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| 18 June 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 463
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ESI Group and MTS Systems Corporation have closed a strategic business alliance focused on the noise and vibration simulation market. This agreement follows ESI Group recent acquisition of French editor Straco.
A 10 node TeraRack from Scali has been installed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute [DNMI] to perform continuous forecasting of meteorology in and around the larger Norwegian cities. The meteorological parameters generated are basic input to an air quality forecasting model operated in the same cities. The forecasting system is operated on behalf of the Norwegian Road Authority which has sponsored the model development.
From 21st to 23rd June 2001, the 16th International Supercomputer Conference assembles in the International Convention Centre in Heidelberg, Germany. Watch your e-mail for the special editons with the New TOP500 and the other breaking news, later this week on Thursday, or check in at http://www.hoise.com/primeur. We will come back to you with the hottest news items.
Delivering on its promise to provide high-performance processors for the embedded market, NEC Corporation and its semiconductor affiliates in the United States, NEC Electronics Inc., and Europe, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, have expanded the 64-bit MIPSR RISC product offering with the VR5500, a microprocessor developed using NEC's new highly flexible and scalable VR5500 processor architecture. The initial device in a new product family, the VR5500 processor delivers 603 million instructions per second (MIPS) at 300 MHz, achieving one of the highest MIPS per MHz ratios in the industry. This performance is key for designers in the digital consumer, networking and storage markets where extremely high amounts of data must be processed simultaneously and quickly. NEC developed the new VR5500 architecture for scalable performance, enabling the development of future versions of standalone processors with speeds up to 800 MHz.
NEC Corporation has announced the sale of 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. Both series of servers will be marketed only in Japan. In Europe the Express 5800/1000 series will be offered by NEC European Supercomputers Systems as a component of integrated High Performance Computing Solutions in combination with NEC`s SX series supercomputers.
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. The attendees were mostly NEC customers, using shared memory parallel vector supercomputers. During this meeting, there were many interesting presentations, including one by Dr. M. Fukuma, general manager , silicon systems research laboratories, at NEC. He described the latest research and problems to be overcome on technologies, which are expected to reach the market, from NEC in the next five to fifteen years. Some of the most interesting elements of his presentation were proprietary, nevertheless there is enough public domain material of interest, to share with you.
In a sign of continued strong support for emerging technologies in life sciences, Blackstone Technology Group Inc., a provider of high-throughput computing software and services, announced the closing of $12.6 million in Series B venture financing led by Ampersand Ventures. Co-investors included Softbank Investment Corporation, Garfly Invest AG, Itochu International, and Synopsys Inc.
DataSynapse, a provider of peer-to-peer distributed computing software platforms for the financial services and energy sectors, has completed a $15 million round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. New investors include First Union eVentures and Intel Capital.
The Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), created for the advancement and interoperability of peer-to-peer computing, rounded out two full days of presentations and working group sessions with a plan of action and a commitment from over sixty company representatives to take peer-to-peer computing to the next level.
Fakespace Systems Inc. has closed four new contracts to provide immersive displays to organisations involved in energy resource exploration. The sales, to commercial oil and gas companies and leading universities, mark an increased acceptance of the value of visualisation for seismic data analysis and subsurface evaluation.
International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that IBM is the number one server vendor worldwide in terms of factory revenue for the first quarter of 2001, gaining four points of market share in the quarter and outselling rival Sun Microsystems by a 60 percent margin.
Intel Corp. has created the world's fastest silicon transistors, tiny switches that turn on and off nearly 1,000 times more quickly than those that power today's microprocessors.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million, three-year grant to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and National Computational Science Alliance partners at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and Birmingham. The project will support annual teaching fellowships for graduate students in the science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) disciplines at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Alabama.
Cray Inc. received an order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for a Cray SV1 supercomputer with scheduled enhancements. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Sun Microsystems Inc. once again holds the top spot in total UNIX server market shipments and server revenues, according to the latest IDC report for Q1CY'01. Sun overtook the competition to take the No. 1 spot in both worldwide and UNIX midrange market shipments with 19% growth year-over-year, while its second-place competitor posted a 33% decrease in both worldwide and UNIX midrange market shipments during the same period.
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