Primeur Monthly -
July 2001
Advertisement
Primeur is the premier news service on on High Performance
Computing and Networking (HPCN) in Europe. It is produced by an
editorial
team composed of professionals in publishing and HPCN. You can put the editorial team to work as well. Read about our services and
advertising opportunities and find out about the friendly
rates.
advertisement
|
PrimeurLive! from the Heidelberg Supercomputer Seminar, June 2000
The Heidelberg Supercomputer Seminar is the main HPCN event in Europe. This year we publish two live issues from the event:
Contents of PrimeurLive!:
|
|
|
|
Breaking news - just a click away:
|
| |
 | |
| |
| |
Contents
July 2001
Issue
|
| |
| |
| Atlantic
- |
| |
| | Four US supercomputer centers wins major US Defense contract
|
| | Peer-to-Peer Working Group defines the future of P2P
|
| | NCSA to lead NSF-funded effort to integrate science tools into classrooms
|
| | Order for Cray SV1 supercomputer from U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command
|
| | NASA Research Center orders Cray SV1ex
|
| | USA supercomputer export strategy should be changed
|
| | Blackstone Technology Group receives $12.6 million in funding for high-throughput computing solutions in life sciences
|
| | Fakespace Systems to sell immersive display systems for energy resource exploration
|
| | Excellent first quarter 2001 results for Sun's UNIX server trade
|
| | IBM gains four points of share in server market
|
| |
| |
| Country
- DE |
| |
| | Primeur Live! from the Heidelberg Supercomputer Conference
|
| |
| |
| Country
- DE |
| |
| | German Weather Service (DWD) to install 2 Tflop/s IBM supercomputer in September
|
| |
| |
| Europe |
| |
| | ESI Group and MTS Systems to jointly develop and market noise and vibration simulation solutions
|
| | Scali TeraRack for environmental forecasting in Norway
|
| | Challenging innovative technologies at the NEC User Group Meeting in Frascati
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- Applications |
| |
| | NEC Electronics launches high-performance processor family
|
| | NEC introduces Intel`s new 64-bit Itanium processor-based high-performance servers
|
| | NEC User Group gets Statutes, previews Intel Itanium and Petaflop/s Technologies
|
| | Sandia National Laboratories upgrades Mercury computer for advanced radar research
|
| | U.S. Navy and The Weather Channel on SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer
|
| | Number crunching at NOAA against hurricanes
|
| | NuTec Sciences Life Sciences Division
unveiled fastest commercial life sciences supercomputer in the world
|
| | Devgen conducts genetic research on a roundworm on eServers
|
| | Cardianove accelerates heart pump development process
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- HPCN industry |
| |
| | Sun sells a lot of servers
|
| | New Compaq 64-bit ProLiant Servers featuring Intel Itanium due in Q3 2001
|
| | Dell Launches 64-bit Itanium workstation;
|
| | Intel to unveil fastest transistor
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- Linux |
| |
| | SGI announces Itanium based Linux systems
|
| | SHMEM library support for Dolphin WulfKit
|
| | HP announces broad portfolio of Itanium-based systems
|
| | NEC introduces 32 Gflop/s Itanium bases servers
|
| | Turbolinux 7 for Intel Itanium-Based Systems
|
| | MSC.Software Linux cluster at Fiat Center of Research
|
| | SuSE Linux 7.2 with added security and multimedia entertainment
|
| | Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM and NEC to cooperate on Linux enterprise capabilities
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- Media |
| |
| | Sun Microsystems and 3Dlabs announce Sun Expert3D-Lite graphics
|
| | OPAL/ Modular - massively parallel computing for consumer media devices
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- The Grid |
| |
| | IBM delivers new Itanium-based systems, including Linux supercomputer
|
| | Sun open source project codes at sunsource.net
|
| | Distributed project management market to top $1 Billion this year -trend to P2P
|
| | Starbase announces the Collaboration Suite
|
| | CERN deploys LSF on Itanium systems
|
| | Entropia establishes European division
|
| | Sandia releases open source version of Cplant cluster software
|
| | Avaki (formerly Applied Meta) raises US$6 million
|
| | Engenia Software licenses Roku P2P technology
|
| | Peer-to-Peer: It is all in the application, according to Yankee Group Report
|
| | A Brief Summary of CCGrid 2001-Cluster and Grid Computing Symposium
|
| | The Molecular Science Computing Facility is soliciting proposals
|
| | Scientists worldwide can share molecular scenes in a collaborative environment
|
| | New Company - Blueprint Worldwide - from IBM and MDS Proteomics accelerates drug discovery with a comprehensive collection of BioMolecular data
