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June 2001
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Contents
June 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | No antidumping duty for Japanese supercomputers in the USA anymore
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| | Supercomputer analyses patient's genetic fingerprint to individualise cancer treatment
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| | Neuro-surgeons use 3D Virtual Reality Dextroscope technology to assist in pre-operative planning
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| | Autovectorization support for Motorola's PowerPC AltiVec vector processor
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| | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center chooses Etnus TotalView Debugger for Tflop/s supercomputer
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| | MSC added several tools to on-demand-licensing offer
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| | AMD Athlon Processor gaining global Recognition as supercomputing superstar
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| | Super system at CSIRO wins Australian technology award
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| | IBM Intellistation M Pro with improved 3D performance
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| | Quebec Government installs Compaq servers with 35 Tbyte
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| | EtnusTotalView debugger popular in Oil and Gas industry
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| | New president SGI
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| | SAVE Working Group Scientific Computing Meeting on April 2 in Karlsruhe
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| | News from Fujitsu Siemens Computer (FSC) and hpcLine Status
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| | News from Scali
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| | Pallas GmbH, their Software Tools and hpcLine
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| | News from ParaStation on hpcLine - the Myrinet interconnect
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| | German High-Performance Computing in Chemistry project started
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- FR |
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| | Consolidated results of ESI for 2000 show strong growth
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| Country
- NL |
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| | Covisint e-business exchange for theautomotive industry on Sun
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| Country
- Other |
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| | Indian supercomputer manufacturer to restructure
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | E-Learning with multimedia and video streaming
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| | Sun super powers Oxford GlycoSciences efforts In Proteomics
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| | Virtual Reality lab for Brazilian oil exploration
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| | SGI and Phoenix together in high-performance computing solutions
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| | Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication
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| | Mercury RACE platform facilitates research by Oklahoma State University
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| | Mercury extends development capabilities for RACE++ multicomputer platform
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Sun completes acquisition of LSC
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| | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory upgrades Origin and Onyx systems with MIPS R14000 processors
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| | Compaq cancels Uniysis CMP support
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| | 32-processor Unisys ES7000 Demonstrates 64-bit Intel ItaniumProcessor
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| | Sun delivers first of its network attached storage devices that scales to 10 Tbyte
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| | Sun leads in UK server market
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| | Dell announces four-processor Itanium-based PowerEdge server
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| | Dataram offerss 2 Gbyte memory for Sun Fire
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | WesternGeco installs 512 processor IBM Linux cluster
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| | Cray Shmem compatible library on Scali
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| | MSC.Software installs Linux cluster at Boeing
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| | NEC opens Linux support centre
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| | Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution
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| | Access to a IBM eServer zSeries mainframe for Linux developers
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| | Dolphin Interconnect and RackSaver install AMD Athlon processor-based Supercomputer at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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| | NEC and UniTree to sell Linux-based storage management together
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| | Banco Mercantil moves to SuSE Linux on IBM mainframe
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| | SGI XFS 1.0 and Linux Failsafe plug-Ins available for Linux
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | LaserPacific develops high definition supercomputer assembly technology for post producation
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Max Planck Society will install Tflop/s IBM supercomputer
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| | You cannot hide from Cobion
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| | Scali Linux cluster on board ocean vessel
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| | LaunchCyte to use Juno Virtual Supercomputer
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| | Korea on next gen worldwide research network Startap
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| | French Grid initative
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| | ASP for Stochastic Analysis initiated
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center licenses LabBook's XML-Life sciences solution
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| | New CEO at Entropia
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| | European sites involved in global network demo using Grid technologies
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| | Netbeans provides open source Java modules
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| | The Peer-to-Peer WorkingGroup meets
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| | ShareThis to incorporate Texar policy-based network security into its real-time collaborative application platform
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| | Keyhole debuts EarthSytem viewer
