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| PrimeurLive! from the Mannheim Supercomputer Seminar, June
2000
The Mannheim Supercomputer
Seminar is the main HPCN event in Europe. This year we publish two live issues
from the event:
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September 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | NSF Awards $45 Million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for 6 Tflop/s supercomputer next year
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| | Los Alamos Labs eases rules for computer use
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| | Blasts probe plutonium power refining supercomputer calculations
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| | US Naval Oceanographic Office install 2 Tflop/s IBM supercomputer
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| | U.S. eases export restrictions on computer sales
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| | Star Bridge delivers first supercomputer to CeriStar
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| | Boston University installs 96 Gflop/s IBM SP system
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| | Compaq to build 30 Tflop/s ASCI Q system
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| | Update on the Mannheim Supercomputer Conference
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| | Europe's fastest computer down for 19 hours due to cooling problems
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| | Programme joint Speed-up/ORAP October workshop available
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- Other |
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| | Russian Academy of Science buys Indian Param supercomputer
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| | Quantum computing for encryption
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Largest Private Tunisian bank selects PeerLogic and Sun Starfire
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| | US airforce uses 128-processor Origin 2000 to run large rotocraft stealth calculations
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| | HUG in Tokyo
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| | Ford buys two additional SV1 systems
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| | Largest PVP supercomputer to be installed by NRC at Osaka University
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| | Phillips Petroleum to install first Cray T3E-1350
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| | SAP Application Server on IBM S/390
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| | Yukawa Institute buys 40 Gflop/s NEC SX-5
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| | ARL computing power to 2 Tflop/s
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| | NAG and Informix create solution for quick, accurate financial analysis
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Pentium III at 1.13 GHz
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| | US Army awards $49 million contract to Motorola for joint services work station
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| | SGI IRIX 6.5.3 certified as US defense DII COE Compliant
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| | Cray posts profit in first quarter after merger
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| | Viking shipd memory for RS/6000 servers
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| | Quantum computer used to solve problems
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| | Jacobsen vice president SGI ISV programme
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| | IItanium hardware and software demonstrated
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| | SGI to build 1,024-processor Origin 3000 system with NASA Ames
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| | In memoriam of J.R.Sherman, Dick for his (many) friends
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | SuSE Announces Availability of Version 7.0
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| | New book on Linux clusters
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| | Enhancements for Linux on S/390 servers
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| | TurboLinux' 64-bit OS on Compaq Alpha
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| | Scali's Wulfkit on Alpha Linux
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| | Java 2 on SuSE and TurboLinux
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| | SGI announces commercial software for Linux
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| | Open Inventor source code for Linux released
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| | SGI and SuSE Linux to empower Linux with high-availability functionality
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| | TurboLinux and SGI sign compiler technology agreement
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| | Digital Dream studio uses SG 1200 Linux systems for rendering
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| | Mission critical Linux support
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| | SuSE announces free access to its IA64 Linux compile farm
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Visual serving initiative
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| | 512 Processor Compaq Alpha System in Film Industry
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| | Collaborative commerce for the electronic manufacturing services market
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems
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| | GX Technology introduces web-based service for advanced seismic imaging
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| | 5th Workshop on Runtime Systems for Parallel Programming
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| | International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
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| | Commercial WMPI released by Critical
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| | ADVA's DWDM systems support mission-critical geographically distributed applications
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| Networking |
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| | European Commission funds GEANT 2.5 Gbit/s network with 80 million euro
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| | Genroco takes 800 Mbyte/s technology to Europe and Japan
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| | High Performance networking Forum at CERN
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September 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | NSF Awards $45 Million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for 6 Tflop/s supercomputer next year
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been awarded $45 million from the National Science Foundation to provide "terascale" computing capability for U.S. researchers in all science and engineering disciplines. Through this award, PSC will collaborate with Compaq Computer Corporation to create a new, extremely powerful system for the use of scientists and engineers USA-wide. |
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| | Los Alamos Labs eases rules for computer use
Nuclear scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have won a battle against a new security
restriction they said was making it difficult to use their
computers for weapons work.
