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 22, 2005 Vol. 14, No. 16 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________ [ ] M368170 ) FEATURES: Investing in High-end Computational Science [ ] M369207 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: U of Pitts Gets Wired With Xserve G5 Cluster [ ] M371359 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: AMD Goes Dual-Core, Vendors Boast Support [ ] M369102 ) NEWS BRIEFS: Researchers Propose Center for Chip-Cooling 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M368170 ) Investing in the Future of High-end Computational Science..10.4K HPC luminaries Daniel Reed, Jack Dongarra and Ken Kennedy call for greater community awareness and action to protect federal investments in high-end computing initiatives, including continued support for high-end computing facilities. The authors seek to establish a symbiotic relationship between high-end computing initiatives and newer initiatives to create a distributed computational infrastructure (as opposed to those who regard them as competing endeavors). [ ] M369191 ) IDC: 2004 Saw Good Growth in HPC............................3.9K Following the economic downturn in 2001 and 2002, and modest growth in 2003, the worldwide market for high-performance technical servers - a category that includes supercomputers - grew by 30% in 2004 to reach $7.25 billion. [ ] M368180 ) Rene Copeland: Expect More From Linux Networx in 2005......10.3K by Tim Curns, Editor At the beginning of April, HPCwire reported that Linux Networx had appointed Rene Copeland as the executive VP for global sales and marketing. Recently, Rene Copeland spoke to HPCwire about his new role at the company and what keeps him up at night. [ ] M368223 ) SDSC Supercomputers to Speed HIV/AIDS Drug Discovery........8.0K Structural biology and molecular dynamics computer simulations are playing an important role in blocking the activity of the viral enzyme HIV protease. [ ] A529 ) HP Offers Researchers a Bold New Choice with 11.8-teraflop Supercomputer CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================= [ ] M369207 ) U of Pittsburgh Gets Wired With Xserve G5 Cluster...........5.5K With its new Apple Xserve G5 computing cluster, the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) is solving double-helix puzzles in human genetics every day. [ ] M370421 ) TIFR, HP Collaborate for HPC Initiatives....................2.9K Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) announced a partnership with Hewlett Packard to implement high performance computing (HPC) solutions at its Computational Mathematics Laboratory (CML) in Pune. [ ] M370429 ) Mellanox Surpasses 500,000 InfiniBand Port Milestone........2.8K Mellanox Technologies Ltd. announced that more than 500,000 of its InfiniBand ports have been shipped to customers for a broad range of products including clustered servers, high-bandwidth switches, embedded platforms and clustered storage. [ ] M369135 ) Digital Dimension Chooses Isilon Clustered Storage..........5.3K Leading visual effects studio Digital Dimension announced it is taking its production infrastructure to the next generation with 16TB of clustered storage running a new computing industry standard, InfiniBand. [ ] 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 ============================================================== [ ] M371359 ) AMD Goes Dual-Core, Vendors Boast Support..................19.6K Vendors from across the HPC spectrum have announced support for the newly available AMD Dual-Core Opteron 800 Series processor for four- to eight-way servers. [ ] M369806 ) Exploring the Benefits of Large Shared Memory Systems......12.4K by Tim Curns, Editor Computer systems that implement a global shared memory (GSM) architecture can offer entirely new ways of solving problems in science and engineering. HPCwire recently spoke with Michael Woodcare, SGI chief engineer, about the challenges presented by the data access hierarchy in a typical HPC system and how a GSM architecture can overcome those challenges. [ ] M369118 ) Cray Announces New Sales, Performance Wins..................8.0K Cray Inc. announced significant XD1 sales wins with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) companies Software Cradle Co. Ltd and CD-adapco. Cray also announced that the Cray XD1 has outperformed other systems running LSTC's popular LS-DYNA computer-aided engineering (CAE) code. [ ] A466 ) The Most Compact High-Performance Blade Servers Nexcom NexBlade 4U Servers NEXCOM Building The Digital Infrastructure QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M371430 ) "The bottom line is that we've all got to begin working on this problem now, or the computer industry is going to hit a brick wall in about 15 years. Future computer chips will generate as much as 10 times more heat than today's computer chips, which means we are going to need new cooling technologies." -- Suresh Garimella, Professor of mechanical