRITICAL SW ANNOUNCES RELEASE W/ INTEL CLUSTER TOOLS SUPPORT.3.8K Critical Software Inc, San Jose, CA, and Coimbra, Portugal, announce the release of the fastest and most complete WMPI II version ever, which includes support for Intel Cluster Tools and the Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) from Streamline Computing. [ ] 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? [ ] 74579 ) ABB Upgrades To MSC.Software's MasterKey License System For Virtual Product Development ============================================================================== [ ] 74580 ) Intel Unveils New Network Adapter That Opens The Door For The First Time To 10gbE Server Deployments In The Data Center VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107692 ) CRAY ELABORATES ON ORNL SUPERCOMPUTING COLLABORATION..........11K by Tim Curns, Editor HPCwire's Tim Curns talked with Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk and Peter Ungaro, Cray's vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, about the DOE's recently announced plan for Cray and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to deploy the world's fastest supercomputer. [ ] 107693 ) PATHSCALE CEO COMMENTS ON COMPANY, LINUX CLUSTERING.........16.5K by Tim Curns, Editor HPCwire recently interviewed Pathscale's CEO, Scott Metcalf, about Pathscale's objectives and where the company fits in to the current state of Linux clustering. [ ] 107694 ) SGI SYSTEM HELPS CANCER CENTER BIOLOGISTS GAIN INSIGHTS......3.5K Aided by high-performance computing technology from Silicon Graphics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Computational Biology Center is using a 12-processor SGI Altix 3000 system to accelerate its computational disease research. [ ] 107695 ) AMD DELIVERS MORE WITH NEW ADDITIONS TO AMD OPTERON FAMILY...5.3K AMD announced new additions to the award-winning AMD Opteron processor family ? Models 850, 250 and 150 ? once again equipping servers and workstations with high performing two-way and four-way x86 processors. [ ] 107696 ) SUN BROADENS AVAILABILITY OF SOLARIS WITH 15 NEW OEMs..........5K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the availability of the Solaris Operating System (OS) on a variety of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based systems with 15 new Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for a total of 20 x86 platform partners. [ ] 74572 ) THREE NEW, GROUNDBREAKING, ECONOMIC GRID REPORTS RELEASED 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 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107687 ) "The Department of Homeland Security has created the National Visual Analytics Center in order to increase our capabilities to discover and predict terrorist activities. Being able to collect, combine and analyze vast amounts of information plays an ever-increasing role in preventing terrorist attacks in the United States, and visual analysis of this information is a crucial tool." -- Dr. Charles McQueary, Under Secretary for Science and Technology [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! MAJOR REPORT SAYS GRID TO SPUR PHARMA IT GGF ENDORSES, SUPPORTS Gt'04 EVENT http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107697 ) Rackable Ranked Intel's Largest Server Integrator In N. Am...2.9K [ ] 107698 ) gumstix Intros Smallest Available Linux Boards And Computers.2.5K [ ] 107699 ) Ammasso Unveils First RDMA-Enabled Ethernet Server Adapter...1.1K [ ] 107700 ) Hynix Begins Delivery Of 1Gb Based 2GB RDIMM.................1.3K [ ] 107701 ) Verari Offers Latest AMD Processors Across Its Servers.......2.2K [ ] 107702 ) Altera Delivers Embedded Processor With Nios II Family.......4.7K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107703 ) Sun Announces First Japanese Sun Java Enterprise Customer......2K [ ] 107704 ) Abgam-Segula Tech, MSC Sign Spanish Distribution Agreement...2.6K [ ] 107705 ) Absoft Announces Fortran 95 Compiler For 32-bit Linux........2.9K [ ] 107706 ) TTF To Port On SGI 64-bit Processor............................1K [ ] 107707 ) BEA Plans