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August 2001
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Contents
August 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | Australian researchers test Einstein's warped space
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| | Kyoto university installs large SGI supercomputer
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| Country
- DE |
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| | The German Wissenschaftsrat announces the Members of the HPC
Co-ordination Board
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| | Jülich goes Vector Computing on Cray SV1ex
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| | High Performance Scientific Computing Support by the BMBF
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| | Program of Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) in Aachen finalised
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| | Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing (PC2) with new Processor Nodes
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| Country
- NL |
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| | Shell and IBM sign long-year agreement on infrastructure
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Mercury Race for Alenia Radar systems
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| | Mercury ships multicomputer to UK Defense organisation
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | US Naval Oceanographic Office upgrades Cray SV1EX
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| | Cray and US national Cancer Institute collaborate on bioinformatics tools
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| | Northrop Grumman on Mercury for FAA Weather Systems Processor programme
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| | Breakthroughs in electromagnetic simulation in Illinois supercomputer centre
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| | International Conference on Pervasive Computing
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| | World's fastest Mac-Based cluster in Portugal
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| | Auspex file server for Arlington compute farm
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| | ACE's CoSy compiler development system wins LSI Design of the Year award
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| | TurboGenomics TurboBLAST for Mac OS X
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| | Korea Institute of Science, Technology and Information buys 4 Tflop/s IBM super
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| | Viaken and InforSense deliver enterprise data mining systems to life science companies
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| | Commonwealth Biotechnologies and bayMountain to develop easy to use genomics portals
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| | NAG and IACR form new company VSN for statistics and analytical software
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| | TotalView 5 released adds thread debug support
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| | Microsoft and Cornell Bring Supercomputing to the Financial Services Industry at a Fraction of the Cost of Proprietary Systems
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Pentium at 1.8 GHz
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| | Enhanced Sun Starfire
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| | Emulex LP9002 Fibre Channel host bus adapters in New IBM eServer storage
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| | Cray cuts costs and lays off 30 people
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| | Compaq Linux Solutions for the Enterprise
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| | Compaq and Intel collaboration on Itanium
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| | PACT 50,000 MIPS XPU processor available as co-processor
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| | Compaq and Intel present their co-operation in a joint press meeting
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| | Quick Blade from Compaq
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| | A Revolution in Enterprise Computing - the Itanium processor
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| | Computing Leadership through innovation
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| | 3Dlabs Wildcat Graphics Optimized for AMD Athlon MP processor
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| | IBM bundles mid-range servers and applications
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | MPI/Pro on Mississippi State University super cluster
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| | KEPLER, a selfmade Cluster in Tuebingen
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| | CLiC - Chemnitz Linux Cluster
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| | A 100 node Linux cluster in Singapore
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| | Fortran95 and C/C++ compilers for NEC Express5800/1160Xa
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| | SuSE Linux 7.2 for the IA-64 available
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| | SuSE to lay-off employees
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| | Terra Soft and Total Impact offer integrated PowerPC clusters
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| | IBM launches Linux-based server consolidation
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Virtual reality center at Japanese National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
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| | Fakespace and U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command to develop new immersive displays
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| | Fakespace and StereoGraphics launch super infrared transmitter for full coverage in immersive environments
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| | Compaq Announces New Linux Initiatives and Extends Commitment to Open Source Community
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | VECPAR'2002 call for papers
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| | Pallas to market PBS Pro
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| | Rocks Clustering Toolkit combined with Compaq
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| | Secure production Grid for US military
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| | NPI and P2PWG to cooperate
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| | Sun Grid Engine Open Source
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| | ZAM offers a dedicated Unicore Test Grid
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| | New Sun clustering tools for terascale technical and supercomputing environments
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| | Grid-in-a-Box part of new NCSA Alliance initiative
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| | TurboGenomics runs sequence comparison tool on Entropia distributed Internet computer
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| | Compaq announces Computing on Demand - turning IT into a utility
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| | Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing installs 192 processor Origin supercomputer
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| | Sun and Boeing launch HPC storage area network pilot
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| | EDA market ready for Sun Technical Compute Farm with Grid Engine
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| | NPi debuts draft reference model for Distributed Resource Management
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| | GridEngine downloaded to over thousand sites in one year
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| | Platform Computing launches P2P software for desktop distributed computing
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| | Terraspring launches data center-scale computing Grid architecture
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| | Global Biodiversity Information Facility in Copenhagen
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| | Auspex NAS file server sets industry record at 19,755 IOPS
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| | Corgan vice president Terraspring
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| | Blackstone announces new suite of high throughput computing services
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| | Platform and Synopsys form alliance
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| | Global Grid Forum 2
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| | Global Grid Forum 2
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| | Grid company Terraspring appoints CEO
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Fastest TOP500 cluster at NCSA and Shell
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| | Cluster in Tokyo first AMD based machine in TOP500
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| | IBM delivers fastest unclassified 3.8 Tflop/s supercomputer
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| Networking |
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| | High-performance networking workshop HFN Europe in Geneva
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| | Multi-Gigabit enhanced Géant research platform ushers birth of European virtual laboratories
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Leads
August 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | Australian researchers test Einstein's warped space
In the most precise astrophysics
experiment ever made, Australian and U.S. astronomers have used CSIRO's Parkes
radio telescope to measure the distortion of space-time near a star 450
light-years (more than 4 000 million million kilometres) from Earth. The researchers have dedicated an entire supercomputer, one of Australia's
largest, to keep pace with the terabytes of data streaming from Parkes.
