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November 2001
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Contents
November 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | IBM supplies Indiana University with new supercomputer
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| | NEC buys part of SGI Japan
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| | Terascale Computing System installed at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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| | Seaborg at NERSC operational
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| | U.S. Navy awards Promia $7 million for Internet Security products
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| | Danny Powell joins NCSA as Executive Director
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| | Compaq AlphaServer platform for GTSI's US$ 857 Million US army contract
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| | Munich Systems Fair presents various novelties
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- FR |
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| | Dassault Systèmes and SchlumbergerSema partner to deliver on ENOVIA e-Collaboration
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- NL |
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| | The new KNMI supercomputer will be used weather forecasting and climate research
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| | Dutch Weather Institute buys SUN Fire super
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- SE |
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| | Sectra participates in establishment of new medical research centre
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- UK |
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| | New Science from High performance Computing
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| Europe
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| | European Information Society and Technology Event Web site now available
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | NAG release Fortran Library, Mark 20
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| | Sun Fire fast on Fluent
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| | ESI introduces first simulation software for liquid composite molding
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| | ICR buys 768 processors of SGI 3800 systems
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| | Mentor Graphics and ACE Collaborate to provide a comprehensive DSP software development environment
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| | SGI extends high-performance SGI Origin server line
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| | MSC.Software purchases SGI VirtualInsight business
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| | First Enovia digital mock-ups demonstrated in Fakespace immersive CAVE environment
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| | OIP closes US $30 million loan with Allied Boston Bank
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| | Expert researcher and Australian biotech company first tenants for CMU's Applied Research and Technology Center
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| | NuTec Sciences names key industry leader as President and CEO
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| | Fugu DNA sequence offers short cut to Human Genome
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| | Sony selects CATIA V5 solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes for TV design innovation
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | NEC announces world's fastest supercomputer - The SX-6 Series
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| | Sun Fire 15K Server is the successor of the Starfire E10000
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| | The next vector processor, the SX-6
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| | Intel Xeon Processors Reach 2 Gigahertz for Workstations
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| | NCSA Alliance to bring their expertise to SciDAC programme
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| | Sun Microsystems posts $180 million loss
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| | Platform Computing names Robert Gordon new CEO
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| | IBM introduces 1 GHz PowerPC microprocessor
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| | Haydock President and CEO of Cray
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| | IBM's fast "Regatta" server
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| | HP sees growing market for Superdome
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| | Compaq reports 2001 third quarter results
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| | SGI names new member to its board of directors
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| Industry
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| | MosixView 1.0 out
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| | IBM ships 1,000th z900 mainframe - Linux system to replace server farm
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| | RealScale Technologies opens its Blade server cluster to Beowulf High Performance Computing
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| | Linux NetworX Cluster aids BioCryst in developing innovative treatments for disease
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| | NCSA's first Itanium Linux cluster shows top performance in test runs
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| | Einux ships fastest AMD 1U Rack Servers
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| | Linux NetworX Cluster Computer System helps Camping Companies turn into paperless business
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Virtual lung model allows scientists to measure pollutants' impact on healthy and diseased lungs
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| | Fakespace Systems and SGI provide state-of-the-art visualisation for Murphy Oil
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| | Fraunhofer gets first TAN VR-CUBE
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Enterasys Networks supports CERN in building data-intensive computing grid for multi-billion dollar particle accelerator
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| | Purdue University and Dassault Systèmes establish digital enterprise labs
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| | Entropia integrates its platform with Globus
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| | NSF $12 million middleware initiative will aid scientific discovery and education
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| | Othnet to demonstrate fully functional peer-to-peer file search and exchange system
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| | University of Southern California to receive $2.1 million for Next-Generation Computing Grid
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| | Cray will deliver a Cray T3E to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
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| | United Devices claims 75 Tflop/s supercomputer platform
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| | Virtual Lab in Canada
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| | ESA SpaceGrid
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| | Liberty Alliance Project to provide single network identity on the Internet
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| | Juniper M160 routers for Dante's new pan-european research network
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| | Pooch cluster software for MacOSX
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| | Peer-to-Peer technologies enter the enterprise
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| | Tadpole and Platform Computing launch Powerback
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| | RedIRIS doubles core Internet capacity to 2.5 Gbps
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| | First Cracow Grid Workshop
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| | CNT announces support for IBM's Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server over unlimited distances
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| | CommerceNet awards $2 million in grants to Next Generation Internet application developers
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| | Intel and Stanford Using P2P To Fight Alzheimer's
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| | Brain imaging research data will be shared in Biomedical Informatics Research Network
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| | Petapeer Holdings announces first revenue generation
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| | New Access Grid node
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| | Division of InStep Software gives large energy users powerful tools to cut energy costs
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| | FAST announces real-time information retrieval for large data volumes
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| | Platform continues to post profit
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| | Sun Microsystems reports first quarter results
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| | Avaki to raise new funds for promotion of grid technology
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| | Avaki first to converge compute and data grids in new software solution
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| | ApoCom Genomics' GrailEXP Software supports BSML standard for data exchange
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| | Vertex Pharmaceuticals reports third quarter 2001 financial results
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| | Genomics Guru Dr. J. Craig Venter to deliver keynote at SC2001
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| | Korea's' Posdata develops high-performance supercomputer
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| | Firstlogic and Torrent systems collaborate on information quality processing with unlimited scalability
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| Networking
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| | SURFnet connection to US to use Global Crossing VPN
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Leads
November 2001
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| | IBM supplies Indiana University with new supercomputer
An IBM supercomputer located in Indiana University (IU) has been expanded to triple the university's previous computing capacity and will support IU researchers in a broad range of areas, including life sciences, archaeology, astronomy, and computational physics. It will also serve as the backbone for a planned genomics research collaboration with IBM.
