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| 01 October 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 477
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Enterasys Networks Inc. will participate in CERN's powerful new LHC Computing Grid. Led by CERN, the project is an international collaborative effort designed to create a new giant data-intensive computing environment. The Grid will handle vast amounts of data generated from experiments at its forthcoming multi-billion dollar particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The accelerator is to be commissioned in 2005 and will be the most powerful device of its kind ever built.
DANTE has selected Juniper Networks M160 Internet backbone routers for the brand new Pan-European research and education (R&E) network GEANT. The M160 routers will be supplied and installed by Juniper Networks systems integration partner Dimension Data.
Entropia will integrate its enterprise software with that of the Globus toolkit. Entropia's Enterprise distributed computing grid software harnesses this power from very large numbers of installed Windows PC's. Globus' software harnesses this power mainly from non-PC computers.
Othnet Inc. will demonstrate its complete file search and exchange, peer-to-peer (P2P) software at the worldwide Peer to Peer Conference in Washington.
Aberdeen Group, a market analysis and positioning services firm, states that innovative Peer-to-Peer (P-to-P) technologies are moving from consumer playthings - such as MP3 sharing - to the enterprise market. P-to-P architectures use desktops, laptops and mobile devices as active nodes on the Internet, which enable users to establish direct connections between people, access diverse content resources and remotely use physical resources such as processing power.
Petapeer Holdings, a developer of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, has transitioned from start-up phase and has recorded its first revenues from commercial operations. The company reported that it has begun to generate advertising revenues from its Web site, which offers its popular Gnotella software for download.
A group of university-led organisations and research centres across the United States will work together on a $12 million project to develop middleware, software which allows scientists and educators to share applications, scientific instruments and data, and collaborate with their colleagues across the Internet.
The USC School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute will share as a major partner in a $12.1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new ways of sharing one-of-kind scientific instruments, data, and programmes. NSF announced the award today.
Cray has received an order for a Cray T3E supercomputer system upgrade to be placed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The subcontract with Computer Sciences Corporation, ERDC's Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) integration contractor, calls for a Cray T3E system upgrade to be completed in the third quarter of 2001. The upgrade will increase the Cray T3E configuration from 512 to 768 application processors.
IBM has shipped its 1,000th IBM eServer z900 to Boscov's, the largest family-owned department store company in the U.S. Boscov's plans to consolidate its Windows NT server farm on a single z900 running Linux.
The Liberty Alliance Project wants to establish business and technology solutions to provide an open, federated solution for network identity. The charter members of the Liberty Alliance Project, representing a billion names across customers, business partners and employees, intend to create an open, federated solution for network identity - enabling ubiquitous single sign-on across multiple web sites, and eventually across multiple devices connected to the Internet. The service will provide distributed authentication, and open, platform-neutral network authorization, from any device connected to the Internet, from traditional desktop computers and cellular phones to credit cards, automobiles and point-of-sale terminals.
Intel introduced what it said to be the world's fastest processor for dual processor, high-performance workstations. The 2 Gigahertz Intel Xeon processor, based on the NetBurst microarchitecture, targets high-performance and mid-range workstation market segments and is expected to achieve performance increases of more than 10 percent over existing Intel Xeon processors.
Tadpole and Platform Computing launched "PowerBack", a pioneering initiative to reduce the escalating energy costs of data centres around the world. With PowerBack, data centres will be able to minimise their power requirements as computing demand fluctuates, or to take advantage of off-peak energy rates. They will also make further energy savings through reduced usage of kW-hungry air conditioning in rooms that house idle computer systems.
Promia Incorporated, a developer of next-generation Internet Security products, has been awarded by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) $7,000,000 to test and deliver twenty Advanced Internet Security systems. This procurement represents Phase III of a U.S. Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programme and compliments a multi-year research and development effort by Promia and the U.S. Navy to design and build the systems.
Michael P. Haydock, a former IBM Global Services and Control Data executive, is the new president and chief executive officer of Cray. Haydock will lead Cray's global operations and work with James Rottsolk, chairman.
Firstlogic and Torrent Systems will extend their strategic partnership and make available a powerful solution that will enable customers to perform sophisticated information quality processing on massive data volumes.
Compaq AlphaServer systems will be the computer platform that GTSI supplies for its Maxi-Minis and Databases (MMAD-G) contract. The five-year GTSI contract has a government-evaluated value of $857 million if all options are exercised.
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