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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 *** June 14, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 23 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 343 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73113 ) MSC.Linux Outperforms Unix in Thermal and Stress Analysis, Reducing Time and Costs For Leading Japanese Structural Engineering Company ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 102887 ) FEATURES: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARGONNE'S STEVE TUECKE | | [ ] 102890 ) SCIENCE NEWS: NEC TOPS NEW IDC SUPERCOMPUTER RANKINGS | | [ ] 102899 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL SHRINKS ITANIUM 2 | | [ ] 102917 ) NEWS BRIEFS: PLATFORM ENHANCES GRID COMPUTING SOLUTIONS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73114 ) 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 ===================================================================== [ ] 102887 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH ARGONNE'S STEVE TUECKE....................11.1K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Steve Tuecke, the lead software architect in the Distributed Systems Laboratory at Argonne National Laboratory spoke with HPCwire about the issues and challenges relating to Grid development and technology. [ ] 102888 ) DESPITE CONFUSION, INFINIBAND STILL HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE......5.2K By Mike Bernhardt, The Bernhardt Agency Inc. When Intel announced it was discontinuing development of its InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, heads turned, and the future of InfiniBand was questioned by a number of editors. [ ] 102889 ) FEDS EXAMINE ICANN OFFICIALS.................................4.1K Congress is taking a look at the California company that administers Internet addresses after critics said it was too slow to address security holes and should be more closely regulated. [ ] 73115 ) HP Ranks "Best in Class" In Latest IDC High-performance Computing Benchmark HP Receives Top Honors in Two Out of Four Categories; Places Three Systems in Top Five Positions in Third Category SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 102890 ) NEC TOPS NEW IDC SUPERCOMPUTER RANKINGS......................4.4K NEC was ranked No.1 in the supercomputer performance based on the IDC Balanced Rating Test. This ranking was announced by the industry analysis firm IDC and reported in HPCwire. [ ] 102891 ) AVAKI'S GRID ARCHITECTURE IDENTIFIES BIOLOGICAL DATA.........3.9K At the BIO 2002 Conference in Toronto, Avaki Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions, announced it has co-authored a proposed standard for identifying biologically significant data in life sciences applications. [ ] 102892 ) NPACI ROCKS SIMPLIFIES DEPLOYMENT OF INTEL CLUSTERS..........5.6K Developers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have released NPACI Rocks 2.2.1, which extends the easy-to-use open-source cluster toolkit to Linux clusters powered by Intel Itanium processors. [ ] 102893 ) TWO BREAKTHROUGHS ACHIEVED IN TRANSISTOR RESEARCH............2.7K How small can electronic devices get? Nano-small! Two teams of scientists have fashioned transistors from single molecules and report their results. [ ] 102894 ) MIXED EMULSIONS..............................................8.9K Virginia Tech researchers simulate the behavior of emulsions as they mix and break into drops. [ ] 102895 ) HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE HAS ERRORS, SCIENTISTS SAY.............5.3K By Nicholas Wade, NY Times Based on a new genetic map of the human genome, Icelandic scientists say more than 100 large-scale corrections are needed in a recent draft of the human genome sequence. [ ] 102896 ) STUDY: MONKEY BRAINS MAY HELP WITH COMPUTER USAGE............3.7K Monkeys implanted with electrodes moved a cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about it and learned how to do it better with practice. This could lead to the development of better prosthetic limbs for amputees and help paralyzed patients to move again. [ ] 102897 ) ISCB ISSUES STATEMENT ON BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE...............6K The International Society for Computational Biology has issued a statement regarding the availability of bioinformatics software. The statement aims to clarify the nature of open source software and makes various recommendations about its accessibility. [ ] 102898 ) QUANTUM COMPUTING WITH INDIVIDUAL ATOMS......................4.2K Researchers at the University of Michigan's Center for Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science (FOCUS) and Department of Physics have reported the first demonstration of laser-cooling of individual trapped atoms of different species. [ ] 73116 ) Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Uses Linux NetworX Cluster to Aid in Drug Discovery Linux Cluster Helps Pharmaceutical Company Improve Efficiency and Save Time _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73117 ) The Portland Group Announces an Alliance With Linux NetworX to Offer Integrated Cluster Development Software. [ ] 73118 ) 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 [ ] 73119 ) What Scalable Storage Networking Solution Easily Handles Multi-Teraflop Environments? Find out what Sandia National Laboratory Knows... Storage Networking Appliances from DataDirect Networks. [ ] 73120 ) 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 ============================================================== [ ] 102899 ) INTEL SHRINKS ITS ITANIUM 2....................................5K Itanium 2, Intel's upcoming chip for high-end servers and workstations, has slimmed down. The final version of the chip will have a surface area of 421 square millimeters--approximately 10 percent smaller than originally planned. [ ] 102900 ) HP AND CADENCE BRING ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION ON LINUX...4.9K HP announced the advancement of an alliance with Cadence Design Systems to broaden the reach of electronic design automation using Linux. [ ] 102901 ) AMD, INTEL TROT OUT NEW CHIPS................................4.2K Advanced Micro Devices released a new version of its Athlon processor, while Intel plans to speed up its Celeron chip. These moves come amid a new slump in the PC market. [ ] 102902 ) TINKERERS SAY THEY'VE FOUND A CHEAP WAY TO BROADBAND.......8.5K By John Markoff, NY Times Layne Holt and John Furrier, have a company with an ambitious target: the cable and phone companies that hold a near-monopoly on high-speed access for the "last mile" between the Internet and the home. [ ] 102903 ) BUSINESS SERVER SLUGFEST: IBM VS. DELL.......................4.6K IBM has proclaimed that it is going after Dell in the mainstream server market, and the company introduced two new servers that it claims are cheaper and better than Dell products. [ ] 102904 ) PLENTY OF LIGHT LEFT IN OPTICAL MAN SERVICES.................4.5K Despite recent press coverage that has painted optical Metro Area Network services in both a positive and a negative light, these services are neither a panacea for all bandwidth needs, nor another data service doomed to failure based on false promises. [ ] 73121 ) 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 ============================================================ [ ] 102902 ) "We're bandwidth junkies, and I can't imagine a world in which people don't have broadband. That's our mission." -- John Furrier, Software Engineer [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73122 ) BlueArc Selected by National Laboratory to Deliver 115 Terabytes for Supercomputing Cluster... *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 102905 ) Cray Wins Supercomputer Orders Worth Nearly $19 Million......1.6K [ ] 102906 ) Tundra Teams Up With Intel To Develop Chip.....................1K [ ] 102907 ) Cray SX-6 System Installed At ARSC.............................3K [ ] 102908 ) DMI To Upgrade To An NEC SX-6/48 Supercomputer...............2.3K [ ] 102909 ) Chip Designers Share Low-Power Jolts........................ 5.6K [ ] 102910 ) Revolutionary New Databahn Core Solves Memory Bottleneck.....3.4K [ ] 102911 ) 4SC Decides To Use IBM Linux Cluster Technology..............4.6K [ ] 102912 ) Synopsys Introduces Floorplan Compiler.......................5.5K [ ] 102913 ) TSMC Reveals Tiny Experimental Transistor....................1.8K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 102914 ) SGI And TNO Create Optimized Airbag-Simulation Package.......2.8K [ ] 102915 ) Cray And SANBI Enable Higher-Quality Clustering Software.....2.8K [ ] 102916 ) Fujitsu Announces The Solaris 9 Operating Environment........5.3K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 102917 ) Platform Enhances Powerful Grid Computing Solutions..........5.9K [ ] 102918 ) Purdue, IU Create New 'Tera-Scale' Supercomputer Grid..........7K [ ] 73123 ) Register Now For MicroWay's Symposium New Directions In Cluster Technolgies September 18-19, 2002 Plymouth, MA USA STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 102919 ) Fujitsu Demonstrates USB Magneto-Optical Storage Products....2.7K [ ] 102920 ) Nexsan Releases Next-Generation Backup Solution..............4.1K [ ] 102921 ) Storage Breakthrough "Millipede" Similar To Old Punch Cards..2.5K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 102922 ) International Supercomputer Conference Announcement............4K [ ] 102923 ) Cinesite Turns To SGI To Get To The Show On Time.............6.7K [ ] 102924 ) Platform Computing Makes Equity Investment In Powerllel......3.7K [ ] 102925 ) IT Details On Homeland Security Outlined.....................2.8K [ ] 102926 ) IPDPS 2003 Announcement.....................................19.9K [ ] 102927 ) OMG Announces The 2002 Object Application Award Program......3.1K [ ] 102928 ) DARPA Selects Four Computing Systems Projects................2.2K [ ] 102929 ) DOE Sponsors Workshop On Tools For Scientific Computing......4.1K [ ] 102930 ) Singapore Needs Experts In Bioinformatics......................3K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 102931 ) Product Watch: VARIAGENICS Awarded Gene Patent..............12.5K Racksaver Introduces New Bladerack Servers. NVIDIA Optimizes Its Platform Processors. [ ] 102932 ) Financial Update: Cray May Join Russell 3000 Index...........2.4K Novell To Buy SilverStream For $212M. [ ] 102933 ) Corporate Liaisons: DataDirect Teams Up With CardioNow......10.3K Tundra Teams Up With Intel. PACT XPP Technologies Teams W/ Accent. [ ] 102934 ) People and Positions: Zambeel Appoints New Board Member......9.5K NCR Announces Two New Board Members. ACM VP Elected President. 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 [ ] 73124 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 06.12.02)..............10K [ ] 73125 ) HPCwire is proud to be exhibiting at SC2002 From Terabytes to Insights Baltimore, MD November 16-22, 2002 [ ] 73126 ) 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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