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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 *** July 26, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 29 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 303 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73196 ) HP gains #1 position on the TOP500 supercomputer list "HP has gained the number one position, despite a dramatic increase of the threshold to enter the list - it now stands at 134.3 GFLOP/s up from 94.3 GFLOPs last November," ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103151 ) FEATURES: HP BOARD FORMS TECH POLICY COMMITTEE | | [ ] 103154 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SGI DEFINES DIRECTION OF GRAPHICS INNOVATION | | [ ] 103158 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL READIES EARLIER ROLLOUT OF PENTIUM 4 | | [ ] 103169 ) NEWS BRIEFS: AVAKI 2.5 DELIVERS WIDE-AREA DATA ACCESS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73197 ) HP Announces Portfolio of Itanium 2-based Systems, Solutions and Services New Offerings Deliver Optimal Customer Value with Breakthrough Performance and Price FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103149 ) CUSTOMIZED SUPERCOMPUTER WINS SPEED RACE.....................5.6K U.S. supercomputers have been the world's most powerful. Now, one built in Japan with an "old" design runs five times faster than the previous record holder, a machine that simulates nuclear tests at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. [ ] 103150 ) NEWS FROM ISC2002 - APPLICATIONS WITH PETAFLOP/S NEEDS......13.4K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants, Ltd. In this article Christopher Lazou briefly reports on requirements of applications in need of petaflop/s. [ ] 103151 ) HP BOARD FORMS TECH POLICY COMMITTEE.........................4.8K Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has formed a technology committee to study such key issues as the company's transition to Itanium processors. [ ] 103152 ) EXPERTS SPEAK ON CYBERTERRORISM..............................4.4K Experts in computer security, emboldened since Sept. 11 by renewed attention to threats of cyber-terrorism, are asking Congress for protections from liability lawsuits, antitrust restrictions and public disclosure laws. [ ] 103153 ) CYBERSPACE INFRASTRUCTURE IS RIPE FOR ATTACK.................3.3K Years after orders from the White House to beef up the security of the nation's most important computer systems, the government is having trouble identifying which organizations should be involved and how they should be coordinated. [ ] 73198 ) The Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster, when delivered to LLNL, will be the fastest Linux cluster machine ever built. It is expected to be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world... SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103154 ) SGI DEFINES THE DIRECTION OF GRAPHICS INNOVATION............13.3K SGI defines the direction of graphics innovation for the next decade. At SIGGRAPH 2002, SGI is showcasing ground-breaking developments and new milestones in its advanced visualization initiatives. [ ] 103155 ) HDF5 WINS R&D 100 AWARD FOR NCSA AND THREE DOE LABS..........4.8K R&D Magazine will present a 2002 R&D 100 Award to HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5), a software package developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. [ ] 103156 ) SGI & FAKESPACE DELIVER ADVANCED VISUALIZATION SYSTEM........6.7K SGI and Fakespace Systems Inc. announced the completion of an advanced visualization system for oil and gas exploration at the Houston, Texas offices of Norsk Hydro, Norway's second-largest energy company. [ ] 103157 ) THE MATHEMATICS OF BEAUTY....................................6.4K Beauty may well be in the eye of the beholder. But in the future it could be in the realm of mathematics. [ ] 73199 ) MSC.Software, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel Corporation Have Partnered To Provide A Comprehensive Computing System That Dramatically Reduces Time Spent In The Product Design Process _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73200 ) The Portland Group Announces an Alliance With Linux NetworX to Offer Integrated Cluster Development Software. [ ] 73201 ) What Scalable Storage Networking Solution Easily Handles Multi-Teraflop Environments? Find out what Sandia National Laboratory Knows... Storage Networking Appliances from DataDirect Networks. [ ] 73202 ) 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 [ ] 95004 ) San Diego Supercomputer Center COMMERCIAL NEWS ============================================================== [ ] 103158 ) INTEL READIES EARLIER ROLLOUT OF 3.0 GHZ PENTIUM 4...........3.1K Intel Corp. is moving up the introduction of its Pentium 4 processor running at 3.0 gigahertz in time for the year-end holiday season. [ ] 103159 ) MICROSOFT'S .NET SET TO LINK TO APACHE.........................3K Microsoft took a significant step toward expanding the appeal of its .Net software plan by announcing a link to Apache, one