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| 16 July 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 466
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The next High-performance networking workshop, HNF-Europe, will be organised by CERN and HNF-Europe and will take place on September 26 - 27, 2001 at CERN
The objective of this conference, to be held August 26-28, 2002, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), will be to present, discuss, and explore latest technical developments in the emerging field of pervasive computing as well as potential future directions and issues. Leaving aside low-level hardware and transmission technology topics as well as peripheral socio-economic aspects, the conference will focus on technical infrastructure and application issues.
Géant, the pan-European research network, has taken a major step forward with the signature of three milestone contracts for the provision of multi-Gigabit connectivity, which forms the heart of the new network. The contracts, signed by Dante, the co-ordinating partner of the project, on behalf of the consortium of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) from 27 European countries, have been closed with Colt Telecom, Telia International Carrier, and T-Systems.
The well-known cluster of PC2 in Paderborn was the first and the biggest computer in Fujitsu Siemens Computers' hpcLine. It was delivered in 1999. Now the old Pentium II nodes have been exchanged by Pentium III. This is the first time, machines have been upgraded in the field. The computing power grew from 86.4 GFlop/s peak performance to 163 GFlop/s.
Compaq has a long commitment to the open source community. Now the company expands its Linux leadership with six strategic initiatives to meet the customers demand for enterprise Linux solutions. It spans from the infrastructure to the edge of the network. Compaq's new Linux-focused initiatives and capabilities include: high-performance Beowulf clustering; a program for interoperability and portability between Linux and UNIX; Single System Image clustering technology for Linux ant the open source community; investment and participation in a Linux lab with Oracle; training and certifying system engineersl; fostering development of Linux applications for handheld devices.
Compaq now is extremely active to provide Linux solutions. It starts at the edge of the network and goes into the heart of the IT infrastructure. Examples are the Compaq iPAQ handheld devices, the Compaq Professional Workstations to market-leading, industry-standard Intel IA-32 based ProLiant servers and high-performance AlphaServer systems. Especially in Compaq's HPC (High-Performance Computing) world Linux is an important operating system. Now the company offers a broad spectrum of Linux-based platforms and offers its customers a solution that fits their needs. An other aspect is the certifying of platforms with major Linux distributors, the availability and the support. Compaq provides a global 24x7 support in Compaq call centres world-wide and professional services for IT assessment, architecture/design, implementation/integration and on-site management and training.
In the most precise astrophysics experiment ever made, Australian and U.S. astronomers have used CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope to measure the distortion of space-time near a star 450 light-years (more than 4 000 million million kilometres) from Earth. The researchers have dedicated an entire supercomputer, one of Australia's largest, to keep pace with the terabytes of data streaming from Parkes.
Entropia and TurboGenomics will collaboratw to run TurboGenomics' TurboBLAST accelerated sequence comparison tool on the Entropia high-performance distributed computing platform. This will allow TurboBlast to be run on large corporate networks of many thousands of PCs, enabling fast analysis of databases that were too large to effectively analyze before.
MPI Software Technology said that the new 330 processor super cluster at The Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Mississippi State University installed its high-performance software MPI/Pro.
Mercury Computer Systems will supply Northrop Grumman Corporation with its RACE systems for use in the Federal Aviation Administration's Weather Systems Processor (WSP). The WSP is a significant enhancement to the Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR-9) system produced by Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector (ES3), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
Tokyo-based Japan Science and Technology Corp. (JST) has chosen an SGI Reality Center facility for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. The SGI Reality Center will be one of the main exhibits within this eight-story, 355,000-square-foot museum. This immersive, 3D visualization environment seats 40 participants in a theater setting with a 120-degree cylindrical screen. It features an InfiniteReality3 graphics subsystem in an Onyx2 system with three graphics pipes, projected on three Barco high-precision projectors. The computer graphics system consists of eight CPUs and four GByte memory.
Fakespace Systems, has signed a contract with the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command's (TACOM) National Automotive Center (NAC) to collaborate on the development of innovative immersive displays and advanced devices for interacting with computer-generated visual simulations. The joint development project is part of the USA federal government's Dual Use Science and Technology (DUST) program, which is designed to share the benefits of technology between the defense and the private sector.
Researchers at the US Center for Computational Electromagnetics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm to solve complex electromagnetic problems that is eight times faster than the previous fastest algorithm, a feat that will impact the analysis of electromagnetic scattering and allow complex real-world problems to be solved using computer simulations. Compute work has been done on a 128-processor SGI Origin2000 supercomputer
Platform Computing and the US DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) have succeeded in creating a secure Internet computing grid that connects five DoD shared resource centers. The first phase of the production grid project will ultimately connect nine DoD locations across the United States. In total, the nine sites will form a computational grid of nearly 600 processors.
The New Productivity Initiative (NPi), and the Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), both established fourth quarter of 2000, will become members of each other's respective organizations as a result of a collaboration agreement between the two organisations.
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