|
| | The Human Genome - there still lies a lot of research ahead of us
|
| | DataSynapse closes $15 million B round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures
|
| |
| |
| Networking |
| |
| | NEC introduces 100MBps Internet FTTx Media Converter
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
Leads
July 2001
Issue
|
| |
| |
| Atlantic
- |
| |
| | Four US supercomputer centers wins major US Defense contract
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $108 million contract to OSC (Ohio
Supercomputer Center), Mississippi State University (MSU) and the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC).Contract work will begin on June 1, 2001, with a three-year basic contract
and up to five one-year extension options. The total portion granted to OSC is
at least $27 million during a performance period of up to eight years. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Peer-to-Peer Working Group defines the future of P2P
The Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), created for the advancement and interoperability of peer-to-peer computing, rounded out two full days of presentations and working group sessions with a plan of action and a commitment from over sixty company representatives to take peer-to-peer computing to the next level. |
| | Full article...
|
| | NCSA to lead NSF-funded effort to integrate science tools into classrooms
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million, three-year grant to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and National Computational Science Alliance partners at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and Birmingham. The project will support annual teaching fellowships for graduate students in the science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) disciplines at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Alabama. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Order for Cray SV1 supercomputer from U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command
Cray Inc. received an order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for a Cray SV1 supercomputer with scheduled enhancements. Financial terms were not disclosed. |
| | Full article...
|
| | NASA Research Center orders Cray SV1ex
Cray has
received a $3.3 million order for a Cray SV1ex supercomputer
system and related services from Government Micro Resources (GMR).
The subcontract with GMR calls for a 32-processor Cray SV1ex supercomputer to be installed in the second quarter 2001 at the NASA
Ames Research Center facility in Moffett Field, USA. The system will support research aimed at improving the safety and durability of aircraft and aerospace vehicles. |
| | Full article...
|
| | USA supercomputer export strategy should be changed
The US Center for Strategic an International Studies(CSIS) has released a report tot the US government on the techniques behind the export regulations for supercomputers. The CICS commission concludes that the current measurement:
MTOPS, millions of operations per second for a computer system is not useful anymore. Software has developed to a stage where any country can bundle a large number of micro-processors and get supercomputer performance.
|
| | Full article...
|
| | Blackstone Technology Group receives $12.6 million in funding for high-throughput computing solutions in life sciences
In a sign of continued strong support for emerging technologies in life sciences, Blackstone Technology Group Inc., a provider of high-throughput computing software and services, announced the closing of $12.6 million in Series B venture financing led by Ampersand Ventures. Co-investors included Softbank Investment Corporation, Garfly Invest AG, Itochu International, and Synopsys Inc. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Fakespace Systems to sell immersive display systems for energy resource exploration
Fakespace Systems Inc. has closed four new contracts to provide immersive displays to organisations involved in energy resource exploration. The sales, to commercial oil and gas companies and leading universities, mark an increased acceptance of the value of visualisation for seismic data analysis and subsurface evaluation. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Excellent first quarter 2001 results for Sun's UNIX server trade
Sun Microsystems Inc. once again holds the top spot in total UNIX server market shipments and server revenues, according to the latest IDC report for Q1CY'01. Sun overtook the competition to take the No. 1 spot in both worldwide and UNIX midrange market shipments with 19% growth year-over-year, while its second-place competitor posted a 33% decrease in both worldwide and UNIX midrange market shipments during the same period.
