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PrimeurLive! from the Heidelberg Supercomputer Conference, ISC2002, June 2002
The Mannheim Supercomputer Seminar is the main HPCN event in Europe. This year we publish two live issues from the event:
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Contents
August 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | EnterTheGrid adds Knowledge Management to world's largest Grid catalogue
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| | The Earth Simulator heralds 'New Age of Simulation'
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| | Third International Conference on Computational Science issues Call for Papers
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| | SGI servers power new College Consortium for Chemical Computation
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| | International Consortium decodes pufferfish genome
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| | Professor Friedel Hoßfeld, Research Centre Jülich, became Emeritus
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| | Grid Computing in Germany - UNICORE software available
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| | An interview with Professor Friedel Hoßfeld who became an Emeritus
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| Country
- NL |
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| | New Cray SV-1 at the University of Groningen
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- Other |
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| | University of Western Cape Supercomputer switched on
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| | UK Met Office buys top of the range NEC supercomputer
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| Europe
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| | HLRS organises Parallel Programming Workshop in Autumn 2002
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| | University of Lübeck organises course on linear equations and parallel algorithms
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| | eTEN Call for proposal will close 23 September 2002
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | SGI to deliver supercomputer-class visualisation for a variety of devices
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| | NAG announces latest release of the C Library with over 850 functions
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| | Cray and MCube collaborate to develop unique capabilities using Radioss-CFD
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| | Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) purchases ten Sun Fire 15K servers
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| | Applications with petaflop/s needs
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| | Ethical issues - Genetic engineering
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| | SGI powers Philips' next-generation digital and interactive video technology study
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| | Cray, ZIB and Bielefeld University collaborate on advanced bioinformatics software solutions
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| | Intel-based systems power Audi's high-tech car safety tests
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| | NASA using HP supercomputer for advanced environmental research
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| | Livermore scientists create highest resolution global climate simulations to date using supercomputers
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| | Dot Hill's SANnet chosen for Multimedia Messaging Service Centre
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| | Brigham and Women's Hospital chooses Procom Technology's NetFORCE as storage solution in Surgical Planning Laboratory
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| | Dassault Systèmes partners with car crash simulation editor Mecalog for CAA V5 software
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| | US Defense contracts add $17.1 million for Chippewa Valley businesses and $25 million for Cray to new budget bill
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| | NEC released TX7 series server with Intel's latest 64-bit CPU Itanium 2 processor
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| | HDF5 wins R&D 100 Award for NCSA and three DOE labs
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| | UCLA Urban Simulation Laboratory receives first delivery of SGI InfiniteReality4
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| | SGI unveils SGI File Server to address network-attached storage management needs
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| | IBM and Molecular Mining Team to advance drug discovery
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| | Institute for Systems Biology turns to IBM for Linux solutions
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| | 4SC decides to use IBM Linux Cluster technology, based on the eServer Xseries, for drug discovery
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| | HP announces portfolio of Itanium 2-based systems, solutions and services
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| | BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals launches corporate Web site
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| | SGI announces commitment to deliver Intel Itanium 2 processor-based systems
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| | Xilinx ships industry's first FPGA-based solution for hypertransport applications
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| | DataDirect's S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance enters production
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| | Microvision and Silicon Graphics see opportunity for delivering high-end mobile visualisation solutions
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| | Bivio Networks teams with Xilinx to deliver Gigabit speed carrier class IP service platform
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| Industry
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| | HP/Compaq merger in HPTC area smoothly
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| | Scali is a global player in the cluster market
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| | Pallas goes Intel
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| | NSF provides $3.7 million for NCSA-based distributed applications support team
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| | IDC Benchmark, a discussion with Earl Joseph II
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| | HP Superdome Server achieves world record benchmark results with enhanced processor technology
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| | Cray awarded $10 million in co-funding to develop next-generation supercomputer technologies
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| | SteelCloud delivers supercomputer cluster to world renowned research laboratory
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| | The colourful storms, made in USA
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| | SGI boosts total performance 9100 storage array with full 2 Gigabit fibre channel support
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| | Intel begins shipping Itanium 2 processors
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| | Dell brings together leaders in high-performance computing research
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| Industry
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| | Itanium 2-based MSC.Linux V2002 delivers strong clustering capabilities
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| | Linux supercomputer to bolster national security projects at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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| | IBM delivers new directory offerings for Linux
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| | SuSE Linux Groupware Server now most powerful Lotus solution for Intel and AMD 32-bit processors
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| | Terra Soft ships Yellow Dog Linux 2.3
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| | SuSE Linux joins TSANet Support Platform
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries enhanced
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| | SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1 with latest Linux technologies available
