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| 26 February 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 448
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Dolphin Interconnect introduced two new high performance interconnect solutions, the WulfKit D335 and D339. Both WulfKit D335 and D339 are high performance 64bit/66Mhz SCI interconnect assemblies that boast the fastest interconnect bandwidth available today combined with extremely low latency. It is designed to enhance the performance of high performance AMD, Alpha, Intel or SUN computer superclusters.
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions profits and revenues on ordinary revenue increased again in year 2000. This gives Dolphin two consecutive profitable years in a row. These are the first two profitable years in the history of the company.
Hewlett-Packard Company has become the industry's No. 3 external RAID system storage provider as a result of strong storage revenues. This growth is partly attributed to HP reaching $1 billion in XP enterprise customer orders as well as to extraordinary sales of the industry-leading HP Surestore Disk Array XP512 storage system. ScaleOn, a 100 percent subsidiary of Bayer AG, Leverkusen/Germany.integrated 18 XP disk arrays into a large IBM RS/6000 SP environment.
ESI Group announced the availability of SYSTUS 2000, a multiphysics simulation software used for thorough analysis of complex mechanical phenomena. SYSTUS 2000 simulates all aspects of mechanical processes involved in a product life cycle, from the early design of the product to its behaviour over time under real-life conditions. Its general Finite Element (FE) implicit software performs both linear and non-linear analysis in static, dynamic, thermo-mechanical, and electromagnetic fields through an improved user interface.
ESRI, a software provider for geographic information system (GIS) applications, agreed with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to develop more effective technologies to tie together the many different forms of geographic data used in fields ranging from science and engineering to conservation, government, and business. They will evaluate and contribute to standards for using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in GIS applications, and to ensure the compatibility of ESRI's widely used Arc eXtensible Markup Language (ArcXML) with other XML-based standards.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) has released version 3.4 of its CoralReef software suite -- a set of drivers, libraries, utilities, and analysis software for networks. This latest version adds support for easily available over-the-counter network interface cards.
Sid Karin, founding director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), will assume a new role as Senior Strategic Advisor to the SDSC director. Internationally recognised computer scientist Francine Berman will become director of SDSC and NPACI.
Jack J. Dongarra was among 74 new members elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
World Access, a provider of telecommunications services, has purchased the largest-ever IBM eServer iSeries system to process billings for more than 100 million telephone calls per day.
Compaq Computer Australia and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) have entered into an agreement under which Compaq will provide its industry leading supercomputing technology to the APAC National Facility for researchers in all areas of science and engineering including chemistry, physics, environmental science and biotechnology. The agreement has been signed between Compaq and The Australian National University which acts as host institution for APAC.
The new Skybolt II VME 9U multicomputer from Sky Computers Inc. can accelerate interconnect speeds by a factor of 2x to 3x and provide fast-boot capabilities, especially important to mission-critical applications. An on-board Skychannel crossbar transfers data between compute clusters on the four Merlin MPC7400 daughtercards at 960 Mbytes/second, a 3x increase over the previous generation. Fully configured with four Merlins, which include 16 MPC7400 compute nodes, the unit delivers 42 Gflop/s of compute performance.
Sun Microsystems announced that in 2000 it overtook IBM to move into the top spot in the total U.S. server market.
Sun Microsystems third update of the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE) that includes more than 30 new and improved features that extend reliability, availability and scalability.
Applied MetaComputing, a supplier of Grid Operating software, announced that its Founder, Dr. Andrew Grimshaw, has been officially elected to two influential committees of the Peer-to-Peer Working Group; the Group Steering Committee and the Technical Architecture Council.
Entropia has enabled its latest commercial customer, SolidSpeed Networks, Inc., to provide the accurate and direct measurement of Web site speed and reliability on the market. SolidSpeed's Probester, a data engine that tracks Web site performance, uses Entropia's global peer-to-peer (P2P) computing network, consisting of thousands of PCs in dozens of countries around the world.
RedLeaf announced it has led a $5 million round of capital for Kalepa Networks, a Palo Alto-based company offering software infrastructure for edge content. The Kalepa solution optimises content flow from both a network and application perspective in Peer to Peer (P2P) and hybrid networks. Targeted customers will include application developers and solution providers in media, publishing, healthcare information and education sectors.
Turbolinux a company in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, and Linuxcare, have signed an agreement for Turbolinux to acquire Linuxcare. The combined company will operate as Turbolinux. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Turbolinux announced the beta 3 release of the Turbolinux operating system for Intel Itanium-based systems. This latest Turbolinux release for Linux for Itanium processor family platforms offers enterprise customers increased functionality, faster processing speeds and easier software installation.
Parabon Computation, Inc. will apply its vast distributed computing resources to the protein folding study being conducted by the University of Maryland's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Parabon's Frontier computing platform will provide the essential and unprecedented computational resources necessary to perform the compute-intensive calculations associated with protein folding simulations, critical to understanding disease and the development of treatments and cures.
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