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| | Sun lowers price for resource manager and bandwidth manager
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| Networking
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| | Researchers find patterns in web-server attacks that could help fighting them
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Leads
June 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | No antidumping duty for Japanese supercomputers in the USA anymore
The U.S. Department of Commerce has revoked the
antidumping duty on certain vector supercomputers from Japan. The
revocation is effective May 3, 2001. This means that NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi can sell supercomputers in the USA again. |
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| | Supercomputer analyses patient's genetic fingerprint to individualise cancer treatment
Researchers at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University are teaming with NuTec Sciences Inc. and IBM to develop an integrated information system which will enable physicians to tailor cancer treatments based on a patient's specific genetic makeup. NuTec and IBM have combined disparate technologies to create GenesysSI, a new generation of information system for the onco-pharmaceutical environment. This integrated genomics-based information management system incorporates technologies for storing, retrieving, processing, and analysing patient genetic and clinical data. |
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| | Neuro-surgeons use 3D Virtual Reality Dextroscope technology to assist in pre-operative planning
The most difficult Siamese twin separation to date, performed in Singapore last April, benefited from rehearsals using the Dextroscope, a neuro-surgical planning system. This futuristic system was developed by Singapore-based Volume Interactions and is powered by high-performance Silicon Graphics Onyx family systems. The Dextroscope transforms two-dimensional images of patients' bodies into three-dimensional graphics, allowing neuro-surgeons to plan the best way to perform complex surgeries in advance. |
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| | Autovectorization support for Motorola's PowerPC AltiVec vector processor
Green Hills Software unveiled a new PowerPC compiler for its MULTI Integrated Development Environment that provides automatic vectorization support for Motorola PowerPC processors equipped with the AltiVec vector-processing engine. The new compiler converts ordinary C code into optimized AltiVec object code, enabling designers to achieve a 2-4x increase in vector processing performance without having to write custom AltiVec source code. |
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| | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center chooses Etnus TotalView Debugger for Tflop/s supercomputer
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
(PSC) has chosen Etnus TotalView as the debugger for their National Science
Foundation-funded Terascale Computing System (TCS). The initial
256-processor configuration of the system - known as TSCini - was
operational in late December and has been used during a "friendly user"
period by scientists and engineers for research projects in astrophysics,
fluid dynamics, materials science, earthquake modeling and structure, and
function of proteins and DNA. The final system, due to be installed in the
fall of 2001, will include 3,000 Alpha processors. |
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| | MSC added several tools to on-demand-licensing offer
MSC has an on-line pay-per-use licensing facility that lets you rent software products to run on your computer by the week, by the month, or by the year.
Products that have been added recently are MSC.SuperForge and MSC.Construct. |
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| | AMD Athlon Processor gaining global Recognition as supercomputing superstar
Five more academic institutions have each installed new supercomputers using the award-winning
AMD Athlon processor. Cited for their powerful performance, scalability, and flexibility to expand in a cluster environment, a series of AMD Athlon processor-based supercomputers have been employed for research programmes at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded programme at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), as well as National Science Foundation (NSF) funded programmes at Western Michigan University and Calvin College. These wins demonstrate how the AMD Athlon processor is continuing to expand its reputation as a powerful, innovative and reliable solution for supercomputing platforms used for scientific research. |
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| | Super system at CSIRO wins Australian technology award
CSIRO's world-first super computer system for advanced route optimisation has won the Australian Technology Award
for the best public sector new technology in 2001. The Award was won jointly with the CSIRO spin-off company Quantm Ltd. and was presented at a ceremony at Sydney's Regent Hotel. |
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| | IBM Intellistation M Pro with improved 3D performance
IBM
announced five new IntelliStation M Pro workstations and 12 new NetVista
A60 business and A60i home desktop systems, all boosted by advanced Intel
Pentium 4 processors at speeds up to 1.7 GHz. The IntelliStation M Pro
features new Fire GL4 graphics based on IBM's copper chip technology,
boosting performance in ways designed to simplify the manipulation of large
three-dimensional models. |
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| | Quebec Government installs Compaq servers with 35 Tbyte
The Quebec
Government will use its Alpha systems to implement GIRES, an important IT
project for the Quebec Government. AlphaServer systems will be used as the
hardware platform to run the integrated Oracle E-Business Suite. |
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| | EtnusTotalView debugger popular in Oil and Gas industry
Etnus sees an increasing demand for TotalView in the oil and gas industry. Over the last year, conglomerates have relied on TotalView to debug their mission-critical, high performance computing applications, doubling the use of TotalView in the oil and gas industry. |
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| | New president SGI
SGI announced changes within its senior management team, including the appointment of
Hal Covert as the company's president. |
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| | SAVE Working Group Scientific Computing Meeting on April 2 in Karlsruhe
At the beginning of April 2001, a meeting was organised by the SAVE Working Group Scientific Computing in Karlsruhe, Germany. |
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| | News from Fujitsu Siemens Computer (FSC) and hpcLine Status
Eric Schnepf and Peter Kirsch discussed news in the vector, the SMP and hpcLine arena. They listed new hpcLine customers and the application software development. |
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| | News from Scali
As usual during the SAVE meeting, Hakon O. Bugge, Scali, presents news from their interconnectivity area, new versions of their middleware - ScaMPI.
