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| PrimeurLive! from the Mannheim Supercomputer Seminar, June
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The Mannheim Supercomputer
Seminar is the main HPCN event in Europe. This year we publish two live issues
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July 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | PrimeurLive! from Mannheim
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| | NEC to build 40 Tflop/s supercomputer for Earth Simulator
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| | SX-5 in Toronto
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| | US export restriction on supercomputers limits to be loosened to 20 GTOPs in August
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| | NEC SX use in Europe
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| | Opening Ceremony at Leibnizrechenzentrum in Munich of Europe's fastest super
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| | High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems
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| | The Catalan Neutral Internet Exchange celebrates its first birthday
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| Europe |
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| | Compaq's Alphas in the technical market - IDC study
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| | MINOS Multidisciplinary INtensive computing for research activities Of European Scientists - Call for Candidatures
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| Industry
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| | A 1088 Cray T3E for US Naval Oceanographic Office
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| | Track space shuttle flight in real-time
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| | EUROPAM'2000 in Nantes
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| | Rent-A-Car chooses RS/6000
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| | French supercomputer centre IDRIS hosts NEC users meeting
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| | SUN Starfire leads in scalable SAP
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| | Dutch leading bank on Starfire
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| | New stamping simulation software from ESI
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| | Human genome on Compaq
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| | Number of human genes estimated between 28,000 and
34,000
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| | Near real time data management query engine on NEC SX-5
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| Industry
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| | HP announces major release of HP-UX platform
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| | Star Bridge unveils HAL
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| | Supercomputer developer SRC uses iMODL tools
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| | Free upgrade to TruCluster Server
Version 5.0 for Compaq users
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| | Using biological processes to produce supercomputer parts
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| | The Earth Simulator - A 40 Tflop/s supercomputing Grand Challenge
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| | Sun leads Unix server market
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| | Northrop Grumman Mercury`s high-performance multicomputers to power F-16 radar
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | API and QSW partner to offer Linux solutions
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| | Suse Linux to support Polyserve Understudy 1.3 high-availability server clustering software
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| | SuSe delivers enterprise Linux for IBM RS/6000
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| | SuSE Linux on Apple PowerPC, IBM RS 6000 and Motorola PreP
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| | NEC Joined the IA-64 Linux Project
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| | SuSE goes Latin America
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Brasilian Embraer installs vis centre for aircraft design
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| | Octane2 from SGI
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| | An interview with Alan Chalmers - Chair of third Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics & Visualization
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Cluster super for less than euro 1.000 per Gflop/s
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| | LSF for the Compaq AlphaServer SC Series supercomputers
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| | New SUN Technical Comput Farm aimed at design and simulation markets
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| | Swedish demo at iGrid 2000
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| | Codine/GRD preferred resource management system on SUN TFC
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| | Linux farm initiative from Platform
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| | Summerschool on SCI in Ireland
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory joins Tflop/s club
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| | IBM plans InfiniBand Chips to link servers for higher performance and resource sharing
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Germany second supercomputer country in the world
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| | IBM builds 12.3 Tflop/s ASCI White
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| Networking |
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| | Dolphin licenses technology to Sun
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| | Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing system from NEC to transport 1.6 Tbit/sec
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| | Ten additional US universities get NSF funds for high-speed networking
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| | GEANT to supersede TEN-155 research network
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| | QSW unveils strategy
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| | Spanish town of Tarragona names the first Internet street
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July 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | PrimeurLive! from Mannheim
