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Contents
January 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | US National Archives and Records Administration budget approved
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- DE |
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| | Mannheim Supercomputer conference in Heidelberg
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| | HLRS parallel processing workshops
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| | Six German States buy one 5 Tflop/s supercomputer
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- Other |
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| | University of Warsaw did order a Cray SV1
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Daresbury hosts 11th Machine Evaluation Workshop
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Alliance between NEC and ESI
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| | Euro-Par call for papers
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| | Visiting Sanger Centre in November
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| | Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust
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| | How Computing Power is Driving the Advances in Biotechnology
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| | Impact of IT on the Sanger Centre
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| | Fast Genomic Sequence Search
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| | The Cancer Genome Project
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| | The Awful Truth
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| | Computational chemogenomics Locus raised US$42.75 million
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| | PARCO2001 released call for papers
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| | Concurrent introduces next-gen high-performance series 3200
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| | RACE++ scalable PCI-based multi-processor system from Mercury
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| | AxCell Biosciences strengthens its strategic relationship with Compaq
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| | STMicroelectronics Announces Acquisition of Portland Group
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| | Shared Medical Systems applies IBM shark storage servers
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | SC global a virtual conference using Access Grid technology
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| | Partition pricing for HP Superdome
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| | Report on the SC2000 Conference
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| | SC2000 Keynote - Towards Petaflop/s
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| | SC2000 Technical programme - drifting away from pure HPCN
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| | SC2000 Technical programme - Grids a conference main theme
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| | SC2000 Technical programme - OpenMP coming to age - first results Giganet
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| | SC2000 The state-of-the-field
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| | SC2000 The exhibition
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| | The world's smallest wineglass
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| | IBM to roll out new CMOS chips
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| | Sun leads in Unix servers
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| | NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon-Led Consortium to eliminate computer failures
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| | Shark extended with new features
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| | New Cray vice president of human resources
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| | IBM To Deliver 7.5 Tflop/s supercomputer To NuTec Sciences
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Bull to OEM 16-processor Azusa from NEC
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| | SGI invests in SuSE
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| | Telia installs Linux on IBM mainframe creating 1500 virtual Linux machines
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| | Japanese ISP Mega installs Linux cluster to serve more than 100,000 customers
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| | Shell to build large Linux cluster
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| | Campanula flower reconstruction code on LosLobos cluster
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| | SuSE Linux 7.0 Released for Alpha CPUs
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| | MSC.Software and SGI Provide Linux OS-Based Simulation Software
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| | MSC.Linux for demanding applications
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Laval 20001- Third Virtual Reality International Conference
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| | New SGI line of clustered graphics systems
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| | OpenGL Performer 2.4 for Linux
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| | STN ATLAS selects Onyx 3000 to develop Swiss Army's Electronic Tactical Simulator
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| | Czech Air Force simulators on Onyx2 reality engines
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| | JCI Corporation to install over 350 Tbytes for entertainment creators
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| | Kasenna MediaBase on Linux Servers
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| | Win the Laval Virtual Reality Trophy
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | University of Urbino joins USA NPACI international affiliates programme
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| | Dell and Unisys collaborate on 32 processor system
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| | New Computational Science Resource Community
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| | Sun Cluster 3.0 introduced
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| | ITU ventures invests in Simulant start-up
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| | Using distributed Internet computing to monitor Internet performance
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| | The Beowulf factor in High Performance Computing
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| | Programme Global Grid Forum conference
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| | Data Management 2001
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| | ProgrEraGen buys 100 processor machine
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| Networking |
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| | Croatia connected to European research network backbone
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Leads
January 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | US National Archives and Records Administration budget approved
The US Congress has approved and
President Clinton has signed appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2001
that gives the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) all of the
budget increases requested by the President. With base funding plus
the new addition, NARA will continue working toward ERA within the National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Through this partnership,
the San Diego Supercomputer Center has produced prototype demonstrations for
preserving large volumes of electronic records such as email messages in a
relatively short time. NARA will continue research toward building an archives
that can preserve any kind of electronic record indefinitely, free from
dependence on any specific hardware or software, and enable customers to
retrieve the electronic records they need on computer systems now in use and
coming in the future. |
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| Country
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| | Mannheim Supercomputer conference in Heidelberg
The Mannheim International Supercomputer Conference will next year be held in Heidelberg, June 20 - 23, 2001. |
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| | HLRS parallel processing workshops
The HLRS organises six workshops in parallel processing beginning next year in several German cities. The aim of these six workshops is to give people with some programming
experience an introduction into the basics of parallel programming.
