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 *** June 10, 2005 Vol. 14, No. 23 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________ [ ] M393683 ) FEATURES: HPC As it Was -- A Viewpoint (Part I) [ ] M396667 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: Panasas Enables 'Diskless' Cluster at LANL [ ] M396662 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: IBM, EPFL to Map the Human Brain [ ] M396785 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SDSC Hosts Institute for Scientists ____________________________________________________________________________ [ ] A529 ) HP Moves into Tie for No. 1 Market Share Position in Worldwide Server Revenue FEATURES ====================================================================== [ ] M393683 ) HPC As it Was -- A Viewpoint (Part I).......................8.5K by Suresh Shukla Viewpoints of history can help us assess the present and the future. Here, contributor Suresh Shukla talks about supercomputing's rise to prominence and it's initial importance in industry developments and endeavors. [ ] M396709 ) NUG at UK Met Office - Supercomputing In Action ...........13.8K by Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants Some sixty experts from five continents, but mostly from European countries and Japan, attended the NEC User Group meeting (NUG-XVII) hosted by the UK Met Office at their new site in Exeter, UK. [ ] M396710 ) Igniting Gamma Ray Bursts Inside Supercomputers............10.7K by Jarrett Cohen, Goddard Space Flight Center/GST, Inc. Computational Technologies (CT) investigators recently created the first supercomputer simulations to capture the dynamic physics of the fireballs arising from gamma ray bursts -- the most powerful and mysterious explosions in the universe. [ ] M396796 ) HPCwire Unveils 'People to Watch 2005'.....................28.3K HPCwire is proud to unveil its annual People to Watch selections for 2005. The 15 honorees represent a cross-section of influential personalities in the high performance computing universe. [ ] 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 ============================================================= [ ] M396667 ) Panasas Enables 'Diskless' Cluster at LANL..................3.8K Panasas, Inc. announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is using the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster to enable its Pink supercomputer to operate without local disks in the compute cluster. [ ] M396663 ) IBRIX Fusion System Selected by NCSA........................4.9K IBRIX 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. [ ] M393565 ) SteelEye Announces Clustering Solution......................5.2K SteelEye Technology Inc. announced the general availability of LifeKeeper for Windows version 5 along with a new release of LifeKeeper for Exchange, which together, offer expanded support for clustering Microsoft Exchange servers. [ ] A681 ) Do More With Dual! Explore the Latest in Dual Core and Dual Graphics Free one-hour webinar July 14, 2005 8am PDT Sponsored by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] A428 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] A322 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx ============================================================================== [ ] A365 ) Introducing the Appro XtremeBlade Next Generation AMD Opteron Blade Server VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================== [ ] M396662 ) IBM, EPFL to Map the Human Brain............................5.9K IBM and The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) are announcing a major joint research initiative - nicknamed the Blue Brain Project - to take brain research to a new level. [ ] M396676 ) Linux Networx Announces New CEO, ECLIPSE Certification......5.1K The Linux Networx board of directors announced the appointment of Robert H. "Bo" Ewald as chief executive officer (CEO). In addition, the cluster company announced its Evolocity cluster systems are now certified to run the ECLIPSE reservoir simulation software from Schlumberger. [ ] M396712 ) DataDirect Creates Federal Segment..........................4.2K DataDirect Networks is creating a DataDirect Networks Federal organization and staffing it with expert IT, storage and cluster technology specialists armed with the necessary clearances, making significant investments in its government business infrastructure. [ ] M396666 ) SGI Expands Channel Distribution Strategy...................7.5K Silicon Graphics announced it will aggressively expand its global channel distribution strategy and indirect sales model. This announcement includes the launch of the new SGI Channel Connection program. [ ] A430 ) Myrinet The Leading TOP500 Interconnect - Myricom - QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M396790 ) "What really matters is not the power itself, but how it is applied to accelerate innovation and discovery in science, engineering and business." -- Tilak Agerwala, Vice President of Systems, IBM Research [ ] 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M396670 ) Max Planck Society Deploys IBM Supercomputer................3.8K [ ] M396711 ) Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors in 2006..................3.2K Software ====================================================================== [ ] M396669 ) PGI Compilers Integrated Into HP HPTC Solutions.............3.8K [ ] M396664 ) Absoft Releases HPC SDK for Apple's Tiger...................3.8K [ ] M396715 ) Bull Announces Benchmark Results for MS SQL Server..........3.9K [ ] M396677 ) MATRA Auto Extends MSC.Software Solutions...................2.2K [ ] M396727 ) OpenMP Specification Version 2.5 Released...................3.1K [ ] A609 ) Innovation Matters June 20-21, 2005 Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing Consortium Europe 2005 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc Networking ==================================================================== [ ] M393559 ) Cisco Advances Japanese Networking..........................3.7K [ ] M396726 ) Small Tree Releases File Sharing System for Mac.............3.2K [ ] M396714 ) Lucent to Supply Optical Networking in Korea................3.4K [ ] M396713 ) Foundry Intros Internet and Metro Router Family.............5.7K Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M396685 ) PolyServe Unveils 'Unappliance' Strategy....................6.7K [ ] M393560 ) IBM Ships 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Storage Systems...............4.7K [ ] 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 General Interest ============================================================== [ ] M396679 ) Power Architecture Lauded at Euro Summit....................9.6K [ ] M396717 ) Deadline Nears for DOE ACTS Workshop........................4.6K [ ] M396718 ) Intel Developer Forum to Focus On Multi-Core Platforms......3.1K [ ] M396742 ) NCSA Visualizations to be Shown at SIGGRAPH, DomeFest.......7.3K [ ] M396737 ) CEI Launches Int'l Visualization Conference.................2.6K [ ] M396785 ) SDSC Hosts Institute for Scientists and Researchers.........3.9K [ ] M393557 ) Zygote, e frontier Launch Open Source 3D Models.............2.7K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M396688 ) GeneGo Integrates Accelrys Tech in MetaDrug.................2.1K Financial Update: [ ] M396693 ) Voltaire Closes $15 Million in Financing....................3.4K Boeing, Cisco Form Business Alliance. Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M393668 ) HCL Tech Inks JV Deal With NEC..............................5.9K Splinex, Maplesoft Announce Alliance VCC, MCI to Provide Global Connectivity to Supercomputing -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M393564 ) David Bader Joins Georgia Tech for HPC Work.................4.3K Voltaire Names Former 3Com Exec VP of Marketing HP Appoints Cathy Lyons as Executive VP and CMO. 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 Guidelines..........................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A368 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 05.27.05).............7.5K [ ] P357M382451 ) LCI Workshop at OSCER June 21-24, 2005 Norman, OK REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 20, 2005 http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/ [ ] P357M382452 ) OMG's Sixth Annual Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems July 11-14, 2005 Washington, DC Presentations, panels & discussions http://www.omg.org/hpc-rte/ [ ] P357M320047 ) Commodity Cluster Symposium On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications July 26-28, 2005 Greenbelt, Maryland CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND ABSTRACTS http://www.arl.hpc.mil/Clusters2005 [ ] P357M382453 ) Security '05 14th USENIX Security Symposium August 1-5, 2005 Baltimore, Maryland http://www.usenix.org/events/sec05/ [ ] P357M389465 ) "Data Mining: Levels I, II & III" September 26-30, 2005 San Diego, California [ ] P357M382454 ) SC|05 - Gateway to Discovery November 12-18, 2005 Seattle, Washington Housing Now Open to All Attendees! http://sc05.supercomputing.org/travel ______________________________________________________________________ Full background information on all leading HPC solution providers [ ] A517 ) Data Direct [ ] A639 ) Microway [ ] A341 ) NEC [ ] A351 ) APPRO [ ] A345 ) Myricom [ ] A470 ) HP [ ] A342 ) Sun [ ] A335 ) IBM [ ] A339 ) SGI [ ] A518 ) Cray [ ] A337 ) Linux Networx [ ] A332 ) Etnus/TotalView [ ] A373 ) Dell [ ] A338 ) PathScale [ ] A331 ) Intel [ ] A330 ) Atipa [ ] A343 ) Portland Group For sponsorship information contact: promote@hpcwire.com ______________________________________________________________________ *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] M391555 ) Japan: Poised for a Supercomputing Comeback?................3.4K [ ] M393115 ) HPC Challenge Competition Announced.........................4.1K [ ] M393059 ) Protein Dynamics on the Supercomputer Big Screen............7.4K [ ] M393029 ) Sun to Buy StorageTek for $4.1B.............................5.2K [ ] M393015 ) IWILL, PathScale Team for Increased Performance.............3.7K Send info requests (X-marked copy of this message) to hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com -------------------- * -------------------- Copyright 1993-2005 HPCwire. 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