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Contents
March 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Top California Technology Research Centers Cal-(IT)2 and CalNGI collaborate on Next-Generation Internet
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| | Tutorials in High Performance Computing in Munich
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| | SuSE Linux Deploys mySAP.com on Compaq
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| | First part of SP supercomputer extension arrived in Amsterdam
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| Europe
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| | Heidelberg Supercomputer conference programme available
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| | Call for participation 31st SPEEDUP workshop
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| | How informative is the IDC Balanced Rating HPC Benchmark?
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| | Invitation to Data Mining Day: Tools, Techniques and Applications
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| | Nomad to develop constraints free manufacturing techniques
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| | Second announcement and CFP for the Fourth Virtual Reality International Conference
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| | TRAIN-IT Infoday and Workshop in Paris, March 7-8, 2002
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Sandia National Laboratories and Goodyear sign five-year co-operative R&D agreement
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| | Star Bridge Systems introduces innovative EDA tool products
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| | Sun selects Danish Technical University for interval arithmetic and dynamic systems
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| | US Air Force chooses Meta Solution technology from MaXware
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| | Low-cost Dell PowerEdge Servers deliver supercomputer performance for complex computing jobs
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| | NBC selects SGI systems for broadcast graphics for the Olympic Winter Games
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| | EDS, Sun Microsystems, Killdara Corporation launch data exchange platform for automotive dealerships
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| | Brazil purchases more than three thousand interactive physics software licenses from MSC.Software
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| | SGI next-generation graphics to aid testing and development of Swedish fighter
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| | GeneProt licences OGS' automated proteomics patents
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| | Sun Fire servers offer customers a Dynamic Duo with Dynamic System Domains and Dynamic Reconfiguration
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| | J.D. Edwards and Sun establish high levels of performance with OneWorld running on Sun servers and storage
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| | Two out of three Unix/Risc Systems in U.S. are from Sun
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| | Sun takes top revenue position in U.S. for total workstation market
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| | General Dynamics selects SGI to power U.S. Navy's 21st-century battlespace management system
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| | Incyte Genomics selects Platform LSF and Analyzer to speed bioinformatic R&D
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| | Wige Data selects SGI and vizrt for German Public Broadcasting of 2002 Winter Olympic Games
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| Industry
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| | NEC starts sales of deskside SX-6i vector supercomputer in Europe
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| | Fujitsu Systems Europe and Scali partner to offer HPC cluster solutions
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| | Cray to market Dell servers
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| | SGI introduces faster R14000A microprocessor in its systems
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| | Samuel J. Palmisano elected IBM CEO and Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. to remain chairman through 2002
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| | Workshop on memory performance issues
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| | Compaq AlphaServer systems help Land Rover to shift the focus of automotive design away from the wind tunnel and onto the supercomputer
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| | Compaq AlphaServer ES45 establishes new world record TPC-C benchmark for 4-processor systems
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| Industry
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| | IBM and SuSE co-operation demonstrates integration of enterprise ready Linux systems
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| | RackSaver builds a 264 AMD Athlon MP processor supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz
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| | SGI to redistribute Intel software development products for Intel Itanium processor family
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries
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| | Sun broadens support for Linux
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| | Clarkson University wins Linux Mainframe from IBM
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| | IBM introduces new dedicated Linux servers
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| | Redhat expands enterprise network service
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | New Technology From TeraBurst enables real time collaboration between immersive visualisation centres over optical networks
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| | Visual Area Networking from SGI
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| | SGI launches OpenGL Vizserver 2.0 advanced visualisation software
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| | SGI introduces SGI Onyx 300 economical visualisation system
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| | ImageModuler creates 3D modules from photographs
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| | U.S. army uses Onyx 3400 powered Immersive training environment
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| | New high-end SGI Onyx 3000 system
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | HNF Europe meeting in March in Stuttgart