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| | Blasts probe plutonium power refining supercomputer calculations
ull-fledged nuclear tests are
off-limits but scientists quietly continue to test plutonium's
power by exploding small, potent packages 1,000 feet beneath the
Nevada desert. The plutonium, some of which comes from
old weapons, is ``shocked'' by a high-explosive detonation that
reproduces the pressures and temperatures that occur when a nuclear
device is detonated. Data obtained through high-speed cameras and
laser holography are used to refine the supercomputer codes that
simulate full explosions. |
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| | US Naval Oceanographic Office install 2 Tflop/s IBM supercomputer
The US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) has purchased an IBM supercomputer to perform the basic research that may help meteorologists prevent future "Perfect Storm"-type maritime disasters. The new supercomputer -- installed by Logicon, a Northrop Grumman company -- can process two Tflop/s, making it one of the largest supercomputers in the world. The most powerful machine in the Department of Defense (DoD) computing arsenal, the RS/6000 SP will be used to model the world's oceans, as well as tackle the complex calculations required in key DoD research and development initiatives.
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| | U.S. eases export restrictions on computer sales
The White House has extended its relaxation of export restrictions on high-speed computers, allowing them to be sold to both military and domestic customers in 50 nations, including China and Russia. he new measure will double the number of computers allowed to be sold without government approval to 50 'Three Tier' nations, which included Vietnam, India, Pakistan, as well as China and Russia. The top speed allowed to be sold will be 28,000 mtops, near the speed of four of Intel's new Itanium processors due out this fall. |
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| | Star Bridge delivers first supercomputer to CeriStar
Star Bridge delivered two HAL-15GrW1 Hypercomputers to
CeriStar, a Salt Lake City telecommunications company. Each HAL-15GrW1
is a desktop machine with processing power equal to 10,000 750 MHz Pentium III
processors. Star Bridge will receive License and Lease fees of $685,000 for
each system under a $20 million license that calls for delivery of a total of
32 machines to CeriStar over the next eleven months. This is the first delivery ever of Star Bridge Systems. |
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| | Boston University installs 96 Gflop/s IBM SP system
Boston University will install a 96 Gflop/s RS/6000 SP that will double the institution's supercomputing capacity and will help researchers on a variety of projects in fields such as quantum physics, genome research as well as investigations into a cure for Alzheimer's.
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| | Compaq to build 30 Tflop/s ASCI Q system
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected
Compaq to build the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer, a 30 Tflop/s as part of the ASCI programme. The machine will cost US $ 200 million and contain 12,000 Alpha processors. The machine will occopy more that 2,000 square meter. |
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| | Update on the Mannheim Supercomputer Conference
As a regular reader of Primeur, you have been kept up to date live from all the news that was happening during Europe's main supercomputer event. The pictures from this eventare now available in the "photographic memories" section of the supercomputer seminar web site. Do not forget to mark the dates for next year's event (June 21 - 23) in your agenda. |
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| | Europe's fastest computer down for 19 hours due to cooling problems
Europe's fastest supercomputer the Hitachi SR8000 at LRZ in Munich, has been down for 19 hours due to cooling problems. Supercomputers as the Hitachi SR8000 generate enormous amounts of heat and need extensive cooling. LRZ tries to stretch the limits of what is possible with the cooling infrastructure, to save as much energy as possible and to run the machine as economically as possible. Last week this resulted in problems in the cooling infrastructure. |
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| | Programme joint Speed-up/ORAP October workshop available
The programme of the joint Speed-up/ORAP workshop available to be held at CERN, Geneva, October 5-6 2000 is available. Central theme is new architectures and technologies for high-performance computing with presentations on trends in microprocessors, reconfigurable computing, quantum computing and more. |
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| | Russian Academy of Science buys Indian Param supercomputer
The Indian Center for Development of Advanced Computing has sold its third Param 110 Gflop/s supercomputer to the Russian Academy of Science's Institute for Computer Aided Design supporting scientific applications such as fluid dynamics, image processing and climate modelling. |
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| | Quantum computing for encryption
Scientists at the University of
Geneva are collaborating with the Swiss Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
in an experiment that uses quantum computers to run an unbreakable encryption
algorithm. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Largest Private Tunisian bank selects PeerLogic and Sun Starfire
PeerLogic's LiveContent TRANS has been
selected by Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie (BIAT), the largest
private Tunisian bank, to move its legacy banking applications to a
Sun Enterprise 10000 Starfire server. |
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| | US airforce uses 128-processor Origin 2000 to run large rotocraft stealth calculations
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is to develop the U.S. Army's new RAH-66 Comanche
armed reconnaissance helicopter on an SGI Origion 2000. Sikorsky's Origin 2000 server-based solution makes
it possible for Sikorsky to run larger stealth aircraft design calculations
than ever before. The 128-processor Origin 2000 server, which includes 32GB of
memory and 2TB of disk storage, was installed in February 2000.
