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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 *** August 2, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 30 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 309 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73209 ) 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 _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103190 ) FEATURES: LETTER TO THE EDITOR - MICROSOFT'S GORDON BELL | | [ ] 103195 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SGI ENABLES CRITICAL ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH | | [ ] 103203 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: IBM OPENS $2.5 BILLION CHIP PLANT | | [ ] 103219 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SUN DOUBLES CAPACITY FOR MIDRANGE STORAGE SYSTEMS| |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73210 ) HP Announces Portfolio of Itanium 2-based Systems, Solutions and Services New Offerings Deliver Optimal Customer Value with Breakthrough Performance and Price FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103190 ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR.........................................2.3K Gordon Bell of Microsoft Bay Area Research Center comments about "HPCwire's TOP PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS TO WATCH", and who he considers to really be at the "top". [ ] 103191 ) THE CONVERGENCE OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE (PART II)...........4.7K By Geoff Barrall, CTO, BlueArc Corporation Geoff Barrall of BlueArc continues to speak about the new revolution offered by FPGA technology and upon VHDL and Verilog as the hardware definition languages used to define state machines. [ ] 103192 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR FRIEDEL HOFELD..................8.2K By Uwe Harms, Exclusive to HPCwire Uwe Harms interviews Professor Friedel Hofeld, Head of ZAM (Central Institute for Applied Mathematics) at Research Centre Jlich, who Retired in July. [ ] 103193 ) BUSH ADVISER ENCOURAGES PROBES OF SOFTWARE FLAWS.............4.7K An adviser to President Bush encouraged top computer security professionals and hackers to try to break computer programs, offering to support and protect good-faith researchers from the legal wrath of software makers. [ ] 103194 ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR.........................................1.4K Joachim Worringen, NEC C&C research lab St. Augustin, responds to an article published in the July 26 issue of HPCwire, concerning the topic of the EarthSimulator. [ ] 73211 ) 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 =================================================== [ ] 103195 ) SGI TECHNOLOGY ENABLES CRITICAL ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH..........7.9K SGI supercomputing solutions are now helping users at the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics to conduct important research in structural biology that will affect such crucial areas as the development of more effective antibiotics. [ ] 103196 ) UK MET OFFICE BUYS TOP OF THE RANGE NEC SUPERCOMPUTER........5.7K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants, Ltd. The UK Met Office announced that it has signed a contract with NEC Corporation to buy NEC's newest generation supercomputer. [ ] 103197 ) SMART-MEMORY CHIP BREAKS THE MEMORY WALL.......................5K Researchers from the University of Southern California School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute will demonstrate a "Smart Memory" Processor in Memory chip, with the capability of speeding some calculations by at least an order of magnitude. [ ] 103198 ) UCLA RESEARCHERS COOL HOT SILICON CHIPS......................6.3K Borrowing from a method often used to cool down on a hot summer day, researchers at the UCLA engineering school are coaxing more efficiency out of hot silicon chips by spraying them with water. [ ] 103199 ) IN AN ANCIENT GAME, COMPUTING'S FUTURE.......................9.7K By Katie Hafner, NY Times In recent years, computer experts, particularly those specializing in artificial intelligence, have felt fascination and frustration when it comes to pursuing the mathematics of game theory. [ ] 103200 ) ADVANCE MAY LEAD TO PRACTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING..............3.5K For the first time, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have designed a semiconductor-based device that can trap individual electrons and line them up, an advance that could bring quantum computing out of the gee-whiz world of scientific novelty. [ ] 73212 ) 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__________________ [ ] 73213 ) What Scalable Storage Networking Solution Easily Handles Multi-Teraflop Environments? Find out what Sandia National Laboratory Knows... Storage Networking Appliances from DataDirect Networks. [ ] 73214 ) 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103201 ) SGI RECEIVES MAJOR ORDER FOR VIRTUAL REALITY CENTER............9K SGI announced it has been commissioned by DaimlerChrysler AG