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 *** June 11, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 23 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 245 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107810 ) FEATURES: CHINESE SUPERCOMPUTER MAY RANK AMONG FASTEST | | [ ] 107815 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: INFINICON ATTAINS BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE | | [ ] 107819 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: LANDMARK, IBM TO OFFER SUPERCOMPUTING | | [ ] 107842 ) NEWS BRIEFS: FREE WINDOWS-BASED HPC WORKSHOP AVAILABLE AT CTC | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74581 ) Sun Microsystems Helps Found The Enterprise Grid Alliance As Blue-Chip Technology Companies Drive Adoption Of Grid Computing FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107810 ) CHINESE SUPERCOMPUTER MAY RANK AMONG FASTEST COMPUTERS.......2.4K Chinese company Dawning Information Industry is building a new supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, and expects the new system to rank among the fastest machines on Earth. [ ] 107811 ) QUANTUM COMPUTING: OPENING THE DOOR TO UNPRECEDENTED POWER...4.5K by Tim Curns, Editor For years, computer scientists have been working to create increasingly smaller and faster computers. Recent advances in quantum computing are helping scientists bring technology to the smallest size possible - the atomic level. [ ] 107812 ) VIRGINIA TECH EARNS GLOBAL HONORS WITH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.....5.7K Virginia Tech is the recipient of this year's Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Award in Science. The award was presented Monday evening at a black tie event at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. [ ] 107813 ) SCIENTISTS PROVIDE NEW UNDERSTANDING OF MANGANITES...........3.9K University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently unveiled a new theory explaining the strange coexistence of metallic and insulating phases in the crystals of a mineral called perovskite manganite. [ ] 107814 ) SGI HELPS SAPAC BUY POWERFUL, NEW SUPERCOMPUTER..............3.4K South Australian scientists and researchers will now be able to make their discoveries much more quickly, thanks to the purchase of a new supercomputer, Aquila. [ ] 74573 ) FREE CASE STUDY Orbital Sciences Deploys Evolocity CFD Cluster Faster Simulations = $130,000 ROI Linux Networx P r o v e n CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107815 ) INFINICON ATTAINS BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FOR HPC CLUSTERS..4.2K InfiniCon Systems announced that its InfinIO family of InfiniBand-based solutions has attained more than 80% average efficiency and up to 88% peak efficiency on a 144-node, AMD Opteron processor-based computer cluster at the AMD Developer Center. [ ] 107816 ) APPRO SHOWCASES LINUX, AMD OPTERON CLUSTER AND QUAD SERVERS..2.6K Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, and AMD demonstrated the Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution and the 1U and 4U Quad AMD Opteron processor-based servers at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), in San Diego, CA, booth number 4534. [ ] 107817 ) MEIOSYS RELEASES OF METACLUSTER HPC ON AMD PROCESSORS..........2K Meiosys, a provider of transparent middleware solutions for optimizing and protecting business critical applications, announced the release of Meiosys' MetaCluster on the AMD Opteron processor family. [ ] 74584 ) Intel Delivers Next-Generation Processors For Embedded Market Segments _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74562 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74587 ) Hella Autotechnik s.r.o. Invests in Virtual Product Development With SimDesigner From MSC.Software ============================================================================== [ ] 74585 ) HP in HPTC: A History of Computing Innovation VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107818 ) FLEET NUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY SELECTS SGI....10.6K To achieve higher resolution weather models that produce extremely precise forecasts for United States military operations all over the