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August 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | Chinese national supercomputer centre opened
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| | Thomson-CFS chooses Dolphin SCI technology for its embedded systems
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| | Nastran on Linux
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- DE |
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| | IBM Teraflop Supercomputer chosen as Platform for Potsdam Earth Simulator
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| | The Paderborn University's Chess Program P.ConNerS wins a Chess
Grand Master Tournament
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- ES |
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| | Gaussian workshop in Barcelona
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| | CESCA-CEPBA closes the Training and Mobility of Researchers programme
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| | French Genoscope ran the first analysis of the complete draft of the
human genome
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- Other |
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| | Onboard supercomputers used for seismic survey by PGS
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- UK |
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| | EPCC offers visitors programme for researchers
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| Europe |
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| | Russo-Indian computer centre opens in Moscow
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | AMERIPAM 2000 conference in US
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| | HIPS'01 call for papers
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| | Version 4 of IMSL C numerical library
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| | EMC's Symmetrix Storage extended with HP
MetroCluster software
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| | OpenMP group readies Fortran 2.0 API for public comment
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| | GLview Pro 6.1 released
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center and network of universities on Etnus TotalView parallel debugger
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| | STMicroelectronics selects ACE CoSy compiler
development system for DSPs
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| | First full scale hyrogen bomb simulation
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| | Swiss Supercomputing Centre delivers scientific excellence on NEC SX-5
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | 8-way PRIMERGY Intel-based server sets new TPC-C world record
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| | HP introduces new VISUALIZE fx5 and fx10 Graphics Systems
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| | SGI expects to report loss for last quarter
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| | HP J6000 compute farm for technical market
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| | Willamette named Pentium 4
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| | Commercial version of ASCI White
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| | Record TPC performance on IBM Netfinity cluster
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| | Capacity on demand on more SUN servers
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| | Origin 3000 and Onyx 3000 SGI's new high-end server and graphics
server
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Incanta selects VA Linux servers for broadband delivery network
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| | Beowulf cluster at University of Amsterdam
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| | Linux clusters of Apple G4s
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| | Linux reaches mainframe land
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| | J.P. Morgan and TurboLinux harnesses hundreds of Dell workstation for global derivatives risk management
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| | Kaydara FiLMBOX Real-Time Character Animation System on Linux
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| | SuSE launches professional services division in the USA
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| | SuSE and Lutris - Linux and XML
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| | Linux on Alpha addresses 2 TByte main memory
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Lightwave Communications provides control and connectivity for Iowa State University's C6 Virtual Reality Project
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| | SGI, Carl Zeiss, and SCHNEIDER Laser Technologies form alliance for new-breed planetariums
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| | SGI upgrades O2 workstation with 400 MHz MIPS
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| | NCSA CAVE and ImmersaDesk workshop series
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| | Hewlett-Packard Company today announced Linux support for its recently introduced
HP VISUALIZE fx5 and fx10 graphics accelerators
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| | Coleman selects PV-Wave for US national defense programme
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| | Next generation HP Visualize work stations
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| | JEDI III
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| | SGI and Intergraph to form strategic alliance
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| | Sony Computer Entertainment selects SGI Origin 3000 as broadband server
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Parabon distributes computing power over the Internet
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| | Nug30 solved on The Grid
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| | Computerworld reports on Seti project
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| | Myrinet conference in Lyon
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| | Gridware acquired by SUN
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| | HLRS Parallel Programming Workshop
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| | E-business portals deliver HPC power on NEC SX-5
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| | Researchers from Stockholm and Houston Demonstrate Grid-Enabled Electromagnetics Code at INET 2000 in Japan
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August 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | Chinese national supercomputer centre opened
According to the Xinhua news agency, the Beijing High-Performance Computer Application Centre, China's first
state-level computer application and development base, has been opened. Also a new Shenwei-1 computer, the largest of
its kind in China, to the public, according to official sources, has been inaugurated.
The supercomputer, with a peak performance of 384 Gflop/s per second, could make it into the TOP100 of fastest machines in the world. |
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| | Thomson-CFS chooses Dolphin SCI technology for its embedded systems
Thomson-CSF has selected Dolphin SCI (Scalable
Coherent Interface) as an intermodular, interconnection network, for
Thomson-CSF's EMTI (Modular Assembly for Information Treatment). EMTI is
a new core system targeting new modern combat airplanes like the Mirage
2000-9 and the Rafael. The system is specifically designed to assist the
pilot in navigation, mission assignment, and maneuvering.
