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 *** October 4, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 39 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 403 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73325 ) HP Installs $22 Million Supercomputer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in U.K. System to Double WTSI's Computer Power to Expand Genomic Research; Deal Continues HP's Success in High Performance Computing ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103603 ) FEATURES: INTEL'S HUGE BET TURNS IFFY | | [ ] 103617 ) SCIENCE NEWS: IBM FINDS NEW WAY TO MAKE NANOTUBES | | [ ] 103621 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HEWLETT-PACKARD AND EMC SUE EACH OTHER | | [ ] 103625 ) NEWS BRIEFS: FUJITSU UNVEILS NEW SPARC SOLARIS BASED SERVERS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73326 ) SGI Enables Groundbreaking Biomedical Research at National Cancer Institute (NCI) Supercomputing Center FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103603 ) INTEL'S HUGE BET TURNS IFFY.................................15.3K By John Markoff And Steve Lohr For The NY Times Google -- the Internet's leading search engine, should be a premier customer for Intel's new Itanium 2 super-chip. But Google isn't buying. And that may be an ominous sign. [ ] 103604 ) LINUX SUFFERS GROWING PAINS..................................6.1K By Robert Jaques, vnunet.com The open source environment's lack of maturity is clearly demonstrated by the fact that there is no single unified vision of its role in the corporate world. [ ] 103605 ) FEDS RELEASE TOP 20 CYBERSECURITY HOLES......................2.8K In a bid to plug its leaky computer systems, the U.S. government released a list of top cybersecurity holes and unveiled a system to help government techies find and patch them. [ ] 103606 ) WHAT'S NEW ON THE OPEN SOURCE FRONT?.........................4.6K By Masha Zager, www.NewsFactor.com The early days of the open source movement saw the introduction of such widely used products as Sendmail, Apache, Perl and Linux. But the direction of the open source movement is far from clear. [ ] 103607 ) ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNET SAFETY LAUNCHED....................2.3K Inaugurated last year at the Trusted Computing forum, the Organisation for Internet Safety (OIS) was charged with creating a set of guidelines for handling the disclosure of flaws and vulnerabilities in software. [ ] 103608 ) THE OS WARS: BSD VS. LINUX...................................3.3K By Jay Lyman, www.NewsFactor.com While the BSD operating system enjoys a loyal following, is freely available in several flavors, and has potential for wider deployment in the future, that is where its similarities to Linux end. [ ] 73327 ) HP Wins Euro60 Million Comprehensive Outsourcing Contract with The CAT Group Deal with European Automotive Logistics Company to Reduce Costs by up to 30 Percent Over 5 Years SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103609 ) SGI & DBI SUMMIT EXAMINES BIOTERRORISM & DRUG DISCOVERY......6.6K SGI and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute announced they will jointly sponsor a summit that examines the impact of emerging technology on life sciences research, focusing on safeguarding against bioterrorism and advancing the drug discovery process. [ ] 103610 ) CRAY'S MTA GOES MAINSTREAM - PC..............................4.1K The idea of hardware multi-threading has been around for years, such as the Cray MTA, but Dean Tullsen, a Computer Science and Engineering professor at UCSD, San Diego is predicting a revolution in desktop microprocessing, thanks to new technology he helped develop. [ ] 103611 ) HP ANNOUNCES TWO NEW GELATO FEDERATION MEMBERS...............3.3K HP announced that two new member organizations have joined the Gelato Federation: the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. [ ] 103612 ) IBM SUPERCOMPUTER PUTS FSU RESEARCH ON FAST TRACK............3.6K By Melanie Yeager Florida State University's new Eclipse supercomputer can perform 2.5 trillion calculations, per second. At that speed, FSU researchers will be able to attempt more complex research and do it faster. [ ] 103613 ) DOE OFFICIAL DELVES INTO PNNL'S FUTURE.......................4.1K By Annette Cary, TriCity