Interested in the new TOP500 list, comparisons to the old lists and on how the supercomputer vendors are doing? Want to know the current state-of-the-art in supercomputing especially in Europe? Then Mannheim is the place to be with the Supercomputer Seminar, an RCI conference on engineering and a tutorial on Grid computing. If you cannot be there, register to het PrimeurLive! covering the whole event, in your e-mail box. |
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| | NEC to build 40 Tflop/s supercomputer for Earth Simulator
NEC received an order for the manufacturing of the Earth Simulator ultra-high-speed parallel computing system. The Earth Simulator is being developed as a project of the Earth Simulator Research and Development Centerc (ESRDC). ESRDC is a collaboration of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), and Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC). The Earth Simulator Ultra Computer will be installed in a new building now under construction in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. It will be operational in March 2002 and is expected to be the most powerful computer in the world at that time with its maximum performance of 40 Tflop/s. |
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| | SX-5 in Toronto
The Department of Physics, University of Toronto, has
installed an SX-5/4C parallel vector supercomputer that provides 32 Gflop/s of peak performance and is configured with 32 GByte of main memory. The department's atmospheric physics group is operating the system primarily to support climate research using a coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice-land surface modeling system. |
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| | US export restriction on supercomputers limits to be loosened to 20 GTOPs in August
Is China using US supercomputers to test simulations of warhead detonations? Mr. Kenneth H. Bacon, from the US DoD, declined this at a press conference. He also explained probably the limits on which supercomputers can be exported to countries like China will increase to 12,500 MTOPS - Millions of Theoretical Operations per Second for military and 20,000 MTOPS for civilian buyers. |
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| | NEC SX use in Europe
The latest issue of NEC's "SX-World" features a contribution on "Weather Forecasting in Europe". Also the Spring issue of NEC ESS Update, has been published, featuring an interview with David Dent, - expert in Weather forecasting at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). |
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| | Opening Ceremony at Leibnizrechenzentrum in Munich of Europe's fastest super
In an official opening ceremony with politicians from the Federal Government and Bavaria, users, members of HPC centers and press, the German HPC computer Bavaria (HLRB), the Hitachi SR8000-F1 was started at Leibnizrechenzentrum (LRZ) in Munich. Some comments concerning the coming cooperation of German supercomputer centers in academia and research will open new perspectives.
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| | High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems
The High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems conference to be held in Barcelona September 17 - 20, 2000, issued the last call for papers. Submission dead-line is June 17. |
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| | The Catalan Neutral Internet Exchange celebrates its first birthday
On June 4th 1999, the Catalan Neutral Internet Exchange (CATNIX) began to work. One year after, 10 telecommunication operators and Internet providers exchange the requests of their users in this node. From January to May, near 3 Terabytes (TB) of traffic have been exchanged at CATNIX, as if somebody had read the complete Cervantes' Don Quixote over 940.000 times.
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| | Compaq's Alphas in the technical market - IDC study
During a press conference and cooperation announcement, Compaq presented results of an IDC study on technical systems in Europe, the worldwide sales in different market segments and their role. An other issue was the benchmark comparison of Alpha SMPs and IBM SP SMPs. |
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| | MINOS Multidisciplinary INtensive computing for research activities Of European Scientists - Call for Candidatures
CINECA, the Italian Supercomputing Centre can be visited by European researchers under the MINOS Project. CINECA, a consortium that consists of 15 Italian universities, has been appointed, because of its large-scale scientific and technical facilities, as a centre for the application of supercomputing in interdisciplinary research activities. This Centre aims at selecting European researchers who can spend a research period at CINECA Supercomputing Centre fully supported by the MINOS Project (Multidisciplinary INtensive computing for research activities Of European Scientists). The access is supported by the European Commission Access to Research Infrastructures action of the Improving Human Potential Programme . Candidatures are based on a continuous submission scheme. |
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| Industry
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| | A 1088 Cray T3E for US Naval Oceanographic Office
Cray Inc. has been awarded a purchase contract valued at approximately $4 million to upgrade Cray T3E and Cray SV1 supercomputers at the US Department of Defense (DoD) Major Shared Resource Center operated by the US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). Installation and acceptance of both systems are expected around mid-year 2000.The contract upgrades the Cray T3E supercomputer at NAVOCEANO to 1088 processors, making it one of the world's most powerful systems. |
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| | Track space shuttle flight in real-time
Airtravelcenter.com released its flight tracking facility which makes it easy
to track any airline, air courier, or even a Space Shuttle flight in real time,
receive wireless progress updates for airline flights and notification of
arrival. The supercomputer powered facility also extends links to track and trace utilities for
packages and shipments, status checks for airline and air courier flights around
the world and contact information for all air carriers. |
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| | EUROPAM'2000 in Nantes
ESI Group's Tenth European Conference and Exhibition, will be held in Nantes, France, October 12-13, 2000. Past user conferences have met an increasingly growing success. In Darmstadt (Germany) over 400 participants met for the most recent edition of this major event in the world of numerical simulation.
