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Contents
January 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Cactus, Globus and MPICH-G2 win top supercomputing award
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| | Fujitsu endorses the BSML standard for biological information
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| | Cal-(IT)2, IBM, SDSC, and Scripps Institution unveil powerful computing resources for ocean research
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| | Shodor Education Foundation awarded $2.7M grant for extending National Computational Science Institute beyond North Carolina
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| | UC SDSC researchers officers of International Society for Computational Biology
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| | Michigan Economic Development Corporation releases high-speed telecommunications infrastructure map
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| | Modelling and simulation at military conference organised by Joint National Test Facility
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| Country
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| | SARA supercomputing seminar organised for the 18th organised time
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| | Cray C90 in Groningen to be upgraded to be replaced by and SV1
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| | PRISM - putting all the pieces of the Earth together
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| Country
- UK |
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| | University of Manchester installs 182 processor COBRA cluster computer with Wulfkit interconnect
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| Europe
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| | Call for Papers for the International Conference on Pervasive Computing
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| | EURO-PAR 2002 Conference issues call for papers
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| Industry
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| | Atomic Weapons Establishment gets top ten supercomputer to simulate nuclear deterrent
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| | IBM to build powerful weather supercomputer for ECMWF
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| | El Nino predictions up to nine months ahead at CSIRO
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| | Pittsburgh system runs 110 Gflop/s weather prediction
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| | Compaq delivers supercomputer to Agip for seismic data analysis
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| | OpenMMS (Open Macromolecular Structure) Toolkit for managing the Protein Data Bank (PDB)
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| | Blast simulations on SGI system help create safer building materials
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| | Ford buys 192 process Origin 3800
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| | Onyx image generator for Joint Strike Fighter
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| | New SGI Origin 300 System chosen as portal server by Dutch National Public Broadcaster NOS
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| | IBM and GeneFormatics partner to accelerate drug discovery
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| | IBM and Phase Forward offer an Rx for clinical trials
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| | SGI installs largest graphics supercomputer in Israel for BVR Systems
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| | SGI Onyx 3000 series visualisation system selected to power Franco-German Tiger helicopter simulator
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| | IBM and LION bioscience alliance on faster drug discovery
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| | GeneProt on track with delivery of potential therapeutic protein candidates to Novartis
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| | The US House Appropriations Committee approves $5 million Increase for F-16 flight simulators powered by SGI
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| | NAG appoints Bergen Software Services International as Visualization and Data Management Center of Excellence
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| | GeneProt and Waters Corporation sign technology agreement
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| | Sun and Sybase set reference architecture for 25-plus terabyte data warehouses
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| | RLX Technologies announces second-generation ServerBlade
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| | Einux ships next generation Dual AMD 1U rack servers
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| | Shor's historic factoring algorithm demonstrated with IBM's test-tube quantum computer
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| Industry
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| | Cray is number one in new IDC supercomputer rankings
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| | HP claims No.1 position in worldwide high-end UNIX server revenue
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| | Compaq and its plans in the Alpha Itanium transition and the perspectives of the Hewlett-Packard merger
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| | The AlphaServer System Roadmap
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| | Gartner Dataquest claims Latin America server market declined in third quarter 2001
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| | New Cray CEO realigns operations and lays off 50 people
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| | IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2002 -
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| | IBM ships Regatta server on schedule
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| | Sun's Venerable Enterprise 10000 Server beats IBM's fully configured p690/HPC on applications benchmark
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| | Force introduces state-of-the-art PMC processor module for high-performance applications
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| | Cray ships first Cray SV1ex enhanced memory system
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Tech industry leaders join forces in an open consortium to support next-generation computing
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| | Terra Soft ships Yellow Dog Linux book
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| | Terra Soft launches Yellow Dog Linux Developer Support Programme
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Virtual Reality International Conference 2002 issues call for papers
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| | New display technology for Octane2 visual workstation
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Entropia Grid powers Mersenne Project's discovery of largest known prime number
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| | Grid programme of the EU is expanding
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| | IBM builds Computer Grid for breast cancer diagnosis and screening
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| | Grids will transform computing, predicts IBM senior executive
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| | Global Data Grid efforts for ATLAS
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| | Entelos to use LSF for its PhysioLab disease simulation platform
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| | Globus tutorials in Edinburgh
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| | MaXware and Business Layers partner to integrate eProvision Day One with Meta and Virtual Directory software
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| | Platform introduces Analyzer and Explorer Grid management tools
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| | Polaris Venture Partners invests in 5 new life sciences and IT companies, including Avaki, in Q3 2001
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| | Sengent teams with Sun in effort to rapidly accelerate identification of drugs against biological weapons
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| | Platform Computing teams with IBM and AFM to build European Grid for the French Telethon 2001
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| Networking
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| | Kurchatov Institute and NCSA select Teleglobe to provide fastnet high performance network linking Russia to U.S.