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| | NEC buys part of SGI Japan
SGI has reached definitive agreement with NEC Corporation to create a strategic alliance that is expected to strengthen SGI's presence in the Japanese market. Under the alliance NEC, will acquire from SGI an interest in SGI Japan, Ltd., the subsidiary that supplies SGI equipment, services and solutions in Japan. SGI Japan will be converted from a wholly-owned SGI subsidiary to a company jointly owned by SGI, NEC and NEC's publicly-held affiliate, NEC Soft, Ltd. The name of the business will remain SGI Japan. |
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| | Terascale Computing System installed at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Terascale Computing
System (TCS), with 6 Tflop/s peak claimed to be the most powerful system in the world committed to unclassified
research, is installed on schedule. The Quadrics switch is used as interconnection technology. Developed and implemented by the Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center in collaboration with Compaq Computer Corporation, with
funding from the US National Science Foundation, the TCS provides computational
capability to scientists and engineers nationwide. |
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| | Seaborg at NERSC operational
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing
Center (NERSC), operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has opened
its newest supercomputer - a 3,328-processor IBM RS/6000 SP system - to more
than 2,000 researchers at national laboratories and universities across the
country. The IBM SP, named "Seaborg" in honor of Berkeley Lab Nobel Laureate
Glenn Seaborg, is capable of performing five trillion calculations per second (5
teraflop/s). |
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| | U.S. Navy awards Promia $7 million for Internet Security products
Promia Incorporated, a developer of next-generation Internet Security products, has been awarded by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) $7,000,000 to test and deliver twenty Advanced Internet Security systems. This procurement represents Phase III of a U.S. Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programme and compliments a multi-year research and development effort by Promia and the U.S. Navy to design and build the systems. |
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| | Danny Powell joins NCSA as Executive Director
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced today that Danny Powell of Rice University in Houston is the new executive director of the centre. Mr. Powell, an administrator with more than 15 years of experience managing academic IT research programmes, joins the NCSA staff November 1. |
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| | Compaq AlphaServer platform for GTSI's US$ 857 Million US army contract
Compaq AlphaServer systems will be the computer platform that GTSI supplies for its Maxi-Minis and Databases (MMAD-G) contract. The five-year GTSI contract has a government-evaluated value of $857 million if all options are exercised. |
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| | Munich Systems Fair presents various novelties
During the Systems Fair in Munich, 15. to 19. October, Uwe Harms discussed some HPC topics with presenting
vendors like Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NEC and Sun Microsystems. Compaq did not exhibit. |
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| | Dassault Systèmes and SchlumbergerSema partner to deliver on ENOVIA e-Collaboration
Dassault Systèmes, and SchlumbergerSema have signed a partnership agreement to offer industrial clients comprehensive solutions for internet-based collaborative engineering (e-Collaboration). These solutions will enable companies to exchange data and share engineering design processes with their suppliers and sub-contractors over the web. |
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| | The new KNMI supercomputer will be used weather forecasting and climate research
As reported earlier in Primeur in the article "Dutch Weather Institute buys SUN Fire super", the Royal Dutch Wheather Institute KNMI acquired one of the first new SUN Fire 15K supercomputers. The machine will get 84 processors. Primeur did ask Mart de Ras and René van Lier from the KNMI to provide a little more background of this acquisition |
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| | Dutch Weather Institute buys SUN Fire super
The Dutch Royal Weather Institute (KNMI) has bought SUN Fire 15K supercomputer. Early next year, the first 44 processors will be delivered. The machine, one of the fastest in the Netherlands, will be upgraded later to 84 processors. The machine will be used for weather prediction and climate research. Occasionally, the Netherlands suffers from a storm that develops so locally and quickly, they are difficult to predict. The new machine helps with the prediction by allowing to use a more detailed version of the popular HIRLAM prediction model. |
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| | Sectra participates in establishment of new medical research centre
The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra, Linkoping University and the county council of Ostergotland have agreed to establish a new research centre in Linkoping, Sweden.
