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 *** July 02, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 26 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 222 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107941 ) FEATURES: PART II - IS WINDOWS NT SERVER AN OS FOR HPC? | | [ ] 107945 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: PANASAS FUELS OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY | | [ ] 107949 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: PARACEL ANNOUNCES NEW GENEMATCHER2 CUSTOMERS| | [ ] 107974 ) NEWS BRIEFS: HPC SOFTWARE CHALLENGE INVITES SUBMISSIONS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74573 ) FREE CASE STUDY Orbital Sciences Deploys Evolocity CFD Cluster Faster Simulations = $130,000 ROI Linux Networx P r o v e n FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107941 ) PART II: IS WINDOWS NT SERVER AN OS FOR HPC?................10.5K by Christopher Lazou Below is the full interview with Dr. Gerd Heber from the Cornell Theory Centre, Ithaca, NY, USA, concerning their work in porting Microsoft Windows NT server as an OS for HPC clusters. [ ] 107942 ) APAC ISSUES REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, REAPPOINTS CALLAGHAN........2K The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing has issued a request for proposals for the supply of a peak computing system and associated services for the APAC National Facility at the Australian National University. [ ] 107943 ) LINUX CLUSTER BREAKTHROUGH: THE BIG DEAL IS BIG BANDWIDTH....7.8K by Tim Curns, Editor HPCwire recently talked with Kent Koeninger, product manager in HP's High Performance Technical Computing Division, about HP's two-year tuning of the Lustre protocol and how the software solves I/O bottleneck issues in Linux cluster computing enterprises. [ ] 74592 ) Intel(TM) Xeon(TM) Processor Family Ushers In New Technologies, Broader Range of Capabilities for Enterprise Platforms CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107944 ) SCD PREPARES TO DEPLOY LARGE LINUX CLUSTER.....................2K SCD has been working for months to prepare for the arrival of "lightning," a large-scale IBM Linux cluster that will arrive at NCAR the week of 12 July 2004. [ ] 107945 ) PANASAS FUELS OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY...........................3.9K Panasas, Inc. demonstrated its strength in the oil and gas market with the addition of Core Laboratories N.V., Maxus Energy to its growing customer base. [ ] 107946 ) MELLANOX SIMPLIFIES 10Gb/S HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING........5.3K Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a leader in InfiniBand solutions, announced availability of the HPC (High Performance Computing) Gold Collection to facilitate rapid installation and deployment of 10Gb/s high performance computing clusters. [ ] 107947 ) PLUG AND PLAY CLUSTER SOFTWARE'S PRO VERSION DEBUTS..........2.5K While releasing version 1.5 of Pooch, Dauger Research, Inc., debuts Pooch Pro, an enhanced version of the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. Pooch Pro debuts new supercomputer-level capabilities to administrate and control cluster resources. [ ] 74593 ) Breakthrough HP Cluster Technology for High Performance Computing _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74597 ) New Intel Itanium 2 Processor - Ideal for High Performance Computing [ ] 74562 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74596 ) MSC.Software Expands Simulation Process and Data Management Capabilities with Release of MSC.SimManager 2004 r2 ============================================================================== [ ] 74594 ) Sun Keeps Developers on Cutting Edge With New Sun Developer Network Membership Options And Promotions Offers Free Opteron Processor-Based Workstation VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107948 ) INTEL XEON PROCESSOR FAMILY USHERS IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES.......7.8K Intel Corporation announced availability of a new Intel Xeon processor- based platform and a host of new products and technologies for its Intel Xeon processor family that significantly boost performance, memory and graphics capabilities for workstation platforms. [ ] 107949 ) PARACEL ANNOUNCES THREE NEW GENEMATCHER2 CUSTOMERS...........5.5K Paracel, Inc. announced that the Nestlˆ Research Center, the University of Wuerzburg and the Institute of Molecular Pathology have chosen GeneMatcher2 to support their bioinformatics research. [ ] 107950 ) MSC, PETRONAS (PRSS) TO IMPROVE VIRTUAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT..3.9K