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| | HUG in Tokyo
The Fourth Annual High Performance Fortran User Group (`HUG') meeting
will be held on October 19-20, 2000 at Hotel Intercontinental Tokyo
Bay, Tokyo, Japan.
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| | Ford buys two additional SV1 systems
Ford Motor Company recently acquired two
additional Cray SV1 supercomputers, making it the company's
largest Cray SV1 customer with a total of five systems. Ford will use
the new machines to perform safety and structural analysis and speed
time to market for its latest vehicle models. Financial terms were not
disclosed. |
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| | Largest PVP supercomputer to be installed by NRC at Osaka University
NEC received an order for a 1.28 Tflop/s scalable parallel vector (PVP) SX-5/128M8 supercomputer that will be installed at the Cybermedia Center of
Osaka University in Japan. This 128 processor system will not only be the largest PVP
ever delivered, but will also be the largest-scale system installed in Japan. Based on today's
Top500 List of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, which uses Linpack
performance as the sole metric for rating, this system will be the 5th most powerful.
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| | Phillips Petroleum to install first Cray T3E-1350
hillips Petroleum
Company has signed a $3.6 million order for the first Cray
T3E-1350 system, a faster model of the product line that holds the
current world record for computer problem-solving speed. Phillips will use the new supercomputer to help find new oil
deposits and lower exploration and development costs.
The 136-processor Cray T3E-1350 supercomputer will be installed at
Phillips' Bartlesville, Okla. headquarters facility in August, and is
expected to complete the customer acceptance process by late
September. |
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| | SAP Application Server on IBM S/390
SAP AG and IBM announced general availability of the SAP Application Server functions on IBM's S/390 Enterprise Server.
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| | Yukawa Institute buys 40 Gflop/s NEC SX-5
The Yukawa Institute of Theoretical
Physics of Kyoto University placed an order for a four processor SX-5/4C parallel vector
supercomputer. The system is from the newly enhanced SX-5 Series and provides
40 Gflop/s peak performance. |
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| | ARL computing power to 2 Tflop/s
The US Army Research Lab (ARL), one of the four Department of
Defense (DoD) Major Shared Resource Centers (MSRCs) will install two separate SGI Origin 3000 series systems-with 512 processors and
256 processors, respectively-to support the DoD research community's unclassified and classified missions. These new SGI Origin 3000 series systems
will give DoD researchers the added processing power to compute and analyse
increasingly complex mission-critical projects. |
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| | NAG and Informix create solution for quick, accurate financial analysis
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), and Informix Corporation formed a strategic alliance by releasing the Informix NAG Financial Datablade module. The product has been tailored to address the needs of the financial services industry where reliable, accurate analysis tools are critical for sustained profitability. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Pentium III at 1.13 GHz
Intel Corporation introduced the Pentium III processor at 1.13 GHz for PCs.
