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Contents
December 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | IBM and US Department of Energy's NNSA partner to expand IBM's Blue Gene Research Project
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| | Cornell Computer Graphics Technology could aid glaucoma patients
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| | Eastern Ontario high performance computing virtual laboratory becomes Sun Center of Excellence
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| | Supercomputer simulations provide details of formation of first star in universe
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| | Raytheon awarded $9.5 million to create a modelling and simulation capability
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| | SGI Reality Center technology powers new University of Colorado visualisation facility
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| | GeneProt's new U.S. proteomics facility to be equipped with UltraFlex TOF/TOF systems
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| | SGI Federal, U.S. Air Force Space Warfare Center sign Co-operative Research and Development agreement
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| | Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum orders NEC SX-6
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| | Block Lecture Scientific Supercomputing in Karlsruhe
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| | Cisco powers industry's first native IPv6 Internet service in Europe
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Draft of OpenMP C/C++ 2.0 specification released for public comments
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| | ANSYS Inc. partners with SimUtility Inc. on the ANSYS e-CAE solution
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| | Biotechnology visionaries champion and challenge proteomics-based drug discovery
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| | MaXware announces UNIX availability for its Metadirectory and Virtual Directory products
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| | DELMIA delivers the first 3d PLM integrated solution for digital manufacturing
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| | Alliance SC 2001 booth to feature interactive weather modelling
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| | NAG launches Data Mining Components to speed up data modelling processes
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| | SGI 1,024-processor and 512-processor supercomputersat NASA
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| | Research@Indiana displays research in science, engineering, medicine, the arts and informatics
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| | Etnus and Unlimited Scale announce TotalView as the debugger for unlimited Linux
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| | University of Alabama at Birmingham Heart Lab selects PV-WAVE as data visualisation solution
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| | Etnus' Totalview supports Sun's 64-bit architecture and parallel computer environment
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| | HP's Superdome server winning orders from key businesses
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| | IBM eServer Cluster for Linux and UNIX provides ready-made, ultra-scalable solutions
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| | Meteorologists to get TFlop/s sustained performance by 2004
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| | Euro-Par 2002 issues first call for papers
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| | Visual Numerics announces TS-WAVE V3.0
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| | Computer Motion awarded $2 million to advance surgical robotics in telemedicine
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| | IBM and Proteome Systems In Strategic Alliance to Advance Protein Research
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| | MDM Group Inc. closes joint venture with Adapt Systems Corporation to deliver new procession technology
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| | NIMA's National Information Library relies on commercial off-the-shelf SGI Origin 2000 Server Technology
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Cray third quarter 2001 results
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| | Dell and Scali join forces in the HPC arena
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| | Cray Inc. receives $8 million in new financing
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| | IBM supercomputers tabbed by agencies
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| | Cray and the Ohio Supercomputer Center will collaborate to assess technologies for Cray SV2 supercomputer
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| | Cray previews New Technologies for Cray SV2
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| | Dolphin announces WulfKit 3 high-performance parallel computing solution
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| | Star Bridge Systems debuts Hypercomputers at SC2001
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| | International Data Corporation (IDC) launches Balanced Rating HPC benchmark
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| | SGI announces several supercomputer sales in Europe
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| | Suns sells most RISC/UNIX servers
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| | Dataram announces memory upgrades for Compaq AlphaServer ES45 and SC45 supercomputers
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| Industry
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| | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory powers new particle discovery with Linux NetworX cluster supercomputer System
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| | Magic Earth announces leading software on Linux
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| | Linux to dominate high performance computing in less than three years
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| | SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC
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| | Fujitsu Siemens Computers supports SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 on PRIMERGY series
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| | Scali wins contract with deCODE Genetics
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| | GROMACS computational chemistry on Scali clusters
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| | German IBM users founded a Linux working group
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Globus Project to make major announcement on Grid Computing at SC2001 Supercomputing Conference
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| | The Grid leaving pioneer phase - Platform brings Globus to industrial users
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| | Telescience for advanced tomography applications
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| | Sun Microsystems "powers the Grid" at Supercomputing 2001
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| | Global Grid Forum Birds-of-a-Feather on Wednesday, 14 November at SC 2001
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| | CERN Council gives go ahead LHC Computing Grid project
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| | NSF announces $13.65 million award to establish International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
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| | UK Grid Starter Kit to include SDSC Storage Resource Broker
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| | AVAKI and Sun to collaborate on leevel of providing a Global Grid Infrastructure
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| | New COO at Avaki
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| | Gobus on IBM supercomputer
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| | IBM to deliver pre-packaged Linux clusters for e-Business
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| | Sun, EPCC and the London e-science center at Imperial College support the advancement of e-science through development of grid and HPC technologies
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| | SGI, NCSA and Cambridge demonstrate remote collaborative visualization At Supercomputing 2001
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| | United Devices and Accelrys form strategic partnership
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| | University of Houston leverages Sun Grid Computing for environmental modelling and seismic imaging
