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| 23 April 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 455
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The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) supports the further development and the testing of the FDEM (Finite Difference Element Method) program package with 570 000 DM over a two-years period. The FDEM package has been developed in the project group "Numerical Research for Supercomputers" at the computing center of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. FDEM is a black-box solver for arbitrary nonlinear systems of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) as they occur in the numerical simulation of all types of engineering problems. It uses a finite difference method of high order on an unstructured finite element mesh, presently on a fixed domain.
ACE Associated Compiler Experts has licensed the C++ front end capabilities from Edison Design Group (EDG-Montclair, New Jersey, USA). ACE will integrate EDG's C++ Front End into ACE's CoSy compiler development system. Over 40 customers and partners use CoSy for compiler development worldwide
MOSIX 0.97.11 is now avaialable for Linux 2.2.19. MOSIX enhances the Linux kernel with cluster computing capabilities. It allows a cluster of PCs to work cooperatively as if part of a single system.
Evgeny Velikhov signed a partnership agreement with the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) making the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow the first member of the new Alliance Affiliates programme.
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Major Shared Resource Center (ERDC MSRC) has installed a420 Gflop/s 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer.
The first Cray SV1ex supercomputer at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC), University of Alaska Fairbanks. The system, part of a $3 million contract , replaces ARSC's Cray SV1 supercomputer.
China has developed a parallel computer system for a regional numerical weather forecast, which is expected to help improve the accuracy of China's weather forecast. The Shenjian-100 regional numerical weather forecast parallel computer system was positively evaluated by an expert team organized by the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Commission.
Compaq announced three new supercomputer ales: one in Japan and two in Australia. The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute will install a 1.5Tflop/.s system. APAC Australia will install a 450 processor computer and VPAC in Australia willacquire a 128 processor machine.
The NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, has officially opened a new RAVE (Reconfigurable Advanced Visualization Environment)The RAVE was purchased as part of a NASA initiative that aims to enable geographically dispersed teams of engineers and scientists to collaborate in full-sensory environments. Researchers at other NASA centers will utilize broad bandwidth links between systems to share the new immersive environment with NASA Glenn in real-time, remote collaboration, allowing them to work together as if they were at the same location.
The Grid on the Go workshop, May 20-22, 2001, Urban-Champaign, USA. is focused on the uses of wireless devices (portable digital assistants (pdas), cell phones, sensors) and their intersection with digital infrastructure (the Grid) research. Nationally renowned speakers will discuss the impact of these devices on academic scientific research and the private sector while highlighting technical and policy challenges.
The Brazilian Inmet (Instituto Nacional de Metereologia) improved its weather report system and expanded its observation focus to the whole Latin America through the implementation of a Cray SVI and an Origin 2400 in operation at the CCMAD (Centro de Computacao Meteorologica de Alto Desempenho) in Brasilia (DF).
InterSense, a provider of precision motion tracking technology that allows people to easily interact with 3D computer-generated environments, expanded its partnership with Vinten . The team of Vinten and InterSense will offer ImageTracker IS-900 precision camera tracking solution for virtual production.
Visual Numerics says JWAVE 3.5 is now available. JWAVE is a client/server solution that uses Sun Microsystems' Java components to rapidly develop and deploy applications across an enterprise via the Internet or an intranet. Whether developing applications using the Java programming language or HTML and Java Server Pages, JWAVE lets users perform numerical analysis and visual interpretation of large, complex datasets. Among JWAVE 3.5's most significant new upgrades are advanced graphics features that expand the client-side interaction of the product, and support for Java Server Pages (JSP).
For the quarter ending March 31, 2001, SGI posted a net operating loss of US$ 47 million. The previous quarter also ended with a loss ($93 million). To cut down costs, SGI will eliminate about 1,000 regular, temporary and contractor positions, or about 15% of its global workforce, in the June 2001 quarter.
Sun and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) announced the selection of OSC as aSun Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments. The Sun Center of Excellence in HPC Environments is a collaborative project between OSC, The Ohio State University (OSU), University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and University of Akron.
Sun reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2001, which ended April 1, 2001. Revenues where almost flat compared to the previous quarte. Profits, where down 43 percent.
Groove Networks announced the availability to enterprise customers of Groove 1.0, its Internet peer-to-peer communications software and network services platform, and an initial sale of 10,000 licenses to GlaxoSmithKline, a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company with more than 100,000 employees worldwide. With the availability of Groove 1.0, Groove Networks now offers the first enterprise-class peer computing software and network services infrastructure for conducting communications and commerce over the Internet.
Distributed Science intends to make its peer-to-peer infrastructure for Distributed Processing available under an open source license starting May 1, 2001.
The New York Stock Exchange has launched a new broadcast studio that gives reporters access to a virtual trading floor with live market data for inclusion into financial newscasts. Dubbed NYSE MarkeTrac Live, the virtual set provides financial broadcasters and web viewers with a truly unique view of the Exchange's auction market and the latest market information.
The US Navy and The Weather Channel signed a memorandum of understanding. The agreement is intended to foster cooperation between the two organizations and allow them to jointly examine new methods and technologies for producing and presenting forecasts. It allows The Weather Channel to use climate, weather, and ocean data produced by the Navy and made available in the public domain, including data generated by the Navy's supercomputer at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey. This computer is one of the world's most sophisticated tools for global weather and ocean modeling, utilizing the largest existing real-time databases of oceanic and atmospheric observations.
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