|
| | Full article...
|
| | IBM gains four points of share in server market
International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that IBM is the number one server vendor worldwide in terms of factory revenue for the first quarter of 2001, gaining four points of market share in the quarter and outselling rival Sun Microsystems by a 60 percent margin.
|
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Country
- DE |
| |
| | Primeur Live! from the Heidelberg Supercomputer Conference
From 21st to 23rd June 2001, the 16th International Supercomputer Conference assembles in the International Convention Centre in Heidelberg, Germany. Watch your e-mail for the special editons with the New TOP500 and the other breaking news, later this week on Thursday, or check in at http://www.hoise.com/primeur. We will come back to you with the hottest news items. |
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Country
- DE |
| |
| | German Weather Service (DWD) to install 2 Tflop/s IBM supercomputer in September
The German Weather Service (DWD) signed an agreement with IBM to supply a 2 Tflop/s supercomputer in the context of the modernisation of the central IT systems. This is the latest stage of a larger contract for the German meteorological computing centre (DMRZ) in Offenbach, Germany.
|
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Europe |
| |
| | ESI Group and MTS Systems to jointly develop and market noise and vibration simulation solutions
ESI Group and MTS Systems Corporation have closed a strategic business alliance focused on the noise and vibration simulation market. This agreement follows ESI Group recent acquisition of French editor Straco. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Scali TeraRack for environmental forecasting in Norway
A 10 node TeraRack from Scali has been installed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute [DNMI] to perform
continuous forecasting of meteorology in and around the larger Norwegian cities. The meteorological parameters generated are basic input to an air quality forecasting model operated in the same cities. The forecasting system is operated on behalf of the Norwegian Road Authority which has sponsored the model development. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Challenging innovative technologies at the NEC User Group Meeting in Frascati
The NEC User Group held its 13th meeting in an elegant 18th century Villa on a hill outside Frascati some 20 kilometres from Rome, Italy. The attendees were mostly NEC customers, using shared memory parallel vector supercomputers. During this meeting, there were many interesting presentations, including one by Dr. M. Fukuma, general manager , silicon systems research laboratories, at NEC. He described the latest research and problems to be overcome on technologies, which are expected to reach the market, from NEC in the next five to fifteen years. Some of the most interesting elements of his presentation were proprietary, nevertheless there is enough public domain material of interest, to share with you. |
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- Applications |
| |
| | NEC Electronics launches high-performance processor family
Delivering on its promise to provide high-performance processors for the embedded market, NEC Corporation and its semiconductor affiliates in the United States, NEC Electronics Inc., and Europe, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, have expanded the 64-bit MIPSR RISC product offering with the VR5500, a microprocessor developed using NEC's new highly flexible and scalable VR5500 processor architecture. The initial device in a new product family, the VR5500 processor delivers 603 million instructions per second (MIPS) at 300 MHz, achieving one of the highest MIPS per MHz ratios in the industry. This performance is key for designers in the digital consumer, networking and storage markets where extremely high amounts of data must be processed simultaneously and quickly. NEC developed the new VR5500 architecture for scalable performance, enabling the development of future versions of standalone processors with speeds up to 800 MHz. |
| | Full article...
|
| | NEC introduces Intel`s new 64-bit Itanium processor-based high-performance servers
NEC Corporation has announced the sale of two lines of high-performance servers, the Express5800/1000 Series and the TX7/AzusA Series, equipped with up to 16 CPUs of Intel`s new 64-bit Itanium processors. Both series of servers will be marketed only in Japan. In Europe the Express 5800/1000 series will be offered by NEC European Supercomputers Systems as a component of integrated High Performance Computing Solutions in combination with NEC`s SX series supercomputers.
|
| | Full article...