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| | Kyoto university installs large SGI supercomputer
The Institute for Chemical Research of
Kyoto University, in eastern Japan, is preparing to install a 800 processor SGI supercomputer to analyze genetic information. |
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| Country
- DE |
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| | The German Wissenschaftsrat announces the Members of the HPC
Co-ordination Board
During the meeting of the Supercomputer
group of ZKI (Centres for Communication and Information - the
German academic and research computer centres) the names of the
National Co-ordination Board for the Procurement and Usage of
High-Performance Computer have been named. The Wissenschaftsrat
proposed this board in a paper "Recommendations for the future
usage of High-Performance Computing" on May 12, 2000 (Drs.
4558/00). The task of this board, the names of the members and
the recommendations will be discussed. |
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| | Jülich goes Vector Computing on Cray SV1ex
ZAM (Central Institute of Mathematics) at
Research Centre Jülich stops the operation on the Cray T90 and
moves to a Cray SV1ex with 16 processors and 32 GByte memory.
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| | High Performance Scientific Computing Support by the BMBF
The well known Ministerialrat Bernd Reuse, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), gave an overview of the actual activities of BMBF in this field.
He mentioned the National Coordination Committee for the Procurement of HPC for the Scientific Council which started its operation 31. May 2001. A detailed description will be given in an other article in Primeur. Reuse mentioned that HPC installations have to fast, to save time, as in about 5.5 years the number 500 performance of the top500 will be reached by a PC. |
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| | Program of Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) in Aachen finalised
The scientific program of the Conference on Computational Physic, CCP 2001, 5. to 8. September, in Eurogress Aachen is now finished. The event is organised by John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Research Center Juelich. The program is published on the conference web server. |
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| | Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing (PC2) with new Processor Nodes
The well-known cluster of PC2 in Paderborn was
the first and the biggest computer in Fujitsu Siemens Computers'
hpcLine. It was delivered in 1999. Now the old Pentium II nodes
have been exchanged by Pentium III. This is the first time,
machines have been upgraded in the field. The computing power
grew from 86.4 GFlop/s peak performance to 163 GFlop/s.
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| Country
- NL |
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| | Shell and IBM sign long-year agreement on infrastructure
The Royal Dutch/ShellGroup of companies (Shell) and IBM have signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement. This alliance supports Shell's creation of three world wide hubs to standardize and consolidate its IT Applications Infrastructure. Company officials expect the value of this agreement to exceed USD $100 million.
Shell's MegaCentre will initially provide infrastructure for SAP and eBusiness solutions. A single-source arrangement has been agreed with IBM as the prime supplier of the hardware for MegaCentre. |
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| Country
- UK |
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| | Mercury Race for Alenia Radar systems
Marconi Systems will use Mercury s RACE++ PowerStream
MP-510 systems for the European Multifunction Phased Array Radar
(EMPAR). EMPAR will be deployed on the next generation of air defense frigates for the French and Italian navies. Orders received, valued at
$7.4 million, are for development and production of initial systems.