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| | Teleglobe wins $3 million contract to expand advanced network
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Leads
January 2002
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| | Cactus, Globus and MPICH-G2 win top supercomputing award
Members of the Cactus and Globus projects have won one of this years Gordon Bell Prizes in high-performance computing for the work described in their paper: "Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus". The international team comprised of Thomas Dramlitsch, Gabrielle Allen and Ed Seidel, from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, along with colleagues Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster, Brian Toonen from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, and Nicholas Karonis from Northern Illinois University. The special category award was presented during SC2001, a yearly conference showcasing high-performance computing and networking, this year held in Denver, Colorado.
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| | Fujitsu endorses the BSML standard for biological information
Fujitsu has endorsed the BSML standard for communicating genomic information. Fujitsu joins a rapidly growing list of organisations supporting the open BSML standard for genome research. Among the others are the EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb, John Wiley & Sons, Ohio Supercomputer Center, NetGenics, Celestar Lexico-Sciences, ApoCom Genomics, National Foundation for Cancer Research, and other BIO member companies.
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| | Cal-(IT)2, IBM, SDSC, and Scripps Institution unveil powerful computing resources for ocean research
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, will dedicate one of the world's fastest supercomputers devoted entirely to ocean modelling. Partnering with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2), the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and IBM, Scripps obtained two PC "clusters" with a peak performance of 500 billion calculations per second.
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| | Shodor Education Foundation awarded $2.7M grant for extending National Computational Science Institute beyond North Carolina
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Shodor Education Foundation announced a $2.7M grant to integrate computational science across the undergraduate curriculum to keep U.S. scientists, engineers, and faculty members competitive in scientific research and education.
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| | UC SDSC researchers officers of International Society for Computational Biology
In recent member elections for officers of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), biologists Philip E. Bourne and Michael Gribskov of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, were elected president and vice president, respectively. Their one-year terms begin January 21, 2002.
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| | Michigan Economic Development Corporation releases high-speed telecommunications infrastructure map
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)in the USA released maps of Michigan's high-speed telecommunications infrastructure that demonstrate the existence of a digital divide in the rural and economically challenged urban communities throughout the state.
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| | Modelling and simulation at military conference organised by Joint National Test Facility
The US Joint National Test Facility (JNTF) and the 50th Space Wing are teaming to develop an IT and information assurance conference and exposition targeted at the specific needs of the Colorado Springs military community. The programme will take place June 19, 2002 at Schriever AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
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| | SARA supercomputing seminar organised for the 18th organised time
Since 1984, SARA, a Dutch academic supercomputing centre is organising a supercomputer user seminar. This year it attracted some 100 participants. Although the computing power installed has changed considerably, the largest machine is currently a 1024 processor SGI Origin, with processors that in performance come close to the first 1984 supercomputer: a Cyber 205. The supercomputer seminar format, however, did not change over time. This year, Bert van Corler reported on the experience with the supercomputers during the past years. Teras, the 1024 processor SGI Origin, experienced hardware problems, which did not enable it to perform as one supercomputer. Hence each half is presented in the TOP500 (on position 76 and 77) whilst the whole machine would probably have been found around place 25. Latest SARA acquisition is the first IBM Itanium cluster in Europe, which is just being unwrapped.
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| | Cray C90 in Groningen to be upgraded to be replaced by and SV1
At the supercomputing seminar in Amsterdam, Patrick Aerts, director of NCF, the Dutch foundation responsible for scientific supercomputing in the Netherlands, said that he will financially support the installation of a 32 processor, 32 Gbyte Cray SV1 at the University of Groningen. Although there are much more powerful machines available to Dutch researchers, still a number have existing code which is optimised for vector processing. Aerts also reported on plans for NCF for the future.