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| | Pallas GmbH, their Software Tools and hpcLine
During the SAVE meeting, Werner Krotz-Vogel, Pallas, showed their offering for the Fujitsu Siemens Computer hpcLine. Pallas covers the part of software tools and compilers. |
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| | News from ParaStation on hpcLine - the Myrinet interconnect
The new partner in the interconnect field of Fujitsu Siemens Computers for the hpcLine is ParTec, a spin-off of University Karlsruhe, with its ParaStation based on Myrinet interconnect. Professor Walter Tichy, the father and member of the Department of Informatics University Karlsruhe, discussed the basic ideas and the resulting middleware. |
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| | German High-Performance Computing in Chemistry project started
The project HPC-Chem (High-Performance Computing in Chemistry),
initiated by ZAM (Central Institute for Applied Mathematics) at
Research Centre Juelich, started on March 1st.
This project brings together partners from academia, research
and industry in order to provide modern quantum chemistry
software with high efficiency on parallel computers.
It is funded by the BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research). |
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| Country
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| | Consolidated results of ESI for 2000 show strong growth
The ESI Group reported that total consolidated revenue for fiscal year 2000, ending January 31st 2001, increased by +28% reaching euro 40.8 million with respect to previous year. Licensing revenue increased by +35% reaching euro 29.7 million. Licensing revenue now represents 73% of total revenue compared with 69% for 1999. T |
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| | Covisint e-business exchange for theautomotive industry on Sun
Covisint, an e-business exchange for the
automotive industry, has selected Sun as the
primary Unix platform to power its web, application
and database servers powering their data centers in
both the United States and Europe. |
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| Country
- Other |
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| | Indian supercomputer manufacturer to restructure
The Indian Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), developer of
the Param series of supercomputers, has started discussions with large consultancy firms for business and financial restructuring as part of the
proposed corporatisation of the entity. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | E-Learning with multimedia and video streaming
Arel and
SGI are launching a joint learning-on-demand
solution, continUlearn. This scalable system integrates SGI's premier servers and
Kasenna MediaBase media streaming software with the IDEAL suite of e-learning
solutions from Arel. In addition, SGI and Arel will provide professional
services to ensure fast and effective implementation of distributed e-learning
networks worldwide. |
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| | Sun super powers Oxford GlycoSciences efforts In Proteomics
Oxford GlycoSciences (OGS), a drug development company using
proteomics to discover new therapeutic and diagnostic products for human
diseases, recently installed Sun systems to help map, store and analyze
the entire genetic protein makeup of the human body. |
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| | Virtual Reality lab for Brazilian oil exploration
The Universidade Federal do
Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), located in Lagoa Nova, Brazil, has inaugurated a
Virtual Reality Laboratory for 3D visualization of geological data as a
decision-making tool for exploration of oil reserves. |
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| | SGI and Phoenix together in high-performance computing solutions
SGI and Phoenix
Integration entered into an alliance under which Phoenix will provide
process integration solutions for SGI high-performance computing
platforms. |
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| | Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication
The deadline for paper submission for the conference on Advanced Computing and
Communication (ADCOM) is May 30, 2001. The conference will take place on December 16-19, 2001 in Bhubaneswar, India. |
