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 *** October 01, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 39 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 308 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 108466 ) FEATURES: CRUSADER QUESTIONS IBM'S "FASTEST" COMPUTER CLAIM | | [ ] 108472 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: DELL BOOSTS CLUSTER PERFORMANCE | | [ ] 108477 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: CRAY "STORMS" INTO PITTSBURGH | | [ ] 108498 ) NEWS BRIEFS: POSTER SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT FOR GLOBUSWORLD | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74609 ) Want More? Become a Registered User Today And Receive Free White Papers, Case Studies, and More Linux Networx FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 108466 ) HIGH-END CRUSADER QUESTIONS IBM'S "FASTEST" COMPUTER CLAIM..11.8K Commentary from the High-End Crusader The High-End Crusader rushes to provide some perspective for the report Wednesday that IBM's Blue Gene/L has narrowly surpassed the Earth Simulator on the Linpack benchmark. Unlike the HPCC Challenge benchmark suite, Linpack only provides performance estimates for programs with exceptional locality characteristics. This raises the question, what is a general-purpose parallel computer? [ ] 108467 ) IBM TOPS EARTH SIMULATOR, BOASTS WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER....5.5K IBM announced that an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer has surpassed NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan to become the world's most powerful supercomputer, according to the industry-standard LINPACK benchmark. [ ] 108468 ) OSC EXAMINES GROWING FPGA MARKET WITH OCTOBER SYMPOSIUM......6.4K by Tim Curns, Editor HPCwire's Tim Curns interviewed Kevin Wohlever, project director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's new facility in Springfield, regarding the center's upcoming FPGA symposium and the growing importance of FPGA capability. [ ] 108469 ) SUPERWOMEN AND SUPERCOMPUTING: GHC TO HIGHLIGHT ACHIEVEMENT..4.2K At the Grace Hopper Conference, over 600 of the world's most talented women technologists will come together to talk about their technical innovations as well as have dialogues with college students on how to advance their careers, become leaders, and inspire others. [ ] 108470 ) HPC USER FORUM EXPLORES CURRENT STATE OF HPC................14.6K The HPC User Forum held its semi-annual meeting in Tucson last week and also described the agenda for the third U.S.- Europe dialogue meeting, to be held October 13, 2004 at CERN. [ ] 108471 ) SENATE COMMITTEE GIVES $5 MILLION TO BACKUP NASA.............1.7K The Senate Appropriations Committee has provided $5,000,000 from within funds projected for the Columbia project to upgrade the Goddard Space Flight Center's Center for Computational Science [NCCS] so that it serves as NASA's backup supercomputing center. [ ] 74618 ) Intel Outlines Strategy For Making The Internet Smarter, Safer, More Reliable And Useful CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 108472 ) DELL BOOSTS CLUSTER PERFORMANCE, EXTENDS TO 64-BIT APPS......3.2K Dell has enhanced the performance of its high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) platforms through packaged configurations of PowerEdge 1850 servers using Intel Xeon EM64T processors and support for larger Topspin InfiniBand switches and PCIe host channel adapters (HCAs). [ ] 108473 ) APPRO DELIVERS HYPERBLADE LINUX CLUSTERS TO PARADIGM.........1.9K Appro delivered four Appro HyperBlade Linux clusters consisting of 256- nodes/512 Intel Xeon processors followed by another cluster solution of 64- nodes/128 AMD Opteron processors to Paradigm, located in Houston, TX. [ ] 108474 ) LINUX NETWORX, ANSYS REACH NEW COMPUTING HEIGHTS.............3.7K In a joint effort with Linux Networx, ANSYS, Inc. has solved a structural analysis model with more than 10 million degree of freedom (10,501,650 DOF) within a 32-bit environment, making it possible for ANSYS customers to solve larger models on relatively low-cost hardware. [ ] 108475 ) TERANOVA CLUSTER COMPUTES NSA ALGORITHM IN THREE WEEKS.......3.9K TeraNova, a supercomputer clustering Bull NovaScale servers, has computed a collision for "SHA-0" code, a hash algorithm developed in the 1990s by the National Security Agency. [ ] 74604 ) HP Breaks Price-performance Barriers, Broadens Customer Choice with Expanded ProLiant Server Line _____________________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 ============================================================================== [ ] 74607 ) Who's Boosting Opteron Performance at AMD, IBM and Sun? That would be us. Who's Ready for a FREE Trial? That would be you. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 108476 ) HP HALTS SALE OF INTEL'S ITANIUM-BASED WORKSTATIONS..........1.1K Hewlett-Packard plans to discontinue the sale of workstations based on Intel's Itanium processors. HP's goal is to focus on chips capable of running both 32- bit and 64-bit software without moving to an entirely different architecture. [ ] 108477 ) CRAY "STORMS" INTO PITTSBURGH................................4.7K The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has received $9.7 million from the National Science Foundation for the latest, most advanced Cray system. [ ] 108478 ) SUN LAUNCHES SUN TECH, ACADEMIC RESOURCES INITIATIVE (STAR)..4.5K Continuing its mission to provide access to technology and technical resources for higher education and K-12 schools and research institutions, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the Sun(SM) Technology and Academic Resources (STAR) initiative. [ ] 108479 ) MSC.Software ANNOUNCES RELEASES OF SIMOFFICE VPD PRODUCTS....7.6K MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software and services, announced the release of MSC.Software SimOffice products MSC.Nastran 2005, MSC.Patran 2005, MSC.ADAMS 2005, MSC.Marc 2005 and MSC.Dytran 2005. [ ] 74615 ) Nexcom NexBlade Servers >The Best Blade Solution for HPC< >AMD 64-bit Server Blade Available< NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 108467 ) "The U.S. computing industry is still alive and well, and still capable of dramatic innovation." -- Dave Turek, VP of Deep Computing, IBM [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! ENTERPRISE GRID COMES TO EMEA WITH EGA COMMITTEE SUN INTRODUCES FIRST PAY-FOR-USE COMPUTING GRID http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108480 ) Sun Achieves Leading Application Server Benchmark Results....2.5K [ ] 108481 ) Global Bank Network To Use Sun Servers For Risk Management...2.3K [ ] 108482 ) Freescale Processor Delivers "Quantum Leap" In Performance...5.6K [ ] 108483 ) Verrillon Intros Optical Fibers For Oil & Gas Applications...2.4K [ ] 74619 ) Sun Microsystems to Power the Tokyo Stock Exchange SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108484 ) Sun Ships New Version of Java Platform.........................9K [ ] 108485 ) IBM, Accelrys Deliver Life Sciences Sim Platform On Linux....2.3K [ ] 108486 ) SBS Tech Announces IRIX Solution For InfiniBand Technology...2.5K [ ] 108487 ) SolidWorks 3D Design Software Helps Athletes Train...........4.9K [ ] 108488 ) Visual Numerics Releases IMSL C# Numerical Library...........6.6K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 108489 ) CAIDA Group Awarded $3.4M For Network Security Research......6.3K [ ] 108490 ) NSF Funds Center For Internet Epidemiology And Defenses......5.6K [ ] 108491 ) Lucent, Juniper To Deploy Euro Network With IP, MPLS Tech......3K [ ] 108492 ) OneNet, Cisco Give Institutions Seamless Access To NLR.......2.1K [ ] 108493 ) Ammasso Sees Performance Improvement w/ Ethernet Adapter.....2.6K [ ] 108494 ) Alcatel Brings Versatility To Optical Transport Networks.....3.5K [ ] 108495 ) Verilink To Extend Optical Ethernet To International Market..2.8K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 108496 ) Chatsworth, TMS Offer 700% Faster SQL Database Queries.......2.8K [ ] 108497 ) Hitachi, HP Offer High-Performance 300 GB Storage Drives.....3.6K HPCwire On Tour: Photo Gallery Images from this year's Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) September 15-17, 2004 www.tgc.com/hpcwire/gallery/index.html GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 108498 ) Poster Submissions Sought For GlobusWorld....................0.7K [ ] 108499 ) Nanomaterials Showing Promise In Nanotechnology Applications.3.5K [ ] 108500 ) NSF Awards CU $1.8M For Info Access And Analysis System......8.8K [ ] 108501 ) AmeriPAM 2004 Focuses On Innovation With Simulation.........1.5K [ ] 108502 ) McNealy Urges CIOs To "Break Down Silos" At COVITS...........2.5K [ ] 108503 ) Evidence Shaky For Sun's Major Role In Past Climate Changes..3.7K [ ] 108504 ) NSF, AAAS Announce Winners Of 2004 Visualization Contest.....4.5K [ ] 108505 ) Top Collegiate Programmers Go Head-to-Head At Tech Olympics..3.4K [ ] 108506 ) Virtual Power Centers Deliver Unprecedented Capabilities.....3.6K [ ] 108507 ) 3D Movies: A New Approach To An Old Idea.......................6K [ ] 108508 ) STMicroelectronics Announces Organizational Changes..........4.3K [ ] 108509 ) ATW, IWL Provide Workshop Series On Women's Leadership.........6K [ ] 74613 ) Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research 'Raises the Bar' with SGI Altix SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 108510 ) Product Watch: Oracle Announces Special E-Business Suite.....4.3K LSI Brings PCI-X Host Bus Adapter To Channel. SAS Launches High-Performance Forecasting. [ ] 108511 ) Financial Update: Hinditron Secures Order For Cray XD1.......3.1K Cisco Invests US $32M In China R&D Center. [ ] 108512 ) Corporate Liaisons: Emulex, Brocade Expand Partnership.......4.2K VeriSign Selects Solaris x86 OS. [ ] 108513 ) People and Position: Cray Appts Ly Pham, Ungaro Senior VPs...8.4K ORNL's Green A Top Black Researcher. MSC.Software Announces CFO Resignation. [ ] 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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