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| | MCNC and IBM to collaborate on first-of-a-kind Computer Grid for life sciences
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| | Compaq announces Grid Computing Programme aligns with Platform for Grid-enabled solutions
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| | Genias Benelux launches G-VMP Standard - Set up your magazine or newsletter in 30 minutes
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| | $10 million NSF grant to fund National Virtual Observatory
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| | CSC publishes report on Assessment of Grid technology
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| | Compaq supports the Scalable Cluster Environment (SCE) the free open source software for clusters
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| | ParTec offers faster ParaStation 3 for Clustering
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| | Platform Computing announces integrated distributed computing solution for life sciences industry
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| | Supercomputing Workshop for Oil & Gas problems and research organised in Bologna
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| | United Devices improves application support for ISVs and customers
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| | TeraGrid demos, In-a-Box software and Cambridge Collaboration featured at SC 2001
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| | Frost & Sullivan awards Platform Computing for distributed computing leadership
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| | Abattia raises GBP1/2 million to accelerate development of interactive peer-to-peer and community relationship management software
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| | ITEC-Ohio, ADEC to test new fast satellite technologies for use in remote areas
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| | TeraGrid, telescience, grid portals, and visualisation tools at NPACI SC2001 booth
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| | Fifty P2PWG companies share best practices at O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference
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| | Renowned Life Sciences specialist Yury Rozenman joins Platform Computing
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| | LuxN to demonstrate WavSystem Platform at SC2001
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Cray ranks high on Top500 processor speed test
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| | NCSA Titan Cluster is the fastest Itanium based supercomputer in the world
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| | CTC Dell Windows 2000 Cluster among Top 500 fastest computers in the world
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| | 18th Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released
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| | Europe gains on USA in TOP500
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| | Primeur/EnterTheGrid provides background on the TOP500 industry - publishes TOP500 list in XML
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| | HP Superdome does well in TPC and TOP500 benchmark lists
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| Networking
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| | Spirent Communications verifies 10GbE performance in Xnet TeraGrid demo at Supercomputing Conference 2001
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| | ONI systems powers the SC2001 Global Infrastructure Backbone
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Leads
December 2001
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| Atlantic
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| | IBM and US Department of Energy's NNSA partner to expand IBM's Blue Gene Research Project
IBM and the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Agency will expand IBM's Blue Gene research project. IBM and NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will jointly design a new supercomputer in the Blue Gene family. Called Blue Gene/L, the machine will be at least 15 times faster, 15 times more power efficient and consume about 50 times less space per computation than today's fastest supercomputers.
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| | Cornell Computer Graphics Technology could aid glaucoma patients
A computer graphics project at Cornell University could lead to an improved quality of life for people with visual disorders classified as "low vision". James Ferwerda, a research associate in the Cornell Programme of Computer Graphics, is developing computer simulations of the ways in which people with several kinds of low vision see the world. Working backward from these computer models, he plans to process images of the real world into forms that low-vision sufferers can more easily comprehend. The work is funded by a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Information Technology Research programme. |
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| | Eastern Ontario high performance computing virtual laboratory becomes Sun Center of Excellence
The High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) has been selected as a Sun Center of
Excellence in Secure Grid and Portal Computing. HPCVL was formed by four Eastern Ontario universities: Carleton University, Queen's University, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the University of Ottawa. HPCVL is dedicated to providing a secure high performance
computing (HPC) environment for researchers. |
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| | Supercomputer simulations provide details of formation of first star in universe
New cosmological simulations performed on a supercomputer have provided astrophysicists with the
best indication to date of how the first star in the universe formed. The simulations, detailed in a paper in the November 16 issue of Science, suggest that the first star resulted from the gravitational collapse of a cloud of hydrogen and helium some 100 times more massive than the sun. |
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| | Raytheon awarded $9.5 million to create a modelling and simulation capability
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $9.5 million task order from NASA's Ames Research Center to
create a modelling and simulation capability in support of the National Airspace System (NAS), wide analyses of Advanced Air Traffic Management tools and concepts. The contract task order was awarded under NASA's Air Traffic Management System Development and Integration (ATMSDI) contract. |
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| | SGI Reality Center technology powers new University of Colorado visualisation facility
The BP Center for Visualisation, offering advanced visualisation capabilities for a variety of business and research sectors, has chosen SGI technologies to power its state-of-the-art facilities. The centre, recently opened at the University of Colorado at Boulder and made
possible through a $10.6 million gift from BP last autumn, features an Immersive Visualisation Environment (IVE), consisting of a 12x12x10-foot screened space.
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| | GeneProt's new U.S. proteomics facility to be equipped with UltraFlex TOF/TOF systems
GeneProt Inc. and Bruker Daltonics Inc. signed an agreement to deploy novel MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry technology at GeneProt's new U.S. proteomics facility in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Under the agreement, GeneProt will initially purchase a total of six UltraFlex TOF/TOF systems for its U.S. facility and an additional UltraFlex TOF/TOF system for its European proteomics discovery and production centre. GeneProt's U.S. facility is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2002.
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| | SGI Federal, U.S. Air Force Space Warfare Center sign Co-operative Research and Development agreement
SGI Federal, a subsidiary of SGI, has entered into a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force Space Warfare Center for the development, testing and evaluation of selected command and control technologies, decision support systems, and display technologies. |
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| | Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum orders NEC SX-6
NEC did get an order for a state-of-the-art vector supercomputer system from German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH), Germany. The system to be installed is an SX-6/192M24 with a maximum vector performance of 1.5 Tflop/s and 1.5 Tbyte of memory.