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| | Florida International University chooses IBM technology to power Database research Center
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| | Enhanced Grid Computing services on demand from Sun
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| | Cross Grid takes off
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| | Compaq enters Blade "running"
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| | NEC wins large order for Blade Server for Grid Computing from Tokyo Institute of Technology
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| | Internet will become platform for Grid Computing
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| | Platform debuts Clusterware to drive Linux and Grid adoption
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| | AVAKI submits secure Grid naming specification to the Global Grid Forum
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| | Entropia to support Open Grid Services Architecture
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| | IBM announces servers, software, and storage for Grid Computing
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| | First commercial version of the Globus Toolkit released by Platform
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| | First UK e-Science meeting
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| | IBM and Globus launch Open Grid Services for commercial computing
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| | Increased TransPAC capacity makes possible greater international scientific, research collaboration
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| | Merger of Web services and P2P technologies will turn desktop files into corporate resource according to Gartner
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| | Frank Cicio joins DataSynapse as Chief Operating Officer
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| | Sun Cluster 3.0 software enhanced
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| | Enterprise Java platform extended for distributed applications and web services
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| | Final CFP for Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing
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| | Alabama Supercomputer Authority chooses Verso's Telemate.Net WebFilter solution for K-12 schools
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| Networking
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| | HP selects KPNQwest for global ATM and IP services in Europe
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| | KPNQwest chosen by KLM for Pan-European IP VPN
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| | ONI Systems reports fourth quarter and fiscal 2001 financial results
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Leads
March 2002
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| | Top California Technology Research Centers Cal-(IT)2 and CalNGI collaborate on Next-Generation Internet
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2) and the southern California Next Generation Internet (CalNGI) initiative are teaming up to develop and test applications that will run on future iterations of the World Wide Web. The new partners will collaborate with California companies through the recently-opened CalNGI Application Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). To launch their new partnership, Cal-(IT)2 and CalNGI co-sponsored a workshop on January 24 in San Diego called "Demystifying Internet Quality of Service."
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| | Tutorials in High Performance Computing in Munich
KONWIHR, the Kompetenz-Netzwerk für wissenschaftliches Hoch- und
Höchstleistungsrechnen in Bayern,
and
LRZ, the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, organise two supercomputing tutorials. OM March 21, 2002: Cache Based Iterative Algorithms and on
March 22, 2002: Algorithms for Parallel Computers.
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| | SuSE Linux Deploys mySAP.com on Compaq
SuSE announced the implementation of mySAP.com on "SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server", one of the most advanced enterprise Linux
computing systems, at the SuSE Nuremberg headquarters. Since the
beginning of this year, SuSE Linux uses SAP's
enterprise resource planning tool on Compaq hardware for the
company's business operations. |
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| | First part of SP supercomputer extension arrived in Amsterdam
The IBM SP at the academic supercomputing centre in Amsterdamentered a second phase in its
existence, exactly according to plan. The first extension is a fact now. At the beginning In January 2002, besides the three existing towers, two new ones
with Regatta-(p690) processors were placed. Each tower contains
one node with 32 Power4-processors, with a clock cycle of 1,1
GHz. This adds 280 Gigaflop/s to the existing peak
performance of 210 Gflop/s, doubling the capacity of
the system. Each node contains 32 Gbyte of shared memory. |
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| | Heidelberg Supercomputer conference programme available
The programme from Europe's main supercomputer event, the International Supercomputer Conference 2002, that will be held in June in the German town of Heidelberg, is available. Keynote will be delivered by
Monika Henzinger from Google, with a presentation called" Indexing the Web: A Challenge for Supercomputing". Main conference topics are Grid computing, petaflop/s computing and supercomputing centres. A pre-conference one-day tutorial provides an overview of the current state of Grid computing.
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| | Call for participation 31st SPEEDUP workshop
The 31th SPEEDUP Workshop will be held at Leukerbad, Wallis, Switzerland on March 4, 2002. |
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| | How informative is the IDC Balanced Rating HPC Benchmark?
After several meetings of the IDC-convened HPC Forum in the period end
1999 - end 2001 a new benchmark for High Performance Systems was defined
and the first results were released during the SC 2001 Conference in
Denver in November 2001: the IDC Balanced Rating HPC Benchmark. In this article the usability of this new benchmark is discussed. We conclude it is not very usable. Some suggestions on better benchmarks are given.
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| | Invitation to Data Mining Day: Tools, Techniques and Applications
The University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwest Switzerland is inviting to participate in a day on Data Mining: Tools, Techniques and Applications on March 11, 2002 at the Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz, Bittertenstrasse 15, CH-4702 Oensingen.
