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Live Coverage from SC|05
Come see us at SC2005 Booth #1611
Features:
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Top Researchers, Projects in HPC Honored at SC'05
- Top researchers and their unprecedented accomplishments in high
performance computing were recognized at the SC'05 conference this
week, where the winners of the Gordon Bell Prize, the HPC Analytics
Challenge, the best research papers, Bandwidth Challenge Award and
poster winners were announced.
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Muzio Maintains Busy Schedule in HPC Circles
- Paul C. Muzio is so diversified in HPC circles that perhaps his
business card needs to be two-sided. With his duties as a vice
president at Network Computer Services, he keeps quite active, as the
company is the systems integrator and computing facilities manager for
the Army High Performance Computing Research Center, where he serves
as support infrastructure director.
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Catching Up with Walter Stewart
- By Derrick Harris, Editor, GRIDtoday
Since Walter Stewart's exit from SGI in September, the company's
former business development manager for Grid has incorporated his own
consulting firm and already has two large contracts, including one
with CANARIE. GRIDtoday spoke with Stewart to find out more about what
he's up to and to get his views on the future of Grid computing and
"Intelligent Infrastructure."
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SC05 Deputy Chair Horner-Miller Waits Eagerly for Next Year
- While most everyone in the HPC universe is focused on the current
events of SC'05, Barbara Horner-Miller of the Arctic Region
Supercomputing Center actually may have one eye looking ahead. After
all, when the hoopla around this week's gathering is a memory, she
knows her work will just be beginning.
Cluster Computing:
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Mellanox Drives Clusters to Desk Environments
- A turnkey cluster of four to eight servers, targeted at an individual
or small user group, is now available with 10 Gbps or 20 Gbps,
low-latency InfiniBand interconnect.
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Penguin Introduces Cluster Portfolio
- Penguin Computing has unveiled its Application-Ready Cluster
Portfolio, a line of integrated hardware/software Linux-based cluster
systems that provides high performance computing for commercial data
center environments.
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Macrovision Showcases App Deployment on Windows CCS
- As a result of the companies' collaboration, enterprises using the
license-aware scheduling capability in Windows Compute Cluster Server
2003 will be able to make efficient use of their software licenses
when jobs for FLEX-enabled applications are run on Windows Compute
Cluster Server 2003.
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Cluster File Systems Releases Lustre Version 1.4.5
- CFS has accelerated its release policy to advance the adoption of
Lustre in the free software community. While Lustre has always been
available to customers under an open source license, future versions
will be released to customers and the general public simultaneously.
Grids@SC|05
VISIT http://www.gridtoday.com FOR COMPREHENSIVE SC GRID COVERAGE
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Grid Bridges 4,800 Miles for Molecular Repositories
- In a bid to facilitate collaboration among other biomolecular
researchers, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory has become the first institution outside the United Kingdom
to join the Biological Simulation Grid Consortium of Great Britain.
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Gridbus Project Releases Grid Service Broker v2.4
- New features of v2.4 include: support for Globus 4.0 job submission
services using WS_GRAM; improved stability for all middleware;
improved persistence in order to support a wider range of databases;
new event-based Round-Robin scheduler that provides a simple
scheduling algorithm; and various bug fixes.
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Absoft Announces HPC Development Kits for Parallel Apps
- The Absoft HPC Software Development Kits are complete development
solutions that allow software developers to compile, run, debug and
optimize high performance software applications on clusters, Grids and
multiprocessor/multi-core systems built using 64-bit Intel Xeon and
IBM POWER processors.
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