The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / February 27, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 8

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Features:

CRAY TO BUY OCTIGABAY: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire had an exclusive interview with Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk and OctigaBay President and CEO John Seminerio about Cray's recent acquisition of OctigaBay.
AN INTERVIEW WITH NHPCC '04 ORGANIZER JOHN MIGUEL: by Mike Bernhardt
Mike Bernhardt, HPCwire contributing editor and GRIDtoday editor-at- large, interviewed the National High Performance Computing and Communications conference organizer, John Miguel, to get an advance peek at this year's conference.
QUANTUM PLAYGROUNDS: by Katherine A. Caponi, NCSA Science Writer
Researchers at the University of Georgia analyze the electronic structures of transition-metal carbide nanoparticles.
COLLABORATION COMBINES NEW APPROACH, CTC HPC IN NSF STUDY: An interdisciplinary team of researchers headed by Cornell Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Shefford Baker is using a unique combination of experiments, modeling, and simulations to study the behavior of defects in and mechanics of thin metal films.
U OF SAN FRANCISCO CLASS TO BUILD "FLASH MOB" SUPERCOMPUTER: Patrick Miller, while brainstorming with his students at the University of San Francisco, decided that he and his class could build a "flash mob supercomputer" to be included in the list of the world's 500 fastest computers.
U.S. MOVING AHEAD ON DATA-INTENSIVE INTELLIGENCE: The US government is pressing ahead with research to create ultrapowerful tools to mine millions of public and private records for information about terrorists.

Cluster Computing:

ARMY BUYS LINUX CLUSTER: The Defense Department chose hardware from Linux Networx Inc. in its latest procurement to improve military laboratories' high-performance computing, called Technology Insertion 2004.
QUADRICS RELEASES QSNETII SUPPORT FOR AMD OPTERON PROCESSOR: Quadrics announced that its QsNetII (elan4) high performance network products are now fully available on AMD Opteron processor-based platforms and is now shipping QsNetII releases to a number of AMD Opteron processor customers.
SYNERGY'S "QUAD" MANTA QX BREAKS 50-GFLOPS BARRIER: Synergy Microsystems Inc. announced its first VME board to break the 50-GFLOPS barrier.
POLYSERVE, HP TO SUPPORT SHARED DATA CLUSTERING: PolyServe Inc. announced reseller and cooperative support agreements with HP Services to support the growing demand for shared data clustering solutions among commercial enterprises.
DELL, SCALI OPEN VALIDATION CENTRE FOR CLUSTER SOLUTIONS: Dell and Scali have announced the opening of a joint Cluster Expert Centre (CEC) to provide customers with a pre-sales facility to design, validate, and test tailored high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) solutions in a controlled environment.

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Vendor Spotlight:

IBM, DUTCH SCIENTISTS TO EXPLORE FIRST MOMENTS OF UNIVERSE: IBM and ASTRON, a leading astronomy organization in the Netherlands, announced they will use IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer technology as the basis to develop a new type of radio telescope capable of looking back billions of years in time.
SKODA AUTO PUSHES CAR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT WITH SGI: Silicon Graphics announced that the computing department of Skoda Auto has selected SGI supercomputing and storage technologies to solve the massive computer-aided engineering (CAE) computation challenges associated with modern car development and design.
SUN FIRST TO ACHIEVE FORD'S QUALITY 1 RECOGNITION: Sun Microsystems, Inc. has achieved Ford Motor Company's first ever Quality 1 (Q1) Recognition for strategic information technology (IT) vendors.
MSC ACQUIRES ASSETS OF SOFY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION: MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software and services, announced the acquisition of the assets of SOFY Technologies Corporation (SOFY).
HP, AMD TO POWER SERVER INNOVATION, PERFORMANCE: HP and AMD announced an expanded collaboration to broaden HP's standards-based server portfolio with the introduction of AMD Opteron processor-based systems in the HP ProLiant server family.
MS BUILDS ALLIANCE W/ SERVICE PROVIDERS TO ADVANCE SECURITY: At the RSA Conference 2004, an information security event, Microsoft Corp. officially announced formation of the Global Infrastructure Alliance for Internet Safety (GIAIS).
HLRS DISCLOSES ITS ACQUISITION PLANS: On February 20th, HLRS (Höchstleistungszentrum Stuttgart) disclosed its plans and timings for their next generation supercomputer.

Quote of the Week:

"Our task is akin to finding dangerous groups of needles hidden in stacks of needle pieces. We must track all the needle pieces all of the time."

Ted Senator, Poindexter Research Manager

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Sun Announces Identity Management Offering.
Synopsys Delivers Performance Increase.
NVIDIA Sets Standard For Wkstn Graphics.
Financial Update:: HP Earnings Rise 30 Percent for 1Q.
MOSAID Announces Third Quarter Results.
BEA Reports Financial Results.
Corporate Liaisons:: IBM - German Comp Deal Biggest In Years.
ARM, Imagination Tech Collaborates.
Xilinx Partners With CMC Limited.
People and Position:: PC Designers Win Engineering Kudos.
Sun Announces Sueltz To Leave Company.
Johnson Named VP of Pro Services.

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