This is going to be the largest dedicated system usedfor earth system research in Europe, and also the largest among NEC's vector supercomputers world-wide. |
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| | Block Lecture Scientific Supercomputing in Karlsruhe
The University of Karlsruhe organises a Block Lecture Scientific Supercomputing in February 2002. The lectures are in English and also open to people outside of Karlsruhe. |
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| | Cisco powers industry's first native IPv6 Internet service in Europe
SURFnet, the national research network organisation in the Netherlands, is now delivering
native IPv6 Internet service on its advanced Next Generation broadband network. SURFnet has combined the Cisco IOS IPv6 solution and Cisco 12416 Internet Routers to deliver dual stack networks for their customers; with IPv4 and IPv6 running in dual stack deployment, a SURFnet5 customer can run one or both protocols simultaneously.
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Draft of OpenMP C/C++ 2.0 specification released for public comments
The draft of OpenMP C/C++ version 2.0 is now available for public comment. This was announced at the SuperComputing 2001 Event in Denver. A Birds of a Feather (BoF) OpenMP session will be organised on Tuesday, 13th November to have interested Conference attendees find out more about the work of the OpenMP ARB and compunity, and to participate in a discussion with the vendors on the future development of OpenMP. |
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| | ANSYS Inc. partners with SimUtility Inc. on the ANSYS e-CAE solution
ANSYS Inc., an innovator of simulation software and technologies aimed at optimising the product development process, has closed a strategic partnership with SimUtility Inc., the premier Application Service Provider (ASP) of scientific and engineering software. This partnership with SimUtility Inc. supports e-CAE, the new web-based simulation solution from ANSYS Inc.
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| | Biotechnology visionaries champion and challenge proteomics-based drug discovery
Experts representing the fields of biotechnology, financial services, information technology, science and medicine gathered to explore the early successes and ongoing challenges in proteomics-based drug discovery. A blue ribbon panel moderated by Dr. Eric Lander, Director Whitehead Centre Genomics Research explored immediate and long-term effects proteomics had. The panel hosted by MDS Proteomics, a proteomics-based drug discovery company, was held in conjunction with the opening of its new global headquarters and fully operational large-scale proteomics research facility in Toronto. |
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| | MaXware announces UNIX availability for its Metadirectory and Virtual Directory products
MaXware International AS, a provider of technology independent Meta Solutions, has made available the Java based versions of their MaXware Data Synchronization Engine (DSE) and MaXware Virtual Directory (MVD) products. The Java based versions add a new dimension to the award winning MaXware Enterprise Meta Solution concept and makes the market's most flexible Meta Solutions available for any technology environment supporting Java2 Virtual Machines. |
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| | DELMIA delivers the first 3d PLM integrated solution for digital manufacturing
DELMIA Corporation, a Dassault Systèmes company has launched the Version 5 Release 7 (V5R7) of DELMIA Digital Manufacturing Solutions. DELMIA V5R7 is the first release providing complete integration between all DELMIA software applications on top of the Product,
Process and Resource (PPR) model. This unique PPR model, shared across DS' 3d Product Lifecycle Management (3d PLM) applications, ensures the integration between CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA. |
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| | Alliance SC 2001 booth to feature interactive weather modelling
No one can control the weather, but the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) research exhibit at SC2001 will offer the next best thing: an interactive weather modelling demonstration that will allow users to create a virtual storm and examine how it interacts with another storm. |
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| | NAG launches Data Mining Components to speed up data modelling processes
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) launched Data Mining Components - a wide-ranging collection of numerical algorithms designed to aid data mining modelling processes.
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| | SGI 1,024-processor and 512-processor supercomputersat NASA
SGI has recently completed installation of the world's first 1,024-processor SGI Origin 3800 single-system image supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, and a separate 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt. The new SGI Origin 3800 supercomputers are helping NASA to objectively evaluate the effects of natural and human activities on global climate. |
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| | Research@Indiana displays research in science, engineering, medicine, the arts and informatics
Indiana University, which recently acquired the nation's largest and fastest university-owned supercomputer, has just placed 50th on the current list of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. |
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| | Etnus and Unlimited Scale announce TotalView as the debugger for unlimited Linux
Etnus, supplier of debuggers for complex code, and Unlimited Scale, a leading developer of high-performance scalable Linux system software, today announced that the Etnus TotalView debugger will be the chosen debugger for use with Unlimited Linux, the forthcoming highly-scalable Linux-compatible system software product from Unlimited Scale. |
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| | University of Alabama at Birmingham Heart Lab selects PV-WAVE as data visualisation solution
The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory (CRML) has selected
PV-WAVE, developed by Visual Numerics Inc., a developer of data visualisation, numerical analysis and enterprise software solutions, as its data visualisation software. Financial terms of the
contract were not disclosed. |
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| | Etnus' Totalview supports Sun's 64-bit architecture and parallel computer environment
Etnus, a supplier of debuggers for complex code, has entered into an agreement where Sun Microsystems Inc. will support Etnus TotalView advanced debugging capabilities on Sun
platforms, specifically with Sun's full 64-bit architecture, as well as with Sun's Message Passing Interface (MPI), Sun's thread-safe and multiprotocol implementation of the MPI standard for parallel applications. |
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| | HP's Superdome server winning orders from key businesses
Hewlett-Packard Co's Superdome server has been bought by many major businesses and is attracting
interest for defence and intelligence uses, according to chief executive Carly Fiorina.
