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July 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | EMC garners national attention for real time weather modelling
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| Europe
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| | Dutch Platform/Foundation HPCN evolves from HPCN to general IT
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| | Euro-Par 2002 calls for participation
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| | European Commission organises eTEN Information Day on July 4, 2002
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| Industry
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| | Cray signs DARPA contract for advanced research on trans-petaflops computer systems
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| | U.S. Defense Department selects IBM supercomputer to fight global disease
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| | C-DAC and Horizon close joint development agreement to develop U.S.-India telecom products strategy
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| | Major pharmaceutical becomes first member of the Diabetes Research Forum
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| | NCSA Team "unfolds" the universe in Discovery Channel show
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| | Celera Genomics publishes analysis of mouse chromosome
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| | Cray, LION bioscience, KOOPrime and APBioNet engineers provide a recipe for bioinformatics
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| | New Wave Supercomputers catch big waves
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| | EuroPAM 2002
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| | SGI powers Superlab at Sci-Quest, the North Alabama Science Center
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| | Time Warner Cable uses Silicon Storage Appliances to power Raleigh digital news facility
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| | Customers worldwide choose Dell for High-Performance Computing Clusters
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| | Spirent Communications selects Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs for 40G Optical Transport Analyser
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| | Cray collaboration with Sanbi enables higher-quality EST clustering
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| | Nortel Networks installs e-learning network at George Mason University
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Tetsuya Sato, Director General of the Earth Simulator Centre to present at Heidelberg
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| | Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) upgrades to NEC SX-6/48 Supercomputer
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| | Orders worth nearly $19 million for Cray SV2 supercomputer systems
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| | Smaller, slower supercomputers someday may win the race
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| | ARSC installs Cray SX-6
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| | RackSaver introduces new BladeRack RS-1200V featuring AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor
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| | Cray SX-6 Supercomputer to Canadian Industrial Company
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| | Sandia selects Cray to negotiate Contract for the Red Storm
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| | HP introduces powerful, high-density server and supercomputer
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| | RackSaver announces support for Intel's new server products for its Intel Xeon processors
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| | Xilinx changes programmable logic landscape with expanded Virtex-II Pro family
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| | SGI Trusted IRIX offers secure operating system for government and commercial sectors
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| | Cineca launches supercomputer with 3 Tflops/s
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| | IBM names five Fellows
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| | HP ranks "Best in Class" in latest IDC High-performance Computing benchmark
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| | Cray anticipates joining Russel 3000 Index
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| | SGI and Unique Digital partner to deliver packaged storage solutions for managing complex data
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| Industry
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| | Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, Turbolinux partner to create UnitedLinux
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| | Medasys and Scali partner to offer HPC cluster solutions in France
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| | SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD with StarOffice 6 available from mid-June
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| | HP and Cadence advance alliance to bring Electronic Design Automation on Linux
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| | IBM announces support for uniform version of Linux
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| | Terra Soft releases 2.4 kernel update for briQs
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| | Japanese Yellow Dog Linux showcases at LinuxWorld Tokyo
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Platform Computing, HP and IDC host Executive Grid Computing
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| | Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 Software delivers next level of Sun's Open Grid Architecture
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| | NPACI Rocks simplifies deployment of Intel Itanium-based Linux Clusters
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| | GridFrastructure announces GF-Credentials Beta For Grid Computing Security
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| | NCSA announces Access Grid seminar series
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| | United Devices MetaProcessor Platform 3.0 embraces OGSA and web services
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| | NEC ESS chooses Scali platform for auto industry simulations
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| | AVAKI's Grid software selected as a core technology for the North Carolina BioGrid
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| | Platform ships LSF 5 workload management solution for enterprise Grid computing
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| | Engineering Implementation Guide for high performance SANs Available from DataDirect
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| | NeSC Workshop on Applications and Testbeds on the Grid organised in Glasgow
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| | Foundry 10-Gigabit Ethernet complies with IEEE standard
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| | The Bottom Line in Distributed Computing
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| | Spanish Cancer Research Centre implements Grid technology
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| | NASA upgrades Space Agency's largest supercomputer increasing node power of its Grid computing initiative
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| | Purdue and Indiana University create new "tera-scale" supercomputer grid
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| | Metis introduces new collaborative platform MCP 5
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| | Platform enhances powerful Grid computing solutions, maximising Enterprise IT utilisation
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| | Platform Computing makes equity investment In Powerllel
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| | Microsoft announces Portal Platform Product Strategy and Development Road Map
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- TOP500 |
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| | AMD Athlon MP Processors Drive Most Powerful x86 Cluster Supercomputers in Europe and Asia
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| | France first in the TOP500?
