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 *** November 26, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 47 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 238 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74633 ) Migrate to serious performance, open standards and value -Free trade-in credit: up to $2,000/processor -Free migration project evaluation and roadmap -Discounts on education for SGI Linux Curriculum Migrate to the powerful SGI Altix family of servers ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 108855 ) FEATURES: IDC SAYS HPC $6B+ HEALTHY AND GROWING | | [ ] 108859 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: CFS ANNOUNCES LUSTRE SUCCESS ON HP SFS | | [ ] 108863 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: CRAY REPORTS $8M INT'L ORDER FOR X1E, XD1 | | [ ] 108886 ) NEWS BRIEFS: LANL COMPUTERS MAP HURRICANE UTILITY IMPACTS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74638 ) Intel Software Tools Boost Application Performance On Intel-Processor Based Platforms FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 108855 ) IDC SAYS HPC $6B+ HEALTHY AND GROWING........................4.1K With the requisite caution expected from seasoned analysts, IDC's Earl Joseph, Chris Willard and Addison Snell, along with a panel of industry experts from the HPC User Forum, told a room of HPC executives from industry, academia, federal governments and vendors that times are good and should continue for the foreseeable future. [ ] 108856 ) WHAT I DID DURING MY VACATION AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2004........12.9K by Glen Otero, Contributing Editor Glen Otero, founder of Callident and newest addition to HPCwire's roster of contributing editors, describes his quest for cluster news (and pints of Guinness!) during his recent visit to Supercomputing 2004. [ ] 108857 ) BUSH REQUESTS $131.9 BILLION IN 2005 R&D FUNDING.............3.4K The Bush Administration requested $131.9 billion in federal research and development (R&D) funding for FY2005. This is $5.9 billion above the estimated $126 billion that was appropriated for federal R&D in FY2004. [ ] 108858 ) RTI USES HPC TO SIMULATE AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK..................4.1K In the first use of a new infectious disease modeling system consortium funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, researchers at Research Triangle Institute International are hosting an exercise to test public health responses to an outbreak of avian flu in a simulated community of 500,000 residents. [ ] 74637 ) Free Webinar: New Cluster Technologies * New scalable cluster storage * New 64-bit computing technologies * Total Cluster Management Wednesday, December 1, 2004 - 2:00 p.m. EST Register now: http://www.lnxi.com/webinar/ Linux Networx CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 108859 ) CFS ANNOUNCES SUCCESS FOR LUSTRE FILE SYSTEM ON HP SFS.......3.2K Cluster File Systems, Inc., a leader in high-performance parallel file systems, announced that its Lustre technology has been integrated in the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share product (HP SFS). [ ] 108860 ) MICROWAY ANNOUNCES MPI LINK-CHECKER FOR MPI BASED CLUSTERS...3.6K Microway, a leading provider of HPC solutions, announced the availability of the commercial version of MPI Link-Checker, a software diagnostic that finds underperforming nodes in MPI based clusters. [ ] 108861 ) NORWAY'S FIRST TERAFLOP CLUSTER INSTALLED AT U OF TROMSO.....1.3K Earlier this month, Norway's first 64-bit Teraflop cluster was installed at the University of Tromso. In less than 4 hours, the HPC- group at UiT had upgraded the system from 100 Gigaflop to 1 Teraflop, all while being broadcast across the Internet. [ ] 74639 ) New HP Clusters Based on Industry Standards Simplify High-performance Computing _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74603 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] 74606 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx [ ] 74640 ) Avio Invests in MSC.MasterKey System to Improve Product Development Process ============================================================================== [ ] 74643 ) 100% Custom HPC Solutions Designed to Exceed Your Expectations. - Aspen Systems - VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 108862 ) SGI ONYX4 VISUALIZATION HELPS CREATE HUMAN FACE SIMULATION...5.1K Using a Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision system, Canadian scientists are in the process of creating the first research-quality simulated human face, whose features can be controlled by a mouse right down to a Mona Lisa smile. [ ] 108863 ) CRAY REPORTS $8M INT'L ORDER FOR X1E, XD1 SUPERCOMPUTERS.....2.4K Cray Inc. reported an order valued at approximately $8 