HPCwire's "Breaking News" 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. www.hpcwire.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** September 5, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 35 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 301 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74083 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 105838 ) FEATURES: INTERVIEW WITH BOEING HPC SERVICE MANAGER SHUKLA | | [ ] 105843 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: CLUSTER-COMPUTING SOFTWARE BOUGHT BY INTEL | | [ ] 105846 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: IBM HELPS GOV'T CREATE MOVING IMAGES LIBRARY| | [ ] 105872 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SUN GROWS IN WORLDWIDE SERVER MARKET | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74084 ) HP Builds on Linux Market Leadership With New Enterprise Management, Clustering Technologies FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 105838 ) INTERVIEW WITH BOEING HPC SERVICE MANAGER SHUKLA.............6.7K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire recently interviewed Suresh Shukla, HPC Service Manager of the Boeing Company, about the decision making aspects involved in the HPC industry. [ ] 105839 ) MAKING 3-D CHIPS A REALITY...................................4.9K Researchers are pioneering new interconnect technologies that promise to deliver smaller, faster, inexpensive microelectronics and circuits that function in three dimensions. [ ] 105840 ) "QUANTUM FREEZE" RESCUES WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTERS...........2.8K Quantum Computers -- computers so fast they could break any code devised for a digital computer -- have a fatal flaw which has until now made it impossible to build really fast quantum computers. [ ] 105841 ) NIST RESEARCH USES 3-D ENVIRONMENT TO STUDY SHAKE GELS.......3.2K If you want to understand how molecules interact, there's nothing like crawling around inside them and perhaps moving an atom to see what's happening behind it. Computer scientists are using a special facility at NIST to do just that. [ ] 74085 ) Register for Technical Linux Cluster Training with Linux Networx CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 105842 ) VA TECH PICKS MELLANOX TO CREATE LARGEST INFINIBAND CLUSTER..4.3K Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a leader in InfiniBand silicon, announced that Virginia Tech has selected Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect technology for a new high-node count high performance computing cluster. [ ] 105843 ) CLUSTER-COMPUTING SOFTWARE PURCHASED BY INTEL................2.9K In conjunction with its recent endeavors to use software to give customers more processor performance, Intel has made plans to purchase high-performance software from the German company Pallas. [ ] 105844 ) iWAY INTRODUCES NEW GENERATION DATA INTEGRATION PRODUCTS.....3.4K iWay Software announced improvements in its data integration capabilities, which include new cluster management, remote installation and management, tighter integration with Microsoft SQL Server, and new data adapters. [ ] 105845 ) U OF UTAH TO USE AMD, ANGSTROM FOR SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTER....3.1K AMD announced that the University of Utah has selected AMD Opteron processor-based systems from Angstrom Microsystems for a new supercomputing cluster scheduled to be delivered by October 2003. [ ] 74086 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74087 ) Linux Networx Opens State-of-the-art Solutions Center [ ] 74088 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.ADAMS 2003 ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 74089 ) Intel - Celebrating 35 Years of Innovation VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 105846 ) IBM TO HELP U.S. GOVERNMENT CREATE MOVING IMAGES LIBRARY.......3K Three major universities have selected Linux on IBM POWER technology to build the Library of Congress' first centralized online catalog of film, television, and digital video images. [ ] 105847 ) ASPENTECH ENABLES OIL & GAS INDUSTRY TO INCREASE RETURN......4.4K Aspen Technology, Inc. announced a significant expansion of its solution for the Oil & Gas industry with the launch of the latest version of its HYSYS modeling software, which incorporates new functionality and features for the upstream market. [ ] 105848 ) ALTAIR ENGINEERING RELEASES ALTAIR HYPERWORKS 6.0............5.5K Altair Engineering Inc. released Altair HyperWorks 6.0 -- the next generation of its innovative CAE software suite that delivers an advanced