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November 2000
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Contents
November 2000
Issue
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| Atlantic |
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| | Etnus TotalView for US DOE's 30 Tflop/s system
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| | EMC`s Data General Division Announces New ccNUMA Server
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| | US Federal Aviation Administration replaces aging computers with SGI Origin 200 Servers
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| | IBM's Shark keeps US senate in safe waters
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| | University of Houston receives $2 million to develop air quality forecasting model
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| | Market Data confirms Dell's leadership in U.S. education market
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- DE |
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| | High Performance Computing at Deutsche Telekom AG
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- IT |
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| | PARCO 2001
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- NL |
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| | HPCN Europe 2001
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| | Tulip includes Endurance in high-availability servers
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| Country
- UK |
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| | EPPC TRACS visiting programme requests applications
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| | UKHEC Seminar: Java for High End Computing
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| | Sun's 3D-immersive virtual technology showcased at PTC's Warwick Collaboration Center
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| Europe |
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| | New versions of ESI Group stamping simulation solution are now available
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| | Compaq offers Compaq C++ Version 6.3 for Linux Alpha
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | IEEE standard for modelling and simulation
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| | Molecular Simulations and Compaq collaborate on materials research
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| | JNI connects IBM's shark storage to SUN's Starfire
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| | Vampir on more supercomputers
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| | Platform signs agreement with EDA company Cadence
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| | HiPer 2000 - High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems
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| | Geneva Proteomics to use Compaq products and services
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| | Unravelling the origin and evolution of our galaxy
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| | Doctoral theses on-line
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| | Mercury upgrades high altitude missile observatory
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| | Piranha selects SGI Origin 3000 for real-time, multi-stream video-encoding service
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| | Cray and MSC.Software partner for delivering to the automotive market
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| | More NAG algorithms available for accurate complex statistical analysis in Excel
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| | Computational Physics (CCP) 2001 in Aachen
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| | IMSL on Fujitsu VPP5000 supercomputer
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| | IBM's Blue Gene team touts for Scientific Collaborators
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| | Raytheon wins $34 million contract to upgrade supercomputer laboratory
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| | University of Hawaii to use new IBM supercomputer for meteorological research
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| | Cray and MCube team to attack automotive wind noise
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| | C/C++ programmers benefit from the world's best numerical algorithms
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| | New Massively Parallel Processing versions of ESI's simulation software launched
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| | Sixth International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies opens call for papers
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Virtuoso 4.2 IDE with as multiprocessor DSP support and multitasking network host server
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| | Sun Fire first UltraSPARC III server
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| | NEC and Intel form server system alliance
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| | Icron to supply USB Ranger for SGI 3000
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| | NEC and HP collaborate on Itanium based servers
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| | UltraSPARC III architecture based, 64-bit Sun Blade 1000 workstation debuts at 900 MHz
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| | Sun second in HPC market according to IDC
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| | Exit R6/6000, S/390, AS400, - it is all IBM eServer from now on
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| | First multi-processor workstation with dual AMD Athlon processors
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| | Sun scales capacity of flagship array to 169 Tbyte
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| | New IntelliStation E workstation from IBM
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| | PACT unveils the eXtreme 32-bit 51.2 Gops processor platform
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| | Wallach to deliver SC2000 keynote
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| | IBM to build $300 million state-of-the-art chip packaging facility in China
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| | SGI posts net loss
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| | IBM supercomputer perspectives
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | VA Cluster Manager software VACM version 2.0 available
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| | PV-WAVE Databasa connection ported to Linux
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| | Atipa rolls out Ascendance computational clusters
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| | Scyld computing announces next generation Beowulf clustering operating system
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| | Atipa joins the Linda Club
