 |
Home Page | Back Issues
Learn more about Windows-based High
Performance Computing solutions
www.microsoft.com/hpc
Features:
-
NCSA'S DIRECTOR LEAVES FOR NORTH CAROLINA
- After 20 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
four years as the director of NCSA, Daniel A. Reed has accepted an
appointment as founding director of a new interdisciplinary computing
institute based at UNC at Chapel Hill.
-
INTERVIEW W/ ANDREW FELDMAN, VP OF MARKETING, FORCE10
- by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire interviewed Andrew Feldman of Force 10 Networks regarding the
company's products, services and future in HPC.
-
INDIANA UNIVERSITY WINS HPC CHALLENGE AT SC2003
- A team led by University Information Technology Services (UITS), the
Indiana University Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CGB) and
the High Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart
(HLRS) won an HPC award last month at SC2003.
-
OHIO CENTER RECEIVES GRANT TO BUILD SATELLITE STATION
- The federal Department of Energy will provide the Ohio Supercomputer
Center with $6 million to construct and staff a satellite
supercomputing center in Springfield.
-
TI DEVELOPS KEY MATERIAL FOR NEXT GENERATION SEMICONDUCTORS
- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) will present results demonstrating
the viability of a new high-k dielectric material at the prestigious
International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
Cluster Computing:
-
ALTREIA STUDY ON LINUX CLUSTERS IN THE GERMAN INDUSTRY
- by Uwe Harms
Dr. Karsten Gaier, Altreia, recently published a study on the Linux
Cluster usage in the German industry evaluating a questionnaire
concerning actual aspects of Linux Clusters in the MDA (Mechanical
Design Automation) environment.
-
ORACLE AND HP SET WORLD RECORD TPC-C BENCHMARK RESULT
- Oracle and HP set a new world-record Transaction Processing Council
TPC-C benchmark of over one million transactions per minute on a
cluster of Linux servers.
-
OFFMYSERVER INTRODUCES SMALLEST FUNCTIONAL RACKMOUNT SERVER
- OffMyServer opens the door to cost effective clustering by offering a
revolutionary rackmount solution that is only 8.66" deep.
-
DELL-INTEL CLUSTER TO BE USED AT UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
- A new cluster at the University of Liverpool will be used for tracking
the outbreak of global viruses like SARS, as well as for nuclear
science and physics research.
-
ACTUATE BEATS CRYSTAL FOR ENTERPRISE REPORTING ON CLUSTERS
- Actuate announced that third-party interactive reporting tests have
confirmed that Actuate 7 running on a server cluster of three machines
supports 48% more concurrent virtual users than Crystal Enterprise 9
does in a six machine cluster of equivalent hardware.
High Performance Ads:
Vendor Spotlight:
-
IBM CLAIMS NANOTECH BREAKTHROUGH
- Researchers at IBM Corp. claim they have made an important breakthrough
in the race to design circuitry at the molecular level: a system that
works with existing methods of electronics manufacturing.
-
SUN OUTPACES MICROSOFT WITH NEW CONTRACT
- Sun Microsystems, in an effort to outpace rival Microsoft, has signed
a contract to provide 500,000 computers with cost-effective software to
the British government.
-
OSHKOSH TRUCK SELECTS MSC FOR ARMY SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY
- MSC.Software Corp. and Oshkosh Truck Corporation are announcing that
Oshkosh Truck Corporation has selected MSC.Software to provide modeling
and simulation services for the first phase of the US Army Future
Tactical Truck System (FTTS) program.
-
WICHITA STATE RESEARCHERS BENEFIT FROM SGI ALTIX 3000
- Wichita State University sciences, math and engineering researchers now
have access to the most powerful computing architecture available with
the installation of a SGI Altix 3000 supercluster.
-
INTEL, INDUSTRY LEADERS CHALLENGE THE GLOBAL 500
- Intel Corporation is challenging companies to compare Intel Itanium 2-
based servers head-to-head against proprietary systems during a free
trial period that is part of a new "try-and-buy" program.
Quote of the Week:
"We believe the language of behavior is common between robots
and animals. That means, potentially, that we could videotape
ants for a long period of time, learn their 'program' and
run it on a robot."
-
Tucker Balch, Assistant Professor of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
News Briefs:
Hardware
Software
Networking
Linux Cluster Training
Regardless of Your Knowledge-Level Register Today For
Cluster System Fundamentals, Migrating to Clusters,
Storage & Filesystems, Resource & Job Management,
System Administration, and MPI courses.
Storage
General
Short Takes:
-
Product Watch:
- Blazent Deploys Solution For IT Intelligence.
Actel Enhances Libero Tool Suite.
Aegis Offerings Meet Biotech, Pharm Needs.
-
Financial Update:
- October Semiconductor Sales Accelerate.
Numbers Show IBM Leading As Server Leader.
Sun Leads In Server Unit Shipment Growth.
-
Corporate Liaisons:
- Acquisition Of Datadirect By Progress.
3Dlabs Selected for Sun Accelerator.
Inxight Drives Discovery Tech Adoption.
-
People and Position:
- Baker Resigns From EDS Board of Dir.
SteelCloud Exec Tapped As New COO.
ProClarity Appoints New Board Members.
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
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
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004
HPCwire notes events and highlights a complete listing of industry-related conferences, exhibitions, meetings, etc.
Last Week's Most Read Articles:
- INTEL CHIP TRICKS EXTEND MOORE'S LAW, AGAIN
- ARMY TO USE LINUX CLUSTER IN MAJOR SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
- IBM eSERVER - A BILLION DOLLAR BET PAYS OFF BIG
- Supercomputer Center Planned
Top of Page
Home Page | Back Issues
|