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| | Nastran on Linux
MSC.Software Corporation released MSC.Nastran DMP (distributed memory parallel) on Linux, enabling customers to achieve supercomputer performance with PCs. With MSC.Nastran DMP on Linux, one large task can be distributed to several PCs running in parallel, accelerating the speed of analysis up to 20 times, hence reducing costs and time-to-market. |
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| | IBM Teraflop Supercomputer chosen as Platform for Potsdam Earth Simulator
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a member of the German G.W. Leibniz Society, has selected a 200 Processor IBM RS/6000 SP system as its next generation supercomputer. This supercomputer will significantly enhance the capabilities of PIK' researchers to assess mankind's impact on climate and other major components of the ecosphere.
The new system - to be installed in October 2000 - will be fifteen times more powerful than the preceding IBM machine operating at PIK since 1994 and it will rank among the 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Moreover, the system will be upgraded to teraflop performance in 2002 using IBM's Power4 multichip modules. |
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| | The Paderborn University's Chess Program P.ConNerS wins a Chess
Grand Master Tournament
The chess program P.ConNerS won last
Sunday the 10th Lippstadt Grand Master Tournament. It ran on the
Fujitsu Siemens hpcLine parallel computer of Paderborn Center
for Parallel Computing (PC2). It used only 160 Intel Pentium
processors out of the total of 192 processors. |
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- ES |
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| | Gaussian workshop in Barcelona
As a complementary activity to the High Performance Computing on
Hewlett-Packard Systems Conference (HiPer 2000), Gaussian
and CESCA organise a workshop introducing Gaussian on September 12-15, 2000 in Barcelona |
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| | CESCA-CEPBA closes the Training and Mobility of Researchers programme
More than one hundred European researchers have visited CESCA-CEPBA facilities under the Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) programme of the European Commission. For the last four years, 35 Catalan research groups have hosted 109 visitors, for the most part from Germany, Italy, France and United Kingdom. |
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| | French Genoscope ran the first analysis of the complete draft of the
human genome
With Genoscope (Centre National de Sequencage), officially
created on January 1st 1997, France rejoined the group of
countries which had initiated large scale sequencing. It is a
non profit organization located at Evry, France, and owns the
second largest sequencing facility in Europe. Last year Compaq
started to invest in bioinformatics and founded a Bioinformatics
Expertise Center in Marlboro, Massachusetts to better support
customers and business partners in the industry. Its Cambridge
Research Laboratory too focussed on bioinformatics. Here the
application performance is optimised and and the data mining
algorithms for genetic data are developed. Now Compaq offers a
cluster of AlphaServer ES40 systems with 100 CPUs and a terabyte
of storage, at the enterprise Systems Lab in Littleton for the
Human Genome Project. Research institutions can use this cluster
to complete the annotation of the human genome. One of the early
users was Genoscope. They ran the first analysis of the complete
draft of the human genome in only 38 hours. |
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- Other |
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| | Onboard supercomputers used for seismic survey by PGS
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA closed a major multi-client 3D ("MC3D") marine seismic survey agreement over the Western part of the Donna Terrace in deepwater mid-Norway. Petroleum Geo-Services will use one of its industry leading "Ramform" seismic
vessels, "Ramform Valiant," towing a record 12-streamers, each 5,100m long for
this survey, which is scheduled to begin at the end of June 2000. Totalling 61.2
kilometres of in-sea streamers, this survey is the largest spread towed in the
marine seismic industry. Recently, a similar spread was successfully deployed on
a contract seismic survey performed by PGS for BP Amoco in mid-Norway. Onboard
data processing will be carried out using the Company's massively parallel
onboard processing supercomputers and proprietary software. This survey is
expected to be completed in September 2000. |
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- UK |
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| | EPCC offers visitors programme for researchers
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) is coordinating an EC-funded
project to bring European researchers for short visits to associated
departments in Edinburgh to collaborate on projects involving High
Performance Computing (HPC). Next closing date for applications is August 16. |
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| Europe |
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| | Russo-Indian computer centre opens in Moscow
The Russo-Indian centre for computer studies opened
at the Institute of design automation of the Russian Academy of
Sciences. An exhibition of high-speed computers and software is permanently held
on its basis. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | AMERIPAM 2000 conference in US
ESI Group announced its second annual North American user conference. This 2-day event will take place October 24-25, 2000 at the Westin Southfield-Detroit Hotel in Southfield, Michigan.Topics include vehicle crashworthiness,
bio-mechanics, fluid dynamics, aero-acoustics, electro-magnetics. |
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| | HIPS'01 call for papers
The Sixth International Workshop on
High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS'01)
San Francisco, California, USA, April 23, 2001 publishd a call for papers. HIPS'01 is a full-day workshop to be held at the IPDPS 2001 focusing
on high-level programming of networks of workstations, computing
clusters and of massively-parallel machines. Its goal is to bring
together researchers working in the areas of applications, language
design, compilers, system architecture and programming tools to
discuss new developments in programming such systems. |
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| | Version 4 of IMSL C numerical library
Visual Numerics announced
that Version 4.0 of its IMSL C Numerical Library (CNL) is now available.