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| | Nomad to develop constraints free manufacturing techniques
A new European Commission funded project NOMAD is aimed at the development of technologies to replace the assembly line-based approach to welded fabrication. Simulation and robotics are important techniques used in the project. |
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| | Second announcement and CFP for the Fourth Virtual Reality International Conference
The fourth Virtual Reality International Conference will take place in Laval, France, from 19-21 June 2002 during the Laval Virtual gathering, the first European event dedicated to Virtual Reality technologies and supported by European Commission's IST programme. The deadline for paper submission is March 15, 2002. |
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| | TRAIN-IT Infoday and Workshop in Paris, March 7-8, 2002
Technologists from all over Europe are invited to the TRAIN-IT workshop with experienced entrepreneurs, financial experts, and representatives of the European Commission to network and discuss about entrepreneurship opportunities and related subjects. |
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| Industry
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| | Sandia National Laboratories and Goodyear sign five-year co-operative R&D agreement
Most consumers could not imagine how the management of nuclear stockpiles could bring them better tires faster, but a unique partnership between Goodyear and the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories is doing just that.
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| | Star Bridge Systems introduces innovative EDA tool products
Salt Lake City based supercomputer manufacturer Star Bridge Systems unveiled its HeadStart FPGA Designer and Alpha Series Emulator tools at DesignCon 2002 in Santa Clara, California. DesignCon is the annual show for vendors and users of electronic automation design (EDA) tools and related products. These tools are used to create new chip-based products for communications, video graphics, audio and data transformation.
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| | Sun selects Danish Technical University for interval arithmetic and dynamic systems
Sun Microsystems has selected the Danish Technical University (DTU) as the first-ever Sun Center of Excellence (COE) for interval arithmetic and dynamic systems. This new Sun COE joins a worldwide network of academic institutions developing advanced technology to do groundbreaking research. The DTU Center of Excellence will assist scientists and engineers in developing algorithms and applications to improve the development of competitive products. DTU has proven expertise in simulating dynamic systems like windmills and pumps, two industrial areas in which Denmark 's industry competes successfully in the global economy. The collaborative research led by DTU scientists helps to engineer more efficient and environmentally-friendly products.
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| | US Air Force chooses Meta Solution technology from MaXware
MaXware, a vendor-independent provider of Meta and Virtual Directory solutions, has been chosen by the US Air Force to provide its Meta Directory software to effect the synchronisation of its
worldwide identity data throughout the organisation. MaXware's Enterprise Meta Solution software shall update and synchronise this critical information to an iPlanet Directory-based catalogue with data from Microsoft Exchange and a central PKI directory.
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| | Low-cost Dell PowerEdge Servers deliver supercomputer performance for complex computing jobs
Dell has launched a programme that gives customers the option to use standards-based network servers to build high-performance computers that are low in cost and easy to expand.
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| | NBC selects SGI systems for broadcast graphics for the Olympic Winter Games
NBC will employ a full complement of SGI IRIX OS-based visualisation systems to create and render pre-production and live-to-air broadcast graphics for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, airing from Salt Lake City, Utah, February 8 through February 24. NBC will build intros, outros, segment IDs, templates and 3D animations using Maya 4 software from Alias|Wavefront, an SGI company, running on four Silicon Graphics Onyx2 desk-side visualisation systems and two Silicon Graphics Octane2 visual workstations. The SGI systems will be housed in the graphics area of the NBC compound within the International Broadcast Center at the Salt Lake City Olympics site.
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| | EDS, Sun Microsystems, Killdara Corporation launch data exchange platform for automotive dealerships
EDS, together with Sun Microsystems, the Cobalt Group and Killdara Corporation, has launched a new data exchange platform designed to address IT compatibility and data integration for automotive dealerships. EDS made the announcement at the 2002 convention of the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans. |
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| | Brazil purchases more than three thousand interactive physics software licenses from MSC.Software
The São Paulo Department of Education in Brazil has purchased more than three thousand network licenses for Interactive Physics in conjunction with MSC.Software's partner Educare Informatica, which supplies these schools with Interactive Physics, training, and support.
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| | SGI next-generation graphics to aid testing and development of Swedish fighter
Saab Aerospace has selected an SGI Onyx 3000 series high-performance graphics system to serve as the image generator for its Presentation and Maneuvering Simulator (PMSIM), a development simulator for human-machine interface in Linkoping, Sweden. The upgrade, worth $2.3 million, will improve the flight experience of pilots during testing and development of the Swedish Gripen fighter aircraft.