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| | Cyrusoft and Terra Soft Solutions form strategic alliance to co-market Mulberry and YDL
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| | NVIDIA Quadro4 Solutions power Ohio Supercomputer Center graphics cluster
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| | New engineering-focused implementation guide details simple, scalable, easy-to-manage SANs for VOD applications
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| | Video Technology automatically pinpoints target location for better military decision-making
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| | SGI and Fakespace Systems deliver advanced visualisation capability for oil and gas exploration
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| | Sobey Digital chooses DataDirect S2A 3000 as storage network backbone for broadcast applications
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| Industry
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| | Total European funding for Grid computing now 50 million euro
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| | Overwhelming participation to Global Grid Forum in Edinburgh feeds fear for overhyping
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| | ITBL cornerstone of Japanese Grid programme
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| | DotHill BV and Primeur/EnterTheGrid collaborate on Grid Computing catalogue and news
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| | CCGrid 2003 Symposium issues Call for Papers
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| | Alliance adds new tutorial, video, to access Grid How-to package
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| | Platform Computing releases first Grid-enabled JobScheduler
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| | Globus Project and UK e-Science Programme announce OGSA partnership
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| | Sun selects University College London as a Center of Excellence
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| | Registration open for iGrid 2002
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| | UK secures position on front row of Grid computing with OGSA DAI announcement
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| | The global Grid challenge
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| | IBM speeds e-business on demand with Linux Virtual Services
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| | U.K. computing Grid to provide the power needed to model history of the universe
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| | Sun Grid Engine boosts productivity of Render Farms
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| | SGI joins Global Grid Forum
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| | Sun and California Institute of Technology expand storage and analysis for large-scale data research
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| | Butterfly.net receives venture capital infusion
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| | Avaki 2.5 announced
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| | Will EDS gobble up a Grid Computing company next?
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| | Sun awards grants to support the Biopathways Consortium and BioCyc database collection
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| | Entropia announces release of DCGrid 5.0 for PC Grid computing
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| | Sandia National Laboratories selects Platform Globus in first commercial adoption of Globus toolkit
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| | Butterfly.net introduces Butterfly Lab development environment for on-line video games
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| | Tackling the complexity of Grid programming with Self Adapating Numerical Software
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| | Platform and SGI to deliver Grid solutions integrating data, compute and visualisation resources
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| | HP supercomputer at PNNL to become largest computing resource on the Grid
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| Networking
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team achieves 10.6 Gigabits/second data throughput in 10-Gigabit Ethernet test
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| | I-Wire activation first step toward national TeraGrid network
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, key vendors team up to make 10-Gigabit Ethernet data transfer a reality
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| | Interoute selects Cisco Internet routers for high speed MPLS-based Pan-European IP network
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| | Nortel wins three new Metro Optical Ethernet customers
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| | Industry visionary Vint Cerf and industry leader Dave House to headline Metro Optical Networking Forum
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| | Xilinx enables instant deployment of new PCI Express technology
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August 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | EnterTheGrid adds Knowledge Management to world's largest Grid catalogue
EnterTheGrid, the largest catalogue on Grid computing in the world has renewed its web site and added knowledge management tools that help people identify Grid products. The new knowledge management tools generate listings from the Grid related information taken from different viewpoints and providing insight into the relationships between them. |
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| | The Earth Simulator heralds 'New Age of Simulation'
About 350 participants from 21 countries were privileged to attend the 17th International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg. This was of particular interest as it was the first opportunity for many of us to see some real simulation results coming out of the Earth Simulator and also to preview where the new technologies are leading and what simulations are becoming realistically feasible. The presentations at the conference were broad based and at the same time at the cutting edge of developments in high performance and grid computing. Over the next few weeks I intend to look at different issues raised in these presentations. (Author, Chris Lazou) |
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| | Third International Conference on Computational Science issues Call for Papers
After the successful ICCS conferences in San Francisco and Amsterdam, the organisation committee is organising ICCS 2003 in Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, June 2-4, 2003. Deadline for paper submission is December 10, 2002. |
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| | SGI servers power new College Consortium for Chemical Computation
A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant has enabled Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, to buy one 32-processor and one 8-processor SGI Origin 300 server as the foundation for a new supercomputing consortium devoted to computational chemistry. The servers, purchased late last year as the first of a planned series of SGI computing hardware components, are among the most powerful now available to any chemistry investigators at today's undergraduate institutions. |
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| | International Consortium decodes pufferfish genome
The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a non-profit research institute dedicated to predicting and preventing diseases, announced that scientists at the Institute, as part of an international collaboration, have decoded the simplest vertebrate genome, that of the Japanese pufferfish. |
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| | Professor Friedel Hoßfeld, Research Centre Jülich, became Emeritus
In a ceremonial colloquium, the Research Centre Jülich and his colleagues at ZAM (Central Institute of Mathematics) and NIC (John von Neumann Institute for Computing) dismissed Professor Friedel Hoßfeld, who becomes an emeritus end of this month. He was nearly 30 years head of ZAM and influenced the German Supercomputer scene heavily. Surely he will be active as an advisor in different research activities in the Wissenschaftsrat for example. An interview with Friedel Hoßfeld will follow in the next issue.
