The global publication of record for High Performance Computing / June 20, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 24

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DOES DEEP COMPUTING = HPC?: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire interviewed IBM's David Turek, VP Deep Computing, concerning the topic of IBM's "Deep Computing" initiative and its importance to the HPC industry.
INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN SELLARS, ENGINEERING MANAGER, CSILABS: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire interviewed Kevin Sellars, Engineering Manager at CSILabs, to discuss plans for the company's growth in the HPC market.
MCNEALY: SCO-IBM SPAT COULD AID SOLARIS: A legal spat between SCO Group Inc. and IBM over Unix operating system rights could provide an opening for Sun Microsystems Inc., the company's chief executive said.
LEADING HPC MARKETING AGENCY ACQUIRED: The Noblemen Group announced it has acquired The Bernhardt Agency, a Portland, Oregon-based strategic marketing and communications consulting agency specializing in high-tech marketing, advertising, public relations and public speaking services.
INTERVIEW WITH JOHN REYNDERS, VP, CELERA, BIOINFORMATICS: by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
HPCwire Interviewed John Reynders, Vice Presedent of information systems, Celera, Bioinformatics, concerning the use of clusters in bioinformatics.
LINUX CREATOR LINUS TORVALDS JOINS OSDL: OSDL, a non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, and Transmeta Corporation, announced that Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, will join OSDL as the first OSDL Fellow.
A SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR CYBERSECURITY ATTACKS: New cybersecurity research from the University of Michigan has created a surveillance system that records a computer hacker's every move.
MULTISCALING A CELL MEMBRANE: by Kathleen M. Wong, Senior Editor, California Wild
University of Utah researchers bridge the gap between atomic-scale simulations and whole-cell models.
THE PSC SCALING ADVANTAGE PROGRAM: The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has announced a "scaling advantage program" to help researchers make effective use of LeMieux, PSC's terascale system.
AI IDENTIFIES EFFECTIVE DRUGS FOR HIV PATIENTS: New data presented for the first time at the 12th International Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) could find effective treatments for patients whose drug therapy is failing.
"INTERFACE TUNING" IS MACRO STEP FOR MICROELECTRONICS: The ability to make atomic-level changes in the functional components of semiconductor switches, demonstrated by a team of University of Tennessee physicists, could lead to huge changes in the semiconductor industry.
IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING OF DIGITAL INFORMATION: An assistant professor of computer science at Binghamton University is determined to help solve the need for more efficient and more effective ways to index, retrieve, manipulate and understand complex video and images.
MAJOR ADVANCES IN KEY STANDARDS COMPLETED AT OMG MEETING: Members of the Object Management Group (OMG) gathered last week in Paris. In a key development, the Analysis and Design Task Force voted to recommend adoption of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 Superstructure specification.
PENTAGON WANTS NEXT GENERATION INTERNET BY 2008: According to a report, the Defense Department plans to integrate its high-tech weaponry, battlefield sensors, and other communications systems with the next generation Internet operating system by 2008.
RESEARCHERS CREATE NEW "PHOTON COPIER" ON A CHIP: A research team has for the first time incorporated on a single chip both a widely tunable laser and an all-optical wavelength converter, thereby creating an integrated photonic circuit for transcribing data from one color of light to another.
MATHEMATICIANS FROM LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LAB HONORED: John B. Bell and Phillip Colella, applied mathematicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have been named as co-recipients of the 2003 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.
PSSC LABS SUPERCOMPUTERS ACCELERATE PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH: PSSC Labs announced that a 34-node cluster running AMD's Athlon MP processor is successfully accelerating pharmaceutical research for Aventis, the prescription-drug and vaccine company, best known as the maker of Allegra.
US CHALLENGE: SET UP HACKER-PROOF NETWORK: It's a task that would challenge even the sharpest of computer geeks: set up a hacker-proof computer network for 190,000 government workers across the country, fighting terrorism.
MOVEMENT BRINGS COMPUTER IMAGES TO LIFE: A new computer graphics method that uses movement to show the shape and structure of static objects has been developed by researchers at the UC Davis Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing.

Cluster Computing:

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DELL LAYS OUT ITS HPCC STRATEGY: By Neil Alger, HPCwire Correspondent
HPCwire caught up with the director of Dell's Enterprise Customer Engineering Group, Dr. Reza Rooholamini, to discuss the company's cluster-speific strategies and the future of HPCC.
MELLANOX CLUSTER DELIVERS ONE-HALF TERAFLOP OF POWER: Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a leader in InfiniBand silicon, announced new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster performance data provided by Linux Networx demonstrating that InfiniBand delivers excellent scalability and superb LINPACK benchmark results.
VERITAS CLUSTER MANAGER DELIVERS IT AS A UTILITY: VERITAS Software Corporation announced the latest version of VERITAS Global Cluster Manager software, an out-of-the-box solution that allows administrators to centralize control of their disaster recovery environment.
CLUSTERWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO PREVIEW: ClusterWorld Conference & Expo announced that major industry leaders and key clustering influencers will be making significant news announcements to be unveiled June 23-26 at the San Jose Convention Center.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY SELECTS TOPSPIN FOR HPC CLUSTER: Topspin Communications and Cornell University announced that Cornell has selected Topspin to provide InfiniBand hardware and software in support of a high-performance computing cluster being built by the Cornell Theory Center.
LINUX NETWORX AND FLUENT OFFER INTEGRATED CFD CLUSTER SYSTEM: Linux Networx announced the availability of an Evolocity II cluster system optimized with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software from Fluent Inc., the market leaders in CFD.
CLUSTERVISION AND PCC UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM PARTNER: ClusterVision, specialist in Linux supercomputer clusters, has entered into a far-reaching partnership with PCC UvA BV to boost its Grid Computing software and services business.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SUPERCOMPUTING POWERS U.S. RESEARCH: An investment in one of the fastest supercomputers in the world has vaulted South Australia into a research leadership position and enabled powerful collaboration between US and South Australian universities.
COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL BANKS ON HP FOR CLUSTER SUPPORT: HP announced multi-year, multi-million dollar technology agreements with Countrywide Financial Corporation. HP Services will provide technical support for more than 100 of Countrywide's industry-standard HP ProLiant servers.
ASPEN SYSTEMS RELEASES NEW ASPEN BEOWULF CLUSTER SOFTWARE: Aspen Systems announced the release of version 2.0 for their turnkey, browser-based software management system, Aspen Beowulf Cluster (ABC) Management Software.

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Vendor Spotlight:

HP CITED AS INDUSTRY LEADER IN ORGANIC IT MANAGEMENT: HP announced that it has been named a leader in Forrester's recently published report, "Picking an Organic IT Management Vendor." Earlier this year, the analyst firm cited HP as the leader in overall Organic IT data center development.
SGI SYSTEM POWERS NEW DIGITAL PLANETARIUM: The new Gates Planetarium in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science opens impressively by taking visitors on an immersive solar system voyage featuring the highest-resolution graphics ever presented in a digital planetarium.
SUN GOING ON OFFENSIVE AGAINST MICROSOFT WITH JAVA: Sun Microsystems Inc. is going on the offense against archrival Microsoft Corp by building its Java software as a consumer brand, Sun chairman and chief executive Scott McNealy said.
IBM AND ILS TECHNOLOGY DELIVER NEW E-DIAGNOSTICS SOLUTION: IBM and ILS Technology, LLC announced the installation of the world's first e-diagnostics solution designed to enable remote tool monitoring, tool-take-over and engineering collaboration under a single full-fab governance model.
HP BROADENS STORAGE PLATFORM FOR THE ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE: HP expanded its StorageWorks portfolio with new and enhanced storage systems, software, solutions and tools that increase application uptime, data recovery speeds and customer choice.
IBM AND MICROSTRATEGY DELIVER BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: IBM has selected MicroStrategy to train its top business intelligence specialists worldwide in the extensive capabilities of MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform.
SUN DELIVERS SECURE COMPUTING IN FINANCIAL SERVICES MARKET: Sun Microsystems is leading the drive for straight-through processing (STP) with affordable Financial Information eXchange (FIX) bundle solutions, low-cost entry-level systems and high-end reliability.
IBM DELIVERS NEW FLAGSHIP HIGH END SYSTEMS: In one of its most aggressive high end server launch programs during any single quarter, IBM announced that it began shipments of new flagship IBM eServer mainframe and high-end UNIX systems.
SUN ACCELERATES CUSTOMER DEPLOYMENT FOR MYSAP SOLUTIONS: Sun Microsystems announced it will make available low-cost, pre- configured and optimized system configurations for rapid deployment of mySAP All-in-One solutions on the entry-level Solaris OS-based Sun Fire V240 servers.
VOLTAIRE SELECTS SANMINA-SCI AS ITS INFINIBAND PARTNER: Voltaire, a leader in intelligent connectivity for high performance InfiniBand solutions, announced it has chosen Sanmina-SCI Corporation as its InfiniBand contract manufacturing partner.
INTEL TO DEPLOY NEW SERVER CHIPSET: Intel says it plans to launch a server version of its i875P chipset later this year.
eFORCE DELIVERS PORTAL SOLUTION ON THE SUN ONE PLATFORM: eFORCE has launched a secure portal solution for the energy industry developed with Interwoven, Inc., a leading provider of content management for the enterprise, running on the Sun ONE platform.

Quote of the Week:

"Each of these problems by themselves, data scale and data heterogeneity, is a headache -- the two combined are a migraine."

John Reynders,
Vice Presedent, Celera, Bioinformatics

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Short Takes:

Product Watch:: Archway Systems Ships VersaCAD 2003.
New Biomedical Exchange Solution Deployed.
SciTech To Provide Display Driver Solutions.
Financial Update:: NEC Converts, Sells Cray Preferred Stock.
Hynix Faces U.S. Tariffs.
Corporate Liaisons:: Creaform Becomes Geomagic Distributor.
NetPro Joins HP Alliance Program.
TimeSys Partners With Artesyn.
People and Positions:: Goldfarb Leaves IDC For IBM.
Microsoft Hires New Corporate VP.
CSC Names New Technology President.

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