Herald This spring Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will begin operating the nation's fastest nondefense computer, allowing scientists to do new research in areas ranging from nanoscience to fission and combustion. [ ] 103614 ) CAN QUANTUM COMPUTERS EMPLOY WORMHOLES?......................4.7K It sounds like something out of the movie "Back to the Future," but one forward-thinking physicist says as computer technology progresses, scientists may be able to use wormholes to send answers to calculations back to their own past to solve problems. [ ] 103615 ) DESPITE FRAUD AT BELL LABS, CHIP RESEARCH BARRELS AHEAD......7.3K By Kenneth Chang For The NY Times After nearly a year of excitement and puzzlement over the now discredited findings of Dr. J. Hendrik Schon at Bell Labs, the field of molecular electronics is still very much alive. [ ] 103616 ) CHESS CHAMPION READY FOR COMPUTER..............................4K World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik says he is ready to take on super-computer Deep Fritz, but accepts his "monstrous" challenger has the edge. [ ] 103617 ) IBM FINDS NEW WAY TO MAKE NANOTUBES..........................2.8K By Michael Kanellos, News.com Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes that could be incorporated into processors, a breakthrough that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades. [ ] 103618 ) NANOCYLINDERS OPEN WAY TO POLYMER ELECTRONICS TEAM...........5.5K A team of German and American scientists have succeeded in combining conventional organic molecules and conductive polymers to form highly symmetric, structured materials with new electronic properties. [ ] 103619 ) ROBOTS NEED CULTURE SAYS SONY SCIENTIST......................5.3K A researcher says that the next wave of robots will be able to interact with one another, form their own languages and evolve new kinds of intelligence. [ ] 73328 ) Plug in the power of Western Scientific's High-Performance computing solutions, with AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, and Apple Xserve technologies. _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73329 ) 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 [ ] 73330 ) 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ============================================================== [ ] 103620 ) IBM, EMC DISPLACE HEWLETT-PACKARD TO SUPPLY CELERA...........3.7K International Business Machines Corp. and EMC Corp. displaced Hewlett- Packard Co. to supply Celera Genomics Group, the company that mapped the human genome, with technology to help develop new drugs. [ ] 103621 ) HEWLETT-PACKARD AND EMC SUE EACH OTHER.......................3.6K Hewlett-Packard Co. and EMC Corp launched dueling patent infringement suits on data storage technology, as the two biggest firms in that industry lock horns. [ ] 103622 ) MICROSOFT REPORTS PROGRESS IN AVERTING COMPUTER CRASHES......3.4K By John Markoff For The NY Times Microsoft released data about its Watson online error-reporting service, which the company says has had a significant impact on increasing the stability of its software. [ ] 103623 ) GLOBAL CHIP SALES UP 14 PERCENT, TRADE GROUP SAYS............3.5K Global sales of semiconductors rose 2.2 percent in August from July and rose 14 percent from August a year ago, figures that show the beleaguered industry is tracking a broadly based upturn, a trade group said. [ ] 103624 ) IBM INVESTS $1 MILLION TO ACCELERATE LINUX IN LONDON........14.5K IBM announced the opening of a $1 million development centre devoted to helping the financial services industry deploy Linux solutions. [ ] 73331 ) 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... QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103616 ) "It is a battle between human creativity and the monstrous calculating power of the machine." -- Vladimir Kramnik, World chess champion [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73332 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! THE FUTURE IS NOW GRID TECHNOLOGY WATCH FOR THE GRID By Jack McCarthy, By Scott Clavenna, InfoWorld Director of Research, Light Reading GRID RESEARCH BECOMING MAINSTREAM *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103625 ) Fujitsu Unveils New SPARC Solaris Based Servers..............7.2K [ ] 103626 ) World