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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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74542 ) The Universe Will Have Fewer Secrets SGI - The Source of Innovation and Discovery ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107235 ) FEATURES: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RE THE HIGH END CRUSADER | | [ ] 107242 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: TOIL AND BUBBLE | | [ ] 107248 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: INTEL JOINS THE LIBERTY ALLIANCE PROJECT | | [ ] 107275 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SDSC'S STORAGE SYSTEM ACHIEVES PETABYTE MILESTONE| |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74543 ) HP #1 In WW Server Shipments For Seven Consecutive Quarters FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107234 ) EXPERT OPINION: THE COMING CRISIS IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE..13.8K by Douglass Post In response to our March 12 column by the High End Crusader, HPCwire article #107185, US FUNDING PRIORITIES AND ROADMAPS FOR PETAFLOPS, Dr. D. E. Post has allowed us to publish a relevant paper he presented as part of the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computer Architecture: Workshop on Productivity and Performance in High-End Computing, Madrid, Spain, February 14, 2004, Los Alamos Report LA-UR-04-0388 [ ] 107235 ) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: RESPONDING TO THE HIGH END CRUSADER.....4K The following are reader responses to last week's article "US FUNDING PRIORITIES AND ROADMAPS FOR PETFLOPS" written by the anonymous High End Crusader. [ ] 107236 ) TELECOM FOCUS SESSION AT GGF10 IN BERLIN.....................4.7K by Uwe Harms Uwe Harms comments on his experiences at the Global Grid Forum in Berlin and focuses particularly on the telecommunication meetings that took place there. [ ] 107237 ) NC STATE SCIENTISTS DEVELOP BREAKTHROUGH INTERNET PROTOCOL...4.5K Researchers in North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes today's high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections seem lethargic. [ ] 107238 ) SEN. ALEXANDER ANNOUNCES CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HPC LEGISLATION...4.9K U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander announced that he will co-sponsor S.2176, the High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, to put the U.S. at the forefront of high-performance computing that is critical to scientific advancements and commercial competitiveness. [ ] 107239 ) CHARGE DOPING OF MOLECULES ONE ATOM AT A TIME................4.6K A team of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, has succeeded in changing the properties of a single molecule by doping it just one atom at a time. [ ] 107240 ) NAVOCEANO MSRC TO RECEIVE SUPERCOMPUTER UPGRADES.............2.5K Stennis Space Center's Naval Oceanographic Office / Department of Defense Major Shared Resource Center will be receiving new supercomputer systems that could increase computing capability to around 30 trillion operations per second in the next few months. [ ] 107241 ) VIRTUAL SCREENING LAB ZEROES IN ON NEW DRUGS.................2.8K Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have come up with computational tools that serve as a virtual screening lab to help chemists weed through millions of possible drug candidates even before they dirty their first test tube. [ ] 74544 ) 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 CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107242 ) TOIL AND BUBBLE................................................8K by J. William Bell As part of his PhD work at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Fabi€n Bombardelli used NCSA's Titan cluster to model the plumes of air bubbles produced by aeration systems in water facilities. His work is hoped to alleviate some of Chicago's water woes. [ ] 107243 ) AMD DONATES PROCESSORS, SERVERS TO U OF ILLINOIS CLUSTER.....3.2K AMD donated 12 high-performance servers running 24 AMD Opteron processors to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [ ] 107244 ) INFINICON DEMOS ORACLE DATABASE 10G CLUSTER AT SUMMIT........4.7K InfiniCon Systems, a premier provider of shared I/O and switching solutions for next-generation server networks, announced it is showcasing Oracle Database 10g software running on a 4-node InfiniBand cluster at the third annual Server Blade Summit (San Jose). [ ] 107245 ) FOUNDRY EXTENDS 10-GIGABIT ETHERNET PERFORMANCE AT LOW COST....9K Foundry Networks, Inc. a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, added new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10- GbE) switch models to its award-winning family of FastIron Edge Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches (FES). [ ] 107246 ) PANASAS ACTIVESCALE STORAGE CLUSTER HONORED WITH AWARD.......2.7K Panasas, a leader in object-based storage systems for scalable Linux clusters, was named a winner of the 2004 Network Storage Conference Awards at the Network Storage Conference, held last week in Monterey, California. [ ] 107247 ) VERITAS ADVANCES CLUSTERING FOR DISASTER RECOVERY SOLUTION...5.8K VERITAS announced VERITAS Cluster Server 4.0 and VERITAS Volume Replicator 4.0, integrated high availability and disaster recovery software with unique new features that provide capabilities to test, plan and validate disaster recovery scenarios. [ ] 74545 ) Enhanced Intel Xeon Processor MP Boosts Performance By Up To 25 Percent _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74546 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74547 ) MSC.Software Announces New Release of Manufacturing Solutions, MSC.SuperForm and MSC.SuperForge 2004 ============================================================================== [ ] 74548 ) GRIDToday 2004 GRID SECURITY - STRATEGIES ADDRESSING BREACHED OR FAILED GRIDS www.gridtoday.com VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107248 ) INTEL JOINS THE