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March 2001
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Contents
March 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic |
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| | SAIC in the USA upgrades FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System with SGI superservers
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| | Sid Karin steps down as SDCS director
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| | Dongarra elected to US National Academy of Engineering
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| Country
- DE |
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| | Fujitsu Siemens' hpcLine - more industrial users and more applications
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| | Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) buys 2 Tflop/s SUN system
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| | Supercomputer conference programme available
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| Country
- FR |
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| | CNRS will get the most powerful IBM Power4 supercomputer outside USA
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Training and Research on Advanced Computing Systems (TRACS)
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Terascale Computing System comes on-line at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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| | Cray sells MTA super to Logicon for the US Naval Research Laboratory
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| | Cryptologist at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs improves DSA encrypting
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| | HP European Solution Centre for finacial markets
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| | ISP Juno wants to use computing power of its "free" subscribers
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| | Staples buys SP for data warehouse
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| | Mascots 2001
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| | ESRI and SDSC collaborate on XML based GIS standards
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| | New version of CoralReef networking monitoring software
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| | World Access installs IBM eServer iSeries system
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| | Compaq and Australian APAC join forces in a high-performance computing
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| | HP strong in RAID storage
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| | ESI Group announces SYSTUS 2000 - also available on parallel platforms
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| | Compaq's starter kit for the Terascale Computing System at Pittsburgh
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | HP introduces new mid-range servers
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| | NEC launches new 64-bit RISC processor with power ratio of 1545 MIPS per Watt
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| | IBM sells 3000 RS/6000-S80 servers in sixteen months
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| | Dolphin announces second record year in a row
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| | Mercury Computer systems to offer conduction-cooled multi-processor products
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| | Newest addition to Compaq's AlphaServer ES40 server line
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| | Sun introduces the Netra
AX1105-500 PCI for embedded systems
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| | Dawning 3000 - a 400 Gflop/s China made supercomputer
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| | Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing
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| | Sky's 9U multicomputer to 42 Gflop/s
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| | SUN no.1 in US server market
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| | Improved scalability of Solaris 8
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Cray plans Alpha Linux supercluster systems
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| | Collaboration between SGI and Turbolinux
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| | MSC.Linux
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| | Partnerships for API
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| | Scyld Beowulf Next Generation Cluster Operating System software
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| | Magdeburg goes for the top with Tina Beowulf-cluster
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| | Scali released version 2.1.1 of the Scali Software Platform
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| | Buffalo installs SGI Linux cluster
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| | Compaq Linux announcements
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| | OSDN adds Compaq AlphaServer platform to SourceForge.net CompileFarm
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| | Turbolinux to acquire Linuxcare
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| | Turbolinux Beta 3 Release for Intel Itanium-based systems
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| | Parabon Computation's compute against cancer programme provides resources to University of Maryland researchers
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | New SGI 1100 low-end server
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| | Electric Image Universe 3D on SUN
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| | Lockheed selects Onyx2 visualization system with
InfiniteReality3 for US airforce flight simulator
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| | AXS showcases its EyeSpy imgage processing technology and attracts new venture capital
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | MPI Software Technology released of MPI/Pro 1.6.3
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| | Grid Engine 5.2 software for the Linux available
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| | Programme SpeedUp workshop available
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| | Amsterdam in Datagrid
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| | LSF version 4.1
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| | Entropia 3000
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| | Resources Management Technologies workshop
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| | Grisham on several Peer-to-Peer Working Group committees
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| | SolidSpeed on Entropia
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| | Distributed content infrastructure company Kalepa Networks secures $5 Million financing
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| Networking |
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| | Dolphin
Interconnect introduces two new high performance interconnect solutions
for super-clusters
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| | Dolphin posts second year of profit
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Leads
March 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic |
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| | SAIC in the USA upgrades FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System with SGI superservers
Science Applications International (SAIC) has installed
two eight-processor SGI 2000 series servers to power the FBI's National Instant Criminal
Background Check System (NICS), which helps prevent the transfer of handguns
and long guns from licensed gun dealers to felons and other individuals
prohibited by US law. In addition, two 16-processor
SGI Origin 3000 series systems will be installed this summer as part
of the FBI's upgrade strategy for NICS. |
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| | Sid Karin steps down as SDCS director
Sid Karin, founding director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), will assume a new role as Senior Strategic Advisor to the SDSC director. Internationally recognised computer scientist Francine Berman will become director of SDSC and NPACI. |
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| | Dongarra elected to US National Academy of Engineering
Jack J. Dongarra was among 74 new members elected to the US National Academy of Engineering. |
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| Country
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| | Fujitsu Siemens' hpcLine - more industrial users and more applications
Fujitsu Siemens installed more hpcLine Linux-based systems in industry at Siemens Nuclear Power running STAR-HPC and BASF runs Fluent and Comet. |
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| | Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) buys 2 Tflop/s SUN system
The RWTH, a leading technical university in Aachen, Germany, will install a 2 Tflop/s SUN supercomputer. This TOP500 class of machine will be the largest SUN supercomputer in the world. The 5 million euro machine, financed by the German federal government and the country of Northrine-Westfalia, will be installed in three phases, starting in April this year. SUN and RWTH will also enter into a cooperation with respect to computational fluid dynamics, one of the specialities at Aachen.
