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| 15 October 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 479
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An international consortium, set up by ESA for the SpaceGRID study, will study how GRID applications can benefit space science, Earth observation, space weather and spacecraft engineering. The project aims to assess how GRID technology can serve requirements across a large variety of space disciplines, sketch the design of an ESA-wide GRID infrastructure, foster collaboration and enable shared efforts across space applications. It will analyse the highly complicated technical aspects of managing, accessing, exploiting and distributing large amounts of data, and set up test projects to see how well the GRID performs at carrying out specific tasks in Earth observation, space weather, space science and spacecraft engineering.
Mentor Graphics added ACE Associated Compiler Expert (ACE) to its Certified Technology Provider (CTP) program. As a CTP member, ACE will offer its CoSycompiler development system to members of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Technology Adoption Program (ETAP), enabling companies to generate high-quality compilers for use with their embedded processors and digital signal processors (DSPs). The widely used ACE compiler technology together with Mentor's leading XRAYDebugger will provide ETAP members with access to a powerful, yet easy to use software development environment.
RedIRIS has selected Juniper Networks M-series routers for the deployment of the first phase of a high-speed, ultra-reliable multiservice IP network. RedIRIS is the National Academic and Research Network for more than 250 research and education facilities in Spain.
The First Cracow Grid Workshop will be held in Cracow, Poland, November 5 - 6, 2001. The objective of the Workshop is to create and support a collaborative community of researchers, developers, practitioners and potential users in Poland and in the neighbouring countries who work in the fascinating field of grid technologies.
Fakespace has demonstrated the latest release of ENOVIA DMU (digital mock-ups) Solutions, Dassault Systèmes' solution for collaboration and visualisation, supporting full immersive environment capabilities in the CAVE (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment).
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time filter technologies that power the information-on-demand economy, today announced the launch of FAST Data Search, the first customizable software solution designed specifically to tackle the real-time data-intensive search and information retrieval challenges of large-scale enterprises. Target markets include e-businesses, financial services, healthcare, government, retail, travel, and other markets that have high query/data volumes and need large amounts of historical transaction and corporate data online.
The Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University, which has supported chemistry studies of all kinds since early in the 20th century, has become the site of one of the biggest supercomputers in Japan with the purchase of a 768-CPU parallel SGI system. ICR will use the system to further its work in bioinformatics and computational chemistry research.
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals has selected Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful and easy-to-manage cluster computing solutions, and is now using a Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster to aid in creating pharmaceuticals for the treatment of human disease and illness such as influenza and hepatitis C.
The SGI Origin 300 base server module holds two or four MIPS 64-bit processors, up to 4 GByte of memory and two disk drives in only 3.5 inches of rack space, or about the size of a briefcase.
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has opened its newest supercomputer - a 3,328-processor IBM RS/6000 SP system - to more than 2,000 researchers at national laboratories and universities across the country. The IBM SP, named "Seaborg" in honor of Berkeley Lab Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg, is capable of performing five trillion calculations per second (5 teraflop/s).
At this time of widely fluctuating energy costs and an uncertain economy, large energy users are seeking new ways to monitor and control all enterprise-wide energy and water-related expenses. To address this demand, Industrial Peer-to-Peer (Ip2) LLC introduced a new solution for Enterprise Energy Management, based on its proven eDNA process historian.
OIP closed a five year US$30 million loan with Allied Boston Bank Inc. The loan facility will be used for general corporate purposes. OIP's Omnigon's Proph-IT Technology turns networks into supercomputers by analyzing massive amounts of data and delivering solutions to combinatorial explosive problems that are currently unsolvable on standard computer platforms.
Einux, in conjunction with AMD, launched the fastest 1U rackmount servers available in the industry with AMD's new Athlon MP 1500+, 1600+ and 1800+ multiprocessing processors. When combined with Einux's Compact Server Architecture (CSA), 42 FlyBird 1Us are capable of processing over 250 Gigaflops and storing over 12 terabytes of data, all in one industry standard 19" rack cabinet, making it perfect for high-end computing applications.
Platform Computing announced record revenue for fiscal year 2001 ended July 31, 2001. Total revenue grew by 34% to US$46.2 million, marking the company's ninth consecutive fiscal year of profitable growth.
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