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| Networking
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| | 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance showcases 10 GbE interoperability network at SuperComm
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| | The Mind Electric and OKC sign European Distribution Agreement
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| | Silicon Storage Appliance allows CardioNow to go from purchase order to operational SAN in 24 hours
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| | Xilinx and Xebeo Communications team up to bridge the Metro Area Network gap
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| | Luminous Networks uses most powerful chips from Xilinx to ensure flexible Metro Area Network Solutions
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July 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | EMC garners national attention for real time weather modelling
The Environmental Modelling Center (EMC) at MCNC, a national leader in air quality modelling and forecasting, was featured on The Weather Channel, May 28, 2002. The three-part special on the new field of numerical air quality forecasting will be televised 12 times throughout the summer during "Your Weather This Evening".
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| | Dutch Platform/Foundation HPCN evolves from HPCN to general IT
The Dutch Platform/Foundation HPCN started in 1997 as a vehicle for administrating HPCN funds from the Dutch Government. After this programme had been ended, the Platform has repositioned itself as a user group for advanced computing in general, not focusing on HPCN itself anymore. The Platform HPCN presented the new strategic plan at a user meeting on May 28.
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| | Euro-Par 2002 calls for participation
From August 27 to 30, 2002, Euro-Par 2002 will be organised in Paderborn, Germany.
The early registration deadline is June 30, 2002. |
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| | European Commission organises eTEN Information Day on July 4, 2002
A new eTEN Call for proposals (2002/1) is to be launched at end June with a budget around 12 million euro. On July 4, 2002, the European Commission is organising an Information Day.
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| Industry
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| | Cray signs DARPA contract for advanced research on trans-petaflops computer systems
Cray has signed an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first phase of DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems Programme.
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| | U.S. Defense Department selects IBM supercomputer to fight global disease
The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) has purchased a powerful IBM eServer p690-based supercomputer, named Blue Ocean, that will perform basic research in the development of a practical vaccine for malaria and other infectious diseases.
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| | C-DAC and Horizon close joint development agreement to develop U.S.-India telecom products strategy
Horizon Companies Inc., a U.S.-based software developer and I.T. systems integrator, has signed a joint agreement with C-DAC, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the research & development facility which developed India's first supercomputer. Under terms of the agreement, Horizon will expand development of telecom software products for the Indian market and will facilitate the marketing and distribution of C-DAC-developed software products, and will promote C-DAC's offshore development capabilities for the U.S. market.
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| | Major pharmaceutical becomes first member of the Diabetes Research Forum
The American Diabetes Association and Menlo Park-based biotechnology firm Entelos Inc. announced the first participant to join the Diabetes Research Forum. The first participant in the Diabetes Research Forum will be Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. The Forum is a groundbreaking scientific collaboration to advance research for the prevention, treatment, and cure of type 2 diabetes. Research conducted by the Forum will be provided to a select number of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. |
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| | NCSA Team "unfolds" the universe in Discovery Channel show
Later today, on June 3, as many as 2.5 million people will get a glimpse of stunning simulations computed by scientists with the National Computational Science Alliance and turned into digital animations by visualisation artists and programmers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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| | Celera Genomics publishes analysis of mouse chromosome
Celera Genomics, an Applera Corporation business, announced the publication of a comparative analysis of mouse chromosome 16 and the human genome, based on Celera Genomics' high quality assembly of the mouse and human genomes. Celera Genomics also announced that the DNA sequence of this mouse chromosome has been deposited at GenBank, the DNA Data Bank of Japan, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory sequence repositories.
