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 *** December 03, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 48 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 196 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 108895 ) FEATURES: LBNL REVAMPS HPC PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS | | [ ] 108899 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: NCSA ADDS DELL CLUSTER TO PRIVATE RESOURCES| | [ ] 108901 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: SUN HELPS LEAD IN ANNUAL BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE| | [ ] 108913 ) NEWS BRIEFS: INTERNET SPEED QUADRUPLED BY INTERNATIONAL TEAM | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74638 ) Intel Software Tools Boost Application Performance On Intel-Processor Based Platforms FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 108895 ) LBNL REVAMPS HPC PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS....................7.9K To help rectify performance measurement problems, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been developing new tools and techniques for more accurately assessing the performance of high performance computers, especially when it comes to running real-world scientific applications. [ ] 108896 ) BOEING'S 'PHANTOM WORKS' WORKS...............................8.2K by J. William Bell, NCSA Access Magazine Editor The Boeing Company's research and development unit teams with NCSA's Private Sector Program to demonstrate a "distributed task manager" for quality assurance. [ ] 108897 ) BABY COSMOS GROWS UP.........................................9.8K by Katie Greene, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Starting with a satellite picture of the infant universe, Princeton University astrophysicists Paul Bode and Jeremiah Ostriker created a simulated dark-matter universe of unprecedented detail and used PSC's LeMieux to evolve it forward to the present. [ ] 108898 ) NEW FRAMEWORK CONFRONTS A MONSTER SPACE WEATHER EVENT........6.2K A new simulation tool is being applied to the biggest solar event in recent history, a month-long series of outbursts dubbed the "Halloween 2003 space storms." This Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) is the product of a Computational Technologies (CT) investigation at the University of Michigan. [ ] 74653 ) Free Webinar: Xilo Scalable Cluster Storage * The importance of Cluster Specific I/O * Xilo's Architecture * Scalable Global File System * Advantages of Diskless Nodes Tuesday December 7, 2004 2:00 p.m. EST - Linux Networx - CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 108899 ) NCSA ADDS DELL CLUSTER TO PRIVATE SECTOR RESOURCES...........2.9K The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is installing a new computing resource for use by the industry leaders participating in NCSA's Private Sector Partner Program. [ ] 108900 ) PolyServe INTROS SOLUTION FOR ORACLE DATABASE CLUSTERS.......6.4K PolyServe, Inc. announced the PolyServe Oracle High Availability (HA) Solution for Linux. In addition, PolyServe announced an agreement with IBM to help customers better manage critical applications in high- performance clustering environments. [ ] 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 ============================================================================== [ ] 74652 ) HPCwire's DOCUMENT REPOSITORY HPCwire presents a list of White Papers, Case Studies, Technical Reports and informative documents from the companies that you know best. VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 108901 ) SUN HELPS RESEARCHERS LEAD ANNUAL BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE........6.2K Sun announced that a team led by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), CalTech and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories (FNAL) set a new world record aggregate bandwidth peak of 101.13Gbps at Supercomputing 2004. [ ] 108902 ) IBM, OTHERS FORM DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, DRIVE 'CELL' CHIP...13.9K IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba Corporation unveiled, for the first time, some of the key concepts of the highly-anticipated advanced microprocessor, code-named Cell. IBM also announced the formation of a development community, Power.org. [ ] 108903 ) NEC BRINGS SUPERCOMPUTER "SX-6" TO CANADA....................4.1K NEC announced that it has delivered four vector supercomputer "SX-6" systems to the University of Victoria and also announced orders for two SX-6 systems from Ouranos Consortium in Montreal. [ ] 74643 ) 100% Custom HPC Solutions Designed to Exceed Your Expectations. - Aspen Systems - QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 108898 ) "This is the biggest simulation we have done. No one has ever attempted such a simulation." -- Tamas Gombosi, Chair of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences at University of Michigan [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! GRID LINKS CANCER RESEARCHERS AT HARVARD, MIT GERMAN BANK SELECTS PLATFORM TO ACCEL EQUITY DERIVATIVES TRADING http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108904 ) Mercury Announces XB Series Imaging, Visualization Platforms.2.5K [ ] 108905 ) AMD Announces Broad Enterprise Support For AMD Opteron.......4.5K [ ] 108906 ) TAG Develops Intel-Based Solution For Military Applications..1.9K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 108907 ) NEC Group To Restructure Its Software/Services Structure.....7.1K [ ] 108908 ) OSDL And Bull Cooperate On Open Source POSIX Test Suite......2.7K [ ] 108909 ) Top German Schools Standardize Instruction w/ SolidWorks.......4K [ ] 108910 ) Sybase Announces ASE On Linux For IBM eServer Systems........3.2K [ ]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. NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 108911 ) Transmode To Link UK University's Supercomputing Facilities..3.2K [ ] 108912 ) Ohio 'Lights' Nation's Leading Superscale Network............6.7K [ ] 108913 ) Internet Speed Quadrupled By International Team.............11.4K [ ] 108914 ) Chelsio Sets New LAN Distance, Bandwidth Records...............7K [ ] 108915 ) Extreme Networks Provides Infrastructure For 60,000 At RSNA....2K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 108916 ) Bull Servers Set Records w/ DataDirect, Quadrics And CFS.....3.6K [ ] 108917 ) 3PAR Simplifies Storage Management And Improves Utilization....4K [ ] 108918 ) SNS Creates iSCSI Initiator For Mac, Windows...................3K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 108919 ) ClusterVision Receives Anglo-Dutch Award For Enterprise......1.4K [ ] 108920 ) AstroVision Australia, ac3 Team For Satellite Space Imaging..9.1K [ ] 108921 ) Nanotechnology Increasingly Important To Auto Industry.......5.3K [ ] 108922 ) Nat'l Security Community To Discuss Enabling Tech At GOVCON..2.5K [ ] 74644 ) Japan's RIKEN Bases New Protein Modeling Solution on SGI Altix 350 System SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 108923 ) Product Watch: Scientific Computing Offers Free TCP Linda....2.9K Free Linux Database Launches: One$DB. [ ] 108924 ) Financial Update: Cray Announces Pricing Of Senior Notes.....7.1K Sun Wins Highest Waters Editorial Award. Tundra Announces Revenue Growth In Q2-2005. [ ] 108925 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sun, SevenSpace To Broaden Offerings.....7.6K groninger Germany Invests In MSC.Dynamic. Mercury, Radin Provide High-End 3D For PACS. [ ] 108926 ) People and Position: Bush Appoints Bement As NSF Director....6.8K Four ORNL Researchers Named AAAS Fellows. Scali Appoints Sutherland As VP Of Finance. [ ] 74641 ) Myrinet The Leading TOP500 Interconnect - Myricom - JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) 3DGeo Development Inc., ClearSpeed Technologies, Cray Inc., Dartmouth College, D.E. Shaw Group, Intel, LSU, PSC, Tabor Communications, *TACC, Topspin, University of Wisconsin, [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K [ ] 74615 ) Nexcom NexBlade Servers >The Best Blade Solution for HPC< >AMD 64-bit Server Blade Available< NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure CONFERENCES ================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 12.01.04).............4.6K 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design And Implementation (OSDI '04) December 6-8, 2004 San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/ HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== [ ] 670 ) Masthead........................................................1.7K [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals........................................4.5K [ ] 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 | | [ ] 545)*APPRO [ ] 553)*Nexcom | | [ ] 552)*Aspen [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 554) Cray [ ] 530) Pathscale | | [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView [ ] 946) Quadrics | | [ ] 543) DataDirect Networks [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard [ ] 921) SGI | | [ ] 902) IBM Corp. 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