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June 2002
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Contents
June 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center's supercomputers benefit from new home
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| | The Institute for Childhood Diseases to leverage distributed computing
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| | JavaGrande and ISCOPE 2002 to issue Call for Papers
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| | NCSA recognises Caterpillar for partnership that spawned series of technology breakthroughs
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| | SC2002 Research Exhibit Applications extended to May 10, 2002
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| Europe
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| | Interval Arithmetic Training for beginners
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| | Summer School on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
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| | HPC Consortium meets in Glasgow
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| | Extended paper submission deadline for the 9th European PVM/MPI meeting
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | IBM and LLNL scientists show supercomputer advance in predicting materials strength
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| | UC San Diego scientists create computational method to shorten time to develop new drugs
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| | C-DAC signs MoU with IICT
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| | RackSaver introduces BladeRack RS-1100V featuring Intel Xeon processor
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| | ESI Group announces new versions of its composite solutions
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| | VERITAS Software extends full line of storage management software to IBM AIX
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| | SDSC, TimeLogic and Sun validate ultra-fast Hidden Markov model analysis
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| | Delta Search Labs accelerates Lockheed Martin's technology development roadmap
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| | How To-Guide details creation of simple SANs for digital and real-time broadcasting
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| | IBM demonstrates breakthrough self-managing offerings
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| | IBM improves Network Attached Storage performance
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| | Silicon Logic Engineering launches ASICBlaster chip design services solution
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| | SGI receives prestigious Pirelli INTERNETional Award for scientific visualisation technologies
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| | HP scientist developed automated design tool to speed chip production
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| | SGI announces key sales wins for third quarter
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| | Emirates Computers partners with ADCO and Landmark
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| Industry
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| | Scali AS announces NOK 30 million funding round
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| | IDC reports latest supercomputer rankings based on the IDC balanced rating test
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| | Effects of HP/Compaq merger on high-performance computing
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| | Early Warning Healthcare Institute opens with supercomputer based visual tour inside the heart
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| | IBM eServer leads supercomputer list with more than 300 systems
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| | Raytheon awarded $14 million to procure high performance computing systems
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| | HP closes Compaq merger
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| | The Japanese Earth Simulator: a challenge and an opportunity
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| | Cray reports revenue of $35.2 million and net profit of $2.6 million in first quarter 2002
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| | Linux Clusters Institute to convene Third International Conference on Linux Clusters
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| | IBM showcases information integration strategy to developer community
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| | NEC announces business reorganization of the new NEC Group Management Reforms
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| | IBM provides launching pad for technology stars of tomorrow
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| Industry
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| | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory builds supercomputer from standard components
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| | Penguin Computing announces AMD clustering system
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| | Red Hat opens major engineering and R&D facility in Massachusetts
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| | IBM debuts new volume management technology on Linux
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| | Dell and Oracle expand Linux development partnership
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Peer-to-Peer working group to join forces with Global Grid Forum
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| | Data is the Grid's 'Killer App'
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| | The UK e-Science programme and the Grid
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| | Veridian announces release of PBS Pro 5.2 workload management solution
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| | Globus Project expands partnership with Microsoft
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| | GridFrastructure announces release of GF-Tools 1.0 for Grid Computing
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| | New European Grid company - Linvision
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| | Sequenom uses Linux NetworX Cluster to provide on-line supercomputing power to genetic researchers
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| | Platform integrates LSF software into Apple's Xserve and MacOSX
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| | Super Computer to launch third generation on-line gaming platform on the Jupiter ClusterT system
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| | IBM supercharges applications with new AIX operating system features
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| | Platform, HP and IDC hosted in Heidelberg ISC 2002 Grid Panel Discussion
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| | Third Grid Web Services workshop announced
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| | Butterfly and IBM to introduce first computing grid for video game industry
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| Networking
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| | Global Research and Education Networking Partnership inaugurated at European Commission Summit
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| | University of Washington researchers' innovation promises huge boost in speed
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| | Landmark partnership agreement between NetTest and Chinese Academy of Sciences
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| | KPNQwest files for moratorium under Dutch law
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| | KPNQwest deploys Managed Exchange Services across Europe, US and Asia for Viventures Partners
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| | 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance showcases 10 GbE interoperability network
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June 2002
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| | Ohio Supercomputer Center's supercomputers benefit from new home
With extensive planning and assistance from a network of associates, Ohio Supercomputer Center finished moving all supercomputing and memory systems to a new home this month. The new systems will be consolidated in a secure environment at the State of Ohio Computing Center (SOCC) in Columbus, Ohio, providing OSC with a secure and reliable facility with custom-based infrastructure.