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| | Cray, LION bioscience, KOOPrime and APBioNet engineers provide a recipe for bioinformatics
The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) which promotes the growth of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region, has identified one of the biggest obstacles to widespread adoption amongst life scientists as the lack of integration and interoperability amongst the disparate bioinformatics software vendors, database providers and instrument devices. As a testbed pilot project, APBioNet is currently working with the best of breed bioinformatics database provider LION bioscience to integrate their popular SRS system with supercomputing pioneer Cray Inc. through the use of KOOPrime's applications integration system.
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| | New Wave Supercomputers catch big waves
The new wave in computing - super-fast machines churning out three-dimensional models viewable in high-tech, immersive theaters - may teach us more about the big waves that sometimes threaten people who live near the seashore.
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| | EuroPAM 2002
EuroPAM 2002, the 12th European conference on numerical simulation will take place October 21-22, 2002 at the Antibes Congress Center on the French Riviera. |
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| | SGI powers Superlab at Sci-Quest, the North Alabama Science Center
Science centre visitors in Alabama will experience and interact with the world's scientific discoveries using the same SGI technology that leading researchers depend on for ground breaking discoveries. The Superlab, a new interactive, immersive learning facility to be installed by Sci-Quest, the North Alabama Science Center Inc., will house an SGI Reality Center facility. This state-of-the-art facility will allow children and teachers from preschool through 12th, along with visitors of all ages, to participate in experiential learning in a highly realistic, immersive visual environment that Sci-Quest will use to promote science education.
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| | Time Warner Cable uses Silicon Storage Appliances to power Raleigh digital news facility
DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance is powering Time Warner Cable's digital News
14 Carolina facility in Raleigh, North Carolina. DataDirect's S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance serves as the enabling storage network infrastructure for the newsroom, integrating all aspects of news editing and playback of video into a single, seamless environment. |
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| | Customers worldwide choose Dell for High-Performance Computing Clusters
Many of the world's leading corporations, universities and research institutions are realising the performance and price benefits of standards-based technology for applications previously conducted on expensive proprietary systems. Since the launch of Dell's high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) programme in February, the company has delivered thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers worldwide to customers performing these complex computations with large groups of standards-based systems. Applications include analysing seismic data to find new oil and gas repositories, modelling and predicting ocean currents, and mapping galaxies with information from satellites.
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| | Spirent Communications selects Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs for 40G Optical Transport Analyser
Spirent Communications, a wholly owned business group of Spirent plc, developed the first totally integrated solution with OC-768 SONET framing and jitter testing for 40 Gigabit electrical and optical devices using Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs. The OTA 4400 with SONET framing will be demonstrated live at SUPERCOMM Conference in Atlanta from June 4-6. |
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| | Cray collaboration with Sanbi enables higher-quality EST clustering
The South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), in collaboration with Cray programmers, has paved the way for higher-quality EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) clustering by making it practical to apply SANBI's widely used D2-cluster software to whole datasets instead of data samples.
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| | Nortel Networks installs e-learning network at George Mason University
Nortel Networks announced two deployments of its Optical Ethernet
solution with educational institutions, George Mason University based in
Fairfax, and the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) based in Round
Rock, USA. |
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| | Tetsuya Sato, Director General of the Earth Simulator Centre to present at Heidelberg
For the first time outside of Japan, Dr. Tetsuya Sato, Director-General of the Earth Simulator Centre will present on the results of the machine that as a "Computenik" shattered the American supercomputer hegenomy, rocketing into the first position of the world's most powerful supercomputers. On Saturday June 22, Tetsuya Sato will lecture at the ISC2002 Conference in Heidelberg, Germany.
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| | Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) upgrades to NEC SX-6/48 Supercomputer
In 1996, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen, Denmark, installed an NEC
SX-4/16 supercomputer system, one of the best options available at that time. This system is now to be replaced with a NEC SX-6/48 supercomputer. |
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| | Orders worth nearly $19 million for Cray SV2 supercomputer systems
Cray has received two orders totalling nearly $19 million from the U.S. Department of Defense and an additional governmental purchaser for Cray SV2 supercomputer systems and related services. The orders call for early air cooled systems to be delivered in 2002 so the purchasers can familiarise themselves with the operating system and begin to port their application codes to the SV2 system. Final deliveries are scheduled for 2003.