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| | GeneProt licences OGS' automated proteomics patents
Oxford GlycoSciences and GeneProt have reached agreement on the licensing of OGS' automated proteomics U.S. Patent Numbers 6064754 and 6278794 and their foreign equivalents upon grant. GeneProt is the first licensee of these patents.
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| | Sun Fire servers offer customers a Dynamic Duo with Dynamic System Domains and Dynamic Reconfiguration
The Sun Fire 3800, 4800, 4810 and 6800 Midframe servers are delivering on the vast benefits of Dynamic System Domains and Dynamic Reconfiguration, taking productivity and quality of service to a new level in the enterprise. Sun is the only server vendor to bring these traditionally costly mainframe-class software tools to the midrange market, addressing the availability requirements of an increasingly 24x7, Web-enabled business world.
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| | J.D. Edwards and Sun establish high levels of performance with OneWorld running on Sun servers and storage
J.D. Edwards & Company and Sun Microsystems Inc. have established the highest concurrent user record for OneWorld, Xe running on Sun Fire servers and Sun StorEdge arrays. The benchmark supported 8969 concurrent HTML clients demonstrating new levels of performance and scalability for OneWorld. These results achieved nearly 1.5 times the number of users enabled on competitive systems.
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| | Two out of three Unix/Risc Systems in U.S. are from Sun
According to Gartner Dataquest's Q4 US Server Database Report, Sun remains the number one leader in Unix/Risc units and revenue by a wide margin. Over the past five years, Sun has grown its market position to a solid number one in Unix/Risc systems.
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| | Sun takes top revenue position in U.S. for total workstation market
Sun leads the U.S. workstation market with $197 million in revenue and 30 percent marketshare for the total workstation market covering all operating systems, according to Q4CY'01 results reported by analyst firm Gartner Dataquest.
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| | General Dynamics selects SGI to power U.S. Navy's 21st-century battlespace management system
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, will use SGI high-performance computing and visualisation systems to power the U.S. Navy's Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) Capability system.
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| | Incyte Genomics selects Platform LSF and Analyzer to speed bioinformatic R&D
Incyte Genomics will use Platform LSF and Platform Analyzer to manage its 1200 CPU Linux and Unix compute farm. Over the next six months, Incyte will create a dedicated production pipeline to optimise its enterprise compute resources.
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| | Wige Data selects SGI and vizrt for German Public Broadcasting of 2002 Winter Olympic Games
Wige Data delivered a virtual sets package powered by two Silicon Graphics Onyx2 visualisation systems and vizrt's viz (virtual studio) software to German public television broadcasters ARD and ZDF for production and live coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
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| Industry
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| | NEC starts sales of deskside SX-6i vector supercomputer in Europe
NEC announced the Deskside SX-6i supercomputer, a compact vector supercomputer. The machine features a special microprocessor for vector computers developed by NEC with a top speed of 8 Gflop/s. NEC has succeeded in integrating this processor into a compact deskside casing, thus reducing the entry price for a vector computer considerably. |
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| | Fujitsu Systems Europe and Scali partner to offer HPC cluster solutions
Fujitsu Systems Europe has selected Scali's clustering software products and services for its product line of High Performance Clustering solutions; the "hpcLine". In addition to installation, maintenance and support, Fujitsu Systems Europe will offer services ranging from site
planning, system integration and training, to hardware and software customisation. |
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| | Cray to market Dell servers
Cray and Dell have signed an agreement for Cray to market high-performance cluster solutions and services worldwide using Dell PowerEdge servers. A cluster is a group of independent computer systems that work together as a unified computing resource.
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| | SGI introduces faster R14000A microprocessor in its systems
SGI has made available faster MIPS R14000A microprocessors for its high-end servers, workstations, and advanced graphics supercomputers. The new 600 MHz processor boosts performance of SGI products by up to 37% percent.
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| | Samuel J. Palmisano elected IBM CEO and Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. to remain chairman through 2002
The IBM board of directors has elected Samuel J. Palmisano chief executive officer of the company effective March 1, 2002. Mr. Palmisano, who currently is IBM president and chief operating officer, will remain president. As CEO, Mr. Palmisano succeeds Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., who will remain IBM chairman through the end of 2002.
