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 15, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 41 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 232 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 - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1311 - ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 108563 ) FEATURES: HEC ARTICLE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS | | [ ] 108567 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: VERARI SHIPS VIRTUALIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | | [ ] 108573 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: SGI INTROS LINUX-BASED VISUAL COMPUTING | | [ ] 108593 ) NEWS BRIEFS: THE WORLD'S FIRST CRAY T3E RETIRES | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74621 ) Having Difficulty Writing 64-Bit Code? Intel Introduces Suite Of Tools, Expertise To Help - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #621 - FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 108563 ) HEC ARTICLE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS...............4.5K LETTER TO THE EDITOR A reader writes in to ask the High-End Crusader some questions regarding the article in the October 08 issue of HPCwire. [108516, http://www.tgc.com/hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/04/1008/108516.html] [ ] 108564 ) LEVERAGING LINUX CLUSTERS FOR OIL EXPLORATION..................8K by Tim Curns, Editor Recently, HPCwire caught up with Weinman Geoscience, providers of expert exploration consulting and seismic data processing services to the energy industry, to discuss their use of Linux clusters for seismic data processing. [ ] 108565 ) NCSA ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEW DIRECTOR........................5.6K The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced that Thom H. Dunning Jr. will be the new director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), pending the approval of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. [ ] 108566 ) LBNL RESEARCHER TO ANALYZE CLIMATE MODELS FOR INT'L REPORT...5.2K Michael Wehner, a climate researcher in the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has received a National Science Foundation grant to analyze the results of three new climate models as a means of determining their predictive quality. [ ] 74609 ) Want More? Become a Registered User Today And Receive Free White Papers, Case Studies, and More Linux Networx - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #713 - CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 108567 ) VERARI SHIPS PUREcluster ipSAN VIRTUALIZED STORAGE SYSTEM......4K Verari Systems announced that it is shipping the PUREcluster ipSAN, an intelligent, clustered iSCSI-based SAN storage system that combines a powerful storage server, automated virtualization software features, and disk capacity into a single pool of shared storage. [ ] 108568 ) INFINICON'S INFINIBAND VALIDATED FOR ORACLE DATABASE 10g.....2.8K InfiniCon Systems, the leader in end-to-end networking for high performance business computing, announced availability of its InfiniBand interconnect clustering solution for Oracle Database 10g installations. [ ] 108569 ) SMALL TREE ANNOUNCES INFINIBAND NETWORKING FOR MAC CLUSTERS....5K Small Tree Communications, a leading Mac network solutions provider, has announced the immediate availability of the fastest-ever InfiniBand products available for the Mac. [ ] 108570 ) MERCURY ANNOUNCES INTEL 32/64 XEON-BASED SERVER SOLUTIONS....2.8K Mercury Computer Systems announced, at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists conference, the introduction of the next-generation XRi cluster systems with enhanced graphics capabilities. [ ] 108571 ) DASSAULT SYSTåMES, FAKESPACE DRIVE VISUALIZATION W/ CLUSTERS.2.9K Two new solutions from Dassault Syst•mes and Fakespace will enable engineers and designers working with CATIA V5 Digital Mockup (DMU) to access virtual reality features in native V5 PLM and drive immersive environments using PC clusters. [ ] 74604 ) HP Breaks Price-performance Barriers, Broadens Customer Choice with Expanded ProLiant Server Line - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1220 - _____________________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 ============================================================================== [ ] 74620 ) Sun and Sybase Create World's Largest Data Warehouse, Breaking Through One Trillion Row Threshold VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================ [ ] 108572 ) IBM PUMPS UP BLADES FOR LIFE SCIENCE, FINANCIAL INDUSTRIES...8.8K IBM announced the early success of opening the IBM eServer BladeCenter specification and also announced significant enhancements to its POWER processor-based BladeCenter systems. [ ] 108573 ) SGI INTROS LINUX-BASED VISUAL COMPUTING SYSTEM...............8.1K SGI announced the Silicon Graphics Prism, the world's most powerful and flexible Linux OS-based visual computer product line. [ ] 108574 ) HP LAUNCHES FINANCE PLATFORM FOR SWIFT CONNECTIVITY..........3.7K HP has announced a new server platform that enables financial institutions and large corporations to access the SWIFT financial messaging network, while taking advantage of the lower costs and higher availability of the clustered Microsoft Windows environment. [ ] 108575 ) PATHSCALE PRODUCT SUITE TO BE OFFERED WITH HP SERVERS........3.3K PathScale announced that its product suite will be available to users and resellers of industry-standard HP ProLiant servers