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| | New Science from High performance Computing
October 24-25: About 130 scientific researchers from academia and industry met at The Royal Society (UK Academy of Science) and discussed the new science emanating from the use of high performance computing. The presentations were a tour de force of the latest research in chemistry, biomolecular modelling, materials, engineering, lasers, the makeup of the earth?s core, the climate of the whole earth, elementary particles and the theory of everything in the makeup of matter, to cosmology, the makeup of the universe. Below Chris Lazou reviews some of the chemistry and biomedical chemistry talks. Most speakers used computers with hundreds of Gflop/s peak performance, but all of them wanted access to Terascale systems to enable them to improve the capabilities of their models and obtain more realistic results and better scientific insights. Some speakers were concerned that peak performance claimed for PC based systems overshadowed the reality of poor sustained performance delivered to the user application. |
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| | European Information Society and Technology Event Web site now available
The European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Event will take place this year in Düsseldorf on 3-5 December 2001, under the banner of "Technologies Serving People". This event is organised annually by the European Commission's Information Society Directorate-General, set up this time in close co-operation with the Ministry of Economy and SMEs, Energy and Transport of the State of NorthRhine Westphalia in Germany. |
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| Industry
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| | NAG release Fortran Library, Mark 20
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), announced its new release of the NAG Fortran Library. Mark 20 of the Fortran Library offers 95 new routines that extend and improve existing functionality, giving the Fortran Library a total of 1288 user-callable quality routines. |
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| | Sun Fire fast on Fluent
The new Sun Fire 15K excels on FLUENT, an important Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software application. |
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| | ESI introduces first simulation software for liquid composite molding
ESI Group launched LCMFLOT 2001 at Plastics USA. This innovative software simulates advanced manufacturing processes known as Liquid Composite Molding (LCM), where a dry preform is held in a closed mold and injected with a resin. LCMFLOT 2001 can simulate various LCM processes, including Resin Transfer Molding (RTM), vacuum assisted RTM, and resin film infusion.
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| | ICR buys 768 processors of SGI 3800 systems
The Institute for Chemical Research (ICR)
at Kyoto University, which has supported chemistry studies of all kinds since
early in the 20th century, has become the site of one of the biggest
supercomputers in Japan with the purchase of a 768-CPU parallel
SGI system. ICR will use the system to further
its work in bioinformatics and computational chemistry research. |
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| | Mentor Graphics and ACE Collaborate to provide a comprehensive DSP software development environment
Mentor Graphics added ACE Associated Compiler Expert
(ACE) to its Certified Technology Provider (CTP) program. As a CTP member, ACE will offer
its CoSycompiler development system to members of the Mentor Graphics Embedded
Technology Adoption Program (ETAP), enabling companies to generate high-quality compilers
for use with their embedded processors and digital signal processors (DSPs). The widely
used ACE compiler technology together with Mentor's leading XRAYDebugger will provide
ETAP members with access to a powerful, yet easy to use software development environment. |
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| | SGI extends high-performance SGI Origin server line
The SGI Origin 300 base server
module holds two or four MIPS 64-bit processors, up to 4 GByte of memory and two
disk drives in only 3.5 inches of rack space, or about the size of a briefcase. |
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| | MSC.Software purchases SGI VirtualInsight business
MSC.Software, a provider of simulation software, services and systems, has purchased the SGI VirtualInsight line of business. The VirtualInsight software suite is a data management system that allows manufacturing companies to drive down the cost of design and testing while improving time to market for new products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. |
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| | First Enovia digital mock-ups demonstrated in Fakespace immersive CAVE environment
Fakespace has demonstrated the latest release of ENOVIA DMU (digital mock-ups) Solutions, Dassault Systèmes' solution for collaboration and visualisation, supporting full immersive environment capabilities in the CAVE (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment). |
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| | OIP closes US $30 million loan with Allied Boston Bank