engineering desktop solution. [ ] 74090 ) Myrinet Used In 178 of the June 2003 TOP500 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 105839 ) "If you're in a city, like New York for example, and you want to increase and expand the scale of your business, you need to increase real estate, narrow the streets, and build bridges. But New York City is only so big, so you need to build skyscrapers. It's the same with chips, Rensselaer is attempting to build the information bridges for the chip skyscrapers." -- Jian-Qiang "James" Lu, research associate professor at Rensselaer's Focus Center-NY [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74091 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! GRID COMPUTING AND ITS FUTURE IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY NEESgrid A SEISMIC SHIFT FOR EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105849 ) U. Of Minnesota, U.C., San Diego, Cornell Win SRC Contest....2.1K [ ] 105850 ) ASU Researchers Measure Electrical Resistance Of Molecules...4.3K [ ] 74092 ) 1964- Lockheed Build's the World's Fastest Airplane 1997- The Thrust SSC Team Build's the World's Fastest Car 2002- Linux Networx Builds World's Fastest Linux Supercomputer Celebrate this Landmark Computing Achievement And Receive a Free History of Supercomputing Timeline Poster SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 105851 ) IBM Makes Play For Linux Lead In New Ad Campaign.............3.8K [ ] 105852 ) Carbon Design Systems To Solve System Validation Problem.....3.5K [ ] 105853 ) New Software Will Help Find Leaks In Space Station...........3.8K [ ] 105854 ) MEGAPUTER Intelligence Analyzes Flight Safety Data.............3K [ ] 105855 ) CommVault And Sistina Software Announce Essentials Edition...3.9K [ ] 105856 ) Commercial Linux Users May Receive SCO Invoices..............3.2K [ ] 105857 ) Federal Reserve Board First To Evaluate WANSync For Linux....2.6K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 105858 ) New Report Cites Benefits Of Consolidating SAP...............2.3K [ ] 105859 ) Neopolitan Networks Bridges MAN To WAN.........................3K [ ] 105860 ) Book Explores High-Tech Terrorism & America's Vulnerability..3.4K [ ] 105861 ) Scintera Unveils High-Speed Signal Processing Technology.....2.1K [ ] 105862 ) Anteon Awarded $38M Contract To Support OASD(PA).............1.3K [ ] 105863 ) Sealevel Systems Announces Solid-State Embedded I/O Servers..2.1K [ ] 105864 ) GDA Technologies Introduces The XGEMAC.......................3.5K [ ] 105865 ) New Medium-High Level Worm Spreading Quickly...................2K [ ] 105866 ) Nuclear Plants Warned Of Internet Virus Attacks..............2.4K [ ] 74093 ) New SGI Supercomputer Offers Remarkable Performance STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 105867 ) BearingPoint And Informatica Team To Help U.S. Air Force.....3.2K [ ] 105868 ) Overland Storage Expands Leadership With New Tape Libraries..3.4K [ ] 105869 ) New European Bioinformatics Institute........................3.8K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 105870 ) Sun Outpaces High Performance & Technical Computing Market...3.1K [ ] 105871 ) IDC Names IBM Number One Server Vendor In The World..........1.1K [ ] 105872 ) Sun Grows In Worldwide Server Market As UNIX Server Leader...3.5K [ ] 105873 ) Israeli Scientists Crack GSM Mobile Call Security............3.6K [ ] 105874 ) Indian Supercomputer Luminary Receives Award.................2.9K [ ] 105875 ) ChevronTexaco, USC To Form Oilfield Technologies Center......3.6K [ ] 105876 ) Worldwide Server Systems Halts Nine-Quarter Revenue Decline..7.8K [ ] 74094 ) HP Maintains Lead In High-Performance Computing SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 105877 ) Product Watch: PC Club Announces Largest Linux Launch.........12K Altera, MorethanIP Announce Fibre IP Cores. Anacubis Demos Visual Research, Analysis. [ ] 105878 ) Financial Update: Peoplesoft Buys Up Shares Of JD Edwards....2.9K N2H2, Secure Computing Announce Meeting. [ ] 105879 ) Corporate Liaisons: AMCC To Acquire JNI Corporation..........8.3K Direct Wireless Gets Fractal Genomics. Motorola Working With Timesys. [ ] 105880 ) People and Positions: Evans Will Become Head Of Federal IT..11.7K DATATRAK International Appoints VP. Growing Market Attracts Intel Exec. [ ] 74095 ) "GRID COMPUTING-A VERTICAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE 2003-2008 a report by Insight Research Corporation This 150+ page report is the most complete and comprehensive Grid market and industry report available. 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