based on both AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based processors. [ ] 108576 ) NEXCOM'S NEXBLADE 416 BLADE SERVER WINS TWO AWARDS...........3.6K Nexcom received the Outstanding Information Application and Product Award and the Best of Taiwan's Best Award for its NexBlade 416 Blade Server. [ ] 108577 ) DataDirect SELECTED AS STORAGE TECH POWERING BLUEGENE/L......5.8K DataDirect Networks has delivered a storage networking system to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, enabling the U.S. national lab to build the next-generation scientific simulation environment for its BlueGene/L massively-parallel computer. [ ] 74591 ) Myrinet Used in 187 Of The June-2004 TOP500(TM) - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1721 - QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 108568 ) "The future is now." -- Juan Loaiza, Vice President, Systems Technology Group, Oracle Corporation. [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! GGF12: THE LINESCH REIGN BEGINS MCNC TO PROVIDE YEAR OF FREE GRID SERVICES TO NEW BUSINESSES http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108578 ) Tatung Challenges Rivals In UK Server Market.................3.1K [ ] 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. SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108579 ) SGI, Landmark Graphics Demo Breakthrough In Oil Searching....6.1K [ ] 108580 ) Paradigm To Show New Productivity Technologies At SEG 2004...3.1K [ ] 108581 ) STMicroelectronics Joins Chinese Open Platform Initiative....3.9K [ ] 108582 ) Harris Corp. Intros New Version Of Inreality 3-D Software....2.3K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 108583 ) University Of Pittsburgh, PSC Join National LambdaRail.......3.7K [ ] 108584 ) Florida Universities Create Statewide Research Network.......7.2K [ ] 108585 ) Virtela Offers Global 'Supernetwork' For The Enterprise......3.8K [ ] 108586 ) Raptor Achieves Fiber Connected Clustered Switches For HPC...2.3K [ ] 108587 ) Level 3 To Supply Networking Services To Northrop Grumman....2.5K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 108588 ) IBM Unveils New Data Storage Systems.........................9.2K [ ] 108589 ) Appro Launches High-Performance Storage Systems..............2.8K [ ] 108590 ) PMC-Sierra Delivers SAS Architectural Solution...............5.8K [ ] 108591 ) Storagetek Redefines Virtualization In Open Systems Storage....5K [ ] 108592 ) Emulex Announces Microsoft Data Protection Server Support....1.7K [ ] 74615 ) Nexcom NexBlade Servers >The Best Blade Solution for HPC< >AMD 64-bit Server Blade Available< NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 108593 ) The World's First CRAY T3E Retires...........................1.6K [ ] 108594 ) Nanosys Wins 2004 World Technology Network Award.............1.3K [ ] 108595 ) Professor Discusses The Dislocation Factor...................3.1K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 108596 ) Product Watch: MIPS Releases Enhanced MIPS32 24K Core Family.2.4K Discreet Ships Version 7 of 3ds max Software. [ ] 108597 ) Financial Update: Sun Settles Litigation w/ Eastman Kodak....6.1K Intel Announces Third-Qtr Revenue $8.5 Billion. HP Takes Strong Hold Of Software Market. [ ] 108598 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sun, NVIDIA Form Pro Graphics Alliance...7.9K Ascential, PeopleSoft Improve Ownership Cost. Procera Inks Agreement With BluPointe DRS. [ ] 108599 ) People and Position: Cray Elects Sally Narodick To Board.....2.9K ClusterVision Expands UK Team. [ ] 74622 ) More Energy Exploration Firms Turn to SGI Altix To Maximize Output from Oil and Gas Discoveries - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1311 - JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) ClearSpeed Technology, *Cray Inc., *Dartmouth COllege, D.E. Shaw Group, LLNL, LSU, *PSC, OSU, *Tabor Communications, *TACC [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K 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 CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 10.13.04)..............10K SC2004 BRIDGING COMMUNITIES November 6-12, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/ [ ] 74623 ) International Congress of Nanotechnology and Nano World Expo 2004 November 7-11, 2004 San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel http://www.nanotechcongress.com [ ] 74616 ) Lisa'04 The 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference November 14-19, 2004, Atlanta, GA HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== [ ] 670 ) Masthead........................................................2.2K [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals........................................2.6K [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles...................................1.6K [ ] 950 ) Index of Back Issues.............................................28K Comments regarding editorial content may be sent to: editor@hpcwire.tgc.com ______________________________________________________________________ | Full background information on all leading HPC solution providers | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 556) Annapolis Micro Systems [ ] 541) MSC Software | | [ ] 544)*Atipa Technologies [ ] 536) Myricom | | [ ] 554) Cray [ ] 553)*Nexcom | | [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 543) DataDirect Networks [ ] 540) Paracel | | [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard [ ] 530) Pathscale | | [ ] 902) IBM Corp. 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