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| 21 August 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 422
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Primeur is the premier news service on HPCN and supercomputing in Europe. Primeur Weekly delivers the news each week in your e-mail box. Check out the Primeur web site for the Calendar, the Analysis section with background on the TOP500, the Monthly en Live! special issues, information on HPCN centres and industry.
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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.
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.
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.
SAP AG and IBM announced general availability of the SAP Application Server functions on IBM's S/390 Enterprise Server.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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