The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / October 31, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 43

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Features:

NEW PROCESSOR COMPUTES AT SPEED OF LIGHT: An Israeli start-up has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light, the company said.
IDC HPC USER FORUM HELD IN EUROPE: by Christopher Lazou
Over 40 experts attended the one day IDC user forum held at the IBM offices in central London with the aim of promoting the HPC industry and sharing experiences within this eclectic community.
DIGITAL LIBRARY AIDS VISUALIZATION OF AERIAL REPTILES: Scientists using skull fossils to examine the neuroanatomy of aerial reptiles have found key structures to be specialized and enlarged, a discovery that could revise views of how vision, flight, and the brain itself evolved.
RED STORM SYSTEMS SOFTWARE TESTED AT NERSC CENTER: High-performance computing experts from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) NERSC Center have helped to complete the initial operating system and messge-passing functional scalability testing for the Red Storm supercomputer.
VORTICES UNBOUND: by Kathleen Ricker, NCSA Research Editor
By simulating the movements of microscopic bar magnets, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Kentucky is shedding some new light on the nature of a fundamental physical process.

Cluster Computing:

APPRO SHOWS HYPERBLADE SERVER CLUSTER SOLUTIONS AT SEG SHOW: Appro is demonstrating its HyperBlade Cluster solution and Workstations products based on the Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors at the SEG, Society of Exploration Geophysicists at Dallas Convention Center, TX, October 26-31, 2003.
LOS ALAMOS LAB WINS AWARD AT STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD: Panasas, Inc. and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), announced that LANL was named a winner of the Fall 2003 "Best Practices in Storage Award."
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LINUX CLUSTERS PLANNED: The HPC Revolution 2004, planned for May of 2004, is the premier international forum to share information on management, administration, and scientific computing techniques on clusters.

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SGI INTRODUCES SERIAL ATA STORAGE SOLUTIONS: SGI became among the first UNIX system vendors to introduce Serial ATA (SATA) technology in enterprise class storage systems.
SUN GRABS SIGNIFICANT FOOTHOLD IN STORAGE MARKET: At Storage Networking World (SNW), Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced substantial customer wins in a variety of industries, offering mounting evidence of its momentum in the storage market.
MICROSOFT UNVEILS LONGHORN FEATURES: Microsoft gave developers a glimpse of their new Windows program which includes a new look and updated features.

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Quote of the Week:

"Optical processing is a strategic competitive advantage for nations and companies. Processing at the speed of light, you can have safer airports, autonomous military systems, high- definition multimedia broadcast systems and advanced next- generation communications systems."

Avner Halperin, Vice President For Business Development At Lenslet

News Briefs:

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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

Networking

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Storage

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:: Developer Productivity Is Center Stage At PDC.
SMART Modular Introduces 1 GB PC2700 DIMM.
LSI Adapters Achieve Solaris Ready Cert.
Financial Update:: Microsoft Reports First Quarter Earnings.
Extreme Networks Returns To Profitability.
Rogue Wave Reports Financial Results.
Corporate Liaisons:: Informatica Expands Relationship w/ IBM.
SAS, RTI Announce Partnership.
Hitachi, IXOS Announce Global Agreement.
People and Positions:: Microsoft's Brown To Head EMEA Group.

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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