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| | Smaller, slower supercomputers someday may win the race
The supercomputers of the future will never crash and will cost far less to run than today's machines. At least that's the vision of a scientist at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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| | ARSC installs Cray SX-6
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) and Cray Inc. have signed an agreement that places a Cray SX-6 at ARSC. ARSC is pleased to be able to offer this leading technology to the wider High Performance Computing (HPC) community for testing and evaluation. This is the first installation
of a Cray SX-6 system in the United States under the OEM agreement concluded last year between Cray Inc. and NEC. New users should be able to access the system by mid-July. |
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| | RackSaver introduces new BladeRack RS-1200V featuring AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor
RackSaver, a provider of high-density rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters has launched its RS-1200V BladeRack line of ultra-dense servers.
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| | Cray SX-6 Supercomputer to Canadian Industrial Company
Cray has sold a Cray SX-6 supercomputer and related services to a Canadian industrial company for approximately Canadian $2.7 million. No other details were announced. |
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| | Sandia selects Cray to negotiate Contract for the Red Storm
Cray will enter into negotiations with the US National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories for a multiyear project, valued at approximately $90 million, to develop and deliver a supercomputer pursuant to Sandia's "Red Storm" procurement. |
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| | HP introduces powerful, high-density server and supercomputer
HP has introduced the HP AlphaServer DS20L server and HP AlphaServer SC20 supercomputer, which deliver to customers in fields as diverse as entertainment to defense the power of a supercomputer in a space-saving, rack-mounted configuration.
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| | RackSaver announces support for Intel's new server products for its Intel Xeon processors
RackSaver, a provider of high-density individual rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters, will support products based around the "building block" products from Intel's Enterprise Platform & Services Division (EPSD) geared towards the Intel Xeon Processor.
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| | Xilinx changes programmable logic landscape with expanded Virtex-II Pro family
Xilinx has expanded the Virtex-II ProTM FPGA family with five new devices and new price points. The new Virtex-II Pro devices expand the family to ten, with the largest of the new devices setting new records for logic, memory, DSP, processing, and I/O capacity. Xilinx is able to respond to the customer demand, seen following its Programmable World 2002 event held in April, with these new members due to the successful delivery of the tools, the initial devices, and the process, as well as the acceleration to 300-mm wafers. Also announced were new price points for the family. With the new pricing, Virtex-II Pro FPGAs deliver cost savings of 40 percent over any other competitive FPGA offerings of comparable logic cell, memory density, and performance.
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| | SGI Trusted IRIX offers secure operating system for government and commercial sectors
The National Information Assurance Partnership's (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) has successfully evaluated and validated the SGI Trusted IRIX 6.5 operating system with conformance to the National Security Agency Information Systems Security Organisation's (ISSO) Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP). NIAP CCEVS has also successfully evaluated the SGI standard IRIX 6.5 operating system software with conformance to the ISSO's Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP) against the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation.
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| | Cineca launches supercomputer with 3 Tflops/s
The Interuniversitary Consortium Cineca has inaugurated in Bologna their new supercomputer which is able to perform up to 3 Tflops/s. |
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| | IBM names five Fellows
IBM has bestowed its most prestigious technical honour on five of its top scientists, researchers and developers, naming them IBM Fellows in recognition of their continued innovation and outstanding contributions to the information technology industry. Reflecting the changing nature of the IT business, this year's honourees include the first-ever Fellow from IBM Global Services, in addition to leaders from the company's traditional hardware and software operations.
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| | HP ranks "Best in Class" in latest IDC High-performance Computing benchmark
HP's server products achieved top honours in two out of four categories of the most recent IDC Balanced Rating, a new standardised evaluation for computer systems running supercomputer applications. In a third category, HP placed three systems in the top five positions.
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| | Cray anticipates joining Russel 3000 Index
Cray has been selected on a preliminary basis to join the Russell 3000 Index when the broad-market index is rebalanced June 30. Index membership will go into effect July 1 and will remain in place for one year.
