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 23, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 33 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 323 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73247 ) "The new HP is proving that it can do what it said it could" HP Announces Powerful Upgrades to PA-RISC and AlphaServer Lines Enhanced Systems Outperform IBM and Sun on Industry Benchmarks, Offer Customers Unmatched Value ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103320 ) FEATURES: AT INTEL, THE CHIP WITH TWO BRAINS | | [ ] 103325 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SGI TEAM RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS NASA HONOR AWARD | | [ ] 103329 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HP AND IBM EXPAND STORAGE INITIATIVES | | [ ] 103351 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SUN IMPROVES REAL APPLICATION CLUSTERS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73248 ) Register Now For MicroWay's Symposium New Directions In Cluster Technolgies September 18-19, 2002 Plymouth, MA USA FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103319 ) FASTER CHIPS THAT MARCH TO THEIR OWN IMPROVISED BEAT.........6.7K By Anne Eisenberg, NY Times In the last few decades, a small number of circuit designers and other researchers have decided that they want their circuits to march to a different, clock-free drummer that lets them proceed at their own pace. [ ] 103320 ) AT INTEL, THE CHIP WITH TWO BRAINS...........................7.6K By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Scientists at Intel are taking part in a dominant trend in microprocessor design: putting two chip cores, or "brains," into the same piece of silicon - an approach that may improve performance. [ ] 103321 ) OPEN REPLICATION OVER WANS IS ALL THE RAGE...................7.6K By John Abbott, the451.com Two new storage replication companies emerged at the Storage World show in San Jose this week. According to Topio and Actona, data replication can now be carried out over IP networking infrastructures. [ ] 103322 ) COMPUTER SECURITY FIRM RAIDED BY FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS.......5.1K By Bruce V. Bigelow, The SD Union-Tribune A four-month-old consulting firm's efforts to show that computer security is too lax at dozens of military facilities apparently backfired last weekend, when it was raided by federal investigators. [ ] 103323 ) SANDIA HELPS OFFICIALS WITH ANTI-TERROR TOOL.................6.3K Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California are developing a sophisticated tool meant to assist government officials and others involved in emergency response. [ ] 73249 ) HP Announces Portfolio of Itanium 2-based Systems, Solutions and Services New Offerings Deliver Optimal Customer Value with Breakthrough Performance and Price SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103324 ) IBM TO BUILD LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER IN GERMANY................5.7K The German Research Center Juelich and IBM announced that they have signed a contract for the delivery and installation of a new IBM supercomputer at the Central Institute for Applied Mathematics. [ ] 103325 ) SGI TEAM RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS NASA HONOR AWARD...............5.8K In recognition of their outstanding work in creating the world's only 1,024-processor SGI Origin 3800 shared-memory supercomputer, a NASA and SGI team received one of NASA's most prestigious awards, the NASA Honor Award for Group Achievement. [ ] 103326 ) SDSC AND ENTROPIA TEAM UP FOR RESEARCH SUCCESS...............5.6K The San Diego Supercomputer Center and Entropia Inc. announced early success with their partnership to provide industry-leading distributed computing capabilities to computational science and engineering projects at SDSC. [ ] 103327 ) "NANOANTENNAS" INCREASE MEDICAL IMAGING PRECISION..............7K Researchers have shown how tiny wires and metallic spheres might be arranged in various shapes to form "nanoantennas" that dramatically increase the precision of many electronic devices. [ ] 73250 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73251 ) 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... [ ] 73252 ) 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103328 ) INTEL TO DEBUT FASTER PENTIUM 4................................3K Intel will announce its speediest Pentium 4 processor yet, according to industry sources, as the company looks to reap the benefits from increased production efficiencies. [ ] 103329 ) HP AND IBM EXPAND STORAGE INTEROPERABILITY INITIATIVES.......4.5K HP and IBM announced a new interoperability milestone intended to help enable customers to more easily deploy open storage networks. [ ] 103330 ) SUN UNVEILS NEW PRICE-LEADING 64-BIT WORKSTATION.............6.6K Reinforcing its worldwide leadership in the 64-bit workstation market, Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced the new price leader in 64-bit UNIX desktops, the Sun Blade 150 workstation. [ ] 103331 ) FUJITSU LAUNCHES PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 SUPERCOMPUTER............6.7K Fujitsu Limited announced the release of a new massively parallel scalar supercomputer, the PRIMEPOWER HPC2500, which boasts the world's highest theoretical peak performance and scalability. [ ] 103332 ) LINUXWORLD DELIVERS NEW PRODUCTS AND INCREASED ATTENDANCE......9K At LinuxWorld 20,070 attendees networked, gauged innovative solutions first-hand for their ability to solve real business issues, and heard from technology luminaries during an action-packed week. [ ] 103333 ) WLAN EQUIPMENT VOLUMES CONTINUE TO SHINE IN 2Q02.............3.5K The Wireless LAN market continued to shine, as unit shipments grew 15% overall in 2Q02, bringing some much-needed sunshine to the dreary networking technology industry, according to In-Stat/MDR. