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 *** April 1, 2005 Vol. 14, No. 13 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________ [ ] M360316 ) FEATURES: Taming the Wild Cluster [ ] M360270 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: Linux Networx Announces Patent, Sales VP [ ] M358419 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: HP Intros New CEO, Servers [ ] M357787 ) NEWS BRIEFS: DoD, Cal(IT)2 Invest $500,000 in UCSD Chip Tech ____________________________________________________________________________ [ ] 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M360316 ) Taming the Wild Cluster....................................23.6K Merry Maisel, TACC Science Writer Merry Maisel, a science writer at Texas Advanced Computing Center and HPCwire contributor, examines the true character of the high-performance cluster and measures its weight in the HPC community. [ ] M359111 ) HPCC Brings 'Supercomputing to the Masses'..................8.6K by Tim Curns, Editor With increased controversy over federal budgets and a heightened awareness of supercomputing developments worldwide, the funding and implementation of HPC efforts is becoming increasingly more important. Now in its 19th year, the High Performance Computing and Communications Conference will address some of these very important issues in HPC. [ ] M360295 ) Designing Science-Friendly Supercomputers...................6.9K A new study reports on the work Berkeley Lab scientists and other collaborators have done with IBM - with some advances already being put into effect - that has benefited the computer vendor and promises to markedly improve scientific computing. [ ] M358400 ) 'Chemical Dynamic' Duo Aids Navy............................7.0K A new research effort is addressing 21st century energy needs of the U.S. Navy in a thoroughly modern way - on the computer. [ ] A529 ) Dallara Automobili: Fast Calculations on Opteron-based HP Servers Win the Race CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================= [ ] M360270 ) Linux Networx Awarded Patent, Appts Copeland to Global Sales 6.0K Linux Networx announced that 20-year HPC Veteran, Rene Copeland, has joined Linux Networx as the executive VP for global sales and marketing. The company also announced a patent for Icebox, the only power management tool of its kind for Linux cluster systems. [ ] M357753 ) IBRIX Fusion Segmented File System Selected by NCSA.........6.7K IBRIX, Inc. announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has implemented IBRIX Fusion, an enterprise-class, fully-integrated parallel file system solution, on its 256-node Radium mini-cluster which supports the Palomar-Quest (PQ) project. [ ] M360305 ) Mandrakesoft Intros Mandrakelinux Clustering Solution.......3.9K Following recent major successful deployments of Mandrakelinux Clustering, Mandrakesoft announces a new version of its intensive calculation solution. [ ] M358454 ) Spokane EDC, LLIX Look to Clusters for Support..............4.5K The Spokane Area Economic Development Council has partnered with EDC investor Liberty Lake Internet Exchange (LLIX) to advance the economic assets of the entire community. The partnership will explore the viability of deploying an HPC cluster within the region to advance these efforts. [ ] 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 ============================================================== [ ] M358419 ) HP Intros New CEO, Servers..................................9.2K HP, in addition to selecting a new CEO, introduced two new HP ProLiant servers that offer customers greater choice and performance to meet the changing demands of IT infrastructures this week. [ ] M358390 ) Sun Sets New World Record Results...........................5.4K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the results of the latest series of benchmark tests using Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the Sun Studio 10 software and the highest performing Sun Fire servers. [ ] M357754 ) The Portland Group Unveils 64-bit PGI Compilers and Tools...5.1K The Portland Group announced the general availability of Release 6.0 of PGI Workstation, a suite of Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and development tools. PGI compilers and tools are used widely in high-performance computing. [ ] M358422 ) Intel Tops Off 64-Bit Server Platform Portfolio.............5.3K Intel Corporation added to its portfolio of 64-bit offerings with a platform that increases application performance, improves server uptime and the ability to manage large sets of data, and can lower utility costs. [ ] M360257 ) SGI Altix Soars in HPC Challenge Benchmark Tests............5.9K Silicon Graphics announced its award-winning SGI Altix 3000 system has beaten comparable servers from competitors on performance tests that comprise the new HPC Challenge Benchmark. [ ] A466 ) The Most Compact High-Performance Blade Servers Nexcom NexBlade 4U Servers NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M360320 ) "I think it's in our national interest to develop a new generation of machines which allow US scientists and engineers to maintain preeminence for those problems which do not perform well on clusters...we need to start investing in