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October 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | Joint Strike Fighter developed with SGI visual supercomputers
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| | University of Kentucky installs HP N-4000 complex
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| | Alpha cluster at University of Calgary upgraded
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| | Problems with Internet 2 in Argentina
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| | Artic Region Supercomputing Center buys Cray SV1 supercomputer
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| | Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center sells old Cray supercomputer through E-bay
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| | Critical Path delivers advanced messaging for high-end IBM AIX systems
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| | U.S. Navy selects SGI Origin 3000 systems
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| | Euro-Par 2000 August 28 to September 1st in Munich
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- DE |
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| | Cluster and grids tutorial texts available
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- FR |
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| | Record web intelligence on IBM SP
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- Other |
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| | EPFL inaugurated Swiss-T1 supercomputer
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| | CSCS gets a new organisational structure
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| | Cray received order for 128-processor T3E from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology
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- SE |
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| | Bioinformatics Infects PDC
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- UK |
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| | MUSE Virtual Presence wins Royal Navy contract to develop virtual reality simulators
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| | September issue of UK HPC Profile published
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| Europe |
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| | Was European HCPN technology transfer successful?
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| | Brochure on image processing and HPCN
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| | Sandia extends Cplant (Computational Plant) Cluster
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Sun leads TPC-C benchmark
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| | Sun and MSI to collaborate on on-line drug discovery
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| | Sybase on top TPC SMP benchmark
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| | PAM-CRASH 2000 and PAM-SAFE 2000
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| | National Computational Science Alliance offers web based MPI training
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| | Sydney games Web site took 683 million hits on a single day
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| | Dow Corning chooses Sun for SAP
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| | First applications at Shanghai supercomputer center
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | SGI to manufacture Unix systems in India again
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| | Superdome should keep HP in TOP500
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| | Build the fastest supercomputer for less than $10,000
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| | Blue Hammer extends S80 clustering capabilities
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| | Express5800/120Rc-2 server from NEC aimed at e-business market
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| | Sparc IIe: 64-bits for embedded applications
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| | Sun sells over 3000 Starfires
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | EPCC installs small Beowulf cluster
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| | VN's IMSL on Redhat's Linux
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| | SGI to sponsor RoboCup
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| | Conoco builds 0.5 Tflop/s Linux cluster for petroleum industry
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| | Linux support centres from IBM in Pacific region
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| | Open Source Linux development lab formed
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| | Terra Soft offers 8-Node Power PC Linux clusters
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| | SuSE Linux on Sparc
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Walt Disney purchases more than 500 SGI Octane Visual Workstations
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| | GlobeXplore unveils largest on-line earth imagery archive
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| | Intergraph-SGI alliance finalised
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| | VirCinity opens new offices with VR art exhibition
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | SCore Users Group Meeting
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| | Cobion's ImageCenter uses supercomputer power to detect Internet brand infringements
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| | A Grid to simulate earthquakes
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| | Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters
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| | First International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce
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| | Parabon claims top100 position for its distributed computer
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| | CCGrid2001: IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
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| | GriPhyN as a starting point for a new, faster Grid
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| | Veridian announces release of PBS 5.0
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| | Lion and Platform start initiative to support human genome research
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| | DataSynapse brokers idle PC power
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| | September 2000 issue of TCPP Newsletter published
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Call for Participation in November 2000 version of TOP500 list
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| Networking |
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| | US NSF Awards $2.3 Million grant for high-performance wireless network
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| | Essential Signs Exclusive Agreement With VIEO To License Gigabyte Networking Technology to VIEO
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| | NEC completes first shipment of major W-CDMA infrastructure system
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October 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | Joint Strike Fighter developed with SGI visual supercomputers
SGI
