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| 28 August 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 423
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ADVA Optical Networking announced that its Fiber Service Platform-I and -II (FSP-I and FSP-II) solutions support Coupling Link, a networking architecture used in a GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex) environment, where an enterprise can cluster geographically dispersed servers and replicate data for high availability and fault tolerance. Using Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, the FSP-I system can multiplex up to eight GDPS connections over a single pair of fibers.
Scientists at the University of Geneva are collaborating with the Swiss Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in an experiment that uses quantum computers to run an unbreakable encryption algorithm.
SuSE introduced a free test environment for the new 64-bit architecture. This environment is accessible through the Internet, allowing Application developers to test and adapt their Linux applications to the 64-bit-processor online.
Europe's fastest supercomputer the Hitachi SR8000 at LRZ in Munich, has been down for 19 hours due to cooling problems. Supercomputers as the Hitachi SR8000 generate enormous amounts of heat and need extensive cooling. LRZ tries to stretch the limits of what is possible with the cooling infrastructure, to save as much energy as possible and to run the machine as economically as possible. Last week this resulted in problems in the cooling infrastructure.
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), and Informix Corporation formed a strategic alliance by releasing the Informix NAG Financial Datablade module. The product has been tailored to address the needs of the financial services industry where reliable, accurate analysis tools are critical for sustained profitability.
(by Giacomo Polosa) Dick Sherman, President of RCI, passed unexpectedly away on the evening of July the 4th: it happened to be my birthday too, so a few hours before the sad event I had received his almost usual festive telephone call. Normally dedicated to comment the HPCN events of the week, discuss plans, results and (mostly) dreams for RCI... That time the phone call was short and mainly dedicated to a warm and sincere "happy birthday ".
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected Compaq to build the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer, a 30 Tflop/s as part of the ASCI programme. The machine will cost US $ 200 million and contain 12,000 Alpha processors. The machine will occopy more that 2,000 square meter.
SGI supplied more than 200 SGI 1200 Linux OS based servers to Digital Dream Studio (DDS), one of the major digital game and animation makers in Korea. DDS will use these systems as rendering servers for its 3D animation film ARK, targeted for release in 2001.
TIBCO Software, a provider of real-time infrastructure software for e-business, and Tonbu, Inc. a provider of collaborative commerce (C-Commerce) solutions for the electronic manufacturing services (EMS) market, announced a technology alliance that will bring to bring C-Commerce to the $90 billion EMS market. The management team of Tonbu, led by Steve Chen, the architect of the Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers, brings together decades of expertise in technology, engineering and manufacturing.
Kenneth P. Jacobsen, Ph.D., 49, has been appointed vice president of ISV Programs at SGI. He will report directly to Kenneth Coleman, executive vice president, SGI. Jacobsen will be responsible for all ISV (independent software vendor) partner programs, ISV technical support, and horizontal applications marketing.
Nine leading systems vendors, five leading operating system vendors and more than 30 independent hardware vendors demonstrated hardware and software for the forthcoming Itanium processor at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The platforms, operating systems, applications and compilers are reaching the stability levels necessary to enable initial end-user pilots and evaluation beginning in Q4. Intel also demonstrated a 1 GigaHertz processor. On Linpack, the processor is expected to peform 2 Gflop/s.
SGI Global Services and Mission Critical Linux, Inc. announced the availability of mission-critical support for SGI systems running Linux.
NASA Ames has ordered two 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 systems and will combine them to serve as a test bed for a 1,024-processor supercomputer. The system will be used by NASA scientists for research in the areas of aeronautics, earth sciences and life sciences.
The US Army Research Lab (ARL), one of the four Department of Defense (DoD) Major Shared Resource Centers (MSRCs) will install two separate SGI Origin 3000 series systems-with 512 processors and 256 processors, respectively-to support the DoD research community's unclassified and classified missions. These new SGI Origin 3000 series systems will give DoD researchers the added processing power to compute and analyse increasingly complex mission-critical projects.
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