Future orders are anticipated. |
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| | Mercury ships multicomputer to UK Defense organisation
Mercury Computer Systems has shipped high-performance RACE++
systems to the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in the
United Kingdom. DERA will use Mercury's multicomputer systems, which
incorporate PowerP G4processors, to perform advanced research
for airborne electronic warfare. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | US Naval Oceanographic Office upgrades Cray SV1EX
The Future Research Corporation (FRC) of the US Naval Oceanographic Office will upgrade its Cray SV1EX system
The subcontract with Cray calls for a 64-processor Cray SV1ex
supercomputer upgrade to be complete in the third quarter of 2001 at
the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) in Stennis Space Center,
Miss. NAVOCEANO currently operates one of the largest SV1-4 clusters
in the world. The NAVOCEANO Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) is a
provider of high performance computing (HPC) services and
support to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) High
Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), supporting over
5,000 scientists and engineers engaged in DoD research and development
activities. |
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| | Cray and US national Cancer Institute collaborate on bioinformatics tools
Cray is collaborating with
the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop bioinformatics research
tools substantially more powerful than those available today.
Bioinformatics is a high-potential market that involves applying
computer technology to biology and medicine. In an initial demonstration project, scientists at the NCI's
Advanced Biomedical Computing Center in Frederick, Md., produced a
comprehensive map of short tandem repeat sequences (STRs) - often
used as gene markers - for the entire human genome. Using the Cray
SV1 supercomputer located at the NCI, computations that previously
took hours are being completed in seconds. |
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| | Northrop Grumman on Mercury for FAA Weather Systems Processor programme
Mercury Computer Systems will supply Northrop Grumman
Corporation with its RACE systems for use in the
Federal Aviation Administration's Weather Systems Processor (WSP). The
WSP is a significant enhancement to the Airport Surveillance Radar
(ASR-9) system produced by Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and
Systems Sector (ES3), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| | Full article...
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| | Breakthroughs in electromagnetic simulation in Illinois supercomputer centre
Researchers at the US Center for Computational Electromagnetics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm to solve complex electromagnetic problems that is eight times faster than the previous fastest algorithm, a feat that will impact the analysis of electromagnetic scattering and allow complex
real-world problems to be solved using computer simulations. Compute work has been done on a 128-processor SGI
Origin2000 supercomputer |
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| | International Conference on Pervasive Computing
The objective of this conference, to be held August 26-28, 2002, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), will be to present, discuss, and explore
latest technical developments in the emerging field of pervasive computing
as well as potential future directions and issues. Leaving aside low-level
hardware and transmission technology topics as well as peripheral socio-economic aspects, the conference will focus on technical infrastructure and
application issues. |
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| | World's fastest Mac-Based cluster in Portugal
The world's
fastest Mac-based cluster for plasma particle research is installed in Europe: epp.
Researchers at Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas (GoLP) say the epp cluster is the first
milestone of the GoLP simulation program in Extreme Plasma Physics. GoLP is
located in the campus of Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon .
The cluster is used for numerical simulation of plasmas, novel plasma particle
acceleration schemes using ultra intense lasers, and relativistic shocks in
astrophysics. |
| | Full article...
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| | Auspex file server for Arlington compute farm
The University of Texas at Arlington has purchased and
installed an Auspex NetServer to store and serve files for 28 Compaq
nodes in a new supercomputing farm utilized by the college's research
community. |
| | Full article...
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| | ACE's CoSy compiler development system wins LSI Design of the Year award
ACE Associated Compiler Experts said its CoSy compiler development
platform received recognition for its leading-edge compiler development capabilities by
being awarded an 'LSI Design of the Year' Excellence Award at this year's Embedded Systems
Expo and Conference (ESEC) in Tokyo Japan |
| | Full article...
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| | TurboGenomics TurboBLAST for Mac OS X
TurboGenomics a provider of high-performance parallel and distributed bioinformatics software,
released TurboBLAST, for Mac OS X,
Apple's next-generation operating system. TurboBLAST is an accelerated, parallel
implementation of the unmodified BLAST homology search application distributed
by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). TurboBLAST enables
scientists to increase productivity by removing the computational bottleneck in
the widely used BLAST application. |
| | Full article...
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| | Korea Institute of Science, Technology and Information buys 4 Tflop/s IBM super
IBM and the Korea Institute of
Science Technology and Information (KISTI) entered a $27 million
agreement in which IBM will provide a 4.24 Tflop/s eServer
supercomputer for use in Korea's life science and high performance computing
research efforts. |
| | Full article...
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| | Viaken and InforSense deliver enterprise data mining systems to life science companies
Viaken and InforSense are developing a marketing and distribution
partnership for the Kensington data mining and visualization suite in the life
science domain. The Kensington suite will be offered by Viaken as part of its
set of hosted solutions and professional services products. Kensington customers
will benefit from Viaken's expertise in the design, deployment, and management
of fully integrated end-to-end research informatics solutions. |
| | Full article...
