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| 10 September 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 474
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The Joint Committee of the Nordic Natural Science Research COuncils decided to set up a working group to define the technical requirements for a multi-disciplinary Nordic Data Grid Centre in terms of processing capacity, memory capacity, personnel and connectivity
DutchGrid is the platform for large-scale distributed computing in the Netherlands. Open to all institutions for research and test-bed activities, the goal of DutchGrid is to coordinate the various deployment efforts and to offer a forum for the exchange of experiences on Grid technologies. DutchGrid is based on the Dutch chapter of the European DataGrid project.
MRCCS will organise a one-week Autumn School in High Performance Computing 8-12 October, 2001, Manchester, UK. This year's topic, "HPC and SGI NUMAflex", is concerned with the unique, modular architecture of the Origin 3000 and its future successors.
Danish compressor manufacturer JUN-AIR, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced JUN-AIR's selection of CATIA to replace JUN-AIR's existing CAD system. JUN-AIR will use CATIA V5 to create complex and geometrical designs for silent compressors and vacuum pumps. JUN-AIR is among the world's leading producers of silent compressors.
Sun will grant hardware, including servers and a secure storage system, to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which distributes, develops and supports standards-based open source tools for life science research and data integration. The foundation will use the hardware to update its infrastructure, enabling more reliable and secure distribution of its tools and collaborative services over the Web.
Cray and seismic company Alliant Geophysical will collaborate to reduce the turnaround time of depth imaging projects for oil companies. The companies agreed to make Alliant Geophysical's 3D prestack depth migration software run optimally on Cray T3E highly scalable supercomputer systems.
Zyndecom's new Z Box combines DryIce high compression technology, which can compress still images up to a 4000:1, with Syndeos' synchronization of both software and hardware systems. The Z Box is the first to deliver secure, real time and bi-directional manipulation of data, which is accessible to all software and hardware applications and configurations using fileless relay. It employs artificial intelligence to integrate and compress digital images and related data to facilitate rapid and accurate transfer, even over low-speed connections.
The new release of the Sun Forte Developer suite of products, an integrated set of development tools designed for building enterprise applications includes new debugging and compiling capabilities that enable programmers to debug mixed Java language and native C, C++, and Fortran code on the Solaris 8.
Intel Corporation announced that four individuals from the Compaq Alpha developer team have been appointed to the company's highest technical position, Intel Fellow. The new Intel Fellows are Joel S. Emer, Tryggve Fossum, William J. Grundmann and P. Geoffrey Lowney. Additionally, Intel announced that Daniel J. Casaletto has been appointed vice president, Intel Architecture Group.
United Devices, a distributed computing software and services company, has secured $18.2 million in series B funding from a blue chip group of leading venture capitalists and global corporations. GE Equity, the private equity-investing arm of GE, and Constellation Ventures led the funding with AOL Time Warner Ventures, Intel Capital, and 550 Digital Media Ventures, a Sony Group company, also participating in the round. Previous investors SOFTBANK Venture Capital and Oak Investment Partners invested as well. United Devices will use the funding to help build its sales team, accelerate product development, and increase marketing initiatives.
Structural Bioinformatics and ChemNavigator agreedto combine SBI's proprietary technologies in three-dimensional computational proteomics with ChemNavigator's proprietary technologies in chemistry. The collaborative agreement will facilitate the rapid identification of new drug candidates. Under the terms of the agreement, SBI and its customers can use ChemNavigator's 3-D database of two million drug-like compounds to screen in silico against the 2600 3-D proprietary protein structures in SBI's drug target database. SBI and ChemNavigator will share in revenues generated from the combined use of their technologies.
Hewlett-Packard announced a new family of high-performance business PC and workstation products.
PACT Corporation announced the implementation of a new set of design rules and processes for the company's eXtreme Processor Platform (XPP). XPP is deployed as a licensable IP (Intellectual Property) core for incorporation within SOC or DSP designs used in markets such as 2.5G+ base stations, mobile telephones and other devices requiring fully reconfigurable, massively parallel processing capabilities with minimum power requirements and maximum scalability.
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