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Contents
October 2001
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | Agreement with US Navy provides The Weather Channel with access to SGI Origin 3800
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| | Oak Ridge National Lab in USA selects IBM supercomputer for global warming research
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| | Toshiba Corporation will re-sell Stratus ftServer in Japan
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| | Integrated Sensors selects Mercury for U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Development Programme
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| | NEC introduces continuous availability, fault tolerant server series in North America
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- ES |
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| | Origin 3200 Server for Spain's Ministry of Justice Asset Management System
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- UK |
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| | Raceteam installs supercomputer
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| | Autumn School on HPC and SGI NUMAflex
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| | JUN-AIR chooses CATIA V5 for Silent Compressors
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Cornell Theory Center researchers achieve more than 3-fold speedup with Intel Itanium architecture
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| | Sun Forte Developer 6 update 2 debugs mixed Java and native C++
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| | Sendmail email server for Linux on IBM eServer z900 supports 2 million users
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| | Stong nanotubes discovered in supercomputer simulation
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| | Genomix selects Compaq
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| | ESI revenues up
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| | Structural Bioinformatics and ChemNavigator form alliance
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| | Unisys ES7000 slashes high-performance computing costs to New Low according to TPC-C Benchmark
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| | SC2001 expects 5000 participants
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Novartis starts Entropia pilot
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| | Zbox turns a 110 Gybte drive into a 10 Tbyte one
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| | Levesque joins Cray
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| | New release of MPICH
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| | SGI introduces clustered filesystem with support for Solaris
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| | HP introduces PA-8700 based Superdome
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| | HP introduces PA-8700 based mid range servers
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| | Pegasus selects PV-Wave for NeuSIGHT
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| | New workstations from HP
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| | Increased speed of Pact reconfigurable parallel computing coprocessor
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| | Compaq delivers new Novell eDirectory Collection Agent, Management Agents, and ProLiant Cluster Kits
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| | Compaq ProLiant achieves 1 Billion TPC-C transactions-per-day
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| | Consortium on fault-tolerant Windows 200 platforms
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | California tech institutes and SGI sign collaboration
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| | SARA offers small Virtual Reality server
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| | SGI Origin 200 servers host up to 25 million hits per day for Dutch National Public Broadcaster NOS
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| | Mental Images purchases 16-Processor SGI Origin 3400 system
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| | Salsamedia purchases five SGI Media Server Systems for Salsa On-Air
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| | Raidtec to develop storage systems with SAN Virtualisation Appliance
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| | BBC virtual production studios use Wildcat
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| | SGI showcases top visualisation technologies at Society of Exploration Geophysicists Expo
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| | Shoah Foundation selects SGI Origin 3400 Servers to assist Documentary Production
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| | Peaktime Belgium selects two SGI Origin 3200 Servers and an SGI TP9400 Storage System
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| | Tippett to invest in SGI servers and workstations for Cats & Dogs movie
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| | Min Bimbangal Productions to purchase virtual studio
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| | For-A and Brainstorm partner to create Digistorm virtual studio
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| | Sarnoff awarded advanced imagery processing contract
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Study on Nordic Data Grid Centre
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| | Indiana University creates three new tech labs with top researchers
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| | Dolphin Wulfkit for Intel IA64 Itanium
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| | New PACI Grid portal
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| | DutchGrid
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| | International consortium to collaborate on ubiquitous grid computing framework
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| | United Devices gets US$18.2 million additional capital
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| | Open Bioinformatics Foundation gets Sun hardware
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| | Grid 2001 workshop
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| | Computational Chemistry Grid Conference
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| | Asia Pacific Grid Workshop 2001
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| | Totalview 5 available from Pallas
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Entries for new TOP500 supercomputer list requested
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| Networking
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| | Scali breaks 300 MByte/s barrier for MPI in Itanium clusters
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| | Alliant Geophysical 3D prestack depth migration software on Cray T3E
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| Networking
- Applications |
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| | Next-Generation Internet application center in San Diego
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Leads
October 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | Agreement with US Navy provides The Weather Channel with access to SGI Origin 3800
In a bold step, the US Navy and The Weather Channel have signed a memorandum of understanding that encourages professional collaboration, leading to a joint examination of new methods and technologies for producing and presenting climate and weather forecasts. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Lab in USA selects IBM supercomputer for global warming research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will
install a powerful new IBM eServer supercomputer for scientific
research that promises to significantly improve the U.S. government's
ability to predict long-range climate trends as well as tackle a wide
spectrum of other scientific projects.
