HPCwire
 The global publication of record for High Performance Computing - LIVEwire Edition / November 9, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 45A
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Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1311


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Features:

PHIL ANDREWS EXPLAINS StorCloud's SHOWCASE OF HPC STORAGE
By Tim Curns, Editor of HPCwire
StorCloud, a new initiative at SC2004 this year, builds a High Performance Computing (HPC) storage capability to showcase HPC storage technologies (topologies, devices, interconnects). HPCwire recently spoke with StorCloud's Challenge Team chair, Phil Andrews, to find out more about this initiative.

APPRO UNVEILS FIRST ENTERPRISE AMD OPTERON BLADE SERVER
By Tim Curns, Editor of HPCwire
HPCwire's Tim Curns recently interviewed Daniel Kim, Appro's CEO, about the company's upcoming product announcement at SC2004, recent wins and future goals.

SECRETARY ABRAHAM ANNOUNCES RECORD BLUEGENE/L PERFORMANCE
U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced that a supercomputer developed for the nation's Stockpile Stewardship Program has attained a record breaking performance of 70.72 teraFLOP/s (trillion floating point operations per second) on the industry standard LINPACK benchmark.

NASA SGI SUPERCOMPUTER: WORLD'S SECOND BEST SUPERCOMPUTER
Screaming past Japan's venerable Earth Simulator and 498 of the world's 500 most powerful systems, NASA's 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer, built from 20 SGI Altix systems, seized the second position in the latest roster of the world's top 500 supercomputers.

SC GLOBAL CHAIR KERN DESCRIBES GRID-BASED INITIATIVE
By Tim Curns, Editor
SC Global 2004, a new initiative at SC2004 this year, will link Access Grid communities from around the world to exchange ideas through highly informative talks, papers, panels and BOFs on topics of interest to attendees. HPCwire spoke with NCSA's Jackie Kern, chair of SC Global, about how SC Global's effects worldwide.


Linux Networx
Come see us at SC2004 Booth #713


Cluster Computing:

LINUX, NOVELL HELP ISVS CERTIFY APPS FOR CLUSTER COMPUTING
Linux Networx partners with Novell to create a High Performance Computing (HPC) Certification Center to help Independent Software Vendors (ISV) certify their applications on Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for use in clustered environments.

MARCONI INTRODUCES PROTOCOL GATEWAY FOR HPC COMMUNITY
Marconi announced a new networking device, the MPG-1000, an OC- 192c Media and Protocol Gateway that extends the benefits of high-speed encryption to a variety of network interfaces in use over local-area, wide-area and storage- area networks (LAN, WAN and SAN).

THINK COMPUTER UNVEILs 'INDUSTRY FASTEST' INFINIBAND STORAGE
At SC2004, ThinkTank Q-Cluster TG demonstrated its linearly scalable storage- cluster solutions leveraging the AMD Opteron processors in a 3 X 3 configuration.

MICROWAY UNVEILS QUADPUTER-NAVION SMP SERVER
Microway showcased its Quadputer-Navion high-end server at SC2004. Running either SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows Server 2003, the platform is ideal for 64-bit compute-intensive applications including CFD, FEA and Oracle.

PANASAS DELIVERS "COMPLETE" LINUX CLUSTER COMPUTING
Panasas announced the next generation of the Panasas Storage Cluster Platform, enabling customers to further maximize the benefits of Linux clusters by breaking the storage bottleneck created by legacy storage technologies.

SARA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING SERVICES SELECTS TOPSPIN
Topspin Communications announced that Netherlands-based SARA Computing and Networking Services have successfully deployed Topspin's InfiniBand-based Server Switches as the interconnect fabric for its new 275-node server cluster.


Myricom
Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1721


Appro
Come to see us at SC2004 Booth #1941


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CHIARO'S WALLACH ON SC04 'FUTURE OF SUPERCOMPUTING' PANEL
Chiaro Networks' Steven J. Wallach, the company's vice president of technology and a luminary in the field of supercomputers, is a member of a panel announcing results and discussing a report on "The Future of Supercomputing."

NCAR SELECTS PLATFORM COMPUTING GRID TECH FOR LINUX CLUSTER
The Scientific Computing Division (SCD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has selected Platform Computing's Platform LSF HPC workload management software for deployment on its new 256- processor IBM e1350 Linux cluster.

SUN, TOPSPIN DELIVER GRID SOLUTIONS FOR SOLARIS 10
Sun Microsystems and Topspin Communications announced they will be expanding their alliance to include support for Solaris, Linux and Windows-based Operating Systems for the grid and utility computing market.


Voltaire
Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1616


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