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| 02 October 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 428
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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.
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.
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.
HPCN Europe 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 23-25, 2001 has published a call for papers. Closing date: December 1st 2000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sun Microsystems introduced the first UltraSPARC III server the Sun Fire 280R based on 750 MHz processor.
NEC and Intel Corporation will form a server system alliance spanning research, development and manufacturing for Intel-based server board and system technology solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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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