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| | NCSA demonstrates results from pilot efforts with Intel onItanium-based clusters
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Silicon Graphics Zx10 Visual Workstation claims fastest Windows NT performance on industry benchmarks
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| | Magic Earth opens doors to future with new visualization center
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| | CART selects SGI media streaming and digital content creation solutions to promote real-world learning
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| | Magic Earth opens new visualization center
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| | Special Effects in 'Gladiator' powered by Platform's LSF Technology
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| Industry |
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| | Record third quarter for Compaq Computer Corporation
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| | AXS Technologies unveils break-through EyeSpy image technology
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | European Grid researchers advise European Commission to put more Grid into the IST research programme
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| | Platform and SUN expand collaboration
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| | Fifth Grid Forum conference
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| | European Grid Forum merger with US Grid Forum prepared
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| | ACE ships new Summer 2000 release of CoSy compiler development system
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| | Cluster 2000 final programme available
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| | Scali SSP version 2.1 for Alpha with Linux
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| | DataGrid project web site
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| | Codine based Sun Grid Engine software available free
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| | DataSynapse selects Progress SonicMQ to enhance its peer-to-peer broadband network
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| | GX Technology to provide Texaco with E-based depth imaging solutions
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| | Scheduling and Load Balancing on Clusters (SLAB 2001)
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| | Kesselman and Foster on board Entropia
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| | ShareAPhoto unveils online digital video solution using SGI Origin 3000
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| | First Macintosh version of commercial distributed computing software launched
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Submit your cluster for the TOP500
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| | A portable version of the standard Linpack benchmark
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| Networking |
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| | Internet domain names in Asian languages
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| | NEC sets 6.4 Terabits/second high density DWDM transmission capacity record
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| | JCI develops next gen optical networking collaboration tools on SGI 3000
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| | Compaq and Ericsson to build next gen AlphaServer based switches
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| | NEC and Hitachi agree to jointly develop next-generation optical transport systems
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| Networking
- The Grid |
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| | Funet to be upgraded to 2.5 gigabit capacity
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Leads
November 2000
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| Atlantic |
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| | Etnus TotalView for US DOE's 30 Tflop/s system
Etnus'
TotalView debugger/analyzer was selected for use in the U.S.
Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administrations
(NNSA) 30 tflop/s supercomputer to be built by Compaq. |
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| | EMC`s Data General Division Announces New ccNUMA Server
Data General has launched its new AV 35000 server with powerful Pentium III Xeon processing. The AV 35000 is Data General's latest and most innovative enterprise consolidation solution. The newest member of the award winning AViiON series, this enterprise server can adapt to changing workloads by scaling up to 64 Pentium III Xeon processors. |
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| | US Federal Aviation Administration replaces aging computers with SGI Origin 200 Servers
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has purchased 104 SGI Origin 200 servers as part of a modernisation programme designed to upgrade Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) systems at major airports around the United States.
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| | IBM's Shark keeps US senate in safe waters
EchoMail, a e-mail relationship management (ERM) application service provider to
Fortune 500 companies, has bolstered its service offering and dramatically down-sized its hardware needs by integrating a powerful combination of IBM servers featuring the copper-fueled RS/6000 S80 and Shark Enterprise Storage Server. |
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| | University of Houston receives $2 million to develop air quality forecasting model
The Environmental Protection
Agency budget, which was passed by the U.S. Congress recently, includes $2 million for
the University of Houston (UH) to research and develop an ozone simulation and
forecasting model of the Houston and Gulf Coast region.
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| | Market Data confirms Dell's leadership in U.S. education market
Recently released market data confirms Dell is No. 1 in the U.S. education market, ahead of both Windows-based vendors and Apple Computer Corporation. Dell has worked with a wide range of education customers recently to provide innovative network and server solutions. |
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| | High Performance Computing at Deutsche Telekom AG
At a press meeting, Willi Seemke from the Telekom daughter DeTeCSM (Deutsche Telekom Computer Service Management) GmbH received a model of an IBM SP computer for their 100th SP system and disclosed the usage for such a lot of supercomputers. Michael Teyssedre, IBM director of RS/6000 Server Sales Worldwide, discussed new developments and perspectives in their high performance computer area, which are discussed in an other article of this issue. |
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| | PARCO 2001
