The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / June 11, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 23

Features:

CHINESE SUPERCOMPUTER MAY RANK AMONG FASTEST COMPUTERS: Chinese company Dawning Information Industry is building a new supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, and expects the new system to rank among the fastest machines on Earth.
QUANTUM COMPUTING: OPENING THE DOOR TO UNPRECEDENTED POWER: by Tim Curns, Editor
For years, computer scientists have been working to create increasingly smaller and faster computers. Recent advances in quantum computing are helping scientists bring technology to the smallest size possible - the atomic level.
VIRGINIA TECH EARNS GLOBAL HONORS WITH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Virginia Tech is the recipient of this year's Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Award in Science. The award was presented Monday evening at a black tie event at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
SCIENTISTS PROVIDE NEW UNDERSTANDING OF MANGANITES: University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently unveiled a new theory explaining the strange coexistence of metallic and insulating phases in the crystals of a mineral called perovskite manganite.
SGI HELPS SAPAC BUY POWERFUL, NEW SUPERCOMPUTER: South Australian scientists and researchers will now be able to make their discoveries much more quickly, thanks to the purchase of a new supercomputer, Aquila.

Cluster Computing:

INFINICON ATTAINS BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FOR HPC CLUSTERS: InfiniCon Systems announced that its InfinIO family of InfiniBand-based solutions has attained more than 80% average efficiency and up to 88% peak efficiency on a 144-node, AMD Opteron processor-based computer cluster at the AMD Developer Center.
APPRO SHOWCASES LINUX, AMD OPTERON CLUSTER AND QUAD SERVERS: Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, and AMD demonstrated the Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solution and the 1U and 4U Quad AMD Opteron processor-based servers at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), in San Diego, CA, booth number 4534.
MEIOSYS RELEASES OF METACLUSTER HPC ON AMD PROCESSORS: Meiosys, a provider of transparent middleware solutions for optimizing and protecting business critical applications, announced the release of Meiosys' MetaCluster on the AMD Opteron processor family.

FLEET NUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY SELECTS SGI: To achieve higher resolution weather models that produce extremely precise forecasts for United States military operations all over the world, the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) has again turned to Silicon Graphics.
LANDMARK, IBM AGREE TO OFFER POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTING: Landmark Graphics Corporation, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton, announced it has reached an agreement with IBM to access supercomputing power for seismic processing services via IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Centers.
NEC LAUNCHES INTEL ITANIUM 2 PROCESSOR-BASED BLADE SERVER: NEC Solutions (America), Inc. introduced the industry's first Intel Itanium 2 processor-based blade server offered by a major enterprise hardware manufacturer.

"I have always imagined myself as a future scientist."

Maria Leyva, student of NSF's Agriculture Summer
Science Research and Development program

ONE MAN'S VIEWS ON THE Gt'04 EXPERIENCE

Gt'04 SPEAKERS HIT UPON BENEFITS, OBSTACLES OF
GRID DEPLOYMENT

Product Watch:: ARM Announces Components For SoC Designs.
Xilinx Unveils Virtex-4 Family.
Aurora Intros 100GHz DWDM Optical Net Platform.
Financial Update:: Intel Second-Quarter Within Expectations.
Force10 Closes $75 M Mezzanine Funding.
Steelcloud Receives $1.2M For Equipment.
Corporate Liaisons:: INA Group Selects MSC VPD Solutions
IronCAD Licenses HOOPS From TSA.
ADIC, CGG Announce Reseller Agreement.
People and Position:: TACC Hires Fossum As R&D Coordinator.
Fred D. Anderson Joins Apple Board.
VaST CEO Hellestrand, Elected IEEE Fellow.

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