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 *** April 02, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 13 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 329 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 74559 ) ALTIX(TM) FAMILY OF SERVERS AND SUPERCLUSTERS SGI Combines the Industry Leading Performance Of the Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2 Processor With a Production-Class Linux(TM) Soltion ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107342 ) FEATURES: SGI's PARRY SPEAKS OUT ON PRODUCTION READY LINUX | | [ ] 107352 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: FOUNDRY ETHERNET TO POWER FIRST FLASHMOB SC| | [ ] 107356 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: HP POWERS GROWING 2003 INC. 500 COMPANIES | | [ ] 107383 ) NEWS BRIEFS: INDUSTRY URGES TECH SECURITY UPGRADES | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74564 ) 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 ===================================================================== [ ] 107342 ) SGI'S DAVE PARRY SPEAKS OUT ON PRODUCTION READY LINUX.......23.6K by Mike Bernhardt HPCwire interviewed SGI's Senior Vice President, Dave Parry, to get a better understanding of the adoption of Linux in the HPC community and his views on rolling Linux into "Prime Time." [ ] 107343 ) EXPERT OP: THE COMING CRISIS IN COMPUTATIONAL SCI (III).....48.2K 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 [ ] 107344 ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: EXPLANATION FOR THE HIGH END CRUSADER..2.3K A reader clarifies his previous letter to the editor regarding the High End Crusader's 03.12.04 article, "US FUNDING PRIORITIES AND ROADMAPS FOR PETAFLOPS [#107185]. [ ] 107345 ) MICROSOFT EXEC CONCEDES WORST GOOF...........................3.6K When Microsoft Corp. entered the Internet browser war in the 1990s, Netscape Navigator was the early leader and Microsoft's Internet Explorer the late-blooming upstart. Now, it's gearing up for a similar battle in search technology. [ ] 107346 ) DUKE CHEMISTS DESCRIBE NEW KIND OF NANOTUBE TRANSISTOR.......5.3K Duke University researchers exploring ways to build ultrasmall electronic devices out of atom-thick carbon cylinders have incorporated one of these "carbon nanotubes" into a new kind of field effect transistor. [ ] 107347 ) PURDUE DESIGNS 'SHAPE-SEARCH' FOR INDUSTRY DATABASES.........6.4K Purdue University engineers have developed a system that will enable employees to search huge industry databases by entering a part that has a similar shape, sketching a part from scratch or modifying a part that has a similar three-dimensional shape. [ ] 107348 ) BILL GATES SAYS HARDWARE WILL BE ALMOST FREE IN A DECADE.....3.9K Hardware costs will fall sharply within a decade to the point where widespread computing with speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive technology, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Monday. [ ] 107349 ) PARIS-LODRON UNIVERSITY SALZBURG INSTALLS SCI-CLUSTER........3.9K Gaisberg is the name of an eye-catching mountain on the outskirts of Salzburg. Now, it is also the name of the new supercomputer which was installed in late 2003 at the department of Scientific Computing at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg. [ ] 74560 ) Intel Itanium 2-Based Servers Enhance China Railway Ticketing System Security CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107350 ) SUN DELIVERS PRE-INTEGRATED CLUSTER FOR BIOINFORMATICS.......4.7K To help customers save time and money in deploying an entry-level bioinformatics solution, Sun Microsystems and its iForce(SM) partners for life sciences are delivering the pre-integrated Sun FireStarter Cluster for Bioinformatics. [ ] 107351 ) APPLE UPDATES CLUSTER TOOL...................................2.3K Apple's offering for scientific research and enterprise computing was improved when the company released Xgrid Preview version 2. [ ] 107352 ) FOUNDRY ETHERNET TO POWER FIRST FLASHMOB SUPERCOMPUTER.......4.4K Foundry Networks, Inc. announced that its industry-leading high- performance Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches will provide the network infrastructure for FlashMob I, a supercomputer to be created on April 3, 2004 by hundreds of volunteers using ordinary laptop