Open Source Project To Accelerate Java Adoption....5.6K [ ] 74582 ) SGI Altix 3000 System Helps Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Computational Biologists Quickly Gain Insights Into Disease NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107708 ) SGI Delivers Powerful Collaborative Visualization With VAN...5.2K [ ] 107709 ) SI International Awarded DoD Next-Gen Internet Contract......2.8K [ ] 107710 ) Cadence Intros NanoRoute Super-Threaded Route Acceleration...3.6K [ ] 107711 ) CIENA Selects Digital Lightwave NIC To Address Tech Needs....1.6K [ ] 107712 ) Dell'Oro Group Says Force10 Achieved Number One Marketshare..2.9K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107713 ) Dynamic Network Intros TaskMaster 16000 RAID 3U Rackmount....2.6K [ ] 107714 ) FalconStor Awarded Patent For Fibre Channel Fail-Over Tech.....3K [ ] 107715 ) Winchester Unveils New NAS...................................2.7K [ ] 74568 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107716 ) U.S. Army SMDC Uses SGI Supercomputer For Simulation Center..2.5K [ ] 107717 ) Cray Speeds Up New Zealand's Fastest Supercomputer...........1.9K [ ] 107718 ) Cray Signs Contract w/ Korea Meteorological Administration...4.2K [ ] 107719 ) 3D Models Being Used To Determine Gene Development In Heart....3K [ ] 107720 ) Mgt Track To Feature Keynote Presentations From Experts......3.5K [ ] 107721 ) Fakespace Delivers First Reconfigurable Visualization System.4.4K [ ] 74567 ) Myrinet/PCI-X Interfaces High Performance Low Prices SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107722 ) Product Watch: Agilent Ships 800th 93000 SOC Series Tester...5.2K Freescale Powers ColdFire Processors w/ IC. DSS Announces Pluggable Fiber Ethernet PCI-X. [ ] 107723 ) Financial Update: Pathscale Secures $15M In Financing........6.2K Intel To Invest $2B For Manufacturing. CSC Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue Up 30%. [ ] 107724 ) Corporate Liaisons: VMware, IBM Extend Strategic Alliance....4.9K Dell And Scali Partner For Pro Services. Gridcore AB Becomes Novell Partner. [ ] 107725 ) People and Position: Sun Appts Fowler As Network Sys VP......7.4K Cray Elects Lederman To Board Of Dir. Red Hat Appts Cunningham as Gen Counsel. JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) Accenture, Adaptec, C-DAC, Computer Assets, *Center for Deep Earth Exploration, *D.E. Shaw Group, LSU, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Pathscale, Purdue University, *Raytheon, Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 05.20.04)..............10K 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 | | | | | | [ ] 946) Quadrics [ ] 540)*Paracel | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView | | [ ] 529) Linux Networx [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 541) MSC Software [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 539) Microsoft [ ] 902) IBM Corp. | | [ ] 556)*Annapolis Micro Systems [ ] 552) Appro | | [ ] 536) Myricom [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 554)*Cray [ ] 527) Intel | | [ ] 548) CSILabs [ ] 530)*Pathscale | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: advertise@hpcwire.com | |______________________________________________________________________| -------------------- * -------------------- This year, HPCwire proudly celebrates its twelfth consecutive year of service to the scientific, industrial and commercial HPC communities: 1992-2004. *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] 107641 ) CRAY, ORNL TO PROVIDE 100-TERAFLOP DOE SUPERCOMPUTER.........4.2K [ ] 107644 ) U.S. TO INCREASE COMPETITION IN SUPERCOMPUTING EFFORTS.......1.6K [ ] 107647 ) FIRM OF 55 CREATES EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE SUPERCOMPUTER.........3K [ ] 107649 ) DUAL-CORE ITANIUM CHIP PRODUCTION CHANGES INTEL'S PLANS......1.2K [ ] 107726 ) TOP 20 REQUESTED ARTICLES FROM LAST WEEK'S HPCwire...........3.1K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you for your continued support of HPCwire. 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