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May 2002
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Contents
May 2002
Issue
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| Atlantic
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| | Japanese 'Computenik' Earth Simulator shatters US supercomputer hegemony
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| | State of California Technology Programme stimulating high-tech economy
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| | ISCA-2002 Call for Registration and Participation
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| | Webcast for students to highlight science and technology
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| Country
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| | Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart, installs hpcLine Linux Clusters based on AMD Processors
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| Europe
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| | Relaunch of ISC2002 conference web site
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| | Call for Ideas for the IST2002 Conference and Exhibition
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| | International Supercomputer Conference 2002
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| | Workshop for Embedded Systems in the European Framework Programme for R&D
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| | Call for Participation in 19th TOP500 list
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| | EU-funded training for IST technologists
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| | Call for demos for International Conference on Pervasive Computing
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Merck selects IBM eServer for next-generation drug design
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| | DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances enable easy, scalable high performance NAS
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| | SGI announces high-throughput computing services for chemists
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| | Medicine offers several application targets for computational methods
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| | NIH funds One-Stop Shop for protein information
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| | Opel closer to Virtual Factory with Delmia tools
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| | Kansas, Mexican, and SDSC researchers project future impacts of global climat change on 1870 Mexican species
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| | SGI demonstrates new Silicon Graphics Fuel Workstation at ACS
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| | PharmaGap models proteins on NRC and Lyon University
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| | ESI and Renault to collaborate on numerical calculation
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| | Moscow parallel and cluster workshop calls for papers
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| | International IBM Scientific Computing User Group meets in Daresbury
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| | DELMIA awarded research funding by U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research
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| | IBM outlines pivotal technologies to accelerate open storage networks
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| | BlueArc announces certification with StorageTek
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| | New SGI media server for broadcast is central to centralcasting
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| | IBM, Dassault Systèmes and RAND Worldwide join forces to expand product lifecycle management
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| | Third Generation Internet Business Solutions built on Groove's decentralised collaboration software platform
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| | Glaucus Proteomics enters into alliances with Dutch supercomputer centre and GigaPort
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| | PAM-CEM Solutions 2002 for 3D Computational Electro-Magnetics simulation released
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | HP to provide U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory one of world's fastest supercomputers
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| | Structural improvements deliver significant benefits in third quarter for SGI
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| | Cray wins $16 million order for T3E supercomputer system
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| | Cray achieves major development milestone with Cray SV2 supercomputer
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| | Cray expects profitability before restructuring costs
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| | Nanotechnology - The Next Industrial Revolution?
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| | Sun Fire 12K server breaks industry price/performance barrier
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| | Compaq AlphaServer Family roadmap continues on schedule, meeting key delivery milestones
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| | Cray offers high-capability expansion memory/data transfer system
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| | Fujitsu joins Eclipse Board
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| | New IBM eServer benchmark record
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Linux NetworX CEO to discuss future of supercomputing at Texas Venture Capital Conference
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| | Scientists from Heidelberg have built HELICS, one of the worldwide fastest parallel PC clusters
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| | Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals uses Linux NetworX Cluster to aid in drug discovery
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| | NCSA's first Itanium cluster now on-line
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| | IBM and SuSE offer a enterprise ready Linux services
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | German RTL Television adopts DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance for real-time news
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| | KPNQwest to deliver high capacity link for Helsinki Television
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| | French artist Jackie Matisse creates new Virtual Art Form at Virginia Tech
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| | Ice Age film powered by Alias|Wavefront Maya software
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Fujitsu introduces Grid Solution for the Sciences
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| | Sun project JXTA inspires development of P2P services and applications
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| | Global Grid Computing and application emancipation top discussions at Delphi's Spring Conference
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| | European company on the Grid - Datamat
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| | MiniGrid as an emerging new Grid entity
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| | European company on the Grid - CS and the Grid technologies
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| | CrossGrid project joins the European Grid family
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| | UK National e-Science Centre opened
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| | The UK e-Science programme
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| | HP helps extend grid computing for commercial use
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| | UK National e-Science Centre in brief
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| | Telemedicine on the Grid demonstrated at NeSC opening
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| | CCGrid 2002 in Berlin