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| | PRISM - putting all the pieces of the Earth together
In December 2001, 21 European partners started with the PRISM project. Goal of this project is to integrate all already available Earth research models, like climate models, atmospheric models, sea-ice models, etc, into one large coupled model. PRISM could the be used to study all effects that certain measures, or events could have on the Earth system as a whole.
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| | University of Manchester installs 182 processor COBRA cluster computer with Wulfkit interconnect
A 91-node/182-processor supercluster computer is installed at the University of Manchester to provide a real-time processing backend for the Lovell Radio Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. It will be called COBRA (Coherent On-line Baseband Receiver for Astronomy). COBRA is being built and installed by Amersham-based Workstations UK using a proprietary PC-cluster platform, the MIMCluster20. Each of the 91 nodes in the cluster features dual Pentium III Tualatin 1.13 GHz processors for a total of 182 processors. The nodes are interconnected in a two-dimensional switching architecture using Dolphin Interconnect’s WulfKit.
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| | Call for Papers for the International Conference on Pervasive Computing
The International Conference on Pervasive Computing will take place at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in August from 26 to 28, 2002. Pervasive 2002 is organised jointly by ETH Zurich and IBM Research. |
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| | EURO-PAR 2002 Conference issues call for papers
The EURO-PAR 2002 Conference will be held in Paderborn, Germany from 27 to 30 August, 2002. Researchers with interest in both conventional and non-conventional approaches are invited to submit a paper. |
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| Industry
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| | Atomic Weapons Establishment gets top ten supercomputer to simulate nuclear deterrent
The United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK AWE) will upgrade its IBM supercomputer making it one of the world's top ten most powerful machines. The IBM supercomputer will be capable of 3 trillion operations per second making it one quarter the size of ASCI White, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. |
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| | IBM to build powerful weather supercomputer for ECMWF
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has asked IBM to build the world's most powerful supercomputer and storage network for weather prediction, enabling meteorologists to offer new and much improved forecasts. Dubbed "Blue Storm", the IBM eServer p690-based system will provide the European National Weather Services with advanced weather information that will enhance activities ranging from the early warning of severe storms and floods to the optimal routing of ships at sea.
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| | El Nino predictions up to nine months ahead at CSIRO
The question of when and how hard the next El Nino or La Nina will hit can now be answered up to nine months ahead of the event, thanks to work by CSIRO's climate scientists. CSIRO has begun estimating long-range probabilities of receiving above or below median rainfall over much of the country, based on forecasts of whether El Nino or La Nina conditions will develop in the Pacific Ocean.
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| | Pittsburgh system runs 110 Gflop/s weather prediction
In tests on the Terascale Computing System (TCS) at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), two computational models used to predict weather have sustained the best performance yet recorded, doubling previous records, according to John Michalakes, a software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
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| | Compaq delivers supercomputer to Agip for seismic data analysis
Compaq will provide Agip with a supercomputer which will outperform by ten times the speed of analyses for seismic data originating from oil sediments in the earth.
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| | OpenMMS (Open Macromolecular Structure) Toolkit for managing the Protein Data Bank (PDB)
A consortium of scientists managing the Protein Data Bank (PDB), the world's central on-line archive containing detailed structural data on proteins, nucleic acids, and protein-nucleic acid complexes, has released a software toolkit that provides more seamless access to this information. |
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| | Blast simulations on SGI system help create safer building materials
A 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Major Shared Resource Center (ERDC MSRC), Vicksburg, Mississippi, is helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers better understand the structural effects of the September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Using this supercomputer from SGI, the Corps of Engineers is studying how to make safer, more bomb-resistant buildings.