OIP closed a five year US$30
million loan with Allied Boston Bank Inc. The loan facility will be used for
general corporate purposes. OIP's Omnigon's Proph-IT Technology turns networks into supercomputers
by analyzing massive amounts of data and delivering solutions to combinatorial
explosive problems that are currently unsolvable on standard computer platforms. |
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| | Expert researcher and Australian biotech company first tenants for CMU's Applied Research and Technology Center
A joint venture between an expert in molecular research and an Australian biotechnology company is the first new tenant for a high-tech research and incubator facility at Central Michigan University. |
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| | NuTec Sciences names key industry leader as President and CEO
In a strategic move, NuTec Sciences Inc. has appointed Richard C. White as President and Chief Executive Officer of NuTec Energy Services Inc. Thomas M. LaHouse, current president, will assume the duties of Chief Operations Officer responsible for daily operations and technology development. NuTec Energy Services provides advanced seismic imaging solutions to the oil and gas industry, using massively parallel supercomputing technology. |
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| | Fugu DNA sequence offers short cut to Human Genome
A substantial short cut to the biologically important information embedded in the human genome has been taken by an international research consortium with the completion of a draft sequence of the genome of the Japanese pufferfish Fugu rubripes. The Fugu draft sequence was announced at the 13th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference in San Diego, California on October 26th.
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| | Sony selects CATIA V5 solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes for TV design innovation
Sony Corporation - Home Network Company - Home Visual Company of Tokyo, Japan, a manufacturer of consumer electronics, has selected CATIA Version 5 (V5) solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes for the design of its popular flat-screen WEGA television monitors. Utilising all of CATIA's newest capabilities such as modelling, analysis, and evaluation using digital mock-up (DMU), Sony engineers speaking at the European CATIA Forum 2001 said they were able to apply their latest technical advances to the product line more quickly as a result.
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| | NEC announces world's fastest supercomputer - The SX-6 Series
On October 3rd, NEC announced that their latest supercomputer, "The SX-6 Series," is on sale worldwide. The SX-6 Series is a parallel vector processor system with peak vector performance of up to 8 Teraflop/s, the fastest supercomputer available for technical computing in civilian use. In this contribition, Chris Lazou reviews and comments on the SX-6. The keywords which spring to mind are performance, capacity, reliability, future development path and Teraflop/s for the user. |
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| | Sun Fire 15K Server is the successor of the Starfire E10000
Sun Microsystems informed the
German HPC specialists in parallel to the New York presentation
about the Sun Fire E15K server, the long expected successor of
its top-Model the E10000. It is an SMP system (symmetric
multiprocessor) with up to 106 UltraSPARC III+ CPUs with 900 MHz
clock rate. The memory can be expanded to up to 576 GByte, more
than half a TeraByte. The peak performance can be estimated wit
190 GFlop/s. |
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| | The next vector processor, the SX-6
NEC announced the latest addition to a series
of evolutionary supercomputer systems, the "SX-6 Series." It has a peak vector
performance of 8 Teraflop/s. The sale of the
"SX-6 Series" begins today around the world. In the US, Cray will market the machine. |
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| | Intel Xeon Processors Reach 2 Gigahertz for Workstations
Intel introduced what it said to be the world's fastest processor for dual
processor, high-performance workstations. The 2 Gigahertz Intel
Xeon processor, based on the NetBurst microarchitecture,
targets high-performance and mid-range workstation market segments and
is expected to achieve performance increases of more than 10 percent
over existing Intel Xeon processors. |
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| | NCSA Alliance to bring their expertise to SciDAC programme
Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are taking leading roles in a US national effort to develop the computing software and hardware needed to use the fastest, most cutting-edge computing systems for scientific research. |
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| | Sun Microsystems posts $180 million loss
Stung by both the sluggish economy and sales slowdown following the terrorist attacks, Sun Microsystems lost $180 million as sales slid 43 percent in its fiscal first quarter. For the three months ended September 30, Sun lost 6 cents per share, compared with a profit of $456 million, or 14 cents a share, in the same period last year.
