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| 20 November 2000 |
EuroFlash no. 435
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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.
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SuSE Linux announced the release of SuSE Linux 7.0 PowerPC Edition.
The IBM Blue Horizon system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center has been upgraded to 1.7 Tflop/s. The machine ranks on position eight in the recent TOP500 list and is the most powerful unversity supercomputer in the USA.
The 9th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing will be held in Mantova, February 7-9, 2001.
Fujitsu-Siemens Computers has selected Adaptec's new 3200S and 2100S high-performance Ultra160 SCSI RAID controllers for use in its entire line of Intel based Primergy servers.
The TotalView debugger/analyzer from ETNUS was selected for use on Hitachi SR8000 high performance computing systems, three of which are ranked in the top ten on the TOP500 list: the highest ranking at Leibniz Rechenzentrum in Munich.
EyeSpy is the first digital imagery server to utilize parallel processing, offer multi-platform flexibility and operate in a pure HTML environment. EyeSpy also offers chacheability and is fully scalable. HPI has chosen to invest in AXS Technologies because they have developed and patented a brand new parallel processing technique that has far-reaching implications throughout business and government today and in the future.
Former Russian nuclear scientists are working together with the US Sandia lab on a project to research, design and develop an advanced 'smart leg.' Using a combination of microprocessors, hydraulic joints and electric motors, the leg will simulate a human leg on a wide range of terrain. The plan is to have the new prosthetic device available for use within 2 years.
Pedro Diaz Jimenez announced a prerelease of P-Suite: an effort to build a suite of scientific parallel programmes using the MPI standard.
ANSYS and SGI are collaborating to optimize the performance of larger, faster and more complex simulations through multiprocessor technology.
The Australian National University (ANU) won the Gordon Bell Prize for best price/performance at SC2000 in Texas. The machine, Australian-designed and built, called "Bunyip" is a Beowulf style parallel supercomputer.
QLogic announced the general availability of its host bus adapter (HBA) High Availability Package, a software module that provides complete data path redundancy in clusters and storage area networks (SANs) incorporating servers running Windows NT. The QLogic HBA High Availability Package also complements storage subsystem failover software by eliminating performance degradation associated.
Digital River, a Commerce Service Provider (CSP) that builds, hosts and manages e-commerce sites for thousands of clients, has selected 15 terabytes of Sun StorEdge arrays an Sun Enterprise servers to provide exceptional performance for those clients.
Turbolinux demonstrated the power of its EnFuzion software by breaking Microsoft NT passwords at product demonstrations during Linux Business Expo at Comdex in Las Vegas last week.
US home broadband users who visit the DataSynapse Web site and sign in will be able to profit from the time their computers sit idle by joining the company's premium distributed computing platform. DataSynapse says it currently has five beta clients in the financial services sector, an industry with an ever present need for speed.
NEC has received two new orders for its flagship SX-5 supercomputers from universities in Japan and installed a system at the Australian Center for Advanced Computing and Communications. The recent orders show the demand for vector supercomputers for tackling ever-complex computational problems is steadily increasing. NEC received an order for a 1.28 Tflop/s scalable parallel vector (PVP) SX-5 Series MultiNode supercomputer from Osaka University. The system, which employs 128 processors, will be one of the largest systems to be installed in Japan.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is the first customer to use this breakthrough display. The Livermore Lab will use the displays to study the operation and aging of nuclear weapons using 3-D model simulations that are crunched by the world's fastest supercomputer, the ASCI White machine IBM shipped to the Lab in July. IBM plans to ship the displays to other customers in 2001 and license the patented technologies to other manufacturers. With 200 pixels per inch and more than 9 million pixels in total on its 22-inch screen, the new display is as clear as an original photograph and 4.5-times sharper than top-of-the-line high-definition television screens.
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