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| | Global Grid Forum forms new Working Groups and expands committees
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| | Grid launch drives Wales forward
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| | McAfee.com debuts plans for the next generation of Web-based security services
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| | MPP software DAKOTA version 3.0 from Sandia available under Open Source license
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| | Sun's Grid Engine 5.3 software available in new release of SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Edition
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| | Californian Information Sciences Institute implements Foundry Networks' standards-based 10-gigabit ethernet solution
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| | Pathlight 5000 storage network appliance
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| | NIKHEF plans Grid computing centre to deliver 3 CPU-years a day
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| | Terascale, distributed Computational Grids enabled by Silicon Storage Appliances
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| | Pacific Life Insurance selects Entropia for Grid Computing
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| | GGF5 and HPDC11 registration now open
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| | The Mind Electric and Tocka sign Japanese distribution agreement
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| | Platform signs OEM agreement with Cognos to provide business intelligence solutions for performance management
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| | IBM to use AVAKI's Grid Computing software at Grid Innovation Centre
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| | Platform teams with IBM to provide Grid Solutions for worldwide Grid Innovation Center
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| Networking
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| | Internet2 Abilene Network to partner with Juniper Networks to deploy Next Generation backbone routing product
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| | Funet offers gigabit-level interlink connections
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| | Cox Communications successfully tests TeraBurst's optical switch in San Diego
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| | IBM and Telefonica partner in $90 million
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Leads
May 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Japanese 'Computenik' Earth Simulator shatters US supercomputer hegemony
The Japanese Earth Simulator is on-line and producing results that alarm the USA, that considered itself as being leading in supercomputing technology. With over 35 Tflop/s, it five times outperforms the Asci White supercomputer that is leading the current TOP500 list. No doubt that position is for the Earth Simulator, not only for the next list, but probably even for the coming two years. In the New York Times, bench mark compiler Jack Dongarra compares the event with the Sputnik, hence he dubbed the Earth Simulator "Computenik". |
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| | State of California Technology Programme stimulating high-tech economy
The State of California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency's (TTCA) Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), and CommerceNet, are strengthening California's economic, social and technological dominance.
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| | ISCA-2002 Call for Registration and Participation
The 29th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-2002) will be held May 25-29, 2002 in Anchorage, Alaska. |
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| | Webcast for students to highlight science and technology
Argonne research meteorologist Doug Sisterson and other scientists from across the United States interacted with a worldwide audience of students via a special World Wide Web broadcast on Monday, April 29, as part of the "Global Science and Technology Week".
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| | Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart, installs hpcLine Linux Clusters based on AMD Processors
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI/FKF) is engaged in experimental and theoretical investigations of the physical and chemical properties of solids. For their numerical simulation tasks the Institute uses different computer, an IBM RS/6000 SP with 24 Power2 and 60 Power3 processors and an IBM Regatta (p690) with 32 Power4 processors, an old IBM T3E with 20 processors and now two Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) hpcLine Linux clusters with 32 AMD Athlon 1200MP and 1800 MP+ processors. Dr. Armin Burkhardt, Head of the IT Support-Group at MPI/FKF, described the benchmarking process, comparing AMD and Intel processors, and the decision process.
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| Europe
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| | Relaunch of ISC2002 conference web site
From June 20-22, everyone interested in supercomputing in Europe will gather in Heidelberg, together with, no doubt, a number of participants from among other countries, the USA and Japan. Time to have a look at the programme, the exhibition and the social events. This year's programme ranges from Grid computing, of course, to petacomputing - we are talking real supercomputing here. The 19th TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers will be presented there too, with, everbody expects, a new number one. As in the previous years, the event will be covered by PrimeurLive! The event organisers, have relaunched their web site with so much information on it, you wonder how there can be even more at the event itself. But of course, there will be news at Supercomputing Conference, there always is.
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| | Call for Ideas for the IST2002 Conference and Exhibition
Ideas for conference workshops, single contributions and research exhibits for "IST 2002:
Partnerships for the Future", which will be held in Copenhagen 4-6 November 2002, can now be submitted. The deadline for submitting ideas is May 31, 2002. |
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| | International Supercomputer Conference 2002
From 19th to 22nd June 2002, the 17th International Supercomputer Conference Europe will assemble in the International Convention Centre in Heidelberg. 500 participants from Europe, the USA and Japan are expected to take part in the biggest event for high performance computers Europe-wide. The event is composed of a tutorial, a conference on the subject and an exhibition programme with representative suppliers of the market-segment. Primeur/EnterTheGrid will cover the event with two PrimeurLive! issues. |
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| | Workshop for Embedded Systems in the European Framework Programme for R&D
On 20 March the European Commission (EC) published a call for Expressions of Interest (EoI) concerning the Sixth Framework Programme. The EoIs can be seen as a first step towards an EC Research and Development proposal. On 29 May 2002 at Eindhoven Embedded Systems Institute (EESI), Eindhoven University, a workshop will be held to discuss potential EoIs on "Embedded Systems". |
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| | Call for Participation in 19th TOP500 list
The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis
for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice
a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer
systems is assembled and released. The best performance on the Linpack
benchmark is used as performance measure for ranking the computer
systems. The list contains a variety of information including the
system specifications and its major application areas. The next release of the Top500 Supercomputer List will be presented
at the 17th International Supercomputer Conference, June 19-22 in
Heidelberg, Germany.
