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 24, 2005 Vol. 14, No. 25 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________ [ ] M406641 ) FEATURES: Tracking Trends in the Top Supercomputers [ ] M405023 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: AWE Chooses Linux Networx for U.K. Defense [ ] M403499 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: Myricom Branches Out to Tap 10Gb Market [ ] M405950 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SDSC to Host Life Sciences Workshop ____________________________________________________________________________ [ ] A694 ) HP Updates Unified Cluster Portfolio; Next Generation HP Scalable File Share FEATURES ====================================================================== [ ] M406641 ) Tracking Trends in the Top Supercomputers..................10.4K by Tim Curns, Editor If there's one thing you can tell by looking at the newest list of the most powerful (read fastest) supercomputers in the world, it's that some real change is taking place in the HPC field. [ ] M404362 ) HPC As it Was - A Viewpoint (PART II).......................8.5K Suresh Shukla Viewpoints of history can help us assess the present and the future. Here, contributor Suresh Shukla examines supercomputing's past twenty years or so -- and makes predictions for its future stability. [ ] M403437 ) Search Begins for Fernbach Award Winner....................12.0K by Peter Meade As momentum continues to build for this year's Supercomputing gathering (SC|05), nominations are being sought for the annual Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award. Tabor Communications' director of publishing operations Peter Meade chronicles the roots of this prestigious award. [ ] M403560 ) Contest to Prove Importance of 'Personal Supercomputing'....4.8K by Tim Curns, Editor Orion Multisystems, creator of the desktop supercomputer, has aligned with Bio-IT World to initiate what it has dubbed the "Personal Supercomputing Contest." The contest is hoped to reset the bar on scientists' expectations for what they can achieve computationally with their own personal resource. [ ] M404452 ) Council on Competitiveness Announces Agenda.................4.8K The Council on Competitiveness, a national organization of business, academic and labor leaders, announced the agenda for the High Performance Computing (HPC) Users Conference on July 13, 2005. [ ] 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 ============================================================= [ ] M405023 ) Atomic Weapons Establishment Chooses Linux Networx..........4.1K Linux Networx announced the Atomic Weapons Establishment plc (AWE), responsible for a key part of the United Kingdom's nuclear defense capability, has acquired an Evolocity visualization cluster system from Linux Networx. [ ] M404374 ) ClusterVision Completes First AMD Cluster in UK.............3.9K ClusterVision has completed full installation of the Minerals and Ceramics high performance computing facility, known by the project name of MOTT-2. [ ] M405940 ) IBM Previews Faster Off-the-Shelf Cluster...................3.7K IBM announced details on a planned high-density POWER5 processor-based system. The planned 16-way IBM eServer p5 575 cluster node is capable of sustaining 87.3 Gflop/s of performance and can achieve up to fifty-five percent greater speed than the 8-way IBM eServer p5 575 cluster node, which was introduced last fall. [ ] M404446 ) Sun Supports College Cluster................................4.0K Thanks to a partnership with Sun Microsystems, the College of William and Mary is now home to SciClone, one of the most sophisticated computing systems around. [ ] 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 ============================================================== [ ] M403499 ) Myricom Branches Out to Tap 10Gb Market.....................8.2K by Tim Curns, Editor Myricom is not leaving HPC. Repeat, Myricom is NOT leaving HPC. But the company, known for its high-performance cluster-interconnect technology, is now branching out by combining the techniques of high-performance computing with 10-Gigabit Ethernet. [ ] M406648 ) HP Advances HPC with Updated Portfolio......................9.3K HP announced new product and partner updates to its high-performance computing Unified Cluster Portfolio that offer the maximum performance per dollar for Linux clusters. [ ] M405943 ) European Institutes Select Cray XD1.........................4.3K Cray announced that Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) has ordered a Cray XD1 supercomputer to run advanced polar and marine research applications. In addition, Spain's National Institute of Meteorology (INM) has begun production weather forecasting on a Cray X1E system. [ ] M404367 ) SGI Assists NASA Michoud Return to Flight...................8.2K With NASA now projecting a mid-July Space Shuttle return to flight, Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Michoud Operations continues their impact analysis of the external fuel tank using the SGI Altix computing system and SGI InfiniteStorage purchased from Silicon Graphics in June 2004. [ ] M405027 ) Pathscale Announces Benchmark Results.......................4.5K PathScale has released new benchmark results that show its InfiniPath interconnect for InfiniBand provides extremely low latency across a broad spectrum of cluster-specific benchmarks. These results were released at the International Supercomputer Conference 2005 in Heidelberg, Germany. [ ] 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 