The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / December 10, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 49

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Features:

HEC RESPONDS TO US-HPC FUNDING, LINPACK, CLUSTER-RUT, ETC: LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A reader writes to express his admiration for the High End Crusader's arguments, recently presented in HPCwire. The reader also expands on many of HEC's ideas and urges HEC to write again. The High-End Crusader then briefly comments on the letter.
SMALL TREE TAKES ON INDUSTRY WITH MAC CLUSTERS: by Tim Curns, Editor
HPCwire's Tim Curns recently spoke with the president of Small Tree Communications, Corky Seeber, about the company's recent advancements in the use of Mac clustering, a small but growing space in HPC.
10GbE: ENABLING HIGH-PERFORMANCE STORAGE, NETWORKING: 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is already being applied as a high- performance network backbone in many applications such as animated film production, scientific modeling, and large database mining and storage backup. Because it is standards based, 10GbE also promises to be a major contender as a cost-effective replacement for many proprietary interconnect fabrics in server area and storage area networks.
ENGINEERS JOIN CONSORTIUM TO ADVANCE 'INVISIBLE' COMPUTING: Computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have joined a consortium of mostly European scientists setting out to network together the billions of electronic devices in everyday use.

Cluster Computing:

TOPSPIN, HP EXPAND INFINIBAND AGREEMENT FOR HPC, CLUSTERS: Topspin Communications announced it has expanded its relationship with HP to further integrate Topspin InfiniBand technology into industry- standard HP servers for high performance commercial computing and database clustering markets.
MICROWAY TO PROVIDE AMD OPTERON CLUSTER TO UNH INSTITUTE: Microway announced that The Institute for the study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) will acquire its supercomputing cluster for space, atmospheric, and Earth systems research.
PENGUIN COMPUTING PROVIDES 'CLUSTER IN A BOX' W/ BLADERUNNER: Penguin Computing introduced its new blade server, BladeRunner. When packaged with Scyld Beowulf Linux clustering software, BladeRunner becomes a "cluster in a box," the first offering of its kind.
WESTINGHOUSE SELECTS PolyServe NAS CLUSTER SOLUTION: Westinghouse's Nuclear Fuel Business has selected the PolyServe NAS Cluster solution to enable a high-performance, fault-tolerant and cost- effective Linux file-serving cluster.

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Vendor Spotlight:

U.S. ARMY'S RTTC SELECTS SGI FOR ADVANCED MISSILE TESTING: Silicon Graphics announced that the U.S. Army's Redstone Technical Test Center (RTTC) has installed two SGI Onyx family supercomputing systems and 10 Silicon Graphics Fuel visual workstations, an SGI InfiniteStorage system and related hardware and software.
IBM UNVEILS SMALLEST SRAM CELL, EXTENDS CHIP PERFORMANCE: IBM announced it has built a critical component for a high-speed computer memory that is about ten times smaller than those currently available. IBM also announced it has demonstrated a technique that triples the performance of a standard transistor used in semiconductors.
ONLINE RESOURCES SELECTS NEC'S SERVERS TO ENSURE PERFORMANCE: NEC Solutions (America), Inc. announced that Online Resources Corporation, a leading outsourcer of Internet banking and payment services, purchased several NEC Express5800/1000 servers.
MSC.SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES 2005 RELEASE OF MSC.DYNAMIC DESIGNER: MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software and services, announced the availability of MSC.Dynamic Designer for Autodesk Inventor 9 and Solid Edge 16.
BULL TO PROVIDE THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER IN EUROPE: DAM (Military Application Department) of the CEA - the French Nuclear Power Agency - has selected Bull to provide, with the help of Intel and Quadrics, a supercomputer delivering a power of over 60 teraflops.

Quote of the Week:

"System performance depends on chip performance, and that will increasingly depend on new materials and design techniques rather than simple scaling."

T.C. Chen, IBM Fellow and vice president of Science and Technology, IBM Research

GRID COMPUTING -- HYPE OR TRIPE?

GridXpert CEO ON GRID MATURATION IN EUROPE

News Briefs:

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Pogo Linux Announces 8-Processor Opteron Server.
Sun, Oracle Demo High Scalability.
Actel Intros Starter Kit for Flash-Based FPGAs.
Financial Update:: Intel Updates Fourth-Qtr Expectations.
Cray Completes Offering Of Senior Notes.
Storage Computer Signs $2M Deal W/ SC Company.
Corporate Liaisons:: Saab Aerosystems Selects SGI Systems.
Oracle, HP Expand Offerings To Resellers.
Fujitsu, Cisco Form Strategic Alliance.
People and Position:: HP Exec To Lead Communications Practice.
MSC.Software Appoints Two New Directors.
Cray Elects John B. Jones, Jr. To Board.

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