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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 12. Volume 13, No. 1 will be published on January 9, 2004.
Happy Holidays from everyone at HPCwire!
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Features:
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DAN REED: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON A CAREER IN HPC
- by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
Dan Reed shares some personal views regarding his work with NCSA, his
recent decision to leave and the Center's subsequent future without
him.
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INTERVIEW WITH PETER BRAAM, CTO CLUSTER FILE SYSTEMS
- by Tim Curns, Assistant Editor
Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s Peter J. Braam, Founder, President and
CTO, comments on the first commercial release of the Linux cluster file
system in use at 4 of the top 5 Linux supercomputers in the world.
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A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
- by J. William Bell NCSA Science Editor
Numerical simulations of light passing through photonic crystals reveal
"unexpected and stunning new physical phenomena."
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RESEARCHERS DEVELOP FIBERS THINNER THAN LIGHT WAVELENGTHS
- Researchers have developed a process to create wires only 50 nanometers
(billionths of a meter) thick. Because the wires are thinner than the
wavelengths of light they transport, the material serves as a guide
around which light waves flow.
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RESEARCHERS AT SDSC TRACK DoS ATTACK AGAINST SCO GROUP
- Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have tracked
the progress of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the Internet
against The SCO Group, a software company in Lindon, Utah.
Cluster Computing:
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PRIMECLUSTER AVAILABLE FOR NOVELL'S NTERPRISE LINUX SERVICES
- Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Novell announced that the cluster product
suite PRIMECLUSTER has been successfully tested and customized for the
soon-to-be-released Novell Nterprise Linux Services and is available
for mission-critical business solutions.
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OSCAR 3.0 RELEASED
- The OSCAR working group has released a new version of the Open Source
Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit, OSCAR 3.0.
High Performance Ads:
Vendor Spotlight:
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SUN ENHANCES SUN FIRE V1280 FOR GREATER VALUE, PERFORMANCE
- Sun Microsystems, Inc. continues to increase the value and performance
of its midrange systems with enhancements to its three-time world
record-setting Sun Fire V1280 system.
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IBM, RED HAT TO DELIVER LINUX v.3 ACROSS IBM eSERVER SYSTEMS
- IBM and Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, Red Hat's
newest offering, is now available across the entire IBM eServer product
line.
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MICROSOFT REVAMPS FOR NEXT MAJOR WINDOWS RELEASE
- Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it is reshuffling its Windows
business and creating a new group that would dedicate more of its
efforts into developing Windows.
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MSC HELPS KINETIC BRING SUSPENSION TECH TO GLOBAL MARKET
- MSC.Software Corp. announced that Kinetic Suspension Technology
utilized MSC.ADAMS/Car in the design and test of the Kinetic Dynamic
Suspension System (KDSS) which will be included in Toyota and Lexus
vehicles.
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SGI ENABLES EFFORT TO ACCELERATE OIL MODELING, SIMULATION
- Marathon Oil Company's Reservoir Description and Management group
recently installed an SGI Altix 3000 system driven by 12 Intel Itanium
2 processors for the modeling tasks needed to describe the subsurface
and predict fluid flow at Marathon fields.
Quote of the Week:
"The information technology revolution drove national economic
growth and productivity in the 1990s. Yet, state-by-state, the
telecommunications industry that made this possible is
struggling. Broadband deployment will revive the telecom and
technology sectors and help put our states on a sound
financial footing."
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Dr. Wayne Brough, Chief economist
CSE Freedom Works Foundation
News Briefs:
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Short Takes:
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Product Watch:
- MathStar, Summit Release Visual Elite SysC.
NetPro Ships DNSAnalyzer 4.0.
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Are 38% Faster.
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Financial Update:
- Bionumerik Raises Over $29 Million.
IBM Moving 4,700 Hi-Tech Jobs To Asia.
Oracle Reports Fiscal Q2 Earnings.
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Corporate Liaisons:
- Reflex Security Partners w/ Kaspersky.
iRise, Wily Tech Partner.
Agilysys Receives HP Linux Designation.
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People and Position:
- Samalam Joins SDSC As Program Director.
Motorola Appoints Edward Zander As CEO.
Windham To Help NSF.
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
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Last Week's Most Read Articles:
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