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| 25 September 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 427
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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