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| | Mercury RACE platform facilitates research by Oklahoma State University
Mercury Computer Systems donated a high-performance
RACE multicomputer system to Oklahoma State University to assist
with the school's advanced study of signals intelligence. |
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| | Mercury extends development capabilities for RACE++ multicomputer platform
Mercury Computer Systems, a leading provider of embedded, real-time digital signal
and image processing computer systems, announced today that it has formed
alliances with seven strategic vendors of application development tools for the
RACE++ multicomputer platform. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Sun completes acquisition of LSC
Sun completed the acquisition of LSC, a company specialized in high-performance file
systems and data storage software. The acquisition extends Sun's existing
storage software product line and is a key component in Sun's strategy to
deliver easily managed, open storage networks. |
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| | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory upgrades Origin and Onyx systems with MIPS R14000 processors
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in Washington,
D.C., is the company's first company to upgrade its Origin 3000
series and Onyx 3000 series systems with the new MIPS RISC
R14000 microprocessors. |
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| | Compaq cancels Uniysis CMP support
Compaq has cancelled plans to market servers based on the Unisys cellular multiprocessing (CMP) architecture Compaq began shipping CMP based servers under the Proliant Ml770 name earlier this year. |
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| | 32-processor Unisys ES7000 Demonstrates 64-bit Intel ItaniumProcessor
Intel and Unisys gave the world's first public demonstration of
64-bit Intel Itanium processors on the Unisys e-@ction Enterprise
Server ES7000 on April 26 in New York City. The Itanium processor is
the first in a family of 64-bit processors from Intel.
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| | Sun delivers first of its network attached storage devices that scales to 10 Tbyte
Sun introduced the Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers for the
Network Attached Storage (NAS) market. The Sun StorEdge N8000 filer series
delivers can grow from 200
gigabytes to over 10 Tbytes of usable capacity in a standalone
configuration. |
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| | Sun leads in UK server market
Sun is No. 1 in the United States in Total
Server Revenue, No. 2 worldwide according to Gartner Dataquest, SUN did announce. In 2000, Sun
surpassed IBM in total server revenue in the
United Kingdom and grew faster than any other
major server company in Western Europe. |
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| | Dell announces four-processor Itanium-based PowerEdge server
Dell plans to deliver an Intel Itanium-based
PowerEdge server. The PowerEdge 7150, available later this year, is a rack dense
server designed from the ground up to offer the performance,
availability, management and scalability characteristics of
proprietary RISC architectures, but at a fraction of the cost, Dell claims. |
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| | Dataram offerss 2 Gbyte memory for Sun Fire
Dataram introduced a 2 Gbyte memory option
for Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire ) 280R servers and Sun Blade 1000
workstations. |
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| Industry
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| | WesternGeco installs 512 processor IBM Linux cluster
WesternGeco a seismic acquisition, processing, and reservoir imaging firm has selected an IBM Linux supercomputer to substantially increase its ability
to assist oil companies in their search for new oil reserves hidden deep beneath
the earth's surface. The supercomputer will power WesternGeco's
seismic imaging system and will be comprised of a cluster of 256 IBM eServer
systems, all running Linux. The
cluster at WesternGeco is comprised of 256 eServer xSeries 330 systems, each
powered by two 933 MHz Intel Pentium III processors. |
| | Full article...