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| | Commonwealth Biotechnologies and bayMountain to develop easy to use genomics portals
Commonwealth Biotechnologies CBTE and
bayMountain have signed a letter of intent to develop and
commercialise rapid, "user-friendly" methods to help interpret and mine the data
present in genome databases. Both companies see an opportunity to combine state-of-the-art computer
bioinformatic analyses with DNA sequence determination and protein structure
determination. |
| | Full article...
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| | NAG and IACR form new company VSN for statistics and analytical software
NAG and IACR-Rothamsted fomed a new joint subsidiary company, VSN International Ltd, for the purposes of developing and marketing best-of-breed statistics and related analytical software and services. |
| | Full article...
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| | TotalView 5 released adds thread debug support
Etnus announced a major new release of its
TotalView debugger, Etnus TotalView 5, with new capabilities for
threaded-code debugging, making it the only debugger in the market able to
efficiently assist in the debugging of today's complex, business-critical
application software. |
| | Full article...
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| | Microsoft and Cornell Bring Supercomputing to the Financial Services Industry at a Fraction of the Cost of Proprietary Systems
The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) and
Microsoft Corporation launched an expanded services for the
finance industry through CTC's new role as a Windows Cluster Solutions Provider.
Focused at CTC-Manhattan at 55 Broad St., these services will help the finance
industry to take advantage of Window-based enterprise scale computing solutions,
including the option to scale up new applications on servers with up to 32
processors and mainframe-like reliability and to scale out networked
applications through component clustering services. CTC-Manhattan will offer
consulting, software development, education and training, and special events for
finance industry professionals and also will serve as a showcase and testbed for
Windows High-Performance Computing clusters. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Pentium at 1.8 GHz
Intel Corporation announced availability of the Intel Pentium 4
processor at 1.8 GHz, the company's highest-performance microprocessor for
desktop computers. Intel also introduced a Pentium 4 processor at 1.6 GHz. |
| | Full article...
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| | Enhanced Sun Starfire
The Sun
Starfire, includes new 466 MHz UltraSPARC II CPU
modules and a host of other features |
| | Full article...
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| | Emulex LP9002 Fibre Channel host bus adapters in New IBM eServer storage
IBM has selected a customized version of the Emulex
LightPulse LP9002 HBA to provide the Fibre Channel storage
connectivity for IBM's new eServer iSeries solutions. |
| | Full article...
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| | Cray cuts costs and lays off 30 people
Cray has lowered its expectations for its revenues in the previous quarter. The company is also reducing costs, and reducing its work force with 30 (about 3%). |
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| | Compaq Linux Solutions for the Enterprise
Compaq now is extremely active to provide
Linux solutions. It starts at the edge of the network and goes
into the heart of the IT infrastructure. Examples are the Compaq
iPAQ handheld devices, the Compaq Professional Workstations to
market-leading, industry-standard Intel IA-32 based ProLiant
servers and high-performance AlphaServer systems. Especially in
Compaq's HPC (High-Performance Computing) world Linux is an
important operating system. Now the company offers a broad
spectrum of Linux-based platforms and offers its customers a
solution that fits their needs. An other aspect is the
certifying of platforms with major Linux distributors, the
availability and the support. Compaq provides a global 24x7
support in Compaq call centres world-wide and professional
services for IT assessment, architecture/design,
implementation/integration and on-site management and training. |
| | Full article...
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| | Compaq and Intel collaboration on Itanium
Compaq and Intel announced a multi-year agreement for next-generation enterprise servers based on the Intel Itanium processor family. Compaq will transfer key enterprise processor technology to Intel and consolidate its entire 64-bit |
| | Full article...
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| | PACT 50,000 MIPS XPU processor available as co-processor
PACT, the designer of the fast 32-bit signal
processor architecture, XPU 128, is making these fully parallel and
reconfigurable IP (intellectual property) cores immediately available as an
"algorithmic co-processor" for leading CPU and DSP vendors. Using
advanced parallel and reconfigurable technologies from the company's eXtreme
Processor Platform (XPP), the IP core can map any form of algorithm into
multiple individual ALUs (Arithmetic Logic Units) arranged in an array inside
the core. |
| | Full article...
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| | Compaq and Intel present their co-operation in a joint press meeting
On July 17, Compaq and Intel discussed
their cooperation in a press meeting with Mary McDowell, Senior
Vice President and Group General Manager Industry-Standard
Server Group, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Ajay Malhotra,
Director Enterprise marketing Intel Europe, Middle East and
Africa. Additionally a fact sheet on the Compaq and Intel
announcement has been presented.
