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| 30 July 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 468
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The Sun Grid Engine Project, is a new initiative to offer the source code for Sun Grid Engine software to users and the developer community. Sun Grid Engine software is an advanced distributed resource management (DRM) tool. It has been available as a free download since its introduction in September 2000.
ZAM (Central Institute of Mathematics) at Research Centre Jülich stops the operation on the Cray T90 and moves to a Cray SV1ex with 16 processors and 32 GByte memory.
ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics), Research Centre Jülich, recently announced, a dedicated UNICORE (Uniform Interface for Computer Resources) Test Grid is now available. UNICORE realised a uniform batch access to different computers. This test version can be used for functionality tests.
Viaken and InforSense are developing a marketing and distribution partnership for the Kensington data mining and visualization suite in the life science domain. The Kensington suite will be offered by Viaken as part of its set of hosted solutions and professional services products. Kensington customers will benefit from Viaken's expertise in the design, deployment, and management of fully integrated end-to-end research informatics solutions.
NAG and IACR-Rothamsted fomed a new joint subsidiary company, VSN International Ltd, for the purposes of developing and marketing best-of-breed statistics and related analytical software and services.
The Sun Starfire, includes new 466 MHz UltraSPARC II CPU modules and a host of other features
Sun released the HPC ClusterTools 4 software. It provides high performance computing (HPC) capabilities designed specifically for resource-intensive, high performance and technical computing environments. Sun HPC ClusterTools 4 is a complete suite to develop and manage a workload of highly resource-intensive applications on individual Sun systems, as well as clusters of these systems.
Fakespace Systems Inc., specialised in immersive visualisation systems, and StereoGraphics Corporation, a major supplier of stereoscopic visualisation products, have partnered to make available the world's most powerful infrared (IR) transmitter for use in immersive environments. The new Extended Range Emitter, that is jointly developed by the two companies, offers a strong signal, covering an expanded area, for reliable stereo viewing in large-scale visualisation systems such as the WorkWall, CAVE, and RAVE.
The Institute for Chemical Research of Kyoto University, in eastern Japan, is preparing to install a 800 processor SGI supercomputer to analyze genetic information.
Commonwealth Biotechnologies CBTE and bayMountain have signed a letter of intent to develop and commercialise rapid, "user-friendly" methods to help interpret and mine the data present in genome databases. Both companies see an opportunity to combine state-of-the-art computer bioinformatic analyses with DNA sequence determination and protein structure determination.
PACT, the designer of the fast 32-bit signal processor architecture, XPU 128, is making these fully parallel and reconfigurable IP (intellectual property) cores immediately available as an "algorithmic co-processor" for leading CPU and DSP vendors. Using advanced parallel and reconfigurable technologies from the company's eXtreme Processor Platform (XPP), the IP core can map any form of algorithm into multiple individual ALUs (Arithmetic Logic Units) arranged in an array inside the core.
IBM introduced a new Linux-based server consolidation solution targeted to mid-market customers seeking alternatives to server farms. With the IBM eServer iSeries running Linux, mid-size businesses can use partitioning technology, a resource for server consolidation previously available only to IBM's enterprise customers on its flagship eServer z900 mainframe. Partitioning allows customers to replace dozens of servers with multiple virtual servers on one physical box.
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