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| | Cray Shmem compatible library on Scali
Scali has a compatibility library for
Cray Shmem programs, called Scali Shmem. It helps Scali's customers in leveraging Linux
cluster technology. As some of these customers have used T3E machines
in the past, they are likely to have software that uses Shmem. These
applications can now run on Scali clusters. |
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| | MSC.Software installs Linux cluster at Boeing
The Boeing Company will use an MSC.Software high performance cluster system has
resulted in a 400 percent increase in compute speed of jobs, while at the same
time reducing operating costs by more than 60 percent. The cluster enables
Boeing to run computer simulation and design models faster so it can meet all
future aircraft development and delivery schedules. |
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| | NEC opens Linux support centre
NEC will establish HPC (High Performance Computing) Engineering Center for Linux-based PC cluster system aiming to promote enhancement of cluster software, porting and tuning of parallel applications. The HPC Engineering Center will be established in Tokyo on June 1st and will be equipped with a 128-CPU (64 nodes) cluster system based on the "Express 5800 series" server. |
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| | Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution
A conference for high-performance Linux cluster users and system administrators will be organised by the National Computational Science Alliance in Urbana Champaign, USA, June 25-27, 2001 |
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| | Access to a IBM eServer zSeries mainframe for Linux developers
A new programme from IBM will provide independent software developers with free access to the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe for writing Linux software applications. The program, the Linux Community Development System, provides developers with access to their own virtual mainframe running Linux as well as a Shark storage subsystem. |
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| | Dolphin Interconnect and RackSaver install AMD Athlon processor-based Supercomputer at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Dolphin Interconnect and RackSaver completed installation of a Beowulf cluster supercomputer at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) using 32 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon processors. This cluster, funded
primarily by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
will be used to study collision processes in the solar system, such
as the origin of Earth's Moon by a giant impact, the disruption of
meteors in the atmospheres of planets, the formation of impact craters,
and the fragmentation of asteroids by impacts and explosions. It will
also be used to run simulations of planetary dynamos, such as the
one responsible for Earth's magnetic field. |
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| | NEC and UniTree to sell Linux-based storage management together
NEC and UniTree inked an agreement under which NEC will resell the advanced storage management HSM solutions from UniTree on Linux platforms for the High Performance Computing market. The co-operation also includes services agreement to provide customers with flexible maintenance and solution oriented support in the field. |
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| | Banco Mercantil moves to SuSE Linux on IBM mainframe
Banco Mercantil in Venezuela is the first Latin American company to implement SuSE Linux for the enterprise on the IBM mainframe. |
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| | SGI XFS 1.0 and Linux Failsafe plug-Ins available for Linux
SGI introduced a
production release of XFS 1.0 for Linux, the high-end SGI journaled
filesystem software, and code availability of Linux FailSafe clustering
plug-ins. These products are for free. |
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | LaserPacific develops high definition supercomputer assembly technology for post producation
LaserPacific's research and development team achieved a significant technology milestone that promises to accelerate the efficiency and cost effectiveness of high definition post production services. The new High Definition SuperComputer Assembly system creates 24P High
Definition programs as pure digital data and not digital video as do other
current systems. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Max Planck Society will install Tflop/s IBM supercomputer
The Max Planck Society will install a 3.8 Tflop/s supercomputer based on IBM supercomputer. The machine will
help researchers tackle a number of Grand Challenges in disciplines
such as polymer research, solid state physics and theoretical
chemistry, fusion research, astrophysics and biochemistry. Using the
machine, scientists expect to achieve a parameter-free description of
instabilities at the atomic level in the helical structure of proteins
that are assumed to be responsible for diseases such as
Creutzfeld-Jakob and Alzheimer's. |
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| | You cannot hide from Cobion
Analysing over 50 million images a day, the German company Cobion, has a pretty good view of what one can see on the Internet. As Dr. Jens Thamm will explain at the SC2001 Conference in Heidelberg, next month, Cobion can not only attach general data to such a picture, but can 'look inside', telling exactly what is on it. This knowledge is offered by Cobion, for use in advanced search engines, for brand protection and for filtering services.
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| | Scali Linux cluster on board ocean vessel
The geophysical exploration company PGS did buy an
18 node TeraRack from Scali for one of their Ramform
class vessels. This system focuses on high availability and serviceability,
for real time processing. The Ramform vessels sail the oceans doing
geophysical exploration. |
| | Full article...