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| | US Army awards $49 million contract to Motorola for joint services work station
The U.S. Army Communications
Electronics Command (CECOM) has awarded Motorola a $49.7 million
delivery-order contract for the Joint Services Work Station Production
Program.
The Joint Services Work Station (JSWS) is a real-time,
multi-sensor Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and
Intelligence (C4I) system that utilizes the same software as the
JSTARS Common Ground Station (CGS) programme. |
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| | SGI IRIX 6.5.3 certified as US defense DII COE Compliant
The US
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has validated that the SGI IRIX 6.5.3
operating system is compliant with the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common
Operating Environment (COE). |
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| | Cray posts profit in first quarter after merger
Cray Inc. reported results for the
company's second quarter. These are the first combined results
reflecting the April 1, 2000 acquisition of the Cray Research business
assets from Silicon Graphics Inc. For the second quarter ended June 30, 2000, Cray Inc. reported
revenues of $51 million, compared to revenues of $22,000 for the
second quarter of 1999. Exclusive of amortization of acquisition
expenses, the company reported a net profit of $5.1 million, compared to a net loss of $6.7 million, in the year ago period. Including the $1.7 million in
amortization expenses related to the acquisition of the Cray business
unit assets, net income for the second quarter of 2000 was $3.3
million. |
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| | Viking shipd memory for RS/6000 servers
Viking Components is now shipping
4 GByte capacity upgrade kits for the IBM RS/6000 M80 server and 1 GByte
capacity upgrade kits for the IBM RS/6000 H80 and F80 servers. |
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| | Quantum computer used to solve problems
A working
quantum computer has been developed at IBM's Almaden Research Center. Scientists
used it to show that such devices can solve problems that are
hard to solve on conventional computers. |
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| | Jacobsen vice president SGI ISV programme
Kenneth P. Jacobsen, Ph.D., 49, has been appointed vice president
of ISV Programs at SGI. He will report directly to Kenneth Coleman, executive vice
president, SGI. Jacobsen will be responsible for all ISV (independent software
vendor) partner programs, ISV technical support, and horizontal applications
marketing. |
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| | IItanium hardware and software demonstrated
Nine leading
systems vendors, five leading operating system vendors and more than
30 independent hardware vendors demonstrated hardware and software
for the forthcoming Itanium processor at the Intel
Developer Forum (IDF). The platforms, operating systems,
applications and compilers are reaching the stability levels necessary
to enable initial end-user pilots and evaluation beginning in Q4. Intel also demonstrated a 1 GigaHertz processor. On Linpack, the processor is expected to peform 2 Gflop/s. |
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| | SGI to build 1,024-processor Origin 3000 system with NASA Ames
NASA Ames has ordered two 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 systems and will combine them to serve as a test bed for a 1,024-processor supercomputer. The system will be used by NASA scientists for research in the areas of aeronautics, earth sciences and life sciences.
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| | In memoriam of J.R.Sherman, Dick for his (many) friends
(by Giacomo Polosa) Dick Sherman, President of RCI, passed unexpectedly away on the evening of July the 4th: it happened to be my birthday too, so a few hours before the sad event I had received his almost usual festive telephone call. Normally dedicated to comment the HPCN events of the week, discuss plans, results and (mostly) dreams for RCI... That time the phone call was short and mainly dedicated to a warm and sincere "happy birthday ".
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| | SuSE Announces Availability of Version 7.0
SuSE Linux AG, the international
technology leader and solution provider in open source operating system (OS)
software, offers their new release, SuSE Linux 7.0, in two targeted
versions. SuSE Linux 7.0 Personal is tailored to the requirements
of Linux newcomers and desktop users. SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional is appropriate for use as a server operating
system. Both versions will be available at the end of August. |
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| | New book on Linux clusters
"Building Linux Clusters" is a new book by David HM Spector introducing Beowulf clusters. The list of the world's
most powerful supercomputers now includes Beowulf machines: PCs running Linux,
clustered together into a single machine. "From scientific applications to transaction processing, clustering technology
provides an affordable, scalable computing solution. One of the hottest topics
in Linux today is the ability to cluster Linux machines to mimic the performance
of supercomputers (costing hundreds of thousands of dollars) for a fraction of
the cost.", the author claims.