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| | Supercomputer conference programme available
The (Mannheim) Heidelberg Supercomputer Conference programme is available. The programme starts with a keynote "Nomadic Computing and Smart Spaces" by Leonard Kleinrock and closes with "The post Moore's Law era: Quantum Computing" by Peter Zoller. |
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| Country
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| | CNRS will get the most powerful IBM Power4 supercomputer outside USA
The French CNRS (National Scientific Research Agency) will equip its Institute for Scientific Computing Development and Resources (IDRIS) with IBM's new generation pSeries SP-system based on the Power4 processor before end of this year. IDRIS is one of two French national computing resources center for intensive high-performance computing. The new system delivers a peak performance of 1.3 Tflop/s with an aggregated global memory of nearly 900 Gbyte. This machine complements the cluster of 3 NEC SX-5 computers with a total of 40 processors and 224 GByte main memory. |
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| Country
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| | Training and Research on Advanced Computing Systems (TRACS)
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). Dead-line for application is February 14. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Terascale Computing System comes on-line at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The new Terascale Computing System (TCS) funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) has begun operation well ahead of schedule and is exceeding
performance expectations. The high-performance computing system - funded at $36 million, plus $9 million
over three years for operating costs - will eventually exceed 6 Tflop/s, making it the world's fastest for civilian
research. The initial TCS configuration has 64 interconnected Compaq ES40 Alphaservers,
each of which features four EV67 microprocessors.
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| | Cray sells MTA super to Logicon for the US Naval Research Laboratory
Cray has received a $5.4 million order for a Cray MTA-2
multithreaded supercomputer system and related services from Logicon
Inc., a Northrop Grumman NOC company. The order is for a 28-processor,
Cray MTA-2 system with 112 Gbytes of memory to be
installed in the fourth quarter, 2001, at the
facilities of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Cray did install a first MTA supercomputer at SDSC in San Diego.
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| | Cryptologist at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs improves DSA encrypting
A cryptologist at Bell Labs,
the R and D arm of Lucent Technologies, has shown how to improve a
standard method for ensuring the trustworthiness of e-commerce transactions,
after discovering a flaw that could have made such transactions vulnerable to
tampering in the future. |
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| | HP European Solution Centre for finacial markets
Hewlett-Packard opened a new HP European Solution Centre for capital markets, based in London. The HP European Solution Centre is expected to provide customers and partners with a full lifecycle solution from pre-installation sizing, configuration, integration and proof-of-concept testing to total solution support, resulting in faster deployment rates and a significant drop in client incurred expenses. The HP European Solution Centre is now available for HP's mission-critical financial services solutions in the areas of electronic trading, treasury management, securities processing and e-banking. |
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| | ISP Juno wants to use computing power of its "free" subscribers
How to make money as a free Internet provider? The problem is relatively new, the answer formulated by ISP Juno is old: imagine if we could use all the unused computer power of our free subscribers, that would make the largest supercomputer in the world. And if we could sell that computing power we could make lots of money. To date many have tried, an all have failed. Sure, all the mice in the world provide a tremendous power, if it were available at one place at one moment in time it could easily bring a rocket to the Moon or even Mars. But nobody tried, for good reason. With computers, the same logic applies, but few realise that. Those who do, the parallel and distributed computing guys, developed a number of applications and algorithms that can be used for a limited class of problems to get an answer on a very loss cluster of low-performance computers. Unfortunately, there are not that many industrial or commercial problems that fit the model. |
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| | Staples buys SP for data warehouse
Staples Inc., will deploy an IBM SP supercomputer in a new enterprise data warehouse. The heart of the solution is 64-processor SP providing the scalability necessary for large data warehouses |
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| | Mascots 2001
The Ninth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, August 15-18, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA has issued a call for papers. Papers are solicited which contain significant novel ideas and
research results relevant to the modeling, analysis, simulation,
