The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / August 1, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 30

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MICROSOFT TO INCREASE R&D BUDGET: Microsoft Corp. will add as many as 5,000 jobs and increase research and development spending by as much as 8 percent in the current fiscal year, the world's top software maker said.
INTERVIEW WITH TARARI'S CEO RANDY SMERIK: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
Following is a Q&A with Randy Smerik, president and CEO of Tarari, Inc., which unveiled its Tarari High Performance Content Processor on July 24, 2003.
NEW STANDARD PUTS HIGH-SPEED CHIPS ON THE FAST TRACK: A new type of standard to be issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this summer will help meet the need for speed in semiconductors.
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION, INTEL TEAM UP FOR HOME CARE: The Alzheimer's Association and Intel Corporation announced the formation of a consortium to spur development of technologies for the home to help people with Alzheimer's disease.
USC TRANSLATION SOFTWARE GETS TOP MARKS: University of Southern California has had its software score highest among 23 Arabic- and Chinese-to-English translation systems, commercial and experimental, tested in in recently concluded Department of Commerce trials.
MODEL STUDENTS BUILDING MODELS ON NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTERS: About a hundred middle school, high school, and college students in the Triangle region of North Carolina are participating in computational science workshops and internships at The Shodor Education Foundation.

SUN TEAMS WITH ORACLE TO LOWER COLLABORATIVE MESSAGING: In tandem with the launch of Oracle's Collaboration Suite Release 2, Sun Microsystems announced a joint effort to drive down total cost of ownership and improve reliability of collaboration for customers on Sun servers.
NCAR TO DEVELOP POWERFUL FORECAST AND RESEARCH TOOL: The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has signed an agreement with six government agencies to develop a landmark weather modeling system for both research and forecasting.
300 COLLEGE FACULTY ATTEND NCSI SUMMER 2003 WORKSHOPS: The National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) announced that more than 300 faculty members from 140 different institutions will have attended 15 faculty workshops during this summer.
"LIQUID LENSES" MAY SHRINK FEATURE SIZES ON MICROCHIPS: New data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology will assist in the design of optics for liquid immersion lithography, an idea that may provide a possible means of improving image resolution and thereby shrinking feature sizes of computer chips.
SDSC RELEASES VERSION 1.0 OF SKIDLKIT DATA MINING TOOLKIT: The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has released the initial version of the SKIDLkit data mining toolkit, giving scientific users a user-friendly set of advanced data mining capabilities.
INCITE PROGRAM TO ALLOCATE MAJOR COMPUTING RESOURCES: Proposals are now being accepted for a new Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science program to support innovative, large-scale computational science projects.

Cluster Computing:

MYSQL AND SGI PARTNER FOR DATABASE COMPUTING: MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced a strategic alliance with SGI, a world leader in high- performance computing, to provide the MySQL database on the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters.
IBM TO CREATE POWERFUL LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER: A national research laboratory in Japan has placed an order with IBM for a supercomputer cluster that, when completed, is expected to be the most powerful Linux-based computer in the world.
UNIVERSITY BENEFITS FROM NEW SGI ALTIX 3000 SUPERCLUSTER: Biology, chemistry and astrophysics researchers, among many others, have begun running a wide range of applications on a new SGI Altix 3000 supercluster at the Center for Scientific Parallel Computing (CSPC) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
STUDY RANKS RACKABLE #1 FOR LARGE SCALE SERVER DEPLOYMENTS: Rackable Systems, Inc., a leading provider of large scale, rack-mount server and storage solutions, announced the findings of a TCO study conducted by Digital Infinity.
NVIDIA POWERS LARGE-SCALE VISUALIZATION AT SIGGRAPH 2003: At the SIGGRAPH 2003 convention, NVIDIA Corporation, a leader in visual processing solutions, demonstrated how professionals can explore, understand, and communicate data in ways not possible in the physical world.
VOLTAIRE PROVIDES IBM WITH INFINIBAND SOLUTION FOR CLUSTERS: Voltaire, a leader in intelligent connectivity for high performance InfiniBand solutions, announced that it is working with IBM to provide Voltaire's InfiniBand Database Solution for the IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment, a new solution unveiled by IBM.
AVAILANT AND DOT HILL PARTNER FOR CLUSTERING ENVIRONMENT: Availant and Dot Hill announced their partnership for validation testing of Dot Hill's hardware for operability in an HACMP (high availability cluster multiprocessing) for AIX environment.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SGI AND SUN PLATFORMS TO WORK SEAMLESSLY TOGETHER: The two most accepted software platforms in the graphics industry -- OpenGL and Java will work seamlessly together. SGI and Sun Microsystems jointly announced an agreement to cooperate on developing Java bindings to the OpenGL application-programming interface.
MSC.SOFTWARE TO EXPAND POSITION WITHIN VIRTUAL MARKET: MSC.Software and Livermore Software Technology Corp. (LSTC) announced an agreement to co-develop LSTC's flagship product, LS-DYNA and to embed LS-DYNA within MSC.Software core solvers including MSC.Nastran 2004, MSC.Dytran and MSC.Marc.
NEW STUDY SAYS SMALL BUSINESS SAVES BIG WITH IBM ESERVER: A new study from International Data Corp. (IDC) finds small and medium- sized businesses can achieve significant cost savings by consolidating workloads onto IBM eServer iSeries from industry-standard Intel- architecture servers.
MELLANOX SURPASSES 100,000 INFINIBAND PORT SALES MILESTONE: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading provider of InfiniBand silicon, announced that as of June 2003 more than 100,000 InfiniBand ports have been shipped to customers for a broad range of InfiniBand based applications.
HP REPEATS AS LEADER IN SERVER MARKET UNIT SHIPMENTS: According to preliminary results released Friday by research firm Gartner Dataquest, HP is once again the No. 1 vendor of servers worldwide, with 29.5 percent unit market share for the second calendar quarter of 2003.
SUN AND SECLUTIONS JOIN FORCES FOR SECURITY SOLUTIONS: Seclutions AG, announced its partnership with Sun Microsystems to launch Enterprise Security solutions for small to mid-size enterprises.
SGI ANNOUNCES KEY SALES WINS FOR FOURTH QUARTER: In its recently completed fourth quarter for fiscal year 2003, Silicon Graphics, Inc. posted several key sales wins and saw the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters take the Linux world by storm.
SGI ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ABAQUS ON ALTIX 3000 SERVERS: SGI and ABAQUS, Inc., announced the availability of the latest ABAQUS release, 6.3-5, on the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers.
SUN AND DOCUMENTUM EXTEND ALLIANCE: Documentum, a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM), and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the two companies increased the level of commitment in their respective alliance programs.
IBM TO DELIVER KEY SECURITY FEATURES FOR ESERVER Z990: IBM announced that full-feature cryptography on the new IBM eServer zSeries 990 will be available one month ahead of schedule.
HP AND ORACLE SET TRANSACTION PROCESSING WORLD RECORD: HP and Oracle Corp. announced the world-record benchmark result of 824,164 transactions per minute (tpmC) on the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-C benchmark achieved by the first ever system, clustered or non-clustered, to eclipse the 800K tpmC barrier.
NEW UNISYS MAINFRAME: BUILT FOR BUSINESS BLUEPRINTING: Unisys Corporation announced the ClearPath Plus Libra 185, the company's most powerful mainframe yet.

Quote of the Week:

"Java and OpenGL together will make a powerful win-win combination for graphics developers everywhere. The power of OpenGL and the wide deployment of Java means graphics developers will now bring together the best of two worlds: Java and graphics."

John Fowler,
chief technology officer, Software,
Sun Microsystems

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: EI's CxC Compiler Receives I.Q. Award.
Pericom Releases New Signal Switches.
Discreet To Bundle Mental Ray Software.
Financial Update:: SGI Reports Q4 Results.
NEC Reports Financial Results For Q1.
Netezza Secures $20M In Financing.
Corporate Liaisons:: SuSE Teams With SAP For Linux Services.
ALi Licenses Rambus Technology.
ESI Group And EASi Team Up.
People and Positions:: Nelson Pratt To Lead OSDL Marketing.
USC Member To Keynote At Sensors Expo.

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