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| | Rent-A-Car chooses RS/6000
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the largest car rental company in North
America, with over 4,000 locations and 400,000 cars, has chosen
powerful IBM RS/6000 servers to manage its global car rental
management system. |
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| | French supercomputer centre IDRIS hosts NEC users meeting
Paris, 15-19 May 2000: Over 90 delegates attended the twelfth NEC User Meeting
(NUG) for supercomputing, hosted by the French Research Institute CNRS/IDRIS.
They came from every corner of the Globe, from Asia, Australia, Japan, South
America, Canada and of course Europe. |
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| | SUN Starfire leads in scalable SAP
The Sun Starfire Enterprise 10000 server, reaffirmed its position as the world's most scalable SAP platform. The Starfire server handled over 5.8 million dialog
steps per hour (equivalent to 1.9 million fully business processed order
line items per hour) and supported 19,360 SD benchmark users when put to
test on the three-tier SAP R/3 release 4.0 B standard sales and
distribution benchmark. The Starfire server also clocked in with an
average dialog response time of 1.88 seconds. |
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| | Dutch leading bank on Starfire
The largest bank Dutch bank, ABN AMRO Bank replaced its existing Unix system with
a Sun Starfire Enterprise 10000 server.
ABN AMRO will use the system to grow its market and static data
distribution services to an enterprise-wide, mission-critical
initiative. ABN AMRO Bank's Market & Static Data Service (M&SDS), where the machine is operated,
provides high-quality instrument market data to the bank's systems,
and is now being extended to supply static data and corporate
action data to the bank's business-critical systems around the
world. |
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| | New stamping simulation software from ESI
ESI introduces PAM-DIEMAKER 2000, software used to design and optimize stamped parts run-offs before simulating shaping on a stamping press. Developed in partnership with industrial companies such as General Motors, PAM-DIEMAKER 2000 is designed for all stamping sectors, from contractors to tool and die makers, in the automotive, aeronautics and capital goods industries. |
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| | Human genome on Compaq
When researchers at Celera Genomics, the Sanger Centre in the United Kingdom, the Whitehead Institute, and the National Institutes of Health announced that they had collaborated in completing the map of the human genome, they were highlighting a monumental scientific achievement made possible by high-performance computing technology from Compaq. |
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| | Number of human genes estimated between 28,000 and
34,000
A new estimate shows the number of human genes is between 28,000 and
34,000 The computation was
carried out by the Genoscope Sequencing Center in Evry, France,
on a multiprocessor Sun Starfire Enterprise 10000 Server, using LASSAP bioinformatics software from Gene-IT. |
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| | Near real time data management query engine on NEC SX-5
Broadening the user base of supercomputers beyond the boundaries of traditional applications, has come one step further with idea that was recently presented, in Paris, by Bernard Nivelet. He described the Data Management query engine, SUPER SELECT, developed and patented by Bull, France, and running on an NEC SX-5. In 1998 Bull has become distributor of NEC SX systems in France. As part of this agreement Bull was also charged to find new applications for the SX-5 outside the traditional scientific technical market. At present they are focusing on two offerings, simulators for financial trading rooms and a Query engine for data management. The claim is that SUPER SELECT provides a near real time Data Management Query Engine when used on the NEC SX-5 parallel vector computer. |
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| | HP announces major release of HP-UX platform
Hewlett-Packard Company announced a major release of the company's Unix operating system, HP-UX, with extensive new Internet-enabling technologies, security, networking, performance and availability features, and the new Service Control Manageability tool. |
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| | Star Bridge unveils HAL
Star Bridge Systems, unveiled one of its new
reconfigurable supercomputers, called Hypercomputers. The company's Chief Technology Officer, Kent L. Gilson, gave a demonstration of their HAL-300GrW1. No performance figures are available yet. |
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| | Supercomputer developer SRC uses iMODL tools
iMODL tools help verify logic
to be used in the next generation supercomputers from Colorado Springs,
USA-based SRC Computers Inc. The SRC 6 supercomputer is the first release of an innovative computer design
developed by the Colorado firm founded by Seymour R. Cray. The computer features
a combination of high performance features not available with conventional
massively parallel computer designs. The SRC 6 uses Intel's Pentium III Xeon
processors with clock speeds exceeding 700 megahertz. The SRC 7 will use Intel's
IA-64 processors |
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| | Free upgrade to TruCluster Server
Version 5.0 for Compaq users
Compaq announced that for or a limited time, eligible TruCluster US based users can get a free
migration license to TruCluster Server Version 5.0. |
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| | Using biological processes to produce supercomputer parts
The same biological processes that make
seashells and teeth might be used to developing microscopic
parts for supercomputers of the future, University of Texas
researchers reported in 'Nature'. |
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| | The Earth Simulator - A 40 Tflop/s supercomputing Grand Challenge
In an interview by Christopher Lazou, UK Editor of Primeur, Dr. Keiji Tani, one of the principal scientists involved with the Earth Simulator said: "The Earth Simulator is a parallel vector processor system designed to create a virtual earth for scientific research in global warming; earth disasters caused by phenomena such as el Nino as well as seismic and volcanic activities. It is an inter-discipline project, at the centre of Japanese research and with some of the Japanese most prestigious organisations involved. International collaboration is actively sought for the scientific part of the Earth Simulator project which is expected to come on stream in March 2002". Read the full interview.
