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February 2001
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Contents
February 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | Transatlantic research network connection upgraded
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| | 2001 international conference on parallel processing
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| | Department of Energy in the US announces Research and Development agreement between Sandia Labs and Celera Genomics with Compaq technology
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| Atlantic
- HPCN industry |
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| | US eases supercomputer export restrictions
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| Country
- DE |
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| | News from HLRN - High-Performance Computer North - a Hanover view
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| Country
- FR |
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| | Peugeot Citroen buys two Cray SV1 supercomputers
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| Country
- NL |
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| | IBM to install 128 processor SP system for Dutch research
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| | Siroyan adopts ACE's CoSy compiler development system for next-gen
processor
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| Country
- Other |
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| | A new generation supercomputer taken into use by Finnish supercomputer centre CSC
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| | CSC wins US $144 million task order to support NASA's Center for Computational Sciences
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| | The 29th SPEEDUP Workshop
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Project Cyborg 2.0 to investigate brain-computer interaction for motion and pain
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | DmSDK available in open source for Linux
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| | Cray selects EALITY EXPRES
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| | BioNumerik acquires 32-process Cray SV1
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| | NAG releases IRIS Explorer Release 5.0
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| | Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing conference
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| | International Conference on Software Maintenance
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| | MISIT to empower minimally invasive surgeon with new protocols and innovative tools
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| | Dutch team uses new supercomputer to simulate process of bone tissue growth
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| | NAGWare f95 compiler version 4.1 released
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| | NAG's Fortran 90 Library new release
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center to provide biologists a window into the human genome
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| | HPWREN provides seismologists with improved data collection and distribution methods
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| | RS/6000 SP for Japanese high energy physics
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Visual Numerics ports IMSL Fortran 90 Library to NEC's SX-5 supercomputer
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| | Cray receives governemnt orders and raised $12.5 million funding
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| | Hewlett-Packard starts shipment of Superdome
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| | Mylex Ultra 160 RAID Controllers earn certifications for a number of operating systems
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| | Mercury introduces RACE++
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| | Ultramar Diamond Shamrock implements IBM UNIX servers and Shark storage
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| | SGI posts loss
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| | Sun introduces US$ 995 thin server
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| | Sun shows profit
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| | Eight Unisys ES7000 Servers consolidate workload of 150 servers at Netherlands' Bank Labouchere
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| | IA-64 Server Technology - first Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy customers
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| | Concurrent awarded $2 Million contract by AAI corporation
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | NCSA installs 2 Tflop/s of Linux cluster computing power
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| | Unisys to provide 16- and 32-processor servers based on Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture to Hitachi
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| | New members, US$24 Million in funding mark opening of industry Linux lab
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| | University of Delaware installs AMD based Beowulf cluster
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| | Reliable Linux clusters from SteelEye and Linux NetworX cooperation
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| | Large Linux cluster at NCSA
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | FZ Juelich to use multi-pipe AVS/Express
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| | IBM to introduce superdistribution capabilities for advancement of digital music marketplace
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| | Mediamatec licenses IBM's Electronic Media Management System for European market
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| | Silicon Graphics Zx10 Visual Workstation scores well on MCAD benchmarks
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | PaCT-2001 second call for papers
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| | Smarr on board Kintera
