The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / October 22, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 42

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Features:

NEC UNVEILS NEW FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER -- 65 TFLOPS: NEC Corporation announced the worldwide launch and availability of the SX series model "SX-8," the world's most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 65TFLOPS.
HPC USER FORUM HOLDS THIRD U.S.-EUROPE MEETING AT CERN: Senior representatives from leading user and vendor organizations attended the HPC User Forum meeting at CERN last week and heard presentations on new developments and major issues from CERN, Ohio Supercomputer Center, SARA, Boeing, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and others.
PLOTTING PORES WITH SIMULATIONS, CLUSTERS: by Trish Barker, NCSA Public Information Specialist
Lev Gelb, an assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, is using computational resources at NCSA to model the spongelike structure of sol-gel materials.
SHODOR-NCCU PARTNERSHIP AWARDED $2.8M FOR NSDL PATHWAY: The Shodor Education Foundation and North Carolina Central University announced a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to open a new Pathway to the National Science Digital Library, NSF's online library of resources for education.

Cluster Computing:

LEADING UNIVERSITIES SELECT DELL SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTERS: High-performance computing clusters (HPCC) continue to gain momentum at the world's leading research institutions, as reflected by three universities that are deploying new or expanding their current standards-based Dell clusters.
SUN CLUSTER SOFTWARE POWERS MLB.COM, OTHERS: More and more customers are choosing Sun Cluster software for improved predictability, resiliency and manageability of their most important application services-delivering up to 99.999 percent availability.
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY ACQUIRES HPC CLUSTER: Indiana State University officials announced the acquisition of a powerful computer cluster capable of performing nearly a trillion operations per second, a capability that will greatly improve the university's standing as a research institution.
VOLTAIRE INFINIBAND SWITCHES ADDED TO HP CLUSTER CONFIGS: Voltaire announced that the Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect solutions for high-speed, low-latency networking capabilities will be integrated into HP high-performance configure-to-order Linux cluster configurations.

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Vendor Spotlight:

ALABAMA SUPERCOMPUTER AUTHORITY CHOOSES CRAY XD1: Cray Inc. announced that it has received an order for a 12-chassis Cray XD1 supercomputer system for the Alabama Supercomputer Authority (ASA).
SGI SETS PERFORMANCE RECORD FOR MID-SIZED SERVERS: In recent database benchmark tests, SGI's mid-range Altix system set a new performance record for stand-alone, eight-processor servers.
IBM SERVERS ESTABLISH NEW ECONOMICS FOR HIGH-END COMPUTING: IBM set a new standard in high-end computing with the introduction of three new POWER5 processor-based servers that establish a new standard for server virtualization capabilities.

MICROSOFT DRIVES MORE VALUE TO ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: Microsoft Corp. announced its decision on how the company will license server software on new servers with multicore processors expected in the market next year.
EUROPEAN COMPANIES PREFER SUN'S JAVA ENTERPRISE SYSTEM: Customers in Vertical Markets from financial services to telecommunications benefit from Sun's open, standards-based, highly secure software system.

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Quote of the Week:

"The lack of women in information technology (IT) reduces the nation's technological workforce, hinders women's economic advancement, and undermines the creativity and success of the IT industry."

Gregory Andrews, NSF division director.

TeraGrid ENTERS FULL PRODUCTION PHASE

SUN'S NEW GRID GUY ADDRESSES 'FREE' SECURITY

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News Briefs:

Hardware

Suite Of HyperTransport 2.0 Devices Announced

Software

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Networking

Storage

General

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Supercomputer-based Software Tool Released.
Sun Aims Creator Tool At Mac, x86 Developers.
NEC Launches Series Of Microcontrollers.
Financial Update:: Sun Reports Year Over Year Revenue Growth.
SGI Reports First Quarter Results.
IBM Reports 2004 Third-Quarter Results.
Corporate Liaisons:: DOE, SGI To Accelerate Research w/ Tool.
Sun, SeeBeyond Bring SOA To Customers.
Cray Extends Altair OEM Agreement.
People and Position:: MSC.Software Appoints John Laskey CFO.
Red Hat Hires Sun Exec Tegan-Padir.
Porto Heads Tech Commercialization At ORNL.

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