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| | SGI and Unique Digital partner to deliver packaged storage solutions for managing complex data
SGI and Unique Digital Inc. have established a strategic alliance authorising Unique Digital to resell the complete line of SGI servers, workstations, visualisation systems, software products and data management offerings in packaged solutions to several industries. Unique Digital will particularly focus on reselling SGI storage solutions, including CXFS 2.1, the SGI shared filesystem for heterogeneous storage area network (SAN) environments, and SGI SAN Server 1000, a turnkey SAN solution. The agreement partners industry-leading SGI supercomputing solutions with Unique Digital's systems integration expertise to provide a one-stop source for customers with specific high-performance computing and data management needs.
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| | Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, Turbolinux partner to create UnitedLinux
Linux Industry companies Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux, Inc. announced the organisation of UnitedLinux, a new initiative that will streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux designed for business. |
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| | Medasys and Scali partner to offer HPC cluster solutions in France
Medasys has selected Scali's clustering software products and services for its product line of High Performance Clustering solutions on the French market; the brands "Brick" and
"Gallion". |
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| | SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD with StarOffice 6 available from mid-June
SuSE Linux, an international Open Source technology expert and solutions provider, will make available the SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD with Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 by mid-June. Additionally, the Pro-Office CD for SuSE Linux 8.0 features the latest edition of the ultimate desktop environment KDE 3.0.1, as well as important patches for the SuSE Linux 8.0 operating system. With the Pro-Office CD, SuSE Linux users can equip their home computers with state-of-the-art Linux desktop technology. |
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| | HP and Cadence advance alliance to bring Electronic Design Automation on Linux
HP has advanced an alliance with Cadence Design Systems to broaden the reach of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) using Linux. As part of this, Cadence has furthered its investment in HP IA-32 and Intel Itanium-based servers and workstations running Linux for deployment in its development, testing and customer support programmes.
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| | IBM announces support for uniform version of Linux
IBM announced support for the new uniform version of Linux, known as UnitedLinux, across its portfolio of key hardware, software and services offerings.
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| | Terra Soft releases 2.4 kernel update for briQs
Terra Soft offers a firmware update and fully current YDL 2.2 release, including the 2.4 kernel, for the Yellow briQ Node. |
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| | Japanese Yellow Dog Linux showcases at LinuxWorld Tokyo
Terra Soft Solutions, developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, has announced the Japanese edition of Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, to be showcased by Amulet at LinuxWorld Tokyo. |
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- The Grid |
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| | Platform Computing, HP and IDC host Executive Grid Computing
Senior executives from Compaq, now part of the new HP, Platform Computing, and renowned analysts from IDC will host an Exclusive Executive breakfast event on Grid Computing. |
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| | Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 Software delivers next level of Sun's Open Grid Architecture
Sun Microsystems Inc. is extending its vision for an open, enterprise grid architecture with the introduction of Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 software. Designed to provide the growing enterprise grid market with higher levels of control and flexibility in the management of grid resources, Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 software builds on the explosive growth of Sun Grid Engine software, which today powers more than 5000 grids worldwide.
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| | NPACI Rocks simplifies deployment of Intel Itanium-based Linux Clusters
Developers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have released NPACI Rocks 2.2.1, which extends the easy-to-use open-source
cluster toolkit to Linux clusters powered by Intel Itanium processors.
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| | GridFrastructure announces GF-Credentials Beta For Grid Computing Security
GridFrastructure announced the GF-Credentials Grid Security Service beta program. GF-Credentials is a certificate and access management service created specifically to enhance the security of Distributed Computing environments by giving companies complete control over their resources and users. |
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| | NCSA announces Access Grid seminar series
The US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer a seminar series over the Access Grid beginning in July. The series will offer information on high-performance computing tools and applications developed by NCSA and its National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) partners. |
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| | United Devices MetaProcessor Platform 3.0 embraces OGSA and web services
United Devices announced the availability of the MetaProcessor platform 3.0. The latest version of the MetaProcessor platform incorporates Web services standards such as XML, SOAP and WSDL that enable organizations to more seamlessly integrate existing applications to run on enterprise grids. The forward-looking architecture is aligned with the direction of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) specification endorsed by the Global Grid Forum (GGF). |
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| | NEC ESS chooses Scali platform for auto industry simulations
NEC European Supercomputer Systems (ESS) has selected Scali's ClusterEdge product as the infrastructure in its clustered computers for simulation of crash-worthiness of car designs. The LS-DYNA finite element application from Livermore Software Technology is used for the simulation. Recently, a 128 CPU system was delivered to one of the major players in the car industry.