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| | NSF grant extends support for interconnecting national research networks in the USA
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| | Popular Power builds on distributed home computing network system
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| | Steve Tanner joins Distributed Science's advisory board
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| | Popular Power builds on distributed home computing network system
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| | Linux cluster for grid computing at Ohio SUpercomputer Center
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| | Blackstone selects NonStopNet to provide foundation for distributed supercomputing via Internet
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| Networking |
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| | Next meeting of HNF-Europe at ECMWF
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| | Sun forms strategic relationship with BT
Ignite Content Hosting
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Leads
February 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | Transatlantic research network connection upgraded
European research net work organisation Dante, announced that the interconnection with the American backbone network Abilene has been upgraded by an extra 622 Mbps. |
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| | 2001 international conference on parallel processing
The "2001 international conference on parallel processing" organised by the Ohio State University and the University Politecnica de Valencia has issued a call for papers. The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in
academia, industry and government to present their latest research
findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing. |
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| | Department of Energy in the US announces Research and Development agreement between Sandia Labs and Celera Genomics with Compaq technology
According to the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories and Celera
Genomics, have signed a Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement. Compaq Computer Corporation will
provide the project technology. The goal of the project is to develop the next
generation software and computer hardware solutions that will be specifically
designed for the demands of computational biology as well as a full range of
life sciences applications. By sharing some computing
technology developed by Sandia, Celera and Compaq may ultimately reach the
"petacruncher" (1,000 Tflop/s) level. |
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| Atlantic
- HPCN industry |
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| | US eases supercomputer export restrictions
TheUSA government will ease export restrictions on high-speed supercomputers. It will expand the list of nations to which US companies can ship powerful systems without obtaining prior approval from the Department of Commerce |
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| Country
- DE |
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| | News from HLRN - High-Performance Computer North - a Hanover view
RRZN (Regional Computer Center of Lower Saxony - Regionales Rechenzentrum fuer Niedersachsen), Hanover, disclosed some details of the joint HPC project of the six northern German States. Further they discussed the future of the existing supercomputers and the application areas.
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| Country
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| | Peugeot Citroen buys two Cray SV1 supercomputers
Paris based Peugeot Citroen Automobiles SA (PSA) has ordered two Cray SV-1 systems and an upgrade for a Cray J90.To date, the world wide automotive firm has ordered eight Cray SV1
systems. |
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| Country
- NL |
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| | IBM to install 128 processor SP system for Dutch research
The Free University
in Amsterdam (VU) and the Foundation Dutch National Computing Facilities (NCF)
have decided to install a 192 Glop/s 128-CPU IBM RS6000/SP system replacing a
76 processors system. Another 12 processors will be installed
for special purposes. Hence, the system will initially have
140 processors with a peak performance of 210 Gflop/s. |
| | Full article...
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| | Siroyan adopts ACE's CoSy compiler development system for next-gen
processor
Siroyan entered into a licensing
agreement with ACE Associated Compiler Experts for the CoSy compiler development system.
Siroyan will use the CoSy technology as a basis for the compiler for its 'next generation'
Scalable Integrated Processor. CoSy is a commercial development system that allows
compiler developers to generate production-quality compilers for a wide range of languages
and targets. |
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| Country
- Other |
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| | A new generation supercomputer taken into use by Finnish supercomputer centre CSC
On January 15, 2001 CSC, the Finnish center for high-performance
computing and networking, took the first phase of supercomputer IBM
RS/6000 SP with 128 processors into production use. The theoretical
maximum efficiency of the equipment is 200 Gflop/s. The processors have a total of 64 GByte of internal
memory and 0.5 TByte of external storage capacity. In 2002 the system will
be extended to enable more than 1 Tflop/s. The system will then contain several hundred
processors. CSC has an option to extend the system further by increasing
the number of processors in 2003. In its final form, CSC's RS/6000 SP
will be one of the most powerful computers in Europe. |
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| | CSC wins US $144 million task order to support NASA's Center for Computational Sciences
Computer Sciences Corporation has won a six and a half-year, task-order
contract with a maximum value of $144 million to support NASA's Center for
Computational Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, USA. |
| | Full article...