The deadline for submitting entries is April 15, 2002. All systems
reported have to be installed by May 30, 2002.
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| | EU-funded training for IST technologists
TRAIN-IT is an Accompanying Measure in the IST Programme, designed for participants out of finished or ongoing European co-operation projects (IST, ESPRIT, eContent) who plan to start-up a business or a spin-out of an existing company. |
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| | Call for demos for International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Pervasive 2002 will be held August 26-28, 2002 at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland and aims to offer an in-depth, state-of-the-art view onto the emerging field of ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
An integral part of this conference will be a special demos and exhibitions track, showcasing both industry applications and research prototypes that turn pervasive computing visions into reality. |
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Merck selects IBM eServer for next-generation drug design
Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical company, has selected IBM e-server p690 systems to help develop a new generation of drugs.
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| | DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances enable easy, scalable high performance NAS
DataDirect Networks, a provider of high performance storage networking appliances, will be showing their enabling Silicon Storage Appliance technology at the fifth annual VERITAS VISION event from April 29 through May 2 in Dallas. Silicon Storage Appliances bring a simple and easy way to build, accelerate and scale NAS solutions, extending the VERITAS ServPoint Appliance Software for NAS
infrastructure, and bringing SAN-based efficiencies to NAS environments. |
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| | SGI announces high-throughput computing services for chemists
SGI has made available high-throughput computing (HTC) services for chemical scientists, allowing customers to implement a cost-effective, production-quality volume-computing environment efficiently on either a single SGI IRIX system or a cluster of such systems. These services augment SGI HTC bioinformatics solutions announced in 2001, covering such applications as BLAST, FASTA, ClustalW and HMMER.
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| | Medicine offers several application targets for computational methods
Computational methods can be applied in several fields of medicine. For example, highly selective tumour targeting is being developed as a radiation therapy to fight severe brain tumours, and effective computational methods are needed to simulate the radiation effects. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is mainly applied to modelling of blood circulation. The achieved models can be used to examine, for example, the origin of heart and vascular diseases, the function of the artificial cardiac valve, or to evaluate the effect of bypass surgeries on blood circulation (virtual surgery). Different types of application targets include, for example, molecular modelling used in drug discovery, or the effect on people of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields, such as those caused by cell phones. These are a few of the items discussed in the report on the current status of computational medicine and its challenges for the future, published by CSC, the Finnish centre for high-performance computing and networking.
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| | NIH funds One-Stop Shop for protein information
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a $5.4 million, five-year grant to researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), and the Burnham Institute to develop a community resource for systematic protein annotation and modelling (SPAM).
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| | Opel closer to Virtual Factory with Delmia tools
Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim opened a new
plant that comes very close to being a virtual factory.
Here, highly trained employees build cars at low cost for a dynamic global
market in both the real and virtual worlds. The new factory building in Rüsselsheim, where the newly developed,
mid-range Vectra model went into production on January 7, 2002, is the
first new construction project in the automotive industry on a site
parallel to existing and ongoing production. The plant costs around $ 3.0
billion US and will have an annual capacity of around 270,000 cars per
year, which will be built on a joint production line in a three-shift
operation. In what is probably the most modern automotive production plant
in the world, Opel has enthusiastically adopted the "zero error principle".
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| | Kansas, Mexican, and SDSC researchers project future impacts of global climat change on 1870 Mexican species
What effects will Earth's changing climate have on natural ecosystems? Which wild species are most at risk in coming decades for reduced range or even extinction? In a paper in this week's journal Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center (UKNHM), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, report on the first analysis of the potential impacts of climate change for an entire country, Mexico, including all species of mammals and birds as well as many species of butterflies, some 1870 species.
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| | SGI demonstrates new Silicon Graphics Fuel Workstation at ACS
SGI has demonstrated the first in a powerful new line of next-generation workstation products, Silicon Graphics Fuel, featuring unique chemical computation and bioinformatics applications, at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Tripos, a provider of discovery research software and services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other life sciences companies, has just certified its SYBYL drug discovery software for the workstation.