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| | The Institute for Childhood Diseases to leverage distributed computing
The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases, a not-for-profit institute dedicated to discovering cures for childhood diseases, has selected Guilford, Connecticut as the site for its world headquarters. The Institute is leveraging a new field of computing known as "Distributed Computing". A software programme that works like a screensaver can be downloaded for free that will enable users to "donate" their spare computer time. |
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| | JavaGrande and ISCOPE 2002 to issue Call for Papers
For the year 2002, Java Grande and the International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE) have continued their partnership with a joint Conference, and a merged Call for Papers, Programme Committee, and ACM Proceedings. This combined conference, JGI2002, will represent one of the world's premier research forums in high-performance object-oriented computation. Papers for JGI2002 have to be submitted before June 1, 2002. |
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| | NCSA recognises Caterpillar for partnership that spawned series of technology breakthroughs
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois presented its 2002 Industrial Grand Challenge Award to Caterpillar Inc. during its Private Sector Programme (PSP) award luncheon at the Holiday Inn, 1001 Killarney, Urbana. |
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| | SC2002 Research Exhibit Applications extended to May 10, 2002
The deadline for submitting SC2002 Research Exhibit Applications has been extended to May 10, 2002. |
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| Europe
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| | Interval Arithmetic Training for beginners
An Interval Arithmetic Training for beginners is organised August 26-28, 2002, in Lyngby, Denmark.
The event is a joint effort between the Danish Technical University (DTU) and Sun Microsystems. DTU is the Sun Center of Excellence (COE) for Interval Arithmetic and Dynamic Systems. |
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| | Summer School on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
ETH Zurich and the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at
Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany jointly organise a summer school on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing from August 7 to 14, 2002, at Schloss Dagstuhl, close to the border of Luxembourg and France. |
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| | HPC Consortium meets in Glasgow
The HPC Consortium meeting will be organised in Glasgow, Scotland on July 19-20, 2002 for those who use Sun solutions for Scientific and Engineering Computing. |
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| | Extended paper submission deadline for the 9th European PVM/MPI meeting
The 9th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting will be held in Linz, Austria, September 29th-October 2nd, 2002. The deadline for paper submission has been extended to May 17, 2002. |
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| Industry
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| | IBM and LLNL scientists show supercomputer advance in predicting materials strength
An unprecedented billion-atom calculation has enabled a team of IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists to demonstrate a major advance in using supercomputers to simulate the strength of materials. Using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers as a computational microscope, the scientists can peer deep inside simulated materials to reveal how they break, as well as what makes them strong or weak, stiff or flexible.
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| | UC San Diego scientists create computational method to shorten time to develop new drugs
A new computational technique developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and reported in the May 22 Journal of the American Chemical Society provides a more realistic picture of how potential drugs and their molecular targets behave under normal conditions. The method models drug targets as flexible structures that stretch and bend at room temperatures rather than as rigid objects. The new approach is also much faster than laboratory methods and should complement them in shortening the time it takes to develop potent new drugs.
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| | C-DAC signs MoU with IICT
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad for co-operation in the area of Bioinformatics, recently.
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| | RackSaver introduces BladeRack RS-1100V featuring Intel Xeon processor
RackSaver, a provider of high-density rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters, has launched its BladeRack line of ultra-dense servers. The new BladeRack line of servers will be highly sought after in the markets that require high-performance computing power. The oil and gas industry, genomics, entertainment, research and development, education, and government entities are but a few of the groups always needing greater computing power in a more dense form factor.
