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DOE SLATES $204M FOR ADVANCED SCI COMP RESEARCH
- The Energy Department is asking for the largest budget amount in the
department's history for 2005, a 4 percent increase over 2004.
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SUN'S OPEN LETTER TO ECLIPSE MEMBERSHIP
- Sun Microsystems writes an open letter congratulating the Eclipse
organization's new independence in the Java community.
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COLD DIFFUSION
- by Kathleen Ricker,NCSA Science Writer
In his current work, Fabian Heitsch and his collaborators at UWM and
the University of Oxford are investigating how magnetic fields might
diffuse in a turbulent environment, ultimately leading to the collapse
within the molecular cloud.
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LARGEST-EVER SIM OF COSMIC EVOLUTION CALCULATED AT SDSC
- Michael Norman, a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics
and Space Science at UCSD, together with colleagues at SDSC, has just
run the world's largest and most complex scientific simulation of the
evolution of the universe ever performed.
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THE ROAD TO 99.99% AVAILABILITY, MGMNT FROM THE GROUND UP
- By Dr. Paul Terry, CTO, OctigaBay Systems
HPC application uptime is critical for users. It's no wonder that
pushing product reliability beyond 99 percent uptime is a constant
endeavor for designers of HPC systems.
Cluster Computing:
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PETROLEUM GEO-SERVICES PICKS FORCE10 E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTER
- Force10 Networks announced that Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), an
oilfield services company with headquarters in Norway and Houston,
Texas, has deployed the E-Series to increase performance and
reliability in its UK data center.
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ASPEN SYSTEMS INTRODUCES GLACIER DUAL BLADE SERVER SYSTEM
- Aspen Systems introduces the Glacier Dual Blade Server System, based on
dual Intel Xeon processors.
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LINUX LABS RELEASES CLUSTERED POSTGRESQL DATABASE
- Linux Labs, the 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.
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OHIO ADVANCES RESEARCH SUCCESS W/ CLUSTER OHIO AWARDS
- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has awarded five AMD Athlon
clusters to Ohio research teams as part of its Cluster Ohio program.
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AMD64 SPEEDS INTO MOTORCYCLE RACING W/ DUCATI CORSE TEAM
- AMD announced that Ducati Corse plans to implement a server cluster
based on the AMD Opteron processor, as well as AMD Opteron processor-
based workstations in its research and development department.
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Vendor Spotlight:
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SAAB AEROSTRUCTURES INVESTS IN MSC.SOFTWARE'S MSC.MASTERKEY
- MSC.Software Corp. announced that Saab Aerostructures, a business unit
of the Saab group, has upgraded to the MSC.MasterKey license system.
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HP COLLABORATES WITH UB TO ADVANCE COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH
- HP announced it has joined forces with the University at Buffalo, State
University of New York (UB), to deploy infrastructure technology and
academic resources that will power the university's world-class Center
for Computational Research.
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LINUX NETWORX HIRES HPC VETERANS TO BOOST INT'L EFFORTS
- Linux Networx announced the addition of two new executives as part of
its long-term growth strategy to expand the company's presence in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and in worldwide government
markets.
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SGI WORKSTATIONS RAISE BAR W/ FASTER MIPS ENGINE
- Silicon Graphics announced that its improved workstation lineup
achieves a price/performance increase of up to 25 percent in the
industry-leading Silicon Graphics Fuel and Tezro visual workstations.
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MICROSOFT IIS SERVES MORE HIGH TRAFFIC SITES THAN ANY OTHER
- A new survey conducted by Port80 Software of the 1000 most-visited Web
sites on the Internet reports that Microsoft Internet Information
Services (IIS) serves more high traffic sites than any other Web
server, including open source Apache.
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SUN'S STAROFFICE 7 SUITE AVAILABLE FOR SOLARIS OS X86
- Sun Microsystems, Inc. an open-source based, comprehensive, multi-
platform office productivity suite, is available immediately for the
growing enterprise-class Solaris Operating System (OS) x86 Platform
Edition.
Quote of the Week:
"Computational science -- using computer simulations to explore
the consequences of physical laws -- has become an essential
part of modern physics and astronomical research. Astronomers,
after all, don't have any other way to bring galaxies into the
laboratory and perform experiments on them."
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Robert Harkness, SDSC computational
astrophysicist
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Short Takes:
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Product Watch:
- SciTech Offers New SNAP Graphics IES.
Gateway PCs Accelerate The Applications.
Actel Libero IDE Enables More For FPGAs.
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Financial Update:
- Ascential Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue.
Oracle Raises Offer For PeopleSoft.
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Corporate Liaisons:
- Gateway to Acquire eMachines.
IBM Combines Microchip, Comp Divisions.
Sprint, IBM Announce Agreements.
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People and Position:
- Inventor of 'CtrlAltDelete' Retires.
J.P. London Receives Einstein Award.
Cray Names Kerl Dir. Of HPC Unit.
HPCwire notes events and highlights a complete listing of industry-related conferences, exhibitions, meetings, etc.
Last Week's Most Read Articles:
- PSC: THE POLITICS AND POTENTIAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING
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- NEW ALGORITHM SPEEDS SIMULATIONS OF COMPLEX FLUIDS
- Intel Signals 64-Bit Offering May Be On Horizon
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