PCs. [ ] 107353 ) LINUX DATA CENTER FEATURES POLYSERVE CLUSTERING SOFTWARE.....4.1K Classified Ventures, LLC, a strategic joint-venture among six large media partners, has turned to PolyServe Matrix Server shared data clustering software to enable a highly scalable, available and manageable deployment of Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. [ ] 107354 ) U OF WUPPERTAL SELECTS PARASTATION FOR LINUX CLUSTER.........3.6K ParTec AG announced that the University of Wuppertal, Germany, has chosen Parastation 4 as a cluster middleware package for it's new LINUX compute cluster "ALICEnext". [ ] 107355 ) ASAP PROGRAM PARTNERS DRIVE CLUSTERING IN EUROPE AND ASIA....3.3K InfiniCon Systems announced that it has expanded its Authorized Solutions Alliance Providers (ASAP) Program, signing partnership agreements with four international companies to market and sell its InfinIO family of InfiniBand-based networking solutions. [ ] 74561 ) Audi to Drive Luxury in-car Experience With Intel Itanium 2 Processor-based HP Integrity Servers _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74562 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74563 ) Husqvarna Sweden Adopts MSC.Software's MasterKey License System For Virtual Product Development ============================================================================== [ ] 74557 ) HPCwire's - 2004 List of People to Watch Daniel Reed, Larry Davis, Suresh Shukla, Wu Feng, Stephenie McLean, Earl Joseph, Peter Ungaro, William Turnbull, Paul Muzio, John Grosh, Ed Seidel, Deborah Estrin, Mark Graff, Bernard Daines, Apple, Anwar Osseyran, Kimmo Koski From Dan Reed at North Carolina to John Grosh and Larry Davis of the Department of Defense, this year we've put together a list of HPC's heavy hitters!! VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107356 ) HP POWERS FAST-GROWING 2003 INC. 500 COMPANIES...............7.8K HP announced that five companies on the 2003 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing, small, privately held businesses in the United States have deployed HP technologies designed for small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with fewer than 1,000 employees. [ ] 107357 ) SUN TO MAKE CHANGES IN OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY, SAYS EXEC.....3.5K A top official of Sun Microsystems has revealed that Sun will make fundamental changes in open source technology to be announced during a conference in Shanghai on June 2 and 3. [ ] 107358 ) STRATHCLYDE U SCIENTISTS USE SGI TO DELIVER FASTER PROJECTS..5.5K Silicon Graphics announced that physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, will run a wide range of applications on a new SGI Altix 3000 supercluster which was installed in December 2003. [ ] 107359 ) IBM PLANS FIRST OPENLY CUSTOMIZABLE MICROPROCESSOR...........8.9K IBM outlined plans to openly collaborate and build a community of innovation around its Power microprocessor architecture used in a vast range of products from the world's most powerful enterprise systems and supercomputers to games and embedded devices. [ ] 107360 ) GATEWAY, HARVARD LIFE SCIENCES FORM SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP...3.8K Harvard recently purchased ultra-dense technology from Gateway, Inc. to help its Life Science researchers conduct diverse projects in areas ranging from biochemistry to molecular evolution. [ ] 74566 ) SGI Unveils Breakthrough Support for up to 256 Processors On SGI Altix Systems Running on Single Linux Kernel QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107370 ) "While open source may fill a useful role in specialized computing environments, open source does not translate to the mass consumer market for software. The mass consumer market is qualitatively different from other markets. It demands a much higher level of software engineering in order to provide the requisite ease of use, robustness and flexibility." -- Tom Healy, research software engineer and author of IPI report [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! CHARLIE CATLETT SPEAKS ABOUT LEAVING GGF SUN DEMOS MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER JAVA GAME SERVER PROTOTYPE http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107361 ) Angstrom Announces the Titan64 QuadraBlade...................1.9K [ ] 