The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / June 13, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 23

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Features:

EXCLUSIVE - PITT SC DIRECTORS SPEAK OUT: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire Interviewed Mike Levine and Ralph Roskies, co-directors of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, concerning the LeMieux Supercomputer and the challenges of the TeraGrid.
NEW CHIP BOOTS UP COMPUTERS LIKE A LIGHT: IBM and German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG said they have made an important step toward developing a new kind of memory that could enable computers to boot up instantaneously.
NAVIGATING THE E-MAIL LABYRINTH: Researchers have created a new tool for organizing and visualizing collections of electronic mail. It is designed to help legal researchers, historians, archivists, and others faced with challenges in dealing wtih large email archives.
SUPERCOMPUTING GETS A PUSH FROM SECURITY LEADERS: Supercomputing research and development has played a crucial role in national security. However, more investment is needed to resolve numerous computational problems, a key National Security Agency (NSA) official said.
QUANTUM COMPUTING MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER: Physicists may have explained some strange behavior of the ultra-cold material known as Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The new analysis shows that scientists are closer than ever to harnessing BEC to perform useful functions such as quantum computing.
OSU WEATHER FORECASTING TOOL OUTPERFORMS COMPETING MODELS: A study on how well current weather forecast models actually perform gave high marks to a computer model developed largely by Ohio State University scientists.
STUDY: DEVELOPMENT CYCLES ARE TOO SLOW: Compuware Corporation unveiled the results of its 2003 IT Professionals Survey on Application Development. The study surveyed 200 IT professionals to gauge their opinions about the application development challenges they face.
RESEARCHERS USE NUMERICAL MODELS TO EXAMINE BLOOD FLOW: Numerical modeling techniques, developed to simulate the flow of water around hydraulic structures such as bridge foundations, are being used to better understand the complex patterns of blood flow through artificial mechanical heart valves.
RIDGE CREATES NEW DIVISION TO COMBAT CYBER THREATS: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) under the Department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: WHAT'S IN A NAME?: By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants Ltd
In this letter, Christopher Lazou responds to comments made by John McCalpin from IBM, concerning the use of the term "Blue Planet" system.
BRAZIL IS IN NEED OF "AMAZONIA SIMULATOR": By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants, Ltd.
HPCwire had the opportunity to interview Dr. Carlos A. Nobre, Director of CPTEC and scientific co-ordinator of the Large Scale Biosphere- Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia, (LBA).
WEATHER SERVICE GETTING BIG NEW COMPUTER: The National Weather Service is beginning to use a new computer that when fully deployed will be faster than any computer in the world today.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: DATA-CENTRIC HPC: Suresh Shukla, HPC Service Manager, The Boeing Company discusses the topic of Government and vendor technology investments.
TERAGRID PROJECT BEGINS ACCEPTING COMPUTING PROPOSALS: Researchers across the U.S. will be able to submit proposals for use of the first computing systems of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project beginning June 15.

Cluster Computing:

