FEATURES AND COMMENTARY
San Diego, CA — In each issue of HPCwire we list the most popular stories from the past week. Usually, these are a clear indication of what the HPC community considers the most important issues for that week. For most editions, it’s business as usual with a variety of new systems installed, ongoing debates between proponents of open source versus proprietary systems or Unix vs NT, announcements concerning new developments in clustering technology, nanotechnology, quantum computing, etc.
There were, however, a few surprise stories in 2000: Larry Smarr left NCSA to become a professor at UCSD then went on to snag some even bigger fish… Cal-(IT)2. Tera, with only one MTA supercomputer installation ever, suddenly bought the legendary Cray supercomputing division from SGI. After losing its NSF funding several years ago, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center became the phoenix story of the year with several award wins including $45M from… you guessed it, the NSF. A Cray C90 was offered and sold on eBay for a fraction of its original value — imagine that! And the tragic Los Alamos fires wreaked havoc in one of our most venerable research communities.
Well there you have it; we now proudly present the #1 story from each issue of HPCwire throughout Year 2000.
Thomas Tabor, Publisher
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January 7: Vol. 9, No. 1
[ ] 16802) UNIX CONTINUES AS RELIABLE WORKHORSE
January 14: Vol. 9, No. 2
[ ] 16845) INTEL ACCELERATES PLANS TO RELEASE HIGH-SPEED CHIPS
January 21: Vol. 9, No. 3
[ ] 16877) BEOWULF CLUSTERS CAN OFTEN BE A FASTER CHEAPER OPTION
January 28: Vol. 9, No. 4
[ ] 71650) A LETTER FROM STEVE OBERLIN, GM CRAY BUSI UNIT OF SGI
February 4: Vol. 9, No. 5
[ ] 16963) LINUX USAGE IN BUSINESS ON THE RISE
February 11: Vol. 9, No. 6
[ ] 17003) FASTER MEMORY ON THE WAY WITH DDR DRAM
February 18: Vol. 9, No. 7
[ ] 17047) NETHERLANDS SELECTS SGI FOR TERAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER
February 25: Vol. 9, No. 8
[ ] 17087) CRUSOE, IA-64 SHARE SECRET RUSSIAN CONNECTION
March 3, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 9
[ ] 17138) NPACI LOOKS AT TERA MTA VS IBM BLUE HORIZON
March 10, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 10
[ ] 17172) TERA TO ACQUIRE SUPERCOMPUTER PIONEER CRAY
March 17, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 11
[ ] 17217) ROTTSOLK DISCUSSES FUTURE OF CRAY, INC
March 24, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 12
[ ] 71724) SUN ON CRAY AQUISITION – PREDICTS INVIGORATED MARKETS
March 31, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 13
[ ] 17324) ALLIANCE INTRODUCES 512-PROCESSOR LINUX SUPERCLUSTER
April 7, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 14
[ ] 17410) TERA COMPLETES AQUISITION OF CRAY
April 14, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 15
[ ] 17411) IDC ANALYSTS COMMENT ON THE FORMATION OF CRAY INC
April 21, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 16
[ ] 17461) NEW DEVICE MAY CHANGE INFORMATION PROCESSING
April 28, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 17
[ ] 17525) MANUFACTURERS COMPETE FOR HIGH-END UNIX MARKET
May 5, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 18
[ ] 17562) LARRY SMARR TO JOIN UCSD & CO-FOUND SOFTWARE COMPANY
May 12, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 19
[ ] 17615) SUN CEO JABS AT COMPETITORS, SEES BRIGHT FUTURE
May 19, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 20
[ ] 17664) BLUE MOUNTAIN ACHIEVES RECORD-BREAKING RUN
May 26, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 21
[ ] 17715) DUE TO FIRE, LOS ALAMOS BECOMES A LAPTOP LAB
June 2, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 22
[ ] 17756) LIMITS AND EXPECTATIONS OF HPC SYSTEMS
June 9, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 23
[ ] 17822) LIGHT EXCEEDS ITS OWN SPEED LIMIT – OR DOES IT?
June 16, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 24
[ ] 17859) NEW EDITION OF TOP500 SUPERCOMPUTER LIST RELEASED
June 23, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 25
[ ] 17912) LINUX SUPERCLUSTERS ON DECK
June 30, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 26
[ ] 17961) IDC SAYS HPC PRICE/PERFORMANCE RATIO NOT AS CRITICAL
July 7, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 27
[ ] 17997) PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN HPC
July 14, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 28
[ ] 18048) UI RESEARCHERS SOLVE 32-YEAR-OLD MATH PROBLEM
July 21, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 29
[ ] 18070) WHY THE FUTURE MAY VERY WELL NEED US
July 28, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 30
[ ] 18114) SHARED MEMORY & CLUSTERING: SGI’S APPROACHES TO HPC
August 4, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 31
[ ] 18179 SGI LAUNCHES FAMILY OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS
August 11, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 32
[ ] 18227) NSF AWARDS $45 MILLION TO PSC
August 18, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 33
[ ] 18307) TEAM USES QUANTUM COMPUTER TO SOLVE PROBLEM
August 25, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 34
[ ] 18308) COMPAQ WINS CONTRACT FOR LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER
September 1, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 35
[ ] 18348) IS IBM REALLY KILLING PROJECT MONTEREY?
September 8, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 36
[ ] 18452) CRAY C90 SUPERCOMPUTER FOR SALE ON EBAY
September 15, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 37
[ ] 18455) THE ULTIMATE LAPTOP: A BLACK HOLE
September 22, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 38
[ ] 18494) EBAY-ED SUPERCOMPUTER MAY BE PUT TO PASTURE
September 29, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 39
[ ] 18552) CLINTON’S SUPER COMPUTER PUSH
October 6, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 40
[ ] 18602) U.S. NAVY TO AWARD GIANT COMPUTER CONTRACT
October 13, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 41
[ ] 18648) U.S. SELECTS A NEW ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE
October 20, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 42
[ ] 18700) SUPERCOMPUTER USERS PLAN BETTER PERFORMANCE TESTS
October 27, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 43
[ ] 18754) CEI RELIES ON CLUSTERS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING
November 3, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 44
[ ] 18796) INTERVIEW WITH CHUCK BRECKENRIDGE OF SRC
Nov. 7, 2000: Vol. 7, No. 1
[ ] 60210) NCSA REPORTS EARLY INTEL ITANIUM PERFORMANCE LEVELS
November 23, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 47
[ ] 18899) INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL BERNHARDT–DISCUSSES HPC TODAY
December 1, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 48
[ ] 18939) SUPERCOMPUTING TAKES YET ANOTHER TURN
December 8, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 49
[ ] 18975) SC2000 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS
December 15, 2000: Vol. 9, No. 50
[ ] 19022) THE BEOWULF FACTOR IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
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