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| | Ford buys 192 process Origin 3800
Ford Motor Company, has purchased a 192-processor, 500 MHz
SGI Origin 3800 server system and 6 TByte of
RAID storage. The system has been configured as a single system image and is
currently operational in the Computer Server Systems division at Ford's
Dearborn, Mich., headquarters. The SGI Origin 3800 and SGI TP9400 systems will
be used by the Numeric Intensive Computing (NIC) group--responsible for
managing and deploying Ford's high-performance computing (HPC) environment--to
more effectively run compute- and I/O-intensive automotive CAE applications,
including crash simulation, noise vibration and harshness (NVH), finite element
analysis and computational fluid dynamics. |
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| | Onyx image generator for Joint Strike Fighter
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has selected SGI Onyx 3000 series visualization systems to power the company's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) flight simulation research laboratory in Fort Worth, Texas. The simulator will be used for pilot-in-the-loop evaluations of the JSF aircraft, a stealthy next-generation multirole strike fighter that will serve as the cornerstone of future defense capabilities for the United States and the United Kingdom. |
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| | New SGI Origin 300 System chosen as portal server by Dutch National Public Broadcaster NOS
The Dutch public broadcaster NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting), in Hilversum, The Netherlands, was one of the first companies to purchase the recently introduced UNIX OS-based SGI Origin 300 compact, modular supercomputer. NOS, which hosts one of the country's largest Internet sites using 20 SGI Origin 200 IRIX OS based high-performance servers, will use the SGI Origin 300 system as a portal server to further expand its Web environment and to carry its Electronic Programme Guide.
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| | IBM and GeneFormatics partner to accelerate drug discovery
IBM and GeneFormatics have signed an agreement that could pave the way for more efficient drug discovery. Through the agreement, IBM becomes GeneFormatics' preferred information technology and services partner. IBM will provide a range of hardware and software products and services to support GeneFormatics' cutting-edge work in rapidly discovering the functions and structures of thousands of proteins, including hundreds of human proteins that may be associated with various diseases. IBM is also participating in GeneFormatics' third round of equity financing.
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| | IBM and Phase Forward offer an Rx for clinical trials
IBM and Phase Forward Incorporated teamed up to offer solutions to help drug makers around the world cut years and millions of dollars from the development cycle of new lifesaving medicines.
Through the global agreement, IBM and Phase Forward will collaborate on solutions that automate the clinical trial process of testing and reporting on the safety and effectiveness of new drug targets. Getting a new drug to market can cost as much as $500 million and take to up to 15 years. Nearly half of the time is expended on clinical trials.
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| | SGI installs largest graphics supercomputer in Israel for BVR Systems
SGI has completed the first installation phase for an SGI Onyx 3800 visualisation system, the largest graphics supercomputer in Israel, located at BVR Systems in Rosh-Ha'Ayin. The $2.7 million SGI system will be used for the development and production of a highly advanced full-mission flight simulator, which will simulate the operation of a two-seat F-16 fighter aircraft.
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| | SGI Onyx 3000 series visualisation system selected to power Franco-German Tiger helicopter simulator
Thales Training & Simulation (TT&S) has selected the SGI Onyx 3000 series of high-performance graphics systems to serve as the image generator for the Franco-German Tiger helicopter training programme.
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| | IBM and LION bioscience alliance on faster drug discovery
IBM and LION bioscience AG have closed a strategic alliance to work together to tackle the problem of harnessing the avalanche of data pouring in from human genome studies so that it can be used for more effective and faster drug discovery and development. |
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| | GeneProt on track with delivery of potential therapeutic protein candidates to Novartis
During the second half of 2001, GeneProt has delivered six synthetic proteins to Novartis Pharma AG of Basel, Switzerland, for consideration as potential leads for pharmaceutical or diagnostic development. Novartis is GeneProt's preferred pharmaceutical partner pursuant to an agreement signed in October 2000. Of the six candidates, Novartis has selected three for further investigation. These proteins may eventually prove useful as therapeutic agents in their own right, as diagnostic markers for disease, or as targets for development of small-molecule drugs.
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| | The US House Appropriations Committee approves $5 million Increase for F-16 flight simulators powered by SGI
The House Appropriations Committee of the US governemnt approved $5 million in additional funding for U.S. Air Force F-16 flight simulators powered by SGITM Onyx family high-performance graphics systems. The funding is part of the Fiscal 2002 Defense Appropriations bill.
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| | NAG appoints Bergen Software Services International as Visualization and Data Management Center of Excellence
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announced today that it has expanded the role of Bergen Software Services International (BSSI), from a NAG IRIS Explorer Center of Excellence to a Visualization and Data Management Center of Excellence. The expanded role focuses on consulting and development services for clients. |
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| | GeneProt and Waters Corporation sign technology agreement
GeneProt and Waters Corporation have established a technology partnership that will result in an expansion of the proteomics capabilities that GeneProt plans to offer to the pharmaceutical industry through its new industrial-scale proteomics facility in the United States. Waters, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Micromass U.K. Ltd., will purchase equity securities of GeneProt with a maximum value of US$10 million. At the same time, GeneProt will purchase approximately US$20 million of mass spectrometry equipment, related systems and services from Micromass.