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| | The 29th SPEEDUP Workshop
The SPEEDUP Society, an independent Swiss non-profit organisation
announced the 29th SPEEDUP Workshop to be held
at the University of Bern, Switzerland on March 22 - 23, 2001. The topic
of this year's workshop is on "Distributed Computing and High-Speed
Networks". |
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Project Cyborg 2.0 to investigate brain-computer interaction for motion and pain
Professor Kevin Warwick, who heads the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, is planning to submit his body to a revolutionary experiment in the summer of 2001. This futurist has decided to have a silicon chip implanted into his left arm where it will be connected to the nervous system, in order to communicate with his brain. The underlying idea of the whole initiative is to analyse brain signals that are associated with motion and pain. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | DmSDK available in open source for Linux
The source code for SGI's digital media software development kit (dmSDK) for the Linux operating environment is now available to the open source community. The dmSDK toolkit shortens the time required to create digital media applications across the SGI product line by allowing SGI software partners to write to a single application programming interface (API). |
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| | Cray selects EALITY EXPRES
Cray has selected EALITY EXPRES to streamline the company's time tracking and expense reporting capabilities, increasing the company's operational efficiency and online workflow capability. News of the customer win with Cray comes as EALITY is increasing EALITY EXPRESS' functionality and capacity to handle large-scale, enterprise-caliber clients. |
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| | BioNumerik acquires 32-process Cray SV1
Cray did get an order for a 32-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer from BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The order includes an option to acquire future Cray technologies. The machine will be used to do research on cancer-fighting drugs |
| | Full article...
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| | NAG releases IRIS Explorer Release 5.0
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released IRIS Explorer Release 5.0. This new version enables users to develop customised applications quickly and easily. The 'point and click' application development environment, shortens the time needed to develop and prototype applications that meet their organisation's specific needs. IRIS Explorer's broad range of visualisation techniques from simple graphs to multidimensional animation enable the users to take advantage of the eye's unique ability to discern trends and relationships in data presented visually.
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| | Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing conference
The conference 'Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing' to be held 20-24 August 2001 in Denver, has issued a call for papers. This is conference covers the following broad topics: computers that comprise
the high-performance system interconnected by high-speed
communications; applications gathering its inputs remotely over a communications network; or
high-performance system executing the application is remotely
accessed by its users through a communications network. |
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| | International Conference on Software Maintenance
The I EEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2001
in Florence, Italy, 6-10 November 2001, has issued a call-for papers. |
| | Full article...
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| | MISIT to empower minimally invasive surgeon with new protocols and innovative tools
During the National Demonstration Day for Visualisation and Virtual Reality (VIS), which was organised by the Dutch Platform for High Performance Computing and Networking, the Delft University of Technology (DUT) showcased MISIT, a multi-disciplinary project on Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques. This extensive research programme consists of six separate sub-projects in which several faculties of the DUT are collaborating with a number of hospitals in The Netherlands, as well as the Dutch biomedical industry. The co-ordinating clinical partner in MISIT is the Academic Medical Centre (AMC), based in Amsterdam. |
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| | Dutch team uses new supercomputer to simulate process of bone tissue growth
At the occasion of The Netherlands National Computer Facilities Foundation's (NCF) tenth anniversary, an organisation residing under the umbrella of the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), the new Dutch National Supercomputer, a powerful 1024 processor SGI Origin3000, was inaugurated. The NCF celebration also included a conference with a keynote from Dr. Harry Weinans, attached to the Laboratory for Orthopaedics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. The speaker explained the important role of supercomputing power used to simulate the growth of human bone tissue. |
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| | NAGWare f95 compiler version 4.1 released
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released version 4.1 of the NAGWare f95 compiler. The new release of this compiler that also has Fortran 2000 support, includes innovations and refinements in the areas of error detection and improved performance that benefit developers and application users alike. Another new feature is a full traceback facility, coupled with optional pre-assignment of variables, to assist with the detection of runtime errors, and the ability to monitor memory allocation and deallocation. |
| | Full article...
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| | NAG's Fortran 90 Library new release
Release 4 of fl90, NAG's Fortran 90 Library is now available. It gives access to over 250 generic user-callable procedures in the areas of optimization, linear algebra, sparse linear algebra, ordinary differential equations (ODEs), partial differential equations (PDEs), statistics, curve and surface fitting, polynomial solvers and quadrature. 41 new generic user-callable procedures have been added at Release 4, in the areas of PDEs, dense and sparse linear algebra, optimization, operations research and approximation. |
| | Full article...
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center to provide biologists a window into the human genome
The
Ohio State University (OSU), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), and LabBook
announce that they have formed a partnership to provide life science researchers
with an annotated map of the human genome. The project combines OSU's annotated
human genome database, backed by OSC's computational power, with the powerful
visualization and analysis capabilities of LabBook's personal discovery space.
