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 *** May 13, 2005 Vol. 14, No. 19 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________ [ ] M380019 ) FEATURES: HPC -- The Perfect Storm, or a Tempest in a Teapot? [ ] M381493 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: HP Supercomputer to Enhance Genome Work [ ] M380023 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: Sun Saves Lives With Tsunami Alert System [ ] M381948 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NCSA Meeting to Feature Dynamic Speakers ____________________________________________________________________________ [ ] A529 ) Qualcomm Reduces CDMA Chip Design and Test Simulation Runtimes with HP Integrity Servers and SUSE Linux FEATURES ====================================================================== [ ] M380019 ) HPC -- The Perfect Storm, or a Tempest in a Teapot?........16.7K Commentary from a High-End Agnostic A reader with some reputation in HPC, who wishes to be known as the High-End Agnostic (HEA), takes strong exception to the views of the High-End Crusader and--by extension--to the views of every other "big-iron bigot." At issue is whether science and engineering are served well enough today (and perhaps tomorrow as well) by commodity clusters plus MPI. HEA asks, can these HEC advocates prove that high-end (capability) computing is a fundamentally better enabler of (big) science and (big) engineering? [ ] M381950 ) Congress Concerned With Funding's Future....................5.3K In a hearing before the House Science Committee, there was strong support for the idea that the federal government has shifted its focus away from long-term research in IT, which has been so vital to America's prowess in defense and essential to a robust economy. [ ] M381496 ) Letter to the Editor: Closer Collaboration Needed...........3.0K A reader writes in to espouse the idea that close collaboration in HPC is needed between the federal government and the private sector. Such collaborations, he argues, would hold everyone accountable to advancing endeavors in the field. [ ] M381871 ) Thousands Call for More Women in Tech, Science..............3.4K This week, a coalition of organizations and individuals encouraged Congress to take action to advance women's full participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. [ ] M381949 ) Quantum Computing May Help in Code-breaking.................6.1K A crucial step in a procedure that could enable future quantum computers to break today's most commonly used encryption codes has been demonstrated by physicists at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [ ] A503 ) Clusterworx 3.2 Whitepaper Learn how the comprehensive features of Clusterworx help organizations lower the total cost of ownership, increase cluster performance, and provide better return on investment. - Linux Networx - CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================= [ ] M381493 ) HP Supercomputer to Enhance Genome Work.....................5.7K HP announced that the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research based in New Delhi, India, has chosen a four-teraflop HP supercomputer running the Linux operating system to advance its life sciences computational biology research. [ ] M381495 ) PathScale Joins the OpenIB Alliance.........................4.5K PathScale, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters including the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand interconnect, has joined the OpenIB Alliance. [ ] M381494 ) Pooch Makes Cluster Computing Even Easier...................4.8K Dauger Research, Inc. released version 1.6 of Pooch and Pooch Pro clustering software. Leveraging new technologies introduced with "Tiger", Apple's newest Mac OS X, the Pooch family introduces new enhancements, enriching the user experience of supercomputer-compatible cluster computing. [ ] 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 ============================================================== [ ] M380023 ) Saving Lives: Creating a Tsunami Alert System..............18.7K by Tim Curns, Editor In reaction to last year's devastating tsunami in Asia, there has been a rush to implement a warning system in all of the affected countries. Sun Microsystems is spearheading a campaign to optimize the response to such emergencies with a variety of products and services. [ ] M380792 ) Cray System Improves Earth Science Simulation...............5.1K Cray Inc. announced that Nevada's Desert Research Institute (DRI) has chosen the Cray XD1 supercomputer as a key computational platform for carrying out environmental research that involves high-resolution modeling and complex forecasting. [ ] M381832 ) Fraunhofer-Institut Accelerates Vehicle Design w/ SGI.......6.9K To increase the level of realism when evaluating virtual vehicles and to accelerate its adoption by industry, scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) have selected the Silicon Graphics Prism platform from SGI to solve a new class of data and rendering intensive problems never before possible in virtual environments. [ ] A609 ) Innovation Matters June 20-21, 2005 Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing Consortium - Europe 2005 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M381947 ) "This confirms the concerns expressed by the computing research community that DARPA has essentially pulled out of funding long-term computing research at U.S. universities, leaving a significant gap in the federal research portfolio that no other agency has yet stepped forward to fill." -- David A. Patterson, president Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [ ] 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M379023 ) Nanotech, Superconductivity Pave Way for 'Spintronics'......4.0K [ ] 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 Software ====================================================================== [ ] M379931 ) Paradigm