The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / August 8, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 31

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Features:

GOLDFARB AT IBM: INTERVIEW & VENDOR COMMENTARY: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire conducted an exclusive interview with IBM's Debra Goldfarb and received commentaries from vendor representatives, concerning Goldfarb's recent move from IDC to IBM.

GOOGLE TARGETED BY SEARCH ENGINE RIVALS: Both Yahoo! and Microsoft are searching for ways to steal Google's thunder in a showdown that could reshape the way people find their way around the Internet.
LINUX GETS SENSITIVE GOVERNMENT USE APPROVAL: Linux software has been approved for use on the most sensitive computers in corporations and the federal government, including those inside banks and the Pentagon.

Cluster Computing:

NCSA SELECTS DELL FOR LARGE-SCALE SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTER: Dell has been selected by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide more than 1,450 servers that will perform computations and data analysis for researchers across the U.S.
PARTNERSHIP DELIVERS NEW LINUX BIOINFORMATICS CLUSTER: Rackable Systems will bundle iNquiry, The BioTeam's award winning bioinformatics software tools suite, on its optimized compute server platform.
DELL TO SUPPLY AUSTRALIAN CENTER WITH LINUX CLUSTER: The Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3) will install a 147-node cluster running at some 1.5 teraflops in its Sydney data centre.

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Vendor Spotlight:

HP DELIVERS NEXT STEP ON ALPHASERVER ROADMAP: HP has begun shipping the latest product in its roadmap for AlphaServer customers: high-end, 32-processor HP AlphaServer GS1280 systems.
LINUX SWEEPS IBM CUSTOMERS: IBM at LinuxWorld San Francisco announced six new customers from various industries that are moving to Linux, marking the astounding growth in demand for Linux, from the smallest to the largest customers.
SUN FIRE V480 GETS PERFORMANCE BOOST: Sun Microsystems announced that its Sun Fire V480 server now features 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors and provides greater processing power.

Quote of the Week:

"It's hard to imagine a day when I'm not using Google for something. I can almost always find what I'm looking for on the first or second page of results. It's almost like black magic."

Todd Goldman,
marketing executive in Silicon Valley

News Briefs:

Hardware

Software

Networking

Storage

General

Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Altera Introduces Nios Development Kit.
Sybase Gives Customers Preview of ASE 12.5.1.
Newisys Announces Enterprise-Class Server.
Financial Update:: IBM Files Counter-Claim VS. SCO Group.
AMD Acquires Assets Of IA's Business Unit.
NVIDIA Announces Acquisition of MediaQ.
Corporate Liaisons:: Sun And SuSE Linux Team Up.
Security Underdog Wins Intel Pact.
Gateway Forms Relationship With IBM.
People and Positions:: Sun Names Chief Privacy Officer.
NPF Announces 2003 Election Results.
Bush Member Joins Click Commerce.

Conferences & Events

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