announced that its visual computing systems are being used by the two
contractors competing to build about 3,000 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft
for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and the United Kingdom's Royal
Air Force and Royal Navy. Other European countries could also opt for the JSF or for the competing Eurofighter. |
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| | University of Kentucky installs HP N-4000 complex
The University of Kentucky is replacing its
Hewlett-Packard SPP X-Class Exemplar supercomputer with a cluster of HP N-Class
servers. Benchmarking of the new HP N-4000 complex placed the system 200th on the worlwide list of the
top 500 supercomputing sites. |
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| | Alpha cluster at University of Calgary upgraded
The Compaq Alpha Cluster supercomputer at the University of Calgary is upgraded with more Alpha processors and is valued at more than CDN$2.3 million. It uses Compaq AlphaServers ES240 and DS20 systems and Compaq AlphaStation workstation systems running in a Compaq Tru64 UNIX. |
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| | Problems with Internet 2 in Argentina
The future of Internet 2 in Argentina seems to be hampered by technical and economic
questions. The Internet 2 exists in the country on paper, but telecom companies do not have the
capacity to establish the links, and the State cannot back the investment
needed. The supercomputer Clementina II that did cost 3.5 million euro, at the National Commission of Atomic Energy also suffers from this lack of fast access. |
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| | Artic Region Supercomputing Center buys Cray SV1 supercomputer
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)has signed a US$3 million order for a 32-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer. ARSC's academic and government researchers will use the new system to study atmospheric, environmental and geophysical problems unique to the Arctic, polar regions and high latitudes. |
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| | Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center sells old Cray supercomputer through E-bay
The Pittsburgh Supercomputer Centre did sell a 16 Gflop/s Cray-C90 machine through E-bay. The seven-year old machine was decommissioned in 1999. Hopefully the buyer does not think he is really buying a supercomputer... |
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| | Critical Path delivers advanced messaging for high-end IBM AIX systems
Critical Path is supporting AIX with a optimised version of its InScribe Messaging Server. The Tec of Monterrey, a private University in Mexico, has selected the InScribe
Messaging Server on AIX as the foundation for its internal messaging system. |
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| | U.S. Navy selects SGI Origin 3000 systems
The U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) in Monterey, Calif., has purchased two SGI Origin 3000 series systems utilising the breakthrough SGI NUMAflex technology.
A 128-processor SGI Origin 3800 machine is slated for delivery in October 2000, and a 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 system will be installed in spring 2001. FNMOC, the Department of Defense's primary supercomputer processing centre for operational numerical weather and ocean prediction, is converting over from Cray C90 technology to the SGI Origin 3000 series based on the highly scalable NUMAflex modular computing architecture. |
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| | Euro-Par 2000 August 28 to September 1st in Munich
The 6th edition of the Euro-Par Conference, a union of several, former independent conferences, attracted more than 400 participants from all over the world. Additionally to the keynote and invited talks, 167 have been accepted from 326 papers. The proceedings have been published in Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1900. Around the Conference tutorials and two other conferences have been organised, SCI Europe 2000 (Scalable Coherent Interface), proceedings are available and APART 2000, Automatic Performance Analysis. |
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| | Cluster and grids tutorial texts available
All the presentations of the "Clusters and Grids" Tutorial that was held June 13-14,
2000 in Mannheim are freely available for downloaded.
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| | Record web intelligence on IBM SP
Business Objects announced record-breaking performance
of WebIntelligence 2.5 on the IBM RS/6000 SP. Results of this real-world simulation, performed at the IBM
benchmarking center in Montpellier, France, showed that
WebIntelligence 2.5 running on an 8-node IBM RS/6000 SP can be
deployed for up to 300,000 users depending on usage type. The testing
simulated users who log on and view and refresh WebIntelligence
reports. |
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| | EPFL inaugurated Swiss-T1 supercomputer
The Federal Polytechnical Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) has awarded itself with a new parallel supercomputer. Inaugurated on Wednesday 23rd August, the Swiss-T1 presents the particularity to use standard components. The machine was developed by EPFL, in collaboration with the Compaq and Supercomputing Systems (SCS) companies. |
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| | CSCS gets a new organisational structure
The Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo
Scientifico), an affiliation of ETH Zurich based in Manno, Lugano, steps up
toward a more agile, effective and efficient organisational structure in
order to cope with the ever growing and more sophisticated HPCN (High
Performance Computing and Networking) needs and requirements of Scientists,
Researchers and Engineers, both at National and International level, and to
stay a top of the technology and market trends for HPCN solutions. |
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| | Cray received order for 128-processor T3E from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology
The new Cray received its first order from Japan,
valued at $3 million. The Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (JAIST) has ordered a 128-processor Cray T3E-1200E(TM) MPP
system. The system is scheduled for delivery and customer acceptance
in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000. |
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| | Bioinformatics Infects PDC
In the spring of 2000, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation awarded 7.5
million Swedish crowns (MSEK) for bioinformatics development to Gunnar von
Heijne and Björn Engquist. The grant will be awarded over 5 years, at 1.5
MSEK per year, and is part of an 800 MSEK grant for functional genomics. |
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| | MUSE Virtual Presence wins Royal Navy contract to develop virtual reality simulators
Muse Virtual Presence has won a major defense competition to deliver new close-range gunnery simulators to the Naval Recruitment and Training Agency (NRTA) for the Royal Navy. The simulators,
based on mature Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, will "immerse" trainee
operators within synthetic ship-based environments where they will be trained
in the procedures for engaging a wide range of dynamic air, sea and coastal
targets.
