Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 7 September 2004

"High Performance Computing on Sun Today and Tomorrow", Aachen, Germany, October 5-6, 2004

WHEN: October 5 - 6, 2004
WHERE: Center for Computing and Communication, RWTH Aachen University
INFO: http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/hpc/sun/ and http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/computing/events/2004/sunhpc_colloquium/

The Center for Computing and Communication of the RWTH Aachen University has been operating a large Sun Fire SMP Cluster for over 3 years. The machinery will be considerably upgraded from 1.2 Teraflops to 4.6 Teraflops total peak performance. Whereas so far the equipment was quite homogeneously consisting of UltraSPARC III Cu processors, in future there will be a cluster with 64 smaller nodes, with 4 Opteron processors each, operating beside 28 large SMP servers equipped with the new UltraSPARC IV processors. This is a good point in time to take a step back and think about what we have achieved so far and where things will be going in future. We want to exchange experiences about the current usage of our High Performance Computing equipment, and to shed some light on future deployment of this kind of computing machinery from the users' point of view as well as the manufacturers' and the providers' point of view. We are glad to present speakers from Sun Microsystems, AMD, the Research Center JŸlich, University MŸnster, University of Bonn and the RWTH Aachen University.

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Sun Lands "Tactical" Java Desktop Deal with UK National Health Service

Sun Lands "Tactical" Java Desktop Deal with UK National Health Service (Source: http://www.computer-business-review.com) The UK's National Health Service has purchased 5,000 licenses for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Desktop System (JDS) after eight months of evaluation trials for the Linux-based desktop system.

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Sun CB-SIG Meeting, Heidelberg, June 2004: Papers Now Available Online

www.sun.com/edu/commofinterest/compbio/sig

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Register NOW and Save $ for "Bridging the Gaps in Computational Biology", RTP, NC October 28-29, 2004 at http://www.sun-registration.com/cb/

Register NOW and Save $ for "Bridging the Gaps in Computational Biology", SAS Campus, Research Triangle Park (Cary), North Carolina, October 28-29, 2004 at http://www.sun-registration.com/cb/

IMPORTANT: Register BEFORE 30 Sept for 15% off (only $170, regularly $200). Students only $50.

Please check the above URL for information on the program, how to submit papers, and our Sun CB-SIG event.
We have 2-3 openings for talks at the CB-SIG event on the 29th. Write to: stefan.unger@sun.com

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Sun Extends Leadership in High Performance and Technical Computing Market According to Latest Analyst Report

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040907/sftu056_1.html

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