The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / August 20, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 33

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WHITE HOUSE: 'GIVE HPC PRIORITY IN 2006': Building on recent suggestions from Congress to increase supercomputing endeavors, the Bush administration is pushing for more research and development in the area for fiscal 2006.
ANIMATION, GRAPHICS DRAW THOUSANDS TO LOS ANGELES SHOW: by Tim Curns, Editor
Last week, members of the entertainment, digital effects and gaming industries convened to showcase new technology at the 31st annual SIGGRAPH trade show in Los Angeles.
AUSTRALIAN CENTER TO FURTHER HPC ENDEAVORS w/ $3.1M GRANT: Australia's state government provided $3.1 million in funding to Western Australia's Interactive Virtual Environment Centre (IVEC) in order to promote and improve the center's supercomputing use.
UCSD/SDSC USE HPC TO MODEL MUTATIONS FOR CANCER RESEARCH: A team of biomedical researchers based at SDSU, the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, and UCSD has made an important discovery in modeling the functions of enzymes in the human body based on their molecular structures -- a discovery with implications for drug design and cancer treatment.
SANDIA SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR HELPS SAVE LIVES: A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

Cluster Computing:

INEEL, SUN TO BALANCE SECURITY, COLLABORATION w/ CLUSTER: by Tim Curns, Editor
The Department of Energy and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the development of a high performance computer cluster at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
SCALI RELEASES NEW PRODUCTS FOR MULTI-PLATFORM CLUSTERS: Scali, a leader in high performance clustering solutions, announced the 4.3 release of their cluster management (Scali Manage) and message passing interface (Scali MPI Connect) software.
FISERV IMAGESOFT WILL RESELL POLYSERVE CLUSTERING SOFTWARE: The Fiserv Imagesoft unit of Fiserv, Inc. will resell and support clustering software from PolyServe, Inc. under an OEM agreement announced by PolyServe.
ROCKETCALC UNVEILS AMD OPTERON-BASED COMPACT CLUSTERS: Rocketcalc announced the Saturn series personal cluster computer with AMD Opteron processors.

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DoD USES LINUX NETWORX CLUSTERS TO ADVANCE HPC CAPABILITIES: Linux Networx announced that two Department of Defense (DoD) high performance computing centers have each received a 256-processor Evolocity Linux Networx cluster computing system.
OSC TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WITH CRAY SUPERCOMPUTING: The Ohio Supercomputer Center's Springfield, Ohio, facility received two new high-performance computing systems this summer, including the Cray X1 and the Cray XD1.
SILICON GRAPHICS TEZRO VISUAL WORKSTATIONS MAKE NBC DEBUT: To create new and differentiated eye-popping broadcast graphics throughout its coverage in Athens, NBC has chosen SGI visualization systems, including Silicon Graphics Tezro, the most powerful visual workstation Silicon Graphics has created to date.
HP EXPANDS UNIX SERVER AND STORAGEWORKS PORTFOLIOS: HP announced enhancements to its UNIX server and HP StorageWorks systems portfolios, offering unmatched agility and value for enterprise and public sector customers by enabling them to leverage the latest technologies on standards-based platforms.
IBM WINS EIGHT OVERALL CATEGORIES IN VARBusiness AWARDS: Recognized by its own solution providers for outstanding satisfaction levels, IBM walked away with eight overall category wins during the VARBusiness Annual Report (ARC) Awards ceremony at the XChange '04 Conference.

Quote of the Week:

"I am certainly happy to see that many of these computer graphics companies are looking past Hollywood and into possible applications in biological science. These graphical tools can be used for much more than the creation of pretty pictures; they can be incredible facets for use in academic research and teaching. Most people wouldn't know it, but the manner in which a T4 Bacteriophage infects E. Coli bacteria is much more violent and sinister than any alien on the movie screen today."

Gabriel Lander, computational biochemistry
graduate student, Scripps Research Institute

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Product Watch:: QL2 Software Updates Flagship Product.
Maplesoft Releases Database Integration Toolbox.
Maxtor Ships Next-Gen DiamondMax Hard Drives.
Financial Update:: Nanosolar Secures $10.3 M DARPA Contract.
Mercury Expands Number One Market Position.
Brocade Reports Q3 2004 Results.
Corporate Liaisons:: Fiserv To Resell Polyserve Software.
Alenia Aeronautica Invests In MSC.Software.
Compuware Asks Court To Sanction IBM.
People and Position:: Wily Tech Adds Industry Veteran.
Bookless Named Assc. Safety Dir. At LLNL.
Red Hat Appoints Global Services Head.

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