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| | Platform Computing names Robert Gordon new CEO
Platform Computing Inc., specialised in distributed computing software, announced the appointment of Robert Gordon as Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Mr. Gordon will lead Platform's global business strategy to deliver excellence in customer value. For the past year, Gordon has been a venture capitalist in the European technology sector, based in the UK. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Oracle Corporation. |
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| | IBM introduces 1 GHz PowerPC microprocessor
IBM has launched its fastest embedded PowerPC microprocessor, operating at speeds up to one gigahertz (GHz). The new chip - the IBM PowerPC 750FX - is the first to combine the company's most advanced process technologies onto one chip, reducing power consumption by up to 50 percent or increasing performance by up to 30 percent. Manufactured in IBM's advanced 0.13 micron process, the chip is the first to include copper interconnects, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors and low-k dielectric insulation technologies. |
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| | Haydock President and CEO of Cray
Michael P. Haydock, a former IBM Global Services and Control Data executive, is the new president and chief executive officer of Cray. Haydock will lead Cray's global operations and work with James Rottsolk, chairman. |
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| | IBM's fast "Regatta" server
IBM introduced its new UNIX server. The IBM eServer p690 offers enterprises an efficient platform for both server consolidation and large, single-system applications. When tackling the most complex problems, multiple p690 servers can be linked together to create supercomputers powered by more than 1,000 processors.
Initial p690 customers include Raytheon, Ahold Corporation, Telia Net, Tokyo Metro University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences. |
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| | HP sees growing market for Superdome
Hewlett-Packard said that the HP Superdome server continues to
gain acceptance in the high-end UNIX server marketplace. New
customers such as Alcatel, Liz Claiborne, Porsche, Mitsubishi Electric and
GlaxoSmithKline cite the HP Superdome servers' high performance, scalability
and overall total customer experience as reasons for selecting it. |
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| | Compaq reports 2001 third quarter results
Compaq Computer reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2001. Revenue for the third quarter was $7.5 billion, a year-over-year decrease of 33 percent. Net loss from operations for the quarter was $120 million. |
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| | SGI names new member to its board of directors
Arthur L. Money has joined SGI's board of directors. Mr. Money, 61, has substantial experience in the defense and intelligence area in both private sector and government positions. Most recently, he was the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence and chief information officer of the U.S. Department of Defense from 1998 through April 2001. In
this role, Arthur Money oversaw the department's command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities; space and space systems projects; and information technology investments. |
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| | MosixView 1.0 out
MosixView 1.0 has been released. MOSIXVIEW is a GUI for managing MOSIX-Cluster. |
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| | IBM ships 1,000th z900 mainframe - Linux system to replace server farm
IBM has shipped its 1,000th IBM eServer z900 to Boscov's, the
largest family-owned department store company in the U.S. Boscov's
plans to consolidate its Windows NT server farm on a single z900
running Linux. |
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| | RealScale Technologies opens its Blade server cluster to Beowulf High Performance Computing
RealScale Technologies has validated Beowulf High Performance Computing on its innovative Intel-based Blade Server cluster. From scientific applications to transaction processing, RealScale's Linux i-Cluster is ready to facilitate the execution of heavy-duty applications and to provide an affordable, scalable and highly-available computing solution. |
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| | Linux NetworX Cluster aids BioCryst in developing innovative treatments for disease
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals has selected Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful and easy-to-manage cluster computing solutions, and is now using a Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster to aid in creating pharmaceuticals for the treatment of human disease and illness such as influenza and hepatitis C.
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| | NCSA's first Itanium Linux cluster shows top performance in test runs
The world's largest Linux cluster running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium architecture has been put through its first full-scale operational test, and results show the system to be extremely scalable and faster than more traditional high-performance computing systems. |
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| | Einux ships fastest AMD 1U Rack Servers
Einux, in conjunction with AMD, launched the fastest 1U rackmount servers available
in the industry with AMD's new Athlon MP 1500+, 1600+ and 1800+
multiprocessing processors. When combined with Einux's Compact
Server Architecture (CSA), 42 FlyBird 1Us are capable of processing over
250 Gigaflops and storing over 12
terabytes of data, all in one industry standard 19" rack cabinet, making it
perfect for high-end computing applications. |
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| | Linux NetworX Cluster Computer System helps Camping Companies turn into paperless business
Camping Companies, a repossession and investigations company, has implemented an innovative new paperless system based on a Linux NetworX cluster computer system, leading to record profits and improved efficiencies. The paperless system has increased the company's processing capacity by more than 50 percent without hiring any additional staff, and has cut time dedicated to
account management in half. The success of the Linux-based paperless system is an indicator of how the Linux operating system and computer cluster technology is moving into enterprise business environments. |
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| | Virtual lung model allows scientists to measure pollutants' impact on healthy and diseased lungs
A virtual lung model developed at the US Department of Energy's
(DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) may help predict
the impact of pollutants on respiratory systems and provide new
insights into asthma, a condition afflicting 15 million American
adults, as well as other pulmonary diseases. The computer model,
called the virtual respiratory tract, provides an unprecedented,
three-dimensional view of how pollutants enter, travel through, and
collect in the entire respiratory system. PNNL's prototype system
models the nose, larynx, and lungs of a rat. Efforts are underway to
similarly model the respiratory systems of monkeys and
humans. |
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| | Fakespace Systems and SGI provide state-of-the-art visualisation for Murphy Oil
Fakespace Systems and SGI have provided a state-of-the-art visualisation system to Murphy Oil Company Limited in Calgary, Canada, a division of Murphy Oil Corporation. The new system, which is the first active stereo digital projection system purchased for use in energy exploration,enables geologists, geophysicists and engineers to work together in a collaborative visualisation environment.
