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 *** September 24, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 38 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 252 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 108423 ) FEATURES: FASTER NOT ALWAYS BETTER - ENSURING HPC PRODUCTIVITY| | [ ] 108428 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: CHAIRS DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUSTERING| | [ ] 108433 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: PATHSCALE COMPILER ADOPTION ZOOMS UPWARDS | | [ ] 108454 ) NEWS BRIEFS: UK SEMINAR TO EXAMINE THE CHANGING FACE OF HPC | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74609 ) Want More? Become a Registered User Today And Receive Free White Papers, Case Studies, and More Linux Networx FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 108423 ) FASTER SYSTEMS NOT ALWAYS BETTER: ENSURING HPC PRODUCTIVITY..8.3K by Tim Curns, Editor Linux Networx, provider of computing systems for high-performance simulation, analysis and modeling, recently spoke to HPCwire regarding the relationship between the productivity and speed of high-end systems. [ ] 108424 ) RADICAL CHANGE MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER: RESPONDING TO THE HEC..3.9K A reader takes issue with the High-End Crusader's argument that high- end computing needs a radical programming change from the September 17, 2004 edition of HPCwire. [108384] [http://www.tgc.com/hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/04/0917/108384.html.] [ ] 108425 ) VIJAY SAMALAM STEPS UP AS SDSC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR............5.6K by Tim Curns, Editor The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego announced that Dr. Vijay Samalam has been appointed executive director. HPCwire had a chance to ask Dr. Samalam about his new position and potential responsibilities. [ ] 108426 ) HPC CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO CANADA'S FUTURE..................3.8K Canada's high-performance computing industry is critical to the health of the country, and more awareness and attention needs to be paid to its development, according to a new survey of industry experts. [ ] 108427 ) INSTITUTES GATHER AT SDSC FOR NSF ALL HANDS GEON MEETING......14K More than sixty participants representing over 25 institutions gathered at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in mid-August for the second annual All Hands Meeting of the NSF "Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences" project, known as GEON. [ ] 74618 ) Intel Outlines Strategy For Making The Internet Smarter, Safer, More Reliable And Useful CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 108428 ) CONFERENCE CHAIRS DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUSTERING......12.8K by Tim Curns, Editor HPCwire caught up with the general co-chairs of IEEE's Cluster 2004 Conference Daniel Katz, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Henri Casanova, Assistant Research Scientist at SDSC, to ask some questions about the show and cluster computing in general. [ ] 108429 ) PANASAS AWARDED INNOVATIVE TECH AWARD FOR STORAGE CLUSTER....1.8K Panasas, Inc., a leader in scalable network storage for Linux clusters, announced that it has been awarded a technology award for its ActiveScale Storage Cluster. [ ] 108430 ) MEIOSYS, HP PROVIDE HIGHER AVAILABILITY FOR HPC CLUSTERS.....2.8K Meiosys Inc. announced a reseller agreement with HP to provide higher levels of availability and management flexibility of high performance computational clusters. [ ] 74619 ) Sun Microsystems to Power the Tokyo Stock Exchange _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74603 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] 74606 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx [ ] 74617 ) Seeber Italy Invests in the MSC.MasterKey Licensing System To Improve Virtual Product Development ============================================================================== HPCwire On Tour: Photo Gallery Visit the Photo Gallery to see Images from this year's AHM 2004 - eScience Broadening the Horizon http://www.tgc.com/hpcwire/gallery/index.html VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 108431 ) SUN SEIZES INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP AT NETWORK COMPUTING LAUNCH...5.9K Sun Microsystems, Inc. delivered more than 24 new technology innovations at its quarterly Network Computer '04 (NC04Q3) launch. [ ] 108432 ) HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMERS CHOOSE HP SERVERS OVER COMPETITION.....4.2K HP announced that in the past 18 months more than 200 customers worldwide have chosen HP servers to help improve agility in the datacenter and adapt rapidly to changing business needs. [ ] 108433 ) PATHSCALE EKO COMPILER SUITE ADOPTION ZOOMS UPWARDS..........4.7K PathScale is fast becoming the number one compiler choice for prominent researchers, scientists and engineers who want to achieve the highest performance from their HPC systems. [ ] 108434 ) MSC.SOFTWARE TO HOST NORTH AMERICAN VPD CONFERENCE...........3.4K MSC.Software Corp. announced the newest keynote speakers and sponsors for its 2004 North American VPD Conference, scheduled for October 18- 20, 2004 in Huntington Beach, California. [ ] 108435 ) NEC SUPERCOMPUTER BEGINS WORK IN ITALIAN RESEARCH CONSORTIUM.2.5K NEC Corporation announced that its vector supercomputer "SX-6" system has started operation in an Italian research organization, interuniversity Consortium for Supercomputing Applications for Universities and Research (CASPUR). ] 74604 ) HP Breaks Price-performance Barriers, Broadens Customer Choice with Expanded ProLiant Server Line QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 108426 ) "The field of high performance computing is quite diverse and... not consistently defined or agreed upon." -- Kevin Wennekes, CATA's Director, Policy Research and Advocacy [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMMUNITY U.S. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ENTERS NEW ERA WITH Grid3 http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108436 ) NEXCOM's Blade Server Comes With AMD Opteron Processor.......3.7K [ ] 108437 ) Appro Announces 1U And 4U Quad AMD Opteron Servers...........2.1K [ ] 108438 ) NCSA Pairs Sensors With Software-Defined Radio...............6.8K [ ] 74615 ) Nexcom NexBlade Servers >The Best Blade Solution for HPC< >AMD 64-bit Server Blade Available< NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108439 ) Solaris Innovation Continues Unabated........................6.2K [ ] 108440 ) Seeber Italy Invests In The MSC.MasterKey To Improve VPD.....3.4K [ ] 108441 ) ANTs Unveils New High-Performance Software Alliance Program..2.1K [ ] 108442 ) Engineering Students Get In Gear w/ SolidWorks, COSMOSWorks..3.4K [ ] 108443 ) Ariadne Genomics, GeneGo Deliver Advanced Systems Bio Tools..2.5K [ ] 108444 ) UK Gov't Gets Access To Source Code Of Microsoft Office 2003.3.8K [ ] 108445 ) VERITAS Software Offers More Storage Options.................5.9K [ ] 108446 ) MISUMI USA, Solidworks Create 'Virtual Tool Shop'............3.5K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 108447 ) SDSC Research Group, China Measure Int'l Network Traffic.....6.6K [ ] 108448 ) NEON Consortium To Coordinate Design Of Ecological Network...2.8K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 108449 ) Microsoft Introduces Data Protection Server..................5.1K [ ] 108450 ) Hitachi Delivers 500 Percent Performance Advantage...........4.1K [ ] 108451 ) Overland Storage Advances High-Performance Disk-Based Backup.4.2K [ ] 108452 ) BakBone Extends Data Protection To IBM OpenPower Systems.....2.8K [ ] 108453 ) LSI Logic Adapters Now Shipping With HPC Systems.............3.3K [ ] 74607 ) Who's Boosting Opteron Performance at AMD, IBM and Sun? 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[ ] 108460 ) Financial Update: UK Gov't Invests ñ4 Million To Help Women.5.1K NSF Awards $6.75M To Geodynamics Comp Facility. Enigmatec Secures $6 M Third Round Funding. [ ] 108461 ) Corporate Liaisons: Boeing, IBM Join For $200 B Market.........4K Cisco, Decru Team On Storage, SAN Security. [ ] 108462 ) People and Position: Bush Appoints Bement As NSF Director...13.6K Lab Scientists Win E.O. Lawrence Awards. ORNL's Delmau Among Top Young Innovators. [ ] 74591 ) Myrinet Used in 187 Of The June-2004 TOP500(TM) JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) ClearSpeed Technology, Cray Inc., D.E. 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