The partnership allows scientists a view of the human
genome to date. |
| | Full article...
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| | HPWREN provides seismologists with improved data collection and distribution methods
The US Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics is taking real-time data
collection and distribution one step farther with the NSF-funded High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network. The centre, that specialises in the development and testing of improved real-time seismic data, recently started to create, demonstrate, and evaluate the HPWREN, a prototype network that will allow field scientists to send and receive continuous real-time data from remote research stations. |
| | Full article...
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| | RS/6000 SP for Japanese high energy physics
The Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization has selected IBM's RS/6000 SP and High Performance Storage System (HPSS), an advanced software for storage management, to enhance a computing system used by its researchers. The RS/6000 SP will be mainly used as the back-end data server and computational server at the Organization, and also will handle huge amounts of data -- ranging from data collection and analysis of experiments to databases managing the operation of accelerators, and designing and development of accelerators. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Visual Numerics ports IMSL Fortran 90 Library to NEC's SX-5 supercomputer
Visual Numerics has ported its IMSL Fortran 90 Library to NEC Corp.'s SX-5 supercomputer,
bringing to seven the total number of supercomputing platforms supported
by the Library. |
| | Full article...
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| | Cray receives governemnt orders and raised $12.5 million funding
Cray received $22.8 million in new orders from US government customers. The orders call for installation of Cray T3E supercomputer technology valued at approximately $21 million in the first quarter of 2001, and Cray SV1 supercomputer technology now through mid-2001. |
| | Full article...
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| | Hewlett-Packard starts shipment of Superdome
Hewlett-Packard announced that it has
begun worldwide, volume shipments of its HP 9000 Superdome server.
Unveiled in September, the high-end UNIX server is the world's most
powerful, flexible and available UNIX computing platform, the company claims. |
| | Full article...
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| | Mylex Ultra 160 RAID Controllers earn certifications for a number of operating systems
RAID controller manufacturer Mylex, an IBM subsidiary,
announced that its AcceleRAID 352 and AcceleRAID 170 Ultra
160 SCSI RAID controllers have recently earned certifications for
Windows, Solaris and other operating systems. |
| | Full article...
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| | Mercury introduces RACE++
Mercury Computer Systems has introduced the RACE++ Series
VantageRT 7400 processing system, which promises to compute image and
signal-processing algorithms four times faster than its earlier products. The
unit combines RACE++, the company's second-generation interconnect architecture,
and the performance of the Motorola PowerPC 7400 microprocessor with AltiVec
technology to provide high-performance processing systems that scale from two to
32 processors in an industrial PC chassis. |
| | Full article...
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| | Ultramar Diamond Shamrock implements IBM UNIX servers and Shark storage
Oil refiner and convenience store giant Ultramar Diamond Shamrock
Corporation (UDS) has implemented powerful IBM UNIX servers and Shark
open disk storage to run its enterprise business applications,
including its SAP enterprise resource planning environment. |
| | Full article...
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| | SGI posts loss
SGI did post a loss for its second quarter of fiscal 2001 ended December. 31, 2000.
For the quarter, the company posted revenue of $487 million, compared with
$426 million in the quarter ended September. 30, 2000, which represents a 14%
increase. The company reported a net loss of $71 million for the quarter, compared with a net loss of $49 million
in the quarter ended September 30, 2000. |
| | Full article...
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| | Sun introduces US$ 995 thin server
Sun Microsystems unveiled the Netra X1 server>. With a
starting price of $995, this complete one processor, rack mountable,
and 1 RU height (1.75 inches) ultra-thin server presents an affordable
entree for SPs. |
| | Full article...
