The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / April 30, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 17

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DELL'S ROOHOLAMINI ON THE STATE OF LINUX CLUSTERS: by Derrick Harris, Assistant Editor
HPCwire interviews Reza Rooholamini, Dell's Director of Operating Systems and Clustering, about the current state and future of Linux clustering. He is a keynote at the upcoming Linux Clusters Institute's Linux HPC Revolution 2004 Conference.
NSF AWARDS $500,000 TO LSU COMPUTER SCIENTIST: LSU assistant professor of computer science and CAREER award winner, Bijaya B. Karki, was recently funded by the National Science Foundation to further develop his computer animated research on the Earth's mantle.
SCIENTISTS POST A LOWER SPEED LIMIT FOR MAGNETIC SWITCHING: An experiment at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) found that the ultimate speed of magnetic switching is at least 1,000 times slower than previously expected. The result has implications for future hard disk computer drive technologies.
HIGH-SPEED NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS COULD LEAD TO FASTER COMPS: Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that transistors made from single-walled carbon nanotubes can operate at extremely fast microwave frequencies, opening up the potential for better cell phones and much faster computers.
SPINTRONICS HOPED TO YIELD NEW BREED OF TECHNOLOGY: By manipulating electrons' magnetic spin, IBM and Stanford University hope to create a new breed of energy saving tools.
SANDIA/UNM PROCESS FORMS DURABLE NANOCRYSTAL ARRAYS: In this week's journal Science, researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico describe a simple, commercially feasible method for arranging nanocrystals and preventing them from clumping.

Cluster Computing:

SUN'S MID-RANGE THROUGHPUT SYSTEMS PROPEL PRODUCTIVITY: Continuing its leadership in the UNIX server market, Sun Microsystems, Inc. is now shipping the first of its mid-range UltraSPARC IV processor-based throughput computing systems, the Sun Fire E4900 and E6900 server systems.
DELL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD GIVEN TO NCSA: Dell presented the Dell Centers for Research Excellence award to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to recognize the important research conducted on its supercomputing cluster.
QLUSTERS PARTNERS W/ RACKABLE TO PROVIDE UTILITY COMPUTING: Qlusters, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Rackable Systems to integrate and co-market a comprehensive enterprise management solution.
INFINICON POWERS CHINA'S NATIONAL ED AND RESEARCH PROJECT: InfiniCon Systems announced that Shandong University of the People's Republic of China has selected InfiniCon to supply a 10Gbps switch fabric for a 96-node, InfiniBand-based cluster that will be an integral site in the China Education and Research Grid.
J. KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ INSTALLS DANUBE COMPUTING CLUSTER: With the Danube Cluster, another computing cluster for high performance tasks went operational at GUP Grid and Cluster Computing Lab (G2C2), which is located at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

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SGI CONFIGS COMPLETE RESERVOIR CAPABILITIES AT TOTAL: SGI announced it has sold a second 256-processor SGI Altix 3700 supercluster, a 40-processor SGI Altix 3700 system, a 64-processor SGI Altix 350 cluster, and a four-processor SGI Altix 350 system, to Total, the major French oil and gas company.
IBM PREVIEWS VIRTUALIZATION ENGINE: IBM plans to begin shipping its new Virtualization Engine technology in IBM servers and storage this year, including a capability to simplify the management of mixed environments of IBM and non-IBM systems.
TRANSMETA'S PROCESSOR PROVIDES HIGH PERFORMANCE, EFFICIENCY: Transmeta Corporation's energy efficient Efficeon processor is now available in the HP Blade PC bc1000 as part of the HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) architecture.
SUN, ORACLE PUBLISH FIRST SPECjAppServer2002 RESULT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Oracle Corporation announced that Sun's first AMD Opteron processor-based server, the Sun Fire V20z, running Oracle Application Server 10g, has achieved an overall SPECjAppServer2002 price/performance world record.
VISUAL NUMERICS, CTC WORK TOGETHER ON HPC SOLUTIONS: Visual Numerics Inc. and the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) announced that they will combine their technology and knowledge to advance high- performance computing solutions.

Quote of the Week:

"Malicious threat attacks, such as distributed denial of service attacks caused by worms, pose a potential threat to the nation's ability to conduct business, defend itself and provide vital government service to its citizens."

Erik Mettala, Vice President of McAfee Research
at Network Associates

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Product Watch:: GDA Announces GRIO - Silicon IP Cores.
Freescale Semi Reveals PowerPC Core Roadmap.
Interpeak Unveils Optimized TCP/IP Stacks.
Financial Update:: MS Reports Strong Third Quarter Revenue.
SGI Announces Key Sales Wins For Third Qtr.
RSA Security Announces First Qtr Results.
Corporate Liaisons:: Cray, Best Systems Sign Sales Agreement.
IBM, Cisco Expand Alliance.
DaimlerChrysler Signs Agreement w/ EDS.
People and Position:: Gray Resigns From EDS Board of Dir.
CA Announces Interim CEO And New COO.
SI Appoints Stenbit To Board Of Dir.

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