measurement, benchmarking, and capacity planning of computer and
communication systems and networks. |
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| | ESRI and SDSC collaborate on XML based GIS standards
ESRI, a software provider for geographic information system (GIS) applications, agreed with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to develop more effective technologies to tie together the many different forms of geographic data used in fields ranging from science and engineering to conservation, government, and business. They will evaluate and contribute to standards for using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in GIS applications, and to ensure the compatibility of ESRI's widely used Arc eXtensible Markup Language (ArcXML) with other XML-based standards. |
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| | New version of CoralReef networking monitoring software
The San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) has released version 3.4 of its CoralReef software suite -- a set of drivers, libraries, utilities, and analysis software for networks. This latest version adds support for easily available over-the-counter network interface cards. |
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| | World Access installs IBM eServer iSeries system
World Access, a provider of telecommunications
services, has purchased the largest-ever IBM eServer iSeries system to process
billings for more than 100 million telephone calls per day. |
| | Full article...
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| | Compaq and Australian APAC join forces in a high-performance computing
Compaq Computer Australia and the Australian Partnership for Advanced
Computing (APAC) have entered into an agreement under which Compaq will provide its industry leading
supercomputing technology to the APAC National Facility for researchers in all areas of
science and engineering including chemistry, physics, environmental science and
biotechnology. The agreement has been signed between Compaq and The Australian
National University which acts as host institution for APAC. |
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| | HP strong in RAID storage
Hewlett-Packard
Company has become the industry's
No. 3 external RAID system storage provider as a result of strong
storage revenues. This growth is partly attributed to HP reaching $1
billion in XP enterprise customer orders as well as to extraordinary
sales of the industry-leading HP Surestore Disk Array XP512 storage
system. ScaleOn, a 100 percent subsidiary of Bayer AG, Leverkusen/Germany.integrated 18 XP disk arrays into a large IBM RS/6000 SP environment. |
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| | ESI Group announces SYSTUS 2000 - also available on parallel platforms
ESI Group announced the availability of SYSTUS 2000, a multiphysics simulation software used for thorough analysis of complex mechanical phenomena. SYSTUS 2000 simulates all aspects of mechanical processes involved in a product life cycle, from the early design of the product to its behaviour over time under real-life conditions. Its general Finite Element (FE) implicit software performs both linear and non-linear analysis in static, dynamic, thermo-mechanical, and electromagnetic fields through an improved user interface.
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| | Compaq's starter kit for the Terascale Computing System at Pittsburgh
Compaq's Terascale System, it will be the most powerful in civilian research, will have a peak performance of 6 Teraflop/s. NSF (National Science Foundation) funds it with US$ 36 Mio. plus US$9 Mio. over three years for operating cost. February 1st the initial capability of nearly half a Teraflop/s became available, weeks ahead schedule.
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | HP introduces new mid-range servers
Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP e3000 A- and N-class servers, which deliver up to 65 percent more performance than previous HP e3000 servers. The large system, the mid-range 12-way 997 server. offers up to 4-way multi-processing with 550 MHz processors and supports up to 16 GByte of memory. |
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| | NEC launches new 64-bit RISC processor with power ratio of 1545 MIPS per Watt
Showcasing an innovative new 64-bit RISC architecture, NEC Corporation showed the newest member of its VR-Series product line, the VR4131 microprocessor. Aimed at network appliances, storage systems, and portable applications and delivering 1545 MIPS per watt, one of the highest performance/lowest power ratios, the new 200 MHz 64-bit MIPS
RISC processor will enable NEC to target emerging application areas such as wireless LANs, network interface cards (NICs), server farms and Internet appliances, as well as traditional portable applications such as PocketPCs and cell phones. |
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| | IBM sells 3000 RS/6000-S80 servers in sixteen months
IBM has shipped 3000th S80 server, making the ultra-powerful IBM Unix system the fastest-selling high-end server in history, the company claims. |
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| | Dolphin announces second record year in a row
Dolphin
Interconnect Solutions profits and revenues increased again in year
2000. This gives Dolphin two consecutive profitable years in a row.
These are the first two profitable years in the history of the company. |
| | Full article...