The focus is on programming models, MPI, OpenMP and HPF,
domain decomposition, load balancing and parallel numerics.
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| | Six German States buy one 5 Tflop/s supercomputer
Six German States (Läder) have formed a consortium to acquire one big 5 Tflop/s category supercomputer for their
researchers. The machine will cost 20 million euro and will be distributed over two supercomputer centres.
It is the first time six States come together to buy one supercomputer. The countries of Berlin,
Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and
Schleswig-Holstein did, and agreed to each pay a share of the machine. The size of each country's contribution depends on the number of inhabitants, and gross national product.
The states pay 50% of the machine. The other 50% comes from federal funds. The peak performance will at least
be 3 Tflops/s and the memory size 3 Tbyte. The federal German Science Council offically approved the proposal late November. The two centres that will jointly operate the machine are the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)
and the
Regionalen Rechenzentrum für Niedersachsen (RRZN).
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| | University of Warsaw did order a Cray SV1
Cray will install a 32-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer system at the Warsaw
University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM), Warsaw, Poland.
The Cray SV1 system, to be installed this year in the ICM
facility, will be used to enhance national weather forecasts for
Poland and to support research in the mathematical,
natural and computational sciences. |
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Daresbury hosts 11th Machine Evaluation Workshop
22-24 November 2000: Some 130 people from computer vendors, computer service providers and researchers in scientific fields, a few from industry, but mostly from UK universities, attended the 11th machine evaluation workshop at EPSRC Daresbury Laboratories, UK. Of great interest were the Beowulf solutions, where clusters can be cobbled from favoured commodity Chips and Interconnect Network to fit one's pocket,
and hopefully computing needs. This article provides a flavour of the workshop. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Alliance between NEC and ESI
Nihon ESI, ESI Group's Japanese subsidiary, and NEC announce a strategic cooperation agreement dedicated to the development of the first Virtual Engine Factory system. The system will simulate the entire process of building an automotive engine, from design to manufacturing, including the engine's motion. Developed by NEC and ESI Group, the Virtual Engine Factory system will be designed for the NEC supercomputer SX-5 using ESI Group's advanced MCAE technology.
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| | Euro-Par call for papers
Euro-Par 2001 to be held in Manchester, UK, August 28 - 31, 2001 is releasing call for papers,
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| | Visiting Sanger Centre in November
Although it was late in November, the 20th, Sanger Centre in Hinxton near Cambridge presented itself from its sunniest side. It is a world leading genomics research centre and plays a key role in sequencing the human genome. Sanger scientists have generated more finished genomic sequence than any other organisation - public or private. It moves forward to play an equally key role in the postgenomic era, in functional genetics and informatics. This special covers some the most important topics from an IT and analysts view. |
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| | Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust
The Sanger Centre is a research centre and primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is located in Hinxton Hall, near Cambridge, in the "Genome Campus". Richard Durbin from Sanger gave a short introduction into the centre, the international activities and the actual projects. |
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| | How Computing Power is Driving the Advances in Biotechnology
Munich, 30. November 2000 Bill Blake, Vice President Compaq world wide High Performance Technical Computing, gave an overview of this market and importance and highlighted Compaq's role and investments in new Alpha processors as well as their roadmap.
