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| 03 September 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 473
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Dolphin Interconnect announced WulfKit with MPI communication libraries for Intel's IA64 Itanium platform developed by Dolphin partner Scali AS. This combination now delivers record-breaking performance, with greater than 300 Mbytes per second transfer rates and less than 4 microseconds latency between user processes in different nodes, Dolphin is setting new standards by which to measure inter-node communication performance in a HPC cluster.
Entropia announced the evaluation of its distributed computing platform by leading healthcare company Novartis. The pilot program will demonstrate how the existing network of PCs at Novartis can be transformed into a high-performance compute engine to accelerate drug discovery research. The pilot will be supported locally by Entropia's European office in Cambridge, England.
Scali has enhanced the performance of Scali's MPI, ScaMPI, hosted on Intel Itanium servers and broke the 300 MBytes/s barrier. The new release of ScaMPI, to be included in the upcoming SSP 3.0, improves performance on certain transfers in excess of 40%, compared to previous releases.
The WilliamsF1 team is accelerating the pace of Formula 1 race car design with a new supercomputing system from Compaq Computer Corporation. Using Compaq's powerful Tru64 UNIX-based AlphaServer SC series computing platform, the WilliamsF1 team can conduct virtual aerodynamic tests, such as the simulated performance of aerodynamic devices-in a matter of hours, instead of the weeks it used to take. The new supercomputing capabilities also give the team more time to experiment with a greater number of possible designs.
Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University launched three new laboratories to research diverse aspects of pervasive computing. Pervasive Technology Labs will ultimately house six distinct labs, including the Advanced Network Management Lab, Open Systems Lab and Community Grids Lab. The Community Grids Lab, directed by Dr. Geoffrey Fox, will focus on grid computing, integrating peer-to-peer computing with distributed processing, and parallel computing, converging IT research in the areas of architecture and middleware for computing grids.
Scientists who use the computational resources provided through the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program can now find all the information they need at the new paci web site. It combines information about the two PACI partnerships--the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) and the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance)--and the Terascale Computing System at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) on a site that is easy to use and focused exclusively on the needs of researchers who use high-performance computing systems. Each year more than 5,000 scientists from across the U.S. use PACI resources for simulation, data analysis, and scientific visualization.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a collaboration between UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has signed a contract with SGI. As a first step an SGI Onyx 3400 visualization system has been installed.
High-performance computing industry veteran John Levesque has joined Cray as senior technologist. Among his accomplishments, Levesque created and led IBM Research's Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC).
Performance tests conducted by Sendmail and IBM demonstrate that a single IBM eServer z900 mainframe can support more than 2 million users, making it the largest single-server email systems on Linux available in the industry.
The MPICH group at Argonne MPICH is an open-source, portable implementation of the Message-Passing Interface Standard. It contains a complete implementation of version 1.2 of the MPI Standard and also significant parts of MPI-2, particularly in the area of parallel I/O.released version 1.2.2 of MPICH, the portable MPI implementation.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will install a powerful new IBM eServer supercomputer for scientific research that promises to significantly improve the U.S. government's ability to predict long-range climate trends as well as tackle a wide spectrum of other scientific projects.
Stratus Technologies said that Toshiba Corporation will re-brand and sell the Stratus ftServer 5200 fault-tolerant server in Japan as the Toshiba MAGNIA FT5200 system. Through an agreement reached with Stratus Technologies Japan, Toshiba will be able to offer its customers an industry-standard server that makes continuously available computing a cost-effective option for virtually any Windows 2000 application requiring high levels of uptime.
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