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| | Sun shows profit
Sun reported revenues for the second quarter of $5.115 billion, up 44 percent compared
with the second quarter of fiscal 2000. Orders for the second quarter were
$4.953 billion, representing a year over year increase of 32 percent. Net income
for the second quarter was $552 million, up 56 percent compared with last year's
net income of $354 million. |
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| | Eight Unisys ES7000 Servers consolidate workload of 150 servers at Netherlands' Bank Labouchere
Bank Labouchere has ordered six additional
ES7000s to run Alex, its popular e-brokerage web site, Unisys said
today. Two ES7000s were ordered by Bank Labouchere earlier in 2000. |
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| | IA-64 Server Technology - first Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy customers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced first customers of the Primergy series equipped with the new Intel IA-64 processors. These SMP systems consist of four IA-64. These are the well known Computer Centre of the University Mannheim and the Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing. These pilot systems will be used for application tests and training of the students. The mass delivery is expected starting in April 2001.
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| | Concurrent awarded $2 Million contract by AAI corporation
Engineering Support,
Inc. (ESI) has purchased 13 of Concurrent's Power Hawk Series 640
closely-coupled systems and spares for maintenance trainer devices.
The value of the total contract with ESI exceeds $2 million. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | NCSA installs 2 Tflop/s of Linux cluster computing power
NCSA will install two IBM Linux clusters, creating the
world's fastest Linux supercomputer in academia. NCSA's clusters will have two Tflop/s of computing power and will be used by
researchers to study some of the most fundamental questions of science, such as
the nature of gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein in his
Theory of Relativity. |
| | Full article...
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| | Unisys to provide 16- and 32-processor servers based on Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture to Hitachi
Unisys Corporation today announced the signing of an OEM agreement where
Unisys will provide servers based on the Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP)
server architecture to Hitachi for sale in Japan. |
| | Full article...
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| | New members, US$24 Million in funding mark opening of industry Linux lab
A large non-profit lab, OSDL, designed for developers who are adding new business-oriented capabilities to Linux and Linux-based software opened in Portland, USA, with the support of 19 sponsor companies and more than $24 million in funding.he first OSDL project is a scalability project designed to enhance the Linux operating system to support 16 64-bit processors with near-linear performance improvement.
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| | University of Delaware installs AMD based Beowulf cluster
The University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute (BRI) has installed a
supercomputer powered by AMD Athlon processors. Racksaver's "Samson"
supercomputer, a Beowulf Cluster design that uses 128 AMD Athlon processors, was
purchased through a $500,000 Major Research Infrastructure (MRI) grant from the
National Science Foundation (NSF). |
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| | Reliable Linux clusters from SteelEye and Linux NetworX cooperation
SteelEye Technology entered an OEM agreement with Linux NetworX, a provider of large-scale clustered computers
for Internet, industry and research fields. Linux NetworX will offer SteelEye's
LifeKeeper for Linux Next Generation Enterprise Reliability platform in
the solutions it provides to eBusiness customers requiring the highest standards
of availability, reliability and performance for their business-critical
systems, data and applications on Linux. |
| | Full article...
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| | Large Linux cluster at NCSA
The US National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois will install two IBM Linux
clusters to create one of the fastest Linux
supercomputer with 2 Tflop/s of computing power. |
| | Full article...
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | FZ Juelich to use multi-pipe AVS/Express
The Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM), part of the FZ Juelich Research Centre in Germany, has selected the Multi-Pipe Edition of AVS/Express from Advanced Visual Systems for use in its immersive visualization laboratory. The FZ Juelich facility, boasting a staff of 4,300 researchers, is devoted to basic and applied research in various fields of science and technology and is investigating current issues in the areas of matter, information, life, environment, and energy. It is one of the largest research institutions in Europe. |
| | Full article...
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| | IBM to introduce superdistribution capabilities for advancement of digital music marketplace
IBM announced enhancements to its market-leading solution for the digital distribution of music with a number of key features including superdistribution. The IBM Electronic Media Management System (EMMS) new superdistribution capability, to be available in the first quarter of 2001, will allow the authorised peer-to-peer sharing of music or book files, giving retailers and consumers the ability to pass content to multiple recipients. |
| | Full article...
