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May 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | U.S. Army Supercomputer Center to install 512-processor SGI Origin 3000
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| | Brasilian weather-office installs supercomputers
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center to become Sun HPC center of excellence
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| | Cray delivers first SV1ex
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| | Grid on the Go
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| | Supercomputer Inauguration Colloquium at Research Centre Karlsruhe
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| | Highlights of SC2001 in Heidelberg
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| | European peer-to-peer conference
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- IT |
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| | Northern Italian Universities Install NEC SX-5 Supercomputer
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| | German BMBF supports development of PDE black-box software at the University of Karlsruhe
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- UK |
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| | Bids requested to help transform British scientists' ideas and discoveries into commercial successes
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| Industry
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| | Workshop on Metacomputing Systems and Applications MSA'2001
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| | Nanotechnology institutes in Japan
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| | Compaq sells supercomputers in Japan and Australia
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| | US Navy and Weather Channel announce cooperation
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| | Princeton Softech releases relational tools for servers 3.1
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| | New 32-processor Unisys ES7000 performs well on SAP
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| | EuroPam 2001
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Cray to use Sun Fire servers for data management of MTA-2 and Cray SV2 computers
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| | SGI to lay-off 15% of workforce
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| | Large Cray T3E accepted
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| | NASA Ames Research Center powers up first 512-processor single system image SGI Origin 3800
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| | Cray SV1ex will have 64 Gflop/s peak performance
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| | USA Digital applies for patent on Ultra Fast High Density Computer
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| | Sun reports flattening of revenues
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| | Intel's Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Programme, good for science, or good for marketing?
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| | Denver Hosts World's High-Performance Network and Computer Events At SC2001, November 10-16
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| Industry
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| | SuSE ahead of RedHat
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| | SGI and Platform offer EDA-Ready Linux technical compute farm
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| | LAM/MPI version 6.5 released
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
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| | VA Linux debuts remote management solution for ultra-dense servers
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| | Linux NetworX awarded
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| | Turbolinux Server 6.5
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | AVS at Ohio Supercomputer Center
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| | Jwavw 3.1 from Visual Numerics
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| | NEC develops a 61-inch plasma display monitor
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| | Collaboration on motion tracking
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| | Onyx 3400 visualisation system will power Israeli Air Force UH-60/CH-53 helicopter simulator
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| | Xwave develops network-based Helicopter simulation system
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Cadre repository on I/O information and tools expands
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| | Medical intelligent agent search engine Marvin: a prototype Grid applications
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| | Europan Space Agency takes the Grid seriously
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| | Replacing tapes with fibre to create a real-time European Very long baseline interferometry Network
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| | GenProt installs large server farm for protein research
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| | GigaPort selects Global Crossing as preferred supplier for global Internet connectivity
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| | Project JXTA - Java based peer-to-peer computing
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| | United Devices Global MetaProcessor service to help preserve printed history
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| | Rusion Kurcharov Institute to cooperate with NCSA Alliance in the USA
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| | Dolphin Interconnect announces high-performance clustering support for Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6
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| | Co-operation between Compaq and SARA on grids and Bio-informatics
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| | Agilent Technologies Introduces IPv6 test solutions for next-generation Internet
