sponsors

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a leader in developing and deploying cutting-edge high-performance computing, networking, and information technologies. NCSA is a partner in the TeraGrid project, a National Science Foundation initiative to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. In addition to the NSF, NCSA receives support from other federal agencies, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, and private sector partners.

The Center for High Performance Computing (HPC@UNM) is a strategic center of the University of New Mexico. HPC@UNM maintains a variety of high-performance computing platforms and supports both advanced systems and application research thrusts.

The Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC) is an organization based at IBM's T.J. Watson Research facility in Yorktown Heights, NY. It is an organization of highly skilled computational scientists from a broad range of scientific disciplines. Their mission is to further the advancement of computational science through tools and applications research, and to accelerate the transfer of technology and information into the HPC community.

As the global leader in high-performance computing (HPC), Cray provides innovative supercomputing systems that enable scientists and engineers in government, industry and academia to meet both existing and future computational challenges. Building on years of experience in designing, developing, marketing and servicing the world's most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of HPC systems that deliver unrivaled sustained performance on a wide range of applications. Go to www.cray.com for more information.

For more than a decade, HPCwire, the worldwide electronic publication of record for all aspects of the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry, continues to keep its readers at the leading edge of HPC news and information. HPCwire continues to be devoted primarily to ongoing developments across the entire spectrum of computationally-intensive hardware, software, and integrated systems technology.

LinuxHPC.org is a Web site for system administrators, developers, and enterprise managers, offering recent industry news, events, mailing lists and links, etc. related to high-performance technical computing and clustering with Linux.

Linux Journal is the premier magazine of the Linux community, dedicated to serving the Linux community and promoting the use of Linux world-wide. Published by SSC Publications, an established leader in the Linux, Open Source and UNIX fields, the award-winning monthly magazine is now celebrating its ninth year of publication.