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| 26 March 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 452
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Biotechnology company MDS Proteomics has opened a new facility in Odense, Denmark to house protein discovery factories that seamlessly integrate biology, high performance supercomputing and molecular analysis for the design and development of new medicines. The company is also expanding its Toronto, Canada headquarters and facilities are in development in Boston and Charlottesville.
The list maintainers of the TOP500 request submissions for the next TOP500 list that will be presented at the 6th International Supercomputer Conference, June 20-23 in Heidelberg, Germany. The deadline for submitting entries is April 15, 2001. All system reported have to be installed by May 30, 2001.
CSC, the Finnish center for high-performance computing and networking, has increased the speed of the Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) backbone network to 2.5 Gbps. This increases the network's capacity over 16-fold and makes Funet one of the world's most powerful data network providers to the field of research and academic education. Other academic networks with the same operational speed include Abilene of the American Internet2, Canadian CA*net3, and the Dutch Surfnet.
The programme of the Mannheim/Heidelberg supercomputer is available. The keynote will be delivered by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, inventor of the Internet technology. Further topics range from quantum computing to Grid computing. And, of course, the new TOP500 list will be presented.
Popular Power, one of the many companies that try to sell spare computer time of PC's all over the world, has closed its business. The company was not able tto raise additional capital. In the first round, the company did get US$ 1.6 million. The 14 employees have been laid off.
The new IBM eServer clusters for Unix and Linux, can tie together a company's entire IT infrastructure, from Web servers to vital back-end workloads like Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management applications. The new offerings -- originally code-named Blue Hammer -- extend the advanced management software and massive file system of IBM's SP supercomputer to the fast-growing market for rack-mounted servers.
Hewitt Associates implemented the first IBM eServer z900 mainframe Parallel Sysplex clustering solution. The multi-million dollar investment includes six IBM z900 enterprise servers, enabling Hewitt to supply near continuous benefits administratio
MSC.Linux, a division of MSC.Software Corp. announced the availability of MSC.Linux V2001 (April) Beta. A major feature of the April release is the complete integration of OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources).
Platform Computing released FTA (File Transfer Agent) 1.1 for File Assurance that allows organizations to safely and securely share files and data in a collaborative fashion. Platform FTA addresses a specific requirement of large file transfers taking place in either distributed compute farms or on supercomputers .
The new midframe include innovations such as redundant component interconnection technology, the ability to dynamically split one system into multiple systems, duplicate hardware components, and "on-the-fly" processor upgrades. At their core are UltraSPARC III processors.
As part of a planned merger, EBIZ Enterprises Incorporated and Linux NetworX, Inc. have signed a letter of intent operating agreement to allow EBIZ to manufacture Linux NetworX cluster compute nodes in its Houston, Texas Technology Center. This initial step between the two companies ensures a smooth transition when the merger is complete. The merger is expected to finalize during the second quarter 2001.
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