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Contents
April 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | CILEA installs NEC SX-5 supercomputer
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| | Popular Power shuts down its services
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| | Ban for Japanese vector computers in the USA lifted
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| | Seminar on the future of HPC on Windows.
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| | SP management tools available for server clusters
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| | Hewitt installs six IBM z900 enterprise servers
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- DE |
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| | Programme Mannheim/Heidelberg supercomputer conference available
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| | Lufthansa buys HP V- and N-class servers
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- FR |
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| | ESI Group revenues up 28 percent
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- IT |
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| | Italian supercomputer centre CINECA selects AVS
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- NL |
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| | New IBM supercomputer in Amsterdam inaugurated in April
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| | New Dutch national super still not on-line
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- Other |
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| | Finnish research network Funet upgraded to 2.5-gigabit capacity
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| | MDS Proteomics opens facility in Denmark
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| Country
- UK |
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| | US Climate Research, damaged by US policy on HPC
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | NVIDIA chooses Platform's LSF
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| | Engineering Solutions International Limited to install NEC SX-5 supercomputer
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| | PAM-Flow 2000 now also for aero-acoustics simulation
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| | Superdome operational in Caltech
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| | Patmos builds Tflop/s Janus supercomputer machine
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| | U.S. Navy installs new SGI Onyx 3400 supercomputers
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| | WETIC2000
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| | SIM2001
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| | Parcel offers 7,000 processor GeneMatcher computer for academics
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | NEC concludes supercomputer distributorship agreement with Cray
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| | Cray and NEC - an unbelievable science fiction story - the past
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| | A bomb exploded - Cray and NEC cooperate
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| | VR simulation of Seattle/Tacoma earthquake on the web
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| | Supercomputer-on-a-chip for broadband applications
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| | Primergy B120 entry level system from
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| | Avatech to resell AXS EyeSpy
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| | Cray posts loss but expects profit in Q1 2001
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| | Patrol enhances Sun Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration on Starfire
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| | Veritas cluster support for SUN StorEdge
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| | Sun introduced Sun Fire midrange servers
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Boeing installs large AMD cluster
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| | MSC.Linux announces OSCAR cluster tool support
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| | The KDE project released KDE 2.1
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| | Linux NetworX uses AMD for clusters
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| | Save energy? Do not by a server farm, buy an eServer, IBM says
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | University of Texas and Compaq to co-operate on visualization
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| | Sun Blade 100 workstation and Electric Image's new Universe 3D animation promotion offer
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Global Grid Forum to call up volunteers for grid working groups
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| | From the beer gardens of Bavaria to the Sun of California or how Codine did become Grid Engine
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| | It's supercomputing - It's parallel computing - It's meta-computing - No, it is The Grid
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| | Platform computing signs strategic agreement with Compaq
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| | Merger between EBIZ Enterprises and Linux NetworX
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| | Introducing EnterTheGrid
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| | New NEC SX-4 available at CSC e-HPC portal
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| | Fujitsu Siemens hpcLine now available with ParaStation and Myrinet2000
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| | The European Union policy on the Grid
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| | The Grid is a wonderful vision - UK assigns a large amount of money to it
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| | Opportunities for EU funded Grid projects
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| | Grids for Science - why all the excitement?
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| | For the Grid to succeed financial and political issues have to be solved
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| | Brain data and the knowledge Grid
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| | Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee installed
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| | Thinkstream announces Peer-to-Peer information and commerce engine
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| | Quality of Service, IPv6 and middle boxes expected to make the Internet less foggy
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| | Dutch computer scientists stand tall in distributed supercomputing research
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| | Japanese researchers analyse magnetic brain field activity using grid technology
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| | Cobion uses 1000 processors for searching images on the web
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| | Protein folding with Charmm on Legion
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| | BRECIS debuts first multi-service processor architecture
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| | Scali opens office in the USA
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| | Platform release File Transfer Agent 1.1
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| | SUN delivers plug-and-play clusters
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| | Sun acquires peer-to-peer company InfraSearch
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Three Australian Machines in Cluster TOP100
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| | Clusters@TOP500 debuts TOP500 team is publishing a new list about high-performance clusters
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| | Call for Participation in 17th TOP500 list
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| | Compaq moves to first position in technical systems and servers measured in revenue
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Leads
April 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | CILEA installs NEC SX-5 supercomputer
NEC received an order
for a supercomputer system from Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo
per la Elaborazione Automatica (CILEA). The system, already installed, includes
a supercomputer SX-5S/4 with 16 Gbyte memory and a peak performance of 16 Gflop/s as the main computational
resource, and began operations in January 2001.
