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Features:
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IBM TALKS BLUE GENE: JUST THE FIRST STEP IN A JOURNEY
- By Tim Curns, Editor
IBM announced earlier this year that an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer
has surpassed NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan to become the world's most
powerful supercomputer. HPCwire sat down with Dave Turek, IBM's VP of
Deep Computing, and Tilak Agerwala, Vice President of Systems, to discuss
what this announcement means for IBM, as well as the world of HPC.
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REED: 'THE FUTURE CAN BE BRIGHT, GRAB YOUR SHADES'
- By Tim Curns, Editor
Dr. Daniel A. Reed, Vice-Chancellor for Information Technology and
Chief Information Officer for the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, has been serving as director of the Renaissance Computing
Institute (RENCI) and chairing the computational science subcommittee
of PITAC. Dr. Reed managed to squeeze in some time to speak with
HPCwire about the current state of HPC and what will be happening at
Supercomputing 2004 this year.
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TECH KEYNOTE WEST: NAT'L LAMBDARAIL TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND
- By Tim Curns, Editor
Kicking off the technical portion of the SC2004 program was Tom West,
President and CEO of National LambdaRail Inc, a national effort
comprised of members and associates from across the country focused on
implementing and operating a national network infrastructure to serve
the needs of the advanced research community. HPCwire caught up with
Tom to discuss what will be happening with NLR in 2005.
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CRAY CO-FOUNDER BURTON SMITH TALKS TRENDS
- By Tom Tabor, Publisher
Cray co-founder and chief scientist Burton Smith is a recognized expert
on high performance computer architectures and programming languages
for parallel computers. HPCwire publisher Tom Tabor talked with Smith
about HPC trends and challenges.
Come see us at SC2004 Booth #713
Cluster Computing:
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DELL CLUSTER AT NASA'S JPL: ONE OF TOP SUPERCOMPUTERS
- A recently deployed Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California is ranked as one of
the 50 fastest supercomputers.
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SCALABLE 'ROCKS CLUSTER TOOLKIT' CERTIFIED FOR SUN SERVERS
- Sun Microsystems and Singapore-based Scalable Systems announced the
availability of the Scalable Rocks Cluster Toolkit certified for the
Sun Fire V20z and V40z servers with AMD Opteron processors.
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DELL LAUNCHES RACK-DENSE SERVER FOR SC CLUSTERS
- Dell introduced the PowerEdge SC1425 server, a powerful 1U server
specifically designed to meet the requirements of supercomputing
cluster and distributed Web farms, where performance and cost are
customers' top priority.
Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1220
Grids@SC004:
VISIT http://www.gridtoday.com FOR COMPREHENSIVE SC GRID COVERAGE
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY BRIDGES COMMUNITIES AT SC2004
- Indiana University's display featured highlights of Pervasive
Technology Labs' and University Information Technology Services' new
inventions and recent accomplishments, and was visited by many of the
conference's more than 5,000 participants.
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PSC UNVEILS 40 GB BANDWIDTH DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION
- Staff of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have demonstrated a
40 Gb Bandwidth Distributed Application. The first use of Cisco's next-
generation CRS-1 routers with OC-768 interfaces in actual application
processing demonstrated unprecedented connectivity.
Come see us at SC2004 Booth #1721
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