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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. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** May 24, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 20 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 336 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article retrieval instructions at end of this file more@hpcwire.tgc.com For subscription information, email sub@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73072 ) Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Uses Linux NetworX Cluster to Aid in Drug Discovery Linux Cluster Helps Pharmaceutical Company Improve Efficiency and Save Time ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 102761 ) FEATURES: HPCWIRE INTERVIEWS BLUEARC'S GEOFF BARRALL | | [ ] 102770 ) SCIENCE NEWS: PLATFORM'S GRID SOFTWARE POWERS FRENCH TELETHON | | [ ] 102779 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: SUN RELEASES MAJOR SOFTWARE UPGRADE | | [ ] 102792 ) NEWS BRIEFS: LINUX HEADS TO MAIN ST. WITH SHERWIN-WILLIAMS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73073 ) The New HP is The Market Leader in HPTC HP's HPTC Strengths Compaq's HPTC Strengths *high capacity servers and workstations *large capability systems *mechanical engineering *national laboratories *government defense *scientific research *electronic design simulation *life sciences *modeling *materials science The New HP *43% market share *The Best Technologies from HP and Compaq *Full-Range Product Set, From Desktops Through Multi-Teraflop Capability Systems FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 102761 ) HPCWIRE INTERVIEWS BLUEARC'S GEOFF BARRALL...................5.7K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Geoff Barrall, Executive Vice President and CTO of BlueArc, spoke with HPCwire regarding his firm's selection by LLNL for a supercomputing cluster project. [ ] 102762 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH STEGANOGRAPHY EXPERT PETER WAYNER..........5.7K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire talks with Peter Wayner, a writer of text and code, about what's changed in his revised edition of "Disappearing Cryptography". [ ] 102763 ) THE DATA DENSITY DILEMMA.....................................5.5K By Geoff Barrall, CTO, BlueArc Corporation Geoff Barrall talks about how the increase in disk densities in the computing industry is occurring at a much faster rate than the increase in disk speeds. This presents a rapidly-accelerating problem. [ ] 102764 ) BELL, TORVALDS USHER NEXT WAVE OF SUPERCOMPUTING.............5.4K By Ashlee Vance, IDG Ashlee Vance talks about Some of the IT world's top luminaries who met together to witness the unveiling of a compact supercomputer which proponents say could provide the model for high performance computing. [ ] 102765 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH SUPERCOMPUTING LEGEND JACK DONGARRA.......12.1K by Martin Meuer, HPCwire HPCwire interviewed Jack Dongarra, director of the Center for Information Technology Research, and a legend in the supercomputing field. [ ] 102766 ) NETWORKING WARS: IS NOVELL FINALLY FINISHED?.................5.4K by Robyn Weisman, NewsFactor.com Robyn Weisman talks about the future of Novell, and how multiple versions of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system and other flavors of UNIX are battling for the same market Novell once ruled. [ ] 102767 ) EARTH SIMULATOR SHINES OVER NEC USER GROUP...................5.1K The Earth Simulator was not only the leading topic of discussion during NUG, but a special site tour to the nearby Earth Simulator R&D Center allowed the NUG community to get a close look at this ultracomputer of unprecedented power. [ ] 102768 ) SIMILAR GRAPHS RAISED SUSPICIONS ON BELL LABS RESEARCH.......6.3K By Kenneth Chang, NY Times What had been hailed a few months ago as a breakthrough in molecule- size electronics is now in doubt, and a rising star at Bell Laboratories is under suspicion of improperly manipulating data. [ ] 102769 ) FANATICS WITH LAPTOPS: THE COMING CYBER WAR..................6.9K by Tim McDonald Tim McDonald talks about the Internet and its trend toward interdependence, along with the next-generation cyber terrorists. [ ] 73074 ) Register Now For MicroWay's Symposium New Directions In Cluster Technolgies September 18-19, 2002 Plymouth, MA USA SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 102770 ) PLATFORM'S GRID SOFTWARE POWERS FRENCH TELETHON..............5.7K Platform Computing together with IBM and the French Myopathy Association announced the completion of the data processing phase of the French Telethon's "Decrypthon" project. [ ] 102771 ) UCSD CREATES COMPUTATIONAL METHOD TO DEVELOP NEW DRUGS.......4.9K A new computational technique developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, provides a more realistic picture of how potential drugs and their molecular targets behave under normal conditions. [ ] 102772 ) FUJITSU DEVELOPS EFFICIENT SILICON-CRYSTAL TECHNOLOGY........6.6K Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced that it has developed technology enabling the efficient and practical production of thin-film transistor silicon crystals, an essential step towards the realization of "sheet computers." [ ] 102773 ) SEMICONDUCTING MATERIAL MIGHT DEVELOP SPINTRONIC DEVICES.....5.5K A team of researchers led by University of