Chip Sales Grew Somewhat Slower In August................2K [ ] 103627 ) India Offers Supercomputer To Brazil.........................0.7K [ ] 73333 ) Fujitsu Launches PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 Supercomputer Massively Parallel Scalar System Boasts Record Performance, Scalability SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103628 ) New Version Of IBM E-Commerce Software Supports Linux........1.7K [ ] 103629 ) Sistina Software Unveils GFS 5.1 For SAN's...................6.1K [ ] 103630 ) Red Hat To Launch Linux Version 8.0..........................3.5K [ ] 103631 ) Concurrent's RedHawk Linux Version 1.1 Now Available.........5.8K [ ] 103632 ) ObjectVenture Ships ObjectAssembler 2.0......................4.7K [ ] 103633 ) SCO And Mandrakesoft Achieve LSB Certification...............4.6K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103634 ) Sandia Purchases InfiniBand Equipment From Paceline Systems..4.2K [ ] 103635 ) Lucent Demonstrates New Cross-Country Continuity Network.....6.5K [ ] 103636 ) Interlink Networks Announces New Network Security Software...2.9K [ ] 103637 ) Human Genome Center Selects Extreme Networks' Ethernet.......4.6K [ ] 103638 ) Marconi Demos 10-Gig Breakthrough For Networks...............1.6K [ ] 103639 ) Quantum Crypto Code Sent Record Distance.......................2K [ ] 103640 ) ISR Joins Computing Consortium For High-Speed Networking.....1.8K [ ] 73334 ) Microway Announces CW Cluster Series Based on Platform Clusterware... STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103641 ) Sun Delivers New Series Of Storage Products..................5.7K [ ] 103642 ) DataDirect Announces New FC-2 Storage Network................6.9K [ ] 103643 ) Monsanto To Share Precision AG Database With University......1.9K [ ] 103644 ) StorageTek Sets New Standard For Tape Storage Solutions......6.7K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103645 ) Notable Figures In HPC To Speak At SC2002....................3.8K [ ] 103646 ) LCI Promises Learning, Sharing For Linux Community...........2.8K [ ] 103647 ) Platform Joins Support For The Diabetes BioCluster...........6.2K [ ] 103648 ) NSA To Upgrade Monitoring Abilities..........................2.1K [ ] 103649 ) NCSA Outreach Program Seeks To Revitalize Rural Education....5.1K [ ] 103650 ) ISC2003 Exhibition: Registration Now Open....................1.5K [ ] 103651 ) Cluster 2003: Conference Announcement..........................4K [ ] 103652 ) Dell Recognizes Cornell For HPC Research.....................3.4K [ ] 103653 ) SC2002: New Online Calendar Makes Personal SC Planning Easy..2.6K [ ] 103654 ) SC2002: Advance Registration Deadline Nears....................2K [ ] 103655 ) Company Offers Training In Computer Animation................2.6K [ ] 73335 ) Test and run your benchmarks on an Aspen Systems Alpha or Pentium, Linux or UNIX system. SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103656 ) Product Watch: MandrakeSoft Releases Latest Linux...........33.3K Mercury Unveils New PCI Multicomputer. TriCN Introduces New I/O Solution. [ ] 103657 ) Financial Update: Sun Ups 4th Qtr Profit.....................5.8K IBM Closes PwC Consulting Purchase. Unisys To Announce 3rd Qtr Results. [ ] 103658 ) Corporate Liaisons: IBM Expands Software Pact...............19.3K Spike Technologies Partners With TSMC. Teradata/ETI Partnership Gets Momentum. [ ] 103659 ) People and Positions: SAP Names New CEO Of U.S. Operations...0.7K JOB BANK ============================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities (* Recently Listed) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Director, Computational Sciences & Mathematics) Mississippi State University (Associate Research Professor, Visualization, Analysis & Imaging) University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (Computational Genomics Consultant) Maui High Performance Computing Center (Lead Network Engineer) Ohio Supercomputer Center (Executive Director) [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines..................................1.22K [ ] 73336 ) Appro's high performance platforms offer customers the best in cluster engine design and embody the Appro Engineering philosophy of Power, Scalability and Reliability. 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