[devchannel hpc] September 02, 2003

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September 02, 2003

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#======= GUIDED OPINION =======#
Storage
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2149201

    One of the most challenging problems in the HPC space today is moving     data. Moving the raw data close to where it will be crunched, then     moving the resultant data to where it can be consolidated and analyzed     are two of the key issues at hand. There are a number of commercial     ventures and open source projects attempting to provide solutions to     this difficult problem. Over the next few weeks, I'll provide a high     level summary of a some of the popular solutions.

#======= NEWS =======#
IBM To Develop Single-Chip Supercomputer http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1717226

     Applications for the TRIPS chip range from cell phones, which     currently use several different processors for different functions, to     scientific research that involves complicated calculations.

Linux Supercomputer Bulks Up
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1457206

     A 2000-processor Intel Itanium 2 supercomputer at the U.S. Department     of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Labs may have edged out Lawrence     Livermore National Lab's Intel Xeon-based Multiprogrammatic Capability     Cluster for the title of world's fastest Linux supercomputer.

AMD Opteron Metacluster at the University of Utah http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1331258

    v1x writes "Construction of a $2 million supercomputer comprised of     1,000 smaller computers will begin in September at the University of     Utah, where researchers will use the powerful machine to tackle complex     problems in biomedical research.

Los Alamos to deploy new Linux Opteron supercomputer http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1458236

     Another Linux supercomputer cluster with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s     Opteron chip is in the works, this time for Los Alamos National     Laboratory's nuclear weapons testing program.

Linux supercomputer rocks down under
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1414242

     University of Queensland SGI supercomputer system will monitor     earthquakes.

TGen, ASU, IGC Collaborative Selects Altair's Workload Management Software http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2053258

    Altair Engineering Inc., a global leader in product design consulting,     engineering software and high performance computing technology,     announced today that the Translational Genomics Research Institute     (TGen), Arizona State University (ASU) and the International Genomics     Consortium (IGC) have selected its workload management software, PBS     Pro(TM), to manage its newly deployed supercomputing infrastructure.     PBS Pro will enable all three institutes to optimize the utilization of     its high-performance computing environment by aggregating computation     resources into a virtual pool and intelligently scheduling     computational workloads across this virtual pool, allowing researchers     to accomplish projects in record time.

Linux Clusters: Overcoming Obstacles
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1558207

     CIO Insight reporter Debra D'Agostino spoke with Dr. David A. Bader, a     professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and     researcher at the Center for High Performance Computing at the     University of New Mexico, about the differences between Linux clusters     and supercomputers, and the challenges CIOs can expect to face when     evaluating the two strategies."

SGI has powerful Linux system in pipeline http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1431238

     SGI, which sells a 64-processor Altix 3000 computer based on the     open-source operating system, will release a 128-processor version in     spring 2004, the company said on Tuesday.

Dell to build fastest Linux supercomputer http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/150244

     The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) plans to     use more than 1,450 Dell servers in a powerful Linux supercomputer.

Linux clustering takes to LinuxWorld stage http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/141212

     High-end linux clustering comes of age this week with the launch of     32- and 64-bit platforms at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

Fujitsu may beat IBM with fastest Linux supercomputer http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/2231248

    IBM Corp. has a challenger in the race to deliver the world's fastest     Linux-based supercomputer. A day after the U.S. company said it had     received an order for what stands to be the fastest such machine,     Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. has announced an order for a faster machine that     it expects to put into service at about the same time.

IBM to build world's most powerful Linux computer http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1330217

     A Japanese national research laboratory has placed an order with IBM     for a supercomputer cluster which, when completed, is expected to be     the most powerful Linux-based computer in the world.

HP tops in supercomputer market share
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/1755202

     IDC announced last week that HP is the worldwide leader in     high-performance technical computing for 2002.

AMD gets supercomputing boost
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1422220

     Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) got another vote of confidence in the     power of its 64-bit Opteron processor this week when China's Dawning     Information Industry took the wraps off an Opteron-based supercomputer,     capable of handling more than 10 trillion floating operations per     second (TFLOPS).

HP's app server fears, Unix dreams
http://hpc.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1733213

     A pair of documents related to HP's software business have made their     way into our hands, shedding light on tough app server decisions within     the company and the future of HP-UX.

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