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| | Sun and Sybase set reference architecture for 25-plus terabyte data warehouses
Sun Microsystems and Sybase designed, integrated, tested and tuned, 25-plus terabyte raw data input iForce Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture. It provides a blueprint for next-generation, high-performance data warehousing. Key hardware elements of the architecture include Sun Fire 6800 Midframe servers and Sun
StorEdge 9900 storage systems. Software for the Reference Architecture combines Sybase Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex software running on the Sun Solaris Operating Environment. |
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| | RLX Technologies announces second-generation ServerBlade
RLX Technologies has made available new second-generation RLX ServerBlades that extend its advantage to 5X the number of Web pages served per square foot vs. traditional 1U servers. The new RLX ServerBlade 667 offers up to 36% greater performance than the first-generation RLX ServerBlade 633 and supports up to 1.125 GB of memory.
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| | Einux ships next generation Dual AMD 1U rack servers
Einux, in conjunction with AMD, has launched its next generation Dual AMD 1U rackmount servers offering the fastest and highest density rackmount servers available in the industry utilising AMD's newest Athlon MP 1900+ multiprocessing processors and next generation 760MP-X.
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| | Shor's historic factoring algorithm demonstrated with IBM's test-tube quantum computer
Scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center have performed the world's most complicated quantum-computer calculation to date. They caused a billion-billion custom-designed molecules in a test tube to become a seven-qubit quantum computer that solved a simple version of the mathematical problem at the heart of many of today's data-security cryptographic systems.
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| | Cray is number one in new IDC supercomputer rankings
Cray was number one in the new rankings of supercomputer performance recently reported by industry analyst firm IDC. On the new IDC Balanced Rating test, developed with extensive input from supercomputer users in government, industry and academia, Cray supercomputers dominated in both of the top two categories, the company says.
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| | HP claims No.1 position in worldwide high-end UNIX server revenue
Hewlett-Packard Company said that in the third quarter of calendar year 2001 it grew revenue market share in the entry-level, mid-range, high-end and total UNIX server categories worldwide and is in the lead position in mid-range and high-end server revenue. In the high-end, HP sells the Superdome
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| | Compaq and its plans in the Alpha Itanium transition and the perspectives of the Hewlett-Packard merger
In the Platinum Forum, on
November 28, Compaq disclosed its road map from Alpha to Itanium
and the future of its operating systems as well as the
perspectives of the planned merger with Hewlett-Packard.
High-Level representatives from Compaq and partners presented
their view of the situation. The opening session started Josef
Blank, Compaq, Manager HPC. The keynote gave Rich Marcello, Vice
President, General Manager High Performance Systems, USA. The
Intel Itanium strategy presented Christian Ganz, Intel. First
Tom Yeats, Compaq, Director High Performance Servers EMEA
highlighted the AlphaServer Systems Roadmap and then that of
Tru64 Unix. The future of OpenVMS operating system described Bob
Blatz, Compaq. The Oracle Partner strategy was the title of
Wolfgang Ehrentalers' talk, Oracle. In parallel Manfred
Leyendecker, Compaq, discussed Compaqs' Global Service Strategy.
A users story gave Detlef Bolz, SAP SI, SAP on Alpha. Andreas
Teichert, Compaq, looked for the server consolidation. The day
ended with the Compaq Storage Works Strategy, Johannes Schroeder,
Compaq and the Alpha HPTC (High-Performance Technical Computing)
presented by Martin Walker, Compaq. More than 180 participants
gathered in Frankfurt. In this special I will concentrate on
decision for Itanium, the transition from Alpha to Itanium and
the reasons for the planned Hewlett-Packard merger. |
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| | The AlphaServer System Roadmap
Tom Yeats, Compaq HPC Europe,
highlighted the AlphaServer Roadmap and coming new systems.
Marvel is the code name of an EV7 based server. Additionally he
discussed the reasons for transition.
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| | Gartner Dataquest claims Latin America server market declined in third quarter 2001
Despite strong growth of mainframe and supercomputers, the Latin America server market experienced a decline in both shipments and revenue in the third quarter of 2001, according to Dataquest, a unit of Gartner. In the third quarter of 2001, Latin America server shipments declined 12.4 percent, while server revenue declined 4.7 percent.
