[ ] 73427 ) Born To Be Wired...HPCwire Celebrating 10 Years of Service to the HPC Community HPCwire is giving away Harley Davidson Leather Jackets Enter to WIN at our SC2002 booth #1541 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** November 15, 2002: Vol. 11, No. 45 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 424 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73428 ) IDC Traces the Evolution of Supercomputers Pick up your free copy of Supercomputing's Epic Journey Developed by IDC and Linux NetworX Available at Linux NetworX booth #1909 ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 103931 ) FEATURES: SGI - NEW SUPERCOMPUTING SOLUTIONS AT SC2002 | | [ ] 103944 ) SCIENCE NEWS: ORNL PRESENTS SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AT SC2002 | | [ ] 103954 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: IBM LAUNCHES POWERFUL EIGHT-WAY UNIX SERVER | | [ ] 103988 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SC2002 WILL HIGHLIGHT THE PROMISE OF COMPUTING | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73429 ) Intel to Feature Twenty Industry Expert Presentations From SC2002 Booth #1835 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 103931 ) SGI TO DEMONSTRATE NEW SUPERCOMPUTING SOLUTIONS AT SC2002...10.8K SGI will debut its latest HPC products and solutions at SC2002. Featured products include a new model of the SGI Origin 3000 family, and the upcoming system based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor running the Linux operating system. [ ] 103932 ) MSC'S LOMBARD ADDRESSES INTEL'S ITANIUM 2....................6.8K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief David Lombard, Director of Research and Development, MSC.Linux -- a division of MSC.Software, talks with HPCwire about issues related to Intel's Itanium 2-based Clusters. [ ] 103933 ) CEO GERSTNER LEAVES IBM A CHANGED MAN.......................12.4K Lou Gerstner, the chief executive who turned around IBM, talks about his much-anticipated first book. [ ] 103934 ) CRAY X1 - VECTOR ALTERNATIVE TO IBM P4 IN HPC................8.5K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants The Cray X1 supercomputer system was announced on November 14. This heralds the rebirth of parallel vector processors (PVPs) made in the USA. [ ] 103935 ) AN INTERVIEW WITH PLATFORM'S RENE COPELAND..................15.1K By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief On the eve of SC2002, HPCwire spoke with Platform's Rene Copeland, to get his perspective on the impact of Grid computing on key HPC trends such as homeland security and information superiority. [ ] 103936 ) TOP500 LIST OF WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS RELEASED.......3.7K In what has become a much-anticipated event in the world of high- performance computing, the 20th edition of the "TOP500" list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released. [ ] 103937 ) DEAL WILL KEEP NORTH CAROLINA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER OPEN.....4.5K MCNC's Supercomputing Center, a key piece of North Carolina's high-tech infrastructure, apparently will stay open for business. MCNC's executive board along with its key customers have struck a deal to fund the center. [ ] 103938 ) ECMWF WORKSHOP ON METEOROLOGY -- REALIZING TERACOMPUTING....12.2K By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants About 150 meteorology experts, computer practitioners and vendor representatives, spent a week exchanging experiences about the latest results in meteorology and the infrastructure which goes with it. [ ] 103939 ) HOUSE APPROVES CYBERSECURITY BILL............................3.5K Congress approved a massive spending program that allocates nearly a billion dollars for computer security research. [ ] 103940 ) GATES DEFENDS THE DIGITAL DECADE.............................3.9K The promise of the Internet still holds good, though its fulfillment is likely to take longer than was initially expected, according to Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. [ ] 103941 ) ENTERING A NEW ERA IN SUPERCOMPUTING.........................8.6K By Dave Parry, Senior VP of Systems Development, SGI Supercomputing is undergoing a renaissance. Scientists, researchers, and analysts are faced with an opportunity to use supercomputing to achieve breakthrough results that were previously unattainable. [ ] 73430 ) Simplify: Unisys Self-Managing, Self-Healing Server Systems Learn More About Breakthrough Unisys Server Sentinel Technology Please visit us at booth #1335 at SC2002 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS =================================================== [ ] 103942 ) NCSA, INTEL TO FEATURE MPI OVER INFINIBAND AT SC2002.........4.2K The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Intel, and Mellanox have collaborated to develop an Open Source MPI stack optimized for InfiniBand networks, which will be used in a demonstration at SC2002. [ ] 103943 ) NCSA, SDSC, AND CALTECH SELECT FORCE10 E-SERIES..............8.9K Three of the founding members of the TeraGrid project are selecting switch/routers from Force10 Networks to provide the needed scalability and performance. [ ] 103944 ) ORNL TO HIGHLIGHT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AT SC2002...........6.1K At the SC2002 conference Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leader in the national Department of Energy complex, will highlight scientific discoveries made possible by advances in high performance computing and computational sciences. [ ] 103945 ) BIOITWORLD: "BEST OF SHOW" AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED.........5.8K Bio-IT World magazine and IDG World Expo announced finalists for the industry's first life sciences technology "Best of Show" Awards. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the BioITWorld Conference & Expo in San Diego. [ ] 103946 ) PROTEIN SIMULATIONS HELP RESEARCHERS WITH CELL PERMEABILITY..9.2K With crucial help from PSC's terascale system, researchers used protein simulations to arrive at information not available by experiment and thereby to answer a long-standing question about the permeability of biological cells. [ ] 103947 ) ALGORITHM PREDICTS INTERACTIONS BETWEEN UNSOLVED PROTEINS....4.3K A promising new algorithm that can predict interactions between proteins whose structures are unsolved has been developed by Jeffrey Skolnick, Ph.D., University at Buffalo. [ ] 103948 ) W3C ADVANCES XFORMS 1.0........................................3K Nearly 10 years after the introduction of HTML forms revolutionized transactions on the Internet, a new specification is set to reshape the nature of Web-based forms. [ ] 103949 ) CTC RESEARCHERS LAUNCH REPEATFINDER FOR BIOINFORMATICS.......7.6K Researchers at the Cornell Theory Center have announced the launch of RepeatFinder, an innovative resource for computational genomicists, which may help scientists search for small clues to the mysteries of evolution. [ ] 103950 ) NPACI TO SHOWCASE BIG DATA, BIG GRIDS AT SC2002..............7.1K The National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure is emphasizing "big" in a research exhibit and related demonstrations at SC2002. [ ] 103951 ) ALBERTA PHYSICIST HELPS TRANSFER DATA AT WORLD RECORD PACE...3.7K A University of Alberta physicist was part of a Canadian research team which recently set a world record for high-speed disk-to-disk transfer of research data. [ ] 103952 ) BIOENGINEERS DEVELOP MODEL THAT PREDICTS DISEASE VARIANT.....4.2K University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Bioengineers have for the first time used a computer model to relate specific genetic mutations to exact variations of a disease. [ ] 103953 ) COMPUTERS, SCIENTISTS PREDICT EVOLUTION OF E. COLI BACTERIA..4.3K Researchers have been trying to create accurate computer models of Escherichia coli. Today, laboratory data and genetic databases can craft more accurate digital colonies of organisms which may help in predicting the evolution of bacteria. [ ] 73431 ) Do More with High-Productivity Computing. SGI -Supercomputing Enters a Renaissance Driven by a Demand for High Productivity Please visit us at booth #1521 at SC2002 _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73432 ) NCSA and SDSC select Force10 Networks E-Series for cluster connection to National Science Foundation's TeraGrid [ ] 73433 ) Something New will be UP-FRONT at SC2002: High-end Visualization, Terascale Clustering, and Grid Computing from Sun Microsystems. "We Make the Grid Work" Please visit us at booth #1709 at SC2002 [ ] 73434 ) 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. ============================================================================== [ ] 95005 ) Indiana University Research computing news from Indiana University Research in Indiana 2002 at SC2002! http://www.research-indiana.org 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 [ ] 73435 ) HP Server Outperforms IBM, Sun Systems on Secure Internet Transaction Benchmark Please visit us at booth #1509 at SC2002 COMMERCIAL NEWS ============================================================== [ ] 103954 ) IBM LAUNCHES POWERFUL EIGHT-WAY UNIX SERVER..................3.9K IBM introduced a powerful eight-way UNIX server, an affordable server that marks the debut of IBM's next-generation POWER4 technology. [ ] 103955 ) INTEL TO UNVEIL FASTEST-EVER PENTIUM 4 CHIP..................3.5K Intel will start selling its fastest-yet Pentium 4 that also tricks software into thinking that there are two chips in a PC -- speeding up programs and boosting overall computer performance. [ ] 103956 ) CRAY ANNOUNCES X1 SYSTEM....................................10.3K Cray Inc. announced the Cray X1 system supercomputer product. The X1 is aimed at the critical computing needs of classified and unclassified government, academic research, and the weather-environmental, automotive, and pharmaceutical markets. [ ] 103957 ) ORACLE C.F.O. SEES TECH TURNAROUND IN 2003...................3.3K The chief financial officer at Oracle Corp. said 2003 should mark the end of nearly two years of revenue declines for the world's second- biggest software maker. [ ] 103958 ) INTERNET SALES TAX NEARS NEXT PHASE............................4K Efforts to impose an eventual Internet sales tax reached the end of the beginning phase when representatives from 32 states approved model legislation designed to create a system to tax Web sales. [ ] 103959 ) WORKSTATION SHIPMENTS TURN A CORNER..........................2.2K Shipments of workstations grew for the