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| | Quick Blade from Compaq
On the press meeting, Andre Brynard,
Product Manager Industry Standard Server Group, Compaq EMEA,
presented the coming product Quick Blade. These computers are
space and technology optimised. Today 48 1U (pizzabox) servers
can be put into one rack. With blades this goes up to 280
processors. Brynard gave a short overview of the business
perspectives and the technology. As this a non-announced
product, the audience did not get a copy of the slides |
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| | A Revolution in Enterprise Computing - the Itanium processor
Ajay Malhotra discussed Intel's view of
the announcement. He highlighted the cost aspects, the business'
needs and the initiatives with Compaq.
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| | Computing Leadership through innovation
Mary McDowell gave a short overview on the announcement, the 64-bit
development, the investment protection and the future of the
different platforms.
Compaq is converging of all 64-bit enterprise servers, ProLiant,
AlphaServer and Himalaya on the Intel IA-64 processor line. It
starts the full port of Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS, NonStop Kernel and
the NonStop middleware to IA-64 architecture - the work has just
begun. It will be finalised probably in early 2003.
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| | 3Dlabs Wildcat Graphics Optimized for AMD Athlon MP processor
3Dlabs has developed an optimized
Wildcat driver for the AMD Athlon MP processor. The Wildcat driver supports the AMD Athlon MP
processor's Smart-MP multiprocessor capability as well as
additional instructions in 3DNow! Professional, thereby
accelerating the 3D graphics pipeline between the AMD Athlon MP
processor and the Wildcat graphics card.
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| | IBM bundles mid-range servers and applications
IBM announced specially-priced, pre-packaged bundles that enable companies to deploy powerful e-business infrastructure solutions quickly and easily. By combining industry-leading IBM eServer UNIX servers and disk storage systems with database, storage management, and e-business software, the bundles provide organizations with a rock-solid foundation for the complete spectrum of e-business and traditional business applications. |
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | MPI/Pro on Mississippi State University super cluster
MPI Software Technology said that the new 330 processor super cluster at The
Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Mississippi State University installed
its high-performance software MPI/Pro. |
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| | KEPLER, a selfmade Cluster in Tuebingen
Harry Yserentant, University Tuebingen, presented some numerical applications that run on the Pentium Cluster KEPLER as well as its architecture.
The users and the University has beneath PCs small compute servers, 4 processors and 8 GB memory, and can access the supercomputers in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Thus there is a gap which now is filled by a big PC cluster. It is equipped with dual Pentium III, 650 MHz, and 1 GB memory per node. They use BX motherboards and have 32 bit/33 MHz PCI bus. The nodes are connected with two networks. Ethernet, 100 Mbit, is used to start nodes and processors, while Myrinet is for the direct exchange of messages of the nodes. |
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| | CLiC - Chemnitz Linux Cluster
CLiC is a large Beowulf-style cluster, which was installed in autumn 2000 at the Chemnitz University of Technology. It is built from 528 off the shelf commodity PC nodes running Linux, plus some server and management nodes.
Professor Uwe Huebner gave an overview of the current system. The University was supported by the Chemnitz based company Megware computer, which was found in the exhibition of Supercomputer 2001. The system consists of 528 Pentium III, 800 MHz, with 512 MB RAM and 30 GB hard disk as computing nodes. This sums up to 264 GB memory and 15 TByte disk space. |
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| | A 100 node Linux cluster in Singapore
The largest Linux-based installation Singapore is now located at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA). The two organizations have installed a total of 100 nodes in two clusters. |
| | Full article...
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| | Fortran95 and C/C++ compilers for NEC Express5800/1160Xa
NEC has licensed compiler technology from Intel Corporation. NEC will use the Intel compiler technology to develop the FORTRAN95 and C/C++ compilers targeting the Linux-based NEC Express5800/1160Xa, based on the Intel Itanium processor. |
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| | SuSE Linux 7.2 for the IA-64 available
SuSE Linux is shipping its 7.2 release, the first Linux operating system for Intel's
64-bit Itanium-based systems. |
| | Full article...
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| | SuSE to lay-off employees
SuSE Linux will lay-off 10% of its workforce: about 50 employees. The company has also named Johannes Nussbickel as new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). |
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| | Terra Soft and Total Impact offer integrated PowerPC clusters
Terra Soft and Total Impact will partner for the tight integration and sales of Total Impact's briQ with Terra Soft's Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux operating systems. Terra Soft now offers the briQ as a stand-alone Yellow Dog Linux computational
node or integrated into a 4 and 8 node cluster with Black Lab Linux installed
and configured. Total Impact is bundling the full Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 package
with each unit sale of the briQ, enhanced with the installation of Black Lab
Linux upon request. |
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| | IBM launches Linux-based server consolidation
IBM introduced a new Linux-based server consolidation solution targeted to mid-market customers seeking alternatives to server farms.