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| | IBM eServer Cluster for Linux and UNIX provides ready-made, ultra-scalable solutions
IBM introduced the industry's first pre-packaged Linux clusters, providing customers a quick and
easy way to implement Linux solutions for e-business. The IBM eServer Cluster integrates best-of-breed components into a single, easy-to-order and deploy package. |
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| | Meteorologists to get TFlop/s sustained performance by 2004
Some 60 meteorologists and HPC experts from 11 countries and four continents attended the Computing in Atmospheric Sciences, CAS 2001 workshop. This was held at the idyllic Imperial Palace Hotel, overlooking the lake Annecy, France, and organised by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA. This excellent relatively small and friendly workshop provided a tour de force in meteorological and computing techniques by active practitioners striving to use the latest HPC technology to refine and improve their weather forecasting models. Below Chris Lazou highlights a few of the many issues raised by talks given at this workshop. |
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| | Euro-Par 2002 issues first call for papers
Euro-Par 2002 will take place in Paderborn from August 27th to 30th, 2002. Euro-Par is well established as the premier European conference on all aspects of parallel computing. The major themes of the conference can be divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications. |
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| | Visual Numerics announces TS-WAVE V3.0
Visual Numerics released Version 3.0 of TS-WAVE, a product formerly known as INVIZION. With the 3.0 release, TS-WAVE, which was originally developed by Visual Numerics Consulting Services Group at the request of a major air-frame manufacturer, becomes a member of the PV-WAVE product family. This signifies that TS-WAVE is now a full-fledged product with on-going technical support and on-line help. |
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| | Computer Motion awarded $2 million to advance surgical robotics in telemedicine
Computer Motion, a developer of surgical robotic systems, has been awarded a $2,000,000 research and development grant from the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards (NIST), Advanced Technology Programme 2001 competition. Computer Motion selected Dr. Peter Schulam of UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Ranjan Mukherjee of Michigan State University, and Dr. Steven Butner of University of California at Santa Barbara, to collaborate on the development
project that will combine surgical robotic systems with telemedicine to allow expert surgeons to closely guide in-training surgeons through complex minimally invasive surgical procedures.
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| | IBM and Proteome Systems In Strategic Alliance to Advance Protein Research
IBM and Proteome Systems announced a global strategic alliance that paves the way for more advanced scientific studies into proteins' role in preventing, causing and treating diseases. Through the agreement, IBM will provide the information technology (IT) backbone for Proteome Systems' commercial offerings, including its platform for proteome analysis, ProteomIQ. This new discovery platform offers a comprehensive suite of software, instruments and technologies for integrating, analyzing, and managing a full range of protein data, including images and biological samples. |
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| | MDM Group Inc. closes joint venture with Adapt Systems Corporation to deliver new procession technology
MDM Group Inc. has agreed to enter into a joint venture with Adapt Systems Corporation to deliver a cost effective computer technology that enhances processing capacity and speed by more than 20-40 times that of currently available technology.
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| | NIMA's National Information Library relies on commercial off-the-shelf SGI Origin 2000 Server Technology
One of the largest archives of digital imagery in the world, managed by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community, is powered by SGI Origin 2000 server technology. Launched in July 2000, NIMA's National Information Library (NIL) will eventually store five years of digital imagery and archive 25 million images requiring 6600TB of storage. The NIL relies almost exclusively on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software, including SGI Origin 2000 server technology.
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| | Cray third quarter 2001 results
Supercomputer company Cray Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2001. Cray Inc. revenues were $29.4 million, compared with revenues of $33.7 million for the
third quarter of 2000. Net loss for the quarter was $7.7 million. |
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| | Dell and Scali join forces in the HPC arena
Dell and Scali are establishing a partnership to bring the performance of Scali's clustering technologies to Dell's customers. Using 32 Dell PowerEdge 1550 in TeraRack solutions this easily packs 80 Gflop/s peak performance and 7 TByte of storage in a 42U rack.
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| | Cray Inc. receives $8 million in new financing
Cray Inc. has raised $8.0 million from institutional investors in the form of convertible subordinated debentures and common stock purchase warrants. |
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| | IBM supercomputers tabbed by agencies
IBM Corporation, which attracts a variety of major organisations for its souped up computer systems, said the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) agreed to help it expand its "Blue Gene" research project. Big Blue has also been picked by the The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to help it stay on top of climate changes. |
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| | Cray and the Ohio Supercomputer Center will collaborate to assess technologies for Cray SV2 supercomputer
Cray inked an agreement with OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Columbus, Ohio, to collaborate on assessing technologies for what is expected to be the world's most powerful supercomputer product. As part of the 14-month agreement, OSC will help Cray evaluate several I/O node technologies and data archiving tools under consideration for the Cray SV2 product due out in the second half of 2002. |
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| | Cray previews New Technologies for Cray SV2
Cray previewed technologies for the Cray SV2 Series, the company expects to be the world's most powerful supercomputer product. On schedule for availability in the second half of 2002, the Cray SV2 Series promises to dramatically extend the capabilities of supercomputers and contribute to advances in areas such as automotive design, aerospace engineering, weather and climate prediction, and academic research. The technology preview opened today and continues this week at SC2001, the annual conference of the high-performance computing industry. |
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| | Dolphin announces WulfKit 3 high-performance parallel computing solution
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions unveiled the new WulfKit 3 parallel computing clustering solution at the SuperComputing 2001 show in Denver. WulfKit 3 extends the high-performance legacy established by the WulfKit interconnect and Scali MPI software into the realm of a three-dimensional torus switching topology. Super clusters built on the three-dimensional torus architecture offer super scalability and superior parallel computing performance. |
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| | Star Bridge Systems debuts Hypercomputers at SC2001
Salt Lake City based Star Bridge Systems unveiled its reconfigurable HAL-15 Hypercomputer this week at SuperComputer 2001 in Denver. The unique combination of hardware and software is the first inherently parallel computing system with advantages in all performance categories, including
speed, size, cost, power efficiency, design time and programmability. Star Bridge has patents pending covering both hardware and software aspects of the system. |
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| | International Data Corporation (IDC) launches Balanced Rating HPC benchmark
What is wrong with using peak performance? HPC computer users have expressed a concern about using peak performance and peakrelated benchmarks in comparing computers. IDC considers peak
performance as an ineffective and essentially outdated metric for comparing computers. It fails to account for overall system attributes that contribute to true delivered performance: memory
bandwidth, latency, system balance, scalability, I/O, etc. The new Balanced Rating benchmark addresses many of the limitations with using only peakrelated processor benchmarks for comparing HPC computers. |
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| | SGI announces several supercomputer sales in Europe
SGI reported significant sales
of its SGI Origin family servers within Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
in the recently completed quarter. Origon 3400 servers were sold to, MTU Aero Engines of Germany and ALSTOM Power Sweden AB. The National University of Ireland, Galway, Biomedical Engineering
Science Centre, did buy an Origin 3800.