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| | PharmaGap models proteins on NRC and Lyon University
PharmaGap has activated a collaborative agreement with the Université Claude Bernard Lyon I in France and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The objective of the agreement will be to design a number of peptides (small protein fragments) which will be tested as potential drugs. These drug candidates will impact on the communication channels (gap junctions) between cells that are often dysfunctional in many chronic diseases, such as solid tumours of various cancers, neuro-degenerative conditions, cardiac conditions and other cell related diseases.
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| | ESI and Renault to collaborate on numerical calculation
ESI and Renault partner in the field of numerical calculation and the use of numerical simulation solutions. ESI Group's Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), will become one of Renault Group's numerical simulation reference tools. |
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| | Moscow parallel and cluster workshop calls for papers
The International workshop on algorithms and tools for parallel computing on heterogeneous clusters (HeteroPar'02) will be held at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, October 21-23, 2002. Paper submission deadline is May 1, 2002. |
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| | International IBM Scientific Computing User Group meets in Daresbury
CICOMP 5, the fifth meeting of the IBM Scientific Computing User Group will take place the week of 7-10 May, 2002, at Daresbury Laboratory, in Daresbury, England. |
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| | DELMIA awarded research funding by U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research
The Digital Shipbuilding Innovation Center (DSIC), Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea, has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval
Research (ONR). DSIC was founded in 2001 with the support of DELMIA Corporation.
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| | IBM outlines pivotal technologies to accelerate open storage networks
IBM Storage Systems Group senior vice president and group executive, Linda Sanford, in a recent keynote address challenged the industry to reduce the complexity of storage for customers.
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| | BlueArc announces certification with StorageTek
BlueArc's Si7500 Storage System has been certified to support the full spectrum of StorageTek's tape library backup solutions, including its top-end virtual tape library, the StorageTek PowderHorn Series. Together, BlueArc and StorageTek provide customers with centralised, manageable storage with high availability, seamless scalability and unprecedented performance.
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| | New SGI media server for broadcast is central to centralcasting
Anticipating the global growth of centralcasting, SGI has launched the latest version of SGI Media Server for broadcast, which enables broadcasters to efficiently streamline their news production and transmission operations and reliably get their pictures to air. SGI Media Server allows broadcasters to simultaneously put more recent-breaking news on the air and distribute that news at faster than real time across several stations within their group or network using the latest digital networking technologies and open server systems.
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| | IBM, Dassault Systèmes and RAND Worldwide join forces to expand product lifecycle management
IBM, Dassault Systèmes, and RAND Worldwide have signed an agreement to expand worldwide marketing, sales, and services for PLM solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes including CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, and SMARTEAM. Under the agreement, RAND Worldwide becomes an IBM premier Business Partner, a DELMIA Business Partner, and a Dassault Systèmes CAA V5 partner for complementary application development. |
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| | Third Generation Internet Business Solutions built on Groove's decentralised collaboration software platform
Independent software developers and solution providers are converting their Groove applications to take advantage of the latest capabilities unveiled in Groove version 2.0, and many will be available within 60 days, the developers say. These applications will provide collaboration solutions for specific vertical business processes, such as architectural design and medical practice management, and for horizontal business processes, such as customer relationship management and request-for-proposal (RFP) processing.
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| | Glaucus Proteomics enters into alliances with Dutch supercomputer centre and GigaPort
Glaucus Proteomics BV has entered into agreements with SARA, a Dutch supercomputing facility, and GigaPort, a next generation Internet initiative which provides a state-of-the-art broadband network, also hosted in The Netherlands. These agreements are expected to provide the biocomputing capacity and connectivity to help with the development of novel tools and technologies for high throughput proteomic analysis and the rapid screening of antibody and small molecule drug candidates for improved specificity. |
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| | PAM-CEM Solutions 2002 for 3D Computational Electro-Magnetics simulation released
ESI introduced PAM-CEM Solutions 2002. The 2002 version includes many new features for the realistic virtual testing of complex electromagnetic phenomena. From the influence of electronic devices in the transportation industry - automotive and railway - to telecommunications and antenna design, PAM-CEM Solutions 2002 analyse electromagnetic compatibility and interference problems. PAM-CEM Solutions 2002 enable manufacturers to streamline the product development process, making engineering environments more productive. |
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| | HP to provide U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory one of world's fastest supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has ordered a $24.5 million HP supercomputer that will allow researchers to apply computational science to address key scientific challenges. Once fully operational, the supercomputer should be one of the fastest in the world and the world's most powerful Linux-based supercomputer.