second consecutive quarter after a string of declines, according to market researcher Gartner Dataquest. [ ] 73436 ) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times. Check it out at SC2002, Booth #1453 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 103940 ) "A big challenge that Web services needs to meet is the challenge of trustworthy computing, which is having these systems be reliable enough so that you can think of them as you do about electricity and water which are so reliable that you take them for granted." -- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73437 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! Bristol-Myers GRID REVEALS NEW DRUGS I.B.M. LOOKS TO THE GRID By John McCormick By Steve Lohr For The NY Times BigBangwidth DEBUTS NEW GRID COMPUTING OnRamp SOLUTION By Alan Beck, Editor in Chief, GRIDtoday *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103960 ) IBM To Announce New Approach For Building 3-D IC's...........1.9K [ ] 103961 ) Intel Poised To Cut Chip Prices..............................1.6K [ ] 103962 ) Linux NetworX Doubles The Density Of Its Evolocity Cluster...2.8K [ ] 103963 ) New "Denser" SGI Origin Adds Processors To Racks.............2.7K [ ] 103964 ) Four TeraFlop/s HLRN Inauguration............................2.7K [ ] 103965 ) Actuality Systems Wins Patent Approval For 3D Technology.....3.7K [ ] 103966 ) Philly Gets ID Theft Supercomputer...........................1.1K [ ] 73438 ) BlueArc SiliconServers Chosen for Formula 1 Car Designs at British American Racing Please visit us at booth #1921 at SC2002 SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 103967 ) Sun: N1 Will Yield New Software License Terms................2.5K [ ] 103968 ) SGI IRGO Software Optimizes Technical Computing Workflow.....5.1K [ ] 103969 ) IBM Express To Fight .Net....................................1.4K [ ] 103970 ) IBM Introduces New Software Pricing..........................2.1K [ ] 103971 ) Promicro To Demonstrate Linux Cluster Technology At SC2002...3.1K [ ] 103972 ) Oracle To Showcase Additions To App-Server Software..........2.2K [ ] 103973 ) Innovative Computing Laboratory Releases PAPI 2.3............0.7K [ ] 103974 ) ICCS 2003: Workshop On Java Announcement.....................2.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 103975 ) ICANN Proposes Three New Domains.............................2.2K [ ] 103976 ) Scientists To Demonstrate TeraGrid At SC2002.................7.7K [ ] 103977 ) U.S. Cracks Case Of Military Network Hacker..................4.9K [ ] 103978 ) Spy Scandal Ripples At Sweden's Ericsson Network.............3.2K [ ] 103979 ) Supercomputing Center, HP Ally To Demonstrate TeraGrid.......1.4K [ ] 103980 ) Internet Worms May Exploit Flaws In BIND Security Tool.......1.9K [ ] 103981 ) InfiniCon Systems Expands InfinIO Family.....................5.7K [ ] 103982 ) Internet Access To Be Made Available To Nature Collection....3.7K [ ] 103983 ) Marconi To Demonstrate Broadband Global Grid At SC2002.......3.5K [ ] 73439 ) FORCE10 NETWORKS AND IXIA TO DEMONSTRATE WORLD'S MOST SCALABLE CLUSTER/GRID NETWORK AT SC2002 High Performance Ethernet for Cluster/Grid ...................... - 336 GigE or 28 10GigE ports per chassis : Visit us at SC2002 : - True 10GigE line-rate performance : Booth #2035 : - Robust L2 switching and L3 routing ...................... STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 103984 ) Procom Demonstrates Enhanced NetFORCE Storage Solutions......2.7K [ ] 103985 ) Mellanox Introduces New InfiniBand Switch Reference Design...3.9K [ ] 103986 ) Zzyzx Displays New RocketSTOR RAID Arrays At BioITWorld......4.4K [ ] 103987 ) Structural Bioinformatics Gets New StructureBank Database....4.4K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 103988 ) SC2002 Will Highlight The Promise Of Computing...............2.8K [ ] 103989 ) SC2002 Dedicates Education Program To Maryland Educator........3K [ ] 103990 ) Microsoft Picks 3 For Watchdog Panel.........................3.2K [ ] 103991 ) Record Minority-Serving Institutions Participate In SC2002...3.8K [ ] 103992 ) Gelato Federation Featured At Supercomputing 2002............2.4K [ ] 103993 ) ISC2003 - Newsletter Announcements...........................2.9K [ ] 73440 ) Myricom to Demonstrate Myrinet-Ethernet Interoperability at SC2002 Please visit us at booth #1017 at SC2002 SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 103994 ) Product Watch: AMD Ramps Up Speed In New Athlon.............10.2K IBM Adds App Server To WebSphere Express. ObjectAssembler 2.5 Now Available. [ ] 103995 ) Financial Update: JP Morgan Picks IBM For Outsourcing Talks..5.1K Xircom Settles With 3Com To Tune Of $15M. [ ] 103996 ) Corporate Liaisons: Cray Selects Samsung For Memory Needs......6K Intel Sells Shiva VPN Business. Network Engines Buys Private Tidalwire. [ ] 103997 ) People and Positions: SGI Names New Board Member............15.6K HP Says Capellas To Leave. DOE'S Robert Harrison Receives Award. [ ] 73441 ) Got Graphics? The HPCwire, DSstar, and GRIDtoday graphics contest is well underway. This is a great opportunity to show key industry players exactly what your organization has to offer, so what are you waiting for..... ENTER NOW! 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