The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / July 25, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 29

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Features:

LINPACK RESULTS REFUEL IBM/INTEL CHIP DEBATE: By Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants
With low growth in the computer server market the chip competition is becoming ferociously acute. In the 64-bit market, the big players are IBM and Intel.
WILL EARTH SIMULATOR'S GRIP BE SHORT-LIVED?: As custodian of the industry's "Top 500 List", Jack Dongarra says Earth Simulator's grip on first is likely to be short-lived.
SIMULATION AT NERSC MATCHES HISTORIC GAMMA-RAY BURST: by John Hules, LBNL
The origins of at least some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are being revealed to scientists. This is due to a new generation of orbiting detectors, and a new generation of astrophysics software.
DEVICES MAY SELF-ASSEMBLE AT THE NANOSCALE: Scientists have demonstrated a technique that could one day allow electronic devices to assemble themselves automatically -- giving semiconductor manufacturers a way to mass produce "nanochips" that have circuit elements only a few molecules across.
U.S. SUPERCOMPUTING AND ITS PLACE IN THE WORLD: After leading the world's supercomputing efforts for years, the United States has found itself running a distant second since last April's start-up of Japan's Earth Simulator supercomputer, according to committee reports.

STROKE BUSTERS IN TURBULENT BLOOD: by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Using PSC's LeMieux, a Chicago team of researchers is creating tools to zero in on the correlations between blood-flow in the carotid artery and the likelihood of stroke.
ONLINE DATABASE AIDS PROGRAM PORTABILITY: The University of Tennessee and Coherent Cognition have developed an Web-based online Portability Database to help scientists with application portability.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY EXPLORES THE WORLD OF BIOINFORMATICS: The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) awarded three undergraduate summer internships in Computational Biology this year.
INTERNET SPEED MARK IN GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS BOOK: Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborated with researchers from the California Institute of Technology, European Organization for Nuclear Research, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to set the land-speed record for sending data over the Internet.
GARTNER GROUP SAYS DELAY LINUX APPLICATIONS: Legal threats by SCO have prompted Gartner Group to recommend that companies delay deployment of critical Linux applications, determine "whether Unix or Windows will provide functions equivalent to those of Linux deployments", and take a slower approach to Linux.

Cluster Computing:

IBM'S WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER BRINGS GRID CAPABILITIES: IBM is offering new server performance technology in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.0.2 that should help companies achieve the network efficiences of Grid computing.
ALTAIR AND NEC HPC EUROPE ANNOUNCE LINUX CLUSTER ALLIANCE: Altair Engineering Ltd, has been granted exclusivity by NEC High Performance Computing Europe for the provision of Linux cluster solutions to the United Kingdom and Ireland manufacturing industry.
PSSC LABS RELEASES CBEST VERSION 3.0 CLUSTER SOFTWARE: PSSC Labs Inc., a pioneer in Linux-based high-performance computing and Beowulf class specialist, unveiled version 3.0 of CBeST, the company's premier cluster management software.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SGI TRIPLES BACKUP AND RESTORE RECORD: SGI announced that it has achieved an unprecedented benchmark, sustaining a rate of 10.1TB per hour for a disk-to-tape file backup. SGI has also established an image restore record of 7.9TB/hour.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AND IBM TEAM FOR IT AGREEMENT: The National Football League and IBM announced a three-year agreement naming IBM as the NFL's official information technology (IT) partner.
SGI ALTIX 3000 NAMED "PRODUCT OF THE YEAR": SGI announced that its SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters has been named Product of the Year by a highly-regarded Linux magazine.

NVIDIA QUADRO FX CHANGES ADVANCED VISUALIZATION MARKET: NVIDIA Corporation introduced the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 series of professional graphics solutions to facilitate breakthroughs in markets such as medical and satellite imaging, automobile manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, video post-production, and broadcast.
TECHNOLOGY PATHWAYS INTRODUCES PRODISCOVER IR: Technology Pathways unveiled ProDiscover IR. ProDiscover IR empowers System Managers to detect any changes made to their computers by intruders and to gather the evidentiary quality information needed to help identify and prosecute the intruders.
3D SYSTEMS RECREATES LEGACY MOTORCYCLE FAIRING UNDER 3 DAYS: by Erin Hatfield, freelance writer, Cramblitt & Company
Just how fast can a physical part without any existing CAD data be accurately recreated for real-world use? That's what John Murray and Stewart Davis of 3D Systems set out to find.
COMPUTER-AIDED INSPECTION PROCESS REVS UP BMW QUALITY: BMW has implemented new computer-aided inspection (CAI) technology at its engine-building plant in Steyr, Austria.

Quote of the Week:

"The laptop computer I'm using today -- an IBM Think Pad with a Pentium III processor -- would have ranked as one of the 500 fastest computers in the world in 1995. The exponential growth is just staggering."

Jack Dongarra,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: IronGrid Unveils IronTrack SQL.
3Dlabs Demos OpenGL Shading Language.
Cypress Samples 18-Mbit Memory Chips.
Financial Update:: Sun Reports Slight Profit In Q4.
MSC.Software Reports Q2 Results.
Xilinx Q1 Revenues Up 3 Percent.
Corporate Liaisons:: X3D Acquires 4D-Vision GmbH.
Hyperion To Acquire Brio Software.
People and Positions:: Network Associates Names New Member.
Bioinformatics Center Gets New Member.
FalconStor Gets New General Manager.

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