With the IBM eServer iSeries running Linux, mid-size businesses can use partitioning technology, a resource for server consolidation previously available only to IBM's enterprise customers on its flagship eServer z900 mainframe. Partitioning allows customers to replace dozens of servers with multiple virtual servers on one physical box. |
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Virtual reality center at Japanese National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Tokyo-based Japan Science and Technology Corp. (JST) has chosen
an SGI Reality Center facility for the National Museum of Emerging
Science and Innovation. The SGI Reality Center will be one of the main exhibits within this
eight-story, 355,000-square-foot museum. This immersive, 3D visualization
environment seats 40 participants in a theater setting with a 120-degree
cylindrical screen. It features an InfiniteReality3 graphics
subsystem in an Onyx2 system with three graphics pipes, projected on
three Barco high-precision projectors. The computer graphics system consists
of eight CPUs and four GByte memory. |
| | Full article...
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| | Fakespace and U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command to develop new immersive displays
Fakespace Systems, has signed a contract
with the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command's (TACOM) National
Automotive Center (NAC) to collaborate on the development of innovative
immersive displays and advanced devices for interacting with
computer-generated visual simulations. The joint development project is
part of the USA federal government's Dual Use Science and Technology (DUST)
program, which is designed to share the benefits of technology between
the defense and the private sector. |
| | Full article...
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| | Fakespace and StereoGraphics launch super infrared transmitter for full coverage in immersive environments
Fakespace Systems Inc., specialised in immersive visualisation systems, and StereoGraphics Corporation, a major supplier of stereoscopic visualisation products, have partnered to make available the world's most powerful infrared (IR) transmitter for use in immersive environments. The new Extended Range Emitter, that is jointly developed by the two companies, offers a strong signal, covering an expanded area, for reliable stereo viewing in large-scale visualisation systems such as the WorkWall, CAVE, and RAVE. |
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| | Compaq Announces New Linux Initiatives and Extends Commitment to Open Source Community
Compaq has a long commitment to the
open source community. Now the company expands its Linux
leadership with six strategic initiatives to meet the customers
demand for enterprise Linux solutions. It spans from the
infrastructure to the edge of the network. Compaq's new
Linux-focused initiatives and capabilities include: high-performance Beowulf clustering; a program for interoperability and portability between Linux
and UNIX; Single System Image clustering technology for Linux ant the
open source community; investment and participation in a Linux lab with Oracle; training and certifying system engineersl; fostering development of Linux applications for handheld
devices. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | VECPAR'2002 call for papers
The VECPAR'2002, 5th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science,
to be held June 26-28, 2002
Porto, Portugal, has released a call for papers.
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| | Full article...
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| | Pallas to market PBS Pro
Pallas is marketing the PBS Pro batch system. The Portable Batch System, PBS, is a workload management system for HPC computers and Linux clusters.
PBS was originally designed for NASA because existing resource management
systems were inadequate for modern parallel/distributed computers and
clusters. |
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| | Rocks Clustering Toolkit combined with Compaq
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Compaq Computer Corporation
will provide an industry-standard, high-performance computing platform based on the easy-to-use open-source
NPACI Rocks Clustering Toolkit from SDSC and Compaq's ProLiant line of servers. |
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| | Secure production Grid for US military
Platform Computing and the US DoD High
Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)
have succeeded in creating a secure Internet computing grid that connects five
DoD shared resource centers. The first phase of the production grid project will
ultimately connect nine DoD locations across the United States. In total, the
nine sites will form a computational grid of nearly 600 processors. |
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| | NPI and P2PWG to cooperate
The New Productivity Initiative (NPi), and the Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), both established fourth quarter of 2000, will become members of each other's respective organizations as a result of a collaboration agreement between the two organisations. |
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| | Sun Grid Engine Open Source
The Sun Grid Engine
Project, is a new initiative to offer the source code for Sun Grid Engine
software to users and the developer community. Sun Grid Engine software
is an advanced distributed resource management (DRM) tool. It has been
available as a free download since its
introduction in September 2000. |
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| | ZAM offers a dedicated Unicore Test Grid
ZAM (Central Institute of Applied
Mathematics), Research Centre Jülich, recently announced, a
dedicated UNICORE (Uniform Interface for Computer Resources)
