The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / May 21, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 20

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TASK FORCE CALLS FOR UNIFIED SUPERCOMPUTING EFFORTS: A White House task force has agreed that supercomputer institutes must work together closely in order to propel the country's HPC efforts. Sharing resources and opening lines of communication will help to push computational power beyond current limitations.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: RESPONDING TO THE HIGH END CRUSADER: Readers respond to the High End Crusader's article, "ADVANCED ANALYTIC- SEARCH TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC STRIKE" [107638] published in HPCwire May 14, 2004. The HEC also provides a general response to readers' comments.
SGI CEO COMMENTS ON HPC'S IMPACT ON NATION: SGI's CEO, Bob Bishop, testified before the House Science Committee on the impact of high-performance computing on the United States and SGI's subsequent role in its development.
DHS LAUNCHES NATIONAL CENTER FOCUSING ON DATA VISUALIZATION: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the National Visual Analytics Center (NVAC) to be led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
DEFENSE DEPT RENEWS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CONTRACT W/ OSC: The U.S. Department of Defense announced that the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) would receive $650,000 to provide technical leadership and program management to MSU as it develops and improves high performance computing systems for the military.

Cluster Computing:

APPLE INTROS WORKGROUP CLUSTER FOR BIOINFORMATICS AWARD: The Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics makes it easy for scientists to harness the immense power of computational clusters. Now, Apple is seeking five of America's most important research projects that would benefit from a high-performance computational cluster.
ADOPTION OF LINUX CLUSTERS ON THE RISE: Attendees at a recent cluster computing conference indicated a widespread and rapidly growing interest in the deployment of Linux clusters and revealed critical issues vendors must address in a survey conducted at the show.
CRITICAL SW ANNOUNCES RELEASE W/ INTEL CLUSTER TOOLS SUPPORT: Critical Software Inc, San Jose, CA, and Coimbra, Portugal, announce the release of the fastest and most complete WMPI II version ever, which includes support for Intel Cluster Tools and the Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) from Streamline Computing.

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CRAY ELABORATES ON ORNL SUPERCOMPUTING COLLABORATION: by Tim Curns, Editor
HPCwire's Tim Curns talked with Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk and Peter Ungaro, Cray's vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, about the DOE's recently announced plan for Cray and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to deploy the world's fastest supercomputer.
PATHSCALE CEO COMMENTS ON COMPANY, LINUX CLUSTERING: by Tim Curns, Editor
HPCwire recently interviewed Pathscale's CEO, Scott Metcalf, about Pathscale's objectives and where the company fits in to the current state of Linux clustering.
SGI SYSTEM HELPS CANCER CENTER BIOLOGISTS GAIN INSIGHTS: Aided by high-performance computing technology from Silicon Graphics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Computational Biology Center is using a 12-processor SGI Altix 3000 system to accelerate its computational disease research.
AMD DELIVERS MORE WITH NEW ADDITIONS TO AMD OPTERON FAMILY: AMD announced new additions to the award-winning AMD Opteron processor family — Models 850, 250 and 150 — once again equipping servers and workstations with high performing two-way and four-way x86 processors.
SUN BROADENS AVAILABILITY OF SOLARIS WITH 15 NEW OEMs: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the availability of the Solaris Operating System (OS) on a variety of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based systems with 15 new Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for a total of 20 x86 platform partners.

Quote of the Week:

"The Department of Homeland Security has created the National Visual Analytics Center in order to increase our capabilities to discover and predict terrorist activities. Being able to collect, combine and analyze vast amounts of information plays an ever-increasing role in preventing terrorist attacks in the United States, and visual analysis of this information is a crucial tool."

Dr. Charles McQueary, Under Secretary for
Science and Technology

MAJOR REPORT SAYS GRID TO SPUR PHARMA IT

GGF ENDORSES, SUPPORTS Gt'04 EVENT

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Agilent Ships 800th 93000 SOC Series Tester.
Freescale Powers ColdFire Processors w/ IC.
DSS Announces Pluggable Fiber Ethernet PCI-X.
Financial Update:: Pathscale Secures $15M In Financing.
Intel To Invest $2B For Manufacturing.
CSC Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue Up 30%.
Corporate Liaisons:: VMware, IBM Extend Strategic Alliance.
Dell And Scali Partner For Pro Services.
Gridcore AB Becomes Novell Partner.
People and Position:: Sun Appts Fowler As Network Sys VP.
Cray Elects Lederman To Board Of Dir.
Red Hat Appts Cunningham as Gen Counsel.

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