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| | September issue of UK HPC Profile published
HPCProfile will focus on direct support for
applications developed within the CCPs and HPCI
Consortia. It will also include information on the EPSRC
Distributed Computing Programme, DisCo. The Sepetmber issue features and article on the "Daresbury Beowulf-Class Machines", and contains lots of information on other HPC activities in the UK. |
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| | Was European HCPN technology transfer successful?
From the March 1997 until March of this year, The European Commission (EC) has funded
a number of Technology Transfer Nodes (TTN's) that should bring the benefits of previous research in HPCN to SME companies.
The programme took 46 million euro of EC funding, industry invested and additional 30 million euro and
academic institutions another 2 million. Over 656 man years were invested by 630 project partners.
There was a network set up with two coordinating companies to manage the whole TTN programme.
But was it successful? According to the official "HPCN Network Impact Report" published by the HPCN TTN network,
this type of activity clearly represents good value for money, but analysing the financial details in the report leaves some doubts. |
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| | Brochure on image processing and HPCN
The German HPCN Technology Node in Thuringia (TTN-T) has published a brochure on "Image Processing and Parallel Computing in Medical Applications" which summarises a number of European take-up and support projects on application of HPCN in medicine. |
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| | Sandia extends Cplant (Computational Plant) Cluster
Compaq Computer Corporation delivers an other 1300 computers to extend the "home-made" Sandia Cluster Cplant, which ranks 62 in the June 2000 Top500 list. It delivers 232 Linpack GFlop/s compared to a peak performance of 560 GFlop/s out of 580 processors. |
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| Industry
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| | Sun leads TPC-C benchmark
The Sun Enterprise
10000 server broke the world record for single-system performance on
the TPC-C benchmark by registering 156,873.03 transactions per minute
(tpmC) running Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) at a very
economical $48.81 price/tpmC. Continuing its long time performance
leadership, the Sun Enterprise 10000
Starfire server, has set or reset 40 benchmark records in its
storied four-year history. |
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| | Sun and MSI to collaborate on on-line drug discovery
Sun Microsystems
and Molecular Simulations a wholly owned subsidiary of
Pharmacopeia strted a collaboration to deliver
advanced dot-com grade solutions spanning the drug discovery pipeline.
Sun and MSI will enable cheminformatics and bioinformatics
researchers to deploy MSI's solutions across networked environments and
through application service providers (ASPs). The collaboration aims to
open new markets for MSI's bioinformatics and structural biology
products. |
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| | Sybase on top TPC SMP benchmark
Sybase announced
record-setting results of an audited Transaction Processing Performance
Council-C (TPC-C) benchmark of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