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| | Fraunhofer gets first TAN VR-CUBE
TAN Projektionstechnologie located in Düsseldorf, Germany has set up the first TAN VR-CUBE using DLP projectors in active stereo mode. The Fraunhofer Institute IPK in Berlin opened the 5-sided room with TAN's latest projection technology. TAN supplies active stereo systems using DLP projectors at up to 10000 ANSI lumens. |
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| Industry
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| | Enterasys Networks supports CERN in building data-intensive computing grid for multi-billion dollar particle accelerator
Enterasys Networks Inc. will participate in CERN's powerful new LHC Computing Grid. Led by CERN, the project is an international collaborative effort designed to create a new giant data-intensive computing environment. The Grid will handle vast amounts of data generated from experiments at its forthcoming multi-billion dollar particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The accelerator is to be commissioned in 2005 and will be the most powerful device of its kind ever built. |
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| | Purdue University and Dassault Systèmes establish digital enterprise labs
Dassault Systèmes will provide its software as well as technical support for a new digital enterprise laboratory in Purdue University's School of Technology.
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| | Entropia integrates its platform with Globus
Entropia will integrate its enterprise software with that of the Globus toolkit. Entropia's
Enterprise distributed computing grid software harnesses this power from very large numbers of
installed Windows PC's. Globus' software harnesses this power mainly from non-PC computers. |
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| | NSF $12 million middleware initiative will aid scientific discovery and education
A group of university-led organisations and research centres across the United States will work together on a $12 million project to develop middleware, software which allows scientists and
educators to share applications, scientific instruments and data, and collaborate with their colleagues across the Internet. |
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| | Othnet to demonstrate fully functional peer-to-peer file search and exchange system
Othnet Inc. will demonstrate its complete file search and exchange, peer-to-peer (P2P) software at the worldwide Peer to Peer Conference in Washington.
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| | University of Southern California to receive $2.1 million for Next-Generation Computing Grid
The USC School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute will share as a major partner in a $12.1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new ways of sharing one-of-kind scientific instruments, data, and programmes. NSF announced the award today. |
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| | Cray will deliver a Cray T3E to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Cray has received an
order for a Cray T3E supercomputer system upgrade to be placed at
the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).
The subcontract with Computer Sciences Corporation,
ERDC's Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) integration contractor,
calls for a Cray T3E system upgrade to be completed in the third
quarter of 2001. The upgrade will increase the Cray T3E configuration
from 512 to 768 application processors. |
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| | United Devices claims 75 Tflop/s supercomputer platform
United Devices' network has reached a sustained operating capacity of 65 teraflops, approximately five times more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer, the company says. More than 560,000 members and 960,000 devices have joined the
United Devices Member Community since its inception last year. Currently, the
Member Community is working with the University of Oxford to find treatments for
cancer and with Exodus Communications to test Internet performance. |
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| | Virtual Lab in Canada
The National
Research Council of Canada's (NRC) new Virtual Processing Laboratory was
officially opened by Dr. Arthur Carty, President of the NRC. These new
facilities, located at the NRC's Industrial Materials Institute in Boucherville,
Quebec include a state-of-the-art 3D visualization station with
collaborative viewing capabilities. The investment also includes a 128 CPU
Beowulf cluster (parallel processor supercomputer) using a Myrinet 2000
interconnecting system for advanced computing capabilities, as well as
state-of-the-art engineering workstations and parallel platform computers.