Test Grid is now available. UNICORE realised a uniform batch
access to different computers. This test version can be used for
functionality tests. |
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| | New Sun clustering tools for terascale technical and supercomputing environments
Sun released the HPC ClusterTools 4 software. It provides high
performance computing (HPC) capabilities designed specifically
for resource-intensive, high performance and technical computing
environments. Sun HPC ClusterTools 4 is a complete suite to
develop and manage a workload of highly resource-intensive
applications on individual Sun systems, as well as
clusters of these systems. |
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| | Grid-in-a-Box part of new NCSA Alliance initiative
The National Computational Science Alliance
(Alliance) in the USA is launching a software deployment effort this summer that
promises to make it easier and faster for the US national research community
to take advantage of new technologies developed by the Alliance and its
lead institution, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This deployment effort--called the In-a-Box initiative--consists of four
interrelated software packages: Cluster-in-a-Box, Grid-in-a-Box, Access
Grid-in-a-Box, and Display Wall-in-a-Box. |
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| | TurboGenomics runs sequence comparison tool on Entropia distributed Internet computer
Entropia and TurboGenomics will collaboratw to run
TurboGenomics' TurboBLAST accelerated sequence comparison tool on the Entropia
high-performance distributed computing platform. This will allow TurboBlast to be run on large corporate networks of many
thousands of PCs, enabling fast analysis of databases that were too large to
effectively analyze before.
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| | Compaq announces Computing on Demand - turning IT into a utility
Compaq Computer Corporation launched a major strategic initiative to change the way technology and
services are provided to enterprise customers around the globe. Called
Computing on Demand, the initiative is a set of new solutions that give
customers a broad range of computing resources when they need them, where they
need them, and at a predictable price and performance level - similar to
buying IT as a utility. |
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| | Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing installs 192 processor Origin supercomputer
The Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto and the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund
today announced the expansion of the Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing
(OCGC). Using a 192-processor SGI Origin 3800 system with 178 GBbyte of memory and 2.7 tbyte of disk, the OCGC provides the world's largest publicly available computational supercomputer
focused solely on biological research. |
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| | Sun and Boeing launch HPC storage area network pilot
SUN has been conducting a pilot program with The
Boeing Company to deploy Sun's new iForce High Performance Computing
(HPC) Storage Area Network (SAN) solution. The HPC SAN is the first
dedicated high-speed storage network suited to the HPC and Technical
Computing environments, enabling efficient, high-speed data storage and
access across heterogeneous computing platforms. With the HPC SAN
solution, customers benefit from increased efficiency, cost savings and
faster product and solution development. |
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| | EDA market ready for Sun Technical Compute Farm with Grid Engine
A growing number of companies looking to improve their
production and speed their time to market in the electronic design automation
space are looking at the Sun Technical Compute Farm (Sun TCF) solution for
their compute-intensive EDA needs. Roughly 80 percent of Sun TCF sales have been
logged in the EDA market segment since the hardware and software solution was
announced at DAC last year. |
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| | NPi debuts draft reference model for Distributed Resource Management
The New Productivity Initiative (NPi) released its draft reference model, a layered set of open APIs for Distributed Resource Management DRM). Prior to this public release of the reference model, NPi submitted the document
to industry experts from a number of sectors for peer review. The next stage in
the specification process will be the creation of a design model that will
include a description of the objects, data schema interactions, and protocols.
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| | GridEngine downloaded to over thousand sites in one year
Sun Grid Engine software has been embraced by many EDA companies as their distributed
resource management (DRM) tool to improve their design cycles and time to
market. Sun also used the DAC event to announce new product support programs as
well as its latest version of Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 software, available for free
download. |
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| | Platform Computing launches P2P software for desktop distributed computing
Platform Computing launched software that
allows enterprises to harness the unused processing power of their desktop
computers. LSF ActiveCluster extends Platform's core Load Sharing Facility (LSF)
product line. |
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| | Terraspring launches data center-scale computing Grid architecture
Terraspring announced both its launch and the completion of
a new round of funding totalling more than $28 million. Accel Partners, EMC
Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Mohr Davidow Ventures participated in
the round. Terraspring has raised equity of $54.5 million to date.