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| | Computationally intense financial research made possible by Entropia's global Grid of PCs
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| | MOSIX 0.97.11 available for Linux
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| | Chinese parallel computer for numerical weather forecast
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| | NASA installs new RAVE high-end VR system
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| | New York Stock Exchange 3-D Virtual Trading Floor
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center orders Cray SV1
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| | TurboGenomics releases TurboBLAST parallel software for Genomics and Proteomics
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| | REBOL releases distributed application software support
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| | AXS Technologies partners with Digipict
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| | Distributed Science peer-to-peer layer public open source
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| | Parabon releases Linux version
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| | ACE licenses Edison Design Group's C++ front end for ACE's CoSy compiler product portfolio
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| | Groove Networks announce version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer software
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| | University of Central Florida receives Mercuryreal-time signal and image processing computer
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| | NetGenics to resell IBM DiscoveryLink technology
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| | Low cost graphic cluster systems from SGI
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| | IBM introduces a hybrid Unix/Linux system: AIX 5L
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| | Metacomputing workshop in Stuttgart
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| | Sun and TV Files to provide broad band distributed solutions to European market
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| | NEC transmits at 10.9 Tbit/s over DWDM
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May 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | U.S. Army Supercomputer Center to install 512-processor SGI Origin 3000
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Major Shared Resource Center (ERDC MSRC) has installed a420 Gflop/s 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer. |
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| | Brasilian weather-office installs supercomputers
The Brazilian Inmet (Instituto
Nacional de Metereologia) improved its weather report system and expanded its
observation focus to the whole Latin America through the implementation of a Cray SVI and
an Origin 2400 in operation at the CCMAD (Centro de Computacao
Meteorologica de Alto Desempenho) in Brasilia (DF). |
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center to become Sun HPC center of excellence
Sun and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) announced
the selection of OSC as aSun Center of Excellence in High
Performance Computing (HPC) Environments. The Sun Center of
Excellence in HPC Environments is a collaborative project between
OSC, The Ohio State University (OSU), University of Cincinnati
and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and University of Akron. |
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| | Cray delivers first SV1ex
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first Cray SV1ex supercomputer at the Arctic Region Supercomputing
Center (ARSC), University of Alaska Fairbanks. The system, part of a $3 million contract , replaces ARSC's Cray SV1 supercomputer. |
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| | Grid on the Go
The Grid on the Go workshop, May 20-22, 2001, Urban-Champaign, USA. is focused on the uses of wireless devices (portable digital assistants (pdas), cell phones, sensors) and their intersection with digital infrastructure (the Grid) research. Nationally renowned speakers will discuss the impact of these devices on academic scientific research and the private sector while highlighting technical and policy challenges. |
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| | Supercomputer Inauguration Colloquium at Research Centre Karlsruhe
The opening of the new supercomputers at Research Centre Karlsruhe, a Fujitsu Siemens Computers vector computer VPP5000 with 8 processors and a workstation cluster hpcLine with 32 Intel processors, was accompanied by a ceremonial scientific colloquium. Professor Friedel Hossfeld's, Research Centre Juelich, talk is contained in a separate article. Here some of the vector and cluster applications are summarised. |
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| | Highlights of SC2001 in Heidelberg
At SC2001, the European Supercomputer Conference that this year will be organised June 20 - 23 in Heidelberg, the keynote will be delivered by Leonard Kleinrock,UCLA, Inventor of the Internet Technology
In addition, there will be presentations with 37 (handpicked) top speakers and chair persons
In Focus are two 30 Teraflop/s Systems, the 'Earth
Simulator' (Japan) and the 'ASCI - Q' (USA).
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| | European peer-to-peer conference
The European peer-to-peer conference will be held in Paris, December 4 -7. Closing date for paper submission is April 30th. |
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| | Northern Italian Universities Install NEC SX-5 Supercomputer
The introduction of the NEC SX-5S entry level server, last year, is anabling many businesses and academic institutions to take advantage of the efficiencies of parallel vector processors at an affordable price. As is well known PVPs are well suited for "large scale Nastran Problems". One academic centre which is taking advantage of this, is the Northern Italian Universities Consortium.