Adopts SGI Technology for Oil/Gas Business.........4.3K [ ] M379915 ) Impress Software Signs Major Oil and Gas Customer...........3.4K [ ] M381870 ) ANTs, CIG to Power Financial Services.......................3.9K [ ] M381488 ) Fincantieri, CETENA Implement MSC.MasterKeyfor VPD..........3.0K [ ] M380797 ) IBM, Red Hat Expand Relationship for Linux Adoption.........2.9K [ ] M381930 ) Roxar Software to Run on 64-Bit Linux Desktop...............5.4K [ ] M380789 ) Int'l Conference on Software Engineering to Kick Off........6.4K [ ] A643 ) Second Annual High Performance Computing Users Conference: Accelerating Innovation for Prosperity July 13, 2005 Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Register Now! www.hpcusersconference.com Networking ==================================================================== [ ] M379018 ) DAPL Testing Focus Of DAT Collaborative.....................3.2K [ ] M380724 ) Force10 VP Highlights New Data Center Economics.............3.5K [ ] M379910 ) Swedish U Selects Extreme Networks for Backbone.............3.1K [ ] A645 ) IWOMP 2005: First International Workshop on OpenMP June 1-4, 2005 Eugene, Oregon USA Register now! http://www.nic.uoregon.edu/iwomp2005 Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M381834 ) SDSC Storage Soars..........................................4.5K [ ] M381872 ) Storage World Announces All-Star Keynotes...................7.2K [ ] M381482 ) IBM Offers High-Performance Storage Server..................6.2K [ ] M380790 ) DataCore Eases Genetics Center's Growth.....................3.5K [ ] M379027 ) Coraid Announces SATA EtherDrive Storage....................3.1K [ ] M379033 ) Agencies Partner to Document Endangered Languages...........3.6K [ ] M379929 ) Sun Acquires Procom NAS Assets..............................3.1K [ ] M380703 ) FalconStor Provides Open University w/ Storage Mgt..........4.7K [ ] M380723 ) SANRAD Supports Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2.0...............3.6K [ ] A647 ) "Data Mining: Levels I, II & III" September 26 - 30, 2005 San Diego, California $200 DISCOUNT FOR DSstar SUBSCRIBERS http://www.the-modeling-agency.com/dsstar General Interest ============================================================== [ ] M380793 ) South American Universities Join Gelato.....................7.1K [ ] M381948 ) NCSA Meeting to Feature Dynamic Speakers....................2.7K [ ] M381833 ) SIGGRAPH 2005 Selects 98 Outstanding Papers.................5.1K [ ] M380806 ) OSC Announces SI2005 High School Participants...............4.0K [ ] M379012 ) Industry Execs to Discuss California's Tech Potential.......4.5K [ ] M379016 ) Roxar Vietnam Office to Drive Oil and Gas Work..............5.1K [ ] M380805 ) ACNielsen Partners with NCSA................................4.8K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M379941 ) Tyan Intros High-Performance Motherboard....................4.3K DataDirect Launches DataDirect Connect XE SPECopc Releases SPECviewperf 8.1 Financial Update: [ ] M379911 ) Cray Reports First Qtr Results, NYSE Change.................5.5K Liquid Computing Secures $14M in Financing ANTs Raises $7.1 Million in Financing -- more -- Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M379908 ) Intransa Platform Confirmed as IBM TotalStorage Proven......6.6K Pathology Partners Picks NEC Servers Sun Acquires Tarantella -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M379024 ) Former IBM Exec to Lead Cray Engineering Team...............5.9K Microway CTO to Speak at BioIT World Linda Rakow Selected as LLNL's CFO -- more -- JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL356 ) ANL, Caltech, ClearSpeed, Cray, D.E. Shaw Group, Intertek, LSU, Mountain View Data, NCAR, RIKEN, TACC, Texas A&M [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..........................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A368 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 05.13.05).............7.5K [ ] A478 ) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com [ ] A644 ) Third Annual National Conference for High Performance Computing Technology May 23-25, 2005 Knoxville, TN http://highperformancecomputing.org/events/3nc/ [ ] 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 [ ] A651 ) OMG's Sixth Annual Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. July 11-14, 2005 in the Washington, D.C area. Presentations, panels & discussions http://www.omg.org/hpc-rte [ ] 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/ [ ] A650 ) SC|05 - Gateway to Discovery November 12-18, 2005 Seattle, Washington, USA Housing Now Open to All Attendees! http://sc05.supercomputing.org/travel ______________________________________________________________________ Full background information on all leading HPC solution providers [ ] A639 ) Microway [ ] A517 ) Data Direct [ ] A339 ) SGI [ ] A518 ) Cray [ ] A373 ) Dell [ ] A346 ) Quadrics [ ] A341 ) NEC [ ] A351 ) APPRO [ ] A470 ) HP [ ] A342 ) Sun [ ] A335 ) IBM [ ] A337 ) Linux Networx [ ] A332 ) Etnus/TotalView [ ] A338 ) PathScale [ ] A331 ) Intel [ ] A330 ) Atipa [ ] A345 ) Myricom [ ] A343 ) Portland Group For sponsorship information contact: advertise@hpcwire.com ______________________________________________________________________ *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] M377690 ) Petascale Computer Architecture: HEC Interviews Sterling....31.8K [ ] M376087 ) NSF Sites Awarded 34 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time...2.7K [ ] M378411 ) IBM to Cut Thousands of Jobs................................3.1K [ ] M377614 ) SDSC SRB Manages Data for Scientific Collaborations.........13.9K [ ] M376858 ) The Story of a Phage........................................8.9K Send info requests (X-marked copy of this message) to hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com -------------------- * -------------------- Copyright 1993-2005 HPCwire. 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