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| | Enhancements for Linux on S/390 servers
IBM unveiled hardware and software enhancements for Linux running on S/390 enterprise servers as well as new introductory pricing. The IBM S/390 Integrated Facility for Linux, a new hardware feature available for S/390 G5 and G6 servers, allows users to add processor capacity exclusively for Linux use.
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| | TurboLinux' 64-bit OS on Compaq Alpha
TurboLinux the new
TurboLinux Operating System for Compaq's Alpha
systems. TurboLinux OS for Compaq's Alpha systems is a 64-bit Linux OS
designed and built for compute-intensive tasks. TurboLinux OS for Alpha
supports all major Alpha BIOS, very large files and is tuned for
floating-point calculations. |
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| | Scali's Wulfkit on Alpha Linux
API, Dolphin Interconnect
Solutions and Scali AS, announced the availability of WulfKit for Linux on Alpha, enabling the
creation of extremely powerful and scalable Linux Beowulf systems. Jointly developed by Dolphin and Scali and available immediately, WulfKit for Alpha is based on API's
64-bit platform, its UP2000 Ultimate Performance Series motherboard technology and the Linux open-source
operating system. WulfKit for Linux on Alpha is ideal for researchers and developers seeking
supercomputing-class processing power, superior scalability and configurability for parallel
processing applications. |
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| | Java 2 on SuSE and TurboLinux
Sun announced
expanded distribution for the Java 2 platform on the Linux operating system
through agreements with SuSE and TurboLinux. Linux is one of numerous operating systems that support the Java 2 platform, including those from Sun, IBM, Compaq, HP, Microsoft,
Apple, Novell, SGI, SCO, BSDi and BE. |
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| | SGI announces commercial software for Linux
SGI announced Pro64 Compilers, Linux FailSafe for High-Availability, XFS File System and Advanced Cluster Environment (ACE) for Linux. These e applications are developed as complementary elements to work together, as a complete infrastructure upon which a commercial Linux user can depend. |
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| | Open Inventor source code for Linux released
SGI has released the source code for its Open Inventor 3D graphics toolkit to the open source community. Open Inventor is the de facto standard for rapid development of graphics applications and is used in almost every industry, including CAD, geosciences, medicine, academia, chemistry and movie production.
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| | SGI and SuSE Linux to empower Linux with high-availability functionality
SGI and SuSE Linux announced the delivery of Linux FailSafe. Linux FailSafe is a scalable and modular high-availability solution based on IRIS FailSafe clustering software from SGI. Linux FailSafe brings this advanced clustering capabilities to Linux. |
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| | TurboLinux and SGI sign compiler technology agreement
TurboLinux, and SGI inked an agreement to incorporate SGI's
SGI Pro64 compiler technology into TurboLinux's forthcoming
release of TurboLinux for IA-64, for substantially increased
IA-64 performance on Linux. |
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| | Digital Dream studio uses SG 1200 Linux systems for rendering
SGI supplied more than 200 SGI 1200 Linux OS based servers to Digital Dream Studio
(DDS), one of the major digital game and animation makers in Korea. DDS will
use these systems as rendering servers for its 3D animation film ARK,
targeted for release in 2001. |
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| | Mission critical Linux support
SGI Global Services and Mission Critical Linux, Inc. announced the
availability of mission-critical support for SGI systems running
Linux. |
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| | SuSE announces free access to its IA64 Linux compile farm
SuSE introduced a free test environment for the new
64-bit architecture. This environment is accessible through the Internet,
allowing Application developers to test and adapt their Linux applications
to the 64-bit-processor online. |
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| | Visual serving initiative
SGI and over 15 leading representatives from education, government research and
industry today announced the formation of the Visual Serving Initiative
program. The Visual Serving Initiative program is a collaborative effort
between SGI and industry leaders to accelerate the deployment of end-to-end
solutions using the SGI OpenGL Vizserver technology. It is
composed of an advisory board, software testing program, advanced development
projects and a technical liaison. Among the members are Manchester University and the Swedisch National Supercomputing Centre. |
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| | 512 Processor Compaq Alpha System in Film Industry
Blue Sky Studios, founded in 1987, is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment and won the Academy Ocar Award with its short film "Bunny". For their computer-animation in films they install a 512 processor Compaq Alpha system in White Plains, NY. The computer is based on AlphaServer DS10L, low profile. Forty of them can be put in a rack. If they are equipped with the 466 MHz Alpha, they deliver a peak performance of nearly 480 GFlop/s peak performance. The expected Linpack performance of about 340 GFlop/s would rank the machine in the top 50 of the Top500 list.
