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| 23 July 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 467
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During the meeting of the Supercomputer group of ZKI (Centres for Communication and Information - the German academic and research computer centres) the names of the National Co-ordination Board for the Procurement and Usage of High-Performance Computer have been named. The Wissenschaftsrat proposed this board in a paper "Recommendations for the future usage of High-Performance Computing" on May 12, 2000 (Drs. 4558/00). The task of this board, the names of the members and the recommendations will be discussed.
SuSE Linux is shipping its 7.2 release, the first Linux operating system for Intel's 64-bit Itanium-based systems.
SuSE Linux will lay-off 10% of its workforce: about 50 employees. The company has also named Johannes Nussbickel as new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
ACE Associated Compiler Experts said its CoSy compiler development platform received recognition for its leading-edge compiler development capabilities by being awarded an 'LSI Design of the Year' Excellence Award at this year's Embedded Systems Expo and Conference (ESEC) in Tokyo Japan
3Dlabs has developed an optimized Wildcat driver for the AMD Athlon MP processor. The Wildcat driver supports the AMD Athlon MP processor's Smart-MP multiprocessor capability as well as additional instructions in 3DNow! Professional, thereby accelerating the 3D graphics pipeline between the AMD Athlon MP processor and the Wildcat graphics card.
Compaq Computer Corporation launched a major strategic initiative to change the way technology and services are provided to enterprise customers around the globe. Called Computing on Demand, the initiative is a set of new solutions that give customers a broad range of computing resources when they need them, where they need them, and at a predictable price and performance level - similar to buying IT as a utility.
On July 17, Compaq and Intel discussed their cooperation in a press meeting with Mary McDowell, Senior Vice President and Group General Manager Industry-Standard Server Group, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Ajay Malhotra, Director Enterprise marketing Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa. Additionally a fact sheet on the Compaq and Intel announcement has been presented.
On the press meeting, Andre Brynard, Product Manager Industry Standard Server Group, Compaq EMEA, presented the coming product Quick Blade. These computers are space and technology optimised. Today 48 1U (pizzabox) servers can be put into one rack. With blades this goes up to 280 processors. Brynard gave a short overview of the business perspectives and the technology. As this a non-announced product, the audience did not get a copy of the slides
Ajay Malhotra discussed Intel's view of the announcement. He highlighted the cost aspects, the business' needs and the initiatives with Compaq.
Mary McDowell gave a short overview on the announcement, the 64-bit development, the investment protection and the future of the different platforms. Compaq is converging of all 64-bit enterprise servers, ProLiant, AlphaServer and Himalaya on the Intel IA-64 processor line. It starts the full port of Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS, NonStop Kernel and the NonStop middleware to IA-64 architecture - the work has just begun. It will be finalised probably in early 2003.
IBM has selected a customized version of the Emulex LightPulse LP9002 HBA to provide the Fibre Channel storage connectivity for IBM's new eServer iSeries solutions.
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund today announced the expansion of the Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing (OCGC). Using a 192-processor SGI Origin 3800 system with 178 GBbyte of memory and 2.7 tbyte of disk, the OCGC provides the world's largest publicly available computational supercomputer focused solely on biological research.
Cray has lowered its expectations for its revenues in the previous quarter. The company is also reducing costs, and reducing its work force with 30 (about 3%).
The largest Linux-based installation Singapore is now located at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA). The two organizations have installed a total of 100 nodes in two clusters.
SUN has been conducting a pilot program with The Boeing Company to deploy Sun's new iForce High Performance Computing (HPC) Storage Area Network (SAN) solution. The HPC SAN is the first dedicated high-speed storage network suited to the HPC and Technical Computing environments, enabling efficient, high-speed data storage and access across heterogeneous computing platforms. With the HPC SAN solution, customers benefit from increased efficiency, cost savings and faster product and solution development.
The New Productivity Initiative (NPi) released its draft reference model, a layered set of open APIs for Distributed Resource Management DRM). Prior to this public release of the reference model, NPi submitted the document to industry experts from a number of sectors for peer review. The next stage in the specification process will be the creation of a design model that will include a description of the objects, data schema interactions, and protocols.
Auspex Systems announced that its new NS3010 enterprise data server is processing up to 19,755 I/O operations per second in SPECsfs97 benchmark testing - more than 20 percent faster than the latest filers from its leading competitors. SPECsfs97 is an established standard for measuring Unix-based Network File Services (NFS) file server performance across different vendor platforms.
Terraspring a grid computing software company, appointed Gregory Corgan senior vice president of world wide field operations. Corgan will be responsible for professional services and customer support, as well as sales and business development at Terraspring.
Blackstone Technology has a new family of High-Throughput Computing (HTC) Services. Blackstone's HTC Services are geared toward designing and optimizing computing environments based on customer's scientific applications, processes, and computing goals.
Synopsys and Platform formed an alliance to advance simulation farm technology by enhancing integration between Synopsys' VCS Verilog simulator and Platform Computing's LSF (Load Sharing Facility) software to increase the ease-of-use and efficiency of simulation server farms. Simulation server farms allow verification engineers to use a group of computers (server farm) to run several simulations simultaneously, thereby increasing simulation throughput by several orders of magnitude compared to a single computer simulation.
Terra Soft and Total Impact will partner for the tight integration and sales of Total Impact's briQ with Terra Soft's Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux operating systems. Terra Soft now offers the briQ as a stand-alone Yellow Dog Linux computational node or integrated into a 4 and 8 node cluster with Black Lab Linux installed and configured. Total Impact is bundling the full Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 package with each unit sale of the briQ, enhanced with the installation of Black Lab Linux upon request.
TurboGenomics a provider of high-performance parallel and distributed bioinformatics software, released TurboBLAST, for Mac OS X, Apple's next-generation operating system. TurboBLAST is an accelerated, parallel implementation of the unmodified BLAST homology search application distributed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). TurboBLAST enables scientists to increase productivity by removing the computational bottleneck in the widely used BLAST application.
IBM and the Korea Institute of Science Technology and Information (KISTI) entered a $27 million agreement in which IBM will provide a 4.24 Tflop/s eServer supercomputer for use in Korea's life science and high performance computing research efforts.
GGF2, held July 15-18 in Washington, DC attracted 340 participants. Twenty countries and 180 organizations were present at GGF2 In total 36 draft papers were discussed, 6 tutorials were offered, and 2 full days of updates were held ranging from individual project updates to funding initiative plans in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. GGF3 will be held in Italy, this Fall.
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