The ParCo2001 conference is the continuation of the longest running and most prestigious international parallel computing conference in Europe. The conference will be held from 4 - 7 September 2001 in Naples, Italy. Paper submission is now open. |
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| | HPCN Europe 2001
HPCN Europe 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 23-25, 2001 has published a call for papers. Closing date: December 1st 2000. |
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| | Tulip includes Endurance in high-availability servers
Result, Tulip Computers will include
Marathon Endurance products in its Tulip Vision Line to address
the high-end market that requires optimum server uptime. |
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- UK |
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| | EPPC TRACS visiting programme requests applications
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)
is co-ordinating 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). The TRACS
programme is funded by the Commission of the European Communities. Next closing date for application is November 8. |
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| | UKHEC Seminar: Java for High End Computing
As part of the UK High End Computing (UKHEC) collaboration, EPCC is
organising a one-day seminar on Java for High End Computing on Monday the 20th of November, 2000. |
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| | Sun's 3D-immersive virtual technology showcased at PTC's Warwick Collaboration Center
Sun Microsystems has demonstrated the first manifestation of its effort to develop flexible,
scalable 3D solutions for the Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) market. These solutions allow customers and system integrators to incorporate top quality virtual display technology at a fraction of the usual cost. The Sun Enterprise 450 workgroup servers, powered by the Sun Expert3 graphics accelerators, have been selected by PTC, the product development company and a leading provider of CPC solutions, to support its Collaboration Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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| Europe |
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| | New versions of ESI Group stamping simulation solution are now available
The new 2000 versions of ESI Group's stamping simulation software have been released. ESI Group solution enables users to simulate the stamping operations from the early design stage to the whole manufacturing process. It includes PAM-QUIKSTAMP, a rapid validation tool for part and design feasibility, PAM-DIEMAKER, a dedicated software for die addendum design, as well as OPTRIS and PAM-STAMP, two comprehensive validation stamping simulation tools. |
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| | Compaq offers Compaq C++ Version 6.3 for Linux Alpha
Compaq offers the newest version 6.3 of its C++ compiler for Linux on Alpha systems. For non-commercial usage the compiler can be downloaded for free. There are several improvements bringing the compiler in the same quality range as those for traditional languages. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | IEEE standard for modelling and simulation
The US Department of Defense (DoD) High Level Architecture (HLA) for
simulation cleared the final hurdle to becoming an IEEE standard. The Standards Board of the Institute of Electronic and
Electrical Engineers (IEEE) voted to accept the HLA as an international
standard. |
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| | Molecular Simulations and Compaq collaborate on materials research
Molecular Simulations, a
subsidiary of Pharmacopei, and Compaq Computer Corporation
will start a business relationship focused on delivering the
world's premier software and hardware solutions for materials research, bridging
the gap between theory and experiment with the best computational tools for materials
simulation and matinformatics. |
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| | JNI connects IBM's shark storage to SUN's Starfire
JNI Corporation, a Fibre Channel host bus adapter
company said that IBM has
qualified JNI's FCI-1063 PCI-to-Fibre Channel and FC64-1063
SBus-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for IBM's Enterprise
Storage Server connected to fabric-enabled Solaris-based servers. |
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| | Vampir on more supercomputers
Pallas announced availability of Vampir and Vampirtrace on the Fujitsu VPP5000 and the Hitachi SR8000 supercomputers. |
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| | Platform signs agreement with EDA company Cadence
Platform Computing has signed a joint marketing agreement with Cadence Design Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, Platform Computing will tightly integrate its LSF distributed Workload Management capabilities with Cadence's computational intensive programs.
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| | HiPer 2000 - High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems
More than 80 participants joined this years' HiPer (Hewlett-Packard's High Performance Computing European User Group) in Barcelona, Spain, from September 17th to 20th. It was well organised by CESCA (Centre de Supercomputacio de Catalunya - the Catalonian Center of Supercomputing). About 6 invited and 25 contributed talks had been given. The HiPer2001 will take place in Bremen from October 7 to 10, next year |
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| | Geneva Proteomics to use Compaq products and services
Geneva Proteomics Inc., ("GeneProt"), a Geneva based biotechnology company will use Compaq Computer Corp. as its exclusive IT partner. The two major research Proteomics factories are located in Geneva, Switzerland, and in the United States. As part of the agreement, GeneProt will use Compaq Global Services, StorageWorks storage systems, and high-end AlphaServer systems and Tru64 UNIX as the operating system. The contract value is expected to exceed $70 million (US) over a period of four years. |
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| | Unravelling the origin and evolution of our galaxy
A group of researchers from the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), the Grupo Mecanica del Vuelo company (GMV), and the Centre de Supercomputacio de Catalunya (CESCA), have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to do the first scientific, technical and computing design of GAIA's database. The primary science goal of the GAIA mission is to clarify the origin and history of the Milky Way. |
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| | Doctoral theses on-line
TDC@T is a server that stores doctoral theses defended at the public universities of Catalonia (Spain) and allows remote access to the full document through Internet. This project, running from October 15, has been an initiative of the public universities of Catalonia, the Supercomputing Centre of Catalonia (CESCA) and the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC).