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| | Suns sells most RISC/UNIX servers
Sun
announced that it once again holds the number one position in the RISC/UNIX
server market world wide. According to 3Q01 Dataquest numbers, Sun's 55
percent market share in shipments is more than that of its nearest three
competitors combined. Furthermore, with nearly $1.5 billion in revenue, Sun
has significantly outpaced its competitors in market share revenue gain, the company claims. |
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| | Dataram announces memory upgrades for Compaq AlphaServer ES45 and SC45 supercomputers
Dataram Corporation is the first independent memory manufacturer to deliver upgrades for Compaq's new AlphaServer ES45 and AlphaServer SC45 systems.
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| | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory powers new particle discovery with Linux NetworX cluster supercomputer System
Scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) are using a Linux NetworX cluster supercomputer to help identify new particles as part of a worldwide scientific collaboration to find subatomic clues to reveal the building blocks of the universe. |
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| | Magic Earth announces leading software on Linux
Magic Earth plans to offer the company's revolutionary visualisation and interpretation
application, GeoProbe, on the desktop Linux operating system. The new application, GeoProbe 2.6, will be supported on selected models of the IBM IntelliStation running Linux, and will include the full suite of functionalities and tools available in the current GeoProbe release, as well as
new features and enhancements.
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| | Linux to dominate high performance computing in less than three years
In an InSight released today, Aberdeen Group, a market analysis and positioning services firm, states that Linux will dominate most segments of high performance computing (HPC) by 2004.
This research is a result of Aberdeen's Linux and Open Source Software practice, which covers emerging and established Linux hardware and software suppliers.
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| | SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC
SuSE released SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition. SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition comes with 8 CDs containing a Linux operating system and more than 2,000 applications. SuSE also announced the release of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for S/390. Based on kernel 2.4, this SuSE server version now supports S/390 servers as well as IBM eServer zSeries z900. |
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| | Fujitsu Siemens Computers supports SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 on PRIMERGY series
Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced
that the new operating system "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA-32"
is supported on their PRIMERGY server for Business Critical Computing.
This platform is regarded as very stable and therefore ideally suited for
small and medium sized enterprises. |
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| | Scali wins contract with deCODE Genetics
Scali has installed the first Scali Universe cluster management software for a 26-node Linux cluster for deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland. The cluster consists of 26 Dell 1550 rack mounted compute nodes equipped with dual 1GHz Pentium III processors, and is delivered in co-operation with local Dell representative EJS. |
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| | GROMACS computational chemistry on Scali clusters
GROMACS is a package to perform molecular dynamics that simulates the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles. It is primarily designed for biochemical molecules like proteins and lipids that have a lot of complicated bonded interactions, but since GROMACS is extremely fast at calculating the non-bonded interactions, which usually dominate simulations, many groups are also using it for research on non-biological systems, such aspolymers.
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| | German IBM users founded a Linux working group
Guide Share Europe (GSE), the IBM
Users Group, has about 1500 enterprises as members, about 550 in
Germany. In Germany there exist 60 working groups. As the
members wanted a Linux working group, an opening workshop was
organised in Stuttgart. More than the organisers expected, about
160 participants discussed their experiences in Linux and
elected the chair and the vice chairs. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Globus Project to make major announcement on Grid Computing at SC2001 Supercomputing Conference
The Globus Project will announce new alliances with major American and Japanese companies for its Globus Tookit, an open source approach to grid computing created by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and Argonne National Laboratory in conjunction with the University of Chicago.
