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| 15 January 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 442
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The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released IRIS Explorer Release 5.0. This new version enables users to develop customised applications quickly and easily. The 'point and click' application development environment, shortens the time needed to develop and prototype applications that meet their organisation's specific needs. IRIS Explorer's broad range of visualisation techniques from simple graphs to multidimensional animation enable the users to take advantage of the eye's unique ability to discern trends and relationships in data presented visually.
The I EEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2001 in Florence, Italy, 6-10 November 2001, has issued a call-for papers.
European research net work organisation Dante, announced that the interconnection with the American backbone network Abilene has been upgraded by an extra 622 Mbps.
The "2001 international conference on parallel processing" organised by the Ohio State University and the University Politecnica de Valencia has issued a call for papers. The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing.
TheUSA government will ease export restrictions on high-speed supercomputers. It will expand the list of nations to which US companies can ship powerful systems without obtaining prior approval from the Department of Commerce
During the National Demonstration Day for Visualisation and Virtual Reality (VIS), which was organised by the Dutch Platform for High Performance Computing and Networking, the Delft University of Technology (DUT) showcased MISIT, a multi-disciplinary project on Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques. This extensive research programme consists of six separate sub-projects in which several faculties of the DUT are collaborating with a number of hospitals in The Netherlands, as well as the Dutch biomedical industry. The co-ordinating clinical partner in MISIT is the Academic Medical Centre (AMC), based in Amsterdam.
Professor Kevin Warwick, who heads the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, is planning to submit his body to a revolutionary experiment in the summer of 2001. This futurist has decided to have a silicon chip implanted into his left arm where it will be connected to the nervous system, in order to communicate with his brain. The underlying idea of the whole initiative is to analyse brain signals that are associated with motion and pain.
At the occasion of The Netherlands National Computer Facilities Foundation's (NCF) tenth anniversary, an organisation residing under the umbrella of the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), the new Dutch National Supercomputer, a powerful 1024 processor SGI Origin3000, was inaugurated. The NCF celebration also included a conference with a keynote from Dr. Harry Weinans, attached to the Laboratory for Orthopaedics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. The speaker explained the important role of supercomputing power used to simulate the growth of human bone tissue.
Mercury Computer Systems has introduced the RACE++ Series VantageRT 7400 processing system, which promises to compute image and signal-processing algorithms four times faster than its earlier products. The unit combines RACE++, the company's second-generation interconnect architecture, and the performance of the Motorola PowerPC 7400 microprocessor with AltiVec technology to provide high-performance processing systems that scale from two to 32 processors in an industrial PC chassis.
Popular Power has designed a flexible software platform based on BEA WebLogic Serve that takes large processing jobs and distributes them in smaller batches across vast numbers of PCs owned by organisations and individuals - using the otherwise untapped processing power of idle CPU-cycles and bandwidth to complete each computational task. The data is then sent back to BEA WebLogic Server and is then aggregated and analyzed.
Distributed Science, Inc. announced that Steve Tanner, creator of Boeing's Advanced Computing Group and Visualization Laboratory, joined the company's advisory board.
Oil refiner and convenience store giant Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation (UDS) has implemented powerful IBM UNIX servers and Shark open disk storage to run its enterprise business applications, including its SAP enterprise resource planning environment.
The conference 'Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing' to be held 20-24 August 2001 in Denver, has issued a call for papers. This is conference covers the following broad topics: computers that comprise the high-performance system interconnected by high-speed communications; applications gathering its inputs remotely over a communications network; or high-performance system executing the application is remotely accessed by its users through a communications network.
Popular Power has designed a flexible software platform based on BEA WebLogic Serve that takes large processing jobs and distributes them in smaller batches across vast numbers of PCs owned by organizations and individuals - using the otherwise untapped processing power of idle CPU-cycles and bandwidth to complete each computational task. The data is then sent back to BEA WebLogic Server and is then aggregated and analyzed.
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