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| | Mercury upgrades high altitude missile observatory
Mercury Computer Systems has delivered a RACE++ system valued at
$1.4 million to Aeromet that will use the PowerPC "G4" based
system to upgrade its High Altitude Observatory (HALO) aircraft under
contract to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC). |
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| | Piranha selects SGI Origin 3000 for real-time, multi-stream video-encoding service
Piranha, has
selected the SGI Origin 3000 series server as the development platform
for a proprietary multi-processor software encoding system that allows for
real-time, multi-stream image processing, as well as state-of-the-art video
compression. |
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| | Cray and MSC.Software partner for delivering to the automotive market
Cray and MSC.Software announced
the first results of a collaboration programme for delivery to automakers.
Early results of the supercomputing collaboration include a 900-percent speed-up
in key calculations for Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) Optimisation using
the industry-standard MSC.Nastran software product. |
| | Full article...
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| | More NAG algorithms available for accurate complex statistical analysis in Excel
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has just announced the release of a brand new set of NAG Statistical Add-Ins to complement the existing set. The NAG Statistical Add-Ins for Excel provide functions that enhance and increase the accuracy of Excel's statistical analysis easily. |
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| | Computational Physics (CCP) 2001 in Aachen
The Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) 2001 will be held in Aachen, Germany on September 5 - 8, 2001, with focus on Computational Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems .
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| | IMSL on Fujitsu VPP5000 supercomputer
Visual Numerics has ported its IMSL C Numerical Library (CNL) Version 4.0 to the
Fujitsu VPP5000 supercomputer, the first supercomputing platform for which
CNL is available. |
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| | IBM's Blue Gene team touts for Scientific Collaborators
Over a year ago IBM announced the Blue Gene project, promising to develop a Petaflop/s computer to study protein structures. This machine is a hundred times more powerful than the present 10 Teraflop/s computer installed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, USA, and also developed by IBM. To achieve Petaflop/s performance a million processors are needed working in tandem without failures solving one problem, namely, the direct simulation of a protein structure. This is un-chartered territory; how to get the hardware working reliably is a gargantuan engineering task and modelling the science part is at least as challenging. |
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| | Raytheon wins $34 million contract to upgrade supercomputer laboratory
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $34 million contract to upgrade the
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) supercomputer laboratory in
Princeton, New Jersey. The upgrade is expected to improve the USA's climate
prediction and weather forecasting capabilities. |
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| | University of Hawaii to use new IBM supercomputer for meteorological research
The University of Hawaii (UH) introduced an IBM supercomputer code-named "Blue Hawaii" that will explore the inner workings of active hurricanes, helping university researchers develop a greater understanding of the forces driving these destructive storms. The IBM SP system, the first supercomputer ever installed at the University of Hawaii, is the result of an initiative by the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) in collaboration with IBM. This initiative has culminated in an innovative partnership between the university, MHPCC and IBM. |
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| | Cray and MCube team to attack automotive wind noise
Cray and MCube, a simulation software provider to manufacturers worldwide, will collaborate on next-generation automotive design, alleviating wind noise from side mirrors and driver's side window structures (`"A-pillars"), as well as exhaust
system noise. The goal of the supercomputing collaboration is to help automakers to increase passenger cabin comfort. |
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| | C/C++ programmers benefit from the world's best numerical algorithms
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has released the NAG C Library, Mark 6. This latest version of the C Library gives C/C++ programmers over 450 user-callable functions, which they can rely upon to give them the right answers, consistently. |
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| | New Massively Parallel Processing versions of ESI's simulation software launched
ESI has made available its flagship simulation software, PAM-CRASH 2000, PAM-FLOW 2000 and PAM-STAMP 2000, on Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) environments. Tailored for the automotive manufacturing and transportation industry, Massively Parallel Processing meets the high performance requirements of the most computationally intensive applications in the fields of crash-worthiness testing, aero-acoustics, aerodynamics and stamping simulation.
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| | Sixth International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies opens call for papers
The Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academgorodok, Novosibirsk), Novosibirsk State University and Novosibirsk State Technical University are jointly organising
the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT-2001). The conference will be held in Novosibirsk, September 3-7, 2001. PaCT-2001 will give an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel computing technologies. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Virtuoso 4.2 IDE with as multiprocessor DSP support and multitasking network host server
Eonic Systems today unveiled its Virtuoso 4.2 Integrated
Development Environment (IDE), for the design of multiprocessor embedded DSP networks, such a radar, sonar and high-end image processing. The Virtuoso 4.2 IDE includes the Virtuoso 4.2 RTOS, a project manager, a new multi-threaded asynchronous network host server, and a suite of graphical analysis and debugging tools, as well as plug-ins to TI's Code Composer Studio and ADI's Visual DSP. |
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| | Sun Fire first UltraSPARC III server
Sun Microsystems
introduced the first UltraSPARC III server the Sun Fire 280R based on 750 MHz processor. |
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| | NEC and Intel form server system alliance
NEC and Intel Corporation will form a server system alliance spanning research, development and manufacturing for Intel-based server board and system technology solutions.