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| | Structural improvements deliver significant benefits in third quarter for SGI
SGI has reported results for its third fiscal quarter, which ended March 29, 2002. Revenue for the third quarter was $314 million, compared with $364 million in the preceding quarter. Gross margin increased to an industry-leading 42.5%. As a result of these factors, SGI's third-quarter operating loss was $9.8 million on a pro forma basis excluding restructuring charges. On a GAAP basis, the operating loss for the third quarter was $20.3 million.
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| | Cray wins $16 million order for T3E supercomputer system
Cray Inc. has received an order valued at more than $16 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for a Cray T3E supercomputer system and related services. Delivery is scheduled for the third quarter of 2002. No other details were disclosed.
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| | Cray achieves major development milestone with Cray SV2 supercomputer
Cray says its SV2 supercomputer has completed a significant development milestone. The new system recently ran software applications using system software and hardware for the first time.
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| | Cray expects profitability before restructuring costs
Cray expects to be modestly profitable for the 2002 first quarter before one-time realignment charges. The cost reductions and realignment charges, amounting to more than $5 million on an annualised basis, are related primarily to a workforce reduction of about 20 persons which took place last week. |
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| | Nanotechnology - The Next Industrial Revolution?
'Nanotechnology - The Next Industrial Revolution?', Edinburgh, April 24-25, will create an early
opportunity for delegates to become acquainted with leading-edge
developments, many of which may impact on their own organisations in the
very near future. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about the
very real implications nanotechnology presents for industry today whilst
networking with world-renowned experts in their field. |
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| | Sun Fire 12K server breaks industry price/performance barrier
Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched the Sun Fire 12K, a new class of low-cost, high-performance servers at previously unseen price points. The Sun Fire 12K delivers features seen in servers priced above $1 million (USD), providing customers with maximum investment protection, system availability, flexibility and application performance. Building on Sun's five-year leadership in server technology, the Sun Fire 12K also incorporates Sun's breakthrough Uniboard technology, assuring customers of interoperability with Sun's complete UltraSPARC/Solaris Operating Environment server family.
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| | Compaq AlphaServer Family roadmap continues on schedule, meeting key delivery milestones
Compaq Computer Corporation has begun delivering preview models of its next-generation AlphaServer systems for testing by customers and partners. The company plans to officially launch initial models of the AlphaServer Family systems based on new (EV7) Alpha processor technology later this year. |
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| | Cray offers high-capability expansion memory/data transfer system
Cray Inc. has made available the world's highest-capability expansion memory and data transfer system. The new system, compatible with Cray SV1e and Cray SV1ex supercomputers, includes a 224-gigabyte Solid State Disk (SSD) with a data transfer rate of 80 gigabytes per second which is 800 or more times faster than the 10- to 100-megabytes/second speeds typical with today's disk servers.
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| | Fujitsu joins Eclipse Board
Fujitsu Limited will serve the eclipse.org open source tools community through participation on the Eclipse Board, adding unique breadth and depth of knowledge and experience in developer tools. eclipse.org is an open source community that develops the Eclipse Platform, a leading open-source environment for integrating development tools.
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| | New IBM eServer benchmark record
IBM has demonstrated the scalability of its newly released IBM eServer p670 and AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system, by supporting a record 12,600 users of the Oracle E-Business Suite with an average response time of 1.199 seconds. The test result was obtained with the Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark version 11i. |
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| | Linux NetworX CEO to discuss future of supercomputing at Texas Venture Capital Conference
Linux NetworX President and CEO Stephen Hill presented an overview of Linux cluster supercomputing technology and his company's strategy at the Texas Venture Capital Conference on April 25 in Austin, Texas. Linux NetworX shipped the world's first commercial Linux cluster system in 1997 and today the technology is the biggest trend in the high performance computing industry.
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| | Scientists from Heidelberg have built HELICS, one of the worldwide fastest parallel PC clusters
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing of the University of Heidelberg (IWR) has just finished the installation of a parallel high speed PC cluster with an excellent, yet unknown price/performance ratio. This parallel high-performance computer, named HELICS - the Heidelberg Linux Cluster System - which has been acquired together with the computing centres of the University of Mannheim (RUM) and the University of Heidelberg (URZ), is set up with standard components, so-called "Commodity off the Shelf" components. It consists of 512 AMD Athlon MP PC processors; two of them are placed into one computing node. These processors have frequencies of 1.4 GHz and reach a theoretical peak performance of 2.4 billion floating point operations per second (Gflops) for each processor. |
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| | Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals uses Linux NetworX Cluster to aid in drug discovery
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals is advancing its human health care research and development processes with a 120-processor Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster supercomputer.
The Ridgefield, Connecticut laboratory of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals is using the cluster supercomputer to help predict the suitability of certain molecules in potential drugs.
