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 *** January 07, 2005: Vol. 14, No. 01 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 210 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 109025 ) FEATURES: DOE ALLOCATES MASSIVE SUPERCOMPUTER RESOURCES | | [ ] 109028 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: SUN DEPLOYS CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTER AT ADCO | | [ ] 109031 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: CRAY WINS $9M IN INT'L ORDERS FOR X1E SYSTEM| | [ ] 109050 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NSF SCIENTISTS TO STUDY SRI LANKA'S RAVAGED AREAS| |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74656 ) Oracle Uses Intel's 64-Bit Software Tools, Platforms To Make Latest Database Fly FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 109025 ) DOE ALLOCATES MASSIVE SUPERCOMPUTER RESOURCES................8.9K Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced that 6.5 million hours of supercomputing time have been awarded to three scientific research projects aimed at increasing our understanding of ways to reduce pollution, how stars and solar systems form and to advance our knowledge about how proteins express genetic information. [ ] 109026 ) CHINA HUMAN PROTEOME ORG USES HPC TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES.4.8K China Human Proteome Organization and Silicon Graphics announced the completed installation of SGI supercomputing and storage solutions for research designed to ultimately link liver-specific proteins to diseases such as hepatitis and liver cancer, potentially saving thousands of lives. [ ] 109027 ) NCAR'S SCD RESEARCHES ULTIMATE ALGORITHMS, ARCHITECTURES.....8.7K by Lynda Lester, Writer/Editor, CISL (NCAR) New numerical methods for high-performance computing being developed by the NCAR's Scientific Computing Division's Computational Science Section (CSS), coupled with an innovative computer architecture from IBM called Blue Gene/L, may provide solutions to major challenges in HPC. [ ] 74659 ) HP Cluster Computing Helps University of Georgia Researchers Unlock Secrets of Carbohydrate/Protein Interaction CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 109028 ) SUN DEPLOYS GRID CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTER AT ADCO.................3K ADCO has invested in an integrated, low-cost, highly scalable 128- processor cluster utilizing Sun's V60x x86 servers with Sun Control Station cluster management software. The new Sun infrastructure enables ADCO to run very large simulation models faster than ever before. [ ] 109029 ) LINUX NETWORX CLUSTERWORX 3.2 EASES CLUSTER MANAGEMENT.......2.9K Linux Networx announced new features of Clusterworx 3.2, making it the most complete cluster management software available by providing new monitoring capabilities for increased cluster efficiency. [ ] 109030 ) CSP INC. SHIPS NEW FASTCLUSTER 220R..........................2.4K CSP Inc. MultiComputer Division, a leading supplier of embedded high- performance cluster computing systems, announced it has shipped its new Ruggedized Embedded COTS Cluster, the FastCluster 220R, to a major defense contractor. [ ] 74654 ) Scalable Cluster Storage Learn How Xilo Overcomes Traditional Complexities of Managing Global Storage Linux Networx _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74603 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] 74606 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx ============================================================================== [ ] 74657 ) 10GbE Gives Networks Backbone for New Speed Challenges VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================ [ ] 109031 ) CRAY WINS $9M IN ADVANCE INT'L ORDERS FOR X1E SYSTEM.........2.1K Cray Inc. reported that it has won new advance orders with an aggregate value of approximately $9 million from unnamed European and Asia- Pacific customers for Cray X1E supercomputer systems. [ ] 109032 ) SGI ALTIX FUELS SEARCH FOR INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY SOURCE.......6.7K Scientists in search of new and inexhaustible sources of energy require some of the most advanced resources available. To address those needs, researchers at the University of Rochester's Lab for Laser Energetics (LLE) have acquired two powerful new supercomputers from Silicon Graphics. [ ] 109033 ) PATAKI ANNOUNCES $2.5B IN INVESTMENTS BY IBM GLOBAL LEADERS..7.3K New York Governor George E. Pataki announced more than $2.5 billion in historic investments in Upstate New York by an IBM-led consortium of high-tech companies from across the globe. [ ] 109034 ) BULL SELECTS QUADRICS TO PROVIDE QSNET FOR EURO SUPERCOMPUTER..4K Quadrics announced that it has been selected by Bull to provide hardware and software for a supercomputer system that is reported to deliver over 60 teraflops (sixty thousands billions of operations per second). [ ]74642 ) Introducing the Appro XtremeBlade Next Generation AMD Opteron Blade Server! QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 109025 ) "While much of the talk about supercomputers often focuses on speed, DOE is a leader in helping turn teraflops into knowledge, and INCITE is a key component of that effort." -- Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! 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[ ] 109055 ) Financial Update: MSC.Software Announces Review By The NYSE..7.9K Cisco Contributes $2.5M To Tsunami Efforts. CSC Announces $427M In Federal Contracts. [ ] 109056 ) Corporate Liaisons: Cray Awarded Five-Year GSA Contract......5.2K SGI Honors Solectron With Award. FN Herstal Invests In MSC.ADAMS. [ ] 109057 ) People and Positions: CTC Director Accepts New Position......5.4K Fuel Cell Exec To Lead Lab's Programs. ANTs Appoints Robert H. Kite To Board. [ ] 74615 ) The Most Compact High-Performance Blade Servers Nexcome NexBlade 4U/3U Servers NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure JOB BANK ===================================================================== *denotes a new listing [ ] 667 ) ClearSpeed Technologies, Cray Inc., Dartmouth College, D.E. 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