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| | Toshiba Corporation will re-sell Stratus ftServer in Japan
Stratus Technologies said
that Toshiba Corporation will re-brand and sell the Stratus ftServer
5200 fault-tolerant server in Japan as the Toshiba MAGNIA FT5200 system.
Through an agreement reached with Stratus Technologies Japan, Toshiba
will be able to offer its customers an industry-standard server that makes
continuously available computing a cost-effective option for virtually any
Windows 2000 application requiring high levels of uptime.
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| | Integrated Sensors selects Mercury for U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Development Programme
Mercury Computer Systems Inc., a provider of embedded real time digital signal and image processing systems, has been selected by Integrated Sensors Inc. (ISI) for a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) development programme to provide surveillance and tactical mission support. |
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| | NEC introduces continuous availability, fault tolerant server series in North America
NEC Computers Inc., a provider of mobile, desktop and server computing solutions for the enterprise market, has launched a new line of Fault Tolerant servers for the North American marketplace. The NEC Express5800/ft series is based on Intel Corporation's Pentium III processors and runs on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system. |
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| | Origin 3200 Server for Spain's Ministry of Justice Asset Management System
The SGI Origin 3200 server was chosen as a key component of a recently installed video/audio capture, asset management and archiving system at the Ministry of Justice in Madrid, Spain. To comply with a new law requiring all civil court sessions to be recorded and made available to
court staff and involved parties, Vitelsa of Madrid and ADM (Andalucia Digital Multimedia) tendered the offer. The special engineering division of ADM, which has now become a separate company named Tedial, was the project integrator. |
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| | Raceteam installs supercomputer
The WilliamsF1
team is accelerating the pace of Formula 1 race car design with a new
supercomputing system from Compaq Computer Corporation. Using
Compaq's powerful Tru64 UNIX-based AlphaServer SC series computing platform,
the WilliamsF1 team can conduct virtual aerodynamic tests, such as the
simulated performance of aerodynamic devices-in a matter of hours, instead of
the weeks it used to take. The new supercomputing capabilities also give the
team more time to experiment with a greater number of possible designs. |
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| | Autumn School on HPC and SGI NUMAflex
MRCCS will organise a one-week Autumn School in
High Performance Computing 8-12 October, 2001, Manchester, UK. This year's topic, "HPC and SGI NUMAflex",
is concerned with the unique, modular architecture of the Origin 3000
and its future successors. |
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| | JUN-AIR chooses CATIA V5 for Silent Compressors
Danish compressor manufacturer JUN-AIR, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced JUN-AIR's selection of CATIA to replace JUN-AIR's existing CAD system. JUN-AIR will use CATIA V5 to create complex and geometrical designs for silent compressors and vacuum pumps. JUN-AIR is among the world's leading producers of silent compressors.
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Cornell Theory Center researchers achieve more than 3-fold speedup with Intel Itanium architecture
Researchers with the Computational Materials Institute (CMI) at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) experienced a 3.4 x speedup when they moved their code to the new Intel Itanium (IA 64) architecture. CMI scientists perform large-scale finite element simulations of critically important materials science problems such as failures in engine gears, tears in airplane fuselage surfaces, and cracks in dams. Working with specialists at Intel's Applications Solutions Center (ASC), the CMI team delved into the details of this new architecture and optimised the performance of critical parts of their simulation system for the Itanium. |
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| | Sun Forte Developer 6 update 2 debugs mixed Java and native C++
The new release of the Sun Forte Developer suite of products, an
integrated set of development tools designed for building enterprise
applications includes new debugging and compiling capabilities that
enable programmers to debug mixed Java language and native C, C++, and
Fortran code on the Solaris 8. |
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| | Sendmail email server for Linux on IBM eServer z900 supports 2 million users
Performance tests conducted by Sendmail and IBM demonstrate
that a single IBM eServer z900 mainframe can support more than 2
million users, making it the largest single-server email systems on
Linux available in the industry. |
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| | Stong nanotubes discovered in supercomputer simulation
A team of researchers lead
by Vincent Crespi, the Downsborough Associate Professor of Physics at Penn State
University, has used supercomputer simulations to discover carbon fibers with
mechanical strength comparable to that of diamond.
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| | Genomix selects Compaq
Structural GenomiX inked a multi-million dollar agreement with Compaq to develop SGX's high performance structural informatics systems.