12.0.0.2, its flagship, portal-ready database, on the Sun Enterprise
10000 Starfire server. ASE 12.0.0.2 captured the No. 1 slot in SMP database performance.
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| | PAM-CRASH 2000 and PAM-SAFE 2000
ESI Group announced new versions of its flagship products PAM-CRASH and PAM-SAFE. The PAM-CRASH crash simulation software predicts how a vehicle will respond to crash tests, while PAM-SAFE enables the simulation of the effects of restraint systems such as airbags and seatbelts, on occupants represented either as dummies or biomechanical models of the human body. |
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| | National Computational Science Alliance offers web based MPI training
The National Computational Science Alliance
(Alliance) in the USA announced its is offering a new Web-based course on the Message Passing Interface
(MPI).Each of the 13 sections in the MPI course offers a statement of objectives and a
brief introduction. Most sections include examples and descriptions of routines
as well as the most appropriate applications or algorithms. One case study is
used throughout the course, building on the new materials introduced in each
section. Self-tests in each section help users check their understanding of the
material presented. |
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| | Sydney games Web site took 683 million hits on a single day
The official Olympic Games Web site Olympic.com, on a single day, Monday, September 18, set a new world record for Web traffic recording 683 million hits. This one-day tally surpasses the total traffic of 634 million hits received by the record setting Official site of the Nagano Olympic Games Web site during the entire 16 days of the Nagano Games in 1998. |
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| | Dow Corning chooses Sun for SAP
t Dow Corning Corporation bases its large
international SAP (Systems, Applications and Products) system on Sun
StorEdge arrays and data management software, Sun Enterprise
servers and the Solaris Operating Environment. Dow Corning
relies on end-to-end solutions from Sun to deliver its SAP-based
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment to 10,000 users in
all time zones and in multiple languages on a 24x7 basis. |
| | Full article...
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| | First applications at Shanghai supercomputer center
The Shanghai Super-computer Center today kicked off its first application projects, with the signing of co-operation pacts with several leading research bodies in the city. This was reported by the Xinhua News agency. Among its first customers are the Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, the Shanghai Observatory, the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Research Institute and the Chemistry Department of Fudan University. |
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| | SGI to manufacture Unix systems in India again
According to Asia Pulse SGI India, is considering resuming its manufacturing
operations in the country. |
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| | Superdome should keep HP in TOP500
Although not in the upper regions, HP has a strong presence in the TOP500 with its V-class servers and clusters. The newly introduced Superdome should reassure this position for the next few years. Superdome comes with a maximum of 64 processors and 256 Gbyte of memory. It can be clustered to a total of 512 processors. Although interesting for technical computing too, HP main target markets are large dotcom companies, and commercial applications. |
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| | Build the fastest supercomputer for less than $10,000
This year, SC2000 will host a competition for teams building there own machine for less than US $10,000 and bring it with them to Dallas. There a number of predefined benchmarks will be run to determine the winner. |
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| | Blue Hammer extends S80 clustering capabilities
IBM today announced a Unix cluster system dedicated to Web-based commerce. Code named "Blue Hammer," the high performance cluster for the first time brings the comprehensive management capabilities of IBM's supercomputers to its RS/6000 S80 enterprise server. |
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| | Express5800/120Rc-2 server from NEC aimed at e-business market
NEC announced the Express5800/120Rc-2 server, aimed at the fast-growing e-businesses. In addition NEC Computers' service provider platform offers
customers an all-in-one solution, including fibre channel storage from
EMC Corp. , rack systems from APC, factory hotload
options for Red Hat Linux and new UltraCare
installation services. |
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| | Sparc IIe: 64-bits for embedded applications
Sun Microsystems announced availability of its newest UltraSPARC processor,
targeted for embedded applications. The 400/500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe
microprocessor is the first highly integrated 64-bit processor for embedded
applications in the telecommunications, network infrastructure and ISP
markets based on SPARC architecture. |
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| | Sun sells over 3000 Starfires
Sun today announced BellSouth as the buyer of the
3001st of its high-end Starfire system. Sun's most prolific server,
the 64-CPU Starfire enables customers to run the most demanding,
multi-terabyte applications for data warehousing, decision support,
online transaction processing and data analytics on a single,
scalable server. |
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| | EPCC installs small Beowulf cluster
The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) installed a small 16-Athlon processor Beowulf cluster called Bobcat, running RedHat Linux. EPCC also installed a Sun HPC 6500 18-processor Sun HPC 6500 UltraSPARC II based system for production runs of large and medium size parallel jobs. |
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| | VN's IMSL on Redhat's Linux
Visual Numerics has ported its IMSL Fortran 90 Library to the Red Hat Linux operating