MSC.Software Corp. announced that PETRONAS Research and & Scientific Services Sdn Bhd (PRSS), which is the research arm and technology provider within the PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Bhd) group of companies, has purchased the MSC.MasterKey Licensing System. [ ] 107951 ) HP WORKSTATIONS BOAST INCREASED POWER, PERFORMANCE...........6.6K HP announced a new line of industry-leading workstations that redefine personal performance, offering customers low-cost, personal workstations with increased power, reliability and support. [ ] 107952 ) SGI CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY OF REALITY CENTER ENVIRONMENT....10.6K Silicon Graphics is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the July 14, 1994 launch of the SGI Reality Center immersive visualization environment. [ ] 74591 ) Myrinet Used in 187 Of The June-2004 TOP500(TM) QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107952 ) "In Victorian times, Egyptian mummies were unwrapped at public spectacles, which was invasive and ultimately damaging to the mummy. We are gathering information here without disturbing the casing or cartonnage at all -- through 3D technology we can reveal so much more than the naked eye can see." -- Dr. John Taylor, assistant keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! NEW GRID 'ZERO MIDDLEWARE' FOR FORTUNE 1000s SPACI SELECTS HP FOR STRATEGIC GRID COMPUTING IMPLEMENTATION http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107953 ) Silicon Carbide Hotplates Tolerate Searing Temperatures......3.4K [ ] 107954 ) Lattice Semiconductor Launches New FPGA Products.............8.1K [ ] 107955 ) Dell Workstations Deliver High-Performance Computing.........3.8K [ ] 107956 ) USC Smartens HP Server Memory................................3.2K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107957 ) U.K. SGI Reality Center Opens For Virtual Mummy Exploration..6.3K [ ] 107958 ) PathScale EKO Compiler Suite Interoperable w/ Streamline.....2.2K [ ] 107959 ) TR Engineering Invests In MSC.ADAMS To Improve VPD...........3.5K [ ] 107960 ) Sun Unveils NetBeans 4.0 At NetBeans Software Day Event......6.2K [ ] 107961 ) Cornell Uses The MathWorks To Develop Competitive Robotics...2.9K [ ] 107962 ) BEA Announces WebLogic Available On Sun's Solaris............3.6K [ ] 107963 ) ART VPS Releases Ray Tracing For CATIA, ENOVIA V5 Software...2.2K [ ] 107964 ) Visual Numerics Announces Availability Of TS-WAVE 4.0........3.1K [ ] 107965 ) Colfax International Delivers HPC Tech To Pro Users..........2.6K [ ] 107966 ) Fakespace Intros Interaction Engine For Seamless Environment...4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107967 ) LSI Logic Announces High-End QDR-2 SRAM Memory Interfaces....3.4K [ ] 107968 ) Force10 Networks Joins Internet2...............................3K [ ] 107969 ) Cisco Sets Guinness Record w/ High Capacity Internet Router..3.9K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107970 ) Kashya Stretches Geocluster 2000+ Miles......................1.7K [ ] 107971 ) Chelsio Finds SAN, LAN Convergence w/ 10GbE iSCSI Adapters.....3K [ ] 107972 ) BakBone Inks Worldwide Alliance With NEC.....................2.5K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107973 ) SGI, Intel Welcome Software Developers To Altix Via TCEP.....4.2K [ ] 107974 ) HPC Software Challenge Invites Submissions...................1.5K [ ] 107975 ) TACC To Host Meeting Of IBM Scientific Computing User Group..4.8K [ ] 107976 ) NEC Announces Benchmark Results On Intel Itanium Server......2.4K [ ] 107977 ) HPC Users Survey Findings To Be Unveiled At HPC Users Conf...3.3K [ ] 74595 ) SGI and Intel Welcome Another 20 Software Developers To Altix Via Technical Computing Enabling Program SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107978 ) Product Watch: Supermicro Launches Intel-based Solutions.....3.2K Verari Offers Intel Extended Memory 64 Tech. VMware Offers Interface To Virtual Infrastructure. [ ] 107979 ) Financial Update: S2io Secures $15 M in Series C Funding.....2.6K ANSYS Debuts On FORTUNE Fastest-Growing List. [ ] 107980 ) Corporate Liaisons: Hitachi, NEC To Est. Joint Venture Co....3.7K Brooks Automation Announces Agreement w/ HP. Emulex Announces Settlement With QLogic. [ ] 107981 ) People and Position: Skidmore Awarded Inventor Of The Year...5.7K ORNL Researcher Elected Treasurer. Cray's CEO Wins Ernst & Young Award. JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) Accenture, Adaptec, Apple, ARSC, C-DAC, Center for Deep Earth Exploration, ClearSpeed Technology, Computer Assets, *Cray Inc., D.E. 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