SGX will purchase a complete Compaq technology solution including Compaq
AlphaServer systems, ProLiant servers running Linux, StorageWorks and
services. SGX's drug discovery efforts will be speeded up by
increasing SGX's ability to run its high-throughput protein modeling,
molecular dynamics and chemical docking programs on a genomic scale. |
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| | ESI revenues up
ESI Group's revenues for the first half of 2001 reached 19.14 million euro, which corresponds to a growth rate of 7,2% compared to the first half-2000. Recent acquisitions account for 1.2 % of the growth rate. Given a constant exchange rate, volume growth rate would be close to 9.6%.
The general economic slowdown observed during the first quarter was amplified during the 2nd quarter, though performances were uneven across regions. |
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| | Structural Bioinformatics and ChemNavigator form alliance
Structural Bioinformatics
and ChemNavigator agreedto combine SBI's
proprietary technologies in three-dimensional computational proteomics with
ChemNavigator's proprietary technologies in chemistry. The collaborative
agreement will facilitate the rapid identification of new drug
candidates. Under the terms of the agreement, SBI and its customers can use
ChemNavigator's 3-D database of two million drug-like compounds to screen in
silico against the 2600 3-D proprietary protein structures in SBI's drug target
database. SBI and ChemNavigator will share in revenues generated from the
combined use of their technologies. |
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| | Unisys ES7000 slashes high-performance computing costs to New Low according to TPC-C Benchmark
The cost of handling the hundreds of thousands of transactions typical of the busiest on-line enterprise operations has been slashed to unprecedented levels, according to the TPC-C benchmark, the industry's standard measure of computer power. Unisys now achieves 200 percent of the performance of any other Windows-based single server, becoming the only non-UNIX/RISC server in the single-system TPC-C Top Ten.
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| | SC2001 expects 5000 participants
Charlie Slocomb, volunteer
chairman of the SC2001 Executive Committee, today reassured conference
registrants, exhibitors, sponsors and other interested parties that SC2001 will
yield all the rewards originally envisioned--and more. Slated for November 10-16 in the Denver Convention Center, SC2001 is the
international forum and exhibition on high-performance computing and high-speed
data communication. |
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Novartis starts Entropia pilot
Entropia announced the
evaluation of its distributed computing platform by leading healthcare company
Novartis. The pilot program will demonstrate how the existing network of PCs at Novartis
can be transformed into a high-performance compute engine to accelerate drug
discovery research. The pilot will be supported locally by Entropia's European
office in Cambridge, England. |
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| | Zbox turns a 110 Gybte drive into a 10 Tbyte one
Zyndecom's new Z Box combines DryIce high compression technology, which can
compress still images up to a 4000:1, with Syndeos'
synchronization of both software and hardware systems. The Z Box is the
first to deliver secure, real time and bi-directional manipulation of data,
which is accessible to all software and hardware applications and
configurations using fileless relay. It employs artificial intelligence to
integrate and compress digital images and related data to facilitate rapid and
accurate transfer, even over low-speed connections. |
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| | Levesque joins Cray
High-performance computing industry veteran John Levesque has joined Cray as senior
technologist. Among his accomplishments, Levesque created and led IBM
Research's Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC). |
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| | New release of MPICH
The MPICH group at Argonne MPICH is an open-source, portable implementation of the Message-Passing
Interface Standard. It contains a complete implementation of version 1.2 of
the MPI Standard and also significant parts of MPI-2, particularly in the
area of parallel I/O.released version 1.2.2 of MPICH, the portable MPI implementation. |
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| | SGI introduces clustered filesystem with support for Solaris
SGI has launched the CXFS Version 2.0, a scalable, journaled clustered filesystem with extended
capabilities to support the Solaris operating system. SGI CXFS is a clustered solution that provides a single filesystem accessible on a heterogeneous storage area network (SAN) from multiple hosts, including IRIX, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and now Solaris. With this new capability, SGI IRIX OS-based customers can seamlessly share data with Solaris OS-based systems in real time, thereby increasing productivity and reducing costs. Built on the high-performance SGI XFS filesystem and the next-generation SGI XVM volume manager, CXFS enables multiple computers direct access to a shared filesystem, which means all systems in a CXFS environment have access to the same file at the same time at local or near-local speeds. |
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| | HP introduces PA-8700 based Superdome
Hewlett-Packard announced PA-8700 processor-based systems. The PA-8700 processor,
based on PA-RISC technology, is available for the high-end flagship HP
Server Superdome, the mid-range HP Server rp7400 (formerly the
N-class) and HP Server rp8400 systems and the HP Workstations c3700
and j6700. |
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| | HP introduces PA-8700 based mid range servers
In addition to the Superdome enhancements, Hewlett-Packard also announced a mid-range
HP Server rp8400. Using up to 16 PA-RISC 8700
processors the HP
Server rp8400 extends HP's mid-range UNIX server offerings, which
include the up-to-8-processor HP Server rp7400, formerly known as the
N-class server. |
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| | Pegasus selects PV-Wave for NeuSIGHT
Pegasus Technologies has selected PV-WAVE as the data visualization engine of its combustion optimization system for the electric power generation industry. |
| | Full article...
