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| 22 January 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 443
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On January 15, 2001 CSC, the Finnish center for high-performance computing and networking, took the first phase of supercomputer IBM RS/6000 SP with 128 processors into production use. The theoretical maximum efficiency of the equipment is 200 Gflop/s. The processors have a total of 64 GByte of internal memory and 0.5 TByte of external storage capacity. In 2002 the system will be extended to enable more than 1 Tflop/s. The system will then contain several hundred processors. CSC has an option to extend the system further by increasing the number of processors in 2003. In its final form, CSC's RS/6000 SP will be one of the most powerful computers in Europe.
Next meeting of the European High-performance Networking Forum (HNF-Europe) will be held at ECMWF in Reading on March 1st, 2001.
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released version 4.1 of the NAGWare f95 compiler. The new release of this compiler that also has Fortran 2000 support, includes innovations and refinements in the areas of error detection and improved performance that benefit developers and application users alike. Another new feature is a full traceback facility, coupled with optional pre-assignment of variables, to assist with the detection of runtime errors, and the ability to monitor memory allocation and deallocation.
Release 4 of fl90, NAG's Fortran 90 Library is now available. It gives access to over 250 generic user-callable procedures in the areas of optimization, linear algebra, sparse linear algebra, ordinary differential equations (ODEs), partial differential equations (PDEs), statistics, curve and surface fitting, polynomial solvers and quadrature. 41 new generic user-callable procedures have been added at Release 4, in the areas of PDEs, dense and sparse linear algebra, optimization, operations research and approximation.
Computer Sciences Corporation has won a six and a half-year, task-order contract with a maximum value of $144 million to support NASA's Center for Computational Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, USA.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced first customers of the Primergy series equipped with the new Intel IA-64 processors. These SMP systems consist of four IA-64. These are the well known Computer Centre of the University Mannheim and the Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing. These pilot systems will be used for application tests and training of the students. The mass delivery is expected starting in April 2001.
The Ohio State University (OSU), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), and LabBook announce that they have formed a partnership to provide life science researchers with an annotated map of the human genome. The project combines OSU's annotated human genome database, backed by OSC's computational power, with the powerful visualization and analysis capabilities of LabBook's personal discovery space. The partnership allows scientists a view of the human genome to date.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories and Celera Genomics, have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. Compaq Computer Corporation will provide the project technology. The goal of the project is to develop the next generation software and computer hardware solutions that will be specifically designed for the demands of computational biology as well as a full range of life sciences applications. By sharing some computing technology developed by Sandia, Celera and Compaq may ultimately reach the "petacruncher" (1,000 Tflop/s) level.
NCSA will install two IBM Linux clusters, creating the world's fastest Linux supercomputer in academia. NCSA's clusters will have two Tflop/s of computing power and will be used by researchers to study some of the most fundamental questions of science, such as the nature of gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity.
SGI did post a loss for its second quarter of fiscal 2001 ended December. 31, 2000. For the quarter, the company posted revenue of $487 million, compared with $426 million in the quarter ended September. 30, 2000, which represents a 14% increase. The company reported a net loss of $71 million for the quarter, compared with a net loss of $49 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2000.
Sun Microsystems unveiled the Netra X1 server>. With a starting price of $995, this complete one processor, rack mountable, and 1 RU height (1.75 inches) ultra-thin server presents an affordable entree for SPs.
Sun reported revenues for the second quarter of $5.115 billion, up 44 percent compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2000. Orders for the second quarter were $4.953 billion, representing a year over year increase of 32 percent. Net income for the second quarter was $552 million, up 56 percent compared with last year's net income of $354 million.
Bank Labouchere has ordered six additional ES7000s to run Alex, its popular e-brokerage web site, Unisys said today. Two ES7000s were ordered by Bank Labouchere earlier in 2000.
Unisys Corporation today announced the signing of an OEM agreement where Unisys will provide servers based on the Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) server architecture to Hitachi for sale in Japan.
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