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| 22 October 2001 |
EuroFlash no. 480
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During the Systems Fair in Munich, 15. to 19. October, Uwe Harms discussed some HPC topics with presenting vendors like Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NEC and Sun Microsystems. Compaq did not exhibit.
RealScale Technologies has validated Beowulf High Performance Computing on its innovative Intel-based Blade Server cluster. From scientific applications to transaction processing, RealScale's Linux i-Cluster is ready to facilitate the execution of heavy-duty applications and to provide an affordable, scalable and highly-available computing solution.
The Dutch national research network SURFnet will use the newly announced ExpressRoute IP VPN service from Global Crossing for the direct connection between its POP in Amsterdam and the StarLight research facility in Chicago in the USA. The connection will run through Global Crossing?s high-speed fiber optic backbone.
The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra, Linkoping University and the county council of Ostergotland have agreed to establish a new research centre in Linkoping, Sweden.
An IBM supercomputer located in Indiana University (IU) has been expanded to triple the university's previous computing capacity and will support IU researchers in a broad range of areas, including life sciences, archaeology, astronomy, and computational physics. It will also serve as the backbone for a planned genomics research collaboration with IBM.
Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are taking leading roles in a US national effort to develop the computing software and hardware needed to use the fastest, most cutting-edge computing systems for scientific research.
Dauger Research announced version 1.1 of Pooch, the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. The latest update introduces its implementation of the AppleScript interface with a host of new features. In addition, Pooch is fully operational and fully supported on Mac OS X 10.1.
Stung by both the sluggish economy and sales slowdown following the terrorist attacks, Sun Microsystems lost $180 million as sales slid 43 percent in its fiscal first quarter. For the three months ended September 30, Sun lost 6 cents per share, compared with a profit of $456 million, or 14 cents a share, in the same period last year.
Platform Computing Inc., specialised in distributed computing software, announced the appointment of Robert Gordon as Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Mr. Gordon will lead Platform's global business strategy to deliver excellence in customer value. For the past year, Gordon has been a venture capitalist in the European technology sector, based in the UK. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Oracle Corporation.
CNT, a specialist in storage networking, has completed testing peer-to-peer network interoperability with IBM's TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS) solutions. The tests validate CNT's ability to link VTS systems together over unlimited distances for data mirroring, disaster recovery, and business continuity applications, and reflect IBM and CNT's history of working together to address data access across the enterprise and continued data availability and redundancy.
CommerceNet and the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation, are awarding nearly $2 million in funding to five businesses, two universities and a foundation to support their continuing development of Next Generation Internet (NGI) Applications. Grant recipients include 3DGeo Development, Commerce One, Kenamea, The Pangea Foundation, Sophica, Strain Monitor Systems, UCLA's Advanced Policy Institute and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD.
The latest effort to fight Alzheimer's Disease is taking advantage of some of that unused networked computing power out there on the Internet. Intel and Stanford University, with the support of the Alzheimer's Association, announced the Stanford Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Programme.
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded more than $20 million to a consortium of universities coordinated by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to build the first nationwide high-performance computer environment to study diseases of the brain. Researchers linked over a high-speed network will share high-resolution animal and human brain images to allow analysis and comparison at many different scales. These capabilities will be the means for cross-institutional integration of data and expertise that can advance research on such brain-related diseases as multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.
MSC.Software, a provider of simulation software, services and systems, has purchased the SGI VirtualInsight line of business. The VirtualInsight software suite is a data management system that allows manufacturing companies to drive down the cost of design and testing while improving time to market for new products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
IBM has launched its fastest embedded PowerPC microprocessor, operating at speeds up to one gigahertz (GHz). The new chip - the IBM PowerPC 750FX - is the first to combine the company's most advanced process technologies onto one chip, reducing power consumption by up to 50 percent or increasing performance by up to 30 percent. Manufactured in IBM's advanced 0.13 micron process, the chip is the first to include copper interconnects, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors and low-k dielectric insulation technologies.
The world's largest Linux cluster running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium architecture has been put through its first full-scale operational test, and results show the system to be extremely scalable and faster than more traditional high-performance computing systems.
A joint venture between an expert in molecular research and an Australian biotechnology company is the first new tenant for a high-tech research and incubator facility at Central Michigan University.
Arthur L. Money has joined SGI's board of directors. Mr. Money, 61, has substantial experience in the defense and intelligence area in both private sector and government positions. Most recently, he was the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence and chief information officer of the U.S. Department of Defense from 1998 through April 2001. In this role, Arthur Money oversaw the department's command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities; space and space systems projects; and information technology investments.
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