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| | Sun leads Unix server market
According to IDC, SUN leads the overall Unix server market with 38% market share. In the
high-end UNIX category, SUN with the Starfire showed 83 percent revenue growth and 42
percent marketshare. Sun led this segment with 51%
unit marketshare, compared to HP and IBM which had 23 percent and
5% respectively. |
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| | Northrop Grumman Mercury`s high-performance multicomputers to power F-16 radar
Mercury
Computer Systemshas
signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman Corporation's
Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector (ES3) to supply RACE
multiprocessor technology for the F-16 fighter aircraft radar.
This includes support for the advanced agile beam fire control radar
and the internal forward-looking infrared and targeting system (IFTS).
The current business is valued at $6.8 million to Mercury. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | API and QSW partner to offer Linux solutions
API, (Alpha Processor, Inc.), a
developer of high-performance solutions for high-bandwidth and compute-intensive
applications, has announced its new partnership agreement with Quadrics
Supercomputers World (QSW) to develop high-performance supercomputers for Linux. QSW now can offer
customers high-performance supercomputers with the flexibility to support a wide
range of parallel programming models on the Linux platform. |
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| | Suse Linux to support Polyserve Understudy 1.3 high-availability server clustering software
PolyServe, a provider of software-based, distributed server clustering technology, and SuSE Linux, announced the availability of Understudy 1.3 server clustering software for high-availability and load balancing on SuSE Linux. |
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| | SuSe delivers enterprise Linux for IBM RS/6000
SuSe Linux, and IBM today announced that SuSe will release an enterprise-class version of Linux this month for IBM RS/6000 servers. IBM also announced that it has the Linux operating system up-and-running on its next generation POWER4 microprocessor due out in late 2001. |
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| | SuSE Linux on Apple PowerPC, IBM RS 6000 and Motorola PreP
SuSE Linux will release the first fully engineered version of Linux for the Apple PowerPC, IBM RS 6000 and Motorola PreP in mid-June. Of great interest to Mac users and professionals is the inclusion of the Virtual Machine (MOL) MAC on LINUX in the distribution, making it possible to start the MacOS in Linux and switch from one program to the other. In addition, the Mac user also has the option of using standard PCI hardware, such as network cards or TV cards. |
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| | NEC Joined the IA-64 Linux Project
NEC (NEC Solutions) recently became the first Japanese company to join the IA-64 Linux Project, formerly known as the Trillian Project, which is an international association to promote development of Linux on Intel's IA-64 processors. This NEC's participation has extended the target of the IA-64 Linux Project on from 4-Itanium servers to at least 16-Itanium servers. |
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| | SuSE goes Latin America
SuSE has opened their new Latin America
headquarters office in Caracas, Venezuela. Xavier Marmol will run SuSE's Latin America
presence. |
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| | Brasilian Embraer installs vis centre for aircraft design
Fakespace Systems installed an immersive WorkWall for
Embraer, one of the world's top regional jet manufacturers, located in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A.) uses the 7-1/2-ft. x 20-ft. stereoscopic wall display for design reviews and marketing presentations in its new Visualization Center, which it built to aid in the design and development of the new ERJ170/ERJ190 family of commercial aircraft.The display system is part of a complete
RealityCenter, which is driven by an SGI Onyx2 InfiniteReality
visualization supercomputer. |
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| | Octane2 from SGI
The new Silicon Graphics Octane2 visual workstation includes implementation of SGI VPro graphics; an optimized crossbar architecture; and a single or dual MIPS R12000A 400 MHz
processor. Octane2 delivers a measured 425 million pixels per second with trilinear
mipmapping and depth-buffering. |
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| | An interview with Alan Chalmers - Chair of third Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics & Visualization