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| | Impact of IT on the Sanger Centre
One of the most important aid in studying genomes is the use of high-end computers. Phil Butcher, Head of Information Technology at Sanger Centre, presented the storage and computing challenges as well as the actual usage of clusters of Alpha processors. |
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| | Fast Genomic Sequence Search
One of the actual projects concerned the fast search and all the computational requirements. Jim Mulliken from Sanger discussed the topics background, the SNP Consortium and the assembly of the whole genome. |
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| | The Cancer Genome Project
An other extremely interesting project was the Cancer Genome. Here the normal cells are compared with cancer cells. Systematically they search for changes in the genome sequence. Mike Stratton presented the Sanger approach. |
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| | The Awful Truth
Tim Hubbard brought good but also bad news concerning the genomes. Additionally he discussed the Ensembl Project, to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes. |
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| | Computational chemogenomics Locus raised US$42.75 million
Locus Discovery
a privately held computational chemogenomics biopharmaceutical company raised $42.75 million in a private round of equity financing
through the issuance of preferred stock. y. Locus will use the funds to continue developing its
revolutionary supercomputer-based approach to drug discovery, including
continued advancement of the Company's drug development programs, establishment
of a new research and development laboratory and office facility, and the hiring
of a significant number of scientific and other personnel. |
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| | PARCO2001 released call for papers
The conference on parallel processing, PARCO2001, Naples, Italy, on 4-7 September 2001 has released a second call for papers. Closing date January 15. |
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| | Concurrent introduces next-gen high-performance series 3200
Concurrent announced the
latest addition to its family of real-time computing systems - the
Model 3200-2000 next generation computer system. Concurrent shipped its first Model 3200-2000 system to Spain's
Corretaje e Informacion Monetaria y de Divisas, S.A. (CIMD) for use in
a financial brokerage application, allowing the company to provide the
latest information to its customers. In this context, the 3200-2000
system will enable CIMD customers, banks in this particular scenario,
to hold stock market positions and leverage operations in a real-time
environment. |
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| | RACE++ scalable PCI-based multi-processor system from Mercury
Mercury Computer Systems, announced the
RACE++ Series VantageRT 7400, expanding the embedded computing
industry's most powerful and scalable PCI-based family of solutions
for digital signal and image processing. The new product combines
RACE++, the company's second-generation interconnect architecture,
with the performance of the Motorola PowerPC 7400 microprocessor
with AltiVec(TM) technology to provide high-performance processing
systems that scale from two to 32 processors in an industrial PC
chassis. |
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| | AxCell Biosciences strengthens its strategic relationship with Compaq
AxCell Biosciences, a
subsidiary of Cytogen has
strengthened its strategic relationship with Compaq . Last December, AxCell began using Compaq's high performance
tru64 Unix Alpha systems to deliver the speed, scalability and performance
required to chart the signaling pathways within the human proteome. due to
increasing laboratory data output, AxCell's computing requirements have more
than doubled. Compaq's Alphaserver cluster technology has made the required
expansion seamless. AxCell is developing the interfunctional proteomics
database as a means of discovering new drug targets, and determining the
functional role of single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPS in
pharmacogenomics. |
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| | STMicroelectronics Announces Acquisition of Portland Group
Switzerland based STMicroelectronics (formerly SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics) will acquire Portland Group Inc (PGI), a vendor of compilers and software development tools to the high-performance parallel computing market. ST will invest $17.1 million to acquire full ownership of PGI's operations, including the product portfolio, know-how and technologies developed by the company.
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| | Shared Medical Systems applies IBM shark storage servers
Shared Medical Systems Corporation, a healthcare industry network computing leader, has installed an IBM Shark Enterprise Storage Server to handle its growing application service provider business. Shared Medical Systems (SMS) is an outsourcer of information systems to health enterprises and health providers in North America, Europe, and New Zealand. It conducts as many as eight million transactions a day. Since the first installation of IBM's Shark Storage Server, SMS has scaled from 0 to 7.4 terabytes of data in less than a year, with plans to keep growing. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | SC global a virtual conference using Access Grid technology
At SC 2001, to be held November 10-16, 2001, in Denver, a virtual counterpart will be organised called SC Global. It is global
technical conference supported by emerging Access Grid technology. |
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| | Partition pricing for HP Superdome
Hewlett-Packard Company introduced a new pricing program, available initially for HP 9000 Superdome high-end UNIX servers. Referred to as partition pricing, this option allows service providers, enterprises and other Internet powerhouses to pay for incremental computing resources in alignment with forecasted growth. The program also offers an attractive entry price for the high-end HP Superdome solution and meets Internet data center needs for flexibility as well as for fast planning and implementation. |
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| | Report on the SC2000 Conference
In this report we give an impression of the SC2000 Conference held in Dallas, Texas, USA, on 4-10 November. We discuss some trends and new developments as noted at the conference and the associated exhibition. |
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| | SC2000 Keynote - Towards Petaflop/s
This year's keynote address was delivered by Steve Wallach, a
supercomputing veteran, co-founder of Convex and for long years CTO for
High Performance Computing at Hewlett Packard when it took over Convex.
He is now a venture capitalist acting in the HPC field.
