|
|
||
| 16 Oct 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 430
|
|
|
Advertisement
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.
|
||
Geneva Proteomics Inc., ("GeneProt"), a Geneva based biotechnology company will use Compaq Computer Corp. as its exclusive IT partner. The two major research Proteomics factories are located in Geneva, Switzerland, and in the United States. As part of the agreement, GeneProt will use Compaq Global Services, StorageWorks storage systems, and high-end AlphaServer systems and Tru64 UNIX as the operating system. The contract value is expected to exceed $70 million (US) over a period of four years.
A group of researchers from the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), the Grupo Mecanica del Vuelo company (GMV), and the Centre de Supercomputacio de Catalunya (CESCA), have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to do the first scientific, technical and computing design of GAIA's database. The primary science goal of the GAIA mission is to clarify the origin and history of the Milky Way.
TDC@T is a server that stores doctoral theses defended at the public universities of Catalonia (Spain) and allows remote access to the full document through Internet. This project, running from October 15, has been an initiative of the public universities of Catalonia, the Supercomputing Centre of Catalonia (CESCA) and the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC).
PACT Corporation unveiled the eXtreme Processor Platform (XPP) for advanced, processing-intensive high-bandwidth applications. Based on an innovative architecture, the eXtreme Processor enables designers to easily use massively parallel processing to reach unprecedented performance and bandwidth levels. The first eXtreme Processor, the XPU128, has demonstrated performance that is up to 50 times greater than conventional sequential processors and 20 times higher than digital signal processors (DSPs), which are basically sequential processors fine-tuned for signal processing. The first XPP device achieves sustainable peak performance in excess of 50 Giga Operations per second (GigaOps), making it the world's most powerful 32-bit processor.
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has just announced the release of a brand new set of NAG Statistical Add-Ins to complement the existing set. The NAG Statistical Add-Ins for Excel provide functions that enhance and increase the accuracy of Excel's statistical analysis easily.
The Finnish centre for high performance computing and networking CSC will speed up the Finnish University and Research Network Funet to 2.5 Gbps per second. The update is scheduled for completion at the beginning of 2001 and it will make Funet one of the world's most powerful data network providers for the field of research and academic education. Other academic networks with the same operational speed include Abilene of the American Internet2 and the Dutch Surfnet.
Atipa Corporation rolled-out a new product line of Beowulf computational clusters, the Ascendance series for the scientific, educational, and corporate sectors. Atipa engineers have pre-packaged hardware platforms, software, and connectivity providers into Ascendance clusters that can be delivered quickly and cost-effectively to the burgeoning high performance computing market.
AMD demonstrated a multi-processor computer designed specifically to work with AMD processors. The demonstration, consisted of a computer powered by dual AMD Athlon processors, the AMD-760 MP chipset, and next-generation Double Data Rate (DDR) memory. The multi-processing computer demonstration featured 3D Studio Max, a professional 3D design and modelling application capable of increasing system performance by using both processors simultaneously.
Mercury Computer Systems has delivered a RACE++ system valued at $1.4 million to Aeromet that will use the PowerPC "G4" based system to upgrade its High Altitude Observatory (HALO) aircraft under contract to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC).
Piranha, has selected the SGI Origin 3000 series server as the development platform for a proprietary multi-processor software encoding system that allows for real-time, multi-stream image processing, as well as state-of-the-art video compression.
The Sun StorEdge array now scales from 1.3 to 169 terabytes with the addition of new-generation 73-gigabyte disk drives. This high-availability array offers full redundancy, including mirrored cache.
IBM announced a new IntelliStation computer. Priced under $1,500, the new IBM IntelliStation E Pro workstation enables Web page developers, architects, financial analysts, and product designers to affordably upgrade from a PC to a workstation so they can crunch large amounts of numerical data or manipulate large 3D models faster and more reliably.
Cray and MSC.Software announced the first results of a collaboration programme for delivery to automakers. Early results of the supercomputing collaboration include a 900-percent speed-up in key calculations for Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) Optimisation using the industry-standard MSC.Nastran software product.
Scyld Computing Corporation released the Scyld Beowulf Scalable Computing software that provides simplified cluster integration and set-up, minimal administration, and seamless scalability.
DataSynapse, a peer-to-peer platform for distributed computing has selected Progress Software Corporation's SonicMQT e-business messaging server to be embedded in its distributed peer-to-peer processing platform. DataSynapse is creating one of the world's largest, secure peer-to-peer 100% broadband PC networks, where the idle processing power of thousands of PCs connected to the Internet can be combined to create a virtual supercomputer.
GX Technology Corporation (GXT) signed a multi-million dollar, multi-year agreement to provide Texaco Inc. with a comprehensive range of prestack depth imaging and related solutions. Using GX' BLink, Texaco geoscientists are also able to complement GXT's services through remote, on-demand access to computing intensive EarthWave applications running on GXT's state-of-the-art clustered supercomputer.
Steve Wallach will deliver the keynote 'Petaflops in the Year 2009' at SC2000 in November in Dallas.
Atipa Corporation has joined The Linda Club, a new partnership initiative for Beowulf resellers sponsored by Scientific Computing Associates, Inc. (SCA), a leader in high-performance computing software. The Linda Club allows resellers to offer free to their customers a four-node Linux version of Linda, Scientific's programming language for parallel and distributed computing, when it is bundled with a Beowulf cluster.
HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance Linpack Benchmark for distributed-memory computers has been released. It is written by Petitet, Whaley, Dongarra, and Cleary. It can be used to benchmark the performance of machines and use the results for comparison, or inclusion, in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.
Primeur Weekly is published per e-mail. Check out the subscription information for more details how to subscribe. You can find the back issues on the Primeur web site. The EuroFlash! and USflash! are published together with ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service.
© 2000, Genias Benelux