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| | Popular Power shuts down its services
Popular Power, one of the many companies that try to sell spare computer time of PC's all over the world, has closed its business. The company was not able tto raise additional capital. In the first round, the company did get US$ 1.6 million. The 14 employees have been laid off. |
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| | Ban for Japanese vector computers in the USA lifted
The US Department of Commerce intends to revoke the anti dumping regulation for Japanese vector supercomputers. This after Cray has filed a request to do so after its settlement with NEC.
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| | Seminar on the future of HPC on Windows.
On March 22 the Cornell Theory
Center Advanced Cluster Computing Consortium (AC3) annual meeting will be held
at the World Trade Center, New York City. The seminar theme will be the "Future
of High Performance Computing with Windows." |
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| | SP management tools available for server clusters
The new IBM eServer clusters for Unix and Linux, can tie together a company's entire IT
infrastructure, from Web servers to vital back-end workloads like
Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management
applications. The new offerings -- originally code-named Blue
Hammer -- extend the advanced management software and massive file
system of IBM's SP supercomputer to the fast-growing market for
rack-mounted servers. |
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| | Hewitt installs six IBM z900 enterprise servers
Hewitt Associates
implemented the first IBM eServer z900 mainframe Parallel Sysplex clustering
solution. The multi-million dollar investment includes six IBM z900
enterprise servers, enabling Hewitt to supply near continuous benefits
administratio |
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| | Programme Mannheim/Heidelberg supercomputer conference available
The programme of the Mannheim/Heidelberg supercomputer is available. The keynote will be delivered by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, inventor of the Internet technology. Further topics range from quantum computing to Grid computing. And, of course, the new TOP500 list will be presented.
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| | Lufthansa buys HP V- and N-class servers
Hewlett-Packard Company announced the deployment of a high-availability HP
system with two 8-processor, 4 Gbyte memory high-end V-class servers, and three mid-range N-class servers to improve revenue accounting at the Lufthansa group of airlines.
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| Country
- FR |
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| | ESI Group revenues up 28 percent
ESI Group reported a a revenue increase for the fiscal year 2000 of 28 percent. to euro 40.8 million. |
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- IT |
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| | Italian supercomputer centre CINECA selects AVS
CINECA, a supercomputer centre in Italy, run by a consortium of Italian
universities, has selected software from Advanced Visual Systems
to visualize a broad range of scientific, analysis and high-performance
computing projects at the new state-of-the art facility. |
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| Country
- NL |
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| | New IBM supercomputer in Amsterdam inaugurated in April
The 192 Gflop/s, 128 IBM SP system at SARA in Amsterdam, will be inaugurated on April 4th.One of the key-notes at the inauguration that will take place in the Watergraafsmeer Science Centre, is David Klepacki from the IBM research centre in Yorktown Heights. |
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| | New Dutch national super still not on-line
The Dutch national research supercomputer Teras, the largest SGI supercomputer in Europe, still is not on-line. Software instabilities plague the system that should have been operational from mid February |
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| Country
- Other |
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| | Finnish research network Funet upgraded to 2.5-gigabit capacity
CSC, the Finnish center for high-performance computing and networking, has
increased the speed of the Funet (Finnish University and Research Network)
backbone network to 2.5 Gbps. This increases the network's capacity over
16-fold and makes Funet one of the world's most powerful data network
providers to the field of research and academic education. Other academic
networks with the same operational speed include Abilene of the American
Internet2, Canadian CA*net3, and the Dutch Surfnet. |
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| | MDS Proteomics opens facility in Denmark
Biotechnology company MDS Proteomics has opened a new facility in
Odense, Denmark to house protein discovery factories that seamlessly
integrate biology, high performance supercomputing and molecular
analysis for the design and development of new medicines. The company
is also expanding its Toronto, Canada headquarters and facilities are
in development in Boston and Charlottesville. |
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| Country
- UK |
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| | US Climate Research, damaged by US policy on HPC
A recent report on Climate Research in the USA complains that the US policy on HPC which exclusively supports distributed commodity scalable computing under the ASCI programme, is having a devastating effect on their ability to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, and that their European counterparts using Japanese computers are at least five years ahead of them.