UNIVERSITY EXPANDS SUN FIRE SUPERCLUSTER PERFORMANCE: The Aachen University of Technology, one of the leading technical universities in Europe, has implemented one of the largest Sun Microsystems high performance computing solutions in the world, based on the Sun Fire 6800 and 15K server platforms.
SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTERS POWER GRID-BASED DISEASE MAPPING: The University of Liverpool unveiled its new large-scale Dell high- performance computing cluster (HPCC), powered by Intel Pentium 4 processors, to underpin further ground-breaking disease mapping and physics research.
FUJITSU & SISTINA TEAM UP FOR LINUX CLUSTERS: Fujitsu Systems Europe has selected Sistina GFS as the exclusive cluster file system running on Fujitsu's line of High Performance Computing (HPC) clustering solutions.
EMIC NETWORKS DEPLOYS APPLICATION CLUSTERING FOR MYSQL: Emic Networks released Emic Application Cluster (EAC) for MySQL version 2.0. With an estimated 4 million installations and over 30,000 downloads per day, MySQL is quickly becoming the core of many high- volume, business-critical applications.
PENGUIN COMPUTING TO ACQUIRE SCYLD COMPUTING: Penguin Computing, a leading Linux server company, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Scyld Computing Corporation. Scyld is the technology leader in Beowulf cluster management software.
SPIRITSOFT DELIVERS SPIRITWAVE ESB SERVER VERSION 6.0: SpiritSoft announced the general availability of SpiritWave ESB Server version 6.0 with Global Clustering technology.
PSSC LABS REACHES MILESTONE OF 250 CLUSTERS DELIVERED: PSSC Labs announced the completion and delivery of their 250th Linux- based Beowulf cluster.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SGI ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE: SGI announced the first 2003 Technical Users' Conference. The conference will bring together SGI customers who are on the forefront of HPC computing and collaborative visualization -- visionaries who rely on SGI solutions to meet their creative challenges.
IBM SELECTS AXEDA AS LIFE SCIENCES PARTNER: Axeda Systems Inc., a leading provider of device relationship management (DRM) enterprise software and services, announced that it has been selected as an IBM Life Sciences Device and Diagnostics Partner.
SUN RINGS UP DOZENS OF MAJOR RETAIL CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS: With a number of global account wins and partner alliances under its belt, Sun Microsystems, Inc. continues to gain significant traction in the worldwide retail market.
ETNUS ANNOUNCES TOTALVIEW 6.2 FOR SGI SYSTEMS: Etnus, a leading provider of debugging solutions for complex code, announced that TotalView 6.2 supports the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters.
PLATFORM POWERS SECOND LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER: Platform Computing announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has selected Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Grid solutions, to power its ASCI-Q (Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative) supercomputer.
NEC TO SUPPLY SERVERS TO SAMSUNG OF SOUTH KOREA: NEC Corp. plans to supply Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea with high-performance servers on an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) basis.
SGI TO HELP DESIGN SIX SIGMA SOLUTIONS: SGI announced an agreement with The Boeing Company to provide superior manufacturing industry solutions for achieving Six Sigma-quality products and processes, as well as real-time optimization (RTO) solutions.
SUN TO GIVE JAVA SUPPORT TO LINDOWS.COM: Lindows.com, just days away from its LindowsOS 4.0 product launch, announced that LindowsOS 4.0 will include Java software support from Sun Microsystems.
SUN HELPS INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS: Sun Microsystems, Inc. recently completed its third-annual Tunathon program, a collaborative engineering effort between Sun and its ISV partners to improve and optimize application performance on the Sun platform.
EDS TO SUPPORT MSC.NASTRAN ENGINEERING SIMULATION SOFTWARE: EDS announced its PLM Solutions line of business will enhance, sell and support MSC.Nastran, a leading digital engineering simulation software, under a licensing agreement with MSC.Software Corporation.
SGI HELPS AIR FORCE TRACK MAN-MADE OBJECTS IN SPACE: To help compile and analyze more than 10,000 earth-orbiting space objects, the Air Force is now using SGI's high-performance computing and storage technology.
MAINSOFT SPEEDS TRANSITION TO HP ITANIUM 2-BASED SERVERS: Mainsoft Corporation announced an agreement with HP intended to accelerate the transition of Visual MainWin customers from PA-RISC processor-based HP servers to HP's portfolio of servers running Intel Itanium 2 processors for the HP-UX 11i operating system.
MSC.SOFTWARE HELPS CELERITY STREAMLINE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES: MSC.Software announced that Celerity has utilized a SmarTeam Product Data Management (PDM) system and integration services from MSC.Software.
SGI TO HELP PSC BOLSTER PUBLIC RESEARCH SYSTEM: SGI announced that the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has selected an SGI storage solution to help the center meet its growing storage challenges, with plans to ultimately store and manage over a petabyte of data.

Quote of the Week:

"Email has become a major element of modern life, and the raw material of history."

Douglas Oard,
associate professor of computer science,
University of Maryland

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Product Watch:: BigFix Releases Patch Manager 3.0.
CATC Delivers Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer.
Visual Numerics Deploys Java-Based Tools.
Financial Update:: Sun Leads Linux+UNIX Server Market.
Space Imaging Awarded NIMA Contract.
Computer Data Source Awarded $5M Contract.
Corporate Liaisons:: Neoteris Adds NetIQ To Partnership Base.
Adaptec Acquires ICP Vortex.
People and Positions:: UI Professor To Lead National Center.
Microsoft Appoints New Corporate VP.
UT Professor Becomes New Research VP.

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