Buffalo physicists reported that they have created semiconducting materials that exhibit the key properties that are essential to the development of semiconductor spintronic devices. [ ] 102774 ) INDUSTRY ADOPTS INNOVATION THAT PROMISES CHIP EFFICIENCY.....5.8K The speed and efficiency of computer network and database servers could increase as much as 400 percent because of an idea developed by two University of Washington computer scientists that is reaching mainstream computing. [ ] 102775 ) WILL GALLIUM NITRIDE REVOLUTIONIZE ELECTRONICS?..............7.4K Umesh Mishra, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB, has teamed up with his old mentor and dissertation advisor at Cornell, Lester Eastman, to review the prospects for the gallium nitride transistor. [ ] 102776 ) OSC SUPERCOMPUTERS BENEFIT FROM NEW HOME.....................4.9K OSC has moved all supercomputing and memory systems to a new home this month. The new systems will be consolidated in a secure environment at the State of Ohio Computing Center (SOCC) in Columbus, Ohio. [ ] 102777 ) CA QUAKE SHOWS RELIABILITY OF UNIV OF CO FORECASTING.........3.6K The Latest California quake underscores reliability of U. of Colorado forecasting method. The quake was correctly plotted on a forecast anomaly map developed by researchers. [ ] 102778 ) NEW MODELING AND SIMULATION CENTER IS FORMALLY DEDICATED.....5.7K The Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation, the most capable simulation facility in the world, was formally dedicated. [ ] 73075 ) Introducing the Sun Fire 12k Server The Ideal Platform for Large-Scale High Performance Computing _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73076 ) The Portland Group Announces an Alliance With Linux NetworX to Offer Integrated Cluster Development Software. [ ] 73077 ) Grid Computing, Applications & High End Visualization Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) Conference 19-20 July, 2002 Glasgow, Scotland http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc [ ] 73078 ) What Scalable Storage Networking Solution Easily Handles Multi-Teraflop Environments? Find out what Sandia National Laboratory Knows... Storage Networking Appliances from DataDirect Networks. [ ] 73079 ) AVAKI Announces Three Customers to Accelerate Drug Discovery Using Comprehensive Grid Software Product AVAKI 2.1 is the First Commercially-available Software Product to Combine the Power of Compute Grids and Data Grids ______________________________________________________________________ Reed Presents Distinguished Lecture NCSA and Alliance Director Dan Reed was the speaker at a National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture on April 10. The lecture, which addressed the emerging infrastructure for computational science that promises to transform the way scientists and engineers conduct research, is archived on the NSF website at http://www.cise.nsf.gov/lecture_2002_04_10.htm . The lecture series is sponsored by the NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE). INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS Offering Technology Solutions for Industry. ============================================================================== Centers Actively Seeking Partners [ ] 95000 ) Pacific Northwest National Lab [ ] 95005 ) Indiana University [ ] 95002 ) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [ ] 95003 ) Ohio Supercomputer Center COMMERCIAL NEWS ============================================================== [ ] 102779 ) SUN RELEASES MAJOR SOFTWARE UPGRADE..........................4.1K Sun Microsystems Inc. debuted its biggest software upgrade in years, a new version of its flagship Solaris operating systems, which the computer maker is trying to integrate with popular upstart Linux. [ ] 102780 ) LINUX MAKES NEWS WITH REUTERS................................3.6K By Matt Berger, IDG Matt Berger talks about how Reuters Group announced that it has teamed with Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Red Hat to port its system for aggregating market news and data. [ ] 102781 ) SUN SHIPS FIRST COMPONENT OF SUN ONE STUDIO PRODUCT LINE.....6.1K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the availability of Sun ONE Studio 7, Compiler Collection, a collection of C, C++ and Fortran compilers and integrated debugger. [ ] 102782 ) WLAN MARKET GETS OFF TO A PROMISING START IN 2002............3.9K The Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) market began 2002 in a promising light, experiencing a greater than 10% growth in total unit shipments over the first quarter of 2002. [ ] 102783 ) BORLAND, ORACLE HEAT UP JAVA TOOLS...........................3.3K Borland will ship an update to its popular JBuilder tool. The new version integrates with two other Borland products: testing software that allows programmers to improve their software code, and an application that manages software projects. [ ] 102784 ) SILICON VALLEY COMPANIES FACE FRAUD CHARGES..................4.5K Federal authorities allege the top executives at Northern California software companies Unify Corp., Quintus Corp. and Legato Systems Inc. resorted to an unsavory recipe for success by cooking the books during the high-tech boom of the 1990s. [ ] 73080 ) Intel(TM) Business Computing: Case Study BriefHigh Performance Computing Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) Architecture: Ensuring Smooth Sailing for Fluid