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| 09 October 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 429
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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.
Result, Tulip Computers will include Marathon Endurance products in its Tulip Vision Line to address the high-end market that requires optimum server uptime.
Pallas announced availability of Vampir and Vampirtrace on the Fujitsu VPP5000 and the Hitachi SR8000 supercomputers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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