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | NVIDIA chooses Platform's LSF
Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA Corporation, a provider of advanced graphics processing technology, has chosen Platform's LSF software to manage development work in its data center operations and across its entire engineering network that consists of almost 1,000 processors. |
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| | Engineering Solutions International Limited to install NEC SX-5 supercomputer
NEC has signed a multi year contract of NEC's
supply of its supercomputer system including 16 Gflop/s NEC's SX-4/8A and SX Series
successor systems to Engineering Solutions International Limited (ESIL).
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| | PAM-Flow 2000 now also for aero-acoustics simulation
ESI Group announced its new generation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, PAM-FLOW 2000. New version offers aero-acoustics simulations for identifying and quantifying flow-induce noise sources. PAM-FLOW 2000 enhances coupling with PAM-CRASH. PAM-FLOW 2000can be used for simulating a numerical wind tunnel and numerical anechoic chamber. |
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| | Superdome operational in Caltech
Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research installed an early access 32-processor Hewlett-Packard Superdome system. First benchmark results are promising, getting a big part of the performance out of the machine. |
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| | Patmos builds Tflop/s Janus supercomputer machine
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| | U.S. Navy installs new SGI Onyx 3400 supercomputers
tThe US Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD),
Patuxent River, Md., has expanded its
high-performance computing center with the addition of two SGI Onyx
3000 series visualization systems. The new SGI Onyx 3400
supercomputers at NAWC-AD's Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility
(ACETEF) will be used to test and evaluate advanced next-generation
U.S. military aircraft such as the F-18 E/F, Joint Strike Fighter and V-22. |
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| | WETIC2000
The 3rd International Workshop on web-based infrastructures and coordination architectures for collaborative enterprises has issued a call for papers. Closing date March 23. the conference will be held June 20-22 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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| | SIM2001
SIM 2001, the Industrial
Trade Fair for simulation and visualisation, taking place in Freiburg i.Br.,
Germany, from June 17 to June 21, 2001. |
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| | Parcel offers 7,000 processor GeneMatcher computer for academics
Paracel, a business unit of Celera Genomics, has launched its new GeneMatcher for Education (GME) programme, a supercomputing opportunity for academic researchers. The GME program offers a pre-owned GeneMatcher-Plus - a fully
configured nine-board unit comprising a total of 6,912 processors, a
suite of sensitive search algorithms and the Paracel user interfaces,
BioView Toolkit and BioView Workbench. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | NEC concludes supercomputer distributorship agreement with Cray
NEC Corporation (NEC) announced on February 28 that it agreed a distributorship relationship with the U.S. company, Cray Inc. (Cray) for the sales, installation and support of the NEC SX vector supercomputers. NEC and Cray signed the agreement regarding co-operation in the field of supercomputers.
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| | Cray and NEC - an unbelievable science fiction story - the past
ometimes life writes stories that an author never would think out. A look into the anti-dumping history demonstrates the unbelievable. Nearly five years ago the Cray started the successful attack against NEC at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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| | A bomb exploded - Cray and NEC cooperate
For more than 20 years in the high-performance computer and application market, I never observed such a co-operation between such competitors and between U.S. and Japanese vendors. A special highlight in their relationship is the anti-dumping offending of the former Cray Research Inc. What can be expected in this 10 year OEM agreement? Some of these topics are discussed in this very personal comment.