|
| | NEC User Group gets Statutes, previews Intel Itanium and Petaflop/s Technologies
The NEC User Group held its 13th meeting in an elegant 18th century Villa on a hill outside Frascati some 20 Kilometres from Rome, Italy. This eclectic group, of around 75 people from four continents, had a great time listening to keynotes describing the latest in Meteorology, Aerospace, the new Itanium Chip Architecture from Intel, and the latest research on technologies expected from NEC in the next ten to fifteen years. They formally set up NUG as an independent society under Swiss law. They also elected the NUG officers, with Dr. D. Maric, from CSCS, Switzerland as Chairman. Below are some of the highlights from this event. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Sandia National Laboratories upgrades Mercury computer for advanced radar research
Sandia National Laboratories will upgrade its computer center with Mercury's latest
RACE++ multicomputers. Mercury's high-performance systems, which
incorporate "G4" PowerPC processors, will be used to implement
advanced algorithms for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. |
| | Full article...
|
| | U.S. Navy and The Weather Channel on SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer
The U.S. Navy and The Weather Channel have signed a memorandum
of understanding that encourages professional collaboration between these
two important SGI customers. The agreement will allow the two organizations to
jointly examine new methods and technologies for producing and presenting
climate and weather forecasts. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Number crunching at NOAA against hurricanes
In the USA, the 2001 hurricane season
has begun, and a recently installed 1,152 processor SGI Origin 3000
supercomputer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton (GFDL), is helping
the USA to better prepare for storms, high winds and flooding. |
| | Full article...
|
| | NuTec Sciences Life Sciences Division
unveiled fastest commercial life sciences supercomputer in the world
At bioinformatic's company NuTec Atlanta headquarters a 5,000 processor IBM eSever has been unveiled. Peak of the machine is 7.5 Tflop/s. NuTEC claims it is the fastes commercial super in the world. The NuTec Life Sciences supercomputing center will provide the technology
platform to accelerate medical and academic research in disease management,
treatment and drug discovery. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Devgen conducts genetic research on a roundworm on eServers
Belgium-based biotech company Devgen NV has deployed IBM technology to conduct genetic research on a microscopic roundworm (C. elegans). This research will help identify new drug targets and leads for human diseases such as diabetes, depression, obesity and many others, as well as insecticide discovery. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Cardianove accelerates heart pump development process
Cardianove says it has designed the world's smallest life-saving heart pump using advanced software from IBM and Dassault Systemes that shaved two years off the normal development schedule. The CATIA Solutions computer-aided design software was also used to run complex three-dimensional simulations to help ensure that the miniature device will meet requirements when testing begins early next year. If the tests are successful, cardiac surgeons throughout the world would place the fingertip-sized pump, (22 mm in diameter), inside human hearts to provide breathing relief and to extend the life of patients waiting for transplants. |
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- HPCN industry |
| |
| | Sun sells a lot of servers
Sun has recently secured major contracts with leading U.S. and international corporations. Leader in the U.S. Unix market, Sun Microsystems is ranking No. 2 worldwide in server revenues for the first quarter of 2001, and beating out rivals IBM and HP for the top spot in the U.K., Indian and ASEAN markets, according to Gartner Group and IDC Research, respectively. |
| | Full article...
|
| | New Compaq 64-bit ProLiant Servers featuring Intel Itanium due in Q3 2001
Compaq will deliver its first new 64-bit ProLiant server, supporting
up to four 733 MHz or 800 MHz Intel Itanium Processors, in the third
quarter of 2001. The new ProLiant models will be differentiated from
competitive offerings by incorporating Compaq's latest advances in system
management, mechanical, thermal, and power distribution. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Dell Launches 64-bit Itanium workstation;
The Dell Precision Workstation 730 based on the Intel
Itanium processor id available for U.S. customers. Dell plans to make the product available worldwide later this
year. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Intel to unveil fastest transistor
Intel Corp. has created the world's fastest silicon transistors, tiny switches that turn on and off nearly 1,000 times more quickly than those that power today's microprocessors.