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| | Collaborative commerce for the electronic manufacturing services market
TIBCO Software, a provider of real-time infrastructure software for
e-business, and Tonbu, Inc. a provider of collaborative
commerce (C-Commerce) solutions for the electronic manufacturing services (EMS)
market, announced a technology alliance that will bring to bring
C-Commerce to the $90 billion EMS market. The management team of Tonbu, led by
Steve Chen, the architect of the Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers, brings
together decades of expertise in technology, engineering and manufacturing. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems
The 3rd Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems
(DAPSYS'2000) will be organized jointly with the 7th EuroPVM/MPI
conference at the Lake Balaton in Hungary, September 10th-13th, 2000. |
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| | GX Technology introduces web-based service for advanced seismic imaging
GX Technology Corporation (GXT)
announced today the introduction of BLink E-Service, the oil industry's
first online, Web-based service for advanced seismic imaging. This new
technology-to-business e-commerce solution provides worldwide, desktop
collaboration and control throughout the course of imaging projects conducted
with GXT.
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| | 5th Workshop on Runtime Systems for Parallel Programming
The 5th Workshop on Runtime Systems for Parallel Programming (RTSPP)will be held in conjunction with the
15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001)
San Francisco, California, USA, April 23, 2001 |
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| | International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium has released a final call for submissions, closing date September 18 2000. The symposium will be held in San Francisco, April 23-27, 2001 |
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| | Commercial WMPI released by Critical
WMPI, an implementation of MPI for NT iis now available as a commercial implementation from Portugal based Critical Software. WMPI implements release MPI-1 of the Message Passing Interface standard.
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| | ADVA's DWDM systems support mission-critical geographically distributed applications
ADVA Optical Networking announced that its Fiber Service Platform-I and -II
(FSP-I and FSP-II) solutions support Coupling Link, a networking architecture
used in a GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex) environment,
where an enterprise can cluster geographically dispersed servers and replicate
data for high availability and fault tolerance. Using Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, the FSP-I system can
multiplex up to eight GDPS connections over a single pair of fibers. |
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| | European Commission funds GEANT 2.5 Gbit/s network with 80 million euro
The European Commission has decide to fund the GEANT network proposed by DANTE and the 25 national and regional
European research and education networks (NRENs). It is now in the
final stages of contract negotiation with the European Commission,
which should lead to a financial contribution to the project of 80
million euro over four years by the EC. |
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| | Genroco takes 800 Mbyte/s technology to Europe and Japan
GENROCO demonstrated its new 800
megabyte per second Gigabyte System Network (GSN) interface card at a
supercomputer industry gathering held in Japan last week. Representatives from
Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi, Compaq, SGI, and other platform vendors attended the
seminar, which was hosted by Tokyo Electron LTD (TEL) and held at TEL's
headquarters. On September 15, a workshop will be held at CERN in Geneva. |
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| | High Performance networking Forum at CERN
Again this year HNF-Europe and CERN organise a
High Performance Networking Workshop at CERN in Geneva, on Friday September 15. The subjects for the seminar part this year are: Progress in GSN technology including the ST protocol and SCSI over ST; SAN's on High Performance Networks and Cluster File Systems; and New High Performance Network Technologies.
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