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| | ESI Group announces new versions of its composite solutions
ESI Group, a provider of virtual prototyping and manufacturing solutions, has made available PAM-RTM 2002, advanced simulation software for Liquid Composite Molding (LCM), and PAM-FORM 2002, a forming simulation solution for composites and plastics. |
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| | VERITAS Software extends full line of storage management software to IBM AIX
VERITAS Software Corporation's storage management software suite is now available on IBM AIX, the industry's fastest growing high-end UNIX operating system. VERITAS Software on AIX 5L simplifies management and increases overall data and application availability across a broad range of supported storage devices. This high level of interoperability with VERITAS Software solutions increases the efficiency of IT departments by lowering training costs and standardising storage management methodologies across all heterogeneous system platforms.
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| | SDSC, TimeLogic and Sun validate ultra-fast Hidden Markov model analysis
Sun Microsystems, TimeLogic Corporation, manufacturer of the DeCypher line of biocomputing accelerators, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently completed benchmark testing and scientific validation of large-scale Hidden Markov Model bioinformatics analyses comparing speed and results to those obtained on SDSC's Linux PC cluster.
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| | Delta Search Labs accelerates Lockheed Martin's technology development roadmap
Lockheed Martin has selected Delta Search Labs, specialised in commercial supercomputing power and three-dimensional visualisation, to identify potential uses for its technologies, tools and facilities to advance the design, development, test and training processes in three Lockheed Martin core business areas.
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| | How To-Guide details creation of simple SANs for digital and real-time broadcasting
DataDirect Networks, a provider of high performance storage networking appliances, has made available Digital Broadcast: Around the Clock, Live to Air, a new engineering-focused, "hands on" implementation guide that details how broadcasters can gain increased productivity and lower operating costs by using Silicon Storage Appliances to create centralised, flexible and easy to scale IT storage network infrastructures. |
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| | IBM demonstrates breakthrough self-managing offerings
One year after announcing its Project eLiza initiative to develop self-managing or "autonomic" systems, IBM is demonstrating new technology that customers familiar with them estimate may save them as much as 20 percent on their information technology budgets.
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| | IBM improves Network Attached Storage performance
Focusing on the medium-sized business segment, IBM has introduced software and hardware enhancements to its TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) products, as well as a variety of new solutions, including several for the digital media industry.
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| | Silicon Logic Engineering launches ASICBlaster chip design services solution
Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE), a provider of high-end digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and system-on-chip (SOC) design services, has made available the SLE ASICBlaster solution that has been used to design and deliver more than 30 right-first-time chips to leading computer and networking systems customers. |
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| | SGI receives prestigious Pirelli INTERNETional Award for scientific visualisation technologies
In ceremonies in Rome, Italy, the Pirelli INTERNETional Awards for multimedia presented the 2001 Jury's Special Prize to SGI in recognition of the company's advanced scientific visualisation technologies.
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| | HP scientist developed automated design tool to speed chip production
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society will jointly present the prestigious Eckert-Mauchly Award to Dr. B. Ramakrishna (Bob) Rau of HP Labs, HP's central research facility, for his pioneering contributions to instruction-level parallel processors and compilers that use a style of architecture called Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW). |
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| | SGI announces key sales wins for third quarter
In its recently completed third fiscal year 2002 quarter, SGI posted several key sales wins, and the company saw the first implementations of its Visual Area Networking vision for universal access to advanced visualisation.
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| | Emirates Computers partners with ADCO and Landmark
Oil and gas companies are increasingly using computerised reservoir simulation to find, produce and manage oil and gas reserves. Emirates Computers has recently won two contracts to supply customised reservoir simulation software, based on 3D seismic technology.
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| | Scali AS announces NOK 30 million funding round
Scali AS has secured in principle a NOK 30 million funding round to accelerate the global roll-out of its high performance clustering software suite. The round was led by new investor Four Seasons Venture III, who committed NOK 20 million of the new capital. Existing investors Kongsberg Gruppen and SND Invest contributed the balance.
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| | IDC reports latest supercomputer rankings based on the IDC balanced rating test
IDC has reported the newest rankings of supercomputer performance based on its comprehensive standard test, called the IDC Balanced Rating. The test, developed with extensive input from the high-performance computing (HPC) community, is important because industrial competitiveness and scientific progress depend on this most-powerful class of computers.
