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| 07 May 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 457
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SGI announced changes within its senior management team, including the appointment of Hal Covert as the company's president.
EASi Engineering and TeraPort formed a consortium to establish the first worldwide stochastic Application Service Provider facility. The ASP will be operated jointly by both EASi and TeraPort and will be based on EASi's stochastic simulation environment ST-ORM and TeraPort's TeraPortal , which provides central access to compute intensive Engineering Applications like Crash, NVH, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Structural Mechanics. These applications, when viewed in a stochastic context, require hundreds to thousands of processors in order to return results in engineering-reasonable times.
The geophysical exploration company PGS did buy an 18 node TeraRack from Scali for one of their Ramform class vessels. This system focuses on high availability and serviceability, for real time processing. The Ramform vessels sail the oceans doing geophysical exploration.
Banco Mercantil in Venezuela is the first Latin American company to implement SuSE Linux for the enterprise on the IBM mainframe.
Oxford GlycoSciences (OGS), a drug development company using proteomics to discover new therapeutic and diagnostic products for human diseases, recently installed Sun systems to help map, store and analyze the entire genetic protein makeup of the human body.
At the beginning of April 2001, a meeting was organised by the SAVE Working Group Scientific Computing in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Eric Schnepf and Peter Kirsch discussed news in the vector, the SMP and hpcLine arena. They listed new hpcLine customers and the application software development.
As usual during the SAVE meeting, Hakon O. Bugge, Scali, presents news from their interconnectivity area, new versions of their middleware - ScaMPI.
During the SAVE meeting, Werner Krotz-Vogel, Pallas, showed their offering for the Fujitsu Siemens Computer hpcLine. Pallas covers the part of software tools and compilers.
The new partner in the interconnect field of Fujitsu Siemens Computers for the hpcLine is ParTec, a spin-off of University Karlsruhe, with its ParaStation based on Myrinet interconnect. Professor Walter Tichy, the father and member of the Department of Informatics University Karlsruhe, discussed the basic ideas and the resulting middleware.
Sun completed the acquisition of LSC, a company specialized in high-performance file systems and data storage software. The acquisition extends Sun's existing storage software product line and is a key component in Sun's strategy to deliver easily managed, open storage networks.
NEC and UniTree inked an agreement under which NEC will resell the advanced storage management HSM solutions from UniTree on Linux platforms for the High Performance Computing market. The co-operation also includes services agreement to provide customers with flexible maintenance and solution oriented support in the field.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has revoked the antidumping duty on certain vector supercomputers from Japan. The revocation is effective May 3, 2001. This means that NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi can sell supercomputers in the USA again.
Dataram introduced a 2 Gbyte memory option for Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire ) 280R servers and Sun Blade 1000 workstations.
IBM announced five new IntelliStation M Pro workstations and 12 new NetVista A60 business and A60i home desktop systems, all boosted by advanced Intel Pentium 4 processors at speeds up to 1.7 GHz. The IntelliStation M Pro features new Fire GL4 graphics based on IBM's copper chip technology, boosting performance in ways designed to simplify the manipulation of large three-dimensional models.
Juno has signed a letter of intent with LaunchCyte, a bioinformatics incubator, setting forth terms for use of the Juno virtual supercomputer by LaunchCyte and its portfolio companies.
SGI introduced a production release of XFS 1.0 for Linux, the high-end SGI journaled filesystem software, and code availability of Linux FailSafe clustering plug-ins. These products are for free.
Compaq has cancelled plans to market servers based on the Unisys cellular multiprocessing (CMP) architecture Compaq began shipping CMP based servers under the Proliant Ml770 name earlier this year.
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