engineering, Purdue University [ ] XQUOTE ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] A366 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURE 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M369112 ) Intel Begins Shipping Dual Core Processors..................3.5K [ ] M369102 ) Researchers Propose Center for Chip-Cooling Tech............9.4K [ ] M369864 ) NVIDIA Visualization Delivers Performance Increase..........5.1K [ ] A609 ) Innovation Matters June 20-21, 2005 Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing Consortium - Europe 2005 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc Software ====================================================================== [ ] M369141 ) Roxar Signs Software Contract w/ Spanish Oil Company........4.8K [ ] M369113 ) DoE Awards $1.9M to Fluent for Clean Coal Initiative........4.4K [ ] M369125 ) SGI Intros New Open IT Platform to Broadcasters.............4.2K [ ] M369869 ) Organon Licenses MetaCore From GeneGo.......................2.7K [ ] M369871 ) Etnus TotalView 6.8 Expands Support.........................2.6K [ ] M371375 ) MSC.Software Releases MSC.SuperForm, MSC.SuperForge.........5.3K [ ] M369874 ) Concurrent iHawk Now Available..............................3.3K [ ] M370427 ) GTN Upgrades Suites With SGI Visualization Systems..........7.4K [ ] 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 ==================================================================== [ ] M370428 ) Internet2, HP to Support Nat'l Infrastructure Testbed.......5.3K [ ] M369200 ) China, Russia, U.S. Build Fiber-optic Network...............6.6K [ ] M369819 ) GbE Fiber & Copper Cabling Systems - What Is the Future?....3.8K [ ] M371425 ) Quadrics Sets New Low Latency Mark..........................3.5K [ ] M369123 ) Foundry Announces New Total Solution Package................4.3K [ ] M369136 ) Cisco Introduces the Cisco XR 12000 Series Routers..........7.0K [ ] 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 Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M369111 ) Teradata Provides India's Largest Data Warehouses...........2.7K [ ] M369124 ) EMC Opens High-End NAS Gateway..............................5.9K [ ] A571 ) CCGrid 2005: Cluster Computing and Grid http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/ Cardiff, UK (May 9-12, 2005) (Registration now Open) General Interest ============================================================== [ ] M369873 ) NCSA to Host Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute........2.4K [ ] M368164 ) The Impact of its Environment on a Quantum Computer.........3.7K [ ] M369870 ) LITE Gives Global Access to SGI Tech.......................12.7K [ ] M369879 ) DoE Awards UC Contract for Berkeley Lab.....................6.1K [ ] M369195 ) Pancreatic Cancer Latest Target in Computer Campaign........5.8K [ ] M369196 ) DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery Helps Relief Workers.........4.2K [ ] M370518 ) Agilent Weaves Genomics Tech into Indian Life Sciences......4.1K [ ] M371383 ) LANL Awards Introduce Supercomputing to Students............3.1K [ ] M371382 ) Online Seminar: The Rise of Diskless Clusters...............3.4K [ ] M371360 ) Scientists Use SGI Tech to Preserve Earth...................6.5K [ ] M371433 ) Congressman Vows to Keep NASA Funded........................2.3K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M369796 ) Autodesk Ships VIZ 2006.....................................5.8K Tech Soft America Releases New HOOPS Broadcom Launches Single-Chip Server I/O Controller -- more -- Financial Update: [ ] M369107 ) Cray Announces Auditors Change..............................6.4K Intel Posts Record 2004 Results SGI Reports Third Quarter Financial Results -- more -- Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M369793 ) Pirelli Chooses SGI for Advanced Labs.......................8.6K Siebel Systems Optimizes for Intel Processors TeamHPC, M&A Technology Agree To Merge -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M369138 ) AMD CEO Challenges Entertainment Industry at NAB............5.3K Towns to lead PI Directorate at NCSA Visual Numerics Adds Corporate Controller -- more -- JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL356 ) ClearSpeed, Cray, D.E. Shaw Group, NASA, NSF, LSU, OSC, TACC, SBE, UCSD [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..........................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A368 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 04.22.05).............7.5K [ ] 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 [ ] A633 ) May 8-11, 2005 HP-Cast 4/HP's Worldwide HPC User Conference Krakow, Poland http://www.hp-cast.org REGISTER NOW! [ ] 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 [ ] A643 ) Second Annual High Performance Computing Users Conference: Accelerating Innovation for Prosperity July 13, 2005 Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. 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