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| | VR simulation of Seattle/Tacoma earthquake on the web
A 3D VRML visualization of the precise location of the 6.8 Seattle/Tacoma earthquake that occurred in February is made available on the web by researchers of the universities of Michigan and Minnesota as part of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation grid (NEESgrid). |
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| | Supercomputer-on-a-chip for broadband applications
Sony, IBM and Toshiba plan to research and develop an advanced chip architecture for a new wave of devices in the emerging broadband era. The chip, dubbed, "Cell ", will be designed to deliver Tflop/s of processing power. |
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| | Primergy B120 entry level system from
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced Primergy B120, a new entry-level server . The company is further delivering RemoteView V3.0, a new component for remote server management which further enhances the availability of the Primergy B120 model and other PRIMERGY servers. |
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| | Avatech to resell AXS EyeSpy
AXS Technologies a company selling parallel processing technology that
increases the speed at which high quality digital images are viewed,
announced a strategic partnership with Avatech Solutions a local US provider of design automation
tools, training, integration services, and technical support. Avatech will market AXS' EyeSpy
Image Server software to companies that develop computer aided design (CAD)
and engineering document management technologies. |
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| | Cray posts loss but expects profit in Q1 2001
For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2000, Cray reported
revenues of $33.4 million, compared to revenues of $343,000 for the
fourth quarter of 1999. The company's net loss for the fourth quarter was $13.9 million. |
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| | Patrol enhances Sun Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration on Starfire
Sun has worked with BMC Software to integrate Sun's automated
Dynamic Systems Domains with BMC Software's PATROL to
produce a new solution for Workload-based Automated Dynamic
Reconfiguration (LADR). BMC Software developed its PATROL
for Sun Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration (ADR) solution
specifically for Sun to monitor system performance and
proactively manage the domains of the Sun Enterprise 10000
Starfire server. |
| | Full article...
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| | Veritas cluster support for SUN StorEdge
VERITAS Cluster Server clustering
support is available for the Sun StorEdge T3 array. Sun's highly scalable
storage system for mission-critical enterprise environments is
certified by both Sun and VERITAS Software to support VERITAS Cluster
Server running on the Solaris. |
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| | Sun introduced Sun Fire midrange servers
The new midframe include innovations such as redundant component interconnection
technology, the ability to dynamically split one system into multiple systems,
duplicate hardware components, and "on-the-fly" processor upgrades. At their core are
UltraSPARC III processors. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Boeing installs large AMD cluster
The Boeing Company has implemented an AMD Athlon processor-based supercluster
developed by Linux NetworX. The high performance cluster system, featuring 96
AMD Athlon processors, is running computational fluid dynamics applications
in support of the Boeing Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program at
the company's Space and Communications division in Huntington Beach, Calif. Boeing
Delta IV engineers tested several other processor platforms at Linux NetworX
facilities before purchasing the AMD Athlon processor-based cluster. The Delta
IV is the newest class of rockets developed by Boeing that will enter service in
2002 and will have the capability of lifting satellite payloads of up to 29,000
pounds into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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| | MSC.Linux announces OSCAR cluster tool support
MSC.Linux, a
division of MSC.Software Corp. announced the availability
of MSC.Linux V2001 (April) Beta. A major feature of the April release
is the complete integration of OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application
Resources). |
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| | The KDE project released KDE 2.1
The new version of Linux' KDE Desktop announced by the KDE project
arrives with a large number of new features, fixes and improvements compared to KDE 2.0.1, KDE 2.1 is available in 33 languages and contains the KDE core libraries, the desktop environment and more than 100 applications from the other KDE standard base packages in the area of Administration, Network, Personal Information Managment (PIM), Games, Graphics, Multimedia and Utilities. |
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| | Linux NetworX uses AMD for clusters
Linux NetworX will further develop Linux clustering solutions based on the AMD Athlon processor. As reported elsewhere in this issue, Linux NetworX will offer AMD Athlon processors in its Evolocity family of cluster systems. The Boeing Company, for example, is using a Linux NetworX cluster powered by 96 AMD Athlon processors. |
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| | Save energy? Do not by a server farm, buy an eServer, IBM says
According to IBM, the e Server z900, the mainframe, running Linux, is an effective energy saving alternative to server farms. |
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | University of Texas and Compaq to co-operate on visualization
Compaq and The
University of Texas at Austin Center for Computational Visualization (CCV)
have entered into a co-operative research relationship in advanced
visualization techniques using high-performance computers and complex display
equipment.Powering the lab's extensive computer processing requirements is a cluster
of Compaq SP750 workstations. The 130 workstations and disk drives are
networked using Compaq ServerNet II high-speed, low-latency interconnect
technology. |
| | Full article...
