The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / November 14, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 45

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Features:

WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR HPCwire 2003 READERS CHOICE AWARDS: HPCwire, the journal of record for high performance computing, has announced its 2003 Readers Choice Award winners, the first of their kind.
IDC EXPANDS HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS ANALYST GROUP: IDC has expanded its Workstations and High-Performance Systems (WHPS) analyst group, which covers markets for workstations, technical servers/high performance computers, supercomputers, clusters, grids, graphics and visualization.
UCSD, CAL-(IT) AND OPTIPUTER RESEARCHERS WILL JOIN AT SC2003: Researchers from UCSD, CAL-(IT) and Optiputer will join together in Phoenix next week to discuss the future of supercomputing and Grid networking.
A SCIENCE OF BIG NUMBERS: by J. William Bell, NCSA Access Magazine Managing Editor
GADU, developed by members of the Alliance's expeditions, blasts through some of the acquisition, analysis, and storage challenges that surround bioinformatics.
RANKING SUPERCOMPUTERS BASED ON REALISTIC APP BENCHMARKS: by Rudolf Eigenmann
Researchers at Purdue University have created a rank list of Top Application Performers based on application benchmarks currently available to the public.
HPCWIRE Q&A WITH GREG RANKICH: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
On the eve of SC2003 in Phoenix, Arizona, HPCWire caught up with Greg Rankich, high performance computing manager for Microsoft Corporation to get his quick perspective on key HPC trends, Grid Computing, and what Microsoft is doing to serve this community.

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November 17-20, 2003

Cluster Computing:

LINUX CLUSTERWORX 3.0 PROVIDES MANAGEMENT FROM ONE INTERFACE: Linux Networx announced the new features of Clusterworx 3.0, making it the most complete cluster management software available that provides total cluster management from one interface.
ON-LINE PERFORMANCE TUNING ON CLUSTERS COURSE DEBUTS: NCSA, Boston University, University of Kentucky, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center are joining together as part of the PACS Alliance Training Group to design and write an online course.
EXPERIENCE THE PERFORMANCE OF AMD OPTERON TECHNOLOGY: In addition to covering the latest Intel and IBM architectures, the Linux Cluster Institute workshop in December is featuring hands-on experience running an application on AMD Opteron compute nodes.
DATADIRECT TO DELIVER BANDWIDTH W/ LUSTRE GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM: DataDirect Networks is demonstrating a high performance Fibre Channel and GigE/10GigE SwiftCluster running Lustre, on the ASCI booth no. 3023 at the fourth annual High Performance Bandwidth Challenge held at SC2003 in Phoenix, Arizona.
DOT HILL, ASPEN TO SHOWCASE SERVER CLUSTERS, STORAGE AT SC: Dot Hill and Aspen Systems will be exhibiting its Beowulf Linux clustering solutions and showcasing Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems in booth 1513 at Supercomputing 2003.
APPRO TO DEMONSTRATE HYPERBLADE CLUSTER SOLUTIONS AT SC2003: Appro, a leading provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems will be demonstrating its HyperBlade Cluster solution at Appro's booth and at their valued partners at the Super Computing show at Phoenix, AZ, November 15-21, 2003.

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Vendor Spotlight:

IBM INTEL-BASED SERVER PROVIDES CHOICE, FLEXIBILITY: IBM announced a new Intel-based server and released the results of crucial benchmarks that solidify IBM's leadership in providing value and choice to customers in the high-end, Intel-processor-based server market.
SUN CRANKS UP TECH COMPUTING W/ PRICE CUTS, PERFORMANCE: Ever increasing its price-performance value in the 64-bit technical computing market, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced performance enhancements to the Sun Blade 150 workstation and a price cut to the Sun Blade 2000 workstation.
SGI ALTIX RETURNS TO SC2003 AFTER BREAKOUT FIRST YEAR: A year after it first previewed the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer, SGI on Monday will return to SC2003 with the SGI Altix 3000 family after amassing industry awards and shattering performance records.
VOLTAIRE EXPANDS SALES CHANNEL FOR HPC: Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, announced that it has significantly expanded its channel sales for the high performance computing (HPC) market.

Quote of the Week:

"As is the case with the spread of a contagious disease like SARS, the number of infected computers will grow exponentially unless contained. The speed of today's computers and vast reach of the Internet, however, make a computer virus or Internet worm spread much faster than human diseases. In the case of SoBigF, over one million computers were infected within the first 24 hours and over 200 million computers were infected within a week."

John Lockwood, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of computer science at
Washington University

News Briefs:

Hardware

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Software

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Storage

General

Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Google Unveils Web-Searching Software.
Scanalytics Announces 1Dscan EX Software.
CADx Receives FDA Approval For Software.
Financial Update:: NVIDIA Reports Results for Third Quarter.
Packeteer Among Growing Tech Companies.
Infineon Profits, Outlook Disappoints.
Corporate Liaisons:: Stratos Completes Sterling Acquisition.
Lenslet Signs Partnership With PALTEK.
New World Systems Signs With Stratus.
People and Position:: Gosling Named CTO Of Sun's Platforms.
AWC Honors Valassis VP Amy Courter.
Microsoft Elects Board of Directors.

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

HPCwire Job Bank

This Week's Career Opportunities From:
Altair Engineering AIST CalTech Fujitsu GlaxoSmithKline	Hewlett-Packard IBM Indiana Univ. Intel	Linux Networx Microsoft ORNL PSC	Queensland U of T SDSC SGI Sun Microsystems

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
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