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| | New workstations from HP
Hewlett-Packard announced a new family of
high-performance business PC and workstation products.
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| | Increased speed of Pact reconfigurable parallel computing coprocessor
PACT Corporation announced the implementation of a new set of design rules and
processes for the company's eXtreme Processor Platform (XPP). XPP is
deployed as a licensable IP (Intellectual Property) core for incorporation
within SOC or DSP designs used in markets such as 2.5G+ base stations, mobile
telephones and other devices requiring fully reconfigurable, massively
parallel processing capabilities with minimum power requirements and maximum
scalability. |
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| | Compaq delivers new Novell eDirectory Collection Agent, Management Agents, and ProLiant Cluster Kits
The Compaq ProLiant servers will support the new Novell NetWare 6 operating system. As part of its support, Compaq will extend its directory management, fault and performance management, and high availability offerings to include updated eDirectory Collection Agent and Compaq Management Agents for ProLiant servers, and ProLiant Cluster Kits for NetWare 6. By providing continued support and optimisation on ProLiant servers for customers that plan to deploy NetWare 6 servers, Compaq will deliver simple solutions that enable customers to maximise their resources,plan for change and growth, and to ensure continuous operations. |
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| | Compaq ProLiant achieves 1 Billion TPC-C transactions-per-day
A 32-node cluster of Compaq ProLiant DL760
servers has achieved a new world-record performance TPC-C benchmark result of
709,220.08 transactions per minute (tpmC) at a cost of only $14.96 per tpmC.
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| | Consortium on fault-tolerant Windows 200 platforms
Six companies have combined resources to establish the Fault
Tolerant Server Consortium (FTSC). Launched in Japan, the
consortium expects to grow into a worldwide organization as more IT product
manufacturers bring fault-tolerant products to market. |
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| Industry
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| | California tech institutes and SGI sign collaboration
The California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology, a collaboration between UC San
Diego and UC Irvine, has signed a contract with SGI. As a first step an SGI Onyx 3400 visualization system has been installed. |
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| | SARA offers small Virtual Reality server
The SARA VR-Server is a high quality Virtual Reality platform with active stereo vision and head/hand-tracking. The system enables full blown Virtual Reality for in-house VR needs, at any location, and is also suited for trade-show presentations. SARA's Virtual Reality expertise covers a wide field of application areas including architecture, engineering, biotechnology and medicine. |
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| | SGI Origin 200 servers host up to 25 million hits per day for Dutch National Public Broadcaster NOS
The Dutch public broadcaster NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting), in Hilversum, The Netherlands, hosts one of the country's largest Internet sites using 20 IRIX OS-based SGI Origin 200
high-performance servers. The SGI Origin 200 servers consistently and reliably handle more than 65,000 hits per minute all the way up to NOS's record of 25 million hits in one day. A single SGI Origin 200 server handled most of that record-setting day's work: 18.5 million hits, with peaks of up to 60,000 hits per minute. The SGI Origin 200 server used to distribute the RealMedia files
handles more than 600,000 files per month. |
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| | Mental Images purchases 16-Processor SGI Origin 3400 system
Mental Images of Berlin, Germany, recently purchased a 16-processor SGI Origin 3400 server with 4GB system memory network interface cards and storage system. The modular OS-based SGI Origin 3400 server is currently being used as Mental Images's main platform for the development of its host
and thread parallel software products, including the high-performance, photo-realistic rendering software mental ray and mental matter, proprietary, highly modular modelling technology. Users of Mental Images products include most of the leading visual effects and digital film studios, game
developers and companies in the automotive and aerospace industries. Mental ray 3.0, the most recent version of mental ray, will be released commercially in October and will feature expanded capabilities developed on the SGI 2000 series and SGI Origin 3400 servers. |
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| | Salsamedia purchases five SGI Media Server Systems for Salsa On-Air
Five SGI Media Server for broadcast systems have been sold, delivered and implemented to Salsamedia of Oslo, Norway. The SGI Media Server systems will serve as the initial communications structure for a new broadcast-quality Salsamedia solution named Salsa On-Air, which will supply
Internet-based, format-independent exchange of television commercials. An SGI Media Server system running Salsa On-Air is now operational in TV2's technical centre in Bergen, Norway; two are placed with post production houses in Scandinavia, a fourth is placed in Salsa's offices; and a fifth has been installed at a television station in London, UK.