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| | Sun Blade 100 workstation and Electric Image's new Universe 3D animation promotion offer
Sun plans to offer a professional-level 3D animation promotional
package that runs on the new Sun Blade 100 workstation and is powered by
Electric Image's new Universe 3D animation software. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Global Grid Forum to call up volunteers for grid working groups
In a welcome word to the Global Grid Forum Conference audience, Charlie Catlett, chairman of the Global Grid Forum, offered a brief survey on the goal, history, organisation, structure, and potential of the GGF Initiative. Started in 1988, the GGF has now organised for the very first time a global conference in Amsterdam where addicts to grid computing from Europe, Asia and the USA are offered the opportunity to meet, discuss, seek partnerships, and actively contribute to the different GGF working groups. |
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| | From the beer gardens of Bavaria to the Sun of California or how Codine did become Grid Engine
Until a year ago, Genias Software was developing and marketing the Codine resource management system for networked computers. As one of the very few European companies
specializing in high-performance computing, it stayed independent until, after an intermediate merger with Chord Systems in San Jose, it became acquired by Sun. Codine became Sun Grid Engine and Genias Software CEO Wolfgang Gentzsch moved from Neutraubling in Bavaria to Menlo Park in California. We met him during the
First Global Grid Forum conference in Amsterdam, where he explained the success the Grid Engine already has with over
5000 downloads in just six months, and the plans of Sun to not only incorporate Grid Engine into other Sun products like the HPC ClusterTools,
but also contribute to the development of the Grid.
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| | It's supercomputing - It's parallel computing - It's meta-computing - No, it is The Grid
"Where the ??**!?! is my program? I thought I did send it to the US to do some calculations for me, but it seems it got to Czech Republic on its own and is now stuck somewhere in Prague!". Science fiction? No it was scientist in the chair next to me who was attending a session at the Global Grid Forum meeting in Amsterdam. Well, he was following two lectures at the same time, and monitored the activities of a program he did send off from the computer at his department in Poznan Poland. His laptop was connected via a high-speed wireless connection to the Internet. Over the Internet he followed a live video broad cast of the lecture in another
room of the conference. The program he did send off from his machine in Poland from another window on his laptop, was living on the Grid, a new Internet
based environment, where programmes can move themselves to computers that have time available to run it.
Whether that computer is in Europe or Australia, the programme does not care, it just goes to where the best
resources are available. When it is kicked away, it just find another place on the Grid.
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| | Platform computing signs strategic agreement with Compaq
Platform Computing Corporation has entered into a five-year strategic agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation that will embed Platform's LSF (Load Sharing Facility) software for distributed computing into Compaq's AlphaServer SC systems.
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| | Merger between EBIZ Enterprises and Linux NetworX
As part of a planned merger,
EBIZ Enterprises Incorporated and Linux NetworX, Inc. have signed a
letter of intent operating agreement to allow EBIZ to manufacture Linux NetworX
cluster compute nodes in its Houston, Texas Technology Center. This initial step
between the two companies ensures a smooth transition when the merger is
complete. The merger is expected to finalize during the second quarter 2001. |
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| | Introducing EnterTheGrid
EnterTheGrid, brought to you by Primeur, is your entrance to Grid Computing, distributed computing, peer-to-peer-computing and parallel computing.
The Grid is an emerging infrastructure, that makes computing and data access possible anywhere, anytime in a seamless way. The Age of the Grid has just dawned, with hundreds of active research projects in Europe, and other parts of the world, with active user groups as the Global Grid Forum and the Peer-to-Peer working groups, with many companies that try to harness the unused powers of the millions of PCs out there on the Internet, sitting idle.
With the editors of Primeur, we report on leading edge computing, since the dawn of supercomputing. Now the Grid calls for new initiative to keep you up to date with the developments in Grid Computing: that is why we have started EnterTheGrid.
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| | New NEC SX-4 available at CSC e-HPC portal
NEC ESS installed a supercomputer system in the UK for
general usage through CSC's High Performance Computing (eHPC) portal. The NEC SX-4 with eight parallel vector processors and shared memory was
installed in CSC's Maidstone Data Centre in January 2001. |
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| | Fujitsu Siemens hpcLine now available with ParaStation and Myrinet2000
Fujitsu Siemens Computers' (FSC) cluster solution hpcLine is now available with Myrinet2000 and ParaStation. FSC and ParTec AG, a spin-off of University Karlsruhe, cooperate in cluster solutions. This is an alternative solution to the SCI high-speed interconnect with the Scali software and the customer has the optimal choice that fits his need.