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| | Workshop on memory performance issues
WMPI is a 1-day workshop on May 25 in Anchorage, Alaskar, that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss advances in computer
technology, architecture, software systems, and algorithms that address the
growing disparity between memory and CPU/network speeds. Hardware and software
techniques that address this performance gap are equally welcomed by the organisers. |
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| | Compaq AlphaServer systems help Land Rover to shift the focus of automotive design away from the wind tunnel and onto the supercomputer
Land Rover, part of Ford Motor Company's Premier Automotive Group, has awarded Compaq a contract to supply 18 AlphaServer ES40 systems and two ES45 systems running Tru64 UNIX and to provide ongoing project management, systems administration, and maintenance support. This is part of Land Rover's plan to improve its Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) capability. The servers will be used to run a variety of applications in four key areas of the vehicle design process: crash analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); structures analysis; and Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) analysis. This will dramatically increase efficiency, cut costs and development time as well as improve design quality. |
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| | Compaq AlphaServer ES45 establishes new world record TPC-C benchmark for 4-processor systems
Compaq Computer Corporation's AlphaServer ES45 system has established a new TPC-C performance record for four-processor systems and also has set a new price/performance record for all UNIX systems.
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| | IBM and SuSE co-operation demonstrates integration of enterprise ready Linux systems
SuSE Linux and IBM have extended their partnership to offer the most advanced Linux solutions for enterprise-level computing. IBM and SuSE Linux are offering performance and scalability through the complete IBM eServer product line, combined with the capabilities of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating system. |
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| | RackSaver builds a 264 AMD Athlon MP processor supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz
RackSaver installed a supercomputer cluster for researchers in the fields of planetary physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).
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| | SGI to redistribute Intel software development products for Intel Itanium processor family
SGIwill redistribute Intel's suite of compilers and performance libraries for the Intel Itanium processor family. The suite includes C++ and Fortran compilers and math kernel libraries, which can be used to develop applications for the Itanium architecture. SGI will offer the Intel software development products for purchase on the Itanium-based Silicon Graphics 750 system for Linux.
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 is available for iSeries and pSeries. The new release of SuSE's proven enterprise server operating system is the latest result of the recently announced extended Business Partner relationship between SuSE Linux and IBM. |
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| | Sun broadens support for Linux
In a sweeping move, Sun Microsystems Inc. expanded its support via a three-prong approach in support of the Linux operating system. First, Sun will ship a full implementation of the Linux operating system. Second, Sun will dramatically expand its line of Sun Cobalt Linux appliances and will also introduce a new family of low-end general purpose Linux/x86-based systems. And third, it will more aggressively participate in the Linux community by freely offering key components of its Solaris operating environment software.
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| | Clarkson University wins Linux Mainframe from IBM
Clarkson University has been awarded a Linux-enabled IBM mainframe as the winner of IBM's Linux Scholar Challenge. Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, received the highest overall average score among 669 universities enrolled in the challenge, with the greatest number of students submitting the most innovative Linux applications. |
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| | IBM introduces new dedicated Linux servers
IBM has planned deliver two new dedicated Linux servers, including a Linux-only mainframe that requires no traditional mainframe operating system experience. The IBM eServer zSeries offering for Linux consolidates from 20 to hundreds of servers, bringing the superior total cost of ownership and bullet-proof performance and security of the IBM mainframe to an entirely new class of customers.
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| | Redhat expands enterprise network service
Red Hat expandes
enterprise offerings for its Red Hat Network service. These new
offerings will allow large organizations to securely and easily manage
their Red Hat Linux deployments over the Web. |
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| | New Technology From TeraBurst enables real time collaboration between immersive visualisation centres over optical networks
TeraBurst Networks has unveiled its Wide Area Visualization Solution (WAVS), designed to provide connectivity and real time collaboration capability between geographically disparate locations of high bandwidth, 3D display and video applications, over optical networks. The solution combines TeraBurst's high performance optical networking platform with its newly developed digital imaging and audio/video/data mapping technologies capable of transporting video, audio and control data over a single wavelength in the optical network.
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| | Visual Area Networking from SGI
SGI has launched Visual Area Networking. The vision is to enable universal access to advanced visualisation using any computing device, over standard networks. The new products include graphics infrastructure software, graphics hardware and desktop systems that make this vision a reality. The new software, OpenGL Vizserver 2.0, will allow users to interact with visualisation supercomputers individually or as a collaborative community of users, from anywhere in the world. It allows globally dispersed teams to visualise and interact with data in ways never previously possible.