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| | German BMBF supports development of PDE black-box software at the University of Karlsruhe
The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) supports the further
development and the testing of the FDEM (Finite Difference Element Method) program package with 570 000 DM over a two-years period. The FDEM package has been developed in the project group "Numerical Research for Supercomputers" at the computing center of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. FDEM is a black-box solver for arbitrary nonlinear systems of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) as they occur in the numerical simulation of all types of engineering problems. It uses a finite difference method of high order on an unstructured finite element mesh, presently on a fixed domain. |
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| | Bids requested to help transform British scientists' ideas and discoveries into commercial successes
UK's Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen
Byers invites applications for bids to help transform British scientists'
ideas and discoveries into commercial successes for the UK. A fund of
GBP 40 million has been made available as a result of the Science and Innovation White
Paper for this purpose. |
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| Industry
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| | Workshop on Metacomputing Systems and Applications MSA'2001
The Workshop on Metacomputing Systems and Applications MSA'2001, will be held in Valencia (Spain), September 3, 2001. Dead line paper submission April 8th. |
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| | Nanotechnology institutes in Japan
A Japanese government and several Japanese universities will
establish nanotechnology research institutes. The research aims to develop, for example, fingertip-size supercomputers and non-degradable plastics, and promote technology transfer to industry. |
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| | Compaq sells supercomputers in Japan and Australia
Compaq announced three new supercomputer ales: one in Japan and two in
Australia. The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute will install a 1.5Tflop/.s system. APAC Australia will install a 450 processor computer and VPAC in Australia willacquire a 128 processor machine. |
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| | US Navy and Weather Channel announce cooperation
The US Navy and The Weather Channel
signed a memorandum of understanding. The agreement is intended to foster cooperation between the two organizations
and allow them to jointly examine new methods and technologies for producing and
presenting forecasts. It allows The Weather Channel to use climate, weather, and
ocean data produced by the Navy and made available in the public domain,
including data generated by the Navy's supercomputer at the Fleet Numerical
Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey. This computer is one of
the world's most sophisticated tools for global weather and ocean modeling,
utilizing the largest existing real-time databases of oceanic and atmospheric
observations. |
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| | Princeton Softech releases relational tools for servers 3.1
Princeton Softech announced the RT Server Option, a major
new component of the Relational Tools for Servers, the
enterprise-scale toolset that automates extraction, migration,
editing, browsing, comparison and archiving of referentially intact
sets of data from the most complex databases. |
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| | New 32-processor Unisys ES7000 performs well on SAP
Using the SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, an
industry-standard measure of server performance, a Unisys e-@ction Enterprise
Server ES7000 equipped with 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon 32-bit processors
supported 18,500 mySAP.com SD Standard Application benchmark users. This result
is the third highest result ever recorded on any platform tested with the SAP
SD benchmark methodology, regardless of the number of processors per server
tested. |
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| | EuroPam 2001
ESI Group will organise its eleventh annual European conference on October 18-19, 2001 at the Congress Center of the historic German city of Heidelberg. Last year's conference in Nantes (France) gathered more than 400 attendees from all over Europe. |
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| Industry
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| | Cray to use Sun Fire servers for data management of MTA-2 and Cray SV2 computers
Sun and Cray inked an OEM
agreement that gives Cray the ability to rebrand, directly market and sell
Sun's new Sun Fire servers as data management (input/output) nodes within
Cray's next-generation Cray MTA-2 and Cray SV2 systems. |
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| | SGI to lay-off 15% of workforce
For the quarter ending March 31, 2001, SGI posted a net operating loss of US$ 47 million. The previous quarter also ended with a loss ($93
million). To cut down costs, SGI will eliminate about 1,000 regular, temporary and
contractor positions, or about 15% of its global workforce, in the June 2001 quarter. |
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| | Large Cray T3E accepted
Cray reported that a large Cray
T3E system has successfully completed the 30-day acceptance test
at a government customer site. As a result, this order will contribute approximately $21 million in product revenue in the quarter ending March 31, 2001. |
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| | NASA Ames Research Center powers up first 512-processor single system image SGI Origin 3800
The NASA Ames
Research Center, in Moffett Field powered up a 512-processor SGI Origin 3800. Working under a memorandum of agreement, NASA Ames and SGI have been cooperating
in order to push the boundaries of high-performance computing. It was NASA Ames
computer scientists who first encouraged SGI to connect many computer processor
chips in a new way when building its 512-processor supercomputers. |
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| | Cray SV1ex will have 64 Gflop/s peak performance
Cray said its Cray SV1ex
enhanced product line, on schedule to begin shipping this quarter,
will be substantially more powerful (2 Gflop/s per processors and provide better
price/performance than previously indicated. |
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| | USA Digital applies for patent on Ultra Fast High Density Computer
USA Digital has filed for a
patent with the U.S. Patent office for an "Ultra Fast High Density Low Profile
Computer (UHLC)." The design overcomes the traditional problems
with heat and allows for the positioning of two high-speed processors
along with AGP and PCI risers, high-end graphics and dual network cards suitable for 2 GHz computing. |
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| | Sun reports flattening of revenues
Sun reported results for the third quarter of fiscal
year 2001, which ended April 1, 2001. Revenues where almost flat compared to the previous quarte. Profits, where down 43 percent. |
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| | Intel's Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Programme, good for science, or good for marketing?