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| | AVAKI's Grid software selected as a core technology for the North Carolina BioGrid
Avaki Corporation's grid software will power the North Carolina Bioinformatics Grid (NC BioGrid). AVAKI's technology will provide researchers and educators with a unified research environment that greatly simplifies and improves their ability to share computing and data resources as well as software for mining, analysing and modelling biological data. |
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| | Platform ships LSF 5 workload management solution for enterprise Grid computing
Platform Computing Inc. has released Platform LSF 5, the industry's premier solution for building Enterprise Grids at the 39th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in New Orleans. With its new high performance, Grid-enabled architecture, LSF 5 software sets a new standard in enterprise-wide workload management, providing enterprises with a strong, proven foundation for Enterprise Grid computing, further accelerating the adoption of commercial Grid computing.
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| | Engineering Implementation Guide for high performance SANs Available from DataDirect
DataDirect Networks has published "High Performance Computing: Advanced Three Dimensional Modeling
and Simulation," a new engineering-focused, "hands on" implementation guide that
details how supercomputing facilities can gain increased productivity and lower
operating costs by using Silicon Storage Appliances to create high performance,
massively scalable IT storage network infrastructures.
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| | NeSC Workshop on Applications and Testbeds on the Grid organised in Glasgow
Prior to GGF5 and HPDC-11 and in collaboration with the Applications and Testbeds Research Group and the Grid User Services Research Group of the Global Grid Forum, a NeSC Workshop on Applications and Testbeds on the Grid will be organised on July 20, 2002. |
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| | Foundry 10-Gigabit Ethernet complies with IEEE standard
Foundry Networks says its 10-Gigabit Ethernet products, which were first shipped in Q4 of 2001, are in compliance with the recently ratified IEEE 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet standard. The standard was officially ratified on June 13, 2002 by the IEEE Standards Board. |
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| | The Bottom Line in Distributed Computing
The senior executives from Compaq, now part of the new HP, Platform Computing, and renowned analysts from IDC invite you to attend an Exclusive Executive breakfast event on Grid Computing.
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| | Spanish Cancer Research Centre implements Grid technology
According to the Spanish Journal El Pais, distributed computing takes the pulse of cancer tumours. The National Research Institute for Cancer has installed a grid system which optimises the computing resources available for the institute to investigate genes involved in tumour development.
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| | NASA upgrades Space Agency's largest supercomputer increasing node power of its Grid computing initiative
The 1024-processor SGI Origin 3800 shared-memory supercomputer, located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, has been upgraded with faster MIPS R14000A microprocessors running at 600 MHz. The increased power of the 1024-processor SGI machine, the most powerful high-performance computing system used by NASA scientists to date, is part of a NASA computing grid that is delivering more computing cycles to the nationwide scientific community that it serves.
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| | Purdue and Indiana University create new "tera-scale" supercomputer grid
Purdue University and Indiana University (IU) have succeeded in linking their IBM supercomputers in a computational grid via the universities' high-speed optical network, creating a facility capable of performing a trillion operations per second.
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| | Metis introduces new collaborative platform MCP 5
Metis Technologies, Inc. announced the release of Metis Collaboration Platform (MCP 5) today. MCP 5 is the first, next-generation Peer to Peer solution to go beyond enterprise application integration (EAI) and integrate all technologies, business logic and processes for Web services, composite applications, and grid computing. Offering an easier and far more efficient integration platform, MCP 5 can rapidly integrate and deploy technologies without costly proprietary coding. eBusiness can now create an MCP "IntelliNet": a free form collaboration of business processes and IT assets over the network or Internet, to continuously innovate processes and remain competitive |
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| | Platform enhances powerful Grid computing solutions, maximising Enterprise IT utilisation
Platform Computing has introduced major enhancements to its Enterprise Grid computing solutions that boost utilisation of enterprise IT resources to nearly 100 percent. With the release of new versions of its flagship LSF (Load Sharing Facility) and MultiCluster for inter-cluster sharing, Platform is delivering the industry's highest levels of scalability and performance to accelerate Enterprise Grid computing.
