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Dolphin Interconnect and Scali, announced shared memory (SHMEM) library support for the Dolphin WulfKit. This Scali-developed high performance communication library option gives Cray users a cost effective method of working with existing SHMEM programs in a low cost microprocessor supercluster environment without the need to recompile or modify their existing code.
Platform's LSF also supports Itanium based systems. "As early as last October 2000, CERN was able to demonstrate successful utilization of a cluster of Intel Itanium processor-based hardware running SIXTRACK under the control of Platform Computing's LSF," said Sverre Jarp, IA- 64/TRILLIAN project manager for the IT Division at CERN.
Entropia officially opening of Entropia Europe, Ltd. in Cambridge, England, the distributed computing industry's first office outside the United States. The new division is the first to provide local service and support to European distributed computing customers, including life sciences/ pharmaceutical companies and other corporate enterprise customers.
The research subsidiary of Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat, The Center of Research for Fiat Group (CRF), has implemented a24 processor MSC.Linux cluster to run complex design and engineering simulations, significantly accelerating development of vehicle and engine design.
SuSE Linux announced SuSE Linux 7.2 . The latest version of SuSE's Linux package comes with more convenience and performance for deployment on desktops and servers. The newest release highlights increased security and extensive multimedia entertainment features.
Belgium-based biotech company Devgen NV has deployed IBM technology to conduct genetic research on a microscopic roundworm (C. elegans). This research will help identify new drug targets and leads for human diseases such as diabetes, depression, obesity and many others, as well as insecticide discovery.
The NEC User Group held its 13th meeting in an elegant 18th century Villa on a hill outside Frascati some 20 Kilometres from Rome, Italy. This eclectic group, of around 75 people from four continents, had a great time listening to keynotes describing the latest in Meteorology, Aerospace, the new Itanium Chip Architecture from Intel, and the latest research on technologies expected from NEC in the next ten to fifteen years. They formally set up NUG as an independent society under Swiss law. They also elected the NUG officers, with Dr. D. Maric, from CSCS, Switzerland as Chairman. Below are some of the highlights from this event.
The SGI Silicon Graphics 750 system for Linux, developed with the Intel Itanium processor, will be available July 2001. The Silicon Graphics 750 system is based on a floating-point architecture that is designed specifically for affordable high-performance and standards-based computing. The Silicon Graphics 750 system is the newest generation in 64-bit computing in the SGI family of products based on the Itanium processor with open-source Linux.
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), co-developer of the Intel Itanium Instruction Set Architecture, announced a broad portfolio of Itanium Processor Family (IPF)-based systems. HP's first Itanium-based systems include the HP Workstation i2000 with up to 2 processors, the HP Server rx4610 with up to 4 processors and the HP Server rx9610 with up to 16 processors.
NEC unveiled two lines of high-performance servers, the "Express5800/1000 Series" and the "TX7/AzusA Series", equipped with up to 16 CPUs of Intel's new 64-bit Itanium processors. NEC's Express5800/1000 Series servers are based on Linux or Windows Server (codename: Whistler), and it is the highest class of existing Express5800 product line. NEC initially targets customers in the science and technology areas, who can take advantage of Itanium processor's high performance in scientific and technological calculation and a variety of software available for it. As the number of software for other fields increases NEC will expands its sales effort to other area.
Turbolinux announced the release of the Turbolinux Operating System 7 for the 64-bit Intel Itanium architecture.
Compaq will deliver its first new 64-bit ProLiant server, supporting up to four 733 MHz or 800 MHz Intel Itanium Processors, in the third quarter of 2001. The new ProLiant models will be differentiated from competitive offerings by incorporating Compaq's latest advances in system management, mechanical, thermal, and power distribution.
The Dell Precision Workstation 730 based on the Intel Itanium processor id available for U.S. customers. Dell plans to make the product available worldwide later this year.
NEC launched a Media Converter to realize 100Mbps high-speed internet access easily and in cost-saving manner. Media converter is utilizing conventional Local Area Network (LAN) / Ethernet technologies; converting 4-wire Ethernet to optical fiber transmission and securing transmission distance, then realizing FTTx. NEC is offering a new product initially to the Japanese market and will expand sales to the worldwide market with the specifications fittingeach country's requirements. The possible users of the system are telecommunication carriers offering broadband access services and enterprise markets such as corporations, buildings and residential.
IBM introduced new Intel Itanium-based IBM eServer and IntelliStation workstations which will form a new Linux supercluster at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Capable of 1 Tflop/s, a cluster of 160 new IBM Itanium-based systems will be the most powerful Linux supercluster in academia, IBM claims.
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $108 million contract to OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Mississippi State University (MSU) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).Contract work will begin on June 1, 2001, with a three-year basic contract and up to five one-year extension options. The total portion granted to OSC is at least $27 million during a performance period of up to eight years.
3Dlabs and Sun announced that the Sun Expert3D-Lite professional graphics card will now be available as a standard configuration in Sun Ultra 60, Ultra 80, Sun Blade 100, and Sun Blade 1000 workstations.
Sun launched SunSource.net, a developer Web portal that centralizes critical information on all of Sun's free and open source projects and acts as a focal point as developers inside Sun and throughout the community engage in conversations on open source issues.
Sun has recently secured major contracts with leading U.S. and international corporations. Leader in the U.S. Unix market, Sun Microsystems is ranking No. 2 worldwide in server revenues for the first quarter of 2001, and beating out rivals IBM and HP for the top spot in the U.K., Indian and ASEAN markets, according to Gartner Group and IDC Research, respectively.
Collaborative Strategies LLC (CS), an industry analyst and advisory firm focused on electronic collaboration and knowledge management, released Distributed Project Management: Update 2001; it profiles almost 30 different vendors, and also examines ten trends that are shaping the rapidly evolving distributed project management (DPM) market. On is the movement towards peer-to-peer (P2P) or hybrid (client-server/P2P) products.
Starbase Corp., a provider of end-to-end collaborative products for both the development and management of content and code for e-business applications, today announced the Starbase Collaboration Suite, a framework of integrated Starbase products and best-of-breed partner technologies for a complete end-to-end enterprise and e-business collaborative development process.
Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Limited, IBM, and NEC entered into a partnership to refine features needed to drive Linux further into the enterprise. The companies, implementing a shared common plan to help Linux mature, will work together with the Linux community to develop various open source projects.
Cardianove says it has designed the world's smallest life-saving heart pump using advanced software from IBM and Dassault Systemes that shaved two years off the normal development schedule. The CATIA Solutions computer-aided design software was also used to run complex three-dimensional simulations to help ensure that the miniature device will meet requirements when testing begins early next year. If the tests are successful, cardiac surgeons throughout the world would place the fingertip-sized pump, (22 mm in diameter), inside human hearts to provide breathing relief and to extend the life of patients waiting for transplants.
A new, not-for-profit organization, blueprint WORLDWIDE INC. was announced, along with the unveiling of the world's first public Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND). Founded by IBM and MDS Proteomics, blueprint will administer the BIND database, a comprehensive source of protein interactions that trigger chemical reactions in the body causing healthy or diseased cells.
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