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| | The European Union policy on the Grid
The European Union has formulated a policy on Grid computing. The Grid is considered an important item
of the e-Europe action plan. It is supported in the current Research programme (IST) and will probably
be part of the next Sixth Framework programme, that will start in 2002. This was explained by Frans de Bruine
from the European Commission at the Global Grid Forum in Amsterdam.
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| | The Grid is a wonderful vision - UK assigns a large amount of money to it
From April 1st, Professor Tony Hey currently Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Southampton
will join EPSRC, where he will direct the e-Science Core Programme. The e-Science programme, coordinated by UK Research Council EPSRC,
will invest in new information technologies. Scientists today are faced with processing vast amounts of complex data and the Grid
would enable them to do this efficiently and effectively. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the largest of the
United Kingdom's seven government-funded research councils. At the Global Grid Forum in Amsterdam, Tony Hey explained the ambitious
UK plans that includes GBP 69 million for Grid test beds.
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| | Opportunities for EU funded Grid projects
Considering a Grid project and looking for European funding? Then you better hurry, because as Kyriakos Baxevanidis from the
European Commission explained at the Global Grid Forum that the closing data is April 25 2001. Projects requested for CPA9 are: Grid test beds, deployment and technologies.
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| | Grids for Science - why all the excitement?
Grids attract a lot of attention. Is it all buss or is there something real behind it.
According to Paul Messina, who lectured at the Global Grid Forum in Amsterdam, Grids enable large-scale
computational science. He used the Virtual Observatory that will include space data from many sources
and make them accessible to all of the astronomical community, as an illustration.
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| | For the Grid to succeed financial and political issues have to be solved
It is not so much technological issues that have to be overcome to make the Grid a success, but financial
and political issues. Hence, Bob Raiken from CISCO proposed to use Postel's two additional layers to the seven techies
use to describe the network: Layer eight (financial) and layer nine (political). The problems with for instance accounting in cross-border testbeds are very complex. To get all the organisations involved to co-operate on a political level is even harder.
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| | Brain data and the knowledge Grid
There are many data and information sources available that could be useful to neuroscience. However, they are stored in different formats and put together by experts in specialised domains. Hence they are incompatible, not only in format but also in terms and wording used. As Bertram Ludaescher, an NPACI representative from the San Diego Supercomputer Centre explained at the First Global Grid Forum Conference, creating a mediator service which understands the user's question and can translate it to the language used by the different information sources to get a composite
answer, could be the solution.
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| | Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee installed
The Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee first meeting is during the GGF1 conference in Amsterdam. The first chair of this committee is Paul Messina. European members are Alexander Reinefeld (ZIB) and Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN). |
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| | Thinkstream announces Peer-to-Peer information and commerce engine
Thinkstream launched a distributed information and commerce engine grounded in peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. Thinkstream's technology provides a new standard for accessing, managing and delivering information across the Internet. For the first time - and in real time - users can access data from its actual site, in its existing format, at precisely the moment it is needed, regardless of location or format. |
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| | Quality of Service, IPv6 and middle boxes expected to make the Internet less foggy
At the first edition of the Global Grid Forum Conference held 4-7 March in Amsterdam, Brian Carpenter, IBM Programme Director of Internet Standards and Technology, provided a keynote on future networking and peer-to-peer computing. Being chairman of the Internet Society, the speaker who is equally involved in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Work Group for Differentiated Services, pictured a realistic view of the hard work which still needs to be done in order to solve today's problems of congestion, the chronic lack of address space, and packets blockages or even hijackings because of firewall protection and interception via gateways and proxies. Mr. Carpenter offered a three-fold solution in terms of Quality of Service control, a fast deployment of IPv6, and the introduction of middle boxes for Grid and P2P computing. |
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| | Dutch computer scientists stand tall in distributed supercomputing research
Dr. Henri Bal, who is working in the Faculty of Sciences at the Free University (VU) of Amsterdam, was invited at the First Global Grid Forum Conference to give an overview of current grid computing activities in The Netherlands. Dr. Bal presented DutchGrid, Virtual Laboratories (VL), and Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) to the audience, three recent grid projects which are focused on multi-disciplinary research, also in the medical field. In addition, the speaker illustrated some important issues of distributed supercomputing using DAS, based on a set of application case studies and experimental programming environments, in order to indicate which challenges soon will need to be met by computer scientists. |
