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HPC INTERVIEW WITH DR. ANDREW CHIEN, UCSD
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire
Dr. Andrew Chien of the University of California-San Diego discusses the creation of OptIPuter and integration of BigBangwidth's LightPath Accelerator technology.

INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL KIM, CEO, APPRO
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire
HPCwire's Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck recently interviewed Daniel Kim, CEO of APPRO of Milpitas, Calif., about some of their recent announcements, company wins and future goals.

CAL-(IT)2, UCSD TEAM WITH BIGBANGWIDTH TO SPEED "OPTIPUTER"
The OptIPuter system will be installed at the University of California -San Diego (UCSD), and will act as an on-ramp for large data streams from high-performance workstations connected to packet-switched networks.

DataDirect S2A TO POWER SANDIA'S RED STORM SUPERCOMPUTER
With more than 110 Gigabytes per second of raw bandwidth, DataDirect's S2A storage system will provide Cray and Sandia with the highest storage networking bandwidth in the world.

INTEL CHIPS NOW POWER FASTEST COMPUTERS
According to the latest survey, 189 of the world's top 500 supercomputers run on Intel processors, up from 119 systems the previous six months. The Top500 list will be released to coincide with the opening of Supercomputing 2003.

INTERVIEW WITH JAMES R. MCGRAW, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ISCR, LLNL
By Tim Curns, Assistant Editor, HPCwire
HPCwire assistant editor Tim Curns' interview with James R. McGraw, covering topics from organizing a big event like SC2003 to McGraw's work with SISAL.

PNNL SUPERCOMPUTER FIFTH FASTEST IN WORLD
The latest list represents the first time the 11.8 teraflop supercomputer was ranked based on its full power. The machine consists of nearly 2,000 1.5GHz Intel Itanium2 processors.

SGI UNVEILS PLANS FOR SUPERCOMPUTER OF THE FUTURE
Using a new concept SGI calls "multi-paradigm computing," the groundbreaking machines will unite previously disparate computing architectures with SGI's scalable shared-memory technology.


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GRIDS@SC:

AXCELEON ENABLES POWER GRID ANALYSIS, SIMULATION SOLUTIONS
EnFuzion on Windows platform provides an ideal solution for building compute clusters and Grids, resulting in radically reduced simulation time, which leads to more robust and higher quality engineering results.

INTERVIEW WITH FORCE10
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, HPCwire
Recently, HPCwire conducted an interview with a representative of Force10. The questions and answers follow below.

SDSC TO SHOWCASE SUN COMPUTE GRID SUPERCOMPUTER
The SDSC/National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Rocks cluster team will begin assembling the RockStar -- a 128-node Sun Fire V60x supercomputer at 7 p.m., Nov. 17, at the conference and intends to be running applications approximately two hours later.

INTEROPERABILITY OF AG TOOLKIT 2.0, INSORS IG2.0 CONFIRMED
This technical milestone uniquely addresses the Grid community's interest in the open source framework of the AG Toolkit release, combined with priority commercial features such ease of use, application enhancements and support packages.

PRAGMA DEVELOPS PacRim GRIDS
PRAGMA has been founded as an open organization in which Pacific Rim institutions will collaborate more formally to develop Grid-enabled applications and will deploy the needed infrastructure throughout the Pacific Region to allow data, computing and other resource sharing.

SDSC SHOWCASES SCIENCE, GRID INNOVATIONS AT SC2003
Visitors to the SDSC/NPACI booth, #2532, can witness breakthroughs in data movement, Grid technology, visualization, bioinformatics and Earth sciences.

SUN TAKES GRID EVERYWHERE AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2003
Demonstrating the rich partnership available to Sun customers, the Sun booth features an array of solutions from the company's innovative business partners.

TerraGrid: UNLEASHING CLUSTERED COMPUTING
TerraGrid has been designed from the ground up to increase performance, deliver linear scalability and provide ease of manageability of huge datasets, while enabling clients to leverage the vast body of open-source tools, utilities and applications currently available for Linux.

UNM-DEVELOPED TRIBAL CONSORTIUM FEATURED AT SC2003
The Tribal Virtual Network (TVN), a University of New Mexico-developed consortium of Native American museums and centers that uses technology to overcome the "digital divide," will be among a handful of special technology projects featured at SC2003.


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