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| | Effects of HP/Compaq merger on high-performance computing
After the recent merger of HP and Compaq, Hewlett Packard will become the master brand for all server products, but it will keep product families representing both companies. One of the additions to the HP offering is the fault-tolerant NonStop server family from Compaq, which will now be known as the HP NonStop Server. |
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| | Early Warning Healthcare Institute opens with supercomputer based visual tour inside the heart
A new medical diagnosis service, Early Warning Healthcare Institute, has unveiled a new and truly revolutionary medical diagnosis system that creates a movie-like "visual tour" inside the body to quickly and accurately identify potential health problems years before they occur. The first uses are focused on preventing heart attacks, but can look into any part of the body.
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| | IBM eServer leads supercomputer list with more than 300 systems
IBM has the most systems of any vendor on a new list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, nearly doubling the number of machines posted by the second place company, the combined Hewlett-Packard/Compaq. The "Balanced Rating Benchmark" from International Data Corporation (IDC) also determined that a single 32-way IBM eServer p690 server is more powerful than the Sun Fire 15K and Hewlett-Packard Superdome, while using only half the number of processors.
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| | Raytheon awarded $14 million to procure high performance computing systems
Raytheon Company has been awarded $14 million from the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Aberdeen, Maryland to more than double the computational capability of the laboratory's high performance computing environment to over 7.1 TeraFlops (7.1 x1012 floating point operations per second). Raytheon will acquire, install, test, and transition an 800-processor IBM Power4 - 1.3 GHz system.
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| | HP closes Compaq merger
Hewlett-Packard Company has completed its merger transaction with Compaq Computer Corporation as planned. The trading of Compaq common stock will be suspended before the opening of the market on May 6, 2002, and HP will begin trading under the new NYSE symbol HPQ.
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| | The Japanese Earth Simulator: a challenge and an opportunity
The article by John Markoff, which appeared in the New York Times on 20th April, describing the Earth Simulator in Japan, and the article in Primeur Weekly , have given a seismic jolt to the complacency of US supercomputer policy makers. They have debunked the notion that there is only one path to supercomputing via off-the-shelf chips in a massively parallel configuration. To paraphrase Mark Twain: "The reports of the death of parallel vector supercomputers were an exaggeration". |
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| | Cray reports revenue of $35.2 million and net profit of $2.6 million in first quarter 2002
Cray Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002. The company posted a profit before restructuring charges of $2.6 million on revenue of $35.2 million during the quarter, benefiting primarily from unusually high margins on product sales, reduced R&D spending, other operating expense reductions, and the settlement of a previously reserved cancellation charge.
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| | Linux Clusters Institute to convene Third International Conference on Linux Clusters
The premier international forum for Linux cluster users and system administrators, to be held October 23-25, 2002 in Florida, will feature speakers involved in high-performance Linux cluster computing and technical papers on a broad range of topics related to Linux cluster computing. The deadline for submitting technical paper abstracts is Friday, May 31, 2002. |
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| | IBM showcases information integration strategy to developer community
At its annual conference with more than 4000 developers in attendance, IBM will launch a portfolio of open standards-based integration software, a broad range of new developer tools, new strategic alliance partners, new partner programme offerings and new developer support offerings.
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| | NEC announces business reorganization of the new NEC Group Management Reforms
NEC Corporation (NEC) intends to execute further NEC Group restructuring, concentrating on the separation of its semiconductor business operations. NEC has earnestly advanced its management reforms, and now, will progress with the next phase of business reorganisation to create a new NEC Group. |
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| | IBM provides launching pad for technology stars of tomorrow
IBM has launched the IBM Initiative for Emerging Technology Developers, a comprehensive set of offerings enabling entrepreneurs and other software companies to design and deliver their products faster to the marketplace. The new initiative provides a combination of IBM technology, marketing and financial support for businesses through IBM PartnerWorld for Developers.
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| | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory builds supercomputer from standard components
A collaboration with Silicon Valley start-ups on a new file system has been announced by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
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| | Penguin Computing announces AMD clustering system
Penguin Computing I, specialised in Linux hardware, software, and service, has launched a critical addition to its 1U server platforms, the Altus 130 server. The new Altus 130 was developed by Penguin Computing to directly address the needs of customers in high performance cluster computing. At the heart of the new system is the QuantiSpeed Architecture of the AMD Athlon MP dual processors and the AMD 760MP chipset, which are perfectly suited to the price/performance sensitive requirements of parallel computing customers.
