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 *** May 28, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 21 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 210 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) Solution ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 107728 ) FEATURES: EXAMINING SGI'S VISUAL AREA NETWORKING WITH CINES | | [ ] 107731 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: ADV. TECH POWERS PURDUE'S STEREOSCOPIC WALL| | [ ] 107737 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: MS CHASES LINUX WITH HPC VERSION OF WINDOWS | | [ ] 107752 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CISCO DELIVERS A NEW CARRIER ROUTING SYSTEM | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 74580 ) Intel Unveils New Network Adapter That Opens The Door For The First Time To 10gbE Server Deployments In The Data Center FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 107728 ) EXAMINING SGI'S VISUAL AREA NETWORKING WITH CINES............6.9K HPCwire recently interviewed Thierry Porcher, CINES Director, and CINES communication director, Olivier Lernout, regarding SGI's Visual Area Networking and its involvement with CINES. [ ] 107729 ) MAPPING AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS W/ SDSC'S SPATIAL INFO SYS LAB.13.7K SDSC's Spatial Information Systems Lab is collaborating with ESRI, a large GIS vendor, in developing Web services for standards-based mapping. [ ] 107730 ) KOREA CONNECTS TO STARLIGHT ACROSS CANADA'S OPTICAL NETWORK..4.8K A flurry of e-mails between network engineers in North America and South Korea last week unofficially marked the "lighting" of an optical path now transiting Korea's research traffic from Seoul, across Canada to Chicago. [ ] 74583 ) HP's Supercomputers Power TOP500 Advanced Simulation Computing CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 107731 ) ADVANCED CLUSTERING TECH POWERS PURDUE'S STEREOSCOPIC WALL...2.1K Advanced Clustering Technologies announces the implementation of an Infiniband based Beowulf Cluster to power one of the largest known passive stereoscopic tiled wall display in the United States. [ ] 107732 ) LINUX NETWORX PROVIDES GRID-ENABLED CLUSTER COMPUTING........3.8K Linux Networx announced its ability to provide grid-enabled cluster computing solutions. The Evolocity cluster solution can be deployed to help customers make better use of IT resources and run jobs across a grid infrastructure. [ ] 107733 ) POLYSERVE UNVEILS CLUSTERING SOLUTION FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS..7.3K PolyServe Inc. launched Matrix Server shared data clustering software for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, the first clustering solution for Windows to integrate scalable data sharing and high availability in a single product. [ ] 74581 ) Sun Microsystems Helps Found The Enterprise Grid Alliance As Blue-Chip Technology Companies Drive Adoption Of Grid Computing _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 74562 ) Our Cluster Works. Will Yours? [ ] 74579 ) ABB Upgrades To MSC.Software's MasterKey License System For Virtual Product Development ============================================================================== [ ] 74573 ) FREE CASE STUDY Orbital Sciences Deploys Evolocity CFD Cluster Faster Simulations = $130,000 ROI Linux Networx P r o v e n VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 107734 ) SOLARIS FOR X86 SYSTEMS GAINING POPULARITY IN ASIA PACIFIC...7.1K Continuing to deliver on its promise to provide high-performance, affordable systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced dramatic growth in Asia Pacific in software application availability on the Solaris Operating System (OS). [ ] 107735 ) INTEL-BASED SGI SERVERS HELP PROPEL P&G PRODUCTIVITY.........4.8K Intel Corporation and SGI announced that the Procter & Gamble Company has recently doubled its deployment of Intel Itanium 2-processor-based SGI Altix systems used in the manufacturing and packaging design of some of its most popular consumer products. [ ] 107736 ) NEC, IBM AND INTEL TO DELIVER NEW 64-BIT COMPUTING SOLUTION..3.6K NEC Solutions (America), Inc., a provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America, announced it is partnering with IBM and Intel Corporation to deliver a new 64-bit computing solution. [ ] 107737 ) MICROSOFT CHASES LINUX WITH HPC VERSION OF WINDOWS...........2.9K The ongoing competition between Microsoft and Linux may be escalating; Microsoft is developing a high-performance computing version of their popular Windows operating system. [ ] 74582 ) SGI Altix 3000 System Helps Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Computational Biologists Quickly Gain Insights Into Disease QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 107729 ) "The scientific applications we work on are constantly giving us new research challenges. And as our research progresses, this in turn gives the scientific projects new capabilities they didn't have before." -- Ilya Zaslavsky, SDSC Lab Director [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 74565 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! GRID: A WORK IN PROGRESS WITH $4B POTENTIAL MCNC FIRST TO JOIN GGF, EGA http://www.gridtoday.com/ *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107738 ) AMD Intros High-Performance Geode Embedded x86 Processors....5.2K [ ] 107739 ) SKY Ships Embedded Servers For Military, Industrial Apps.....4.5K [ ] 107740 ) Verari Announces Fastest Four-Way x86 Server.................2.3K [ ] 107741 ) NVIDIA Works With Intel On PCI Express.......................1.7K SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 107742 ) Sun Unveils New Java Web Services Developer Pack.............4.8K [ ] 107743 ) AMD Announces IBM, Oracle Support To Optimize AMD64..........3.2K [ ] 107744 ) ANSYS Breaks Engineering Simulation Solution Barrier.........4.5K [ ] 107745 ) Certive Optimized For Intel Xeon Processor-based Platforms...2.1K [ ] 107746 ) OuterBay Enables Linux Migration Strategy For Databases......3.7K [ ] 107747 ) Streamline Computing Announces New DDT Debugging Software....1.7K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 107748 ) SGI Offers 10 Gigabit Ethernet Connectivity....................5K [ ] 107749 ) CTC Demos New Approach To HPC With XML-Based Web Services....3.4K [ ] 107750 ) Chelsio Demonstrates 10G Ethernet Adapters For HPC Apps......5.1K [ ] 107751 ) S2io Signs SGI As Customer For Its Xframe Ethernet Adapter...2.5K [ ] 107752 ) Cisco Delivers A New Carrier Routing System..................8.2K STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 107753 ) HP Announces Windows-based Network-attached Storage Systems....7K [ ] 107754 ) IBM Storage Software To Manage Massive Data Amounts..........3.2K [ ] 107755 ) LightSand Successfully Completes HP Compatibility Testing....2.2K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 107756 ) SGI Honored For Advancement Of Women In The Workplace........6.9K [ ] 107757 ) Cray To Present At Bear Stearns 15th Annual Tech Conference..1.1K [ ] 107758 ) Healthcare, Security Info To Be Featured At OMG Meeting......3.4K [ ] 74568 ) Appro High Performance Servers AMD Opteron(TM) Processor New! Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 107759 ) Product Watch: Xilinx Announces 200 MHz Memory Tool Kit......4.2K Network Associates Offers Protection For Linux. SiS965/SiS965L Passes Interoperability Tests. [ ] 107760 ) Financial Update: SI Wins $5 Million Contract W/ Army's DAC..4.3K Appalachian State University Awarded $650,000 . Novell Reports Results for Second Quarter. [ ] 107761 ) Corporate Liaisons: CA, JBoss To Create Open Source Solution.6.4K Quantum Enhances Relationship With Novell. Realtek Standardizes Upon The MIPS Arch. [ ] 107762 ) People and Position: United Devices Appoints Ben Rouse CEO...5.5K Nortel Appoints Manley To Board Of Dir. AMCC Appts Wilkie As VP, GM Of Prod Group. 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