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| | SC2000 Technical programme - drifting away from pure HPCN
Traditionally, the technical program is mostly of high quality and this
year this was at least true for the talks the author has attended. For
the regular papers there were 2 parallel tracks of half hour talks that
ran along with the Masterworks invited papers. As the field of HPCN has
broaded over the years this was reflected in the session subjects. |
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| | SC2000 Technical programme - Grids a conference main theme
Grids were one of the main themes of the SC2000 conference, apart from
addressing them in panels, also a technical session was devoted to the
subject. William Johnson from NASA Ames described NASA's Information
Power Grid (IPG) in which they want to combine a large amount of
services ranging from available HPC cycles to storage for massive
datasets. |
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| | SC2000 Technical programme - OpenMP coming to age - first results Giganet
The interplay between MPI and OpenMP was another sign of the coming of
age of OpenMP. In the cluster infrastructure session the first results of comparing
Myrinet against Giganet's cLan were presented. In the applications sessions Bill Gropp from Argonne National
Laboraroty reported about experiments with an unstructured mesh CFD
code using PETSc, a parallel scientific library developed at ANL |
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| | SC2000 The state-of-the-field
The State-of-the Field talks at SC2000 were mostly enjoyable
experiences. Four plenary, web-casted presentations were given in this
track. The first one was by Thomas Sterling about the birth and
development of the Beowulf cluster phenomenon. The second talk in this track was had a completely different nature. It
was entitled ``A small dose of Infosec'' by the speaker Gene Spafford
and addressed the field of computer security, or rather the lack of it. Margaret Wright from Bell Labs. was the third person featuring in this
series. The title of her talk was ``Numbers, lots of numbers and insight
too''. The last speaker in this track was J.C Browne from the University of
Austin, Texas. He gave an overview of languages for Parallel and
Distributed computing. |
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| | SC2000 The exhibition
Although the exhibition floor was not noticeably larger that in the
last few years, the amount of exhibits was certainly larger. The reason
for the growing activity can be found in the large number of small
startup companies that try their hand in cluster computing, grid
computing, or what was dubbed Megacomputing in the Panels section.
There was a variety of firms that sell preconfigured Beowulf clusters,
the vast mojority based on Linux, some based on Window, and one (BTG)
that offers a SparC-based cluster with the Solaris OS for Beowulf
prices.
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| | The world's smallest wineglass
Professor Shinji Matsui's research group at the Himeji Institute of Technology (HIT) and Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII), have made the world's smallest wine glass. Using highly advanced manufacturing techniques that can produce three dimensional (3D) objects at the nanometer scale (one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter), researchers built the glass from carbon with an external diameter of only 2,750 nanometers (nm), approximately 20,000 times smaller than a normal sized glass. Whether they did use it for sake to celebrate their success is not known. |
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| | IBM to roll out new CMOS chips
IBM has launched production of new microchips for
servers, communications gear and pervasive computing products. The new technology, named CMOS 9S, unites copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
transistors and improved, low-k dielectric insulation to build chip
circuits as small as 0.13 microns. |
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| | Sun leads in Unix servers
According to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Q3CY00 Server
Tracker Report, the tally shows that Sun registered 48 percent market
share of the world wide Unix server shipments -- shipping more than
three times as many servers as HP, nearly four times as many as Compaq
and almost five times that of IBM. Sun has been named the No. 1 vendor
in total Unix server shipments for a record 14th consecutive quarter.
Sun also continued its leadership in world wide Unix server revenue with
39 percent market share - HP, IBM and Compaq posted 23 percent, 16
percent and nine percent respectively. |
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| | NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon-Led Consortium to eliminate computer failures
A consortium formed by NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University and 11 other major information technology companies will try eliminate failures in computing systems that are critical to human safety and the welfare of society. |
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| | Shark extended with new features
IBM enhanced the Enterprise Storage Server, Shark with advanced disaster recovery; native Fibre Channel support for non-IBM systems including Sun, Hewlett Packard and Novell and FlashCopy for open systems.
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| | New Cray vice president of human resources
Cray Inc. appointed John
D. Neale vice president of human resources. |
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| | IBM To Deliver 7.5 Tflop/s supercomputer To NuTec Sciences
IBM and NuTec Sciences, Inc., today announced that they are building the world's largest commercial supercomputer, which NuTec's Life Sciences Division will use to investigate how genes interact in the human body to cause life-threatening diseases.