107362 ) PMC-Sierra's RISC Processor Receives Outstanding Benchmarks..2.6K [ ] 107363 ) AgResearch Ups Supercomputer.................................1.7K [ ] 107364 ) Studying 3-D Materials In One Dimension......................1.7K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107365 ) Sun Offers Public Access Release Of Studio Creator Tool......6.6K [ ] 107366 ) Microsoft's Longhorn Set For '04 Release.....................0.9K [ ] 107367 ) TenFold Provides SIIA Members With Tsunami...................1.4K [ ] 107368 ) NextHop's Software Extends Support, Network Routing Mgt......3.1K [ ] 107369 ) MiraiBio Launches DNASIS MAX Version 2.5 Software............1.8K [ ] 107370 ) Why Open Source Can't Meet Mass Market Demands...............2.5K [ ] 107371 ) TimeSys Delivers Embedded Linux RTOS, TimeStorm Tools........2.5K [ ] 107372 ) Chemical Computing Group Releases New MOE Version 2004.03....2.6K [ ] 107373 ) Four Insurers License CSC's Visual Product/Modeling System...2.4K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107374 ) New Marking Process Traces Spammers, Pirates And Hackers.....3.6K [ ] 107375 ) UCF Data-Sharing System Helps Police Nab Suspects............5.2K [ ] 107376 ) Leading Korean College Deploys Force10 E-Series For Network..3.1K [ ] 107377 ) Finisar Announces Surveyor Version 6.0 For Enterprise LANs...3.5K [ ] 107378 ) Precision I/O Raises $10 Million In Venture Funding..........4.2K Grid Computing for Commercial Organizations - Final Days! Join: AOL - Eli Lilly - Boeing - Credit Suisse First Boston - Intel - Acxiom EDS - St. Jude's - IDC - Johnson & Johnson - Wachovia - GGF - Force 10 IBM - DataSynapse - MIT - Sun Microsystems - United Devices -VIEO ...just to name a few of the organizations whose executives will be sharing management challenges, decisions and expertise related to Grid technologies and deployment. Come to Grid Today 2004 (Gt'04), May 25 & 26, Philadelphia,PA Only 6 days left to save $100! Early registrations discounts end April 15! http://www.gridtoday.com STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107379 ) Aberdeen Finds Open Source Databases Growing In Popularity...2.6K [ ] 107380 ) CAE To Develop Common Database For U.S. Special Ops Forces...3.3K [ ] 107381 ) Purdue Pharma Deploys Inxight SmartDiscovery.................2.1K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107382 ) HPC User Forum To Focus On Manufacturing, I/O Architectures..3.4K [ ] 107383 ) Industry Urges Tech Security Upgrades........................3.3K [ ] 107384 ) HP, TCAG To Advance Medical, Envi Genomic Discovery..........4.8K [ ] 107385 ) Indiana University Named As A Sun Center Of Excellence.......3.6K [ ] 107386 ) IIT, NIIT To Start Bioinformatics Learning...................1.8K [ ] 107387 ) Carnegie Mellon Students Even Use Computers To Do Laundry....3.9K [ ] 107388 ) Supercomputers Help Design Better Bacteria Killers...........1.9K [ ] 74567 ) Myrinet Product Announcement, 14 October 2003 High-End, Two-Port, Myrinet/PCI-X Interface SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107389 ) Product Watch: CA Delivers Support For Db2 For z/OS V8.....12.9K Actel Achieves Milestone With FPGAs. Appro, United Devices, Voltaire Demo Products. [ ] 107390 ) Financial Update: Intel To Pay $225 Million To Settle Suit...1.6K [ ] 107391 ) Corporate Liaisons: Intel, Dell Sued Over SSE...............16.8K Leapstone, Sun Enter Services Agreement. MLBAM Extends Contract With Sun. [ ] 107392 ) People and Position: Schmidt To Serve On E-Security's Board..7.7K Procera Announces Saponas To Join Board. Computer Associates Names Clarke CFO. [ ] 74568 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution JOB BANK ============================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 667 ) Accenture, Adaptec, *Australian National University, C-DAC, *ClearSpeed, Computer Assets, Cray, *Indiana University, LBNL, *Noesis, PNNL, OctigaBay Sytems, *OSC, Radstone, SAIC, ShaoLin Microsystems, University of Edinburgh, University of Minnesota [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES & EVENTS ============================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 03.31.04)..............10K [ ] 74556 ) LCI - Linux Cluster Institute April 12 - 16, 2004 IBM T. J. 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