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| 23 October 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 431
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As part of the UK High End Computing (UKHEC) collaboration, EPCC is organising a one-day seminar on Java for High End Computing on Monday the 20th of November, 2000.
Ericsson and Compaq Computer have formed a strategic partnership to jointly develop and build advanced switching computers for Ericsson's AXE-based next-generation wireless and wireline networks. These switches, which are the powerful computers at the heart of telephone networks, will incorporate Compaq's high-performance AlphaServer and Tru64 Unix technology.
The Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) 2001 will be held in Aachen, Germany on September 5 - 8, 2001, with focus on Computational Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems .
At Streaming Media Europe in London this week, online digital media pioneer ShareAPhoto, launched its ShareAVideo server-based solution for converting, managing and sharing consumers' online multimedia albums. The ShareAVideo solution, based on the recently launched SGI Origin 3000 series server, is the logical next step for the creators of the most popular ASP model for the digital media community.
Over a year ago IBM announced the Blue Gene project, promising to develop a Petaflop/s computer to study protein structures. This machine is a hundred times more powerful than the present 10 Teraflop/s computer installed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, USA, and also developed by IBM. To achieve Petaflop/s performance a million processors are needed working in tandem without failures solving one problem, namely, the direct simulation of a protein structure. This is un-chartered territory; how to get the hardware working reliably is a gargantuan engineering task and modelling the science part is at least as challenging.
Michael Teyssedre presented new developments and the future of the future of IBM SP supercomputers. He discussed the new Federation Switch and what can be connected.
At a press meeting, Willi Seemke from the Telekom daughter DeTeCSM (Deutsche Telekom Computer Service Management) GmbH received a model of an IBM SP computer for their 100th SP system and disclosed the usage for such a lot of supercomputers. Michael Teyssedre, IBM director of RS/6000 Server Sales Worldwide, discussed new developments and perspectives in their high performance computer area, which are discussed in an other article of this issue.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has demonstrated Intel's Itanium processor as a high-performance computing solution by running two scientific applications that have already achieved new performance levels on the new architecture. The demonstration took place during the Intel eXCHANGE event on October 11 and 12.
NEC Corporation and Hitachi Ltd. have agreed to pursue the joint development of next-generation optical transport systems. This is the first step of both companies' wide-ranging and long-term alliance in the telecommunications arena.
Magic Earth sees "no dry holes" in its future, or the future of its customers. The young, innovative company has unveiled its newest and largest, state-of-the-art visualization facility, the Erik D. Geisler Visualization Center.
The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) has selected SGI media streaming and digital content creation solutions as key components of its innovative educational programme designed to combat the high student drop-out and unemployment rates in California's Central Valley. The CART programme is designed as a supplementary curriculum to provide high school students with the opportunity to acquire the real-world technology skills critical for success in today's high-tech work force and higher education environments. This is particularly significant in the Fresno/Clovis area, where close to 20 percent of students drop out of high school and the unemployment rate is 14 percent.
Data General has launched its new AV 35000 server with powerful Pentium III Xeon processing. The AV 35000 is Data General's latest and most innovative enterprise consolidation solution. The newest member of the award winning AViiON series, this enterprise server can adapt to changing workloads by scaling up to 64 Pentium III Xeon processors.
A special session on scheduling and load balancing on clusters (SLAB 2001) will be held during the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001) on 16-18 May 2001 Brisbane, Australia. Papers are requested.
Visual Numerics has ported its IMSL C Numerical Library (CNL) Version 4.0 to the Fujitsu VPP5000 supercomputer, the first supercomputing platform for which CNL is available.
Entropia, Inc. recently added two internationally acclaimed technology leaders to its Scientific Advisory Board. As SAB members Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman will provide strategic and technology guidance as Entropia leads the industry in the emerging field of peer-to-peer distributed computing.
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