The primary enhancement
in Version 4.0 is that the Library is now thread safe, meaning application
developers can integrate CNL into multi-threaded applications. |
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| | EMC's Symmetrix Storage extended with HP
MetroCluster software
EMC Corporation has extended the automatic failover capabilities of EMC
Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems with Hewlett-Packard's HP
MetroCluster software. The high availability solution
now supports automatic remote failover of multiple Symmetrix systems
in an HP environment, providing customers with the high levels of
scalability for their mission-critical applications. |
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| | OpenMP group readies Fortran 2.0 API for public comment
The initial version of the Fortran 2.0 Application Program Interface (API) of the OpenMP standard is ready for public comment. This comment period closes in September and the final API is expected to be available by Supercomputing 2000 in November. |
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| | GLview Pro 6.1 released
GLview Pro is a 3D visualization tool which provide engineers with rich functionality for post processing and interfaces to major analysis codes like LS-DYNA, Nastran, Abaqus
and others. The most important new feature of GLview Pro 6.1 is the ability to easily
share analysis results on the web through the GLview Web Component. |
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center and network of universities on Etnus TotalView parallel debugger
Etnus,a supplier
of parallel application debuggers for the Unix market, announced the use
of the TotalView Parallel Debugger by the Ohio state-wide network of
computers, sponsored by OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center). |
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| | STMicroelectronics selects ACE CoSy compiler
development system for DSPs
ACE Associated Compiler Experts announced that STMicroelectronics is using
ACE's CoSy compiler development system for its embedded system compiler development. The Embedded Systems Technology Group of STMicroelectronics' Central R&D is
responsible for innovations in DSP compiler development. The group is using the basic CoSy
environment and is building DSP performance-oriented optimization modules on top of the
CoSy technology. Specific optimizations include software pipelining, array-to-address
calculation unit mapping and improved register allocation. The compilers are aimed at low
cost, low power, mid-range DSPs in telecom and consumer applications such as MP3 players
and set-top boxes. |
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| | First full scale hyrogen bomb simulation
Computers for the first time have
simulated the beginning of a hydrogen bomb blast in full-scale 3-D,
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists say. The simulations took 42 days to run using supercomputers at Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories. |
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| | Swiss Supercomputing Centre delivers scientific excellence on NEC SX-5
Since 1992, the Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing (CSCS) has been at the forefront in providing HPCN services to the Swiss scientific community, using NEC SX systems. Their work varies from the mesoscale Alpine weather forecast project, to the Car-Parrinello method in the study of molecular dynamics. In this interview,, Dr. D. Maric, the Chief Technology Officer for the Swiss National HPCN, described their work and added: " The choice of an NEC SX-5 just installed underlines also our confidence in the future SX-technology".
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| Industry
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| | 8-way PRIMERGY Intel-based server sets new TPC-C world record
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has broken another world record for Intel based 8-way servers with its PRIMERGY N800 compute node. This system has set a new TPC-C performance milestone, resulting in a price/performance ratio of Euro 20.52/tpmC, and an outstanding transaction processing performance of 56,388.50 tpmC. This new TPC-C result exceeds the previous record for IA-based 8-way SMP servers by about 15 per cent. The record-breaking PRIMERGY N800 server was equipped with eight Intel Pentium III Xeon 700 MHz processors with 2 MB SLC, 32 GB RAM and a total storage capacity of 3,593 GB on 296 hard disks.