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| | Mercury Computer systems to offer conduction-cooled multi-processor products
Mercury plans to introduce this year conduction-cooled systems based on its RACE++
architecture which will address the specific needs of the combat
avionics and vetronics (vehicular electronics) markets.
Mercury expects to be the only vendor offering conduction-cooled
multiprocessor systems that incorporate switched-fabric technology. |
| | Full article...
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| | Newest addition to Compaq's AlphaServer ES40 server line
Compaq unveiled a new microprocessor, the 64-bit, 833 MHz Alpha microprocessor, which already has set performance standards in the scientific and commercial market sectors. Shipments of Compaq AlphaServer ES40 systems with the new 0.18 micron Alpha microprocessor have been underway for more than a month. |
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| | Sun introduces the Netra
AX1105-500 PCI for embedded systems
Sun Microsystems
announced the newest member of Sun's processor board family. Designed
to complement the Netra family of servers, the new Netra
AX1105-500 PCI board helps systems designers and integrators embed the
UltraSPARC IIe processor into applications where a traditional server cannot be used due to environmental or space requirements. |
| | Full article...
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| | Dawning 3000 - a 400 Gflop/s China made supercomputer
According to an unconfirmed news release, Chinese scientists announced they have
developed a new powerful 400 Gflop/s supercomputer: the Superserver
Dawning 3000. |
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| | Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing
The Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing conference will be held 20-24 August 2001
Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado USA.
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| | Sky's 9U multicomputer to 42 Gflop/s
The new Skybolt II VME 9U multicomputer from Sky Computers Inc.
can accelerate interconnect speeds by a factor of 2x to 3x and provide fast-boot
capabilities, especially important to mission-critical applications. An on-board Skychannel crossbar transfers data between compute clusters on the
four Merlin MPC7400 daughtercards at 960 Mbytes/second, a 3x increase over the
previous generation. Fully configured with four Merlins, which include 16
MPC7400 compute nodes, the unit delivers 42 Gflop/s of compute performance. |
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| | SUN no.1 in US server market
Sun Microsystems
announced that in 2000 it overtook IBM to move into the top
spot in the total U.S. server market. |
| | Full article...
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| | Improved scalability of Solaris 8
Sun Microsystems third update of the Solaris
8 Operating Environment (OE) that includes more than 30 new and improved features that extend
reliability, availability and scalability. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Cray plans Alpha Linux supercluster systems
Cray says it will lanch Alpha Linux supercluster systems in the coming months and is
scheduled to begin shipping in the mid-2001 timeframe. The company has
received an early order agreement from BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals and
expects to announce multiple orders by the time of the product launch. |
| | Full article...
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| | Collaboration between SGI and Turbolinux
SGI and Turbolinux formed a new strategic cooperation including
an SGI equity investment in Turbolinux. In addition, SGI and
Turbolinux will work closely in a number of areas, including engineering,
distribution, business development and marketing. |
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| | MSC.Linux
MSC.Software MSC.Linux, a focused version of the Linux operating system. |
| | Full article...
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| | Partnerships for API
API NetWorks announced collaborations with Linux hardware and software
partners for the high-performance computing (HPC) and Internet markets. |
| | Full article...
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| | Scyld Beowulf Next Generation Cluster Operating System software
Scyld Computing Corporation
today released the first commercial version of its Scyld Beowulf Next Generation
Cluster Operating System software. The Scyld Beowulf distribution is the next generation Beowulf operating system.
It includes an enhanced Linux kernel, libraries, and utilities specifically
designed for clustering. |
| | Full article...