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M406656 ) "This new list also demonstrates that clustered systems are continuing to replace traditional monolithic supercomputing systems. As this trend accelerates, and every indication suggests it will, the influence of supercomputing will expand across an ever widening range of commercial and consumer markets." -- Charles King, principal analyst Pund-IT 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 ====================================================================== [ ] M406642 ) Cooling System Helps Chips Beat Heat........................7.1K [ ] M403392 ) CAPIS Deploys Appro/Avocent Solution........................4.0K [ ] M405025 ) NOC Achieves New Simulation Results with Bull...............3.2K [ ] M405903 ) ClearSpeed Demos Fast Workstation Chip .....................4.7K [ ] M406022 ) Verari Intros BladeRack 2 Blade Server Platform.............3.8K Software ====================================================================== [ ] M405955 ) Quadrics Software Supports Rocks Clusters...................3.5K [ ] M405936 ) Absoft, Intel Announce Cluster Software Kit.................4.9K [ ] M405850 ) Scali's Cluster Solution Earns HP Certification.............4.4K [ ] M403395 ) New Software Helps Computers Act Logically..................3.1K [ ] M405035 ) ANTs Software Supports 64-Bit Linux on Opteron..............3.6K [ ] M406649 ) Biosystems Institute, Lucidyx Develop Software..............4.1K Networking ==================================================================== [ ] M405934 ) Canada's SHARCNET Research Network Chooses HP...............6.1K [ ] M405945 ) MCNC, N.C. State Lead Experiment Support for NLR............6.4K [ ] M406647 ) Voltaire Announces Support for DDR InfiniBand...............4.0K [ ] M404392 ) Mellanox Ships InfiniBand Adapters and Switch Silicon.......8.1K [ ] M405032 ) Foundry Networks Achieves Demanding IPv6 Certification......3.0K [ ] M404387 ) Stealth Communications Deploys Force10......................4.3K [ ] M405039 ) Azul Opens Doors to Center for Unbound Compute..............4.3K [ ] M404451 ) Level 5 Networks Unveils Networking Solution................3.7K Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M405944 ) Storage Makers Team for SCSI Solution.......................4.7K [ ] M405855 ) Maxell Boasts of 10 TB Tape.................................3.5K [ ] M404379 ) Nexsan's SATABlade Wins Storage Product of the Year.........2.4K General Interest ============================================================== [ ] M404447 ) Supercomputer Models Improve Weather Forecasts..............7.5K [ ] M403415 ) Register for Reconfigurable Systems Institute...............4.2K [ ] M405950 ) SDSC to Host Life Sciences Workshop.........................4.5K [ ] M404395 ) Stackable Computers Out of This World.......................3.7K [ ] M405048 ) HPC Process Leads to Creation of a New Company..............6.7K [ ] M405854 ) Genomic Sequences Processed in Mere Minutes.................4.5K [ ] M403393 ) Sandia, FAA, NASA Advance Airline Fire Detection............5.0K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M403496 ) Coraid Intros EtherDrive Storage Appliance..................4.0K GemStone Releases GemFire Enterprise 4.0 Allinea Announces DDT 1.9. Financial Update: [ ] M404450 ) Level 5 Networks Announces $30M in Funding..................2.8K Sun's Solaris 10 Sets Pace for Financial Firms. Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M404377 ) SGI, Celoxica to Accelerate HPC Apps........................7.4K Quadrics, Bull Demo Three-rail Cluster Performance DS3 Launches Server on Sun's Solaris -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M403497 ) Inventor of the Integrated Circuit Dies.....................6.8K NSF Selects Two UCSD Experts for CAREER Grants New Microsoft Int'l President Appointed -- more -- JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL356 ) Cray, CSCS, D.E. Shaw Group, LANL, Linux Networx, LSU Mountain View Data, ORNL, PNNL, TACC, Utah State University [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..........................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A368 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 06.03.05).............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/ [ ] P357M405146 ) Linux Networx User Group Conference September 12-14, 2005 Snowbird, Utah http://www.linuxnetworx.com/ug/ [ ] 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 [ ] A342 ) Sun [ ] A339 ) SGI [ ] A341 ) NEC [ ] A351 ) APPRO [ ] A470 ) HP [ ] A335 ) IBM [ ] A518 ) Cray [ ] A337 ) Linux Networx [ ] A332 ) Etnus/TotalView [ ] A373 ) Dell [ ] A338 ) PathScale [ ] A331 ) Intel [ ] A330 ) Atipa [ ] A345 ) Myricom [ ] A343 ) Portland Group For sponsorship information contact: promote@hpcwire.com ______________________________________________________________________ *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] M402408 ) Dear Mr. President: Computational Science 'Critical'........6.0K [ ] M398645 ) HLRS Director: HPC Users Need Quality, Not Quantity.........13.5K [ ] M400709 ) Cray, AMD Claim HPC Challenge Lead .........................5.7K [ ] M402412 ) Cray, AMD Claim HPC Challenge Lead..........................5.7K [ ] M398519 ) IBM Launches New Blue Gene System...........................5.9K Send info requests (X-marked copy of this message) to hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com -------------------- * -------------------- Copyright 1993-2005 HPCwire. 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