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| | HP introduces new VISUALIZE fx5 and fx10 Graphics Systems
Hewlett-Packard Company introduced HP VISUALIZE fx5 and fx10 3-D graphics accelerators, available in versions for both Windows NT-based HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations and UNIX-based HP VISUALIZE workstations. The memory and display architecture of the new graphics accelerators have been redesigned to boost performance. |
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| | SGI expects to report loss for last quarter
Based on a preliminary analysis of its results
to date for the quarter ending June 30, 2000, SGI expects to
report revenue in the $525 to $535 million range. Based upon
this revenue forecast, the company expects to report a net
loss that is larger than financial analyst expectations. |
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| | HP J6000 compute farm for technical market
Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP J6000 compute farm, a racked solution for the technical market. The
HP J6000 compute farm is configurable to customer specification and delivers the industry's fastest throughput for compute-intensive applications, such as Electronic Design Automation (EDA) simulation and synthesis.
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| | Willamette named Pentium 4
Intel Corporation announced the Intel Pentium 4 processor brand name for its new generation of desktop microprocessors (formerly code-named Willamette), scheduled to be introduced in the second half of 2000. |
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| | Commercial version of ASCI White
IBM introduced a commercial version of ASCI White. The new RS/6000 SP system uses performance-enhancing copper microprocessors, silicon switching technology and advanced software to provide e-businesses with the unmatched processing speed, scalability and reliability needed to tackle the most demanding e-commerce applications.
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| | Record TPC performance on IBM Netfinity cluster
IBM, Intel and Microsoft announced the world's fastest server cluster for commercial use, recording performance levels that triple the performance of the previous record at one-third the price using TPC, the performance measurement technique agreed to by all computer makers. |
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| | Capacity on demand on more SUN servers
Sun will offer its Capacity On Demand option to
customers of its midrange Enterprise 3500 and 6500 servers. Previously, the
capability was available only for its high-end Enterprise 10000 line.
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| | Origin 3000 and Onyx 3000 SGI's new high-end server and graphics
server
SGI announced new Origin 3000 series as the successor
of the Origin 2000 series, which was called SN 1 and the old
Onyx. SGI chose the name O3000 and Onyx 3000 for the new
graphical/visualisation system with the InfiniteReality. It is
based on the Origin 3000 too. SGI officials said that the O3000
is a combination of the best features of Origin 2000 and Cray
T3E - and thus their successor. SGI plans two different series,
a MIPS and IRIX and a IA64 and Linux based system. A maximum of
512 MIPS processors can be connected in one machine. More
processors have to be clustered.
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| | Incanta selects VA Linux servers for broadband delivery network
VA Linux System announced that Incanta, a pioneer in personalized broadband content
services, is rolling out hundreds of VA Linux servers across its
broadband-edge network infrastructure. Incanta has also enlisted VA Linux Professional Services to
implement a suite of Open Source network management software
applications for load-balancing and remote management, resulting in a
highly scalable, reliable architecture capable of supporting millions
of simultaneous online users. |
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| | Beowulf cluster at University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam is installing a 120 node Beowulf cluster based on 700 MHz AMD Athlon processors with 100 Mbit/s Ethernet connections. The machine runs the Debian Linux software w |
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| | Linux clusters of Apple G4s
Black Lab Linux offers the ability to connect a half dozen to over
1,000 Apple G4s in parallel. With Myricom's "Myrinet" networking
fabric, which consists of a PCI card, cables, and custom switches,
these cluster systems enjoy a low latency, 160 MByte/s dedicated throughput per channel.
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| | Linux reaches mainframe land
Mainframes are around since the beginning of the computer industry, surviving each new wave of technology, sometimes ignoring it, sometimes incorporating it. The latest wave, Linux, has now reached the mainframe too. SuSE announced the availability of the preliminary version of SuSE Linux OS for the IBM S/390 platform. It expects to ship a production version this Fall.
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| | J.P. Morgan and TurboLinux harnesses hundreds of Dell workstation for global derivatives risk management
TurboLinux Inc., the
High-performance Linux company TurboLinux, announced that J.P. Morgan & Co.