long-term research so as to have a pipeline of new ideas that can follow beyond the arrival of the HPCS systems in the 2010 time frame." -- Dr. Bob Lucas, Director Computational Sciences Division, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) [ ] 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M357787 ) DoD, Cal(IT)2 Fund $500,000 Investment in Chip Tech at UCSD.7.9K [ ] M360260 ) IBM Extends Cell Applications...............................4.1K [ ] M358402 ) Luxtera Unveils 10Gbit CMOS Photonics Platform..............3.3K Software ====================================================================== [ ] M357781 ) NCSA Releases VMI 2.1.......................................4.4K [ ] M358421 ) Intel Software Network: 'One-Stop Shop' for Developers......5.7K [ ] M360321 ) PolyServe Server Earns Engenio Certification................3.2K [ ] M359113 ) Euro Railway Company Selects Novell for Server Migration....4.4K [ ] M358368 ) MSC.Nastran Supports Xeon Platforms.........................3.5K [ ] M359022 ) IBM Delivers New Software For the Mainframe.................7.8K [ ] M360214 ) JPMorgan Banks on Sun and Solaris 10........................4.2K [ ] M357089 ) ABAQUS for CATIA V5 Extends Leadership......................3.0K [ ] M358399 ) XQuery Adoption Rate Soaring Among XML Developers...........5.9K [ ] 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 ==================================================================== [ ] M358369 ) Neterion, PyX Tech Announce Record Throughput...............4.1K [ ] M357755 ) Force10 Introduces S-Series Data Center Switch..............4.3K [ ] M358379 ) Banks Without Real-Time Performance Mgt at Risk.............3.4K [ ] M358381 ) Lucent Technologies Upgrades Army IP Management Software....3.0K Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M360256 ) Data Storage Market to Grow by 35% in 2005..................2.6K [ ] M360254 ) IBM Extends Work in Storage Virtualization..................4.5K [ ] M357856 ) Supermicro Selects LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA Software.........3.5K [ ] 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 ============================================================== [ ] M360258 ) Argonne National Laboratory Focus of New Alliance...........8.4K [ ] M357837 ) Numenta to Apply Neuroscience to Computing Problems.........3.5K [ ] M360272 ) Ultrasmall Transistors a Possibility........................4.7K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M357090 ) TORQUE 1.2.0p2 Released.....................................5.1K Phoenix Integration Releases ModelCenter Version 6.1 Mercury Intros FDK 2.0. Financial Update: [ ] M360312 ) JPMorgan Banks on Sun and Solaris 10........................2.7K Mercury Computer to Report Third Qtr Earnings Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M357088 ) Microsoft, Intel and HP Form Consortium.....................6.8K NSS Chooses Constant Data, @lliance Tech For Security Lockheed Martin Selects Quantum3D for Simulation -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M357764 ) Cray's Shan to Deliver Keynote at IPDPS.....................6.0K Cisco Executive Joins Alloy Ventures NCAR Scientists Named Leopold Leadership Fellows -- more -- [ ] A571 ) CCGrid 2005: Cluster Computing and Grid http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/ Cardiff, UK (May 9-12, 2005) (Registration now Open) 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 03.25.05).............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/ [ ] A592 ) Forbes Seminar: The Business of Grid Computing May 5, 2005 The Harvard Club of New York, NY www.forbesconferences.com [ ] A593 ) Forbes Seminar: The Business of Grid Computing May 11, 2005 The City Club of San Francisco, CA www.forbesconferences.com [ ] A478 ) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com [ ] A535 ) FiRe 2005 Future in Review: A Strategic News Service Conference May 23-26, 2005 San Diego, CA http://www.futureinreview.com/ [ ] 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 [ ] 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 [ ] A345 ) Myricom [ ] A518 ) Cray [ ] A341 ) NEC [ ] A344 ) Nexcom [ ] A472 ) Aspen [ ] A373 ) Dell [ ] A346 ) Quadrics [ ] A338 ) PathScale [ ] A330 ) Atipa [ ] A351 ) APPRO [ ] A470 ) HP [ ] A342 ) Sun [ ] A335 ) IBM [ ] A339 ) SGI [ ] A337 ) Linux Networx [ ] A332 ) Etnus/TotalView [ ] A331 ) Intel [ ] A343 ) Portland Group [ ] A471 ) Voltaire For sponsorship information contact: advertise@hpcwire.com ______________________________________________________________________ *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] M355848 ) BlueGene/L Busts Out: Exceeds 100 Teraflops.................4.7K [ ] M354652 ) House Science Committee Passes HPC Bill.....................4.5K [ ] M355226 ) Biomolecular Computer Operates A Billion Programs...........4.6K [ ] M353968 ) Mathematician Untangles Legendary Problem...................6.0K [ ] M354680 ) Plasmonics: The 'Wave' of the Future?.......................7.1K Send info requests (X-marked copy of this message) to hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com -------------------- * -------------------- Copyright 1993-2005 HPCwire. 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