|
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- Linux |
| |
| | SGI announces Itanium based Linux systems
The SGI Silicon Graphics 750 system for Linux, developed with the Intel Itanium processor, will be available July 2001. The Silicon Graphics 750 system is based on a floating-point architecture that is designed specifically for affordable high-performance and standards-based computing. The Silicon Graphics 750 system is the newest generation in 64-bit computing in the SGI family of products based on the Itanium processor with open-source Linux. |
| | Full article...
|
| | SHMEM library support for Dolphin WulfKit
Dolphin Interconnect and Scali, announced shared memory (SHMEM) library support
for the Dolphin WulfKit. This Scali-developed high performance communication
library option gives Cray users a cost effective method of working
with existing SHMEM programs in a low cost microprocessor supercluster
environment without the need to recompile or modify their existing
code. |
| | Full article...
|
| | HP announces broad portfolio of Itanium-based systems
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), co-developer of the Intel Itanium
Instruction Set Architecture, announced a broad portfolio of Itanium
Processor Family (IPF)-based systems. HP's first Itanium-based systems include the HP Workstation i2000 with up to 2 processors, the HP Server rx4610 with up to 4 processors and the HP Server
rx9610 with up to 16 processors. |
| | Full article...
|
| | NEC introduces 32 Gflop/s Itanium bases servers
NEC unveiled two lines of high-performance servers, the "Express5800/1000 Series" and the "TX7/AzusA Series", equipped with up to 16 CPUs of Intel's new 64-bit Itanium processors.
NEC's Express5800/1000 Series servers are based on Linux or Windows Server (codename: Whistler), and it is the highest class of existing Express5800 product line. NEC initially targets customers in the science and technology areas, who can take advantage of Itanium processor's high performance in scientific and technological calculation and a variety of software available for it. As the number of software for other fields increases NEC will expands its sales effort to other area.
|
| | Full article...
|
| | Turbolinux 7 for Intel Itanium-Based Systems
Turbolinux announced
the release of the Turbolinux Operating System 7 for the 64-bit Intel
Itanium architecture. |
| | Full article...
|
| | MSC.Software Linux cluster at Fiat Center of Research
The research subsidiary of Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat,
The Center of Research for Fiat Group (CRF), has implemented a24 processor MSC.Linux
cluster to run complex design and engineering simulations, significantly
accelerating development of vehicle and engine design. |
| | Full article...
|
| | SuSE Linux 7.2 with added security and multimedia entertainment
SuSE Linux announced SuSE Linux 7.2 . The latest version of
SuSE's Linux package comes with more convenience and performance for
deployment on desktops and servers. The newest release highlights increased security and extensive
multimedia entertainment features. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM and NEC to cooperate on Linux enterprise capabilities
Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Limited, IBM, and NEC entered into a partnership to refine features needed to drive Linux further into the enterprise. The companies, implementing a shared common plan to help Linux mature, will work together with the Linux community to develop various open source projects. |
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- Media |
| |
| | Sun Microsystems and 3Dlabs announce Sun Expert3D-Lite graphics
3Dlabs and Sun announced that the Sun Expert3D-Lite professional graphics card will now be available as a standard configuration in Sun Ultra 60, Ultra 80, Sun Blade 100, and
Sun Blade 1000 workstations. |
| | Full article...