Intel has launched a peer-to-peer programme, under which people should download a programme onto their PCs that then should perform scientific calculations for Cancer Research. Although that sounds very noble, it looks more like it is good marketing for Intel than really helping science. |
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| | Denver Hosts World's High-Performance Network and Computer Events At SC2001, November 10-16
Each November for 12 years, more than 5,000 world leaders in computing and
networking gather to demonstrate the newest technologies, showcase their
results, and spend on average, $3.5-$7 million on planned purchases. SC2001, the conference of high performance networking and computing, will
convene November 10-16, in the fiber-optic equipped Denver Convention Center. The timeschedule for submissions is now available. |
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| Industry
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| | SuSE ahead of RedHat
Recently released sales figures of version SuSE 7.1 set new records in
US markets. According to a recent PC data report, SuSE has a 48% market
share of the Linux retail market in the USA, second is RedHat with 29% |
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| | SGI and Platform offer EDA-Ready Linux technical compute farm
SGI and Platform
Computing introduced the SG Electronic
Design Automation (EDA) Technical Compute Farm for Linux. Platform LSF (Load Sharing Facility)
software will be a key
component of the offering. For a limited time, beginning April 1, the SGI
EDA Technical Compute Farm for Linux will be offered at a special
introductory pricing. |
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| | LAM/MPI version 6.5 released
The Laboratory for Scientific Computing at the University of Notre Dame did release LAM/MPI version 6.5. The software package is a portable, open source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard on Linux It contains a full implementation of the MPI-1
standard and much of the MPI-2 standard. |
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
SuSE Linux presented the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server at CeBIT in
Hanover, Germany. "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server" is
an operating system streamlined for the utilization in servers. The
operating system basis is optimized for security and stability and
comprises all relevant server services. |
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| | VA Linux debuts remote management solution for ultra-dense servers
VA Linux introduced the VA Linux 100 remote management solution for 1U server farms. Leveraging VACM, VA's cluster management software, the VA Linux 100 turns racks of VA Linux 1120 and 1220 1U servers into unified server arrays and enables systems administrators to manage them securely from anywhere in the world. |
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| | Linux NetworX awarded
Linux NetworX, a
provider of powerful and easy-to-manage Linux cluster computing solutions,
announced today it has been named Regional and Utah Exporter of the Year by the
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). According to SBA, Linux NetworX was
selected based upon the growth of its exports to international markets and its
strategy to continue growing these markets into the future. |
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| | Turbolinux Server 6.5
Turbolinux,released Turbolinux Server (TLS) 6.5. Designed to
run at the enterprise level, TLS 6.5 simplifies global deployment by supporting
five languages, including English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (traditional and
simplified). TLS 6.5 further innovates Linux server capabilities by introducing
a mass installation tool. The software also incorporates a journaling file
system. |
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| | AVS at Ohio Supercomputer Center
The
Ohio Supercomputer Center is using AVS visualization software for visualizing fossil bones
to understand the relationship between bone structure and the functional
characteristics of a skeleton, investigating void-finding algorithms to define
voids in 3D galaxy surveys, and completing a research project for the US
Department of Defense.