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| | Magdeburg goes for the top with Tina Beowulf-cluster
The Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet in Magdeburg has installed a 144 processor Beowulf cluster nicknamed 'Tina'. There goal is to get into the TOP500 with it, well apart from using it for scientific research, of course. Whether they will succeed? They have got 40 Gflop/s out of Tina in first tests. About 55 Gflop/s would be needed to get into the TOP500 list. But then, Tina only did cost 230.000 euro. |
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| | Scali released version 2.1.1 of the Scali Software Platform
Scali released version 2.1.1 of the Scali Software Platform (SSP). It includes bug fixes plus support for Red Hat 7.0 and SuSE 7.0 Linux distributions. and LFS (Large File System). |
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| | Buffalo installs SGI Linux cluster
The University at Buffalo's Centre for
Computational Research (CCR in the USA, will install a 52-processor Linux SGI system. This solution will provide CCR with
additional high performance computing resources for distributed parallel
scientific applications served at the centre. The Linux cluster from SGI,
comprising of 76 dual Pentium III processor SGI 1100 servers, will
become one of the primary compute engines at CCR, which supports 25
university departments. |
| | Full article...
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| | Compaq Linux announcements
Compaq announced several new offerings for the open source community, including
a marketing relationship with SteelEye Technology to provide Linux
clustering on Compaq ProLiant server and StorageWorks storage
platforms, a new performance benchmark for the ultra-dense Compaq ProLiant
DL320 server and a portal for the open source community. |
| | Full article...
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| | OSDN adds Compaq AlphaServer platform to SourceForge.net CompileFarm
The Open Source Development Network ( announced the availability of
Compaq's AlphaServer platforms, with the Tru64 UNIX and
Linux operating systems, on SourceForge.The SourceForge.net CompileFarm gives
developers a convenient way to build and test applications on multiple
versions of the Linux, BSD and UNIX operating systems. Access to the
CompileFarm is provided over the Internet and is available at no cost
to Open Source developers. |
| | Full article...
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| | Turbolinux to acquire Linuxcare
Turbolinux a company in
high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, and Linuxcare,
have signed an
agreement for Turbolinux to acquire Linuxcare. The combined company will operate
as Turbolinux. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. |
| | Full article...
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| | Turbolinux Beta 3 Release for Intel Itanium-based systems
Turbolinux announced
the beta 3 release of the Turbolinux operating system for Intel
Itanium-based systems. This latest Turbolinux release for Linux for Itanium
processor family platforms offers enterprise customers increased functionality,
faster processing speeds and easier software installation. |
| | Full article...
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| | Parabon Computation's compute against cancer programme provides resources to University of Maryland researchers
Parabon Computation, Inc.
will apply its vast distributed computing resources to the protein folding study
being conducted by the University of Maryland's Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry. Parabon's Frontier computing platform will provide the
essential and unprecedented computational resources necessary to perform the
compute-intensive calculations associated with protein folding simulations,
critical to understanding disease and the development of treatments and cures. |
| | Full article...
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | New SGI 1100 low-end server
SGI announced the new SGI 1100 server , a dual Intel
Pentium III processor-capable server that supports the Linux, Windows 2000
and Windows NT operating systems. The SGI 1100 server supports up to
two Pentium III 800 MHz or 1 GHz processors and features a 133 MHz front-side
bus and up to 2 GByte of memory for exceptional flexibility as an Internet, digital
publishing or rendering server or as a compute node in a cluster, using SGI's Advanced Clustering Environment. |
| | Full article...
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| | Electric Image Universe 3D on SUN
Electric Image's
Universe is now available on Sun hardware. One of the premiere animation packages used
in film, broadcast, game development, industrial design and web
authoring, Universe will be available later this month for Sun
Blade 1000. Ultra 80 , Ultra 60 and Ultra 10 workstations
running Solaris. Universe software
will also be supported by Sun's graphics accelerators
for professional level graphics, including the high end, power graphics
Sun Expert3D board. |
| | Full article...
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| | Lockheed selects Onyx2 visualization system with
InfiniteReality3 for US airforce flight simulator
Lockheed Martin has selected for the U.S. Air Force Air
Education and Training Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory, a 24-processor, 10-pipe Silicon Graphics Onyx2 visualization system with
InfiniteReality3 graphics subsystem to upgrade the F-16 flight
simulators at the Network Training Center facility, Luke Air Force Base,
Glendale USA. |
| | Full article...