|
| | OPAL/ Modular - massively parallel computing for consumer media devices
The
Opal Group and Aspex Technology will co-operate to produce a high performance, flexible, scalable processor which gives high performance for digital media appliances as well as in wired and wireless communications infrastructure. The VASP 4096
Linedancer, which will tape out later this summer, combines 4096 associative
processing elements with functional blocks and glue logic enabling a single
chip solution with 1.2 billion MOPS performance. Media processing applications
such as information gateways, speech recognition or image processing systems
can thus migrate from an integrated fixed function set of devices into a
flexible software implementation. |
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Industry
- The Grid |
| |
| | IBM delivers new Itanium-based systems, including Linux supercomputer
IBM introduced new Intel Itanium-based IBM eServer and IntelliStation
workstations which will form a new Linux supercluster at the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. Capable of 1 Tflop/s, a cluster of 160
new IBM Itanium-based systems will be the most powerful Linux supercluster in
academia, IBM claims. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Sun open source project codes at sunsource.net
Sun launched SunSource.net, a developer Web portal that
centralizes critical information on all of Sun's
free and open source projects and acts as a focal
point as developers inside Sun and throughout the
community engage in conversations on open source
issues. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Distributed project management market to top $1 Billion this year -trend to P2P
Collaborative
Strategies LLC (CS), an industry analyst and advisory firm focused on electronic
collaboration and knowledge management, released Distributed Project Management:
Update 2001; it profiles almost 30 different vendors, and also
examines ten trends that are shaping the rapidly evolving distributed project
management (DPM) market. On is the movement towards peer-to-peer (P2P) or hybrid (client-server/P2P) products. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Starbase announces the Collaboration Suite
Starbase Corp., a provider of end-to-end collaborative products for both the development and management of content and code for e-business applications, today announced the Starbase Collaboration Suite, a framework of integrated Starbase products and best-of-breed partner technologies for a complete end-to-end enterprise and e-business collaborative development process. |
| | Full article...
|
| | CERN deploys LSF on Itanium systems
Platform's LSF also supports Itanium based systems. "As early as last October 2000, CERN was able to demonstrate successful
utilization of a cluster of Intel Itanium processor-based hardware running
SIXTRACK under the control of Platform Computing's LSF," said Sverre Jarp, IA-
64/TRILLIAN project manager for the IT Division at CERN. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Entropia establishes European division
Entropia officially opening of Entropia Europe, Ltd. in Cambridge, England, the distributed
computing industry's first office outside the United States.
The new division is the first to provide local service and support to European
distributed computing customers, including life sciences/ pharmaceutical
companies and other corporate enterprise customers. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Sandia releases open source version of Cplant cluster software
Sandia National Laboratories has released the Cplant system software, that significantly extends the capability of researchers to modularly assemble large blocks of off-the-shelf computer components. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Avaki (formerly Applied Meta) raises US$6 million
Avaki Corporation, formerly
Applied MetaComputing, has closed US$6 Million in its
first venture capital funding, led by Polaris Venture Partners. The funding enables Avaki to commercialise its Internet-scale enterprise-class
Grid middleware platform, which converges distributed, pervasive, and
peer-oriented computing. The platform, in development for seven years at the
University of Virginia, unifies multiple work platforms in multiple locations,
robustly and securely extending enterprise capabilities to the edge of the
Internet. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Engenia Software licenses Roku P2P technology
Engenia Software has acquired a comprehensive license to the peer-to-peer collaboration technology of Roku Technologies. Under the agreement, Engenia acquires a paid, non-exclusive perpetual license to the source code for Roku's remote PC-Access, PDA, wireless and file-sharing technologies. Engenia will integrate the new technology into the next major release of its Collaborative
Services Platform, scheduled for release this summer. |
| | Full article...
|
| | Peer-to-Peer: It is all in the application, according to Yankee Group Report
A Report from the Yankee Group,
"Peer-to-Peer: An Old Idea Becomes Revolutionary," finds that while many
peer-to-peer (P2P) start-ups are struggling to find a business model that works,
the P2P market is evolving into four primary market segments: resource
aggregators, "people-to-people" collaboration tools, applications based on P2P
architectures, and infrastructure tools upon which developers can build P2P
applications. All these segments have radically different characteristics and
business models, and their futures vary greatly. |
| | Full article...
|
| | A Brief Summary of CCGrid 2001-Cluster and Grid Computing Symposium
The First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) was held on May 15-18, 2001, in Brisbane, Australia. CCGrid was hosted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and was organized by the General Co-Chairs George Mohay (QUT) and Rajkumar Buyya (Monash University) with the Program Chair Paul Roe (QUT). CCGrid symposium enjoyed the support of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a number of industrial supporters including Sun, IBM, Intel, Akamai, Platform Computing, and MPI Software Technology.