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| | Red Hat opens major engineering and R&D facility in Massachusetts
Red Hat Inc., an open source and Linux provider, has opened an engineering and research & development office in Westford, Massachusetts. The new office is located at 3 LAN Drive in Westford. Tapping into the Northeast's high-tech corridor, Red Hat's new facility will house 50 new jobs, primarily in engineering.
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| | IBM debuts new volume management technology on Linux
IBM announced volume management technology for Linux that is designed to streamline and enhance storage management capabilities. The new technology is the result of collaboration among developers in the Linux open community and the IBM Linux Technology Center.
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| | Dell and Oracle expand Linux development partnership
Dell and Oracle extended their relationship to deliver high-performance database solutions on Linux, with specific plans to build Oracle's next generation database software for Linux using Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell-EMC storage.
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| | Peer-to-Peer working group to join forces with Global Grid Forum
The Global Grid Forum (GGF), a community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies, announced that the membership of the Peer-to-Peer Working Group (P2PWG), created for the advancement and interoperability of peer-to-peer computing, has unanimously approved joining forces with the GGF. |
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| | Data is the Grid's 'Killer App'
At the ICCS2002 conference, Fran Berman gave an overview of the US Grid activities. She said that today, Computational Science has a lot to do with data management. Hence, supporting distributed collaboration is the major challenge. Grid computing must address problems of resource sharing and coordination problems in dynamic multi-institutional virtual organisations, which she illustrated with the "TeleScience Grid" project coordinated by Mark Ellisman.
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| | The UK e-Science programme and the Grid
At his keynote presentation at the ICCS2002 Conference in Amsterdam, Tony Hey, Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme gave an overview of the e-Science initiative. The UK e-Science initiative is a major financial boost to this new category of doing science. The Grid is considered an integral part of this approach, not as something separate. The e-Science programme runs for three years with a funding of 200 million euro. Of this, 145 million is for Grid Applications in all areas of science and engineering. 55 million is for the "Core Programme" to encourage development of generic industrial strength Grid middleware. This will require an additonal euro 33 million in matching funds from industry. |
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| | Veridian announces release of PBS Pro 5.2 workload management solution
Veridian has released the latest professional edition of the Portable Batch System: PBS Pro 5.2. PBS is a supercomputer workload management solution, an enabling technology for Grid Computing, as well as an important aspect of Linux clustering and desktop computing. Built upon over nine years of proven PBS technology, PBS Pro 5.2 provides enhancements in new features, stability, reliability and fault tolerance, making it the trusted solution for workload management. |
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| | Globus Project expands partnership with Microsoft
The Globus Project has established a significant expansion of its partnership with Microsoft to extend the capabilities of Globus Toolkit software, the emerging foundation for Grid computing. Microsoft will provide both funding and in-kind support totaling $1 million for developing a version of the toolkit for Windows XP, as well as for Globus Toolkit support of the company's .NET initiative.
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| | GridFrastructure announces release of GF-Tools 1.0 for Grid Computing
GridFrastructure, a Grid Services provider for high performance computing applications, has released GF-Tools 1.0 for Linux, the most comprehensive professionally packaged collection of grid computing tools available. GF-Tools 1.0 includes over 40 fully developed and tested packages providing a full suite of grid tools, including core grid services, schedulers, performance monitoring tools, and programming environments. |
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| | New European Grid company - Linvision
The Grid was made possible by Linux clusters. They allowed for relatively in-expensive high-performance computers to be used by other departments that the one that did acquire a certain piece of equipment. Real supercomputers are very expensive and can only be used in a controlled way. One of the Dutch companies delivering Linux clusters is Delft based Linvision. Linvision delivers tailor made clusters for high-performance computing, and fault-tolerant large data base storage. In addition it provides network infrastructure. Some of the largest Dutch clusters, for instance at Shell Amsterdam, are delivered by Linvision.
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| | Sequenom uses Linux NetworX Cluster to provide on-line supercomputing power to genetic researchers
The first genomics ASP (application service provider) is powered by a Linux NetworX cluster supercomputer to provide users with on-line genetic research access. Sequenom Inc., a discovery genetics company, is providing the ASP, known as RealSNP.com, to include its database of millions of gene sequences to offer the most comprehensive on-line genomics research tool available today.