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| | Jwavw 3.1 from Visual Numerics
Visual
Numerics says JWAVE 3.5 is now available. JWAVE is a client/server
solution that uses Sun Microsystems' Java components to rapidly develop and deploy
applications across an enterprise via the Internet or an intranet. Whether
developing applications using the Java programming language or HTML and Java Server
Pages, JWAVE lets users perform numerical analysis and visual interpretation of
large, complex datasets. Among JWAVE 3.5's most
significant new upgrades are advanced graphics features that expand the client-side
interaction of the product, and support for Java Server Pages (JSP). |
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| | NEC develops a 61-inch plasma display monitor
NEC developed the industry's biggest sized plasma display monitor with h a panel size of 61-inches (diagonal 155 cm). A sample of the new NEC 61-inch model can been seen at the "Cebit" exhibition in Hanover, Germany. |
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| | Collaboration on motion tracking
InterSense, a provider of precision motion tracking technology that
allows people to easily interact with 3D computer-generated
environments, expanded its partnership with
Vinten . The team of Vinten and InterSense will offer ImageTracker IS-900 precision camera tracking
solution for virtual production. |
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| | Onyx 3400 visualisation system will power Israeli Air Force UH-60/CH-53 helicopter simulator
A 24-processor SGI Onyx 3400 system with six graphics pipelines will drive the
state-of-the-art HAWST, which features roll-in/roll-out cockpits to provide the
Israeli Air Force with the ability to train both UH-60 and CH-53 crews in the
simulator. When one cockpit is in use in the HAWST, the other cockpit can be
operated in parallel as a flight-training device. The simulator will be
delivered and ready for training in early 2004. |
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| | Xwave develops network-based Helicopter simulation system
Xwave, an Aliant company, has selected the new SGI Graphics Cluster
high-performance visualization cluster series to provide Canada's Tactical
Aviation Mission System Simulation (TAMSS) with a high-resolution three-channel
visualization environment to better define requirements for new helicopter
systems. |
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- The Grid |
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| | Cadre repository on I/O information and tools expands
CADRE, a US National Science Foundation-funded
facility for high-performance I/O characterisation and optimisation,
announces a newly expanded repository of resources that aid in the design
of efficient I/O systems. The upgrade to the Web-based CADRE repository
was made possible by hardware
contributions from IBM and Intel and by the addition of new software tools. |
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| | Medical intelligent agent search engine Marvin: a prototype Grid applications
The Grid is not only about high-performance computing, explained Jean-Raoul Scherrer from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics at the Grid workshop organised in March 2001 by the European Commission in Brussels. Hundreds of large medical and bio-molecular databases and information sources already exists, that can benifit from Grid technologies to make them more accesisble."If it is allowed somehow to consider the 'Grid' as an offspring of the HPCC action, then one large part of the use of such an infrastructure should be devoted to 'Education, Research and Health" (ERH) dealing with co-ordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional organisations' Scherrer notes. In a pioneering experiment, called Health on the Net, several Swiss organisations built an advanced intelligent agent based search engine called MARVIN, that searches the Internet for medical information, that can be considered a prototype for future implementations in the Grid's knowledge layer. |
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| | Europan Space Agency takes the Grid seriously
One of the 'traditional' Grid applications - is the Grid already mature enough to talk of traditional and new applications? - is space technology. As Luigi Fusci from the European Space Agency (ESA) explained at the Grid workshop organised by the European Commission in Brussels in March 2001, his organisation is actively involved in the demonstration of Grid technologies for different space applications.
ESA is, for instance, partner in the DataGrid project. This is an example of a project that develops the Grid infrastructure in the space research and application domain. |
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| | Replacing tapes with fibre to create a real-time European Very long baseline interferometry Network
The Grid, and especially high-speed networking, could allow to replace the current data transport of European radio telescopes, that uses magnetic tapes, by data transport through fibre. This would create a large Europe wide real-time radio telescope. This was explained by Richard Schilizzi from the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) explained at the Grid workshop organised by the European Commission in Brussels in March 2001. |
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| | GenProt installs large server farm for protein research
GeneProt opened the world's first large-scale proteomic discovery
centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The facility will enable GeneProt to discover new drugs and
biomarkers based on the body's own proteins. The new centre will run 20 hours a day and will use a 1420 processor Compac Alpha cluster. |
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| | GigaPort selects Global Crossing as preferred supplier for global Internet connectivity
In a public tender GigaPort has awarded Global Crossing 'preferred supplier' status for supplying a number of services for the global Internet connectivity of the GigaPort network. With Global Crossing GigaPort is now drafting a contract for the period of July 2001 until the end of 2002. |
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| | Project JXTA - Java based peer-to-peer computing
Sun unveiled Project JXTA as a prototype, next-generation network computing research project that will enable easy access to peers and resources on the rapidly emerging, multi-dimensional, "expanded Web". Sun also launched jxta.org, an Open Source project where developers can collaborate to evolve Project JXTA and create innovative, distributed services and applications that allow users to naturally and quickly find, get, and use information. |
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| | United Devices Global MetaProcessor service to help preserve printed history
United Device, a distributed computing company, and iArchives,
entered into a partnership in which
iArchives will use United Devices Global MetaProcessor service to help
preserve printed history. The Global MetaProcessor service works by securely sending a small portion of a
project to each of the thousands of individual devices in the United Devices
Member Community. This community is made up of thousands of individuals and
organizations that have volunteered their PCs' computing power to generate the
needed massive power for distributed computing projects. |
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| | Rusion Kurcharov Institute to cooperate with NCSA Alliance in the USA
Evgeny Velikhov
signed a partnership agreement with the National Computational Science Alliance
(Alliance) making the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow the
first member of the new Alliance Affiliates programme. |
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| | Dolphin Interconnect announces high-performance clustering support for Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6
Dolphin Interconnect introduced SCI high-performance clustering
support for Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6 platforms. Dolphin is releasing
NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) that support Novell's Cluster Services
for Dolphin's range of PCI to SCI interconnect cards such as the 32Bit/33MHz
PSB32, 64Bit/33MHz PSB64 and the 64Bit/66MHz PSB66. Dolphin is also
releasing their SISCI programming libraries under GPL (GNU Public
License) for the Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6 platforms. |
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| | Co-operation between Compaq and SARA on grids and Bio-informatics
Compaq and the Amsterdam computing centre SARA installed an Alphacluster configuration of 16 workstations, coupled via a Myrinet
with a peak performance of 20 Gflop/s. The system will be used for Grid and Bio-informatics research. |
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| | Agilent Technologies Introduces IPv6 test solutions for next-generation Internet
Agilent has new test solutions for
ipv6 (internet protocol version 6), including a
system for testing the performance of tunnelled ipv6 traffic. The new
ipv6 testing solutions allow equipment manufacturers and service
providers to verify the performance and interoperability of
next-generation ipv6 equipment and services, as well as their compatibility with earlier-generation equipment, helping to speed the
transition to the new industry standard. |
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| | Computationally intense financial research made possible by Entropia's global Grid of PCs
Entropia
launched SaferMarkets, a joint effort with financial experts to predict stock
market volatility. Entropia's global distributed computing grid of PCs will provide
the power to enable this computationally intensive project for
researchers at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
at the University of Rochester. |
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| | MOSIX 0.97.11 available for Linux
MOSIX 0.97.11 is now avaialable for Linux 2.2.19.
MOSIX enhances the Linux kernel with cluster computing capabilities. It allows a cluster of PCs to work cooperatively as if part of a single system. |
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| | Chinese parallel computer for numerical weather forecast
China has developed
a parallel computer system for a regional numerical weather forecast, which is
expected to help improve the accuracy of China's weather
forecast. The Shenjian-100 regional numerical weather forecast parallel computer system
was positively evaluated by an expert team organized by the Zhejiang Provincial
Science and Technology Commission. |
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| | NASA installs new RAVE high-end VR system
The NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, has
officially opened a new RAVE (Reconfigurable Advanced Visualization
Environment)The RAVE was purchased as part of a NASA initiative that aims to enable geographically
dispersed teams of engineers and scientists to collaborate in full-sensory environments.
