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 *** March 25, 2005 Vol. 14, No. 12 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article retrieval instructions at end of this file: hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com For subscription information, email sub@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] A528 ) Intel: The Preferred Choice For High Performance Computing ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ [ ] M355848 ) FEATURES: BlueGene/L Busts Out: Exceeds 100 Teraflops [ ] M353911 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: Tungsten Graphics Intros Cluster Family [ ] M355853 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: CERFACS in France Selects Cray XD1 [ ] M356565 ) NEWS BRIEFS: HPC Forum to Focus On CFD, Performance Modeling ____________________________________________________________________________ [ ] A503 ) FREE Report Achieving Productivity For High Performance Computing This article from Linux Networx provides a comprehensive outline of the factors that need to be considered to achieve the most productivity from your Linux cluster. FEATURES ====================================================================== [ ] M355848 ) BlueGene/L Busts Out: Exceeds 100 Teraflops.................4.7K IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer, developed through the Advanced Simulation and Computing program for NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship efforts, has performed 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOP/s) on the industry standard LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world. [ ] M354652 ) House Science Committee Passes HPC Bill.....................4.5K Even though there was some controversy, the House Science Committee passed a bill that would strengthen U.S. supercomputing capabilities. [ ] M356615 ) NCAR/SCD Datasets Make ERA-40 Climate Data Easier to Use....7.8K by Lynda Lester & David Hosansky, NCAR Staff Writers New datasets from the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Scientific Computing Division (NCAR/SCD) will make it easier for oceanographers, atmospheric researchers and climate modelers to use ERA-40 reanalysis data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. [ ] M355226 ) Biomolecular Computer Operates A Billion Programs...........4.6K A new version of a computer - composed entirely of DNA molecules and enzymes - can perform as many as a billion different programs simultaneously. Potential applications for such biomolecular computers could include secure image encryption and disease diagnosis. [ ] M354680 ) Plasmonics: The 'Wave' of the Future?.......................7.1K A new research group in Stanford's School of Engineering is pioneering a technology that has the capacity of photonics and the smallness of electronics. [ ] A529 ) Dallara Automobili: Fast Calculations on Opteron-based HP Servers Win the Race CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================= [ ] M353911 ) Tungsten Graphics Intros Visualization Cluster Family.......2.9K Tungsten Graphics, Inc., a premiere graphics systems engineering company and provider of graphics infrastructure software and services, announced the introduction of the TVC 1.1 Scalable Visualization Product Family. [ ] M355855 ) Psychsoftpc Announces Line of Beowulf Clusters..............2.2K Psychsoft, a Quincy, MA computer manufacturer, announced the new Psychlone Cluster line of Beowulf supercomputers for node based parallel processing and high performance computing (HPC) applications. [ ] M354715 ) ShaoLin Announces Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux......4.1K ShaoLin Microsystems, a leading provider of enterprise Linux utility computing, announced a new release of a robust yet affordable disaster recovery solution for Linux - ShaoLin InfiniCluster and ShaoLin Volume Replicator. [ ] M356575 ) CanadaDrugs.com Selects Emic Application Clustering ........4.4K Emic Networks announced that CanadaDrugs.com has chosen Emic Application Clustering (EAC) to support its mission-critical workflow application, as well as to provide high availability and fail-over protection. [ ] A365 ) Introducing the Appro XtremeBlade Next Generation AMD Opteron Blade Server _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] A428 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] A322 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx ============================================================================== [ ] A430 ) Myrinet The Leading TOP500 Interconnect - Myricom - VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================== [ ] M355853 ) CERFACS in France Selects Cray XD1 for Research.............4.8K Cray Inc. announced that the European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (CERFACS), Toulouse, France, has ordered a Cray XD1 supercomputer to speed advances in industrial and scientific high performance computing (HPC) research. [ ] M353965 ) SGI Joins Forces With Gelato Federation.....................6.4K The Gelato Federation announced that Silicon Graphics, Inc. has formalized its relationship with the Gelato Federation, the international research consortium dedicated to advancing the Linux OS and Intel Itanium 2 platform, by electing to join as an industry sponsor. [ ] M355833 ) HP Canada to Deliver $10M Campus Network Upgrade............6.6K HP announced that Carleton University in Ottawa has selected HP to design, implement and manage a $10 million campus-wide upgrade of its network infrastructure. [ ] M355280 ) Etnus TotalView Debugger Now Available on Apple's OS X......4.4K Etnus is pleased to announce that its market-leading TotalView debugger now supports the Apple Mac OS X platform with beta availability on May 1 and first general release in June, 2005. [ ] A466 ) The Most Compact High-Performance Blade Servers Nexcom NexBlade 4U Servers NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M356617 ) "Blue Gene/ L will address vital challenges critical to ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation's aging nuclear weapon stockpile. This supercomputer provides an essential resource to the weapons complex, allowing us to address time-urgent and mission-critical scientific issues that require such specialized computational capabilities." -- Linton F. Brooks NNSA Administrator [ ] XQUOTE ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] A366 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! The Path to Grid-Friendly Software Licensing World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** Hardware ====================================================================== [ ] M356557 ) Dell Unveils New Four-Processor