world, the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) has again turned to Silicon Graphics. [ ] 107819 ) LANDMARK, IBM AGREE TO OFFER POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTING.........3.4K Landmark Graphics Corporation, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton, announced it has reached an agreement with IBM to access supercomputing power for seismic processing services via IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Centers. [ ] 107820 ) NEC LAUNCHES INTEL ITANIUM 2 PROCESSOR-BASED BLADE SERVER....6.5K NEC Solutions (America), Inc. introduced the industry's first Intel Itanium 2 processor-based blade server offered by a major enterprise hardware manufacturer. [ ] 74586 ) SGI Altix Crushes Previous Records in SPEComp Tests QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107840 ) "I have always imagined myself as a future scientist." -- Maria Leyva, student of NSF's Agriculture Summer Science Research and Development program [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! ONE MAN'S VIEWS ON THE Gt'04 EXPERIENCE Gt'04 SPEAKERS HIT UPON BENEFITS, OBSTACLES OF GRID DEPLOYMENT http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107821 ) Cisco, IBM To Design And Build High-Performance 40Gbps Chip....5K [ ] 107822 ) DRI Selects SGI To Forecast Regional Fire, Smoke Behavior....8.4K [ ] 107823 ) QuVIS To Showcase 3D And HD Technology At InfoComm 2004......3.4K [ ] 107824 ) Mercury Announces PowerPC 970FX Server Solutions.............2.7K [ ] 107825 ) Dell Unveils PowerEdge 7250 Itanium Server...................1.7K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107826 ) Paradigm epos 3.0-Based Solutions Available On SGI Altix.....3.8K [ ] 107827 ) IBM's eServer i5 Achieves Leading Result On SAP Benchmark....2.9K [ ] 107828 ) Mathematica 5 Optimized For 64-bit Computing On IRIX.........1.3K [ ] 107829 ) Tata Consultancy Services Launches Bioinformatics Software...4.2K [ ] 107830 ) SPECapc Releases Benchmark For Systems Running 3ds max 6.....2.1K [ ] 107831 ) Wily Tech Unveils New J2EE Application Performance Services..4.9K [ ] 107832 ) BakBone Announces NetVault 7 Optimized For HP Servers........2.6K [ ] 107833 ) AVS High Performance Data Visualization Software Available...1.6K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107834 ) 3DIcon Corporation Hails Extension Of Lambdarail.............1.9K [ ] 107835 ) Sprint Quadruples Top Speeds With 40 Gbps Networking.........3.5K [ ] 107836 ) Silicom Delivers Gigabit Ethernet Adapters...................1.8K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107837 ) CNT To Distribute Brocade MPR................................2.5K [ ] 107838 ) Nexsan Provides Storage Behind The Pixels Of Movie Magic.....3.3K [ ] 107839 ) EMC Expands Info Lifecycle Management w/ ADIC Tape Solutions.3.3K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107840 ) Pepper Prodigies Pursue Plants Like Those Picked By Parents..4.6K [ ] 107841 ) SGI To Present At Bear Stearns Technology Conference.........1.5K [ ] 107842 ) Free Windows-Based HPC Workshop Available At CTC.............2.6K [ ] 107843 ) MIT Recognizes Nanotech Discovery Of Winstead Patent Agent...2.7K [ ] 107844 ) IR's Massachusetts Facility Earns ISO 14001 Certification....1.4K [ ] 74567 ) Myrinet/PCI-X Interfaces High Performance Low Prices SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107845 ) Product Watch: ARM Announces Components For SoC Designs......7.2K Xilinx Unveils Virtex-4 Family. Aurora Intros 100GHz DWDM Optical Net Platform. [ ] 107846 ) Financial Update: Intel Second-Quarter Within Expectations...4.2K Force10 Closes $75 M Mezzanine Funding. Steelcloud Receives $1.2M For Equipment. [ ] 107847 ) Corporate Liaisons: INA Group Selects MSC VPD Solutions......3.9K IronCAD Licenses HOOPS From TSA. ADIC, CGG Announce Reseller Agreement. [ ] 107848 ) People and Position: TACC Hires Fossum As R&D Coordinator....4.8K Fred D. Anderson Joins Apple Board. VaST CEO Hellestrand, Elected IEEE Fellow. JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) Accenture, Adaptec, C-DAC, Center for Deep Earth Exploration, ClearSpeed Technology, Computer Assets, Cray Inc., D.E. 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