The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / May 7, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 18

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PURDUE SAYS QUANTUM COMPUTERS A LEAP CLOSER: A new breed of faster, more powerful computers based on quantum mechanics may be a step closer to reality, report scientists from Purdue and Duke universities.
BUSH NAMES 20 YOUNG SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS TO RECEIVE AWARDS: President Bush honored 57 of the nation's most promising young scientists and engineers with 2002 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
THOMAS M. SIEBEL CENTER FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE OPENS AT UIUC: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announced the grand opening of the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science. This new facility accommodates almost twice as many faculty and students as the previous Computer Science facility.
SC SIM MAY REVEAL THE DETAILED MECHANICS OF EXPLODING STARS: University scientists are preparing to run the most advanced supercomputer simulation of an exploding star ever attempted. Researchers expect the simulation to reveal the mechanics of exploding stars, called supernovae, in unprecedented detail.
SDSC TECH HELPS BERKELEY PROF TO PREDICT CHANGES ON JUPITER: Dr. Philip S. Marcus, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, is using SDSC's Blue Horizon to show that many of Jupiter's large storm vortices, which appear in the telescope as spots, may soon vanish.
NIST QUANTUM KEYS SYSTEM SETS SPEED RECORD FOR ENCRYPTION: The fastest known cryptographic system based on transmission of single photons---the smallest pulses of light---has been demonstrated by a team at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Cluster Computing:

CCT HPC MANAGER ON THE OUTLOOK FOR LINUX CLUSTERS: by Derrick Harris, Editor
HPCwire interviews Brian Ropers-Huilman, CCT's HPC manager, about the current state and future of Linux clusters and their place in HPC.
VIRTUAL COMPUTE CLUSTER OPERATIONAL: Westlin Corp is pleased to announce that Virtual Compute Corporation's (VCC) new High-Performance-Computing (HPC) cluster is now installed and in production.
WETA DIGITAL CREATES MAGIC WITH LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in addition to breaking Academy Award records, has amazed audiences worldwide with its innovative technology. Weta Digital, created by LOTR director Peter Jackson and others over 10 years ago, provided the technical support for the films.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SGI SERVERS TO HELP INDIAN AUTO MAKERS: India's Tata Motors will be taking advantage of Itanium 2 based SGI servers in order to allow further Product Lifecycle Management capability efforts as well as provide visualization networks to workstations.
IBM OPENS FIRST DEEP COMPUTING ON DEMAND CENTER IN EUROPE: IBM announced the opening of the first Deep Computing Capacity on Demand center in Europe. It will provide customers access, via the Internet, to immensely powerful, highly secure supercomputers.
BOEHLER EDELSTAHL SELECTS SUN MAINFRAME REHOSTING SOLUTION: Showing continued momentum away from expensive, legacy, mainframe computing environments, Boehler Edelstahl GmbH has selected an open systems platform from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
INTEL UNVEILS NETWORK ADAPTER FOR 10GbE SERVER DEPLOYMENTS: Intel Corporation introduced a 10-Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) adapter for servers that helps overcome for the first time the cost and technical barriers that have previously made 10GbE server connectivity impractical for the data center.
ABB UPGRADES TO MSC'S MASTERKEY LICENSE SYSTEM FOR VPD: MSC.Software Corp. announced that ABB has adopted the MasterKey license system at their two main research and development centers in Sweden and Switzerland.
CRAY ANNOUNCES ORDERS FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS FROM PSC, GMRI: Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced that the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has placed an advance order for the company's upcoming product based on the Sandia "Red Storm" supercomputer. GMRI has also ordered a Cray X1 Supercomputer.

Quote of the Week:

"This is beyond imagination."

Tomasz Plewa, Senior Research Associate in the
Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes
and Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Product Watch:: CEI Adds MAC OS X Support To Software.
CPUBuilders Announces Line Of Linux PCs.
Altera Devices Now Open For Orders.
Financial Update:: Cray Reports First Qtr Financial Results.
Pharmacopeia Completes Spin-Off Of PDD.
BMC Manages Traffic w/ Packeteer Partnering.
Corporate Liaisons:: CACI Acquires AMS Defense, Intell Group.
Global Hauri Joins Foundstone Tech Program.
IBM Expands Relationship w/ Equinix.
People and Position:: Former HP Exec Named BIO-key Sales VP.
Xilinx CIO to Receive Award.
3Dsolve CEO Appointed To Industry Board.

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