Researchers at other NASA centers will utilize broad bandwidth links between systems to share
the new immersive environment with NASA Glenn in real-time, remote collaboration, allowing
them to work together as if they were at the same location. |
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| | New York Stock Exchange 3-D Virtual Trading Floor
The New York Stock
Exchange has launched a new broadcast studio that gives reporters access to a
virtual trading floor with live market data for inclusion into financial
newscasts. Dubbed NYSE MarkeTrac Live, the virtual set provides financial
broadcasters and web viewers with a truly unique view of the Exchange's auction
market and the latest market information. |
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center orders Cray SV1
Cray received a $1.6 million
order from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), Columbus, Ohio. The
16-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer will support
advanced research on air pollution transport, brake efficiency and
other problems in computational chemistry, mechanical engineering and
related fields. This system will be upgraded in mid-2001 to Cray SV1ex
processors and memory, with memory doubling to 64 gigabytes |
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| | TurboGenomics releases TurboBLAST parallel software for Genomics and Proteomics
TurboGenomics announced the release of the latest version of TurboBLAST. TurboBLAST is an accelerated, parallel implementation of BLAST, a sequence
comparison tool that provides critical insight into the structure and function
of genes and proteins. As submissions to sequence databases increase
exponentially with the completion of large-scale sequencing projects around the
world, the demand for BLAST processing has outstripped the IT resources of
genomics and proteomics labs. |
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| | REBOL releases distributed application software support
REBOL released REBOL/View, an Internet software technology for distributed Internet applications. REBOL/View enables to rapidly
create and deploy custom network applications for collaborative, groupware, and
peer-to-peer purposes. |
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| | AXS Technologies partners with Digipict
AXS Technologies - whose patented parallel processing technology increases
the speed at which high quality digital images are viewed
online - announced that Digipict has partnered with the
company for use of its AXS EyeSpy Image Server. |
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| | Distributed Science peer-to-peer layer public open source
Distributed Science intends to make its peer-to-peer infrastructure for
Distributed Processing available under an open source license starting May 1,
2001. |
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| | Parabon releases Linux version
Parabon released the Pioneer
compute engine for Linux. Available immediately, Linux users worldwide can
download this free software and instantly apply their idle computing power
toward non-profit research projects and gain compensation when their idle
computing power is used in support of paying clients. |
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| | ACE licenses Edison Design Group's C++ front end for ACE's CoSy compiler product portfolio
ACE Associated Compiler Experts has licensed the C++ front end capabilities from Edison Design Group
(EDG-Montclair, New Jersey, USA). ACE will integrate EDG's C++ Front End into ACE's CoSy
compiler development system. Over 40 customers and partners use CoSy for compiler development
worldwide |
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| | Groove Networks announce version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer software
Groove Networks
announced the availability to enterprise customers of Groove 1.0, its
Internet peer-to-peer communications software and network services platform, and an initial
sale of 10,000 licenses to GlaxoSmithKline, a world leading research-based
pharmaceutical company with more than 100,000 employees worldwide. With the
availability of Groove 1.0, Groove Networks now offers the first
enterprise-class peer computing software and network services infrastructure for
conducting communications and commerce over the Internet. |
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| | University of Central Florida receives Mercuryreal-time signal and image processing computer
Mercury Computer Systems donated a RACE multi-computer
platform and software to the University of Central Florida. The
12-processor system and software will be used by the computer
engineering programme for instruction and research in real time,
high-performance computing concepts.
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| | NetGenics to resell IBM DiscoveryLink technology
DiscoveryLink can accelerate drug discovery by helping researchers merge information -- from many sources, including public and private databases, and in diverse data formats and file types -- using a single query. Under the terms of the agreement, NetGenics can integrate DiscoveryLink into its NetGenics DiscoveryCenter product, as well as re-distribute the technology on a stand-alone basis. |
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| | Low cost graphic cluster systems from SGI
SGI launched its new graphics cluster
systems at the ITEC simulation trade show in Lille, France. The SGI Graphics Cluster high-performance
visualisation product family takes provides
low-cost, high-resolution, multi-channel immersive visualisation, combining
the functionality of a single system with the economics and practicality of a
component-based PC cluster. |
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| | IBM introduces a hybrid Unix/Linux system: AIX 5L
IBM announced AIX 5L, tuned for Linux applications, AIX 5L provides an environment for building and managing both UNIX and Linux applications, providing a substantial advantage over fully-closed, proprietary systems. |
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| | Metacomputing workshop in Stuttgart
The 4th HLRS Metacomputing Workshop will be organised together with the second
Metodis results workshop at Stuttgart. This allows to bring industrial partners and
researchers together at Stuttgart to exchange their point of view of
Metacomputing. Meeting dates: May 2 -4, 2001. |
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| | Sun and TV Files to provide broad band distributed solutions to European market
Sun and TV Files have signed a co-operation agreement to
provide content providers, Internet Service
Providers (ISPs), and corporations in the European
market with solutions for the distribution of
broadcast quality video and multimedia content. |
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NEC has set a new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transmission capacity world record. NEC has successfully transmitted 10.9 Tbit/s (273 channels, each with 40 Gbit/s data speed) of information over 117km. |
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