The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / January 9, 2004: Vol. 13, No. 1

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Features:

TAKING MEASURE OF AMD OPTERON, INTEL ITANIUM2, IBM P690 P4+: by Christopher Lazou
About 200 people attended the 14th machine evaluation workshop at EPSRC Daresbury Laboratories, UK. The Daresbury Benchmark results and “tailored system” solutions were of great interest.
SUN SEEKS TO SIMPLIFY HPC APPLICATIONS: A new run-time environment and programming language similar to Java is being developed by Sun Microsystems executives. The executives believe the new developments could greatly simplify the programming of HPC applications.
NEW VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS RESEARCH IMMERSION: Government scientists are equipping themselves with special software and gear to better explore the tiny particles that inhabit the world around us.
RUSSIAN MAY HAVE SOLVED POINCARE CONJECTURE: A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture.
RESEARCHERS INTEGRATE SILICON CIRCUIT W/ NANOTUBES: The discovery of carbon nanotubes has heralded a new era of scientific discovery that includes the promise of ultra-sensitive bomb detectors and super-fast computer memory chips.

Cluster Computing:

POLYSERVE RESPONDS TO RED HAT ACQUISITION OF SISTINA: PolyServe Inc. remains firmly entrenched as the leading provider of highly available, shared data clustering software for Linux-based data centers in the aftermath of Red Hat's pending acquisition of Sistina Software.
HITACHI TO DISTRIBUTE VOLTAIRE INFINIBAND SOLUTION: Voltaire announced a high performance, standards-based, scalable InfiniBand solution for Oracle Database 10g for the Japanese market.
APPLE PREVIEWS TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE CLUSTER COMPUTING EASY: Apple previewed Xgrid, a computational clustering technology from Apple's Advanced Computation Group (ACG)to help scientists and others working in compute intensive environments to fully utilize all IT resources.
DOLPHIN SCI INTERCONNECT HELPS PROBE SECRETS OF UNIVERSE: An extraterrestrial-looking array of seven optical reflectors resembling large satellite dishes will soon be scanning the outer atmosphere diligently looking for extremely faint flashes of light lasting mere billionths of a second.
RACKABLE SYSTEMS CHOSEN TO POWER ATI/AMD CYBER X GAMES: Rackable Systems, a leading provider of large-scale data center server solutions, announced its participation in the ATI/AMD Cyber X Games: Windows XP Championships, the world's largest live computer gaming competition.

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Vendor Spotlight:

MSC ANNOUNCES MSC.SIMULATION DATA MANAGEMENT 2004: MSC.Software Corp., a leading global provider of virtual product development products including simulation software and services, announced the availability of MSC.Simulation Data Management (SDM) 2004.
ORACLE DATABASE 10g ON HP INTEGRITY SERVER SETS RECORD: Oracle Corp. announced with HP a world record non-clustered TPC-H 10 terabyte benchmark result for Oracle Database 10g running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with HP-UX.
IBM MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF ESERVER p690 W/ UNIX BENCHMARKS: IBM announced the two-year anniversary of its eServer p690 system with nearly 4000 units shipped in less than two years. The IBM eServer p690 is now the industry's most popular high-end UNIX server.
APPLE INTRODUCES XSERVE G5: Apple introduced Xserve G5, the most powerful Xserve yet, delivering over 30 gigaflops of processing power per system, about 60 percent more than the PowerPC G4-based Xserve.
GATES DETAILS VISION OF SEAMLESS COMPUTING: In his keynote address at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Bill Gates expanded on the company's vision for "seamless computing," demonstrating software breakthroughs that deliver unified digital experiences.

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News Briefs:

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Autodesk Launches Revit 6.
Codetek Introduces Codetek VirtualDesktop.
Kaidan Announces Piximation.
Financial Update:: Semiconductor Nov. Sales Rose 25.7%.
Cocobase O/R Cuts Cost Of Database Access.
Corporate Liaisons:: HIFN Acquires PowerNP Products From IBM.
net.com, Acorn To Bring WAN To Promina.
People and Position:: Knighthood For A Father Of The Web.
Lawrence Joins Apple's Board Of Dir.
Zander Takes Over As New Motorola CEO.

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
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