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| | Platform Computing makes equity investment In Powerllel
Platform Computing Inc. has made a significant equity investment in Powerllel Corporation, a provider of advanced parallel processing software for the financial services industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in New York City, Powerllel develops advanced parallel computing software that distributes and processes computationally intensive applications across multiple systems to accelerate and improve the accuracy of results. This will enable financial services organisations to run mission-critical financial applications, such as securities and portfolio pricing, hedging, risk management, and end-of-day processing, unchanged in a Grid computing infrastructure. This is an expansion of a strategic partnership announced by the two companies in January 2002.
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| | Microsoft announces Portal Platform Product Strategy and Development Road Map
In conjunction with Delphi Group's Spring Enterprise Portal and Web Services Conference last week in San Jose, California, Microsoft announced its product strategy and development road map for the next version of its portal platform product, SharePoint Products and Technologies. Fundamental to this strategy is architectural integration with the .Net infrastructure platform and closer linkage between the portal and both content and collaboration services.
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| | AMD Athlon MP Processors Drive Most Powerful x86 Cluster Supercomputers in Europe and Asia
The latest TOP500 supercomputer list shows that AMD Athlon MP processor-based supercomputers from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH) are the highest performing x86 cluster supercomputers in Europe and Asia. |
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| | France first in the TOP500?
With all the excitment about the Earth Simulator, the "Computenik" that is bound to become number one in next week's release of the TOP500 list that will be reveiled in Heidelberg at ISC2002, we are being distracted from a number of other changes we can expect in the list. In Europe, for instance, the number one position has been taken for a number of lists by a German supercomputer. Before that, it were UK machines holding the first position in Europe. But do not
forget that the large Compaq AlphaServer SC ES45 at CEA in France, already showed sustained performance of 1.3 Tflop/s on large real applications in December last year. |
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| | 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance showcases 10 GbE interoperability network at SuperComm
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA) has proved that 10 Gigabit Ethernet is here by unveiling the world's largest 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. With products from 24 network vendors on display in its booth, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance showcased this one-of-a-kind interoperability demonstration at the SuperComm Show in Atlanta, Georgia, June 4-6. The demonstration coincides with the pending ratification of IEEE 802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet) specification, which is expected this week.
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| | The Mind Electric and OKC sign European Distribution Agreement
Reflecting the increasing adoption of web services in Europe, The Mind Electric Inc. (TME), a software infrastructure vendor, has announced a distribution agreement with OKC Group Ltd. TME's GLUE and GAIA product lines will enable enterprises across Europe to efficiently integrate their internal systems and, when appropriate, make those systems easily accessible by partners and customers.
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| | Silicon Storage Appliance allows CardioNow to go from purchase order to operational SAN in 24 hours
CardioNow Inc. has selected a S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance to power archival storage and retrieval infrastructure for the cardiac imaging provider. CardioNow based the selection of Silicon Storage Appliance on product's reliability, high availability, and performance in conjunction with DataDirect's service, support and quick response. CardioNow's mission-critical SAN went from purchase order through installation to be fully operational in 24 hours - items
that the imaging company feels can only be delivered by a nimble, responsive organisation.
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| | Xilinx and Xebeo Communications team up to bridge the Metro Area Network gap
Xebeo Communications, specialised in metro area networking solutions, selected the Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGA, to deliver advanced packet processing capabilities in its carrier class packet switching platform, the Xebeo MetroBridge. Corporate internal LAN bandwidths and applications are growing at a much faster rate than access out of the building creating the "Metro Gap". |
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| | Luminous Networks uses most powerful chips from Xilinx to ensure flexible Metro Area Network Solutions
Luminous Networks, an optical networking company, has selected Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs for use in its PacketWave family of metro area access switches. Luminous Networks applies the reprogrammable nature of Xilinx FPGAs to upgrade its metro area networking hardware even after installation in the field.
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