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 *** January 30, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 04 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 280 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74431 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 106896 ) FEATURES: PSC -- THE POLITICS AND POTENTIAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING | | [ ] 106900 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: VA TECH TO UPGRADE SUPERCOMPUTER TO XSERVE | | [ ] 106907 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: SGI ANNOUNCES SALES WINS FOR SECOND QUARTER | | [ ] 106925 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NEW MYDOOM STRAIN TARGETS MICROSOFT | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74432 ) Is a cluster the right fit for your life sciences needs? Download Case Studies, White Papers and Learn More About our Linux Cluster Training Program. Linux Networx P r o v e n FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 106896 ) PSC: THE POLITICS AND POTENTIAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING...........10.9K by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief HPCwire interviews PSC's assistant director regarding petascale development and its future place in high performance computing. [ ] 106897 ) WHAT IF A PERSONAL COMPUTER KNEW HOW ITS USER IS FEELING?....7.2K by Neal Singer, SANDIA That computer on your desk is just your helper. But soon it may become a very close friend. Aided by tiny sensors and transmitters called a Personal Assistance Link, your machine will be able to investigate your up-to-the-moment vital signs. [ ] 106898 ) CANADIAN GOVT, ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY LEADERS VISIT UCSD......4.1K A delegation of senior government officials and business leaders from Alberta, Canada visited UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering and Cal- (IT)2 to talk about campus-led technological innovation and potential cooperative research ventures. [ ] 106899 ) NEW ALGORITHM SPEEDS SIMULATIONS OF COMPLEX FLUIDS...........3.8K Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a geometric cluster algorithm that makes possible the fast and accurate simulation of complex fluids. [ ] 74433 ) HP Integrity Servers Trounce the Competition On Linpack and SPEC Benchmarks CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 106900 ) VIRGINIA TECH TO UPGRADE SUPERCOMPUTER TO XSERVE.............2.1K Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will upgrade its supercomputer that uses Apple Computer Inc.'s PowerMac G5 computers with Apple's recently introduced Xserve G5 servers that have two chips in each box. [ ] 106901 ) XIOTECH SIMPLIFIES MOVE TO CLUSTERED ORACLE ENVIRONMENT......4.1K XIOtech Corporation, a storage networking innovator, announced the availability of Magnitude 3D RAC Pack, the newest version of XIOtech's solution for complete Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) implementations. [ ] 106902 ) LINUX LABS RELEASES CLUSTERED POSTGRESQL DATABASE............3.2K Linux Labs, a world leader in third-generation Linux-based supercomputers, announced at the LinuxWorld trade show a key stepping stone towards large-scale deployment of the Linux Operating System. [ ] 74434 ) Korean Telecommunications Provider Moves From RISC-Based Systems To Intel Server Technology _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74435 ) Linux Networx Delivers ARL Most Powerful Linux Cluster [ ] 74436 ) MSC.Software Announces Release of MSC.Simulation Data Management 2004 ============================================================================== [ ] 74437 ) Force10 Networks Delivering High Performance Ethernet VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 106903 ) MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ISA SERVER 2004 BETA 2...4.4K Microsoft Corp. announced that the public beta version of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 is available for download. [ ] 106904 ) SUN DELIVERS SYS INFRASTRUCTURE TO ORACLE CUSTOMERS..........3.8K Continuing to meet customers' demand for bottom-line pricing, innovation and choice, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that in the last six months, a bevy of new customers has selected Oracle E-Business Suite 11i on the Sun Solaris Operating System (OS). [ ] 106905 ) IBM INCREASES PERFORMANCE, MEMORY CAPACITY FOR pSERIES 655...3.6K IBM is introducing new enhancements to the IBM eServer p655 that further increase performance, operational flexibility and memory capabilities -- all key elements required to meet the challenges of high performance and business intelligence computing. [ ] 106906 ) INTEL GRANTS CYMER $20 MILLION FOR EUV TECH FUNDING..........2.4K Cymer and Intel announced they have signed a development agreement for Intel to provide US$20 million in funding over the next three years to accelerate development of production-worthy extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography light sources. [ ] 106907 ) SGI ANNOUNCES KEY SALES WINS FOR SECOND QUARTER.............17.4K Silicon Graphics recently completed the second quarter of its fiscal year 2004 with sales momentum for its award-winning SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters. [ ] 74438 ) CALL FOR SPEAKERS GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition to focus on the emerging market for commercial business applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers We are looking for high-level speakers from commercial organizations to speak on applications and implementation of Grid computing http://www.gridtoday.com QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 106897 ) ?We give off so much information. But our only current way of interacting with a computer is very limited: through, essentially, a keyboard and mouse. So the limitation of my computer's ability to help me -- this increasingly complex, wonderful machine with its ability to recognize intricate patterns -- is its inability to recognize complex patterns in me.³ -- Peter Merkle, Sandia project manager [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74439 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! ORACLE 10g STUNS NSE.IT IN BETA TEST PHASE GRID, WEB SERVICES STANDARDS TO CONVERGE http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 106908 ) Intel Signals 64-Bit Offering May Be On Horizon..............2.9K [ ] 106909 ) Transtec Installs 1.9 TeraFlop/s Linux Cluster...............4.4K [ ] 74440 ) Mellanox Technologies Announces General Availability Of Low Profile PCI-X InfiniBand Adapter SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 106910 ) Big Guns Take Linux Higher.....................................1K [ ] 106911 ) Lockheed, MathWorks Successful w/ Flight Simulated Test......2.9K [ ] 106912 ) VERITAS Guarantees Speedy Assembly For Volkswagen's gedas....4.6K [ ] 106913 ) KeyLabs Enables Microsoft .NET Migration For MSNBC.COM.......4.4K [ ] 106914 ) Human Migration Tracked In Stanford Computer Simulation......4.3K [ ] 106915 ) CTC Team Ports Bioinformatics Software To Windows Platform...4.8K [ ] 106916 ) Altera Opens Quartus II Design Software To Enable Research.. 5.2K [ ] 106917 ) World's Top Collegiate "Coders" To Face Off In Prague........8.3K [ ] 106918 ) DigitalGlobe, Keyhole Deliver 3D Earth Visualization Apps....2.4K [ ] 106919 ) Costa Rica Leads Software Development In Latin America.......2.3K [ ] 106920 ) Technology's Big Pay Back....................................2.6K [ ] 106921 ) CAE Gets Its 13Th Full-Flight Simulator Order................1.2K [ ] 106922 ) ESI, CFDRC Establish A Strategic Partnership...................4K [ ] 106923 ) How To Second Guess Hack Attacks.............................3.6K [ ] 106924 ) Computer App To Read Medical Lit, Find Data Relationships....5.5K [ ] 74441 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 106925 ) New Mydoom Strain Targets Microsoft..........................2.2K [ ] 106926 ) MyDoom Worm Spreads Rapidly, Targets SCO Web Site............3.7K [ ] 106927 ) Procket Selected By AARNet For Its Core Backbone.............2.5K [ ] 106928 ) Pacific Wave To Be First International Peering Collaboration.4.6K [ ] 106929 ) VisualRoute 8.0 Offers Quick ID Of Connectivity Problems.....2.4K [ ] 74442 ) HP is Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into the Enterprise Market STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 106930 ) Powerful IBM Gateway System Speeds Up Storage Networking.....3.8K [ ] 106931 ) NASA'S Mars Mission Backed By Spectra Logic..................3.1K [ ] 74443 ) Linux Cluster Training Regardless of Your Knowledge-Level Register Today For Cluster System Fundamentals, Migrating to Clusters, Storage & Filesystems, Resource & Job Management, System Administration, and MPI courses. GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 106932 ) Intel Planning Earlier Price Cuts, Analyst Says..............2.1K [ ] 106933 ) U.S. Government Offers Free Cyber Alerts.......................4K [ ] 106934 ) DARPA Soliciting Proposals For New Computing Arch Program....0.9K [ ] 106935 ) NPU Market Gets Reincarnated, Intel Now Market Share Leader..4.1K [ ] 74444 ) Wichita State University Sciences, Math and Engineering Researchers Benefit from Integrated SGI Altix 3000 Solution SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 106936 ) Product Watch: Netscout Unveils Solution To Manage Citrix..17.4K NetQoS Plans For Future w/ ReporterAnalyzer. Sophos Enables Updates Across Platforms. [ ] 106937 ) Financial Update: SGI Reports Second Quarter Results..........10K Oracle Names 5 for Board of PeopleSoft. Cray Announces 2003 Financial Results. [ ] 106938 ) Corporate Liaisons: Credence Joins PCI-SIG, HyperTransport...6.8K SGI, Atempo Enter Reseller Agreement. Infineon To Acquire Taiwanese Company. [ ] 106939 ) People and Position: National LambdaRail Appoints Montano....4.9K BakBone Names Nakao To Board of Dir. Roberts To Join Informance Board. 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