The third Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics & Visualization workshop is organised by the Institute of Informatics and Applications of the University of Girona in association with Eurographics, and will be held in Girona on 28-29 September. The chairman of the workshop, Alan Chalmers, is interviewed here and talks to us about the role of parallelism in graphics and visualization. Chalmers is senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK. He has been co-chairman at the recent IEEE Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium and he is also currently vice-chair of ACM SIGGRAPH. His research interests include the application of parallel photo-realistic graphics to archaeological site visualization in order to provide a flexible tool for investigating site reconstruction and utilisation. |
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- The Grid |
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| | Cluster super for less than euro 1.000 per Gflop/s
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have
constructed and demonstrated an new, scalable,
parallel supercomputer that achieves application performance of
more than 1 Gflop/s for every US$ 650 spent on building the machine.
The approach used to design and build this machine makes it
cost-effective for solving a wide range of problems, from drug
design using computational chemistry to design of quieter
printers using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). |
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| | LSF for the Compaq AlphaServer SC Series supercomputers
Platform Computing announced the immediate worldwide availability of LSF for the Compaq AlphaServer SC Series supercomputers.
The announcement stems from collaboration between Compaq, Quadrics Supercomputers World (QSW) and Platform, announced last year. |
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| | New SUN Technical Comput Farm aimed at design and simulation markets
Sun Microsystems announced an all-in-one compute farm
designed for the technical computing marketplace, addressing the demand for
increased computing power for customers in electronic design
automation (EDA), computer-aided engineering (CAE), bioinformatics,
simulation, and other compute-intensive industries. A 16-processor system starts at US$ 270.000. |
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| | Swedish demo at iGrid 2000
iGRID 2000 is a major, live, research
demonstration that will be held as part of INET 2000, in Yokohama,
Japan, July 18-21. Organized by the University of Illinois at
Chicago and Indiana University in collaboration with the University
of Tokyo and Keio University, 23 iGrid demonstrations, including a demonstration, "Steering and Visualization of a Finite-Difference Code on a Computational Grid," involves
a coupled simulation and visualization. It has been developed
by a partnership including Bjorn Engquist of the Royal Institute
of Technology in Sweden and Lennart Johnsson of the University
of Houston. |
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| | Codine/GRD preferred resource management system on SUN TFC
Gridware's
Codine/GRD resource management software has been
selected by Sun Microsystems, as a preferred
workload management solution for use in Sun's new Technical Compute Farm
(TCF) product. Sun TCF is a
complete, rack-based compute farm that integrates Sun's enterprise
servers, computing engines, and storage arrays, along with networking
equipment and software, into a distributed, multi-processor computing
environment. |
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| | Linux farm initiative from Platform
Platform Computing Corporation announced at the Design Automation Conference in Los Angeles a new initiative to drive further adoption of Linux farms. LSF 4.0 technology is now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2. |
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| | Summerschool on SCI in Ireland
The SCI Summer School , an intensive 3-day event involving 50% tutorial and 50% laboratory sessions will be held in Dublin, Ireland, October 2-4 . It is targeted at both newcomers to SCI as well as those experienced in the field, with the objective to increase both the breadth and depth of their working knowledge of SCI. SCI can be used as an interconnect building block for cluster computers.
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory joins Tflop/s club
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, (ORNL) has joined the league of Tflop/s machine owners. The recent expansion of the IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer pushes the performance
past the Tflop/s-mark. Combined with the recently acquired Compaq AlphaServer SC system now give ORNL more than 1.5 Tflop/s computing speed. Later this year, the Compaq
system is scheduled to be upgraded to .9 Tflop/s.