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| | SGI launches OpenGL Vizserver 2.0 advanced visualisation software
SGI has made available OpenGL Vizserver 2.0, software designed to deliver advanced visualisation capabilities to any client device across any existing network. OpenGL Vizserver 2.0 software enables users, individually or as teams, to access and manipulate high-quality visual results generated by SGI Onyx series visualisation systems. OpenGL Vizserver 2.0 is designed to run over standard high-speed networks without the need for costly special-purpose networking and to allow users to access any OpenGL API-based application.
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| | SGI introduces SGI Onyx 300 economical visualisation system
SGI has introduced an SGI Onyx 300 visualisation system with InfiniteReality3 graphics. The new system delivers cost-effective, scalable visualisation capabilities for a number of applications in industries that require stunning realism and interactivity. With SGI Onyx 300 InfiniteReality3 a broader range of professionals in defense, energy, manufacturing and the sciences can take advantage of advanced visualisation and graphics capabilities than ever before.
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| | ImageModuler creates 3D modules from photographs
REALVIZ released ImageModeler
3, that can be used to create accurate and highly realistic 3D models from
photographs. REALVIZ ImageModeler 3 eases the modeling process,
with a workflow solution simplifying the complex task of creating 3D
models. |
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| | U.S. army uses Onyx 3400 powered Immersive training environment
The U.S. Army is using a visualization
system powered by an SGI Onyx 3400 high-performance graphics system to create
highly realistic training simulations that will help prepare troops for
effective decision-making in foreign conflict zones. The
system from Mechdyne Corporation and SGI is located at the
Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), Marina del Re, a
partnership between the University of Southern California and the Army. It
features a wraparound curved screen with a 150-degree horizontal field of view
and surround sound. |
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| | New high-end SGI Onyx 3000 system
SGI launched a new
top end graphics and visualization system, the SGI Onyx 3000
visualization series with InfinitePerformance graphics subsystem. The
new systems deliver the world's fastest interactive graphics performance with
high image quality, flexibility and affordability, the company claims. They will be used in SGI Reality Center visualization facility
environments and for collaboration in a Visual Area Network environment.
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | HNF Europe meeting in March in Stuttgart
The next meeting on High-performance Networking in Europe, HNF-Europe will be held in Stuttgart, Germany on March 22, 2002.
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| | Florida International University chooses IBM technology to power Database research Center
Florida International University, a public research university, has selected IBM's DB2 database software running on Linux to power its High Performance Database Research Center. The university selected DB2 based on its reliability, scalability, and superior performance capabilities.
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| | Enhanced Grid Computing services on demand from Sun
Reinforcing its leadership in grid computing and its commitment to provide powerful architectures and tools for the enterprise, Sun Microsystems Inc. has integrated its software platforms for grid computing and services on demand. Leveraging its integratable software stack to provide transparent, Web-enabled access to distributed resource management (DRM) capabilities and the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE), Sun's integrated platform is unmatched in the industry today.
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| | Cross Grid takes off
The Cross Grid project, with support from the European Commission, has started. Cross grid will
develop, implement and exploit new Grid components for interactive compute and
data intensive applications. The project, with partners from eleven European countries, will also develop new tools, and install Grid test beds. |
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| | Compaq enters Blade "running"
In a press meeting in Munich Compaq
disclosed it activities in the adaptive infrastructure. It
consists of software tools and ProLiant based hardware blades.
Furthermore Compaq described the Blade roadmap of one, two and
four processor blades.
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| | NEC wins large order for Blade Server for Grid Computing from Tokyo Institute of Technology
NEC Corporation has received an order for a large-scale blade server system from Global Scientific Information and Computing Center in Tokyo Institute of Technology (GSIC). NEC's blade server system will be used as the platform of GSIC's Grid computing project.
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| | Internet will become platform for Grid Computing
In a keynote speech at LinuxWorld, New York, William M. Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Server Group, predicted that the innovation of Linux and the open movement will transform e-business, ending forever the days when vendors can use a proprietary platform to retain control over customers.
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| | Platform debuts Clusterware to drive Linux and Grid adoption
To help drive Linux further into the enterprise, Platform Computing Inc. will debut Platform Clusterware for Linux, a comprehensive cluster management solution for enterprises using Linux clusters to deliver improved computing performance and productivity, at the recent LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York.
