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| 27 August 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 472
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Esteem Systems plc, has designed and installed a new IT system for Durham University's Physics Department that will enable the reconstruction of the universe. The machine will be used to extract data from billions of astronomical observations, and analyse how galaxies and solar systems have evolved. With the help of the 'supercomputer', which consists of a Sun Microsystems Sun Fire 6800 and a cluster of 64 Sun Microsystems Sun Blade 1000s, researchers at the University hope to be able to trace events right back to the Big Bang.
Aad van der Steen and Jack Dongarra published the eleventh edition of the report Overview of recent supercomputers in which they give an overview of parallel and vector systems that are commercially available or are expected to become available within a short time frame (typically a few months to half a year). They conclude that the number of systems that enter and leave the market are more or less in balance. There is one architecture emerging: Clusters of RISC based SMP nodes connected by a fast netwok.
Subjects for this year's HFN workshop on September 26 and 27 in Geneva are: are: High performance networking, the Grid project, Network Storage (SST, iSCSI, SAN's, etc), and cluster computing.
Compagnie Generale de Geophysique ("CGG"), a supplier of services and products to the worldwide oil and gas industry, is upgrading its Houston processing center with 384 Dell servers running the Red Hat Linux operating system. The installation is part of a CGG initiative to increase its global computing power by more than 500 percent.
Since 1973 the top team Jack Dongarra, Hans Meuer and Erich Strohmaier publish the top 500 list twice a year, the odd number in June at Meuer's Supercomputer Conference, now in Heidelberg located, and the even lists at the IEEE SC conference. In the beginning it was quite interesting to analyse the list. But during the years it developed a life of its own, driven by the "marketers" of the HPC vendors. This view highlights two sides, the political and the analytical aspects. It is a personal view and summarises some discussions and a talk given by me at the Hewlett-Packard HPC users group meeting in Barcelona last year.
The Austrialian governement will fund the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACESS) with a grant of AU$4.80 million. The Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACESS) will consist of integrated software systems for multi-scale, multi-physics simulations and visualisation of earth systems combined with thematic parallel supercomputer hardware required for three-dimensional earth simulations. ACESS will be located at the University of Queensland, with nodes in Melbourne and Perth.
Chichen Itza, Uxmal and other critically important and threatened archaeological sites in the world will come back to "life" in virtual reality thanks to Indiana University researchers in Indianapolis and Bloomington and IBM High Performance Storage System (HPSS) technology that is deployed over a wide area network.
Turbolinux' new EnFuzion 7.0, is clustering technology that transforms a company's existing network of Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows servers or workstations into one supercomputer. environment.
This workshop provides a forum for the burgeoning fields of feedback-directed and dynamic optimization. It will be held, Austin, Texas December 2, 2001. Submission deadline: October 12.
Fakespace Systems offers a digital version of the CAVE, and an upgrade kit to enhance existing immersive room environments with digital projection technology. The digital CAVE provides extremely bright, colorful, sharp and stable imagery, significantly expanding its power and flexibility for engineers, designers and researchers using visualization for enhanced collaboration and better understanding of complex volumetric data.
A consortium of institutions led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will receive $10 million to build a national virtual engineering laboratory, or "collaboratory," for designing earthquake-safe structures. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the award, which is part of its George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) project. The integrated NEES network, called NEESgrid, will link earthquake engineering research sites across the country, provide data storage facilities and repositories, and offer remote access to the latest research tools.
IBM and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will collaborative. At the heart of the agreement is IBM's Blue Gene research project, which combines advanced protein science with IBM's next-generation cellular architecture supercomputer design.
The maps may point the way to understanding how those structures perform functions such as transporting a drug like taxol to a binding site so it can do its work in treating breast cancer. The calculations were performed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD on Blue Horizon, a large IBM SP supported by the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI).
A unit of Williams announced a $10 million strategic alliance with the University of Oklahoma (OU) to enhance weather and climate research, technology development, and undergraduate and graduate meteorology education. This commercial arrangement, the largest of its kind in the U.S. between a private corporation and a university meteorology program, is a mutually beneficial agreement that allows OU to expand its top-tier meteorology programs while Williams receives exclusive weather analysis and forecasting tools.
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