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| | Japanese researchers analyse magnetic brain field activity using grid technology
In the second day session on Grid data farms and other Japanese scientific Grid efforts at the First Global Grid Forum Conference, Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka presented the MEG project running at Osaka University, in which complex magnetoencephalography data is analysed to detect early symptoms of brain disease. Grid and IPv6 technologies are applied in order to build the sophisticated MEG data analysis environment where highly advanced signal processing techniques, including Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and wavelet are helping to reveal the different functions within the human brain. In contrast with electrocorticography (ECoG), MEG is a non-invasive method to capture the magnetic field which arises from brain activity via helmet-type sensors. |
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| | Cobion uses 1000 processors for searching images on the web
NetCurrents an Internet Intelligence Agency,
has entered into a Strategic Technology Partnership with Cobion, a company that provides global solutions for brand, copyright and identity
protection. Headquartered in Germany, Cobion's technology finds
visually finding corporate brands, logos, marks and symbols in websites,
irrespective of their size, placement and the native language of a site. Cobion employs highly advanced algorithms and a 1,000 CPU supercomputer to
process over 50 million online images each day in its Global ImageCenter. The
Company reports cases of brand misuse in detailed online reports. |
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| | Protein folding with Charmm on Legion
At NPACI, a US research alliance, a large-scale molecular dynamics calculation has compressed a month's computing into just 36 hours, using a parallelized version of the Charmm molecular modelling and simulation package and the Grid operating system Legion on six supercomputing systems with five distinct architectures located in four different states in the USA. |
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| | BRECIS debuts first multi-service processor architecture
BRECIS Communications, a communications company focused on leading-edge, broadband multi-service network processor architectures for the "last mile," today unveiled the world's first "Multi-Service Processor" (MSP) architecture. The BRECIS architecture is expected to make possible a new class of powerful but cost-effective network processors that uniquely enable multiple, diverse applications such as voice telephony, video, and data to be delivered to customer premises with the requisite levels of quality of service. |
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| | Scali opens office in the USA
Scali will open an office in Houston, Texas. The office will serve Scali customers and potential customers in United States. |
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| | Platform release File Transfer Agent 1.1
Platform Computing
released FTA (File Transfer Agent) 1.1 for File Assurance that
allows organizations to safely and securely share files and data in a
collaborative fashion. Platform FTA addresses a specific requirement of large
file transfers taking place in either distributed compute farms or on
supercomputers . |
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| | SUN delivers plug-and-play clusters
Sun delivers a Standard
Cluster Configuration. This is a factory tested, configured and cabled
hardware and software platform that assists in rapid, low-risk
implementation of highly available, failover protected
network-based applications. |
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| | Sun acquires peer-to-peer company InfraSearch
Sun Microsystems will acquire InfraSearch, a
privately held company based in Burlingame, California. InfraSearch is a
providing peer-to-peer (P2P) searching technology. With this
acquisition, Sun intends to strengthen and accelerate efforts within Bill Joy's
Project Juxtapose (JXTA) - an incubation research effort addressing new styles
of distributed computing. |
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| | Three Australian Machines in Cluster TOP100
According to the the Fairfax Herald, who analysed the new Cluster TOP 100 list, Austriala has three machines in the list. The highest placed Australian supercluster is Adelaide University's Perseus system, ranked at 24. It is a 116-node Beowulf cluster with 232 processors with a at 113 Gflop/s Linapack perfromance. . |
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| | Clusters@TOP500 debuts TOP500 team is publishing a new list about high-performance clusters
Reflecting the strong emerging trend of cluster computing in high-performance computing (HPC), the team which has compiled the TOP500 list of global supercomputing sites has developed a similar list to rank the world's top 100 cluster computing systems. |
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| | Call for Participation in 17th TOP500 list
The list maintainers of the TOP500 request submissions for the next TOP500 list that will be presented at the 6th International Supercomputer Conference, June 20-23 in
Heidelberg, Germany. The deadline for submitting entries is April 15, 2001. All system
reported have to be installed by May 30, 2001.
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| | Compaq moves to first position in technical systems and servers measured in revenue
Compaq has vaulted into the number one overall
market revenue position in the technical systems and servers market with 21.6
percent market revenue share and $1.3 billion in sales revenue, according to a
recent International Data Corporation (IDC) High Performance Technical Computer
QView Report. |
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