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| | Icron to supply USB Ranger for SGI 3000
Icron Systems has signed a supply agreement with SGI to
integrate its USB Ranger family of products, powered by ExtremeUSB
technology, into the recently introduced SGI 3000 family of systems. |
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| | NEC and HP collaborate on Itanium based servers
NEC announced an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) for IA-64 (Intel Architecture 64) server alliance expanding upon previous relations between two companies. NEC supplies its 16 way Itanium server (Code name AzusA) to HP as an OEM basis and HP will market AzusA world wide as a product in its family of HP9000 enterprise servers.
HP develops and supplies its UNIX operating system (HP-UX) for IA-64. |
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| | UltraSPARC III architecture based, 64-bit Sun Blade 1000 workstation debuts at 900 MHz
The Sun Blade 1000 workstation, offered at a sub $10,000 price point, features the first
implementation of the UltraSPARC III architecture and gives twice the performance, memory
and disk capacity of existing UltraSPARC II systems.
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| | Sun second in HPC market according to IDC
Sun Microsystems claims it has risen past IBM, Compaq and SGI to become the second
leading supplier of HPC systems during the first half of the
year. Powered by the strength of the company's flagship Sun
Enterprise 10000 Starfire server, the
company leaped from a fifth-place ranking to a close second in
the space of two quarters.
During the first two quarters of calendar year 2000, Sun
represented a solid 20 percent of the market with revenue of $580
million, according to IDC's second quarter report on the High
Performance Technical Computer market. Sun's HPC market share is
20 times larger than it was in 1996, its first full year in the
market. Annual revenue since then has skyrocketed from $50
million to more than $1 billion. |
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| | Exit R6/6000, S/390, AS400, - it is all IBM eServer from now on
IBM has changed the names of all of its server families to IBM eServer. The RS/6000 systems are now called pSeries, the AS400, iSeries, the S/390 zSeries and the Intel based servers xSeries. Although there is a clear tendency towards more compatibility, all systems will run Linux and Java, and technologies developed for one category were already adapted to the others, it remains to be seen whether it is worth changing all the well-known names. A disadvantage is also that the new server brand names are nor very recognisable nor very appealing or easy to remember. |
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| | First multi-processor workstation with dual AMD Athlon processors
AMD
demonstrated a multi-processor computer designed specifically to
work with AMD processors. The demonstration, consisted of a computer powered by dual AMD
Athlon processors, the AMD-760 MP chipset, and next-generation
Double Data Rate (DDR) memory. The multi-processing computer
demonstration featured 3D Studio Max, a professional 3D design and
modelling application capable of increasing system performance by using
both processors simultaneously. |
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| | Sun scales capacity of flagship array to 169 Tbyte
The Sun StorEdge array now scales from 1.3 to 169 terabytes with the addition of
new-generation 73-gigabyte disk drives. This high-availability array
offers full redundancy, including mirrored cache. |
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| | New IntelliStation E workstation from IBM
IBM announced a new IntelliStation computer. Priced under $1,500, the new
IBM IntelliStation E Pro workstation enables Web page developers,
architects, financial analysts, and product designers to affordably
upgrade from a PC to a workstation so they can crunch large amounts of
numerical data or manipulate large 3D models faster and more reliably. |
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| | PACT unveils the eXtreme 32-bit 51.2 Gops processor platform
PACT Corporation unveiled the eXtreme Processor Platform (XPP) for
advanced, processing-intensive high-bandwidth applications. Based on an
innovative architecture, the eXtreme Processor enables designers to easily use
massively parallel processing to reach unprecedented performance and bandwidth
levels. The first eXtreme Processor, the XPU128, has demonstrated performance that is up
to 50 times greater than conventional sequential processors and 20 times higher
than digital signal processors (DSPs), which are basically sequential processors
fine-tuned for signal processing. The first XPP device achieves sustainable peak
performance in excess of 50 Giga Operations per second (GigaOps), making it the
world's most powerful 32-bit processor. |
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| | Wallach to deliver SC2000 keynote
Steve Wallach will deliver the keynote 'Petaflops in the Year 2009' at SC2000 in November in Dallas. |
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| | IBM to build $300 million state-of-the-art chip packaging facility in China
IBM plans to invest $300 million to build an organic chip packaging manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China to support IBM's growing semiconductor business around the world. The facility is part of the recently announced $5 billion worldwide investment plan by IBM. The new facility will produce electronic cards and high technology chip carriers incorporating IBM's packaging technologies called Surface Laminar circuitry (SLC) and HyperBGA. The technologies are used in wired and wireless networking applications, Web servers and pervasive computing market segments. |
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| | SGI posts net loss
SGI has announced financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2001 ended September 30, 2000.