system. This port was accomplished
using the Fortran 90 compiler from The Portland Group. |
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| | SGI to sponsor RoboCup
SGI has entered a worldwide sponsorship agreement with the RoboCup Federation, a non profit organization based in Bern, Switzerland that
promotes state-of-the-art robotics and artificial intelligence research. SGI
will provide the RoboCup Federation with computer equipment and technical
support, primarily on the Linux platform, for three years beginning with
RoboCup 2000, the fourth world robot soccer championship in Melbourne,
Australia that started on August 28, 2000. |
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| | Conoco builds 0.5 Tflop/s Linux cluster for petroleum industry
Conoco claims it installed the largest
Intel-based geophysical computer available in
today's petroleum industry. Conoco's new supercomputer is part of
the company's state-of-the-art in-house seismic data processing
system. It is 0.5 Tflop/s Linux based cluster. |
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| | Linux support centres from IBM in Pacific region
IBM today announced major Linux initiatives aimed at speeding the ability of Asia Pacific customers and key software vendors to increase productivity within the Linux operating environment.IBM will invest more than $200 million in the Asia Pacific region within the next four years on seven Linux Development Centers, Linux Competency Centers, alliances with Linux-focused business partners, Linux research and development and other programs, along with rapid deployment of more than 300 specialized Linux consultants, hardware and software specialists, researchers, product developers and services professionals. |
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| | Open Source Linux development lab formed
A non-profit Open Source Development Lab has been formed that for developers of Linux software with enterprise capabilities. The lab will be located near Portland, USA. Intel Corporation, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and NEC Corporation will be founders of the lab. Companies that are
supporting it are Caldera Systems, Dell Computer, Linuxcare, LynuxWorks, Red
Hat, Silicon Graphics, SuSE, TurboLinux, and VA Linux Systems |
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| | Terra Soft offers 8-Node Power PC Linux clusters
Linux company Terra Soft offers a portable, 8-node PowerPC cluster with Black Lab Linux installed and
configured for parallel processing and development. |
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| | SuSE Linux on Sparc
SuSE Linux 7.0 is now also available for the Sparc architecture from Sun Microsystems. SuSE Linux currently supports PowerPC, S/390, RS/6000 and Alpha processors in addition to the Intel platform. |
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| | Walt Disney purchases more than 500 SGI Octane Visual Workstations
Walt Disney Feature
Animation (WDFA) did buy more than 500 Silicon Graphics visual
workstations. The purchase, announced at IBC 2000 in Amsterdam, gives WDFA powerful new computing power. Most recently, Disney used a full range of SGI
workstations and servers to create digital characters and special effects for
such visually driven feature films as Gone in 60 Seconds, Mission to Mars and
Dinosaur as well as the upcoming 102 Dalmatians. |
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| | GlobeXplore unveils largest on-line earth imagery archive
GlobeXplorer, Inc., an online
company supplying images of the earth over the Internet, unveiled a
first-of-its-kind rich media web site. GlobeXplorer imagery provides broad views of the entire earth down
to detailed views of neighbourhoods, buildings and streets in a way
never before possible, right to the desktop |
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| | Intergraph-SGI alliance finalised
SGI and Intergraph have finalised the terms of a
strategic alliance announced in July. |
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| | VirCinity opens new offices with VR art exhibition
The VR company VirCinity that markets the Covise product, opens new offices in Stuttgat on September 27 with a VR exhibition called 'KUNST_LICHT ' art_light environment" by Gyjo Frank. |
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| | SCore Users Group Meeting
The First SCore Users Group Meeting will be held at Oxford University on October 3rd. It is supported by Oxford University and the Japanese Real World Computing Partnership.
SCore is a cluster system software package to support cluster system users. |
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| | Cobion's ImageCenter uses supercomputer power to detect Internet brand infringements
Cobion GmbH inaugurated operations of its
Global ImageCenter, the largest indexed database of online images in the
world. The ImageCenter, powered by a 500 CPU parallel processing supercomputer,
is the engine behind Cobion's unique image-based brand protection services. It
is supported by an integrated array of high speed databases which index 30 to 50
million images from the Web each day. |
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| | A Grid to simulate earthquakes
The US National Science Foundat awarded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) $300,000 to lead a national partnership of research centers in planning and designing the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) grid, a national virtual laboratory for earthquake engineering. |
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| | Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters
The Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters , to be held in Conjunction with
the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in
San Francisco, April 23-27, 2001 has issued a call for papers: closing date October 16th 2000. |
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| | First International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce
The First International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce
to be held in San Francisco, California, USA, April 27, 2001
Has issued a call for papers. Deadline October 16, 2000 .