LIBERTY ALLIANCE PROJECT.....................3.5K The Liberty Alliance Project announced that Intel Corporation has joined the global consortium developing an open federated identity standard and business tools for implementing identity-based services. [ ] 107249 ) MSC, FREE FIELD TECHNOLOGIES RELEASE MSC.ACTRAN 2004.........3.8K MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software and services, and Free Field Technologies announced the release of MSC.Actran 2004. [ ] 107250 ) SGI DECLARES LINUX AS DRIVING FORCE IN INNOVATION............4.3K Silicon Graphics was Gold Sponsor of the first Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), held March 16-17 in San Francisco. [ ] 107251 ) SIEMENS, BOEING EMBRACE SOLARIS PLATFORM-BASED SUN SERVERS...5.9K Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that several customers are seeing major benefits in performance and investment protection with the new UltraSPARC IV and Solaris platform-based Sun Fire mid-range and high- end systems. [ ] 107252 ) NEW IBM SERVERS REDEFINE STANDARDS...........................3.9K IBM announced two new Intel-based servers with innovative features that help lower the ownership cost of entry level servers. [ ] 107253 ) MICROSOFT OUTLINES VISION FOR REDUCING IT COMPLEXITY.........7.3K Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp., laid out Microsoft's unique vision and technology road map for reducing the cost and complexity of managing and securing enterprise systems: the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative. [ ] 107254 ) AMD OPTERON PROCESSORS POWER NEW LINE OF IBM WORKSTATIONS....3.3K AMD announced the AMD Opteron processor will power a new line of workstations from IBM, the IntelliStation A Pro. [ ] 74549 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107238 ) "As we look to the future and wonder about our jobs, our standard of living and how secure we'll be in the world, so much of our advantage depends on science and technology. The central elements to our job-creating ability in America are: service, innovation, science, technology, education." -- U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74550 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR INNOVATION, INTEGRATION GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH UD'S PAUL KIRCHOFF http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107255 ) Defense Department Hires IBM For Radio Tags....................3K [ ] 107256 ) NVIDIA Sets Standard For High Res Multi-Display Imaging......3.1K [ ] 107257 ) Supermicro Next Gen Server Platforms With 64-bit Capability..2.4K [ ] 107258 ) IBM Unveils AMD Opteron-Based Workstation....................5.7K [ ] 107259 ) Light Wave Measurements Make Circuits Better.................1.9K [ ] 107260 ) Delving Into Defects Spurs Prospects For Chip Insulator.....1.5K [ ] 107261 ) Single-Crystal Plastic Transistors Reveal Hidden Behavior....4.6K [ ] 107262 ) Appro 1U-1142H Server Delivers 4-Way High-Density, SC Power..3.2K [ ] 107263 ) IBM BladeCenter System To Transform Telecom Infrastructure...5.3K [ ] 74551 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107264 ) Omnicore Pioneers Back-in-Time Debugging w/ CodeGuide 7......1.4K [ ] 107265 ) Absoft Announces Advanced Fx2 Software Debugger..............2.2K [ ] 107266 ) NEON Systems Completes BEA Validation Program................2.5K [ ] 107267 ) Highly Regarded NAGWare f95 Compiler Available In Windows....2.6K [ ] 107268 ) The da Vinci Project Implements Additional ANSYS Software....4.6K [ ] 107269 ) Novell Releases First Commercial Linux Featuring 2.6 Kernel..7.1K [ ] 74552 ) 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. NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107270 ) GigaBeam Announces First Products As Alternative To Fiber....2.1K [ ] 107271 ) MiLAN Introduces New Gigabit Ethernet Switch Family..........2.1K [ ] 74553 ) 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 STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107272 ) IBM Announces Breakthrough In Auto Storage Optimization......3.6K [ ] 107273 ) Isilon IQ Named Best Complete Storage System...................3K [ ] 107274 ) NSF Digital Libraries Part Of New Yahoo! Search Effort.........2K [ ] 107275 ) SDSC's Storage System Achieves Petabyte Milestone............3.7K [ ] 74554 ) HP Advances Leadership in HPTC Cluster Technology GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107276 ) HPC User Forum To Focus On Manufacturing, I/O Architectures..3.4K [ ] 107277 ) Sun, Others Increase Reliability For Chicago Tribune.........5.4K [ ] 107278 ) SGI Defines The Future Of SC At ICT World Forum..............2.8K [ ] 107279 ) IBM Plans Regional Research Hub In Asia......................1.2K [ ] 107280 ) CTC Opens Second Session For Windows HPC Training Workshop...3.2K [ ] 107281 ) Applications Now Being Accepted For CAPP.....................1.3K [ ] 107282 ) Lindows Concedes Name Game To Microsoft In Benelux...........2.8K [ ] 107283 ) PACS Group Announces Release Of WebCT Course.................2.1K [ ] 107284 ) CATC, dashcourses Launch Integrated Training Solutions.......2.8K [ ] 107285 ) Visual Numerics Forms Business Unit Focused On Education.....4.8K [ ] 74555 ) SGI Unveils Breakthrough Support for up to 256 Processors On SGI Altix Systems Running on Single Linux Kernel SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107286 ) Product Watch: Broadcom Launches Gb Ethernet Controllers...16.5K NetScout Announces Performance Mgt Appliance. Synopsys Delivers FPGA Synthesis Solution. [ ] 107287 ) Financial Update: Oracle Reports Fiscal Q3 Earnings............3K EDS Selling Software Design Business. Cray Inc. Amends 2002 Form 10-K. [ ] 107288 ) Corporate Liaisons: Cisco Systems To Acquire Twingo Systems..7.4K Synopsys, HHNEC Deliver Ref Design Flow. Firstlogic, Proxix Deliver Geo Solutions. [ ] 107289 ) People and Position: Stratus Appts Enriquez to SVP Sales.....5.1K Plumtree Hires Oracle Exec As COO. Myles A. Owens III Joins X3D Tech. 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