The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / November 26, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 47

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Features:

IDC SAYS HPC $6B+ HEALTHY AND GROWING: With the requisite caution expected from seasoned analysts, IDC's Earl Joseph, Chris Willard and Addison Snell, along with a panel of industry experts from the HPC User Forum, told a room of HPC executives from industry, academia, federal governments and vendors that times are good and should continue for the foreseeable future.
WHAT I DID DURING MY VACATION AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2004: by Glen Otero, Contributing Editor
Glen Otero, founder of Callident and newest addition to HPCwire's roster of contributing editors, describes his quest for cluster news (and pints of Guinness!) during his recent visit to Supercomputing 2004.
BUSH REQUESTS $131.9 BILLION IN 2005 R&D FUNDING: The Bush Administration requested $131.9 billion in federal research and development (R&D) funding for FY2005. This is $5.9 billion above the estimated $126 billion that was appropriated for federal R&D in FY2004.
RTI USES HPC TO SIMULATE AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK: In the first use of a new infectious disease modeling system consortium funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, researchers at Research Triangle Institute International are hosting an exercise to test public health responses to an outbreak of avian flu in a simulated community of 500,000 residents.

Cluster Computing:

CFS ANNOUNCES SUCCESS FOR LUSTRE FILE SYSTEM ON HP SFS: Cluster File Systems, Inc., a leader in high-performance parallel file systems, announced that its Lustre technology has been integrated in the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share product (HP SFS).
MICROWAY ANNOUNCES MPI LINK-CHECKER FOR MPI BASED CLUSTERS: Microway, a leading provider of HPC solutions, announced the availability of the commercial version of MPI Link-Checker, a software diagnostic that finds underperforming nodes in MPI based clusters.
NORWAY'S FIRST TERAFLOP CLUSTER INSTALLED AT U OF TROMSO: Earlier this month, Norway's first 64-bit Teraflop cluster was installed at the University of Tromso. In less than 4 hours, the HPC- group at UiT had upgraded the system from 100 Gigaflop to 1 Teraflop, all while being broadcast across the Internet.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SGI ONYX4 VISUALIZATION HELPS CREATE HUMAN FACE SIMULATION: Using a Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision system, Canadian scientists are in the process of creating the first research-quality simulated human face, whose features can be controlled by a mouse right down to a Mona Lisa smile.
CRAY REPORTS $8M INT'L ORDER FOR X1E, XD1 SUPERCOMPUTERS: Cray Inc. reported an order valued at approximately $8 million from an unnamed international customer for a Cray X1E supercomputer and a Cray XD1 supercomputer. The two systems are scheduled to be installed in the first half of 2005.
TOYOTA ACCELERATES FORMULA ONE CAR DEVELOPMENT WITH INTEL: Intel has announced that Toyota Motorsport, a major Formula One racing team, has standardized its car design and engineering systems on a cluster of Intel Itanium 2 processor-based servers to enhance racing performance and reduce the time required to develop its Formula One cars.
PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN EXTENDS USAGE OF MSC.Nastran: MSC.Software Corp. announced that the second largest European car maker, France-based PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN, has extended the exclusive usage of MSC.Nastran for all its linear structural simulations and will purchase the new MSC.Nastran Implicit Nonlinear solution (Sol 600).

Quote of the Week:

"This speech has evidently touched a nerve in the supercomputing community that measurements need to be put in place to positively impact HPC's landscape."

Stan Ahalt, Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)
Executive Director

IBM LAUNCHES ITS WORLD COMMUNITY GRID

OIF, GGF COME TOGETHER FOR
OPTICAL NETWORKING WORKSHOP

News Briefs:

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Altera Now Shipping World's Biggest FPGA.
Constant Data Improves Support For Linux.
Brocade SAN Switches Now Available From IBM.
Financial Update:: HP Board Declares Regular Dividend.
USC Institute Receives $100M Grant From Army.
Corporate Liaisons:: NVIDIA, Intel Sign License Agreements.
ChevronTexaco, LANL Team For Energy Solution.
Sun, Sonic Announce Results Of Collaboration.
People and Positions:: LANL's Marquez Named HENAAC Luminary.
Tipparam Named Oracle Developer Of The Year.
LSU Professor To Help Create 'Virtual Lab.'

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