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103329 ) "In today's environment, customers are making their technology purchases based on products that provide them the most flexibility. Vendors that make a bet on proprietary approaches over industry standards will lose." -- Brian Truskowski, chief technology officer, IBM Storage Systems Group [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73253 ) Free Web Conference Aug 21: Brought To You By Intel, HP, and MSC.Software. MSC.Nastran running on the Design Chain Accelerator. Featuring the latest Itanium-2 Benchmark data. *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103334 ) SGI Supercomputing System Helps Beijing Planetarium..........4.8K [ ] 103335 ) Kaohsiung City Government Targets Intel Architecture.........3.7K [ ] 103336 ) IBM Servers Enlisted For Defense Role........................3.8K [ ] 103337 ) Magic Earth Launches New PC Solution...........................5K [ ] 103338 ) Samsung Electro In $500M Circuit Board Deal With Intel.......3.2K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103339 ) Fujitsu Software's NetCOBOL For Linux Now Available..........3.9K [ ] 103340 ) Borland, IBM Set Bundles For Developers......................1.2K [ ] 103341 ) NVIDIA Releases Beta 2 Of Cg Compiler And Toolkit............3.7K [ ] 103342 ) 1-Day Tutorial On Component Software Announcement............1.9K [ ] 103343 ) Fluent Announces Remote Simulation Facility..................3.7K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103344 ) SunNetwork Conference Sets Agenda For Network Innovation.....2.2K [ ] 103345 ) Alacritech Introduces New Networking/Storage Products........7.6K [ ] 103346 ) Military Network Easily Cracked, Experts Say.................3.7K [ ] 103347 ) PLX Announces Development Of New I/O Interconnect Devices....3.7K [ ] 103348 ) NRL Awards Firstwave $29 Million Networking Contract...........5K [ ] 103349 ) SigEx SuperPBX Receives French Certification For FCPI Funds..2.7K [ ] 73254 ) Kaohsiung City Government Targets Intel(TM) Architecture For Next-Generation Infrastructure Government and Intel Agree to Technology Collaboration, Including Intel(TM)Itanium(TM)Processor Family-Based Bio-Informatics Grid STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103350 ) DataDirect Networks Certifies Max-T's Clustered File System..6.2K [ ] 103351 ) Sun Announces Enhancements For Real Application Clusters.....7.4K [ ] 103352 ) Procom Increases Scalability Of Storage Filer..................3K [ ] 103353 ) FalconStor/Luminex Partner For Storage Solutions.............4.6K [ ] 103354 ) Qualstar Ships New Quantum SDLT 320 Tape Drives..............4.1K [ ] 103355 ) StorageTek Unveils New Disk Storage System At Storage World..6.8K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103356 ) Danish Broadcasting Selects SGI For Digital News Workflow......6K [ ] 103357 ) Agilent And IBM Announce Drug Discovery Agreement............3.2K [ ] 103358 ) In Three Dimensions, Words Literally Take Flight.............6.5K [ ] 103359 ) SC2002 Solicits Entries For Computing Challenge Award........2.8K [ ] 103360 ) Microprocessor Forum 2002 Announcement.......................2.4K SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103361 ) Product Watch: Mercury Announces New Interface Cards........27.8K Tripos Releases Discovery Software. AltoWeb Application Platform Now Available. [ ] 103362 ) Financial Update: Dell Reports Higher Profit, Hikes Outlook...6K Loudcloud Completes $63 Million Sale. [ ] 103363 ) Corporate Liaisons: Samsung And SanDisk Sign Patent..........8.2K Infineon & LSI Logic Reach Agreement. [ ] 103364 ) People and Positions: United Devices Adds New VP............23.3K S2io Technologies Gets New CEO. PGP Announces New Advisory Board. JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) *University of New Mexico (Associate Director, Information Technology) *University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (Computational Genomics Consultant) *Maui High Performance Computing Center (Lead Network Engineer) Ohio Supercomputer Center (Executive Director) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - NERSC (Advanced Systems Group Leader) Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL (Senior Unix Systems Programmer) Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation - QPSF (Chief Executive Officer) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73255 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. 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