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With Intel Platforms, Technologies and Tools. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ [ ] M440274 ) FEATURES: Perfect Storms, Competitiveness, & the 'Gretzky Rule' [ ] M442319 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: MTV2 Boosts Buffalo Firm w/ Dell Cluster [ ] M440191 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: NEC Develops New Express Partner Program [ ] M439330 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NSF Creates Office of Cyberinfrastructure ____________________________________________________________________________ [ ] 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 - FEATURES ====================================================================== [ ] M440274 ) Perfect Storms, Competitiveness, and the 'Gretzky Rule'....12.5K by Fran Berman, SDSC Director & HPC Endowed Chair, UCSD Fran Berman argues that concrete and strategic goals are critical to achieve U.S. competitiveness in science and engineering. She goes on to explain the "Gretzky Rule" and its importance to the country's HPC endeavors. [ ] M437879 ) At the Breaking Point......................................11.2K by J. William Bell, Access Magazine Editor Breakages in chromosomes in mammalian evolution have occurred at preferred rather than random sites as long thought, and many of the sites are involved in human cancers, an international team of 25 scientists has discovered. [ ] M439235 ) Bill Gates to Keynote SC|05 Conference......................3.5K Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates, one of the most pivotal figures in computing history, will deliver the keynote address at the SC|05 Conference in Seattle. [ ] M442163 ) Study: U.S. Sees Drop in Scientific Papers..................4.2K The United States has seen its share of world output of scientific papers steadily decrease, while the collective shares of nations in the European Union (EU) and the Asia Pacific region have increased, according to a recent study. [ ] A732 ) U.S. Department of Defense to Use HP Supercomputer for Weapons Systems Design CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================= [ ] M442319 ) MTV2 Boosts Buffalo Firm w/ Dell Cluster....................5.4K The new season of MTV2's video game and music program "Video Mods" is, in part, the result of an innovative partnership between IBC Digital, the Buffalo company that produces the "mods" and the University at Buffalo's supercomputing center. [ ] M437824 ) SHARCNET Increases Capacity.................................3.4K Four new high-performance computing clusters will give the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) the ability to increase its network capacity from 1,000 to 6,000 processors. [ ] M439103 ) Streamline Delivers Efficient Gigabit Cluster...............3.6K Streamline Computing delivered an efficient Linux gigabit cluster to Nottingham University on behalf of Sun Microsystems. The cluster was physically built by Sun Microsystems and handed over to Streamline who installed and configured the highly-tuned operating system. [ ] A365 ) High-Performance Computing Meets Dual-Core Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solutions _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] A428 ) World's Fastest Supercomputers Running on Intel(TM) Processors [ ] A322 ) More than Flops - Achieve High Productivity Computing from Linux Networx ============================================================================== [ ] A735 ) Beware of a SAN Shark Attack http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=431557&xsl=story.xsl VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================== [ ] M440191 ) NEC Develops New Express Partner Program....................5.0K NEC Solutions (America), Inc. unveiled its new Express Partner Program for the technology reseller and distribution channel. The new program illustrates NEC's growth strategy for its Fault Tolerant and Itanium 2-based servers, software and storage solutions. [ ] M441223 ) IBM Unleashes New z9 Mainframe..............................4.9K IBM recently introduced a highly sophisticated computing system, the IBM System z9 mainframe, with security and virtualization capabilities that the company said can enable it to act as the hub in a new era of collaborative computing. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M442206 ) "Although collaborations between computational scientists and experimentalists are becoming increasingly common, the results from this project clearly demonstrate how scientific computing is coming into its own as an essential component of scientific discovery." -- Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences, LBNL [ ] XQUOTE ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] A366 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURE STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! Ian Foster on the Impact of 'Service-Oriented Science' It's Alan's Turn to Cry http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** Hardware ====================================================================== [ ] M440192 ) Fujitsu Intros PRIMERGY 4-way Servers.......................3.5K [ ] M441231 ) Tatung Blade Servers Show Strong AMD Support................7.6K Software ====================================================================== [ ] M440246 ) Softare Vendors Maintain Their Positions....................4.4K [ ] M441179 ) Sandia Simulation Helps Special Forces......................6.7K [ ] M439111 ) UCSD Expands Licenses of MetaCore...........................3.7K [ ] M440199 ) German Bank Standardizes with Informatica...................4.6K Networking ==================================================================== [ ] M441183 ) TeraGrid Initiative to Address Scientists' Needs............4.5K [ ] M442167 ) FirstMile.US, Calit2 Promote Big Broadband..................3.1K [ ] M440187 ) Italian Research Org Taps Metrobility.......................3.8K [ ] M437826 ) Samsung Snags Extreme Networks..............................3.2K Storage ======================================================================= [ ] M441230 ) Microsoft Honors Unisys for HPC Work........................6.1K [ ] M439142 ) EMC Unveils Scalable High-End Storage Array.................6.8K General Interest ============================================================== [ ] M439330 ) NSF Creates Office of Cyberinfrastructure...................4.2K [ ] M439229 ) OSC Grooming Next Generation of Scientists..................6.2K [ ] M440247 ) A Gold Mine for Science.....................................8.8K [ ] M441181 ) PSC to Hold Workshop for TeraGrid Users.....................2.0K [ ] M441226 ) LBNL Work Earns National Recognition........................6.2K [ ] M442188 ) SDSC Hosts Computing Institute for Scientists...............2.9K SHORT TAKES =================================================================== Product Watch: [ ] M440213 ) Mercury Releases RADIN 3.2..................................5.8K Levanta Ships Linux Management Appliance Alienware Intros New Line of Rack Servers. Financial Update: [ ] M439233 ) StorageTek Foundation Offers $72,500 in Grants..............8.1K Sun Microsystems Reports Preliminary Results SGI Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2005 Results -- more -- Corporate Liaisons: [ ] M440201 ) Absoft Announces Agreement with Intel.......................5.0K Cisco Systems to Acquire Sheer Networks Maplesoft Partners with Mathematical Association of America -- more -- People and Positions: [ ] M439112 ) United Devices Names VP of Pro Services.....................7.6K Jeffrey Confirmed as 13th NIST Director MSC.Software Announces More VPs -- more -- JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL356 ) Cray, D.E. Shaw Group, Linux Networx, LONI, LSU, Mellanox, NEC Europe, OSU, Par-Tech, TACC [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..........................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A368 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 07.15.05).............7.5K [ ] P357M382453 ) Security '05 14th USENIX Security Symposium August 1-5, 2005 Baltimore, Maryland http://www.usenix.org/events/sec05/ [ ] P357M431556 ) Linux World West Conference August 8-13, 2005 San Francisco, CA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ [ ] 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 http://www.the-modeling-agency.com/dsstar [ ] P357M409987 ) Mark your Calendar for the Upcoming LCI Workshop in France September 27-30, 2005 IBM STC Center, Montpellier, France Registration Deadline: August 26, 2005 http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org [ ] 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 [ ] A351 ) APPRO [ ] A330 ) Atipa [ ] A518 ) Cray [ ] A373 ) Dell [ ] A470 ) HP [ ] A335 ) IBM [ ] A331 ) Intel [ ] A337 ) Linux Networx [ ] A345 ) Myricom [ ] A339 ) SGI [ ] A342 ) Sun For sponsorship information contact: promote@hpcwire.com ______________________________________________________________________ *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES *** [ ] M434077 ) Cray CTO: 'A Good Time to Move On'..........................5.0K [ ] M436990 ) Pittsburgh Unveils 'Big Ben'................................8.1K [ ] M436979 ) IBM Demos ASC Purple Milestone Supercomputer................8.0K [ ] M432635 ) Watching the Future Unfold..................................8.8K [ ] M436976 ) HPC: Expanding the Boundaries of CFD........................12.2K Send info requests (X-marked copy of this message) to hpcmore@news.hpcwire.com -------------------- * -------------------- Copyright 1993-2005 HPCwire. 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