For the quarter, the company posted revenue of $426 million compared with $514 million one year ago.
The company reported a net loss of $49 million for the quarter compared with a net loss of $225 million for the same quarter one year ago.
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| | IBM supercomputer perspectives
Michael Teyssedre presented new developments and the future of the future of IBM SP supercomputers. He discussed the new Federation Switch and what can be connected. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | VA Cluster Manager software VACM version 2.0 available
VA Linux Systems introduced VACM 2.0, the latest release of VA Cluster Manager software. VACM is an e Open Source software tool that is
designed to enable easy remote monitoring and management of large
clusters of hundreds of servers, whether they are all located under
one roof or distributed across ISP data centers around the world. |
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| | PV-WAVE Databasa connection ported to Linux
Visual Numerics has ported PV-WAVE Database Connection
to the Red Hat Linux operating system. PV-WAVE Database Connection previously supported only the Unix
and Windows operating systems. |
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| | Atipa rolls out Ascendance computational clusters
Atipa Corporation rolled-out a new product line of Beowulf
computational clusters, the Ascendance series for the scientific, educational, and corporate sectors.
Atipa engineers have pre-packaged hardware platforms, software,
and connectivity providers into Ascendance clusters that can be delivered
quickly and cost-effectively to the burgeoning high performance computing
market. |
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| | Scyld computing announces next generation Beowulf clustering operating system
Scyld Computing Corporation released the Scyld Beowulf Scalable Computing software that provides simplified cluster integration and set-up, minimal administration, and seamless scalability.
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| | Atipa joins the Linda Club
Atipa Corporation has joined The Linda Club, a new partnership
initiative for Beowulf resellers sponsored by Scientific Computing Associates,
Inc. (SCA), a leader in high-performance computing software. The Linda Club
allows resellers to offer free to their customers a four-node Linux version of
Linda, Scientific's programming language for parallel and
distributed computing, when it is bundled with a Beowulf cluster.
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| | NCSA demonstrates results from pilot efforts with Intel onItanium-based clusters
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has demonstrated Intel's Itanium processor as a high-performance computing solution by running two scientific applications that have already achieved new performance levels on the new architecture. The demonstration took place during the Intel eXCHANGE event on October 11 and 12. |
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Silicon Graphics Zx10 Visual Workstation claims fastest Windows NT performance on industry benchmarks
SGI says its
new Silicon Graphics Zx10 visual workstation with Wahoo Technology, powered
by, an Intel Pentium III 933 MHz processor, topped competitors'
posted Pentium III 1 GHz processor performance on the industry-standard SPECgpc
benchmarks |
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| | Magic Earth opens doors to future with new visualization center
Magic Earth sees "no dry
holes" in its future, or the future of its customers. The young, innovative
company has unveiled its newest and largest,
state-of-the-art visualization facility, the Erik D. Geisler Visualization
Center.
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| | CART selects SGI media streaming and digital content creation solutions to promote real-world learning
The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) has selected SGI media streaming and digital content creation solutions as key components of its innovative educational programme designed to combat the high student drop-out and unemployment rates in California's Central Valley. The CART programme is designed as a supplementary curriculum to provide high school students with the opportunity to acquire the real-world technology skills critical for success in
today's high-tech work force and higher education environments. This is particularly significant in the Fresno/Clovis area, where close to 20 percent of students drop out of high school and the unemployment rate is 14 percent. |
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| | Magic Earth opens new visualization center
The Houston based company Magic Earth unveiled its newest and largest, state-of-the-art visualization facility, the Erik D. Geisler Visualization Center.Walking through the front doors of the 7,000 square feet facility, visitors are met with the techno-color brilliance of the purple and red walls. Glass panels offer a view of the SGI graphics supercomputers, the central nervous system of Magic Earth's revolutionary facility, designed to tackle the most demanding visual computing challenges. The space is dominated by the metallic gray 'pod', named for its dome-like structure, that houses the next generation immersive display system and collaborative work environment. Inside this room, Magic Earth and its clients explore billions of bytes of data and interpret the 3D images of complex geologic structures that are projected onto the panoramic screen.
