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| 05 March 2001 |
EuroFlash no.449
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SIM 2001, the Industrial Trade Fair for simulation and visualisation, taking place in Freiburg i.Br., Germany, from June 17 to June 21, 2001.
The Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee first meeting is during the GGF1 conference in Amsterdam. The first chair of this committee is Paul Messina. European members are Alexander Reinefeld (ZIB) and Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN).
The new version of Linux' KDE Desktop announced by the KDE project arrives with a large number of new features, fixes and improvements compared to KDE 2.0.1, KDE 2.1 is available in 33 languages and contains the KDE core libraries, the desktop environment and more than 100 applications from the other KDE standard base packages in the area of Administration, Network, Personal Information Managment (PIM), Games, Graphics, Multimedia and Utilities.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced Primergy B120, a new entry-level server . The company is further delivering RemoteView V3.0, a new component for remote server management which further enhances the availability of the Primergy B120 model and other PRIMERGY servers.
A recent report on Climate Research in the USA complains that the US policy on HPC which exclusively supports distributed commodity scalable computing under the ASCI programme, is having a devastating effect on their ability to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, and that their European counterparts using Japanese computers are at least five years ahead of them.
NEC Corporation (NEC) announced on February 28 that it agreed a distributorship relationship with the U.S. company, Cray Inc. (Cray) for the sales, installation and support of the NEC SX vector supercomputers. NEC and Cray signed the agreement regarding co-operation in the field of supercomputers.
ometimes life writes stories that an author never would think out. A look into the anti-dumping history demonstrates the unbelievable. Nearly five years ago the Cray started the successful attack against NEC at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
For more than 20 years in the high-performance computer and application market, I never observed such a co-operation between such competitors and between U.S. and Japanese vendors. A special highlight in their relationship is the anti-dumping offending of the former Cray Research Inc. What can be expected in this 10 year OEM agreement? Some of these topics are discussed in this very personal comment.
The 3rd International Workshop on web-based infrastructures and coordination architectures for collaborative enterprises has issued a call for papers. Closing date March 23. the conference will be held June 20-22 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
The tenth International Symposium on High-Performance distributed computing to be held in August in San Francisco, is a forum for presenting the latest research findings on the use of networked systems for high-performance computing. Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of high performance distributed computing, visualization, and collaboration, including hardware technologies, network protocols, the middleware that ties distributed resources together into computational, data, and collaboration Grids, middleware that enables application use of Grids; and tools and languages that support application development.
Compaq and The University of Texas at Austin Center for Computational Visualization (CCV) have entered into a co-operative research relationship in advanced visualization techniques using high-performance computers and complex display equipment.Powering the lab's extensive computer processing requirements is a cluster of Compaq SP750 workstations. The 130 workstations and disk drives are networked using Compaq ServerNet II high-speed, low-latency interconnect technology.
Sun plans to offer a professional-level 3D animation promotional package that runs on the new Sun Blade 100 workstation and is powered by Electric Image's new Universe 3D animation software.
Thinkstream launched a distributed information and commerce engine grounded in peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. Thinkstream's technology provides a new standard for accessing, managing and delivering information across the Internet. For the first time - and in real time - users can access data from its actual site, in its existing format, at precisely the moment it is needed, regardless of location or format.
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