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| | The Grid leaving pioneer phase - Platform brings Globus to industrial users
The Grid is very popular amongst technology enthusiasts and for use in scientific environments. In industry, the use is still rather low, apart from some proven technologies in sub-areas like cluster and resource management software. Platform has taken on the challenge to bring one of the main Grid middleware building blocks, the Globus Toolkit, to the mainstream industrial and commercial market. |
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| | Telescience for advanced tomography applications
The smallest components of nerve cells can reveal fundamental insights into how the brain and nervous system work. To study these tiny structures in their natural environment requires access to extremely scarce advanced imaging instruments and powerful computer resources. The Telescience alpha project is creating a set of tools to allow researchers to go seamlessly through the steps required to create images on a remote high energy microscope, use sophisticated software programmes to compute the 3D structures called electron tomographic volumes and deposit the most useful representations of these results into a database forming a library of computerised cell-level brain structures. As a result of this work, scientists and students in any location, using a reasonable network connection and a modern Web browser, will be able to harness these advanced capabilities. |
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| | Sun Microsystems "powers the Grid" at Supercomputing 2001
Sun Microsystems Inc. is deploying the technology that powers enterprise grids. At the Supercomputing 2001 Conference, Sun showcases its momentum in high-performance computing with expert-led discussions and demonstrations of its cluster, campus and global grids. Sun displays the "Grid Wall", with five demonstrations of the company's Grid Computing solutions,
including the beta release of Sun's Grid Engine software, Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition.
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| | Global Grid Forum Birds-of-a-Feather on Wednesday, 14 November at SC 2001
Charlie Catlett, Global Grid Forum Chair, will lead an international Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) as part of the SC Global Inaugural Voyage during SC01 in Denver, 12-17 November 2001.
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| | CERN Council gives go ahead LHC Computing Grid project
The first phase of the LHC Computing Grid project was approved at an extraordinary meeting of the CERN Council on 20 September 2001. CERN is preparing for the unprecedented avalanche of data that
will be produced by the multinational experiments at its new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful device of its kind ever built. |
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| | NSF announces $13.65 million award to establish International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
The National Science Foundation announced on September 25, 2001 that it is awarding $13.65 million over five years to a consortium of 15 universities and four national laboratories to create the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL). The iVDGL, to be constructed in partnership with the European Union, Japan, Australia and later other world regions, will form the world's
first true "global Grid," providing an integrated computational resource for major scientific experiments in physics, astronomy, biology, and engineering. The iVDGL will serve as a unique resource for scientific applications requiring access to Petabytes of data (1 Petabyte = 1 million Gigabytes) and beyond. |
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| | UK Grid Starter Kit to include SDSC Storage Resource Broker
The UK data grid architecture will include San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC)
data management tool, the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) as a core component. The SRB is
included on a CD-ROM with the Grid Starter Kit being distributed to the UK
academic community. Because of the size of the deployment, a UK Grid Support
Centre will provide support for SRB users in the UK.
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| | AVAKI and Sun to collaborate on leevel of providing a Global Grid Infrastructure
Sun and Avaki Corporation, announced a joint effort to further the
advancement of their grid technologies to accelerate the adoption of
grid computing in enterprises worldwide. The parties will focus on
extending the existing interfaces between Sun's distributed resource
management software, Grid Engine 5.2.3, and AVAKI 2.0, to allow
enterprise customers deploying cluster grids to enjoy the full benefits
of the grid computing model. As users are able to increase productivity
through more efficient job handling and CPU utilization, they also gain
secure, virtualized access to data and compute resources in wide-area,
multi-platform environments, as a result of tried and tested
best-of-breed Sun and AVAKI solutions. |
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| | New COO at Avaki
Avaki
Corporation has appointed
Tim Yeaton as the company's Chief Operating Officer. |
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| | Gobus on IBM supercomputer
IBM released the Globus Toolkit for IBM eServer systems. Available across a range of IBM eServer systems running AIX and Linux, the Globus Toolkit is the middleware that joins large numbers of disparate servers into huge mega-computers. Using this software, application developers create computer Grids and Grid-based applications. Availability of the Toolkit on AIX means Grid builders can take advantage of the operating system's advanced scalability and high-availability features.
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| | IBM to deliver pre-packaged Linux clusters for e-Business
IBM introduced pre-packaged Linux clusters, providing customers a quick and easy way to implement Linux solutions for e-business. The IBM eServer Cluster integrates best-of-breed components into a single, easy-to-order and deploy package. |
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| | Sun, EPCC and the London e-science center at Imperial College support the advancement of e-science through development of grid and HPC technologies
Sun Microsystems Inc., and EPCC (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center) of the University of Edinburgh - recently named a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) - today announced their official alliance supporting EPCC's lead role within the UK National e-Science Center and the e-Science Program. As part of the alliance, the Edinburgh COE for Parallel and Distributed Computing will be used to develop Grid and High Performance Computing (HPC) methods and applications, and to integrate them with science and business portals. Sun also has named the London e-Science Center (LeSC) at Imperial College - a UK Regional e-Science Center - as a Sun Center of Excellence in e-Science. |
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| | SGI, NCSA and Cambridge demonstrate remote collaborative visualization At Supercomputing 2001
SGI announced today at Supercomputing 2001, that the US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Cosmology Laboratory at Cambridge University are demonstrating the power of collaborative visualization grid technologies using SGI Origin and SGI Onyx family systems. |
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| | United Devices and Accelrys form strategic partnership
United Devices has formed a strategic partnership with Accelrys to combine Accelrys' life science software applications with United Devices'
MetaProcessor platform to enable pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agrochemical customers to tap the idle computing capacity of their networked PCs, dramatically increasing research and development capabilities.