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| | NCSA's first Itanium cluster now on-line
The US National Center for Supercomputing Application's (NCSA) Linux cluster based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium architecture is now on-line and available for use by the national academic research community.
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| | IBM and SuSE offer a enterprise ready Linux services
SuSE Linux and
IBM announced a broad services alliance that will enable
both companies to jointly provide Linux support and services to
corporate customers around the world. |
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | German RTL Television adopts DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance for real-time news
RTL Television, Germany's largest television network, has selected a DataDirect S2A 6000
Silicon Storage Appliance for use as the storage network backbone of their
Integrated News Editing System (INES) real-time news platform. In the first
phase of INES rollout, RTL has used the appliance-enabled environment with great
success for coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics and the Dutch Royal
Wedding. |
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| | KPNQwest to deliver high capacity link for Helsinki Television
KPNQwest will provide Helsinki Television (HTV), Finland's largest cable television company, with a high capacity IP Transit link with built-in redundancy. The IP link will provide a macro-capacity connection for Helsinki Television to support the firm's range of broadband Internet services. The multi-million Euro three-year agreement will provide an extremely high bandwidth connection which will be fully redundant, using fibre-optic cables to ensure that HTV's customers benefit from entirely reliable and better quality international and national web connections. |
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| | French artist Jackie Matisse creates new Virtual Art Form at Virginia Tech
French artist Jackie Matisse, creator of kite-like art works, will premiere a new art form when her kites fly in Virginia Tech's virtual reality CAVE and take people along for the ride. Now people can float along with the kites through the technology of the CAVE during a public workshop Jackie Matisse will conduct at Virginia Tech in April, her first workshop in the United States. |
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| | Ice Age film powered by Alias|Wavefront Maya software
There is a mammoth contender challenging the animated feature film kingdom. Ice Age , Blue Sky Studios' first feature-length 3D computer-animated film, released by Twentieth Century Fox, easily skated into first place at the box office on its opening weekend, March 15-17, with a $47.9 million take, breaking the record for March movie openings. Powered by close to 100 Silicon Graphics visual workstations, two Silicon Graphics Onyx visualisation systems and six SGI Origin family servers, Blue Sky artists modelled and animated Ice Age entirely in Maya software from Alias|Wavefront, a division of Silicon Graphics Limited.
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| Industry
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| | Fujitsu introduces Grid Solution for the Sciences
Fujitsu Limited plans to launch in June a new solution for scientific applications called the Grid Solution for the Sciences, which combines the construction of a Grid system environment, education, and operational support. This solution would assist customers with Grid construction based primarily on Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER high-performance Unix server (running Solaris), PRIMERGY Intel architecture server (running Linux) and VPP Series supercomputers (running UXP/V).
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| | Sun project JXTA inspires development of P2P services and applications
Over the last year, Sun Microsystems Inc. has turned a research project into a leading peer-to-peer platform, changing the way people work and use network computing technology. Through the open-source community, thousands of developers and dozens of universities and companies are developing and investigating compelling services and applications based on JXTA that demonstrate the benefits of P2P technology. |
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| | Global Grid Computing and application emancipation top discussions at Delphi's Spring Conference
Enterprise portals and Web services are more than simply content management and search taxonomies. This is a theme running through Delphi's Spring Enterprise Portals and Web Services Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, this May 20-23, 2002.
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| | European company on the Grid - Datamat
The Grid is a new wave of technology. With Primeur/EnterTheGrid, we want to focus in the forthcoming issues on a number of European companies that are new on The Grid. We start with the Italian Datamat. The company participates in no less than three European projects, DataGrid, CrossGrid, and SpaceGrid, hence it is typical of the system integrators and consultancy companies that are active on the Grid. |
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| | MiniGrid as an emerging new Grid entity
The Finnish supercomputer centre CSC organised a one-day Grid Seminar on Wednesday 6 March 2002 in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland. International and Finnish speakers brought their grid expertise to the seminar. It attracted an audience of over 60 participants. The Access Grid technique was applied when one of the speakers held her presentation via videoconferencing from the UK. The seminar ended with a panel discussion on the future of the grid.
In one of the presentations, John Brooke from the CSAR supercomputing centre in Manchester, descibed new emerging Grid entities, coined MiniGrids.
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| | European company on the Grid - CS and the Grid technologies
The French company CS is involved as a supervisor in the European Géant project, in the Datagrid and e-Toile projects which focus on experimental technologies, and in SpaceGRID and GRASP, in which applications are being developed for bio-engineering and scientific computation in various domains.