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| | New Cray CEO realigns operations and lays off 50 people
Cray said its new president and CEO Michael P. Haydock, who joined the company from IBM on October 1, has realigned operations and expects a profitable 2002. The company will lower overall R&D expenditures and a workforce reduction, along with several strategic new hires and a reordering of senior management responsibilities.
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| | IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2002 -
ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and
systems maintenance, evolution, and management. This year's theme is the need
for rapid integration has led to many distributed heterogeneous systems
that are very challenging to maintain and evolve. |
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| | IBM ships Regatta server on schedule
IBM says it is on schedule with delivering its new Regatta servers based on the a chip with two 1 Ghz e-p690 processors. IBM expects Linux for the p690 to be available from third party distributors in 2002. |
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| | Sun's Venerable Enterprise 10000 Server beats IBM's fully configured p690/HPC on applications benchmark
Sun Microsystems submitted results of 230,049 operations per second (op/s) on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Java Business Benchmark 2000 (SPECjbb2000) using the Sun Enterprise 10000 server, Starfire, easily surpassing IBM's fully configured p690/HPC (Regatta) system performance of 169,794 op/s. Based on the benchmark configuration list prices, Sun's Starfire server achieved better price performance than IBM's p690/HPC with Sun's price
performance of $8.95/op/s versus IBM's $9.26/op/s. |
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| | Force introduces state-of-the-art PMC processor module for high-performance applications
Force Computers, a Solectron company and active in embedded computing, has introduced the fastest member of its family of PowerPC processor-based PCI mezzanine card (PMC) modules, the PowerPMC-260, for telecommunications, data communications and industrial control applications that require data or control processing capability in a very small form-factor. |
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| | Cray ships first Cray SV1ex enhanced memory system
Cray shipped the first Cray SV1ex enhanced memory system. The enhanced memory system fulfilled a previously announced order from the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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| | Tech industry leaders join forces in an open consortium to support next-generation computing
Turbolinux, a provider of Linux operating environments and a key innovator in applications that automate the assignment of computing power for any data processing need, will participate in the Atlas Project. The Atlas Project is an industry-wide collaborative effort that is focused on creating a high-performance implementation of Linux for the Intel 870 Chipset and other high-performance computing platforms. The goal of the Atlas project is to ready the 64-bit Linux computing environment through the open source community for the next generation of high-end computing platforms for enterprise data centres.
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| | Terra Soft ships Yellow Dog Linux book
Terra Soft Solutions, a developer of Linux solutions for PowerPC microprocessors, has announced shipment of its first book, "Getting Started with Yellow Dog Linux". |
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| | Terra Soft launches Yellow Dog Linux Developer Support Programme
Terra Soft also announced the official Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) Developer Support Programme. |
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| | Virtual Reality International Conference 2002 issues call for papers
VRIC 2002, the first European event dedicated to virtual reality technologies, will be held from 19 to 21 June in Laval, France. The conference organisers invite participants to submit papers addressing VR in Health Care, Mixed Reality, Collaborative Work, and Training. |
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| | New display technology for Octane2 visual workstation
SGI announced new display technologies for the
Silicon Graphics Octane2 visual workstation far beyond any other desktop
system. The introduction of the Dual Head option and PowerDuo capability for
Octane2 provides a new level of graphics power and display versatility to this
high-performance IRIX OS-based system. |
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| Industry
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| | Entropia Grid powers Mersenne Project's discovery of largest known prime number
Entropia and Mersenne.org announced that Michael Cameron, a 20 year-old participant in the worldwide mathematics research project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), has discovered the largest known prime number using his PC connected to the Entropia Mersenne Grid. |
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| | Grid programme of the EU is expanding
The European Commission will support several new Grid projects: GridLab, GRIA, GRIP,
DataTAG, CrossGrid and EGSO. Together with the already ongoing DataGrid, EuroGrid and
Damien projects, they represent a total contribution by the EU of about 35 MEuro. Projects are partially funded by the EU, the commercial partners also contribute. A call is open for new projects in the area, closing February 2002.