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| | Mediamatec licenses IBM's Electronic Media Management System for European market
MediaMatec will license IBM's Electronic Media Management System (EMMS) for integration with MediaMatec's soon-to-be-announced Clearing-Service. EMMS provides a sophisticated electronic media distribution and digital rights management (DRM) system that will enable MediaMatec to offer a comprehensive and integrated service to record labels and retailers wishing to participate in the digital music distribution marketplace. Records labels and retailers will be able to use the MediaMatec Clearing-Service to deliver copyright-protected music to consumers without implementing a DRM infrastructure of their own. |
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| | Silicon Graphics Zx10 Visual Workstation scores well on MCAD benchmarks
The Silicon Graphics Zx10 visual workstation, powered by an Intel
Pentium III 1 GHz processor and 3Dlabs Wildcat 4210 graphics, achieved
the best overall composite score of 2.58 on the Unigraphics V15 benchmark
and the top graphics composite score of 5.35 on the SolidWorks 99
benchmark, SGI claims. In addition, Silicon Graphics Zx10 captured the best overall
composite score (4.53) for Pentium III processor-based workstations on the
SolidWorks 99 benchmark. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | PaCT-2001 second call for papers
The Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Academgorodok, Novosibirsk), Novosibirsk State University and
Novosibirsk State Technical University issued a second call for papers for the
the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Computing
Technologies (PaCT-2001). The conference will be held in
Novosibirsk, September 3-7, 2001. |
| | Full article...
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| | Smarr on board Kintera
Dr. Larry Smarr joined the advisory board of Kintera, an Internet fundraising solutions company for nonprofit organizations.
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| | NSF grant extends support for interconnecting national research networks in the USA
The US National Science Foundation has awarded $2.5 million dollars to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) to continue technical, engineering and traffic analysis support to the high-performance networking and applications communities. The grant extends by one year NLANR's original three year cooperative agreement to support universities and institutions in connecting to the nation's research networks. |
| | Full article...
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| | Popular Power builds on distributed home computing network system
Popular Power has designed a flexible software platform
based on BEA WebLogic Serve that takes large processing jobs and distributes them in smaller batches across vast numbers of PCs owned by organisations and individuals - using the otherwise untapped processing
power of idle CPU-cycles and bandwidth to complete each computational task. The
data is then sent back to BEA WebLogic Server and is then aggregated and
analyzed. |
| | Full article...
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| | Steve Tanner joins Distributed Science's advisory board
Distributed Science,
Inc. announced that Steve Tanner, creator of Boeing's Advanced Computing Group
and Visualization Laboratory, joined the company's advisory board. |
| | Full article...
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| | Popular Power builds on distributed home computing network system
Popular Power has designed a flexible software platform
based on BEA WebLogic Serve that takes large processing jobs and
distributes them in smaller batches across vast numbers of PCs owned by
organizations and individuals - using the otherwise untapped processing
power of idle CPU-cycles and bandwidth to complete each computational task. The
data is then sent back to BEA WebLogic Server and is then aggregated and
analyzed. |
| | Full article...
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| | Linux cluster for grid computing at Ohio SUpercomputer Center
SGI will install a production cluster based on Intel
Itanium processors at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). The
146-processor system will provide the Ohio research and education
community with the world's largest system using the new Itanium
architecture. Part of the cluster will be devoted to the US National
Computational Grid Project. |
| | Full article...
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| | Blackstone selects NonStopNet to provide foundation for distributed supercomputing via Internet
Blackstone
Technology Group, that manufactures compute-farm based distributed
supercomputing software and solutions, has engaged
NonStopNet as its Internet Infrastructure Partner, to help provide a massively
scalable, high-throughput network for enterprises running
computationally-intensive applications. |
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| Networking |
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| | Next meeting of HNF-Europe at ECMWF
Next meeting of the European High-performance Networking Forum (HNF-Europe) will be held at ECMWF in Reading on March 1st, 2001. |
| | Full article...
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| | Sun forms strategic relationship with BT
Ignite Content Hosting
Sun Microsystems has entered into a strategic business relationship with BT
Ignite Content Hosting, the hosting arm of Ignite, BT's new
international broadband Internet Protocol (IP) data and solutions
business. This relationship positions Sun as the sole supplier of
Unix-based servers to BT Ignite Content Hosting's extensive network
of Internet data centres. |
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