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| | CrossGrid project joins the European Grid family
CrossGrid, a new EU project has been launched on the 1st of March 2002. The project aims to develop, implement and exploit new Grid components for supporting interactive compute and data intensive applications such as flooding simulation, visualisation of surgical interventions, air-pollution and weather forecasting as well as analysis of distributed data in high-energy physics.
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| | UK National e-Science Centre opened
A new National e-Science Centre (NeSC) run jointly by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, will spearhead the UK's work on major e-Science initiatives that require huge computing resources and collaboration between scientists and industrialists both in the UK and around the world. |
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| | The UK e-Science programme
In the UK, rather than concentrating on The Grid itself, the broader focus of e-Science has been
chosen. The UK e-Science programme develops support for large-scale science through distributed global collaborations. Within thta goals,
One focus of the e-science programme is the development of a Grid communication and computational infrastructure to
underpin the work of scientists. In the UK vision, the Grid promotes the rapid formation of virtual colaboratories allowing
scientists to work together and share resources irrespective of the location of the scientists or the resources they are using. |
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| | HP helps extend grid computing for commercial use
Hewlett-Packard Company plans to offer the HP Utility Data Center (UDC) to help extend grid computing for commercial use. The grid, the worldwide network that uses the Internet to build distributed computing infrastructures, has been used mainly for technical and scientific applications.
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| | UK National e-Science Centre in brief
At the occasion of the opening of the UK National e-Science Centre on April 25 in Edinburgh, Malcom Atkinson, director of the centre, gave a brief overview of the mission and activities of the centre. |
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| | Telemedicine on the Grid demonstrated at NeSC opening
ia Cancer Network the capability of Grid technology
to improve the delivery of patient care in the West Anglia region and
potentially throughout the UK National Health Service was demonstrated at
the NeSC opening. The project ultimate goal is to provide as much treatment as
possible at the patient's, reducing considerably the time needed for clinicians to travel.A demo was showed at at the opening of the UK e-Science centre. |
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| | CCGrid 2002 in Berlin
The joint 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid from May 21 (Tutorials) to May 24 is organised by ZIB in Berlin. |
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| | Global Grid Forum forms new Working Groups and expands committees
The Global Grid Forum has formed new working groups for Grid Services infrastructure, Resource management Api, Software Licensing and Network metrics. |
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| | Grid launch drives Wales forward
A multi-million pound investment is about to put Wales "on the Grid" as it plugs into the ultra-powerful successor to the Internet. As well as a super-fast version of the Internet, Grid enables users to tap into raw computing power as easily as we now get electricity through a socket in the wall. The Welsh e-Science Centre has been formed in the Department of Computer Science at Cardiff University to bring this huge technological advance to public and private sector organisations throughout Wales and South West England. It is one of eight such centres across the United Kingdom.
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| | McAfee.com debuts plans for the next generation of Web-based security services
McAfee.com, a provider of Web security services, outlined its plans for the next generation of Web Security Services. The McAfee.com "Grid Security Services", previously code named "Project M2", represents a revolutionary new concept that brings together the massively distributed computing capabilities of Internet-based grid technologies with XML-based Web security services to provide powerful real time security to millions of users and businesses on the Internet. Grid Security Services represent the next step in the evolution of McAfee.com's patented Web security services model.
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| | MPP software DAKOTA version 3.0 from Sandia available under Open Source license
DAKOTA 3.0 (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and
Terascale Applications) is now available under an open-source release under a GNU General Public
License. This means any company engineer or university researcher will be able
to download DAKOTA and use it to improve their product design or impact their
research. Written in the C++ computer language, DAKOTA provides a flexible interface
between the designer's simulation software and the latest algorithms for
optimization, uncertainty quantification, parameter estimation, design of
experiments and sensitivity analysis. Interfaces between DAKOTA and
user-simulation codes can be developed rapidly. To date, more than 20 simulator
programs have been interfaced with the software. |
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| | Sun's Grid Engine 5.3 software available in new release of SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Edition
Marking the industry's first Linux distribution of a key enabling grid technology from a major systems vendor, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Grid Engine 5.3 software is now being distributed by the German company SuSE Linux in the new release of SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Edition. With this distribution, SuSE Linux users worldwide now can leverage the benefits of grid computing through implementing cluster grids using Sun's advanced and easy-to-use grid technology.
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| | Californian Information Sciences Institute implements Foundry Networks' standards-based 10-gigabit ethernet solution
The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) has deployed Foundry Network's IEEE 802.3ae standards-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet solution in its network backbone to enable ultra-high speed network-based applications and communications among its research departments.