of the most important open-source software projects. [ ] 103160 ) CHIP COMPANIES FORECAST SLOW AND UNEVEN RECOVERY...............5K Quarterly results from the semiconductor industry have largely confirmed what investors have suspected for months: the second-half recovery in sales and profits will be a slow and uneven one at best. [ ] 103161 ) WESTWAVE TAKES CLASS 5 SWITCH TO THE ACCESS NETWORK............7K Westwave Communications will use the signaling and call control capabilities of its access softswitch to allow digital loop carriers (DLCs), like those from its investor Alcatel, to deliver basic Class 5 services over a converged network. [ ] 103162 ) AMD BUILDS FOUNDATION FOR 64-BIT CLAWHAMMER..................8.3K Advanced Micro Devices is building a 64-bit field of dreams. As Intel accelerates the launch date of its 3GHz Pentium 4 chip, arch rival AMD continues to build the foundation for "ClawHammer." [ ] 73203 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103157 ) "It's like subtracting one face from another to get a new one. This gives the plastic surgeon a new way of looking at things." -- Steven G. Krantz, Ph.D., professor and chair of mathematics at Washington University in St.Louis [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73204 ) Intel(TM) Business Computing: Case Study BriefHigh Performance Computing Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) Architecture: Ensuring Smooth Sailing for Fluid Turbulence Research *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103163 ) Vialogy, Intel Collaborate On Microarray Analysis............4.9K [ ] 103164 ) UCLA Urban Simulation Lab Receives SGI InfiniteReality4......5.1K [ ] 103165 ) Intel Goes Inside Hollywood For The Future Of Filmmaking.......4K [ ] 103166 ) Doors Open For High-Performance Platform Innovations.........5.8K [ ] 103167 ) Mellanox Announces Next Generation InfiniBand Server Blades..7.9K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103168 ) Sun Unveils New 3D Graphics Products And Technologies........5.5K [ ] 103169 ) AVAKI 2.5 Software Delivers Wide-Area Data Access............4.3K [ ] 103170 ) Borland Breaks New Ground With C++ Technology For Linux......6.4K [ ] 103171 ) Shavlik Technologies Announces Patch Management Software.....5.9K [ ] 103172 ) SPECapc Releases New Pro/E 2001 Benchmark Software...........2.8K [ ] 103173 ) SPECopc Releases SPECviewperf 7.0 For UNIX...................2.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103174 ) Motorola Expands Its Communications Network Leadership.........9K [ ] 73205 ) Register Now For MicroWay's Symposium New Directions In Cluster Technolgies September 18-19, 2002 Plymouth, MA USA STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103175 ) SGI Boosts Total Performance 9100 Storage Array..............4.3K [ ] 103176 ) RackSaver And LSI Logic Storage Systems Debuts HPC Solution..4.1K [ ] 103177 ) CommVault Details Storage Virtualization Promises............3.6K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103178 ) HP Wins Over $120M In IT Infrastructure Services Contracts...3.8K [ ] 103179 ) IBM Scientific & Technical Computing Announce Workshop.......1.1K [ ] 103180 ) Hamilton College Hosts Computational Chemistry Consortium....2.8K [ ] 103181 ) SDSC'S Steckler Receives "Spirit Of Preuss" Award............3.4K [ ] 103182 ) California Rescinds Computer Contract........................2.6K [ ] 103183 ) Gartner & US Naval War College Conduct Digital War Games.....3.3K [ ] 103184 ) The 9th Annual Parallel Tools Consortium Announcemet.........0.9K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103185 ) Product Watch: PLX Switched-PCI Architecture Enables Speed...7.6K M-Systems Releases Latest SuperMAP Product. [ ] 103186 ) Financial Update: Sun Returns To Profit, Sees Another Loss..29.3K Microsoft Results Beat Expectations. Unisys Reports Strong Second Quarter. [ ] 103187 ) Corporate Liaisons: Quantum3D/SBS Tech Announce Agreement...18.9K Microvision & Silicon Graphics Team Up. Avnet Hall-Mark Announce Partnership. [ ] 103188 ) People and Positions: CENIC Board Selects First COO.........11.5K Angstrom Microsystems Has New Member. United Devices Names New CTO. JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* New Listing) *Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation - QPSF (Chief Executive Officer) SGI- United States (Dir. of Product Technology) SGI - United States (Design Verification Engineer) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (Computer Scientists/Engineers) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73206 ) 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 07.24.02)..............10K [ ] 73207 ) SCICOMP 6 August 19-23, 2002, Berkeley, California hosted by National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERS) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [ ] 73208 ) HPCwire is proud to be exhibiting at SC2002 From Terabytes to Insights Baltimore, MD November 16-22, 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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