When completed, the 7.5-teraflop computing cluster could rank among the top 10 of the world's 500 largest supercomputers making it the fastest system installed outside a government agency. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Bull to OEM 16-processor Azusa from NEC
NEC will deliver its 16-processor Azusa, which is Itanium based, to Bull that will package it with its own AIX5L operating system or Linux and sell it as part of its range of compute servers.
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| | SGI invests in SuSE
SGI and SuSE formed an alliance under which, SGI will make an undisclosed equity investment in SuSE and
will work cooperatively on the development, deployment and support of the
Linux operating system and infrastructure code. |
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| | Telia installs Linux on IBM mainframe creating 1500 virtual Linux machines
IBM and Telia, Scandanavia's largest telecommunications and internet service provider, announced tha Telia will install a combination of IBM mainframe and Shark storage technology, both running on Linux, to host and run their business and consumer Internet services operations across Scandanavia. Using this technology, Telia will also offer customers in the Nordic countries IP-VPN (Internet Protocol/Virtual Private Network) services.
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| | Japanese ISP Mega installs Linux cluster to serve more than 100,000 customers
Mega Co., Ltd., an independent
Internet service provider (ISP) based in Tokyo, has adopted Turbolinux
Cluster Server for its new clustered server system featuring total
disk storage capacity of 1.5 terabytes and serving more than 100,000
corporate customers. |
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| | Shell to build large Linux cluster
Shell International Exploration & Production
B.V. and IBM develop and
deploy the world's largest Linux supercomputer. The supercomputer will
comprise 1024 IBM X-Series servers, packaged in 32 racks, all running Linux. |
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| | Campanula flower reconstruction code on LosLobos cluster
Using the large Linux cluster LosLobos, researchers at The University of New Mexico's
Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center have achieved a
nearly one-million-fold speedup in solving the
phylogeny reconstruction problem for the family of twelve Bluebell
species (Campanulaceae) from the flowers' chloroplast
gene order data. Phylogenies derived
from gene order data may prove crucial in answering some fundamental
open questions in biomolecular evolution. |
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| | SuSE Linux 7.0 Released for Alpha CPUs
SuSE Linux 7.0 for 64-Bit-Alpha systems has been released. In addition to the Alpha platform, SuSE Linux also supports Intel and PowerPC as well as the SPARC and S/390 architectures. |
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| | MSC.Software and SGI Provide Linux OS-Based Simulation Software
MSC.Nastran and
MSC.Software will be offered on Linux on SGI Itanium servers. |
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| | MSC.Linux for demanding applications
MSC.Software announced the beta availability of MSC.Linux. MSC.Linux,
a version of the Linux operating system from MSC.Software, combines
PCs into clusters, enabling them to address engineering problems once
only solved by expensive supercomputers. The operating system delivers
many industrial-strength capabilities including substantial memory,
large files, high-performance data transfer and cluster tools in an
easy-to-use, Web-based distribution, MSC claims. |
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Laval 20001- Third Virtual Reality International Conference
Laval Virtual is a major gathering for the international scientific and professional exchanges regarding Virtual Reality. The VRIC Conference is organised in four half days sessions chaired by international experts of Virtual Reality. The conference will take place in Laval, France 17 - 18th May 2001
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| | New SGI line of clustered graphics systems
SGI's new Graphics Clusters will support demanding real-time 3D applications in the training and simulation market. It will have integrated
software such as multiprocess OpenGL PerformerNT, to increase performance and realism and Advanced Cluster Environment (ACE) to simplify Linux cluster
administration. |
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| | OpenGL Performer 2.4 for Linux
SGI announced the OpenGL Performer 2.4 application programming
interface (API) upgrade for both IRIX and Linux operating systems. |
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| | STN ATLAS selects Onyx 3000 to develop Swiss Army's Electronic Tactical Simulator
STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH, Bremen, Germany, has selected the SGI Onyx 3000
series as the graphics system platform for the Swiss Army's Electronic Tactical Simulator for Mechanized Formations (ELTAM) program. |
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| | Czech Air Force simulators on Onyx2 reality engines
he Czech Air Forces is
using SGI visualization and supercomputing
technology to help train its pilots at Namest nad Oslavou. SGI , in
conjunction with Virtual Reality Media and Leteck頯pravny Kbely, helped to
develop a fully reconfigurable simulator modeled on the Russian Sukhoi Su-22
attack aircraft. |
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| | JCI Corporation to install over 350 Tbytes for entertainment creators
JCI Corporation today announced new
storage service capabilities and the future direction of an engineering
collaboration that was jointly announced by JCI and SGI (NYSE: SGI) on
September 27, 2000. JCI Corporation plans to add 386 terabytes of SGI Total
Performance storage solutions to its fiber optic Extranet by the end of 2002 to
meet the demands for its FIRELINE services by entertainment creators and
postproduction firms. |
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| | Kasenna MediaBase on Linux Servers
diaBase is now available for Linux-based servers . It offers e offers an integrated platform for multi-format streaming,
content management and content transfer supporting popular streaming formats
such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, RealVideo, RealAudio, QuickTime and MP3. |
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| | Win the Laval Virtual Reality Trophy
You can participate in the 2001 Laval Virtual Trophies Competition if you enter your contribution before
March 15.
