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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2005--HPC Analytics, SC05's newest initiative, has announced six finalists for its challenge that honors top technical and commercial applications developed from leading-edge, advanced analytics techniques to solve complex, real-world problems.

The HPC Analytics Challenge is a unique opportunity for researchers, engineers, and analysts to showcase innovative techniques in rigorous data analysis and high-end visualization to develop and demonstrate applications showcasing powerful analytics techniques for solving complex, real-world problems. Finalists of the HPC Analytics Challenge will convene at SC05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis on November 12-18.

The HPC Analytics program finalists include:

• Terascale Music Mining -- this project's goal is to create secure, accessible, terascale collections of music materials in a variety of audio, symbolic and metadata forms.

• Network Traffic Analysis with Query Driven Visualization -- this entry is used in the field of information management to successfully perform queries, feature identification and characterization of 24 weeks of netflow data consisting of 1.1 billion records of 25 fields each.

• Bridging the Macro and Micro: a Computing Intensive Earthquake Study using Discovery Net -- results from this group provide valuable scientific insights into earthquake analysis, and also showcase how novel HPC methods and knowledge discovery methods enable such results to be achieved.

• Real Time Change Detection and Alerts from Highway Traffic Data -- this team has developed a test-bed containing real-time data from over 830 highway traffic sensors in the Chicago region, weather and text data about events that might affect traffic. The goal is to detect interesting changes in traffic conditions in real-time.