Incorporated has deployed TurboLinux's EnFuzion software to help power the
firm's worldwide risk management system for fixed income derivatives on a cluster of more than 1,000 nodes. |
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| | Kaydara FiLMBOX Real-Time Character Animation System on Linux
Kaydara has completed the port of FiLMBOX, its real-time character
animation system, to Red Hat Linux V6.2. Kaydara's FiLMBOX is the first
real-time character animation and motion capture system to be available for the
Linux operating system, and is scalable from a Windows Palmtop up to an SGI
Onyx2 Supercomputer. Support for Linux will be included with the release of
FiLMBOX V2.7 in November 2000. |
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| | SuSE launches professional services division in the USA
SuSE announced their Professional Services Division for the US Market. Professional Services provides Linux solutions for start-up businesses in the U.S., initially focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area. The American division has put together an international team of engineers to form the US consultant team. SuSE Professional Services combines ultimate German engineering quality with the aggressive business techniques found in the U.S. market.
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| | SuSE and Lutris - Linux and XML
SuSE and Lutris jointly
provide clients with total Internet solutions. Lutris produced Lutris
Enhydra, the Java/XML open source application server, and provides strategic
Internet consulting services and a full range of training and technical
support programs. SuSE Linux professional Services implements IT design and
deployment solutions for the on-site products or those hosted at the SuSE
managed co-location solutions facility. The Lutris Enhydra application
server will be included in the upcoming version of SuSE Linux 7.0. |
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| | Linux on Alpha addresses 2 TByte main memory
SuSE in Nuernberg, Germany, modified the Linux kernel for the
Compaq Alpha system that now 2 TB main memory is addressable. As
mostly Linux is running on Intel platforms, only 4 GB memory
could be accessed, because of the 32 bit architecture.
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| | Lightwave Communications provides control and connectivity for Iowa State University's C6 Virtual Reality Project
Iowa State University's latest virtual reality
project "C6" one of the first truly immersive virtual reality theaters
with images projected on all six of its sides; four walls, ceiling and floor.
Located in the atrium of the College of Engineering's Howe Hall the C6 was
developed and installed by MechDyne Corporation using a Lightwave Communications Matrix-Hub to channel the 14 billion instructions per second output from the SGI "Onyx2"
supercomputer to the C6 and other virtual reality facilities on the Iowa State
campus. |
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| | SGI, Carl Zeiss, and SCHNEIDER Laser Technologies form alliance for new-breed planetariums
Jena GmbH, SGI, and SCHNEIDER Laser Technologies AG
will create a totally new breed of planetarium experiences. The three companies
will jointly market solutions that enable the projection of
very-high-resolution real-time 3D graphics in planetariums. A specially
designed Zeiss-All-Dome-Projection-System based on SCHNEIDER laser technology
will project images generated by Silicon Graphics
Onyx visualization systems onto immersive domes. |
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| | SGI upgrades O2 workstation with 400 MHz MIPS
SGI announced performance enhancements on the Silicon
Graphics O2 visual workstation line. In addition, SGI announced a 27% price
reduction on O2 systems with a 300 MHz MIPS R12000 processor. A new MIPS 400 MHz R12000A processor and expanded processor cache and system
memory allow the O2 visual workstation to deliver up to a 45% increase in
compute performance and a 27% increase in graphics performance over
previous-generation systems. Also upgrades for the Octane workstations were announced. |
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| | NCSA CAVE and ImmersaDesk workshop series
Intensive three-day workshops, organized by NCSA in the USA, will present advanced programming and visualization
techniques that optimize the use of the CAVE and ImmersaDesk virtual reality
display systems. Participants will gain a clear understanding of programming
techniques that visualize data and objects in the CAVE and ImmersaDesk systems
and that output CAVE visualizations into other forms of media such as videotapes,
animations, and slides. |
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| | Hewlett-Packard Company today announced Linux support for its recently introduced
HP VISUALIZE fx5 and fx10 graphics accelerators
The HP VISUALIZE fx5 and fx10 graphics accelerators, already available in versions for Windows NT-based HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations or UNIX system-based HP VISUALIZE workstations are now also available for Linux. |
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| | Coleman selects PV-Wave for US national defense programme
Coleman Federal, a division of Orlando, USA-based Coleman Research Corp.,
has selected Visual Numerics' PV-WAVE to develop a test environment used to evaluate the
performance of the U.S. Army's Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
system. |
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| | Next generation HP Visualize work stations
Hewlett-Packard Company announced next-generation HP
VISUALIZE P-Class Personal Workstations aimed at designers, creative artists, engineers,
scientists and others who require high performance. |
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| | JEDI III
SGI and Lucas Digital
Ltd. LLC, whose divisions include Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Skywalker
Sound, announced the third generation and continuation of the Joint
Environment for Digital Imaging (JEDI) alliance--JEDI III. Since its inception
in 1994, the JEDI and subsequent JEDI II and JEDI III agreements have brought
together resources from each company: SGI high-performance computer and
imaging technology and ILM effects and animation production expertise. These
agreements resulted in a model production environment for state-of-the-art,
cost-effective digital imagery development for ILM projects, including the
recently released The Perfect Storm, as well as past visually-rich films, Star
Wars Episode I: "The Phantom Menace" and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. |
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| | SGI and Intergraph to form strategic alliance
SGI and Intergraph Corporation intend to form a strategic alliance that
allows both companies the benefit of each other's top-line products and
expertise. Under the proposed alliance, Intergraph plans to purchase $100 million
in SGI products and services over three years. In addition, SGI will
acquire certain assets from Intergraph Corporation, including Intergraph
Computer Systems' award-winning Zx10 family of ViZual Workstations
and Servers, which is known for its performance, features and dependability
in a Windows NT environment. The Zx10 line will be exclusively marketed by SGI and will complement its recently announced line of Intel
processor-based workstations, the Silicon Graphics 230, Silicon Graphics 330 and Silicon Graphics 550 visual workstations featuring VPro graphics.