Servers, Software...........6.3K [ ] M356616 ) Elpida Intros First 800 Mbps DDR2 SDRAMs....................1.6K Software ====================================================================== [ ] M355237 ) EI Intros Academic Versions Of CxC Software.................3.7K [ ] M354696 ) Novell Energizes Open Source Application Ecosystem..........2.9K [ ] M355223 ) TeamF1's Software Supports Cavium's Processor Family........2.8K [ ] A557 ) Computational Engineering and Science Conference CESC 2005: Combustion Simulation Register by: April 5, 2005; Hotel Deadline: March 25, 2005 April 26-27, 2005, Washington DC http://www.cesc2005.org/ Networking ==================================================================== [ ] M355261 ) InfiniBand Taking Blade Servers By Storm....................3.0K [ ] M355219 ) Network Consortium Doubles in Size..........................3.6K [ ] M355229 ) EDS Consortium to Aid in UK Defense Infrastructure..........3.5K [ ] M355290 ) Calendar Networks Canadian Advanced Tech Orgs...............7.7K [ ] M355854 ) Lockheed Martin to Improve Apps on Military Networks........3.6K [ ] M355218 ) ShoreTel, Foundry Networks Pair for IP Telephony............4.9K [ ] M354709 ) Vativ Announces Single-Chip 10GbE Transceiver...............4.6K Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M355258 ) Netex HyperIP Earns IBM TotalStorage Proven Status..........4.2K [ ] M355236 ) StorCase Becomes GSA Schedule Holder........................2.4K [ ] A568 ) Cray User Group 2005 Conference, Petroglyphs to Petaflops May 16-19, 2005 Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.cug.org/1-conferences/CUG2005/index.html General Interest ============================================================== [ ] M353923 ) Bull, Intel, Quadrics to Host Computing Roadmap Symposium...2.4K [ ] M353968 ) Mathematician Untangles Legendary Problem...................6.0K [ ] M355224 ) Tight Race in Gene Expression Analysis Market...............3.4K [ ] M353924 ) OSC Hosts Fourth Annual PET Technical Review................3.7K [ ] M355286 ) FP6 Project to Host HPC Symposium in Paris..................1.8K [ ] M355288 ) Registration Opens for Virtual Institute Summer Session.....5.1K [ ] M355289 ) Public Invited to View NASA Simulator.......................2.6K [ ] M355757 ) 2.8 Million to Help UK Women in Science, Tech...............3.2K [ ] M355849 ) Understanding Turbulence at Mach 10 And Beyond..............4.9K [ ] M355850 ) Scientists Model 'Lord of the Nanorings'....................6.4K [ ] M355852 ) New Service Designed for Dense Server Environments..........3.9K [ ] M356565 ) HPC User Forum to Focus On CFD, Performance Modeling........4.1K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M355234 ) Fluent Releases Version 6.2 of Software.....................5.0K MSC.Software Releases SimDesigner for CATIA V5R14 Research and Markets Releases InfoTech Industry Almanac Financial Update: [ ] M355844 ) AMD Announces Senior Notes Exchange Offer...................3.9K CACI Awarded $20.4M IT Support Services Contract Intel Declares Regular Cash Dividend Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M354664 ) Northrop Grumman, SGI Team for Visualization................5.4K Compuware and IBM Ink $400M Deal MOUNTAIN West Telecom Wins Linux Networx Contract -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M353913 ) Sun Strengthens Management Team.............................7.9K Rosner to Lead Argonne National Lab Two Executives To Leave Intel -- more -- JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL356 ) ARSC, ANL, Brown University, ClearSpeed, *Cray, D.E. Shaw Group, Intel, Linux Networx, LSU, *NCSA, Tabor Communications, TACC, UCSD Cal-(IT)^2, University of Virginia [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..........................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A368 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 03.18.05).............7.5K [ ] A514 ) USENIX's Annual Technical Conference 2005 April 10-15, 2005 Anaheim, California http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/hpc [ ] A534 ) The 6th Int'l Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005 April 26-28, 2005 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC - REGISTER NOW - ADVANCED REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 25, 2005 http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/ [ ] A558 ) Networld + Interop 2005 May 1 - 6, 2005 Las Vegas, NV http://www.interop.com/ [ ] A478 ) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com [ ] A571 ) CCGrid 2005: Cluster Computing and Grid http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/ Cardiff, UK (May 9-12, 2005) (Registration now Open) [ ] A533 ) LCI Workshop at OSCER June 21-24, 2005 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 20, 2005 http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/index.html [ ] A535 ) FiRe 2005 Future in Review: A Strategic News Service Conference May 23-26, 2005 San Diego, CA http://www.futureinreview.com/ [ ] A500 ) Commodity Cluster Symposium On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications July 26-28, 2005 Greenbelt, MD, USA CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND ABSTRACTS http://www.arl.hpc.mil/events/Clusters2005/ [ ] A565 ) Security '05 14th USENIX Security Symposium August 1-5, 2005 Baltimore, Maryland http://www.usenix.org/events/sec05/ ______________________________________________________________________ Full background information on all leading HPC solution providers [ ] A517 ) Data Direct [ ] A341 ) NEC [ ] A339 ) SGI [ ] A346 ) Quadrics [ ] A338 ) PathScale [ ] A351 ) APPRO [ ] A470 ) HP [ ] A342 ) Sun [ ] A335 ) IBM [ ] A344 ) Nexcom [ ] A472 ) Aspen [ ] A518 ) Cray [ ] A337 ) Linux Networx [ ] A332 ) Etnus/TotalView [ ] A373 ) Dell [ ] A331 ) Intel [ ] A345 ) Myricom [ ] A330 ) Atipa [ ] A343 ) Portland Group [ ] A471 ) Voltaire For sponsorship information contact: advertise@hpcwire.com ______________________________________________________________________ *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] M351489 ) U.S. Losing Ground in Science, Tech Prominence..............6.8K [ ] M352022 ) FPGAs: The New Promise for Re-configurable Computing?.......18.9K [ ] M353348 ) Linux Clusters: Easing the Oil Quest........................6.8K [ ] M352063 ) DNA Molecules To Build Computers?...........................8.4K [ ] M351434 ) Supercomputers Show Climate Change Inevitable ..............5.8K Send info requests (X-marked copy of this message) to hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com -------------------- * -------------------- Copyright 1993-2005 HPCwire. 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