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Mannheim Supercomputer event more alive than ever
Mannheim, 18 June 98
Supercomputing events are having a difficult time in Europe: HPCN Europe lost its exhibition, SupEur stopped altogether, scientific conferences are merging. This does not seem to affect the Mannheim Supercomputer event in any way. It is already in its thirteenth edition, and Primeur Live! traditionally gives you the breaking news live from Mannheim. The almost 200 attendees of the event, about 50% from industry and 50% from research and academia can not only listen to top speakers from US and Europe, but also visit the exhibiton. Novelty is that for the first time the four large supercomputer centres in Germany, who were in stiff competition until now, show off there abilities in demonstrations in a joint booth. The German Commerzbank was presented the HPC climber of the year 1998 trophy. They entered the TOP500 this year with 7 machines for a total of 200 Gflop/s performance for novel supercomputing applications.
The joint booth of the supercomputer centres is a result from the cooperation Verbund der Supercomputer-Zentren in Deutschland on which we already reported in Primeur Monthly Traditionally, also the new TOP500 list is presented in Mannheim. You read elsewhere in this issue about the list and the, not so encouraging, results for Europe. With HPCN Europe, not providing a platform for announcement by vendors, the Mannheim Supercomputer event could take over this role. The Genias MPI for NT announcement is an example of a press announcement in Mannheim. Until last year, understanding German was a prerequisite to attend the Supercomputer Seminar. Then a special management day for Europe was introduced. Attending little attendance last year, the word has spread and now close to 20 people came just for the management up date, today. They will miss the update on new applications for HPC in the commercial world, the update from all the vendors and a disccusion on Quo vadis Internet in Deutschland? you do not have to miss it when you stay with Primeur Live!. Background information on the seminar can be found at their website.
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