CCGrid focuses on the combined areas of clusters and Grid computing, which share many related technical issues and are both areas of intense interest and rapid growth. Cluster computing has enabled low-cost entry into supercomputing performance by using clusters based on commodity components, such as processors and network infrastructure. Grid computing borrows its name from the analogy with the electrical power grid. The electrical power grid made electricity widely available and easy to use. The "information power Grid" endeavours to make the discovery and sharing of information and resources widely available and easy to use. Clusters and Grids share many communication, scheduling, monitoring, and application development issues, with Grids being the most general case since they can be heterogeneous and open-ended. |
| | Full article...
|
| | The Molecular Science Computing Facility is soliciting proposals
The Molecular Science Computing Facility (MSCF) in the William R. Wiley
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory in the USA is soliciting proposals, for allocations of computer time, for
Computational Grand Challenge Projects of 3-year duration in environmental
molecular science basic and applied research areas that address the
environmental problems and research needs facing the U.S. Department of Energy
and theUS Nation.
|
| | Full article...
|
| | Scientists worldwide can share molecular scenes in a collaborative environment
The Molecular Interactive
Collaborative Environment (MICE) developed by the San Diego Supercomputer
Center (SDSC) has been integrated with the e Protein Data Bank (PDB), allowing teams of scientists worldwide to view and interact simultaneously with 3-D scenes of biological
molecules through ordinary Web browsers. |
| | Full article...
|
| | New Company - Blueprint Worldwide - from IBM and MDS Proteomics accelerates drug discovery with a comprehensive collection of BioMolecular data
A new, not-for-profit organization, blueprint WORLDWIDE INC. was announced, along with the unveiling of the world's first public Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND). Founded by IBM and MDS Proteomics, blueprint will administer the BIND database, a comprehensive source of protein interactions that trigger chemical reactions in the body causing healthy or diseased cells. |
| | Full article...
|
| | The Human Genome - there still lies a lot of research ahead of us
The Human Genome has been unravelled, has it not? Not quite, although
there is a rough understanding of the gene sequence, a lot of work
still lies ahead of us.
At the Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg, Manfred Zorn, from the
Bioinformatics group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories' (LBnL) Human Genome Center presents an overview of the state-of-the-art. The immense amounts of data involved in this type of research, call for large multi-disciplinary research teams supported by large-scale supercomputer centres, much like the physicists have with for instance CERN. In a joint
interview, Primeur/EnterTheGrid - Virtual Medical Worlds
Magazine asked Manfred Zorn to give us an introduction to
the current research in the field. |
| | Full article...
|
| | DataSynapse closes $15 million B round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures
DataSynapse, a provider of peer-to-peer distributed computing software platforms for the financial services and energy sectors, has completed a $15 million round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. New investors include First Union eVentures and Intel Capital. |
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| Networking |
| |
| | NEC introduces 100MBps Internet FTTx Media Converter
NEC launched a Media Converter to realize 100Mbps high-speed internet access easily and in cost-saving manner. Media converter is utilizing conventional Local Area Network (LAN) / Ethernet technologies; converting 4-wire Ethernet to optical fiber transmission and securing transmission distance, then realizing FTTx. NEC is offering a new product initially to the Japanese market and will expand sales to the worldwide market with the specifications fittingeach country's requirements. The possible users of the system are telecommunication carriers offering broadband access services and enterprise markets such as corporations, buildings and residential.
|
| | Full article...
|
| |
| |
| |
|
Primeur Weekly is published per e-mail. Check out the subscription information for more details how to subscribe. You can find the
back issues on the Primeur web site. The EuroFlash! and USflash! are published together with ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service.
© 2001, Genias Benelux
Go to top
|
| |
| |
| |
