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 08, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 40 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 294 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 108516 ) FEATURES: HIGH-END CRUSADER REFUTES BLUE GENE/L DEFENDER | | [ ] 108521 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: APPRO, STAAG MAKE ALTERNATIVE FOR OIL & GAS| | [ ] 108523 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: SUN, TACC POWER UP TERASCALE SUPERCOMPUTER | | [ ] 108550 ) NEWS BRIEFS: PARACEL DISCONTINUES OPERATIONS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74620 ) Sun and Sybase Create World's Largest Data Warehouse, Breaking Through One Trillion Row Threshold FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 108516 ) HIGH-END CRUSADER REFUTES BLUE GENE/L DEFENDER................20K Commentary from the High-End Crusader The High-End Crusader unearths (and criticizes) a whole worldview underlying an anonymous reader's response [this issue]. Among the issues covered are: 1) Linpack v. HPC Challenge benchmark suite, 2) utility/cost v. price/performance productivity metric, 3) likelihood that most demanding applications will localize eventually, and 4) should parallel programming be impossibly hard? [ ] 108517 ) ON THE RELEVANCE OF IBM'S FASTEST COMPUTER CLAIM...............8K LETTER TO THE EDITOR A reader responds anonymously to the High-End Crusader's remarks in last week's HPCwire [108466, http://www.tgc.com/hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/04/1001/108466.html] that disputed IBM's claim of having the fastest computer in the world. [ ] 108518 ) LLNL SCIENTIST REFUTES HIGH-END CRUSADER'S LINPACK CLAIMS....5.2K LETTER TO THE EDITOR Andrew J. Cleary, Software Engineer/Computational Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, responds to the High-End Crusader's criticism of the Linpack benchmark. [108466, http://www.tgc.com/hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/04/1001/108466.html] [ ] 108519 ) HPCwire UNVEILS TWO NEW SECTIONS.............................2.1K HPCwire, as an added service to readers, is launching two NEW major sections -- a Top Systems In The World section and a Document Repository. [ ] 108520 ) NSF AWARDS $130M TO TACKLE IT RESEARCH FOR NAT'L PRIORITIES..6.8K NSF has made awards supporting nearly 120 new Information Technology Research (ITR) projects dedicated to addressing the information technology priorities facing the country ? advances in science and engineering, economic prosperity and a vibrant civil society, and national and homeland security. [ ] 74609 ) Want More? Become a Registered User Today And Receive Free White Papers, Case Studies, and More Linux Networx CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 108521 ) APPRO, STAAG MAKE MIGRATION ALTERNATIVE FOR OIL & GAS........1.4K Appro and Staag Imaging, a leading provider of high quality imaging, announces the compatibility of Staag Imaging's new proprietary Reverse- Time Migration algorithm with Appro's Hyperblade cluster technology. [ ] 108522 ) BASE ONE GRANTED US PATENT FOR CLUSTER DATABASE TECHNOLOGY...2.7K Base One International Corporation, a leading supplier of software for developing cluster computing applications, announced that International Data Corporation (IDC) has issued a Research Bulletin about Base One. [ ] 74621 ) Having Difficulty Writing 64-Bit Code? Intel Introduces Suite Of Tools, Expertise To Help _____________________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 ============================================================================== [ ] 74604 ) HP Breaks Price-performance Barriers, Broadens Customer Choice with Expanded ProLiant Server Line VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 108523 ) SUN, TACC POWER UP TERASCALE VISUALIZATION SUPERCOMPUTER.....5.4K The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that Maverick, a new UltraSPARC-based supercomputer, would provide compute power, storage resources and visualization to researchers, scientists and engineers across the country. [ ] 108524 ) CRAY FOCUSES ON CAE, FOREST SERVICES WITH AVAILABLE XD1......9.6K Cray Inc. announced the general availability of the new Cray XD1 supercomputer, an Opteron/Linux-based system priced from under $100,000 to about $2 million (U.S. list) that handily outperforms similarly priced Linux clusters. [ ] 108525 ) INTEL INTRODUCES SUITE OF TOOLS, EXPERTISE TO HELP...........4.4K Intel Corporation announced new software tools to help developers design, analyze and optimize applications running on Intel-based platforms supporting Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T). [ ] 108526 ) MORE ENERGY EXPLORATION FIRMS TURN TO SGI ALTIX.............10.1K Silicon Graphics announced that British Gas Exploration and Production India Ltd., (BGEPIL) and Instituto Venezolano del Petroleo SA (INTEVEP) have invested in SGI Altix servers and supercomputers to maximize production from some of the world's largest deposits of oil and gas. [ ] 108527 ) THE PORTLAND GROUP JOINS OpenMP ARCHITECTURE REVIEW BOARD....2.8K The Portland Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, announced it has accepted an invitation to become a permanent member of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB). [ ] 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. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 108553 ) "Imagine that the plasma is the ocean, and the laser pulse is a ship moving through it. The electrons are surfers riding the wave created by the ship's wake." -- Wim Leemans, Center for Beam Physics in Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division [ ] 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 ===================================================================== [ ] 108528 ) SGI Demos Integration With ART VPS's Hardware Ray Tracing....1.8K [ ] 108529 ) Sun Drives Innovation With New UltraSPARC IV+................2.9K [ ] 108530 ) STMicroelectronics Breaks Rules w/ Smaller Power Devices.....3.7K [ ] 108531 ) AMCC Unveils Processor For Storage And Networking Apps.......3.7K [ ] 108532 ) CPU Tech Completes DTO Flight Tests For Signal Processor.......3K [ ] 108533 ) Fujitsu Unveils Next Gen PRIMERGY Servers w/ "Cool" Design...2.6K [ ] 74615 ) Nexcom NexBlade Servers >The Best Blade Solution for HPC< >AMD 64-bit Server Blade Available< NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108534 ) U of Illinois Selects TurboWorx Solutions......................2K [ ] 108535 ) MVD Releases PowerCockpit 2.1 For AMD And 2.6 Linux Kernel...2.7K [ ] 108536 ) VMware VirtualCenter Named Most Promising Tech Of The Year.....2K [ ] 108537 ) Turbolinux Announces Release Of Turbolinux 10 Server.........3.1K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 108538 ) Foundry Delivers Full Layer 3 Software Upgrade...............5.6K [ ] 108539 ) Level 3 Expands Network In Europe............................1.2K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 108540 ) Sun Simplifies Data Services By Aligning With ISVs...........5.1K [ ] 108541 ) NCSA Research To Aid National Archives.........................5K [ ] 108542 ) Sun, Sybase Break Through One Trillion Row Threshold.........4.3K [ ] 108543 ) MS Tech Centers Integrate Emulex HBAs Into Storage Solutions.2.4K [ ] 108544 ) Rackable Unveils New Network Attached Storage Solution.......3.2K [ ] 108545 ) BakBone Aligns With Sun On New NAS Offering..................4.1K [ ] 108546 ) Noble Energy, FalconStor Fuels Storage Growth With iSCSI SAN.4.1K [ ] 74622 ) More Energy Exploration Firms Turn to SGI Altix To Maximize Output from Oil and Gas Discoveries GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 108547 ) Cray Inc. Announces Analyst Meeting At SC2004................1.9K [ ] 108548 ) OSC Explores Developments In Reconfig Computing Using FPGAs..2.2K [ ] 108549 ) Vanderbilt Joins ORNL Core Universities......................3.8K [ ] 108550 ) Paracel Discontinues Operations..............................0.8K [ ] 108551 ) GlobusWorld Extends Speaker Deadline, Seeks Posters..........1.7K [ ] 108552 ) SDSC To Be New Home For Earthquake IT Data Services............6K [ ] 108553 ) Laser Acceleration Sims At NERSC Grace Cover Of Nature.......8.3K [ ] 108554 ) STMicroelectronics Receives Corporate Governance Award.......1.9K [ ] 108555 ) NEC Joins Intel Model School Program.........................2.6K [ ] 108556 ) Paul Allen, Museum Announce Microcomputer History Gallery....6.8K 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 SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 108557 ) Product Watch: Performance Tech Intros Powerful Processor....6.6K Transmeta Releases Details On 90nm Processor. ClearSpeed Launches 50 GFLOPS Microprocessor. [ ] 108558 ) Financial Update: Cray Announces 3rd Qtr Investor Call.......4.9K SGI Announces Q1 Prelim Financial Results. Verari Receives Investors' Choice Award. [ ] 108559 ) Corporate Liaisons: Cray, LSTC Exploit Scalability Of XD1....6.1K SGI, Intel Speed Acccelerate Oil And Gas. Sun, Siebel Systems Enhance Relationship. [ ] 108560 ) People and Position: Former ORNL Deputy Director Dies........5.7K Daphne Koller Named MacArthur Fellow. [ ] 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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