The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / December 17, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 50

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Another exciting year has come and gone here at HPCwire. The HPCwire staff would like to thank our subscribers and sponsors for their continued support, and we look forward to spending another year with you. This is the final issue of Volume 13. Volume 14, No. 1 will be published on January 7, 2005.

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Features:

TeraShake: SDSC SIMULATES THE 'BIG ONE': by Paul Tooby, SDSC Senior Science Writer
A collaboration of scientists has produced the most detailed simulation yet of just what may happen during a major earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault. The simulation, known as TeraShake, used the new 10 teraflops DataStar supercomputer and large-scale data resources of the SDSC.
NEW METHOD RANKS IMPACT OF FUNDING AGENCIES, INSTITUTIONS: Researchers in the School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State have developed a new method which can automatically extract and identify acknowledgments of funding agencies, institutions and individuals in papers available on the Internet and indexed on CiteSeer.
MACHINE EVALUATIONS WORKSHOP: CHALLENGES OF MANAGING CHANGE: by Christopher Lazou, HiPerCom Consultants, Ltd.
Christopher Lazou provides notes and commentary on his visit to the 15th annual machine evaluation workshop at The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Daresbury Laboratories in the UK.
IT'S ALL IN THE SOLUTION: by Kathleen Ricker, NCSA science writer
Combining molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics, a Hope College chemistry professor and his student are developing a computational method in order to study how substances dissolve.

Cluster Computing:

IBM, HP, DELL EMBRACE MVD'S IPMI INTEGRATED PowerCockpit: by Tim Curns, Editor
Mountain View Data, Inc. (MVD) has announced the launch of a beta program for their IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) software module licensed from OSA Technologies integrated into PowerCockpit, a management framework for large-scale server deployments.
CLUSTER-MIDDLEWARE PARASTATION GOES OPEN SOURCE: by Uwe Harms, Harms-Supercomputing-Consulting
There was a successful meeting last month at Research Center Jülich at ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics) and NIC (John von Neuman Institute for Computing) between Munich-based Partec and academic partners to start a ParaStation Consortium. Uwe Harms gives some details of last month's activities.

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Vendor Spotlight:

SGI TO POWER GERMANY'S NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEM CENTER: The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) has selected the latest generation of SGI Altix systems from Silicon Graphics to power Germany's new national supercomputing system.
GERMANY'S FZJ SELECTS CRAY XD1 FOR SYSTEM EVALUATION: Cray Inc. announced that Germany's Research Center Juelich (FZJ) has selected a Cray XD1 supercomputer for advanced scientific research and to evaluate its potential as a future leadership-class system.
HP OPENS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SECTOR IT THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: HP announced the opening of the HP Center for Public Sector IT Thought Leadership, located within HP's downtown Washington, D.C. facility. The center is a virtual hub to HP's network of more than 80 solution centers around the globe.
MSC.Software GETS EXPANDED INVESTMENT FROM JOHN DEERE: MSC.Software Corp. announced that Deere & Company, a leading manufacturer of agricultural and forestry equipment, has increased its investment in the MSC.MasterKey Licensing System.

Quote of the Week:

"It is well known that there is a power barrier for future increases in process speeds and device sizes, and to overcome this, the world needs a new, disruptive technology."

Christian Schlegel, Professor at iCORE High-Capacity Digital Communications Laboratory

GRID DOMINATES FLOOR AT ORACLE OpenWorld

DELL, EMC, INTEL, ORACLE LAUNCH 'PROJECT MegaGrid'

News Briefs:

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Sun Unveils Next Generation Client Tech.
NEC Electronics Announces Single-Chip Solution.
Xilinx Ships World's Largest FPGA Device.
Financial Update:: Linux Market To Exceed $35 Billion By 2008.
$53M Grant Enables Life Sci Apps At Indiana U.
SteelCloud Awarded $1M To Design Servers.
Corporate Liaisons:: Oracle Buys PeopleSoft.
NCSA Partners With Exxon Mobil.
Intel Hires HP Team To Strengthen Itanium.
People and Positions:: Bush Names New Secretary Of Energy.
Intel Names New Vice Presidents.
SGI CEO To Receive Honorary Doctorate.

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