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No message text is required. * LIVEwire is available via email and on the Web at http://hpcwire.com * \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////////// L I V E w i r e from H P C w i r e Brought to you Live from SC2004, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA *** Nov. 09, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 45A *** For a Free Trial Subscription to HPCwire E-mail trial@hpcwire.com or Go to the HPCwire Booth #921 [ ] 74633 ) Migrate to serious performance, open standards and value Performance - Scalability - Flexibility Migrate to the powerful SGI Altix family of servers - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1311 - [ ] 74624 ) INTEL -- Delivering Innovation Beyond the CPU - Visit us at SC2004 in Booth 621 - FEATURES ============================================================================== [ ] 108730 ) PHIL ANDREWS EXPLAINS StorCloud's SHOWCASE OF HPC STORAGE By Tim Curns, Editor of HPCwire StorCloud, a new initiative at SC2004 this year, builds a High Performance Computing (HPC) storage capability to showcase HPC storage technologies (topologies, devices, interconnects). HPCwire recently spoke with StorCloud's Challenge Team chair, Phil Andrews, to find out more about this initiative. [ ] 108731 ) APPRO UNVEILS FIRST ENTERPRISE AMD OPTERON BLADE SERVER By Tim Curns, Editor of HPCwire HPCwire's Tim Curns recently interviewed Daniel Kim, Appro's CEO, about the company's upcoming product announcement at SC2004, recent wins and future goals. [ ] 108732 ) SECRETARY ABRAHAM ANNOUNCES RECORD BLUEGENE/L PERFORMANCE U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced that a supercomputer developed for the nation's Stockpile Stewardship Program has attained a record breaking performance of 70.72 teraFLOP/s (trillion floating point operations per second) on the industry standard LINPACK benchmark. [ ] 108733 ) NASA SGI SUPERCOMPUTER: WORLD'S SECOND BEST SUPERCOMPUTER Screaming past Japan's venerable Earth Simulator and 498 of the world's 500 most powerful systems, NASA's 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer, built from 20 SGI Altix systems, seized the second position in the latest roster of the world's top 500 supercomputers. [ ] 108734 ) SC GLOBAL CHAIR KERN DESCRIBES GRID-BASED INITIATIVE By Tim Curns, Editor SC Global 2004, a new initiative at SC2004 this year, will link Access Grid communities from around the world to exchange ideas through highly informative talks, papers, panels and BOFs on topics of interest to attendees. HPCwire spoke with NCSA's Jackie Kern, chair of SC Global, about how SC Global's effects worldwide. [ ] 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 ============================================================================== [ ] 108735 ) LINUX, NOVELL HELP ISVS CERTIFY APPS FOR CLUSTER COMPUTING Linux Networx partners with Novell to create a High Performance Computing (HPC) Certification Center to help Independent Software Vendors (ISV) certify their applications on Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for use in clustered environments. [ ] 108736 ) MARCONI INTRODUCES PROTOCOL GATEWAY FOR HPC COMMUNITY Marconi announced a new networking device, the MPG-1000, an OC- 192c Media and Protocol Gateway that extends the benefits of high-speed encryption to a variety of network interfaces in use over local-area, wide-area and storage- area networks (LAN, WAN and SAN). [ ] 108737 ) THINK COMPUTER UNVEILs 'INDUSTRY FASTEST' INFINIBAND STORAGE At SC2004, ThinkTank Q-Cluster TG demonstrated its linearly scalable storage- cluster solutions leveraging the AMD Opteron processors in a 3 X 3 configuration. [ ] 108738 ) MICROWAY UNVEILS QUADPUTER-NAVION SMP SERVER Microway showcased its Quadputer-Navion high-end server at SC2004. Running either SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows Server 2003, the platform is ideal for 64-bit compute-intensive applications including CFD, FEA and Oracle. [ ] 108739 ) PANASAS DELIVERS "COMPLETE" LINUX CLUSTER COMPUTING Panasas announced the next generation of the Panasas Storage Cluster Platform, enabling customers to further maximize the benefits of Linux clusters by breaking the storage bottleneck created by legacy storage technologies. [ ] 108740 ) SARA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING SERVICES SELECTS TOPSPIN Topspin Communications announced that Netherlands-based SARA Computing and Networking Services have successfully deployed Topspin's InfiniBand-based Server Switches as the interconnect fabric for its new 275-node server cluster. [ ] 74629 ) That's a Switch! See the new Myrinet switches in Myricom's SC2004 booth #1721 [ ]74632 ) Appro High Performance Servers Dual AMD Opteron(TM) Processors Investment with a long life-span potential - Come to see us at