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| | Raidtec to develop storage systems with SAN Virtualisation Appliance
With the demand for on-line storage capacity showing no signs of slowing, the concept of the storage area network to provide both capacity and high availability is now common in broadcast installations. Raidtec is currently developing the SAN further with what it calls storage virtualisation. |
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| | BBC virtual production studios use Wildcat
3Dlabs' Wildcat II 5110 professional graphics
card with Genlock and Multiview capabilities is being used by the
British Broadcasting Corporation's Research and Development
Department to explore new ways of creating advanced, easy to use,
lower-cost virtual production studios.
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| | SGI showcases top visualisation technologies at Society of Exploration Geophysicists Expo
SGI featured immersive, interactive displays of its industry-leading collaborative
visualisation technologies at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2001 International Exposition and Annual Meeting, which took place in San Antonio on Friday, September 14.
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| | Shoah Foundation selects SGI Origin 3400 Servers to assist Documentary Production
The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, established in 1994 by Steven Spielberg to collect the testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, recently purchased two SGI Origin 3400 servers to facilitate production of television/feature documentaries and interactive teaching aids.
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| | Peaktime Belgium selects two SGI Origin 3200 Servers and an SGI TP9400 Storage System
Two SGI Origin 3200 high-performance servers and a 5TB SGI Total Performance 9400 (TP9400) RAID storage array have been installed at Peaktime Belgium, a Brussels-based company delivering a variety of monitoring and tracking services to the Belgian TV industry. |
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| | Tippett to invest in SGI servers and workstations for Cats & Dogs movie
Tippett Studio, in Berkeley California, recently created more than 60 3D animated shots for the Warner Bros. movie Cats & Dogs and over 150 3D shots, plus 15 CGI creatures, for Evolution from DreamWorks SKG. To complete the work, it recently invested in 10 Silicon Graphics Octane2 Irix-based visual workstations, 25 230 and 330 workstations running Windows NT and Linux, an SGI 2100 high performance visualisation server and two terabytes of storage to add to its existing SGI hardware. |
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| | Min Bimbangal Productions to purchase virtual studio
Min Bimbangal Productions (MPPL), an India production house, has purchased a virtual studio from vi[z]rt. The system is installed in a custom-built facility in Chennai and will be used in the production of talk shows, current affairs and music programmes. |
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| | For-A and Brainstorm partner to create Digistorm virtual studio
For-A, maker of the 2D virtual studio digiWarp-EX, is launching a new NT-based 3D virtual studio at IBC 2001. DigiStorm is aimed at the virtual studio customer that needs full 3D facilities but has a limited budget. The system is designed with a similar philosophy to digiWarp, according to For-A, making it low cost and easy to use, maintain and set up. |
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| | Sarnoff awarded advanced imagery processing contract
Sarnoff was awarded a $5,219,535 contract for the development of advanced video
and imagery processing techniques by the US Department of Defence. It will also investigate the utility of performing these operations on PC-type computing platforms rather than
supercomputers. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Study on Nordic Data Grid Centre
The Joint Committee of the Nordic Natural Science Research COuncils decided to set up a working group to define the technical requirements for a multi-disciplinary Nordic Data Grid Centre in terms of processing capacity, memory capacity, personnel and connectivity |
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| | Indiana University creates three new tech labs with top researchers
Pervasive Technology Labs at
Indiana University launched three new laboratories to research
diverse aspects of pervasive computing.
Pervasive Technology Labs will ultimately house six distinct labs,
including the Advanced Network Management Lab, Open Systems Lab and Community
Grids Lab. The Community Grids Lab, directed by
Dr. Geoffrey Fox, will focus on grid computing, integrating peer-to-peer
computing with distributed processing, and parallel computing, converging IT
research in the areas of architecture and middleware for computing grids. |
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| | Dolphin Wulfkit for Intel IA64 Itanium
Dolphin Interconnect announced WulfKit with MPI communication libraries for Intel's IA64 Itanium platform developed by Dolphin partner Scali AS. This combination now delivers record-breaking performance, with greater than 300 Mbytes per second transfer rates and less than 4 microseconds latency between user processes in different nodes, Dolphin is setting new standards by which to measure inter-node communication performance in a HPC cluster. |
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| | New PACI Grid portal
Scientists who use the computational resources provided through the National
Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
(PACI) program can now find all the information they need at the new paci web site.
