{ $AddCounter = 1; local($/); $/=""; $*=1; if (!(open (SPONSORS, "../htdocs/sponsors.lst"))) {print STDOUT "Sorry. sponsors.lst file is temporarily unavailable.";} while(){ while (s/([^=]+)=([^=]+)=(.*)\n//){ $SponsorName[$AddCounter] = $1; $Sponsors[$AddCounter] = $2; $SponsorAddress[$AddCounter++] = $3; } } $AddCounter--; srand(time|$$); $SponsorNumber = int(rand($AddCounter) + 1); if ($SponsorAddress[$SponsorNumber] ne "none"){ printf "
", $SponsorAddress[$SponsorNumber], $Sponsors[$SponsorNumber];} else{printf "
", $Sponsors[$SponsorNumber];} } close SPONSORS;


July 28, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 30 Back Issues

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Features:

IBM REORGANIZATION HINTS AT SUCCESSOR TO GERSTNER
IBM announced a sweeping management overhaul that includes the elevating of Samuel J. Palmisano, a senior vice president, to become president and chief operating officer. The move seems to make Mr. Palmisano the heir apparent to Louis V. Gerstner, chairman and chief executive of IBM.

ANTS TECHNOLOGY MAY IMPROVE COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
by Peter C. Patton, Ph.D.
ANTs are a programming technology for simplifying large complex software systems into independent components, thereby making them more reliable, more efficient and easier to maintain. This white paper describes how the technology distributes control structures throughout the computation.

SANDIA RED TEAM HACKS ALL DEFENSES
A group at Sandia National Laboratories known informally as the Red Team has, at customer invitation, either successfully invaded or devised successful mock attacks on 35 out of 35 information systems at various sites, along with their associated security technologies.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR HPC
A reader writes about a recent article from HPCwire. "An important aspect of HPC is Scientific Computing. There we have an easy and realistic metric: the vector triad."

SIMPLICITY AND POWER DRIVE DATA DELIVERY
Without fanfare or high-profile venture capital, Enkido, which makes no equipment itself but is audacious in the technology it uses, may provide the best look at what communications networks will look like in five years: cheaper, simpler, more powerful.

MANY COUNTRIES SAID TO LACK COMPUTER CRIME LAWS
More than 100 countries do not have the laws to deal with computer- related crime, undercutting efforts to battle a growing international threat, law enforcement officials said.

SCIENTISTS SPOT ACHILLES' HEEL OF THE INTERNET
Researchers at Notre Dame University, who have analyzed the connections within the Internet, have found if the networks with the most highly connected nodes were attacked, it could fragment the Web into isolated parts.

IT'S ONLY CHECKERS, BUT THE COMPUTER TAUGHT ITSELF
Two scientists have asked a computer program to do something much more difficult than beat a human at checkers. Knowing only the rules of checkers and a few basics, the program must teach itself how to play a good game without help from the outside world - including from the programmers.

HPC-ETC: THE PAST MONTH IN HIGH PERF. COMPUTING
by Steven Witucki, assistant editor
Summaries of High Performance Computing stories from the past month including: Senate eases supercomputer export controls, IBM supercomputer chosen for earth simulator, "nug30" problem solved, computers simulate 3D nuclear blast, IBM releases commercial version of supercomputer.

Science News:

NEW PARTNERSHIP TESTS SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEM
A research project to test one of the most advanced shared-memory computing technologies available will be initiated this fall with installation of a new 512-processor supercomputer by a unique partnership of academic, government and industry collaborators.

SMARR'S CAL-(IT)2 CLOSER TO BEING REALIZED
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies [Cal-(IT)2], a joint proposal of UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has been selected among the six finalists to be submitted for final consideration as a California Institute for Science and Innovation.

TEAM USES SUPERCOMPUTERS IN SEARCH FOR ASTEROIDS
What are the odds that an asteroid will come careening across the sky to wreak havoc on Earth? Is this just a movie writer's fantasy or a real possibility? Cornell astronomer William Bottke heads up an international team of researchers who are grappling with this very question.

SINGLE-ATOM BLINKING HAS SCIENTISTS THINKING BIG
A whole new technology awaits exploration with the discovery of a technique for trapping single atoms, say scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

ELECTRON BEAMS MAY HELP SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
The semiconductor industry is racing to develop a tool that can pattern integrated circuits (ICs) with features almost half the size of what is in production today. Researchers at IBM are turning to electron beams for the job.

LOS ALAMOS UNLEASHES GENIE ON CERRO GRANDE DESTRUCTION
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is using a sophisticated image analysis technology to create high-resolution maps of the destruction caused by the Cerro Grande wildfire. The computer program, called GENIE for GENetic Imagery Exploitation, is helping environmental restoration scientists.

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION GETS A HELPING HAND
Computers are one step closer to "understanding" people, thanks to progress in human-computer interaction research at Rutgers University funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HELPS AERIAL SPRAYING
A team of researchers that includes a computer scientist from the University of Georgia is, for the first time, using artificial intelligence tools called genetic algorithms to control how aerial spraying application models do their work.

GRID-ENABLED ELECTROMAGNETICS CODE DEMONSTRATED
Researchers showcased the power of current research networks using a new computational steering code, GEMSviz, a tool used for the study of electromagnetic compatibility in the design of complex objects.

WEB IS LARGER THAN MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES SHOW
The Internet has become so large so fast that sophisticated search engines are just scratching the surface of the Web's vast information reservoir, according to a new study released last Wednesday.

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