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| | IBM plans InfiniBand Chips to link servers for higher performance and resource sharing
IBM is developing a series of chips to help link multiple computer systems and peripherals like hard disk drives to work together as a single high-performance server. The chips will be based on a technology called InfiniBand an emerging standard being developed by an independent industry body called the InfiniBand Trade Association. Led by IBM and Intel, the initiative is supported by major manufacturers of computers, peripheral equipment and networking gear.
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| | Germany second supercomputer country in the world
What does the European top-supercomputer list look like? At the first place is, of course the Hitachi machine
at the Leibniz Rechenzentrum in Munich. Second and third are the Cray T3E systems at CSAR in Manchester, UK, and the Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany.
The European TOP10, unlike that worldwide, is dominated by Cray machines. Seven places are for T3E machine. Two TOP10 machines are from
Fujitsu, VPP5000 machines at ECMWF and Meteo-France. Germany is still the largest supercomputer country in Europe with 65 installations,
followed by the UK with 26 and France with 20. These two countries changed places. Germany has more machines in the TOP500 than Japan which has 61 installations.
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| | IBM builds 12.3 Tflop/s ASCI White
Finally a candidate to take over the first place in the TOP500, IBM announced its 12.3 Tflop/s ASCI White supercomputer, to be delivered this Summer to the US Energy Department's Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory. |
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| Networking |
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| | Dolphin licenses technology to Sun
Dolphin Interconnect
Solutions signed a definitive agreement to
sell and license certain Dolphin technology to Sun Microsystems. Sun
will use this technology, and a group of Dolphin engineers who will transition to
Sun, as the nucleus of a new Engineering Site in Oslo, Norway specializing
in InfiniBand development. The closing of the transaction is subject to
the usual and customary closing conditions and Dolphin's shareholder
approval. |
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| | Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing system from NEC to transport 1.6 Tbit/sec
NEC announced its next generation Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing system, SpectralWave 160. The initial release of the new high-capacity DWDM system will transport up to 160 OC-192 and OC-48 wavelengths in virtually any combination, providing maximum data transport capacity of 1.6 Tbit/s. In 2001, NEC plans to enhance the system by making it capable of transporting up to 80 OC-768 (40 Gb/s) channels, increasing the maximum transport capacity of the system to 3.2 Tbit/sec. |
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| | Ten additional US universities get NSF funds for high-speed networking
The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA has awarded
high performance network connections for ten additional universities, bringing the total number of
institutions assisted through such grants to 177. They will join previous awardees in connecting to a US national grid of research networks that operate
at speeds up to 2.4 Gbit/s. |
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| | GEANT to supersede TEN-155 research network
The European research network organisation DANTE, in collaboration with the National Research and Education Networks
(NREN) of 25 European countries has submitted a proposal to the European
Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for funding
support of Geant, the network service that will supersede TEN-155. |
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| | QSW unveils strategy
QSW - Quadrics Supercomputing World, is an Anglo-Italian company focusing on high-performance technology. Sometimes they are referred to as the "only European supercomputer company" , sometimes as a company that only delivers a switch for Compaq cluster machines. The real QSW is somewhere in between these two views. At the RCI Conference in Mannheim, QSW's John Taylor explained QSW is delivering core interconnection technology for building superclusters. The technology consists of a fast interconnect, QSnet and software to create a Single System Image to the users of a parallel system. And, although the collaboration with Compaq is of strategic importance to QSW, their technology is more broadly applicable. |
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| | Spanish town of Tarragona names the first Internet street
Internet has already got one street in Tarragona (Spain), the first known street with the name of the Net, and it has been Vinton G. Cerf himself, one of the TCP/IP creators, who inaugurated it. Cerf visited Tarragona last May 22 when the Universitat Rovira i Virgili conferred him the title of doctor honoris causa. During the inauguration, Joan Miquel Nadal, Mayor of Tarragona, said that "the industrial revolution produced names like Steam Street, Factory Street and Gasometer Street; it is therefore no surprise that today, on the threshold of the 21st century, we in Tarragona wish to name a street after the most common word on the lips of millions of people all over the planet".
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