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| | University of Houston leverages Sun Grid Computing for environmental modelling and seismic imaging
Sun Microsystems Inc. has selected the University of Houston as the site for creating the first Campus Grid environment focusing on Geoscience application developments. The project, led by a team from the University of Houston's Computer Science Department, will enhance the Grid
environment to improve job submission and execution, and will use the Grid for research in air quality modelling and seismic processing and imaging. |
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| | MCNC and IBM to collaborate on first-of-a-kind Computer Grid for life sciences
MCNC and IBM have signed an alliance to collaborate on one of the nation's first computer
Grids to offer computing, data storage and networking resources for life sciences research. The new Grid system will be accessible to thousands of researchers and educators throughout North Carolina to help accelerate the pace of genomic research that could lead to new medicines to combat diseases and more nutritious foods to feed the world's population.
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| | Compaq announces Grid Computing Programme aligns with Platform for Grid-enabled solutions
Compaq Computer Corporation has launched a worldwide Grid Computing Solutions Programme which
will provide customers with Grid software, computer systems, and custom installation and support services to enable users to share computing, storage, data, software and other resources. |
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| | Genias Benelux launches G-VMP Standard - Set up your magazine or newsletter in 30 minutes
Genias Benelux has released the Standard Edition of its popular XML-based G-VMP Virtual Media Publisher system for editing and managing magazines and newsletters. G-VMP Standard is the first affordable content management system of its kind. Up to now, you had to pay over 25.000 euro for such a system. G-VMP Standard Edition sells for 250 euro, bringing it in the range of everyone who needs to publish a magazine or newsletter. |
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| | $10 million NSF grant to fund National Virtual Observatory
The Internet brings its users the world on-line. Astronomers from 17 research institutions have announced that they are starting an ambitious new project to put the universe on-line. The National Virtual Observatory (NVO), headed by astronomer Alex Szalay of The Johns Hopkins University and computer scientist Paul Messina of the California Institute of Technology, will unite astronomical databases of many earthbound and orbital observatories, taking advantage of the latest computer technology and data storage and analysis techniques. |
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| | CSC publishes report on Assessment of Grid technology
The Finnish supercomputer centre, CSC, has published a report with an assessment of Grid Technologies. It gives a good overview of technologies and projects. The report also recommends Finland to start- up grid projects to develop different application fields and technologies. |
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| | Compaq supports the Scalable Cluster Environment (SCE) the free open source software for clusters
Compaq presented basics of the toolkit SCE.
This project was realized by the Parallel Research Group of
Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, sponsored by Compaq.
SCE is a set of inter operable open source tools, which helps
users to build, use and operate Beowulf clusters effectively.
The set consists high availability support for Beowulf cluster,
web and VRML based system monitoring and navigation tool for
large scale cluster, a middleware layer with programming
extension in cluster environment, cluster system management,
batch scheduling, and a Beowulf builder. The team plans to
develop a simple kernel-level checkpoint for Linux, and a low
latency network protocol for Myrinet network. |
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| | ParTec offers faster ParaStation 3 for Clustering
The spin-off from the Computer Science
Department of the University Karlsruhe, ParTec, moved in the
meantime to Munich. Here they announced the successor of version
2, ParaStation 3. It was newly developed from scratch and is a
combination of cluster management and fast communication
software. The performance gain - only in Software by ParaStation
3 - by 10% improved the Rmax of the Linpack benchmark of the
Alice Alpha cluster at University Wuppertal. It led Alice to
rank 369, without it the cluster would fell down to rank 455 in
the actual Top500 list - November 2001. |
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| | Platform Computing announces integrated distributed computing solution for life sciences industry
Platform Computing announced a suite of integrated software solutions for the life sciences industry. This will enable research institutions and pharmaceutical companies organisations to create virtual supercomputers and harness enterprise-wide compute power to accelerate the speed and quality of research while decreasing costs.
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| | Supercomputing Workshop for Oil & Gas problems and research organised in Bologna
CINECA High Performance Systems Division, in co-operation with ENI-Agip Division and the National
Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) in Trieste, organises the workshop "Supercomputing - Oil & Gas: problems, research, tools in the HPC field", on November 13-14, 2001 at CINECA, Bologna, Italy.
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| | United Devices improves application support for ISVs and customers
United Devices has released its next generation MetaProcessor platform, version 2.1. Geared for the enterprise, the MetaProcessor platform is designed to harness idle PC resources on a corporate network to accelerate mission critical research and business applications. |
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| | TeraGrid demos, In-a-Box software and Cambridge Collaboration featured at SC 2001
Visitors to the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) research exhibit at SC2001 will witness demonstrations of science on a prototype of the TeraGrid, which will be the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research when deployed next year. |
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| | Frost & Sullivan awards Platform Computing for distributed computing leadership
Frost & Sullivan has presented Platform Computing Inc. with its distinguished 2001 Market
Engineering Leadership Award, based on its study titled "The European Market for P2P Enterprise Solutions: Opportunities, Approaches and Issues."