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| | LaunchCyte to use Juno Virtual Supercomputer
Juno has signed a letter of intent with LaunchCyte, a bioinformatics incubator, setting forth terms for use of the
Juno virtual supercomputer by LaunchCyte and its portfolio companies. |
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| | Korea on next gen worldwide research network Startap
Korean advanced research network organisation KOREN/KREONet2, joined Startap, a worldwide cooperation of research networks and partners in America and Europe. In its initial phase, the KOREN/KREONet2 intercontinental link to Startap
will have the bandwidth of DS-3 (45Mbps). Depending on bandwidth demand
from the advanced projects utilizing the link, it will be progressively
upgraded to OC-3 (155Mbps). |
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| | French Grid initative
The French Ministery of Research has started a Grid initative. It is a concerted action, aimed at stimulating developments in this area. This action is called GRID (Globalisation des Resources Informatiques et des Donnees). For proposals submitted in 2001, the French governement has allocated 15 million French Francs. Probably the programme will be continued next year. |
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| | ASP for Stochastic Analysis initiated
EASi Engineering and TeraPort formed a consortium to establish the first worldwide stochastic Application Service Provider facility. The ASP will be operated jointly by both EASi and TeraPort and will be based on EASi's stochastic simulation environment ST-ORM and TeraPort's TeraPortal , which provides central access to compute intensive Engineering Applications like Crash, NVH, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Structural Mechanics. These applications, when viewed in a stochastic context, require hundreds to thousands of processors in order to return results in engineering-reasonable times. |
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center licenses LabBook's XML-Life sciences solution
LabBook and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
have entered into an agreement that, when completed, will provide LabBook's
XML-Life Sciences Solution to Ohio's academic community. he LabBook technology allows academic users direct access to The Ohio State
University (OSU) Human Genome Database using LabBook's proprietary Genome Query
Engine and Genomic XML Browser.
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| | New CEO at Entropia
Robert North, founder and former CEO of San Diego-based HNC Software Inc.
succeeds James Madsen as CEO of Entropia. Madsen will continue to serve in an advisory capacity. |
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| | European sites involved in global network demo using Grid technologies
At the yearly US supercomputer conference in November, this year in Denver, at least 35 computing centres, including several European sites, such as the Universities of Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Manchester, and the research centre in Juelich, will organise SC Global, the first global technical conference using Grid technologies to link groups of people worldwide. |
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| | Netbeans provides open source Java modules
The NetBeans open source project has added more than a
dozen additional modules into its open
source code base. These modules make
the standards-based integrated
development environment (IDE) platform
more complete and expand its appeal to a
broader audience of Java technology
developers. The modules will streamline
Java application development and address
a range of issues, including integration
with Apache's "Ant" XML scriptable build
tool, improved application server
deployment support and SOAP-based Web
services generation and deployment. |
| | Full article...
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| | The Peer-to-Peer WorkingGroup meets
The Peer-to-Peer Working
Group (P2PWG), created for the advancement and interoperability of peer-to-peer
computing, will be holding its third working group
meeting on May 30th and 31st, 2001 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, |
| | Full article...
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| | ShareThis to incorporate Texar policy-based network security into its real-time collaborative application platform
Texar Corporation, a developer of
security technologies designed to work across the enterprise, Web and
peer-to-peer (P2P) computing environments, will work together with ShareThis a collaborative
application platform provider that gives users real time communication and file
sharing capabilities over any IP network. |
| | Full article...
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| | Keyhole debuts EarthSytem viewer
Keyhole released its EarthSystem, a rich mapping technology. Keyhole's supercomputer-based processing tools fuse high-resolution satellite images, aerial photographs, maps, point of interest databases and other location-critical data into a 3D
model of unprecedented detail. Keyhole's patented data-delivery technology efficiently delivers this rich mapping system to corporate customers and
consumers over wired and wireless networks. |
| | Full article...
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| | Sun lowers price for resource manager and bandwidth manager
Sun announced a new pricing structure for its Solaris Bandwidth Manager and Resource
Manage software. The price reductions lower the cost of the Solaris
Resource Manager software by as much as 30 percent
and the Solaris Bandwidth Manager software by as much
as 90 percent. |
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| | Researchers find patterns in web-server attacks that could help fighting them
Using a new technique, UCSD
network researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and
the Jacobs School of Engineering have analyzed the worldwide pattern of
malicious denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against the computers of
corporations, universities, and private individuals. The attacks disable
Web servers on the Internet by overloading them with messages, which
usually contain false source addresses to conceal the locations of the
attackers. But in a clever twist, the researchers used key features of
these messages' forged signatures to detect and track the attacks |
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