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| 24 September 2001 |
EuroFlash no.476
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3Dlabs' Wildcat II 5110 professional graphics card with Genlock and Multiview capabilities is being used by the British Broadcasting Corporation's Research and Development Department to explore new ways of creating advanced, easy to use, lower-cost virtual production studios.
The second International Workshop on Grid Computing will be held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2001, November 12, 2001, Denver, USA.
ESI Group's revenues for the first half of 2001 reached 19.14 million euro, which corresponds to a growth rate of 7,2% compared to the first half-2000. Recent acquisitions account for 1.2 % of the growth rate. Given a constant exchange rate, volume growth rate would be close to 9.6%. The general economic slowdown observed during the first quarter was amplified during the 2nd quarter, though performances were uneven across regions.
SURA and the University of Kentucky, with support from the Army Research Laboratory, are co-sponsoring the Computational Chemistry Grid Conference, October 16 -17. This conference is designed to build connections between the developments in computational chemistry and the user community, and to provide a "bridge" between various Internet protocols that are being used to share information. This is the first Internet conference to use technology to link Mbone and H.323 technologies into a single distributed environment.
The Asia Pacific Grid Workshop 2001 will take place October 22-24, 2001, Tokyo Japan. Presenters from academia and industry will discuss and demonstrate the latest in grid systems and major grid computing application. Representatives from grid forums in the Asia-Pacific region, the US and Europe will talk about current and future grid projects.
Totalview release 5 is available from Pallas. New features of this debugger are support for AIX, and enhanced support for Linux. Also parallel processing support has been improved.
A team of researchers lead by Vincent Crespi, the Downsborough Associate Professor of Physics at Penn State University, has used supercomputer simulations to discover carbon fibers with mechanical strength comparable to that of diamond.
Structural GenomiX inked a multi-million dollar agreement with Compaq to develop SGX's high performance structural informatics systems. SGX will purchase a complete Compaq technology solution including Compaq AlphaServer systems, ProLiant servers running Linux, StorageWorks and services. SGX's drug discovery efforts will be speeded up by increasing SGX's ability to run its high-throughput protein modeling, molecular dynamics and chemical docking programs on a genomic scale.
Hewlett-Packard announced PA-8700 processor-based systems. The PA-8700 processor, based on PA-RISC technology, is available for the high-end flagship HP Server Superdome, the mid-range HP Server rp7400 (formerly the N-class) and HP Server rp8400 systems and the HP Workstations c3700 and j6700.
In addition to the Superdome enhancements, Hewlett-Packard also announced a mid-range HP Server rp8400. Using up to 16 PA-RISC 8700 processors the HP Server rp8400 extends HP's mid-range UNIX server offerings, which include the up-to-8-processor HP Server rp7400, formerly known as the N-class server.
Pegasus Technologies has selected PV-WAVE as the data visualization engine of its combustion optimization system for the electric power generation industry.
A 32-node cluster of Compaq ProLiant DL760 servers has achieved a new world-record performance TPC-C benchmark result of 709,220.08 transactions per minute (tpmC) at a cost of only $14.96 per tpmC.
Six companies have combined resources to establish the Fault Tolerant Server Consortium (FTSC). Launched in Japan, the consortium expects to grow into a worldwide organization as more IT product manufacturers bring fault-tolerant products to market.
Sarnoff was awarded a $5,219,535 contract for the development of advanced video and imagery processing techniques by the US Department of Defence. It will also investigate the utility of performing these operations on PC-type computing platforms rather than supercomputers.
Charlie Slocomb, volunteer chairman of the SC2001 Executive Committee, today reassured conference registrants, exhibitors, sponsors and other interested parties that SC2001 will yield all the rewards originally envisioned--and more. Slated for November 10-16 in the Denver Convention Center, SC2001 is the international forum and exhibition on high-performance computing and high-speed data communication.
CommerceNet has chosen the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), as one of two institutions to host its Next-Generation Internet (NGI) Application Centers. The NGI Centers will promote the development, incubation, and demonstration of new business and consumer applications that will take advantage of the evolving Internet.
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