It combines information about the two PACI partnerships--the
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) and the
National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance)--and the Terascale Computing
System at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) on a site that is easy to
use and focused exclusively on the needs of researchers who use high-performance
computing systems. Each year more than 5,000 scientists from across the U.S. use
PACI resources for simulation, data analysis, and scientific visualization.
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| | DutchGrid
DutchGrid is the platform for large-scale distributed computing in the Netherlands. Open to all institutions for research and test-bed activities, the goal of DutchGrid is to coordinate the various deployment efforts and to offer a forum for the exchange of experiences on Grid technologies. DutchGrid is based on the Dutch chapter of the European DataGrid project. |
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| | International consortium to collaborate on ubiquitous grid computing framework
The Grid Resource Broker (GRB) is one of the current Globus projects of the HPC Lab of the University of Lecce, Italy, in collaboration with CACR, California Institute of Technology. |
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| | United Devices gets US$18.2 million additional capital
United Devices, a distributed computing software and services company, has secured $18.2 million in series B funding from a blue chip group of leading venture capitalists and global corporations. GE Equity, the private equity-investing arm of GE, and Constellation Ventures led the funding with AOL Time Warner Ventures, Intel Capital, and 550 Digital Media Ventures, a Sony Group company, also participating in the round. Previous investors SOFTBANK Venture Capital and Oak Investment Partners invested as well. United Devices will use the funding to help build its sales team, accelerate product development, and increase marketing initiatives. |
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| | Open Bioinformatics Foundation gets Sun hardware
Sun will grant hardware, including servers and a secure
storage system, to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which distributes,
develops and supports standards-based open source tools for life science
research and data integration. The foundation will use the hardware to update
its infrastructure, enabling more reliable and secure distribution of its tools
and collaborative services over the Web. |
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| | Grid 2001 workshop
The second International Workshop on Grid Computing will be held in conjunction with
Supercomputing 2001, November 12, 2001, Denver, USA. |
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| | Computational Chemistry Grid Conference
SURA and the University of Kentucky, with support from the Army Research Laboratory, are co-sponsoring the Computational Chemistry Grid Conference, October 16 -17. This conference is designed to build connections between the developments in computational chemistry and the user community, and to provide a "bridge" between various Internet protocols that are being used to share information. This is the first Internet conference to use technology to link Mbone and H.323 technologies into a single distributed environment. |
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| | Asia Pacific Grid Workshop 2001
The Asia Pacific Grid Workshop 2001 will take place October 22-24, 2001, Tokyo Japan. Presenters from academia and industry will discuss and demonstrate the latest in grid systems and major grid computing application. Representatives from grid forums in the Asia-Pacific region, the US and Europe will talk about current and future grid projects.
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| | Totalview 5 available from Pallas
Totalview release 5 is available from Pallas. New features of this debugger are support for AIX, and enhanced support for Linux. Also parallel processing support has been improved. |
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Entries for new TOP500 supercomputer list requested
The 18th TOP500 list will be introduced at the Supercomputing Conference 2001 (SC2001) in Denver, Colorado, taking place November 10-16, 2001. Deadline to submit an entry is October 1, 2001. |
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| | Scali breaks 300 MByte/s barrier for MPI in Itanium clusters
Scali has
enhanced the performance of Scali's MPI, ScaMPI, hosted
on Intel Itanium servers and broke the 300 MBytes/s barrier. The new release of ScaMPI, to be included in the
upcoming SSP 3.0, improves performance on certain transfers in
excess of 40%, compared to previous releases. |
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| | Alliant Geophysical 3D prestack depth migration software on Cray T3E
Cray and seismic company Alliant
Geophysical will collaborate to reduce the turnaround time of depth
imaging projects for oil companies.
The companies agreed to make Alliant Geophysical's 3D
prestack depth migration software run optimally on Cray T3E highly
scalable supercomputer systems. |
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| | Next-Generation Internet application center in San Diego
CommerceNet has chosen the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD), as one of two institutions to host its Next-Generation Internet
(NGI) Application Centers. The NGI Centers will promote the development,
incubation, and demonstration of new business and consumer applications
that will take advantage of the evolving Internet. |
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