Turbulence Research QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 102764 ) "Current supercomputers are not addressing some of the fundamental issues that will be key for this coming decade. Simply doing bigger, faster machines is not good enough any more." -- Wu-chun Feng, team leader of Research And Development In Advanced Network Technology group, Los Alamos. [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73081 ) Black Hawk Down Visual Effects Company Selects BlueArc Mill Film chooses BlueArc as the only storage system that performs and scales to meet demanding business requirements *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 102785 ) Los Alamos Launches "Small" Supercomputer Project............1.3K [ ] 102786 ) Via Chipset Gives AMD Racing Room............................3.2K [ ] 102787 ) Axis Systems Uses World's Largest FPGAs From Xilinx..........3.2K [ ] 102788 ) IBM Builds Tiny Transistor...................................1.8K [ ] 102789 ) Donations, Castoffs Make A Student Cluster Computer..........4.7K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 102790 ) SGI Trusted Irix Offers Secure Operating System..............5.4K [ ] 102791 ) Platform Supports The Solaris 9 Operating Environment........3.6K [ ] 102792 ) Linux Heads To Main St. With Sherwin-Williams................1.8K [ ] 102793 ) Hawker de Havilland Chooses MSC.Software's Analysis System...2.6K [ ] 102794 ) IBM Supercharges Applications With New AIX OS Features.......4.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 102795 ) Dell Brings Gigabit Networking...............................3.1K [ ] 102796 ) Packet Design Introduces New Network Appliance...............5.2K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 102797 ) BlueArc Selected By LLNL For Supercomputing Cluster Project....3K [ ] 102798 ) Brocade Conference To Feature Storage Networking Solutions...2.4K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 102799 ) GRID 2002 Invites Authors To Submit Original Work............5.5K [ ] 102800 ) OMG Members To Advance Computing Standards At Summit.........5.7K [ ] 102801 ) SKY Computers Selected For Weather Radar Testbed.............1.8K [ ] 102802 ) Visualizations Help Improve Steel Galvanizing Process........1.3K [ ] 102803 ) "Ramping Up" To Digital Government...........................2.2K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 102804 ) Product Watch: WorldCom Launches Ethernet Service In U.S....20.9K Kane Computing Launches Ethernet XDS560. Borland Expands Solutions For Java. [ ] 102805 ) Financial Update: Autodesk Shares Fall On Earnings Outlook..14.5K Dell Earnings Slip But Revenues Rise. Network Associates Restate Results. [ ] 102806 ) Corporate Liaisons: NEC Uses Magma's Blast Software.........10.6K Mercury Computer Selected By QinetiQ. Symmetricom And Datum Announce Merger. [ ] 102807 ) People and Positions: Argonne Member Named A Top Innovator..14.8K Sarnoff Member Named A Top Innovator. ACM Honors Computer Chip Designer. [ ] 73082 )GREAT NEWS FOR TRUE64 UNIX AND OpenVMS AlphaServer CUSTOMERS! Our committment to you.... JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* New Listing) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)(Kernel Programmers) Los Alamos Nation Laboratory (Computer and Computational Sciences (CCS)-1 Group Leader) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)(Director of center for Applied Scientific Computing) California Institute of Technology-CACR (Manager, Computing Resources) University of California (HPC Consultant) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73083 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. WEBINARS ============================================================================== SEE NCSA's "WHAT IS THE GRID?" WEBCAST! http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/witg/ *************** Platforms See Platform's Webcast, Grid Computing: Beyond the Hype http://www.platform.com/newsevents/events/archived/gridregister.asp CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 05.22.02)..............10K [ ] 73084 ) HPCwire is proud to be exhibiting at SC2002 From Terabytes to Insights Baltimore, MD November 16-22, 2002 [ ] 73085 ) HPCwire is proud to be a Sponsor of the 17th International Supercomputer Conference Applications - Architectures - Trends Heidelberg Convention Center June 20 - 22, 2002 HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== [ ] 670 ) Masthead........................................................2.2K [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals........................................2.6K [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles...................................1.6K [ ] 950 ) Index of Back Issues.............................................28K Comments regarding editorial content may be sent to: editor@hpcwire.tgc.com ______________________________________________________________________ | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 533) SRC Computers [ ] 946) Quadrics | | [ ] 532) Veridian / PBS Pro(tm) [ ] 947) Etnus / TotalView | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 937) Compaq | | [ ] 530) DataDirect Networks [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 529) Linux NetworX [ ] 930) NEC | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 902) IBM Corp. | | [ ] 948) Cray Inc. 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