SC2004 Booth #1941 - GRIDS@SC ============================================================================== [VISIT http://www.gridtoday.com FOR COMPREHENSIVE SC GRID COVERAGE] [ ] 108741 ) CHIARO'S WALLACH ON SC04 'FUTURE OF SUPERCOMPUTING' PANEL Chiaro Networks' Steven J. Wallach, the company's vice president of technology and a luminary in the field of supercomputers, is a member of a panel announcing results and discussing a report on "The Future of Supercomputing." [ ] 108742 ) NCAR SELECTS PLATFORM COMPUTING GRID TECH FOR LINUX CLUSTER The Scientific Computing Division (SCD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has selected Platform Computing's Platform LSF HPC workload management software for deployment on its new 256-processor IBM e1350 Linux cluster. [ ] 108743 ) SUN, TOPSPIN DELIVER GRID SOLUTIONS FOR SOLARIS 10 Sun Microsystems and Topspin Communications announced they will be expanding their alliance to include support for Solaris, Linux and Windows-based Operating Systems for the grid and utility computing market. [ ] 74628 ) Got a Big Cluster? Get a Big Switch. Voltaire 288 Port InfiniBand Switch for HPC - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1616 - _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74603 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] 74606 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx [ ] 74636 ) MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Group Germany Improves CAE Processes with Virtual Product Development Tools from MSC.Software ============================================================================== [ ] 74626 ) HP Advances Leadership in HPTC Cluster Technology - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1220 - ***LIVEwire NEWS BRIEFS*** ===================================================================== [ ] 108744 ) AMCC Demonstrates SATA RAID StorSave Platform At SC2004 [ ] 108745 ) Bull Announces New NovaScale Servers With Itanium 2 [ ] 108746 ) Cray Enters SC2004 With Leadership Initiatives, Awards [ ] 108747 ) DataDirect Scalable SAN/NAS Storage System Supplied To OSC [ ] 108748 ) DD S2A8500 Powers NAS Performance Of Over 2.5 GBps [ ] 108749 ) DataDirect Introduces World's First High Performance FC-4 [ ] 108750 ) Etnus TotalView 6.6 Adds EM64T To List Of Platforms [ ] 108751 ) Foundry Networks Allies With Chelsio, Ammasso, S2io [ ] 108752 ) University of Kentucky Employs HP Cluster Platform For HPC [ ] 108753 ) HyperTransport Announces HyperTransport Expansion Interface [ ] 108754 ) IBM, Topspin Unveil New InfiniBand Solution For BladeCenter [ ] 108755 ) Intel Awards Seven Universities Research Grants At SC2004 [ ] 108756 ) Mathworks Unveils Computing Toolbox For MATLAB And Simulink [ ] 108757 ) Microway Announces Diagnostic Software For MPI Clusters [ ] 108758 ) Mitrionics, Nallatech Develop Algorithm Accelerator Tool [ ] 108759 ) Genome Sciences Centre Releases New OSCAR Toolkit 4.0 [ ] 108760 ) Platform Computing Launches Platform Rocks For Linux [ ] 108761 ) Portland Group Unveils Compilers With AMD Dual-Core CPUs [ ] 108762 ) Scali Selected As Cluster Management Solution For HP [ ] 108763 ) SGI Demonstrates 'Out-Compute to Out-Compete' Technology [ ] 108764 ) StorageTek Unveils Open Source Framework For ILM [ ] 108765 ) PNNL's StorCloud Challenge Application Debuts At SC [ ] 108766 ) Streamline Computing Plans To Market Software Under Allinea [ ] 108767 ) Nexsan Exhibits High-Peformance Storage Products At SC2004 [ ] 108768 ) Pathscale, Lahey Announce 64-bit Compilers For AMD Opteron [ ] 108769 ) CPU TECH Announces 'Deeply Coupled Computing' Breakthrough [ ] 108770 ) Cray Selects S2io's Xframe 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter For XT3 [ ] 108771 ) IBM Introduces eServer Blue Gene For Distribution [ ] 108772 ) Chelsio Brings Industry'S First Adapter Based On 10GBASE-CX4 [ ] 74635 ) IBM ON DEMAND BUSINESS - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #909 - LIVEwire INFORMATION ============================================================================ [ ] 670 ) Masthead [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles [ ] 950 ) Back Issue Index Comments regarding editorial content may be sent to: editor@hpcwire.tgc.com Should you have any difficulties or questions, email help@hpcwire.tgc.com TO REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THIS LIST Send e-mail to remove@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 [ ] 539) Microsoft | | [ ] 544) *Atipa Technologies [ ] 541) MSC Software | | [ ] 545) *APPRO [ ] 536) Myricom | | [ ] 552) *Aspen [ ] 553) Nexcom | | [ ] 554) Cray [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView [ ] 530) Pathscale | | [ ] 543) DataDirect Networks [ ] 946) Quadrics | | [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 902) IBM Corp. 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