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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. 10, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 45B *** 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 ============================================================================== [ ] 108774 ) IBM: BLUE GENE FIRST STEP IN A JOURNEY By Tim Curns, Editor IBM announced earlier this year that an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer has surpassed NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan to become the world's most powerful supercomputer. HPCwire sat down with Dave Turek, IBM's VP of Deep Computing, and Tilak Agerwala, VP of Emerging Business, to discuss what this announcement means for IBM, as well as the world of HPC. [ ] 108775 ) REED: 'THE FUTURE CAN BE BRIGHT, GRAB YOUR SHADES' By Tim Curns, Editor Dr. Daniel A. Reed, Vice-Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been serving as director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and chairing the computational science subcommittee of PITAC. Dr. Reed managed to squeeze in some time to speak with HPCwire about the current state of HPC and what will be happening at Supercomputing 2004 this year. [ ] 108776 ) TECH KEYNOTE WEST: NAT'L LAMBDARAIL TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND By Tim Curns, Editor Kicking off the technical portion of the SC2004 program was Tom West, President and CEO of National LambdaRail Inc, a national effort comprised of members and associates from across the country focused on implementing and operating a national network infrastructure to serve the needs of the advanced research community. HPCwire caught up with Tom to discuss what will be happening with NLR in 2005. [ ] 108777 ) CRAY CO-FOUNDER BURTON SMITH TALKS TRENDS By Tom Tabor, Publisher Cray co-founder and chief scientist Burton Smith is a recognized expert on high performance computer architectures and programming languages for parallel computers. HPCwire publisher Tom Tabor talked with Smith about HPC trends and challenges. [ ] 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 ============================================================================== [ ] 108778 ) DELL CLUSTER AT NASA'S JPL: ONE OF TOP SUPERCOMPUTERS A recently deployed Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California is ranked as one of the 50 fastest supercomputers. [ ] 108779 ) SCALABLE 'ROCKS CLUSTER TOOLKIT' CERTIFIED FOR SUN SERVERS Sun Microsystems and Singapore-based Scalable Systems announced the availability of the Scalable Rocks Cluster Toolkit certified for the Sun Fire V20z and V40z servers with AMD Opteron processors. [ ] 108780 ) DELL LAUNCHES RACK-DENSE SERVER FOR SC CLUSTERS Dell introduced the PowerEdge SC1425 server, a powerful 1U server specifically designed to meet the requirements of supercomputing cluster and distributed Web farms, where performance and cost are customers' top priority. [ ] 74626 ) HP Advances Leadership in HPTC Cluster Technology - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1220 - GRIDS@SC ============================================================================== [VISIT http://www.gridtoday.com FOR COMPREHENSIVE SC GRID COVERAGE] [ ] 108781 ) INDIANA UNIVERSITY BRIDGES COMMUNITIES AT SC2004 Indiana University's display featured highlights of Pervasive Technology Labs' and University Information Technology Services' new inventions and recent accomplishments, and was visited by many of the conference's more than 5,000 participants. [ ] 108782 ) PSC UNVEILS 40 GB BANDWIDTH DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION Staff of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have demonstrated a 40 Gb Bandwidth Distributed Application. The first use of Cisco's next- generation CRS-1 routers with OC-768 interfaces in actual application processing demonstrated unprecedented connectivity. [ ] 74629 ) That's a Switch! See the new Myrinet switches in Myricom's SC2004 booth #1721 _____________________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 ============================================================================== [ ] 74635 ) IBM ON DEMAND BUSINESS - Come see us at SC2004 Booth #909 - ***LIVEwire NEWS BRIEFS*** ============================================================================== [ ] 108783 ) Absoft Provides HPC Software Developer Kit for IBM Clusters [ ] 108784 ) Etnus TotalView Available On IBM Power Linux [ ] 108785 ) IBM Unveils Next Generation Supercomputer [ ] 108786 ) Intransa Provides IP Storage Infrastructure For HPC Demo [ ] 108787 ) Scalable Rocks Launches V1.1 With 64-Bit Support At SC2004 [ ] 108788 ) OpenIB Alliance Members Win DOE Grant [ ] 108789 ) SDSC's Rocks Team Garners Three Awards at SC2004 [ ] 108790 ) Scali Extends Cross-Platform MPI Software To IBM Servers [ ] 108791 ) SDSC First Academic Center To Install IBM BLUE GENE [ ] 108792 ) Japan's RIKEN Bases Protein Modeling Solution On SGI System [ ] 108793 ) Voltaire Showcases InfiniBand Interconnect Solutions [ ] 108794 ) Wolfram Announces gridMathematica 2 Software For HPC 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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