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| | Special Effects in 'Gladiator' powered by Platform's LSF Technology
Distributed resource management and high tech special effects combined forces this summer as Platform Computing Corporation's LSF software suite played a major role in the production of the stunning digital effects for Mill Film's summer blockbuster, "Gladiator". |
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| | Record third quarter for Compaq Computer Corporation
Compaq reported worldwide revenue of US $11.2 billion for the quarter ended
September 30, 2000, an increase of 22 percent over the prior year period.
Adjusted for the effects of currency, revenue grew 26 percent.
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| | AXS Technologies unveils break-through EyeSpy image technology
AXS Technologies unveiled its groundbreaking EyeSpy Image Server
solution during Fall Internet World 2000 at the Jacob Javits Center in New
York City.
The EyeSpy Image Server, a patented, instant high-resolution imaging
solution, was demonstrated during an exclusive invitation-only launch event
before a crowd of e-Commerce professionals, Internet Service Providers (ISPs),
software application developers, integrators and web caching suppliers. |
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- The Grid |
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| | European Grid researchers advise European Commission to put more Grid into the IST research programme
At the initiative of the European Commission, a number of researchers active on Grid research, both from research institutes and industry attended a workshop to advise the Commission on the future of the Grid in Europe.
They advised the Commission to put more of the Grid in next year's European Research programme. There are many application areas that could benefit from Grid developments, the researchers said.
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| | Platform and SUN expand collaboration
Platform Computing and Sun Microsystems concluded a joint marketing and development agreement, marking an expansion of
the two companies long-time, global collaboration. Sun Microsystems
and Platform Computing will work closely
together to continue to satisfy the growing market demand for
next-generation, high performance technical computing solutions for
Fortune 1,000 and e-Business organisations.
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| | Fifth Grid Forum conference
Until today, over 180 people have already registered for The Fifth Grid Forum workshop on 15-18 October, 2000 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Grid Forum working sessions are aimed at discussions and progress of Current Grid Forum Drafts.
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| | European Grid Forum merger with US Grid Forum prepared
At the European Grid Forum (Egrid) meeting a Steering Committee was installed.
This group should look at a
possible merger with the US Grid Forum, establish a long-term strategy and represent the
EGrid.
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| | ACE ships new Summer 2000 release of CoSy compiler development system
ACE Associated Compiler Experts is shipping the Summer 2000
release of its premier product, the CoSy compiler development system. This
release offers designers of complex and flexible architectures optimal and comprehensive
capabilities, including use of C++ for engine development. |
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| | Cluster 2000 final programme available
The programme of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing to be held November 28 - December 1 2000 at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, is available. |
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| | Scali SSP version 2.1 for Alpha with Linux
Scali has released version 2.1 of the Scali Software Platform (SSP). SSP is now available for the Alpha Platform running Red Hat Linux. Other new features include compatibility with MPICH and desk top support on non-Unix systems. |
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| | DataGrid project web site
The DataGrid Project is a proposal made to the European
Commission for shared cost research and technological development funding. The
project has six main partners: CERN, CNRS, ESRIN, INFN, NIKHEF, PPARC. and fifteen associated partners. CERN maintains a website for the project and related DataGrid topics. |
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| | Codine based Sun Grid Engine software available free
As a result of the Gridware acquisition earlier this year, Sun Microsystems is now offering Codine based Sun Grid Engine software free via Sun's
web site, and with every Sun system.
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| | DataSynapse selects Progress SonicMQ to enhance its peer-to-peer broadband network
DataSynapse, a peer-to-peer platform for distributed computing has selected Progress Software Corporation's SonicMQT e-business messaging server to
be embedded in its distributed peer-to-peer processing platform.
DataSynapse is creating one of the world's largest, secure peer-to-peer 100%
broadband PC networks, where the idle processing power of thousands of PCs
connected to the Internet can be combined to create a virtual supercomputer. |
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| | GX Technology to provide Texaco with E-based depth imaging solutions
GX Technology Corporation (GXT) signed a multi-million dollar, multi-year
agreement to provide Texaco Inc. with a comprehensive range of prestack depth
imaging and related solutions. Using GX'
BLink, Texaco geoscientists are also able to complement GXT's services through
remote, on-demand access to computing intensive EarthWave applications
running on GXT's state-of-the-art clustered supercomputer.