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | University of Urbino joins USA NPACI international affiliates programme
The Research Institute for the Management of the Archives and Libraries at the University of Urbino in Italy joined NPACI. It will collaborate with NPACI partners on models for the long-term preservation and access to electronic records through the Data Intensive Computing DICE thrust area and XML technologies. |
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| | Dell and Unisys collaborate on 32 processor system
Unisys have signed a letter of intent
for Dell to market a 32-processor Dell PowerEdge server based
on the Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) server architecture. |
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| | New Computational Science Resource Community
The Computational Science Resource Community (CSRC) debuted at SC2000. The CSRC is an interactive community-building too to house on-line learning materials, assignments, reviews, and people with a connection to the field of computational science. |
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| | Sun Cluster 3.0 introduced
Sun Microsystems introduced Sun Cluster 3.0, a clustering
platforms for the service-driven network. Through automatic fault detection, recovery and redundancy, Sun Cluster
3.0, with the ability to cluster up to 8 nodes and scale up to 512
processors, ensures that mission-critical applications and services remain
continuously available. |
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| | ITU ventures invests in Simulant start-up
ITU Ventures, a venture capital firm that specifically focuses on financing businesses emerging from the nation's leading graduate universities, announced a seed investment in Simulant, Inc. Simulant has developed and is currently in beta release of a scalable distributed computing platform applicable to a broad class of both scientific and non-scientific problems. Simulant's distributed computing platform allows networked clusters of inexpensive personal computers to combine and duplicate the computational power of costly, high-performance supercomputers. |
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| | Using distributed Internet computing to monitor Internet performance
Envive Corporation will use Distributed Science's
network of over 145,000 computers from 72,000 unique suppliers to create a
worldwide Internet infrastructure for its performance testing and monitoring
services. |
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| | The Beowulf factor in High Performance Computing
In the late 1980's it became fashionable to give presentations with sound bites, such as, "supercomputers and the killer micro". The message was that cheap micros will replace the large scale supercomputers then in use, for solving the pressing problems of our time. Today the "killer Beowulf" has arrived; a cheap solution to supercomputing. A lot of time and money albeit in small parcels have been spent by "Geegs" to install clusters of Pentium, Alphas', Power 3 or other makes of commodity Chip, on a DIY (Do It Yourself) basis. These systems are mostly experimental relatively small, 32-64 nodes, cheap in capital outlay and in this author's view, are fraught with danger, especially in novice hands. "Buy (DIY) in haste, repent in leisure", as the Romans used to say.
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| | Programme Global Grid Forum conference
The Global Grid Forum conference draft programme is available. It can be found on the newly opened web site of the Dutch chapter of the Global Grid Forum. |
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| | Data Management 2001
The Conference Data Management 2001 will be held 26-28 February 2001, Hamburg, Germany. Closing date for paper submission is January 15. |
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| | ProgrEraGen buys 100 processor machine
USA Digital's subsidiary CAT Computers,
located in Gainesville, Florida, has designed and furnished a
high-speed integrated hardware solution for EraGen Biosciences, an
international biotechnology company. Phase one of the new Supercomputer provided by CAT Computers consists of 100 Intel Pentium III processors. The system's processing speed is approximately 70 Gflop/s
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CARNet, the Croatian Academic and Research Network, has been
connected to the European research backbone TEN-155 by a 34 Mbps link to Austria. As a result of other upgrades TEN-155 is now running at speeds of up to 622 Mbps. |
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