The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / September 5, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 35

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Features:

INTERVIEW WITH BOEING HPC SERVICE MANAGER SHUKLA: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire recently interviewed Suresh Shukla, HPC Service Manager of the Boeing Company, about the decision making aspects involved in the HPC industry.
MAKING 3-D CHIPS A REALITY: Researchers are pioneering new interconnect technologies that promise to deliver smaller, faster, inexpensive microelectronics and circuits that function in three dimensions.
"QUANTUM FREEZE" RESCUES WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTERS: Quantum Computers -- computers so fast they could break any code devised for a digital computer -- have a fatal flaw which has until now made it impossible to build really fast quantum computers.
NIST RESEARCH USES 3-D ENVIRONMENT TO STUDY SHAKE GELS: If you want to understand how molecules interact, there's nothing like crawling around inside them and perhaps moving an atom to see what's happening behind it. Computer scientists are using a special facility at NIST to do just that.

Cluster Computing:

VA TECH PICKS MELLANOX TO CREATE LARGEST INFINIBAND CLUSTER: Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a leader in InfiniBand silicon, announced that Virginia Tech has selected Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect technology for a new high-node count high performance computing cluster.
CLUSTER-COMPUTING SOFTWARE PURCHASED BY INTEL: In conjunction with its recent endeavors to use software to give customers more processor performance, Intel has made plans to purchase high-performance software from the German company Pallas.
iWAY INTRODUCES NEW GENERATION DATA INTEGRATION PRODUCTS: iWay Software announced improvements in its data integration capabilities, which include new cluster management, remote installation and management, tighter integration with Microsoft SQL Server, and new data adapters.
U OF UTAH TO USE AMD, ANGSTROM FOR SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTER: AMD announced that the University of Utah has selected AMD Opteron processor-based systems from Angstrom Microsystems for a new supercomputing cluster scheduled to be delivered by October 2003.

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Vendor Spotlight:

IBM TO HELP U.S. GOVERNMENT CREATE MOVING IMAGES LIBRARY: Three major universities have selected Linux on IBM POWER technology to build the Library of Congress' first centralized online catalog of film, television, and digital video images.
ASPENTECH ENABLES OIL & GAS INDUSTRY TO INCREASE RETURN: Aspen Technology, Inc. announced a significant expansion of its solution for the Oil & Gas industry with the launch of the latest version of its HYSYS modeling software, which incorporates new functionality and features for the upstream market.
ALTAIR ENGINEERING RELEASES ALTAIR HYPERWORKS 6.0: Altair Engineering Inc. released Altair HyperWorks 6.0 -- the next generation of its innovative CAE software suite that delivers an advanced engineering desktop solution.

Quote of the Week:

"If you're in a city, like New York for example, and you want to increase and expand the scale of your business, you need to increase real estate, narrow the streets, and build bridges. But New York City is only so big, so you need to build skyscrapers. It's the same with chips, Rensselaer is attempting to build the information bridges for the chip skyscrapers."

Jian-Qiang "James" Lu,
research associate professor at
Rensselaer's Focus Center-NY

News Briefs:

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: PC Club Announces Largest Linux Launch.
Altera, MorethanIP Announce Fibre IP Cores.
Anacubis Demos Visual Research, Analysis.
Financial Update:: Peoplesoft Buys Up Shares Of JD Edwards.
N2H2, Secure Computing Announce Meeting.
Corporate Liaisons:: AMCC To Acquire JNI Corporation.
Direct Wireless Gets Fractal Genomics.
Motorola Working With Timesys.
People and Positions:: Evans Will Become Head Of Federal IT.
DATATRAK International Appoints VP.
Growing Market Attracts Intel Exec.

This Week's Career Opportunities From:
Caltech Celera Genomics Citigroup Daresbury Laboratory ECMWF	Goodyear IBM Intel LBNL Linux Networx	Motorola NCAR NCSA NEC Solutions	NREL ORNL SDSC Sun Microsystems

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