The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / September 26, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 38

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Features:

HPC USER FORUM FOCUSES ON PERFORMANCE: A record 110 attendees participated in the semi-annual HPC User Forum meeting, where the major focus areas were computational chemistry, performance modeling and benchmarking.
HP VETERAN STEVEN JOACHIMS JOINS OCTIGABAY: INTERVIEW: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire conducted an interview with HP veteran Steven Joachims to get his perspective on changes in the high performance market, both past and future.
NEC SX-6 - TWO TIMES MORE COST EFFICIENT THAN IBM P4?: by Christopher Lazou
Christopher Lazou highlights a few of the many system performance issues raised by presentations given at the CAS2K3 workshop.
THREE HP HPC USER GROUPS FORM SINGLE NEW ORGANIZATION: Members of three Hewlett-Packard high performance user groups met September 21-23 in Dallas and ratified a charter establishing a new, single, international user organization.

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Cluster Computing:

CSILABS AND U OF MISSISSIPPI CO-SPONSOR HPC SEMINAR: Representatives from Microsoft, Intel, CTC, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and University of Florida HPC and Simulations Research Lab will present information on parallel computing issues in an HPC Seminar at Jackson State University.
HPC PIONEERS TO CREATE LINUX DATABASE CLUSTERING SOLUTION: Metapa Inc. announced that it has acquired Didera Inc., a Linux database clustering company, so that customers may capitalize on the economic and performance advantages of open-source technology.
IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION HELPS RESEARCHERS UNDERSTAND DATA: A large-scale immersive display system is helping university and industry researchers at the University of Hull in the U.K. gain deeper understanding of highly complex data.
PSSC DELIVERS CLUSTERS TO HARVARD, STANFORD AND SYRACUSE U: PSSC Labs (Professional Service Super Computer Laboratories) announced the delivery of Linux-based clusters, known as Powerwulfs, to three of the country's top learning institutions.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SUN PRESENTS CHIP-DESIGN BREAKTHROUGH: Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. researchers reported that they have devised a way to dramatically increase the speed at which semiconductors can talk to each other.
MICROSOFT THROWING ITS WEIGHT BEHIND WEB SEARCH: Microsoft Corp., which is trying to drive growth by investing in everything from small business software to video games, has quietly set its sights on a new industry -- searching the Web.
NEC SEES 30% PRICE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TO SX-6: NEC Corporation announced up to a 30% price performance improvement to its vector type supercomputer SX-6 after making significant improvements in CPU processing performance.
MSC HELPS MAKE FASTER, SAFER RALLY CARS AT MITSUBISHI MOTOR: MSC.Software Corp. announced that Mitsubishi Motor Sports (MMSP) has chosen MSC.Patran and MSC.Marc as their preferred tools for simulating complex mechanical systems and nonlinear contacts within their racecars.
NETEZZA DEBUTS DATA WAREHOUSE FOR ERA OF GENOMIC MEDICINE: Netezza Corporation unveiled its Netezza Performance Server (NPS) data warehouse for bioinformatics, delivering increased performance for large bioinformatics analyses at half the cost of existing data warehouse systems.

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Quote of the Week:

"When you go into a movie theater, the experience is radically different from a PC...if you want to get that experience on your PC you are just going to have to go to a 64-bit architecture."

Rich Heye
General Manager, VP of AMD Microprocessor
Business Unit

News Briefs:

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Nvidia Unleashes Forceware.
Monarch Hornet64 SFF 64-Bit PCs Released.
Seagate Ships OS Pre-Loaded On Hard Drives.
Financial Update:: Sun Microsystems To Cut 1,080 More Jobs.
VERITAS Tops File System Software Market.
InfiniCon Announces Series C Funding.
Corporate Liaisons:: Sun Ramps Up Java With New Alliances.
CACI To Acquire C-CUBED Corporation.
McDATA, ADVA Announce Alliance.
People and Positions:: Heil To Octigabay Board Of Directors.
Motorola's Galvin To Retire As CEO.
Avanex Names Dr. Richard Laming VP.

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