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| | Platform integrates LSF software into Apple's Xserve and MacOSX
Platform Computing plans to make its flagship Platform LSF software available for Apple's new Xserve, extending support for MacOSX and Apple's new server, storage and systems management offerings.
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| | Super Computer to launch third generation on-line gaming platform on the Jupiter ClusterT system
Super Computer Inc. announced the first-ever super computer dedicated to the on-line game hosting industry. The Jupiter ClusterT will revolutionise the on-line gaming market by delivering superior on-line game play for the hottest PC based titles with on-line server-client ability. This technology advancement will allow game developers to deploy their latest releases to the on-line gaming market without rebuilding their code for cluster technology.
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| | IBM supercharges applications with new AIX operating system features
IBM has introduced a host of new high performance features in its AIX operating system that are designed to supercharge compute-intensive applications. The company also announced that it will become the first major UNIX vendor to offer a "productised" version of the Globus Toolkit, the industry's de facto standard open source Grid management software.
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| | Platform, HP and IDC hosted in Heidelberg ISC 2002 Grid Panel Discussion
At the forthcoming International Supercomputing Conference 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany, Platform Computing, Hewlett Packard, and International Data Corporation will organise a panel discussion on June 20, 2002 to analyse the future of the cluster market. |
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| | Third Grid Web Services workshop announced
The Third GCE Workshop, which will be held on June 6-7, 2002, will focus on Grid Web Services, emerging standards including the proposed OGSA, and the proposed testbed. This workshop will be hosted by the CS Department at the University of Indiana.
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| | Butterfly and IBM to introduce first computing grid for video game industry
Butterfly.net Inc. and IBM have deployed the first-ever custom commercial grid for the on-line video gaming market. The Butterfly Grid could enable on-line video game providers to support a massive number of players within the same game by allocating computing resources to the most populated areas and most popular games.
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| | Global Research and Education Networking Partnership inaugurated at European Commission Summit
Key leaders in advanced networking from all over the world have inaugurated the Global Terabit Research Network (GTRN) during the Global Research Networking Summit and Géant Commissioning Event hosted by the European Commission and G&ant/DANTE.
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| | University of Washington researchers' innovation promises huge boost in speed
The speed and efficiency of computer network and database servers could increase as much as 400 percent because of an idea developed by two University of Washington computer scientists that is reaching mainstream computing.
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| | Landmark partnership agreement between NetTest and Chinese Academy of Sciences
NetTest, a provider of testing, monitoring, management and optical component solutions for advanced and converged networks, has signed an agreement with the Institute of Computing Technology, China Academy of Sciences (ICT). Under this exclusive agreement, ICT developed and integrated the most powerful IPv6 Protocol Conformance Test Suites, including IPv6 Routing Conformance, for NetTest's interWATCH Performance and Verification System.
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| | KPNQwest files for moratorium under Dutch law
KPNQwest N.V. is filing for protection under Dutch moratorium law, as it continues its dialogue with strategic investors and works with its banks and advisors to find funding alternatives. |
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| | KPNQwest deploys Managed Exchange Services across Europe, US and Asia for Viventures Partners
KPNQwest, a pan-European data communications and hosting company, has deployed Managed Exchange Services (MES) in three continents for Viventures Partners, a global management company for venture capital. The service, which is already operational in Europe, US and Asia, is the first global offer since the MES product was launched with Microsoft and Compaq last year. |
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| | 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance showcases 10 GbE interoperability network
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA) has unveiled the world's largest 10 Gigabit Ethernet network at this week's NetWorld+Interop Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 7-9. 10GEA member companies include Agilent Technologies Inc., Blaze Network Products, Cable Design Technologies (CDT), Cisco Systems, Corning Incorporated, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks, Force10 Networks Inc., Foundry Networks Inc., Infineon Technologies Corporation, Intel Corporation, Ixia, JDS Uniphase, Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Mindspeed Technologies, Molex Inc., Nortel Networks, OFS Optics, Optillion, PMC-Sierra, Primarion, Quake Technologies Inc., Spirent Communications, and Velio Communications Inc.
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