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| 30 April 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 456
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A 24-processor SGI Onyx 3400 system with six graphics pipelines will drive the state-of-the-art HAWST, which features roll-in/roll-out cockpits to provide the Israeli Air Force with the ability to train both UH-60 and CH-53 crews in the simulator. When one cockpit is in use in the HAWST, the other cockpit can be operated in parallel as a flight-training device. The simulator will be delivered and ready for training in early 2004.
GeneProt opened the world's first large-scale proteomic discovery centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The facility will enable GeneProt to discover new drugs and biomarkers based on the body's own proteins. The new centre will run 20 hours a day and will use a 1420 processor Compac Alpha cluster.
SGI launched its new graphics cluster systems at the ITEC simulation trade show in Lille, France. The SGI Graphics Cluster high-performance visualisation product family takes provides low-cost, high-resolution, multi-channel immersive visualisation, combining the functionality of a single system with the economics and practicality of a component-based PC cluster.
Sun and TV Files have signed a co-operation agreement to provide content providers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and corporations in the European market with solutions for the distribution of broadcast quality video and multimedia content.
ESI Group will organise its eleventh annual European conference on October 18-19, 2001 at the Congress Center of the historic German city of Heidelberg. Last year's conference in Nantes (France) gathered more than 400 attendees from all over Europe.
At SC2001, the European Supercomputer Conference that this year will be organised June 20 - 23 in Heidelberg, the keynote will be delivered by Leonard Kleinrock,UCLA, Inventor of the Internet Technology In addition, there will be presentations with 37 (handpicked) top speakers and chair persons In Focus are two 30 Teraflop/s Systems, the 'Earth Simulator' (Japan) and the 'ASCI - Q' (USA).
The introduction of the NEC SX-5S entry level server, last year, is anabling many businesses and academic institutions to take advantage of the efficiencies of parallel vector processors at an affordable price. As is well known PVPs are well suited for "large scale Nastran Problems". One academic centre which is taking advantage of this, is the Northern Italian Universities Consortium.
DiscoveryLink can accelerate drug discovery by helping researchers merge information -- from many sources, including public and private databases, and in diverse data formats and file types -- using a single query. Under the terms of the agreement, NetGenics can integrate DiscoveryLink into its NetGenics DiscoveryCenter product, as well as re-distribute the technology on a stand-alone basis.
IBM announced AIX 5L, tuned for Linux applications, AIX 5L provides an environment for building and managing both UNIX and Linux applications, providing a substantial advantage over fully-closed, proprietary systems.
Mercury Computer Systems donated a RACE multi-computer platform and software to the University of Central Florida. The 12-processor system and software will be used by the computer engineering programme for instruction and research in real time, high-performance computing concepts.
Cray received a $1.6 million order from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), Columbus, Ohio. The 16-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer will support advanced research on air pollution transport, brake efficiency and other problems in computational chemistry, mechanical engineering and related fields. This system will be upgraded in mid-2001 to Cray SV1ex processors and memory, with memory doubling to 64 gigabytes
Sun unveiled Project JXTA as a prototype, next-generation network computing research project that will enable easy access to peers and resources on the rapidly emerging, multi-dimensional, "expanded Web". Sun also launched jxta.org, an Open Source project where developers can collaborate to evolve Project JXTA and create innovative, distributed services and applications that allow users to naturally and quickly find, get, and use information.
Using the SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, an industry-standard measure of server performance, a Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 equipped with 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon 32-bit processors supported 18,500 mySAP.com SD Standard Application benchmark users. This result is the third highest result ever recorded on any platform tested with the SAP SD benchmark methodology, regardless of the number of processors per server tested.
Xwave, an Aliant company, has selected the new SGI Graphics Cluster high-performance visualization cluster series to provide Canada's Tactical Aviation Mission System Simulation (TAMSS) with a high-resolution three-channel visualization environment to better define requirements for new helicopter systems.
TurboGenomics announced the release of the latest version of TurboBLAST. TurboBLAST is an accelerated, parallel implementation of BLAST, a sequence comparison tool that provides critical insight into the structure and function of genes and proteins. As submissions to sequence databases increase exponentially with the completion of large-scale sequencing projects around the world, the demand for BLAST processing has outstripped the IT resources of genomics and proteomics labs.
REBOL released REBOL/View, an Internet software technology for distributed Internet applications. REBOL/View enables to rapidly create and deploy custom network applications for collaborative, groupware, and peer-to-peer purposes.
Turbolinux,released Turbolinux Server (TLS) 6.5. Designed to run at the enterprise level, TLS 6.5 simplifies global deployment by supporting five languages, including English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (traditional and simplified). TLS 6.5 further innovates Linux server capabilities by introducing a mass installation tool. The software also incorporates a journaling file system.
Parabon released the Pioneer compute engine for Linux. Available immediately, Linux users worldwide can download this free software and instantly apply their idle computing power toward non-profit research projects and gain compensation when their idle computing power is used in support of paying clients.
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