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Live Coverage from SC|05
Come see us at SC2005 Booth #1611
Features:
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IBM Wins Big in HPC Challenge Competition
- IBM has dominated the first annual HPC Challenge Competition at the
Supercomputing 2005 Conference. The DOE/NNSA/LLNL team, using IBM's
Blue Gene/L system, swept all four Class 1 benchmark awards. The IBM
team tied with the Cray team for the Class 2 "elegant" implemention
award.
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Borchers Keeps SC Streak Alive
- Bob Borchers can recall when the Supercomputing show was nothing more
than a grand idea. The calendar had just flipped to 1988 and eight
influential figures from the HPC community were gathering around
preparing to utter the immortal line that fueled a flurry of Mickey
Rooney-Judy Garland movies: "Let's put on a show!"
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Simon Extends Perfect SC Attendance Record
- If among the awards given annually at the Supercomputing event was a
certificate for perfect attendance, Horst Simon, the associate
laboratory director for computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, would be
on the elite list of recipients.
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Platform CEO: If Clusters are Trees, Grid is the Forest
- By Derrick Harris, Editor, GRIDtoday
GRIDtoday's Derrick Harris spoke with Songnian Zhou, co-founder and
CEO of Platform Computing, about the company's role in the Grid and
HPC markets -- as Platform has a strong presence in both.
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Fernbach, Cray Awards Presented for HPC Contributions
- John Bell, a senior mathematician at the U.S. Department of Energy's
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Steven Scott, the chief
architect of the Cray X1 supercomputer, have been named recipients of
the 2005 Sidney Fernbach Award and the Seymour Cray Science &
Engineering Award, respectively.
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Boeing's Shukla Talks Clusters
- Suresh Shukla has managed the HPC service for Boeing for more than a
decade, including the first commercial installation of a Cray X1.
HPCwire caught up with Shukla as he prepared for the trip to SC05.
Cluster Computing:
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Linux Networx System Optimized for ARL MSRC
- Linux Networx has announced that a 2,048-processor cluster system it
delivered last year to the Department of Defense High Performance
Computing Modernization Program was optimized and has achieved
performance of 10.65 trillion operations per second.
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HPSS Collaboration Announces File System w/Infinite Capacity
- The HPSS Collaboration announced the capability to combine the IBM
General Parallel File System (GPFS) with the HPSS Collaboration's High
Performance Storage System (HPSS) to provide a high performance file
system with virtually infinite capacity.
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PathScale InfiniPath Powers Opteron-Based Cluster
- The combination of AMD Opteron processors and the PathScale InfiniPath
interconnect is enabling a large Opteron-based cluster to outperform
traditional supercomputers in several benchmarks in the latest High
Performance Computing Challenge.
Grids@SC|05
VISIT http://www.gridtoday.com FOR COMPREHENSIVE SC GRID COVERAGE
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Altair, Accelrys Integrate for Materials Sciences Community
- Under the arrangement, Accelrys and Altair have developed an interface
that allows Accelrys' Material Studio software to operate with
Altair's PBS Professional software.
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TACC Showcases New Grid Technologies at SC'05
- TACC showcased TeraGrid technologies, newly released software, and
remote and distributed visualization models that enable people to
easily utilize diverse, powerful computational technologies that
enhance researchers' capabilities for addressing important research
problems.
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Internet2 Demos Optical Networking Firsts at SC'05
- For the first time, three radio telescopes distributed around the
world will be connected via dynamically provisioned dedicated optical
circuits for an electronic Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI)
observation.
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