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| | ESA SpaceGrid
An international consortium, set up by ESA for the SpaceGRID study, will study how GRID applications can benefit space science, Earth observation, space weather and spacecraft engineering.
The project aims to assess how GRID technology can serve requirements across a large variety of space disciplines, sketch the design of an ESA-wide GRID infrastructure, foster collaboration and enable shared efforts across space applications. It will analyse the highly complicated technical aspects of managing, accessing, exploiting and distributing large amounts of data, and set up test projects to see how well the GRID performs at carrying out specific tasks in Earth observation, space weather, space science and spacecraft engineering. |
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| | Liberty Alliance Project to provide single network identity on the Internet
The Liberty Alliance
Project wants to establish business and technology solutions to provide an open, federated solution for network identity.
The charter members of the Liberty Alliance Project, representing a
billion names across customers, business partners and employees,
intend to create an open, federated solution for network identity -
enabling ubiquitous single sign-on across multiple web sites, and
eventually across multiple devices connected to the Internet. The
service will provide distributed authentication, and open,
platform-neutral network authorization, from any device connected to the
Internet, from traditional desktop computers and cellular phones to
credit cards, automobiles and point-of-sale terminals. |
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| | Juniper M160 routers for Dante's new pan-european research network
DANTE has selected Juniper
Networks M160 Internet backbone routers for the brand new Pan-European research
and education (R&E) network GEANT. The M160 routers will be supplied and
installed by Juniper Networks systems integration partner Dimension Data. |
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| | Pooch cluster software for MacOSX
Dauger Research announced version 1.1 of Pooch, the
Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. The latest update
introduces its implementation of the AppleScript interface with a host of
new features. In addition, Pooch is fully operational and fully supported
on Mac OS X 10.1. |
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| | Peer-to-Peer technologies enter the enterprise
Aberdeen Group, a market analysis and positioning services firm, states that
innovative Peer-to-Peer (P-to-P) technologies are moving from consumer
playthings - such as MP3 sharing - to the enterprise market. P-to-P
architectures use desktops, laptops and mobile devices as active nodes on the
Internet, which enable users to establish direct connections between people,
access diverse content resources and remotely use physical resources such as
processing power. |
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| | Tadpole and Platform Computing launch Powerback
Tadpole and Platform Computing launched "PowerBack", a pioneering initiative to reduce the escalating energy costs of data centres around the world. With PowerBack, data centres will be able to minimise their power requirements as computing demand fluctuates, or to take advantage of off-peak energy rates. They will also make further energy savings through reduced usage of kW-hungry air conditioning in rooms that house idle computer systems. |
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| | RedIRIS doubles core Internet capacity to 2.5 Gbps
RedIRIS has selected Juniper Networks
M-series routers for the deployment of the first phase of a high-speed,
ultra-reliable multiservice IP network. RedIRIS is the National Academic and
Research Network for more than 250 research and education facilities in Spain. |
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| | First Cracow Grid Workshop
The First Cracow Grid Workshop will be held in Cracow, Poland, November 5 - 6, 2001. The objective of the Workshop is to create and support a collaborative
community of researchers, developers, practitioners and potential users
in Poland and in the neighbouring countries who work in the fascinating
field of grid technologies. |
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| | CNT announces support for IBM's Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server over unlimited distances
CNT, a specialist in storage networking, has completed testing peer-to-peer network interoperability with IBM's TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS) solutions. The tests validate CNT's ability to link VTS systems together over unlimited distances for data mirroring, disaster recovery, and business continuity applications, and reflect IBM and CNT's history of working
together to address data access across the enterprise and continued data availability and redundancy.
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| | CommerceNet awards $2 million in grants to Next Generation Internet application developers
CommerceNet and the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation, are awarding nearly $2 million in funding to five businesses, two universities and a foundation to support their continuing development of Next Generation Internet (NGI) Applications. Grant recipients include 3DGeo Development, Commerce One, Kenamea, The Pangea Foundation, Sophica, Strain Monitor Systems, UCLA's Advanced Policy Institute and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. |
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| | Intel and Stanford Using P2P To Fight Alzheimer's
The latest effort to fight Alzheimer's Disease is taking advantage of some of that unused networked computing power out there on the Internet. Intel and Stanford University, with the support of the Alzheimer's Association, announced the Stanford Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Programme.