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| | IBM builds Computer Grid for breast cancer diagnosis and screening
IBM and the University of Pennsylvania launched a computing Grid that aims to bring advanced methods of breast cancer diagnosis and screening to patients across the nation, while reducing costs. Built with open standards, the University of Pennsylvania Grid is a massive distributed computer that delivers computing resources as a utility-like service over the Internet. |
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| | Grids will transform computing, predicts IBM senior executive
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM Server Group Vice President of Technology and Strategy, said at a conference, that grid computing will transform industry, and business in general. Grid computing will enable unprecedented levels of collaboration between businesses by enabling them to share computing resources such as applications, data and computing power, allowing individuals to access computing "on tap" from any location. |
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| | Global Data Grid efforts for ATLAS
Over the past two years computational data grids have emerged as a promising new technology for large scale, data-intensive computing required by the LHC experiments, as outlined by the recent "Hoffman" review panel that addressed the LHC computing challenge. The problem essentially is to seamlessly link physicists to petabyte-scale data and computing resources, distributed worldwide, and connected by high-bandwidth research networks. Several new collaborative initiatives in Europe, the United States, and Asia have formed to address the problem. |
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| | Entelos to use LSF for its PhysioLab disease simulation platform
Platform Computing announced that Entelos will integrate Platform's LSF and LSF ActiveCluster, with its PhysioLab disease simulation platform. This end-to-end solution will allow Entelos to harness underutilized compute power across the enterprise, enabling its scientists to run faster simulations and accelerate the in silico (in computer) discovery and development of new drug therapies. Platform will provide workload management with Platform LSF across Entelos server farms. |
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| | Globus tutorials in Edinburgh
The Globus Project, in conjunction with the U.K. eScience Institute,
will present several tutorials in Edinburgh in January 2002. |
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| | MaXware and Business Layers partner to integrate eProvision Day One with Meta and Virtual Directory software
MaXware, an international provider of data access, synchronisation and meta directory software, and Business Layers, the eProvisioning Company,have closed a partnership through Business Layers' eProvision Alliance. The partnership aims to establish integration between MaXware's Meta and Virtual Directory software and Business Layers' eProvision Day One application.
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| | Platform introduces Analyzer and Explorer Grid management tools
Platform Computing announced two new Performance Management solutions, Platform Analyzer and Platform Explorer, designed for distributed and Grid computing architectures. These solutions give senior management increased visibility to the link between effective IT management and improved product development. Performance Management is an essential element of distributed computing, enabling an organization to manage, provision and budget for IT assets, resulting in improved productivity and reduced overall cost. |
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| | Polaris Venture Partners invests in 5 new life sciences and IT companies, including Avaki, in Q3 2001
Polaris Venture Partners, LP, a venture capital firm invested in five new companies. Three of the investments were in life science companies and two were in the information technology sector. One of these was Avaki, the Grid technology company. Polaris also closed its $900 million dollar fourth fund, Polaris Venture Partners IV, in Q3, bringing total capital under management to $2 billion.
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| | Sengent teams with Sun in effort to rapidly accelerate identification of drugs against biological weapons
Sengent, expert in computing and information solutions for the scientific and financial community, as part of its effort in the fight against bioterrorism, has signed a joint engineering and marketing agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Life Science Group. The anticipated development of a combined solution will represent a "killer application" for distributed and grid computing technology.
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| | Platform Computing teams with IBM and AFM to build European Grid for the French Telethon 2001
Platform Computing is joining the French Myopathy Association (AFM) and IBM to launch the "Decrypthon" project at this year's nationally televised Telethon, which will take place December 7-8. In this project, managed by IBM's teams of services experts, Platform will integrate its distributed computing software, including Platform LSF and LSF ActiveCluster, together with IBM hardware and software solutions and Genomining software to power the "Decrypthon" project, which will enable Internet users to participate in a major scientific initiative, the mapping of more than 500,000 identified proteins. |
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| | Kurchatov Institute and NCSA select Teleglobe to provide fastnet high performance network linking Russia to U.S.
NCSA and the Kurchatov Institute, top research institutions in the United States and Russia respectively, have selected Teleglobe, the e-World communications company, to develop a 155 megabit per second (Mbps) high performance network connection that will give the two countries' scientific communities high-speed access to each other and facilitate joint scientific and educational projects.
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| | Teleglobe wins $3 million contract to expand advanced network
Teleglobe, the e-World Communications Company, has signed an agreement with Indiana University to provide TransPAC, a consortium of high performance networks enabling international research and education collaboration, with Internet connectivity between many of the principal research and education networks in the United States and those in the Asia Pacific.
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