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| | AXS showcases its EyeSpy imgage processing technology and attracts new venture capital
AXS Technologies,
whose parallel processing technology increases the speed at which high
quality digital images are viewed, raised an
additional U.S. $2 million in funding. Sources include the international law
firm of Sonnenschein, Nash and Rosenthal, FastTrack Capital L.L.C., European
venture capitalist Martin Velasco, AXS Board Members Steve McManus and Dick
Aschman and Annapolis, Md.-based private investors Tommy Closs and Bret
Anderson. The company also has a new site featuring industry-specific applications of AXS' EyeSpy Image
Server software, including art and photography, e-Business, defense, mapping,
e-Learning, travel, and medical. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | MPI Software Technology released of MPI/Pro 1.6.3
MPI Software Technology released of MPI/Pro Version 1.6.3. MPI/Pro supports Linux for
TCP and VIA (Giganet only) networks and PowerPC, x86, and Alpha
processors. MPI/Pro Version 1.6.3 for Windows NT/2000 runs on TCP and
VIA (both Servernet II and Giganet) for x86 systems. Pre-release
versions of MPI/Pro Version 1.6.3 supporting Myrinet and Solaris are
also available. |
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| | Grid Engine 5.2 software for the Linux available
Sun announced Sun Grid Engine 5.2 software for the Linux
platform. The distributed resource management software is a free download via
Sun's website. |
| | Full article...
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| | Programme SpeedUp workshop available
The programme of the next SpeedUP workshop is available. The workshop to be held in March in Bern, Switzerland, covers a lot of distributed computing, includiing high-performance computing, the Grid, VR and high-performance networking . |
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| | Amsterdam in Datagrid
SARA, a supercomputer centre located in Amsterdam, said it
participates in the project to develop European DataGrid. Also a Dutch datagrid web site was announced. |
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| | LSF version 4.1
Platform Computing introduced LSF version 4.1 with
new features that incorporate support for all Linux versions and expanded
capabilities for parallel processing. LSF 4.1 incorporates full Linux support
(including RedHat Linux 6.2, SuSE Linux 6.4, OpenLinux 2.4, TurboLinux 6.0.4 and
Debian Linux 2.2.) with other computing platforms (ranging from inexpensive
x86-based workstations to powerful Cray or NEC supercomputers). With this new
release, Platform's LSF Suite now boasts advanced interoperability between UNIX,
Linux and Windows-based platforms. |
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| | Entropia 3000
Entropia announced version 3000 of its system. Production deployments of Entropia
3000 are scheduled for enterprises beginning in March 2001. |
| | Full article...
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| | Resources Management Technologies workshop
A special session on Resources Management Technologies for Network-Wide Computing in the Wired and Wireless Internet will be organised at the Conference on Internet Computing (IC'2001), June 25-28, 2001 in Las Vegas, USA. |
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| | Grisham on several Peer-to-Peer Working Group committees
Applied MetaComputing, a supplier of Grid Operating software, announced that its
Founder, Dr. Andrew Grimshaw, has been officially elected to two influential
committees of the Peer-to-Peer Working Group; the Group Steering Committee and
the Technical Architecture Council. |
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| | SolidSpeed on Entropia
Entropia has
enabled its latest commercial customer, SolidSpeed Networks, Inc., to provide
the accurate and direct measurement of Web site speed and reliability on
the market. SolidSpeed's Probester, a data engine that tracks Web site
performance, uses Entropia's global peer-to-peer (P2P) computing network,
consisting of thousands of PCs in dozens of countries around the world. |
| | Full article...
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| | Distributed content infrastructure company Kalepa Networks secures $5 Million financing
RedLeaf announced it has led a
$5 million round of capital for Kalepa Networks, a Palo Alto-based company
offering software infrastructure for edge content. The Kalepa solution optimises
content flow from both a network and application perspective in Peer to Peer
(P2P) and hybrid networks. Targeted customers will include application
developers and solution providers in media, publishing, healthcare information
and education sectors. |
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| Networking |
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| | Dolphin
Interconnect introduces two new high performance interconnect solutions
for super-clusters
Dolphin Interconnect introduced two new
high performance interconnect solutions, the WulfKit D335 and D339.
Both WulfKit D335 and D339 are high performance 64bit/66Mhz SCI interconnect
assemblies that boast the fastest interconnect bandwidth available
today combined with extremely low latency. It is designed to enhance
the performance of high performance AMD, Alpha, Intel or SUN computer
superclusters. |
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| | Dolphin posts second year of profit
Dolphin
Interconnect Solutions profits and revenues on ordinary revenue increased again in year
2000. This gives Dolphin two consecutive profitable years in a row.
These are the first two profitable years in the history of the company. |
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