The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / October 24, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 42

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Features:

MAC SUPERCOMPUTER MAY RANK WITH THE FASTEST: 1,100 personal computers have been connected by faculty, technicians, and students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute to create one of the fastest machines in the world -- at a relatively inexpensive cost of approximately $5 million.
MICROSOFT'S BALLMER DEFENDS THE SECURITY OF WINDOWS: by Jennifer Tabor
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer comments on why he thinks Windows is much more secure and reliable as a platform than other open sourced rivals.
UCSD SCIENTISTS EXPLAIN ENIGMATIC PROBABILITY FORMULA: Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed new insight into a formula that helped British cryptanalysts crack the German Enigma code in World War II.
U OF DELAWARE PARTICIPATES IN SUPERCOMPUTING CONSORTIUM: A University of Delaware research team is participating in a national initiative to regain preeminence in supercomputing, a position that has been claimed by the Japanese over the course of the last decade.
SELF-ASSEMBLED NANOCELLS FUNCTION AS NON-VOLATILE MEMORY: Chemists at Rice University have demonstrated that disordered assemblies of gold nanowires and conductive organic molecules can function as non-volatile memory, one of the key components of computer chips.

Cluster Computing:

IBM INCREASES PERFORMANCE & FUNCTIONALITY TO UNIX SERVERS: IBM on October 16 introduced new UNIX Server solutions that provide uncompromising value and further increased performance, functionality and systems management capabilities for businesses seeking on-demand capability.
HP UNVEILS WORLD'S FASTEST LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER: by Marty O'Laughlin
The world's largest Linux supercomputer - built on HP Integrity servers - is now fully operational at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL ).
NUTEC LEVERAGES SISTINA SOFTWARE TO BUILD LINUX-BASED SAN: Sistina Software announced that NuTec Energy Services has migrated to a Linux-based storage infrastructure -- a move made possible by Sistina GFS, a highly scalable enterprise-class cluster file system on Linux.
FOUNDRY TO PROVIDE ETHERNET TECH FOR SANDIA SUPERCOMPUTER: Foundry Networks, Inc. announced that Sandia National Laboratories has selected Foundry's BigIron MG8 Terabit-capacity 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switches to provide the core networking fabric for the (ASCI) Red Storm supercomputer.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SUN PARTNERS W/ NEXT GENERATION VENDORS FOR MDA DEVELOPMENT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it is teaming with industry leading independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide model driven architecture (MDA) based solutions for customers across multiple industries.
LINUX PERFORMANCE SOARS w/ SGI ALTIX 3000 SYSTEMS: SGI announced that large-scale SGI Altix 3000 systems have once again generated breakthrough performance results on demanding scientific applications.
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE SELECTS SGI SERVER FOR RESEARCH: SGI and SCICOR, an authorized SGI Solution Provider, announced that the National Cancer Institute's Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) in Frederick, Md. has purchased from SCICOR an SGI Altix 3000 server, which was put into production last month.
IBM BOOSTS PERFORMANCE WITH SHARK ENHANCEMENTS: IBM boosted its disaster recovery options for customers with enhancements to its IBM TotalStorage ESS that will allow for fast data transfer that is up to eight times faster and reduces channels by a factor of four over current ESCON technology.
QWEST PROVIDES HIGH-SPEED NETWORK FOR RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS: Qwest Communications International Inc. announced that Argonne National Laboratory has deployed Qwest's broadband fiber optic network for the Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education (I- WIRE) project.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition
to focus on the emerging market for commercial business
applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers

We are looking for high-level speakers from
commercial organizations to speak on
applications and implementation of Grid computing

Quote of the Week:

"Both technology and art require leaps of imagination, and they certainly can enhance and support one another. Scientific visualizations, human-computer interfaces, text and image data mining -- these are some of the themes that cut across both the sciences and the humanities. Including a broad range of disciplines in high-performance computing will enrich discovery

Donna Cox, Senior Research Scientist at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
Keynote Speaker at SC2003

News Briefs:

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General

HPC USER FORUM ASKS EUROPEAN USERS TO HELP RESHAPE THE INDUSTRY
European HPC users are urged to contribute to upcoming discussions in
Paris, October 20 and London, October 22, as part of the HPC User
Forum's initiative to help reshape the global HPC industry.

Short Takes:

Product Watch:: VXL Launch Industry First $200 Thin Client.
GDA Tech Unveils Reference Design Kit.
PowerQuest Kit Helps Computer Manufacturers.
Financial Update:: MSC Reports Third Quarter Results.
Sun Reports First Fiscal Quarter Results.
Xilinx Reports 2nd Quarter FY04 Results.
Corporate Liaisons:: EMC Completes $1.37 Billion Legato Buy.
Open Text, Ixos Form Software Vendor.
Sun Certifies Adapters For Solaris OS.
People and Positions:: Bodman To Chair E-Government Committee.
Raindrop Geomagic Acquires Cadmus.
Henning Joins Perseus As Intl Ops VP.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid 2004: IEEE support pending final approval)
19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004

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