million from an unnamed international customer for a Cray X1E supercomputer and a Cray XD1 supercomputer. The two systems are scheduled to be installed in the first half of 2005. [ ] 108864 ) TOYOTA ACCELERATES FORMULA ONE CAR DEVELOPMENT WITH INTEL....4.7K Intel has announced that Toyota Motorsport, a major Formula One racing team, has standardized its car design and engineering systems on a cluster of Intel Itanium 2 processor-based servers to enhance racing performance and reduce the time required to develop its Formula One cars. [ ] 108865 ) PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN EXTENDS USAGE OF MSC.Nastran...............4K MSC.Software Corp. announced that the second largest European car maker, France-based PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN, has extended the exclusive usage of MSC.Nastran for all its linear structural simulations and will purchase the new MSC.Nastran Implicit Nonlinear solution (Sol 600). [ ]74642 ) Introducing the Appro XtremeBlade Next Generation AMD Opteron Blade Server! HPCwire's Tim Curns interviewed Daniel Kim, Appro's CEO, about the company's recent wins and future goals. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 108887 ) "This speech has evidently touched a nerve in the supercomputing community that measurements need to be put in place to positively impact HPC's landscape." -- Stan Ahalt, Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) Executive Director [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! IBM LAUNCHES ITS WORLD COMMUNITY GRID OIF, GGF COME TOGETHER FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING WORKSHOP http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108866 ) IBM Expands Leading Position In Servers Year-To-Year.........1.2K [ ] 108867 ) HP Leads In Server Shipments Worldwide For Tenth Quarter.....2.6K [ ] 108868 ) Tundra Delivers High-Performance RapidIO Switch..............4.2K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108869 ) Public Comment Period Begun For OpenMP Specification 2.5.....1.8K [ ] 108870 ) Accelrys Launches Nanotechnology Consortium..................3.1K [ ] 108871 ) Synopsys Supports Intel Xeon Processor With The Intel EM64...3.2K [ ] 108872 ) MIPS Technologies' Supported By MontaVista Linux.............2.2K [ ] 74641 ) Myrinet The Leading TOP500 Interconnect - Myricom - NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 108873 ) S2io Helps Caltech Team Set New Performance Record At SC04...3.5K [ ] 108874 ) Qwest Will Continue To Deliver Network To Internet2..........3.2K [ ] 108875 ) Foundry Speeds Ahead In 10-Gigabit Ethernet Layer 3 Market...3.8K [ ] 108876 ) Extreme Networks Surpasses 10 Million Port Milestone.........2.3K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 108877 ) StorCloud To Build Upon SAN Initiative At SC|05..............3.1K [ ] 108878 ) UK National Weather Service Picks Atempo For Data Protection.2.2K [ ] 108879 ) Fujitsu Drives Qualified By Supermicro For Storage Solutions.3.9K [ ] 108880 ) InoStor Ships Network Storage Appliance w/ MS Storage Server.2.6K [ ] 108881 ) Loyola Enterprises Showcases Ultra-High Performance Storage..3.5K [ ] 108882 ) Intransa Deployed As IP Storage Backbone At SC04.............4.2K [ ] 108883 ) DataCore Posts High-Performance Benchmark Results For iSCSI..3.1K [ ] 108884 ) Dot Hill Releases 400GB SATA Drive Option....................2.6K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 108885 ) NC State Researchers Use Visualization To Examine Diseases...3.9K [ ] 108886 ) Los Alamos Computers Map Hurricane Utility Impacts...........4.8K [ ] 108887 ) Blue Collar Computing Sparks Industry Insiders' Imagination..3.4K [ ] 108888 ) IBM Joins AUTOSAR Consortium.................................4.2K [ ] 74644 ) Japan's RIKEN Bases New Protein Modeling Solution on SGI Altix 350 System SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 108889 ) Product Watch: Altera Now Shipping World's Biggest FPGA......4.8K Constant Data Improves Support For Linux. Brocade SAN Switches Now Available From IBM. [ ] 108890 ) Financial Update: HP Board Declares Regular Dividend.........2.1K USC Institute Receives $100M Grant From Army. [ ] 108891 ) Corporate Liaisons: NVIDIA, Intel Sign License Agreements....9.8K ChevronTexaco, LANL Team For Energy Solution. Sun, Sonic Announce Results Of Collaboration. [ ] 108892 ) People and Position: LANL's Marquez Named HENAAC Luminary.....11K Tipparam Named Oracle Developer Of The Year. LSU Professor To Help Create 'Virtual Lab.' [ ] 74615 ) Nexcom NexBlade Servers >The Best Blade Solution for HPC< >AMD 64-bit Server Blade Available< NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) 3DGeo Development Inc., ClearSpeed Technologies, *Cray Inc., Dartmouth College, D.E. 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