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| | Abattia raises GBP1/2 million to accelerate development of interactive peer-to-peer and community relationship management software
Abattia Group Limited, a UK-based specialist in Membership Relationship Management (MRM), has raised GBP1/2 million in second round funding from new investors and existing shareholders. |
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| | ITEC-Ohio, ADEC to test new fast satellite technologies for use in remote areas
The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center of Ohio (ITEC-Ohio), and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), have announced collaborative efforts to develop and deploy new technologies over satellite networks that are being used to provide distance education programming to under served and rural areas of the United States. ADEC is a national consortium of 60 state and land grant institutions providing economic and distance education programs and services via Internet satellite links |
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| | TeraGrid, telescience, grid portals, and visualisation tools at NPACI SC2001 booth
The research exhibit for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) at the SC2001 exhibition will feature applications and technologies that will fuel future accomplishments in fields, ranging from astrophysics to proteomics. Partners will demonstrate the
latest NPACI innovations: personalised grid portals, extreme data storage software, large-scale interactive visualisation tools, global network monitoring, and educational programmes. Along with an extensive line-up of demos, presentations, and posters, the NPACI exhibit will house a glimpse into the future of grid computing, a prototype data-intensive TeraGrid node. |
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| | Fifty P2PWG companies share best practices at O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference
The Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), created for the advancement and interoperability of
peer-to-peer computing, is sponsoring a "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) meeting on November 5th, at the second O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference. |
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| | Renowned Life Sciences specialist Yury Rozenman joins Platform Computing
Platform Computing has appointed Yury Rozenman as Life Sciences business development manager. With more than 13 years of scientific and bioinformatics experience, Mr. Rozenman was mostly recently Senior Vice President of Supercomputing and Bioinformatics at Juno Online Services, where he was responsible for distributed computing infrastructure development, business development and sales strategy for the Virtual Supercomputing Project.
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| | LuxN to demonstrate WavSystem Platform at SC2001
LuxN Inc., a provider of carrier-class protocol independent optical transport solutions for
metropolitan service providers will demonstrate the capabilities of its optical WavSystem platform at the Super Computer (SC) 2001 conference in Denver on November 10-16. At SC2001, LuxN's WavSystem will support the infrastructure, called TeraGrid, behind the world's first multi-site supercomputing system, the Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF). |
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| | Cray ranks high on Top500 processor speed test
Cray said its supercomputers again were among the largest and fastest in the latest independent list of the world's "Top500 Supercomputer Sites", which ranks supercomputer systems according to their theoretical processor speeds.
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| | NCSA Titan Cluster is the fastest Itanium based supercomputer in the world
The first Itanium Linux cluster to be
deployed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at
the University of Illinois is also the world's fastest Itanium cluster,
according to latest edition of the Top 500 Supercomputers list.
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| | CTC Dell Windows 2000 Cluster among Top 500 fastest computers in the world
The most recent addition to the Cornell Theory Center's (CTC) production computing systems, a 256-processor Dell PowerEdge cluster operating Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, is ranked as one of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The Dell system achieved 120.67 gigaflops over 252 1Ghz Intel processors running the Linpack benchmark.
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| | 18th Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released
In what has become a much-anticipated event in the world of high-performance computing, the 18th edition of the "TOP500" list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released today (November 9, 2001). The latest edition of the twice-yearly ranking finds IBM as the leader in the field, with 32 percent in terms of installed systems and 37 percent in terms of total performance of all the installed systems. In a surprise move Hewlett-Packard captured the second place with 30 percent of the systems. Most of these systems are smaller in size and as a consequence HP's share of installed performance is smaller with 15 percent. This is still enough for second place in this category. SGI, Cray and Sun follow in the number of TOP500 systems with 41 (8 percent), 39 (8 percent), and 31 (6 percent) respectively. In the category of installed performance Cray Inc. keeps the third position with 11 percent ahead of SGI (8 percent) and Compaq (8 percent).
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| | Europe gains on USA in TOP500
In the new TOP500 list of the worlds most powerful supercomputers, Europe is gaining on the USA.
No longer are the majority of the world's supercomputers located in the USA/Canada. In the newly released November 2001 edition, the USA/Canada have 242 entries (48,4%), down from 263 six months ago. From these 242 machines, 231 are in the USA, 11 in Canada. The number of machines in Europe increased from 160 to 162 (32.4%). Also Japan gained: from 54 to 56 machines (11.2%) in the TOP500. |
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| | Primeur/EnterTheGrid provides background on the TOP500 industry - publishes TOP500 list in XML
Primeur/EnterTheGrid provides, as a complementary service, the TOP500 in XML. The lists form the past years are available and can be used for instance in analysis or reporting using standard XML tools such as XSLT. This as an add-on to the official TOP500 web site and reports provided by the list compilers. EnterTheGrid, also houses the largest catalogue of providers and projects in the industry, providing a good starting point for starting research in the area. Primeur/EnterTheGrid provides supercomputing and Grid news each week to its subscribers. |
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| | HP Superdome does well in TPC and TOP500 benchmark lists
HP announces breakthrough performance, growth and customer acceptance for HP Superdome Servers - Flagship server outstrips competitors with new TPC-C benchmark, price decreases and major gains in TOP500 supercomputing sites list. |
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| | Spirent Communications verifies 10GbE performance in Xnet TeraGrid demo at Supercomputing Conference 2001
Spirent Communications is providing its high-performance test equipment for the Xnet technology demonstration at the Supercomputing Conference (SC2001), in Denver. Spirent's award-winning Adtech AX/4000 Broadband Test System with 10GbE WAN interfaces and the SmartBits 6000B, with aggregated Gigabit Ethernet load generating test modules, will be deployed into the Xnet TeraGrid portion of the show network, SCinet. |
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| | ONI systems powers the SC2001 Global Infrastructure Backbone
ONI Systems, provider of optical telecommunications systems for metropolitan and regional markets, announced that the ONLINE transport platform will serve as the intelligent metro DWDM backbone for SCinet, the global infrastructure at SC2001. |
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