The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / August 27, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 34

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Features:

NEW, POWERFUL CHIP BOASTS 160 TO 230 GIGAFLOPS: Researchers elaborated on a new life sciences chip that could become the foundation of a supercomputer operable at petaflop power.
MAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE WITH INTER-PROCEDURAL OPTIMIZATION: by Dr. Fred Chow, Director of Compiler Engineering, PathScale
Developers need tools that can take advantage of all program information to better apply analysis and optimization techniques and create high performance applications. Dr. Fred Chow, of Pathscale, outlines how the company's EKO Compiler Suite helps developers do this.
NANOSTRUCTURES: THEY'RE COOL, BUT HOW CAN WE USE THEM?: Paul Alivisatos, director of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, and his research team have demonstrated a general approach for fabricating inorganically coupled colloidal quantum dots and rods.
PROTEIN MOTORS INCORPORATED: by Michael Schneider, Senior Science Writer, PSC
With quantum simulations on PSC's Jonas, Klaus Schulten and colleagues arrived at several key findings about nature's smallest motor.
FALLOFF IN FREEZES: COMING YEARS WILL SEE LESS FROST: Days and nights when the air temperature dips below freezing will become increasingly less common by the late 21st century across much of the world, according to a modeling study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Cluster Computing:

HELIX SUPERCOMPUTER SET TO DOUBLE: Just two years ago, Helix was ranked the most powerful in the country and one of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Now, an even more powerful cluster, Double Helix, has been commissioned by Massey University.
DELL RECORDS CLUSTERED EXCHANGE SERVER 2003 BENCHMARK RESULT: Dell PowerEdge servers have achieved the first Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 benchmark for a clustered configuration.
NOVELL CLUSTERING SOFTWARE AUTOMATES DISASTER RECOVERY PREP: Novell announced the availability of Novell Business Continuity Clustering 1.0, software that automates the configuration and management of high-availability, geographically dispersed clustered- server solutions.

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IBM ADVANCES SUPERCOMPUTING FOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY: In response to the petroleum industry's increasing need for supercomputing power in oil exploration and production, IBM announced its plans to open the third IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCOD) center in Houston, TX.
IDC NAMES SUN A LEADER IN WORKSTATION MARKET: Based on market share data released by IDC, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced its 40th consecutive quarter as a leader in Traditional Workstation (TWS) unit shipments and revenue with both quarter-over- quarter and year-over-year share increases.
CRAY TO PRESENT AT SG COWEN 32ND ANNUAL TECH CONFERENCE: Cray Inc. announced that Cray executives will present on September 9th at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) at the SG Cowen Fall Technology Conference, to be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.

Quote of the Week:

"If you want to do careful calculations, you have to invest a lot of computing power. It would make no sense to approach this important problem with cheap methodology. We decided to do the most advanced calculation that people do today when simulating a biological reaction."

Klaus Schulten, biophysicist at the University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

THE GRID: DEFINING THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
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IBM SHOWCASES NEW GRID TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPERS

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Product Watch:: BEA Ships BEA WebLogic Platform ISV Edition.
VMware P2V Is Key To Virtual Infrastructure.
STMicroelectronics Adds 8-Mbit Chip To BIOS Group.
Financial Update:: Polyserve Secures $20M In Series D Funds.
Intel Cuts Chip Prices By A Third.
Sun Leads Worldwide Server Growth In Report.
Corporate Liaisons:: Chorus Systems Joins IBM Initiative.
DSL Awarded Contract By Air Force.
Agilent To Acquire Silicon Genetics.
People and Position:: EI Names Chun Xia VP Of Solutions Org.
Maxtor Names Michael Bless As CFO.
China's NSF Honors Lin-Wang Wang w/ Award.

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