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| 09 April 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 454
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The European peer-to-peer conference will be held in Paris, December 4 -7. Closing date for paper submission is April 30th.
In a public tender GigaPort has awarded Global Crossing 'preferred supplier' status for supplying a number of services for the global Internet connectivity of the GigaPort network. With Global Crossing GigaPort is now drafting a contract for the period of July 2001 until the end of 2002.
UK's Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers invites applications for bids to help transform British scientists' ideas and discoveries into commercial successes for the UK. A fund of GBP 40 million has been made available as a result of the Science and Innovation White Paper for this purpose.
The 4th HLRS Metacomputing Workshop will be organised together with the second Metodis results workshop at Stuttgart. This allows to bring industrial partners and researchers together at Stuttgart to exchange their point of view of Metacomputing. Meeting dates: May 2 -4, 2001.
SuSE Linux presented the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server" is an operating system streamlined for the utilization in servers. The operating system basis is optimized for security and stability and comprises all relevant server services.
The opening of the new supercomputers at Research Centre Karlsruhe, a Fujitsu Siemens Computers vector computer VPP5000 with 8 processors and a workstation cluster hpcLine with 32 Intel processors, was accompanied by a ceremonial scientific colloquium. Professor Friedel Hossfeld's, Research Centre Juelich, talk is contained in a separate article. Here some of the vector and cluster applications are summarised.
Cray said its Cray SV1ex enhanced product line, on schedule to begin shipping this quarter, will be substantially more powerful (2 Gflop/s per processors and provide better price/performance than previously indicated.
Intel has launched a peer-to-peer programme, under which people should download a programme onto their PCs that then should perform scientific calculations for Cancer Research. Although that sounds very noble, it looks more like it is good marketing for Intel than really helping science.
USA Digital has filed for a patent with the U.S. Patent office for an "Ultra Fast High Density Low Profile Computer (UHLC)." The design overcomes the traditional problems with heat and allows for the positioning of two high-speed processors along with AGP and PCI risers, high-end graphics and dual network cards suitable for 2 GHz computing.
Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful and easy-to-manage Linux cluster computing solutions, announced today it has been named Regional and Utah Exporter of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). According to SBA, Linux NetworX was selected based upon the growth of its exports to international markets and its strategy to continue growing these markets into the future.
Each November for 12 years, more than 5,000 world leaders in computing and networking gather to demonstrate the newest technologies, showcase their results, and spend on average, $3.5-$7 million on planned purchases. SC2001, the conference of high performance networking and computing, will convene November 10-16, in the fiber-optic equipped Denver Convention Center. The timeschedule for submissions is now available.
Entropia launched SaferMarkets, a joint effort with financial experts to predict stock market volatility. Entropia's global distributed computing grid of PCs will provide the power to enable this computationally intensive project for researchers at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.
The Laboratory for Scientific Computing at the University of Notre Dame did release LAM/MPI version 6.5. The software package is a portable, open source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard on Linux It contains a full implementation of the MPI-1 standard and much of the MPI-2 standard.
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