Terraspring's
Grid Computing Architecture allows for flexible growth and rapid re-purposing of
resources resulting in control of massive computing infrastructures. |
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| | Global Biodiversity Information Facility in Copenhagen
Copenhagen has been selected as the site for the secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). According to Christoph Haeuser, a leading biodiversity researcher at the State Museum in Stuttgart and the Chair of the GBIF Governing Board, "This decision puts GBIF on a firm footing. It now will have a home base from which to fulfill its goal of linking together the world?s biodiversity databases." |
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| | Auspex NAS file server sets industry record at 19,755 IOPS
Auspex Systems announced that its new NS3010 enterprise data server is processing up to
19,755 I/O operations per second in SPECsfs97 benchmark testing - more than 20
percent faster than the latest filers from its leading competitors. SPECsfs97 is
an established standard for measuring Unix-based Network File Services (NFS)
file server performance across different vendor platforms. |
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| | Corgan vice president Terraspring
Terraspring a grid computing software company, appointed Gregory Corgan senior vice president of world wide field operations. Corgan will be responsible for professional services and customer support, as well as sales and business development at Terraspring. |
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| | Blackstone announces new suite of high throughput computing services
Blackstone Technology has a new family of High-Throughput Computing (HTC) Services.
Blackstone's HTC Services are geared toward designing and optimizing computing
environments based on customer's scientific applications, processes, and
computing goals. |
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| | Platform and Synopsys form alliance
Synopsys and Platform formed an alliance to advance simulation farm technology by enhancing
integration between Synopsys' VCS Verilog simulator and Platform Computing's LSF
(Load Sharing Facility) software to increase the ease-of-use and efficiency of
simulation server farms. Simulation server farms allow verification engineers to
use a group of computers (server farm) to run several simulations
simultaneously, thereby increasing simulation throughput by several orders of
magnitude compared to a single computer simulation. |
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| | Global Grid Forum 2
GGF2, held July 15-18 in Washington, DC attracted 340 participants. Twenty countries and 180 organizations were present at GGF2 In total 36 draft papers were discussed, 6 tutorials were offered, and 2 full days of updates were held ranging from individual project updates to funding initiative plans in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. GGF3 will be held in Italy, this Fall. |
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| | Global Grid Forum 2
GGF2, held July 15-18 in Washington, DC attracted 340 participants. Twenty countries and 180 organizations were present at GGF2 In total 36 draft papers were discussed, 6 tutorials were offered, and 2 full days of updates were held ranging from individual project updates to funding initiative plans in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. GGF3 will be held in Italy, this Fall. |
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| | Grid company Terraspring appoints CEO
Terraspring, a grid
computing software company, appointed Ian Bonner to the
position of president and chief executive officer. Bonner, a 22-year veteran of
the computing industry and former IBM vice president, is responsible for leading
the company to deliver and implement software and technologies in the IT market
space. |
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| Industry
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| | Fastest TOP500 cluster at NCSA and Shell
The NCSA and the Shell Linux clusters are the fastest clusters in the world, according to the latest edition of the Top500 supercomputers list. The cluster of 512 dual-processor Pentium III IBM eServer x330 thin servers ranked 30th overall on the list with a sustained performance level of 594 Gflop/s and a peak performance level of just over 1 Tflop/s. An identical cluster owned by Shell Oil Company ranked at 31. |
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| | Cluster in Tokyo first AMD based machine in TOP500
The Tokyo Institute of Technology's
PRESTO III-a server cluster containing 78 AMD Athlon processors-was ranked
in the Top 500 list released at the June 2001 International Supercomputer
Conference held in Heidelberg, Germany. The PRESTO III marks the first time an
AMD processor-based supercomputer has made the TOP500 list. |
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| | IBM delivers fastest unclassified 3.8 Tflop/s supercomputer
IBM has delivered the world's most powerful unclassified supercomputer, which
will conduct the basic scientific research that may lead to breakthroughs in
fuel-efficient automobiles. The announcement came as IBM captured the number one ranking on an independent
list of the world's fastest computers, issued at the Supercomputing 2001
Conference in Heidelberg, Germany. |
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| Networking |
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| | High-performance networking workshop HFN Europe in Geneva
The next High-performance networking workshop, HNF-Europe,
will be organised by CERN and HNF-Europe and will
take place on September 26 - 27, 2001 at CERN |
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| | Multi-Gigabit enhanced Géant research platform ushers birth of European virtual laboratories
Géant, the pan-European research network, has taken a major step
forward with the signature of three milestone contracts for the provision
of multi-Gigabit connectivity, which forms the heart of the new network.
The contracts, signed by Dante, the co-ordinating partner of the project,
on behalf of the consortium of National Research and Education Networks
(NRENs) from 27 European countries, have been closed with Colt Telecom,
Telia International Carrier, and T-Systems.
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