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| 28 May 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 460
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The ESI Group reported that total consolidated revenue for fiscal year 2000, ending January 31st 2001, increased by +28% reaching euro 40.8 million with respect to previous year. Licensing revenue increased by +35% reaching euro 29.7 million. Licensing revenue now represents 73% of total revenue compared with 69% for 1999. T
Analysing over 50 million images a day, the German company Cobion, has a pretty good view of what one can see on the Internet. As Dr. Jens Thamm will explain at the SC2001 Conference in Heidelberg, next month, Cobion can not only attach general data to such a picture, but can 'look inside', telling exactly what is on it. This knowledge is offered by Cobion, for use in advanced search engines, for brand protection and for filtering services.
Arel and SGI are launching a joint learning-on-demand solution, continUlearn. This scalable system integrates SGI's premier servers and Kasenna MediaBase media streaming software with the IDEAL suite of e-learning solutions from Arel. In addition, SGI and Arel will provide professional services to ensure fast and effective implementation of distributed e-learning networks worldwide.
The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), located in Lagoa Nova, Brazil, has inaugurated a Virtual Reality Laboratory for 3D visualization of geological data as a decision-making tool for exploration of oil reserves.
Dell plans to deliver an Intel Itanium-based PowerEdge server. The PowerEdge 7150, available later this year, is a rack dense server designed from the ground up to offer the performance, availability, management and scalability characteristics of proprietary RISC architectures, but at a fraction of the cost, Dell claims.
A new programme from IBM will provide independent software developers with free access to the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe for writing Linux software applications. The program, the Linux Community Development System, provides developers with access to their own virtual mainframe running Linux as well as a Shark storage subsystem.
Dolphin Interconnect and RackSaver completed installation of a Beowulf cluster supercomputer at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) using 32 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon processors. This cluster, funded primarily by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will be used to study collision processes in the solar system, such as the origin of Earth's Moon by a giant impact, the disruption of meteors in the atmospheres of planets, the formation of impact craters, and the fragmentation of asteroids by impacts and explosions. It will also be used to run simulations of planetary dynamos, such as the one responsible for Earth's magnetic field.
Mercury Computer Systems donated a high-performance RACE multicomputer system to Oklahoma State University to assist with the school's advanced study of signals intelligence.
The Quebec Government will use its Alpha systems to implement GIRES, an important IT project for the Quebec Government. AlphaServer systems will be used as the hardware platform to run the integrated Oracle E-Business Suite.
The NetBeans open source project has added more than a dozen additional modules into its open source code base. These modules make the standards-based integrated development environment (IDE) platform more complete and expand its appeal to a broader audience of Java technology developers. The modules will streamline Java application development and address a range of issues, including integration with Apache's "Ant" XML scriptable build tool, improved application server deployment support and SOAP-based Web services generation and deployment.
The Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), created for the advancement and interoperability of peer-to-peer computing, will be holding its third working group meeting on May 30th and 31st, 2001 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara,
Mercury Computer Systems, a leading provider of embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing computer systems, announced today that it has formed alliances with seven strategic vendors of application development tools for the RACE++ multicomputer platform.
Texar Corporation, a developer of security technologies designed to work across the enterprise, Web and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing environments, will work together with ShareThis a collaborative application platform provider that gives users real time communication and file sharing capabilities over any IP network.
LaserPacific's research and development team achieved a significant technology milestone that promises to accelerate the efficiency and cost effectiveness of high definition post production services. The new High Definition SuperComputer Assembly system creates 24P High Definition programs as pure digital data and not digital video as do other current systems.
Keyhole released its EarthSystem, a rich mapping technology. Keyhole's supercomputer-based processing tools fuse high-resolution satellite images, aerial photographs, maps, point of interest databases and other location-critical data into a 3D model of unprecedented detail. Keyhole's patented data-delivery technology efficiently delivers this rich mapping system to corporate customers and consumers over wired and wireless networks.
WesternGeco a seismic acquisition, processing, and reservoir imaging firm has selected an IBM Linux supercomputer to substantially increase its ability to assist oil companies in their search for new oil reserves hidden deep beneath the earth's surface. The supercomputer will power WesternGeco's seismic imaging system and will be comprised of a cluster of 256 IBM eServer systems, all running Linux. The cluster at WesternGeco is comprised of 256 eServer xSeries 330 systems, each powered by two 933 MHz Intel Pentium III processors.
Green Hills Software unveiled a new PowerPC compiler for its MULTI Integrated Development Environment that provides automatic vectorization support for Motorola PowerPC processors equipped with the AltiVec vector-processing engine. The new compiler converts ordinary C code into optimized AltiVec object code, enabling designers to achieve a 2-4x increase in vector processing performance without having to write custom AltiVec source code.
Etnus sees an increasing demand for TotalView in the oil and gas industry. Over the last year, conglomerates have relied on TotalView to debug their mission-critical, high performance computing applications, doubling the use of TotalView in the oil and gas industry.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has chosen Etnus TotalView as the debugger for their National Science Foundation-funded Terascale Computing System (TCS). The initial 256-processor configuration of the system - known as TSCini - was operational in late December and has been used during a "friendly user" period by scientists and engineers for research projects in astrophysics, fluid dynamics, materials science, earthquake modeling and structure, and function of proteins and DNA. The final system, due to be installed in the fall of 2001, will include 3,000 Alpha processors.
MSC has an on-line pay-per-use licensing facility that lets you rent software products to run on your computer by the week, by the month, or by the year. Products that have been added recently are MSC.SuperForge and MSC.Construct.
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