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| | Brain imaging research data will be shared in Biomedical Informatics Research Network
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded more than $20 million to a consortium of universities coordinated by the
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to build the first nationwide high-performance computer environment to study diseases of the brain. Researchers linked over a high-speed network will share high-resolution animal and human brain images to allow analysis and comparison at many different scales. These capabilities will be the means for cross-institutional integration of data and expertise that can advance research on such brain-related diseases as multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.
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| | Petapeer Holdings announces first revenue generation
Petapeer Holdings, a developer of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, has transitioned from start-up phase and has recorded its first revenues from commercial operations. The company reported that it has begun to generate advertising revenues from its Web site, which offers its popular Gnotella software for download. |
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| | New Access Grid node
A new Access Grid node to be installed at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami will serve as the first node in a testbed for US Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). The testbed will give MSIs the chance to use the Access Grid and its resources and to become contributing members of the Access Grid research community as it spreads throughout the world.
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| | Division of InStep Software gives large energy users powerful tools to cut energy costs
At this time of widely fluctuating energy costs and an uncertain economy, large energy users are
seeking new ways to monitor and control all enterprise-wide energy and water-related expenses. To address this demand, Industrial Peer-to-Peer (Ip2) LLC introduced a new solution for Enterprise Energy Management, based on its proven eDNA process historian. |
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| | FAST announces real-time information retrieval for large data volumes
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time
filter technologies that power the information-on-demand economy, today
announced the launch of FAST Data Search, the first customizable software
solution designed specifically to tackle the real-time data-intensive search and
information retrieval challenges of large-scale enterprises. Target markets
include e-businesses, financial services, healthcare, government, retail,
travel, and other markets that have high query/data volumes and need large
amounts of historical transaction and corporate data online. |
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| | Platform continues to post profit
Platform Computing announced record revenue for
fiscal year 2001 ended July 31, 2001. Total revenue grew by 34% to US$46.2
million, marking the company's ninth consecutive fiscal year of profitable
growth. |
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| | Sun Microsystems reports first quarter results
Sun Microsystems reported results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2002 which ended September 30, 2001. Revenues for the first quarter were $2.861 billion, a year-over-year decrease of 43 percent. |
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| | Avaki to raise new funds for promotion of grid technology
Avaki Corporation, a developer of grid software to enable resource sharing across large-scale, highly distributed computer networks, today announced a $10 million second closing of its series A financing by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Sofinnova. This brings the overall company investment to $16 million, led by Polaris Venture Partners. AVAKI closed the first round of $6 million in June 2001. |
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| | Avaki first to converge compute and data grids in new software solution
On the heels of closing $16 million in funding from Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Sofinnova, Avaki Corporation today announced charter availability of AVAKI 2.0, the first commercial grid software solution providing highly secure, virtualised access to data and compute resources in wide-area, multi-platform environments. |
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| | ApoCom Genomics' GrailEXP Software supports BSML standard for data exchange
ApoCom Genomics' powerful GrailEXP gene prediction software will support the BSML data format, the widely accepted open XML standard for exchange and integration of bioinformatics data. The use of BSML makes the enhanced gene identification technology of ApoCom's GrailEXP immediately interoperable with all other systems that use BSML. |
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| | Vertex Pharmaceuticals reports third quarter 2001 financial results
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated reported consolidated financial results today for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2001.
Vertex also installed a new supercomputer cluster, one of the most powerful in the world dedicated to in silico drug design applications. The new cluster represents a key component of the technology infrastructure that is expected to accelerate productivity in Vertex's gene family-based drug discovery research.
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| | Genomics Guru Dr. J. Craig Venter to deliver keynote at SC2001
No arena in contemporary medical science holds more potential for revolutionary approaches to preventing and curing human disease than genomics. And no tool in genomics is more crucial to its researchers than high-performance computing. |
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| | Korea's' Posdata develops high-performance supercomputer
Posdata Co. has developed a massive high-performance parallel supercomputer in conjunction with IBM Korea and Linuxone Co., with 160 units of IBM x Series Server 330.
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| | Firstlogic and Torrent systems collaborate on information quality processing with unlimited scalability
Firstlogic and Torrent Systems will extend their
strategic partnership and make available a powerful solution
that will enable customers to perform sophisticated information quality
processing on massive data volumes. |
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| | SURFnet connection to US to use Global Crossing VPN
The Dutch national research network SURFnet will use the newly announced ExpressRoute IP VPN service from Global Crossing for the direct connection between its POP in Amsterdam and the StarLight research facility in Chicago in the USA. The connection will run through Global Crossing?s high-speed fiber optic backbone.
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