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| | Scheduling and Load Balancing on Clusters (SLAB 2001)
A special session
on
scheduling and load balancing on clusters (SLAB 2001) will be held during the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001) on 16-18 May 2001
Brisbane, Australia. Papers are requested. |
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| | Kesselman and Foster on board Entropia
Entropia, Inc.
recently added two internationally acclaimed technology leaders
to its Scientific Advisory Board. As SAB members Ian
Foster and Carl
Kesselman will provide strategic and technology guidance
as Entropia leads the industry in the emerging field of peer-to-peer
distributed computing. |
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| | ShareAPhoto unveils online digital video solution using SGI Origin 3000
At Streaming Media Europe in
London this week, online digital media pioneer ShareAPhoto,
launched its ShareAVideo server-based solution for converting, managing
and sharing consumers' online multimedia albums. The ShareAVideo solution,
based on the recently launched SGI Origin 3000 series server, is the logical
next step for the creators of the most popular ASP model for the digital media
community. |
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| | First Macintosh version of commercial distributed computing software launched
Popular Power, a leader
in distributed computing, launched a preview release of its Macintosh
client software. Mac users can now download the Popular Power software, which
harnesses the surplus processing power of Internet-connected computers.
Participants donate their unused computing resources to important research
projects and will soon have the option of selling that time to companies with
large-scale computing needs.
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- TOP500 |
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| | Submit your cluster for the TOP500
The organisers of the TOP500 list would especially ask anyone with a large cluster to have a look whether their machine would qualify for inclusion in the list of top500 supercomputers. More info on the TOP500 web site. |
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| | A portable version of the standard Linpack benchmark
HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance Linpack Benchmark for distributed-memory computers has been released. It is written by Petitet, Whaley, Dongarra, and Cleary. It can be used to benchmark the performance of machines and use the results for comparison, or inclusion, in the TOP500 list of supercomputers. |
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| | Internet domain names in Asian languages
Domain name registrar 1stDomain.Net, based in Hawaii's supercomputer
center on Maui, allowing for fast connections between the US and Asia, will process multilingual domain names in the Japanese, Chinese
and Korean languages.
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| | NEC sets 6.4 Terabits/second high density DWDM transmission capacity record
Researchers from NEC have set a new world record in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) by achieving an ultra-high transmission capacity of 6.4 Terabits/second per second (Tbps) over a single 186 km optical fiber. This transmission capacity is equivalent to sending one million motion pictures over a single fiber at one time, and almost doubles the previous record of 3.28 Tbps. NEC announced the test results Sept. 7 at the European Community Optical Communication Conference (ECOC) in Munich, Germany. |
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| | JCI develops next gen optical networking collaboration tools on SGI 3000
JCI Corporation, provider of the FIRELINE digital
collaboration tools in the production and distribution of digital cinema, will develop its
next-generation scalable broadband tools using the SGI platform. In a
cooperative agreement, JCI Corporation and its technology partners, including
optical network supplier, Lucent Technologies, will leverage new modular
computing technology and storage area networking solutions from SGI to provide
uncompressed high-definition and real-time interactive networking to the
entertainment industry. |
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| | Compaq and Ericsson to build next gen AlphaServer based switches
Ericsson and Compaq Computer have formed a strategic partnership to jointly develop and build advanced switching computers for Ericsson's AXE-based next-generation wireless
and wireline networks. These switches, which are the powerful computers at the heart of telephone networks, will incorporate Compaq's high-performance
AlphaServer and Tru64 Unix technology. |
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| | NEC and Hitachi agree to jointly develop next-generation optical transport systems
NEC Corporation and Hitachi Ltd. have agreed to pursue the joint development of next-generation optical transport systems. This is the first step of both companies' wide-ranging and long-term alliance in the telecommunications arena. |
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| Networking
- The Grid |
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| | Funet to be upgraded to 2.5 gigabit capacity
The Finnish centre for high performance computing and networking CSC will
speed up the Finnish University and Research Network Funet to 2.5 Gbps per
second. The update is scheduled for completion at the beginning of 2001
and it will make Funet one of the world's most powerful data network
providers for the field of research and academic education. Other academic
networks with the same operational speed include Abilene of the American
Internet2 and the Dutch Surfnet. |
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