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| | AVAKI submits secure Grid naming specification to the Global Grid Forum
AVAKI has submitted its Secure Grid Naming Protocol (SGNP) specification for discussion and comment at the Global Grid Forum in Toronto. |
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| | Entropia to support Open Grid Services Architecture
Entropia said it will support the new Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) standards specification effort. The OGSA initiative, announced by IBM and Globus at the Global Grid Forum in Toronto, is a developing set of specifications and standards that combine the benefits of Grid Computing and Web services.
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| | IBM announces servers, software, and storage for Grid Computing
IBM has launched new software, storage, and servers for Grid Computing, as well as plans to Grid-enable its entire product portfolio.
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| | First commercial version of the Globus Toolkit released by Platform
Platform Computing has made available the beta version of Platform Globus, the industry's first commercially supported version of the Globus
Toolkit at the Global Grid Forum in Toronto. |
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| | First UK e-Science meeting
The first UK e-Science All-Hands meeting will be held on
Monday through Wednesday, September 2-4, 2002, at the
Sheffield Hallam Conference Centre. |
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| | IBM and Globus launch Open Grid Services for commercial computing
IBM and the Globus Project have announced a set of new specifications that for the first time would allow businesses to share both applications and computing resources over the Internet. Their work would move Grid computing beyond scientific and technical applications to real business applications. At the Global Grid Forum in Toronto, IBM and the Globus Toolkit open source team introduced the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), a set of specifications and standards that combine the benefits of Grid Computing and Web services. |
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| | Increased TransPAC capacity makes possible greater international scientific, research collaboration
Indiana University has vastly increased capacity for TransPAC, the high-speed international Internet service connecting research and education networks in the Asia Pacific to those in the United States. This will make a vital contribution to continuing and expanding international collaboration between researchers in the United States and those in the Asia Pacific in digitally enabled science, widely called e-science.
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| | Merger of Web services and P2P technologies will turn desktop files into corporate resource according to Gartner
With the developments of Web services and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, enterprises have an opportunity to combine those technologies to increase efficiencies, according to Gartner.
Gartner analysts have developed an implementation model called the service station, which leverages some of the best features of the new technologies. The service station establishes a model for accessing data through Web services and P2P computing.
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| | Frank Cicio joins DataSynapse as Chief Operating Officer
DataSynapse, an emerging provider of high performance distributed applications solutions, and recent recipient of the Risk Waters' "2002 Software of the Year" award, has hired Frank Cicio as Chief Operating Officer. |
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| | Sun Cluster 3.0 software enhanced
Sun enhanced the Sun Cluster 3.0 software adding dynamic reconfiguration support for Sun Enterprise 10000,
enabling the addition, removal or changing of hardware resources such as
processors, memory and I/O devices without any downtime. Furthermore it has features to make denial of
service attacks more difficult.
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| | Enterprise Java platform extended for distributed applications and web services
Sun latest version of enterprise Java technology delivers additional support for XML technologies, business application integration and web services. Together, Java technology and XML enable vendors to build the next generation of solutions based on open standards and services, Sun claims, |
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| | Final CFP for Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing
Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing (Languages, Models, Systems) is a special session of
PDPTA'2002, held in Las Vegas from 24 to 27 June, 2002. Deadline for paper submission is February 22, 2002. |
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| | Alabama Supercomputer Authority chooses Verso's Telemate.Net WebFilter solution for K-12 schools
Telemate.Nethas its NetSpective WebFilter appliance been chosen to become the Internet access management solution for Alabama Supercomputer Authority (ASA).
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| | HP selects KPNQwest for global ATM and IP services in Europe
Hewlett-Packard Company's European network will migrate onto the KPNQwest ATM network with links to the USA and Asia. The multi-million three-year contract with KPNQwest's integrated IP services and EuroRings infrastructure covers the connection of a large number of ATM sites, as well as the provision of IP Transit services. |
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| | KPNQwest chosen by KLM for Pan-European IP VPN
KPNQwest, a pan-European data communications and hosting company, has signed a contract to build a fully integrated 12-site IP VPN solution across 6 European countries for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. |
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| | ONI Systems reports fourth quarter and fiscal 2001 financial results
ONI Systems Corporation, a provider of optical telecommunications systems for metropolitan and regional markets, has reported positive financial results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2001. |
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