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| | Parabon claims top100 position for its distributed computer
Parabon Computation a provider of distributed supercomputing, has reached a milestone this week: Individuals from over 70 countries on 6 continents have downloaded its Pioneer software since the company's June 14, 2000 launch. In a mere 80 days, news of Parabon's Internet computing platform moved thousands of computer users from around the world to harness their computers' idle power via the Internet. Today, this places Parabon's platform among the 100 most powerful computers in the world, the company claims. |
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| | CCGrid2001: IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
The IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid to be held on 16-18 May 2001, Brisbane, Australia has released a call for papers. Deadline: 4 November 2000. |
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| | GriPhyN as a starting point for a new, faster Grid
The Universities of Florida and Chicago will lead an $11.9
million initiative that will lay the groundwork for a powerful, fast computational data grid. The initiative, called the Grid Physics Network, or GriPhyN (pronounced
"griffin"), is funded by the largest grant in the National Science Foundation's
new Information Technology Research programme, which supports long-term basic
research on networking and information technology. Other major partners in the
project are the University of Wisconsin, California Institute of Technology and
the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Connections will be set-up with the DataGrid, set up in Europe by a CERN lead Initative. |
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| | Veridian announces release of PBS 5.0
Veridian announced the new professional edition of the Portable Batch System: PBS Pro
5.0. PBS is a supercomputer workload management and also widely used for batch queuing on Linux clusters. The PBS workload management solution and flexible scheduling capabilities provide increased utilisation of valuable computer resources. |
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| | Lion and Platform start initiative to support human genome research
Platform Computing announced today a joint marketing initiative with LION Bioscience of Heidelberg, Germany to help accelerate international research on the human genome. Platform's LSF for DRM will be incorporated into LION's powerful SRS data integration platform, enabling pharmaceutical, bioinformatic companies and research organisations worldwide to enhance their productivity as they manipulate computational data related to DNA sequencing and chromosome mapping, disease gene discovery and bioinformatics. |
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| | DataSynapse brokers idle PC power
DataSynapse is harnessing idle PC capacity to benefit companies with a need for speed at a fraction of the cost to create equivalent computing power. Through DataSynapse's peer-to-peer platform, companies can reduce the time it takes to process complex applications from days to minutes. By dividing large computational tasks into smaller tasks to be performed by a network of idle desktop computers, DataSynapse is enabling supercomputer-level processing speed, initially for the speed-starved financial services sector. |
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| | September 2000 issue of TCPP Newsletter published
The IEEE TCPP (Technical Committee on Parallel
Processing) has published its September 2000 issue. It contains member news and information on conferences. |
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| | Call for Participation in November 2000 version of TOP500 list
To provide a basis for
statistics on high-performance computers, Hans W. Meuer, Erich
Strohmaier and Jack J. Dongarra, have put together the TOP500
Supercomputer List. The list is a collection of the sites that,
according to stipulated criteria, have the 500 most powerful computer
systems installed. The next release of the TOP500 Supercomputer List
will be presented at the SC2000, November 4-10 in Dallas, TX. The deadline for submitting entries is October 6, 2000. |
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| | US NSF Awards $2.3 Million grant for high-performance wireless network
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.3 million, three-year research grant to UC San Diego to create, demonstrate, and evaluate a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network for research and education. This is reported by "NPACI Online". Principals on the proposal are with the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research NLANR at SDSC, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography SIO. |
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| | Essential Signs Exclusive Agreement With VIEO To License Gigabyte Networking Technology to VIEO
Essential Communications inked an agreement to
license the rights to VIEO's Gigabyte System Network (GSN) technology. Under the
terms of the agreement Essential has the exclusive right to develop and
manufacture products based on VIEO's GSN technology. Essential
will develop this technology to ensure that GSN is available for all the major
platforms including Sun, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Cray and SGI. |
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| | NEC completes first shipment of major W-CDMA infrastructure system
NEC has completed the first shipment of a major W-CDMA infrastructure system for NTT DoCoMo's commercial service deployment scheduled to begin operating from May 2001. |
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