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| | Sony Computer Entertainment selects SGI Origin 3000 as broadband server
Sony Computer Entertainment . has
chosen SGI as a strategic provider to demonstrate its vision for
the future of computer entertainment in the broadband network era. The company
will use a newly debuted SGI Origin 3000 series server-a breakthrough product
in high-performance modular computing-as the broadband server for its GScube
demonstrations at SIGGRAPH 2000. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Parabon distributes computing power over the Internet
Parabon Computation has selected Exodus Communications to host its ground-breaking Frontier computing platform. One of
the largest global Internet networks, Exodus will help Parabon deliver
general-purpose supercomputation by harnessing the idle
power of millions of individual computers worldwide. |
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| | Nug30 solved on The Grid
Researchers at National
Computational Science Alliance partners University of Iowa and Argonne National
Laboratory announced in June that they used the NPACI Grid to solve the nug30 quadratic assignment
problem (QAP). Nug30 had gone unsolved since 1968 when it was first proposed as a
test problem in the area of applied mathematics known as location theory. |
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| | Computerworld reports on Seti project
In an upcoming report, Computerworld reports how SETI@home uses the
Internet to organize a network of nearly 2 million volunteer computer users into
a virtual parallel computer that sifts through the cryptic background noise of
space in search of intelligence. |
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| | Myrinet conference in Lyon
The objective of the First Myrinet User Group Conference 2000, to be held in Lyon, September 28-29, 2000, is to bring
together researchers actively involved in the development and
applications of Myrinet technology. |
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| | Gridware acquired by SUN
Sun Microsystems has signed a definitive agreement to
acquire Gridware, a privately held software company with 26
employees, with headquarters in San Jose, CA, and subsidiary in Regensburg,
Germany. In January this year, Gridware itself resulted from a merger of
Genias Software GmbH and Chord Systems both with a strong
focus on distributed computing resource management software for networked
clusters of computers, like the recently announced Sun Technical Compute
Farm TCF, for e.g. compute-intensive industrial and scientific application
simulations in electronic design automation , mechanical computer-aided
design and engineering, or molecular modeling. |
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| | HLRS Parallel Programming Workshop
The German supercomputer centre HLRS will organise a parallel programming workshop
on October 9-13, 2000 in Stuttgart.
The focus is on programming models, MPI, OpenMP and HPF,
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| | E-business portals deliver HPC power on NEC SX-5
One of the traditional obstacles which made SMEs reluctant to use HPC to solve pressing design problems, was easy occasional access to a supercomputer. In order to address this issue, a German company, debis, came up with an interesting business idea to deliver supercomputing for new "occasional" users on their NEC SX-5 as an e-business. |
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| | Researchers from Stockholm and Houston Demonstrate Grid-Enabled Electromagnetics Code at INET 2000 in Japan
From July 18 to 21, at the International Grid (iGRID) 2000 special event at INET 2000 in Yokohama, Japan, researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and the University of Houston showcased the power of current research networks using a new computational steering code. GEMSviz, a tool used for the study of electromagnetic compatibility in the design of complex objects, allows researchers access to remote computing resources and enhances collaboration among distant colleagues. This shows that as the availability of reliable high-speed networking increases, geographical proximity becomes less important in collaborations. |
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