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| | Pathlight 5000 storage network appliance
Advanced Digital Information
Corporation introduced the Pathlight 5000 storage network appliance. The Pathlight 5000 is specifically designed to
support today's grid computing deployment models. |
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| | NIKHEF plans Grid computing centre to deliver 3 CPU-years a day
The NIKHEF in The Netherlands, is one of the five DataGrid centres that participated in a successful DatGrid demo, on March 1st 2002. For the demo, clusters and computers at CERN in Genève, CNAF in Bologna, IN2P3 in Lyon, Rutherford Appleton Laboratorium in Engeland, and NIKHEF in Amsterdam were linked. The demo was a proof-of-concept of the DataGrid appraoch. |
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| | Terascale, distributed Computational Grids enabled by Silicon Storage Appliances
DataDirect Networks, a provider performance storage networking appliances, will be showcasing
their enterprise-class S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance to attendees of the Tenth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies and the Nineteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems at the University of Maryland in College Park from April 16-18, 2002. Silicon Storage Appliances make it easy for the scientific community to deploy and scale high performance storage area network infrastructures in a modular approach to support terascale and distributed computational grids. |
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| | Pacific Life Insurance selects Entropia for Grid Computing
Pacific Life Insurance has chosen to deploy Entropia's DCGrid 5.0 grid computing platform to accelerate financial modelling and simulation utilising its desktop PC infrastructure. Pacific Life Insurance Co. is the first financial services company to commercially adopt Entropia's grid computing platform. Pacific Life also joins Entropia's advisory programme.
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| | GGF5 and HPDC11 registration now open
GGF5 and HPDC11 will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in
Edinburgh, Scotland respectively 22-24 July and 24-26 July, 2002. |
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| | The Mind Electric and Tocka sign Japanese distribution agreement
The Mind Electric a software infrastructure vendor, has announced a distribution agreement with Tocka to bring its GLUE and GAIA service-oriented grid computing platform product lines to Japan.
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| | Platform signs OEM agreement with Cognos to provide business intelligence solutions for performance management
Platform Computing has become an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of Cognos, a provider of business intelligence solutions. Platform will initially OEM Cognos' reporting and analysis solutions, including Cognos PowerPlay and Cognos Upfront, to expand the functionality of its enterprise Performance Management software solutions. |
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| | IBM to use AVAKI's Grid Computing software at Grid Innovation Centre
Avaki Corporation is working with IBM on several new initiatives to bring grid computing to a broader spectrum of commercial customers. AVAKI 2.1, the first commercially available grid software to integrate both data grid and compute grid capabilities, is one of the core technologies available at IBM's new Grid Innovation Centre in Montpellier, France.
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| | Platform teams with IBM to provide Grid Solutions for worldwide Grid Innovation Center
Platform Computing Inc. has been invited to join IBM at the launch of its worldwide Grid Innovation Center at its Advanced Technical Solution Centre in Montpellier, France, which opened on April 23. IBM's centre will provide commercial customers with the unique opportunity to explore the newly emerging area of Grid computing and obtain access to a grid to run prototype grid projects.
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| | Internet2 Abilene Network to partner with Juniper Networks to deploy Next Generation backbone routing product
Internet2 will deploy Juniper Networks' most advanced core routing product for the next generation of the Abilene backbone network. The nationwide upgrade will quadruple Abilene's capacity to 10 gigabits per second and natively deploy the next generation Internet protocol, IPv6, using Qwest Communications' nationwide network infrastructure. The upgrade will maintain Abilene's position as one of the most advanced and far-reaching education and research networks in the world.
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| | Funet offers gigabit-level interlink connections
CSC, the Finnish IT center for science has chosen Juniper Networks M10 and M20 routers as the new Funet network equipment. The system will be supplied by Sonera. Offers were received from eight companies and included six different brand names. The total size of the acquisition will be 13 routers, dispersed around Finland at the various Funet access points. The system will be implemented during the spring and summer of this year.
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| | Cox Communications successfully tests TeraBurst's optical switch in San Diego
Cox Communications, a full-service provider of telecommunications services, has successfully completed testing of the TeraBurst OMS 2200 optical switch in San Diego.
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| | IBM and Telefonica partner in $90 million
IBM Corporation has signed a two-year, $90 million deal with Spanish telecommunications provider Telefonica Data USA for data backup services on demand and by the gigabyte. The contract calls for IBM to deliver "business continuity services" to Telefonica's US division, based in Miami, which in turn would offer the services to its customers, and priced by the gigabyte. In related news, Amtrak is looking to cut $85 million from its cost structure over a seven-year period through a $229 million outsourcing agreement with IBM.
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