to completely update and expand the auto manufacturer's Virtual Reality Center (VRC), located in Sindelfingen, Germany. [ ] 103202 ) HP OUTLINES PLANS FOR ENTERPRISE-CLASS BLADE SERVERS.........5.9K By John Abbott, the451.com HP is getting ready to expand from its initial focus on high density and low voltage, and plans to release second-generation systems focused on performance and high availability. [ ] 103203 ) IBM OPENING A $2.5 BILLION SPECIALIZED CHIP PLANT............5.6K By Steve Lohr, NY Times IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated new semiconductor factory that cost more than $2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made. [ ] 103204 ) MICROSOFT TO PUMP UP R&D AND HIRE 5000.........................4K Microsoft Corp. said it would boost spending on research and development by 20 percent and hire nearly 10 percent more workers this year, buoyed by strong sales of Windows XP. [ ] 103205 ) VERITAS EMBRACES "SECOND COMING" OF LINUX....................7.4K By Simon Robinson, the451.com Storage management giant Veritas hopes to cash in on what it says is the "second coming" of Linux after announcing that it will introduce broad support for the open source operating system. [ ] 103206 ) DIGITAL COCKPITS TRACK A CORPORATION'S PERFORMANCE...........7.9K By Bob Tedeschi, NY Times Thanks to continuing efforts at digitization, a growing number of companies are now able to use the Internet to monitor many or all of their key performance indicators daily, or even minute-by-minute. [ ] 73215 ) 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 ============================================================ [ ] 103193 ) "Millions of households are getting connected and therefore getting vulnerable to online crime. It's a bit like selling a car today without a seat belt." -- Richard Clarke, President Bush's computer security adviser [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73216 ) Intel(TM) Business Computing: Case Study BriefHigh Performance Computing Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) Architecture: Ensuring Smooth Sailing for Fluid Turbulence Research *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103207 ) Infineon And Partners Team Up On Semiconductors..............1.8K [ ] 103208 ) Mercury Receives Computer Systems Order From InVision........3.1K [ ] 103209 ) SiS Debuts 658 Chipset With RDRAM Memory.....................3.5K [ ] 103210 ) AMD Announces Support For Updated Windows CE .NET Platform...2.3K [ ] 103211 ) DRS Technologies Receives New Orders For Computer Systems....3.4K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103212 ) MSC.Software To Provide Software/Service Support For Fiat....2.9K [ ] 103213 ) IBM Migration Program Targets "Green Screen" Applications....2.8K [ ] 103214 ) AMD Announces IBM DB2 Database Software Support..............6.1K [ ] 103215 ) Promeria Adopts Fujitsu's Business Management Solution.......4.9K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103216 ) Microsoft To Focus On Gigabit Ethernet & Cancels InfiniBand..2.4K [ ] 103217 ) RedSwitch & SBS Technologies Team For Switching Solutions....3.5K [ ] 103218 ) CA Inc. Delivers Standards-Based Mainframe Data Solution.....4.1K [ ] 73217 ) Register Now For MicroWay's Symposium New Directions In Cluster Technolgies September 18-19, 2002 Plymouth, MA USA STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103219 ) Sun Doubles Capacity For Midrange Storage Systems............4.4K [ ] 103220 ) Fujitsu Limited Launches Softek Storage Management Software..7.3K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103221 ) SGI Successfully Implements i2 Demand Planner................4.8K [ ] 103222 ) ICANN Board Member Wins Access To Records....................2.3K [ ] 103223 ) Palmisano Defends IBM's $3 Billion Microchip Plant...........2.3K [ ] 103224 ) SGI And Christie Enhance Visualization Experiences...........5.4K [ ] 103225 ) Advance Registration Opens For SC2002........................2.7K [ ] 103226 ) W3C Steps Up Web Services Work.................................2K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103227 ) Product Watch: Neoware Expands Thin Client Product Line......7.2K Partnership Delivers New Reference Platform. [ ] 103228 ) Financial Update: Cray Announces Profitable Second Quarter..25.1K SGI Reports FY2002 Financial Results. Fujitsu Reports FY2002 Financial Results. [ ] 103229 ) Corporate Liaisons: AMD, Fujitsu And Saifun To Collaborate...6.1K IBM To Buy PriceWaterhouse Consulting. [ ] 103230 ) People and Positions: Belluzzo Takes Quantum Leap............8.1K Netezza Adds Compaq Vet. IP Dynamics Expands Management team. 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 [ ] 73218 ) 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 07.31.02)..............10K [ ] 73219 ) SCICOMP 6 August 19-23, 2002, Berkeley, California hosted by National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERS) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [ ] 73220 ) 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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