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| 09 July 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 465
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Copenhagen has been selected as the site for the secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). According to Christoph Haeuser, a leading biodiversity researcher at the State Museum in Stuttgart and the Chair of the GBIF Governing Board, "This decision puts GBIF on a firm footing. It now will have a home base from which to fulfill its goal of linking together the world’s biodiversity databases."
IBM announced specially-priced, pre-packaged bundles that enable companies to deploy powerful e-business infrastructure solutions quickly and easily. By combining industry-leading IBM eServer UNIX servers and disk storage systems with database, storage management, and e-business software, the bundles provide organizations with a rock-solid foundation for the complete spectrum of e-business and traditional business applications.
The Royal Dutch/ShellGroup of companies (Shell) and IBM have signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement. This alliance supports Shell's creation of three world wide hubs to standardize and consolidate its IT Applications Infrastructure. Company officials expect the value of this agreement to exceed USD $100 million. Shell's MegaCentre will initially provide infrastructure for SAP and eBusiness solutions. A single-source arrangement has been agreed with IBM as the prime supplier of the hardware for MegaCentre.
The VECPAR'2002, 5th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, to be held June 26-28, 2002 Porto, Portugal, has released a call for papers.
Pallas is marketing the PBS Pro batch system. The Portable Batch System, PBS, is a workload management system for HPC computers and Linux clusters. PBS was originally designed for NASA because existing resource management systems were inadequate for modern parallel/distributed computers and clusters.
The scientific program of the Conference on Computational Physic, CCP 2001, 5. to 8. September, in Eurogress Aachen is now finished. The event is organised by John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Research Center Juelich. The program is published on the conference web server.
The NCSA and the Shell Linux clusters are the fastest clusters in the world, according to the latest edition of the Top500 supercomputers list. The cluster of 512 dual-processor Pentium III IBM eServer x330 thin servers ranked 30th overall on the list with a sustained performance level of 594 Gflop/s and a peak performance level of just over 1 Tflop/s. An identical cluster owned by Shell Oil Company ranked at 31.
The Tokyo Institute of Technology's PRESTO III-a server cluster containing 78 AMD Athlon processors-was ranked in the Top 500 list released at the June 2001 International Supercomputer Conference held in Heidelberg, Germany. The PRESTO III marks the first time an AMD processor-based supercomputer has made the TOP500 list.
The National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) in the USA is launching a software deployment effort this summer that promises to make it easier and faster for the US national research community to take advantage of new technologies developed by the Alliance and its lead institution, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This deployment effort--called the In-a-Box initiative--consists of four interrelated software packages: Cluster-in-a-Box, Grid-in-a-Box, Access Grid-in-a-Box, and Display Wall-in-a-Box.
NEC has licensed compiler technology from Intel Corporation. NEC will use the Intel compiler technology to develop the FORTRAN95 and C/C++ compilers targeting the Linux-based NEC Express5800/1160Xa, based on the Intel Itanium processor.
Intel Corporation announced availability of the Intel Pentium 4 processor at 1.8 GHz, the company's highest-performance microprocessor for desktop computers. Intel also introduced a Pentium 4 processor at 1.6 GHz.
The Future Research Corporation (FRC) of the US Naval Oceanographic Office will upgrade its Cray SV1EX system The subcontract with Cray calls for a 64-processor Cray SV1ex supercomputer upgrade to be complete in the third quarter of 2001 at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) in Stennis Space Center, Miss. NAVOCEANO currently operates one of the largest SV1-4 clusters in the world. The NAVOCEANO Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) is a provider of high performance computing (HPC) services and support to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), supporting over 5,000 scientists and engineers engaged in DoD research and development activities.
Cray is collaborating with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop bioinformatics research tools substantially more powerful than those available today. Bioinformatics is a high-potential market that involves applying computer technology to biology and medicine. In an initial demonstration project, scientists at the NCI's Advanced Biomedical Computing Center in Frederick, Md., produced a comprehensive map of short tandem repeat sequences (STRs) - often used as gene markers - for the entire human genome. Using the Cray SV1 supercomputer located at the NCI, computations that previously took hours are being completed in seconds.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Compaq Computer Corporation will provide an industry-standard, high-performance computing platform based on the easy-to-use open-source NPACI Rocks Clustering Toolkit from SDSC and Compaq's ProLiant line of servers.
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