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| | Grid Computing in Germany - UNICORE software available
Starting in 1997, German Supercomputer Centres initiated and created the grid infrastructure UNICORE (Uniform Interfaces to Computing Resources) to allow an easy-to-use, secure and browser-based access to the high-end machines from everywhere. In the meantime the development reached a production stage. Thus the UNICORE Forum decided to announce an "open source" licence of the UNICORE Software for research purposes.
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| | An interview with Professor Friedel Hoßfeld who became an Emeritus
On July 11, a ceremonial retirement colloquium took place in Jülich. There I had the chance to interview Professor Hoßfeld. It was my second interview after the Primeur Live issue of April 19, 1996 in Brussels. We discussed some topics concerning his steps into computing and especially supercomputing and the resulting experiences in research and politics. Professor Friedel Hoßfeld studied Physics in Würzburg and worked out his diploma thesis at Max-Planck Institute. In 1964 he went to the Research Center Jülich (FZJ), in 1967 he got his Ph.D. at the Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), and became head of ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics) in 1973. In 1983, FZJ acquired a Cray X-MP/2 and in 1987 the first German Supercomputer Centre (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum, HLRZ) was opened with a second Cray X-MP. During that time he became Professor at RWTH Aachen. In 1996/1997, FZJ installed two Cray T3Es and a Cray T90 as well as two Cray J90s. In 1998, FZJ and DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) founded the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC). Additionally, Professor Hoßfeld answered the question, which new hardware will come soon. |
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| | New Cray SV-1 at the University of Groningen
On Tuesday, 18 June 2002, the new Cray SV-1 has been implemented in the brandnew building of the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Groningen. The supercomputer replaces the former Cray J932, which previously was Cray's largest parallel vector computer.
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| | University of Western Cape Supercomputer switched on
The first supercomputer in Africa devoted specifically to research was officially switched on at the University of the Western Cape on July 8 by Education Minister Kader Asmal.
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| | UK Met Office buys top of the range NEC supercomputer
The UK Met Office today announced that it has signed a contract with NEC Corporation to buy NEC's newest generation supercomputer. The UK Met office is to spend GBP 27.5 Million, over the next three years, on a phased acquisition of a new NEC SX-6 system.
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| | HLRS organises Parallel Programming Workshop in Autumn 2002
The HLRS is Stuttgart is organising a five-day course in Parallel Programming September 23-27, 2002. Lectures will be given by Panagiotis Adamidis, Holger Berger, Thomas Boenisch, Uwe Kuester, Marc Lange, Dr. Matthias Mueller, and Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, who is a member of the MPI-2 Forum.
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| | University of Lübeck organises course on linear equations and parallel algorithms
The University of Lübeck's Institute for Mathematics organises a short course on Iterative linear equation system solvers and parallel algorithms, October 7-11, 2002. |
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| | eTEN Call for proposal will close 23 September 2002
The new date of close of the call for proposals 2002/1 of the eTEN Community programme is 23 September 2002. |
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| Industry
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| | SGI to deliver supercomputer-class visualisation for a variety of devices
New advances that will soon enable technical and creative professionals to access supercomputer visuals from almost any mobile or consumer device over standard computer networks. |
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| | NAG announces latest release of the C Library with over 850 functions
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), has released the new NAG C Library. Mark 7 of the C Library now offers comparable functionality to that of the globally renowned NAG Fortran Library, reinforcing it as the world's largest collection of quality numerical algorithms written in C available today.
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| | Cray and MCube collaborate to develop unique capabilities using Radioss-CFD
Cray and MCube, a provider of simulation software to manufacturers worldwide, have launched break-through results from their two-year collaboration to optimise a highly efficient multi-processor version of Radioss-CFD that runs on Cray SV1 and Cray SX-6 systems. Aero-acoustic simulations that took several weeks to complete on leading RISC machines now can be performed within a few days on Cray systems. |
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| | Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) purchases ten Sun Fire 15K servers
The Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF), a collaborative environment for data and numerical intensive computing privately run by the University of Cambridge and Cranfield University, has purchased 10 Sun Fire 15K servers from Sun Microsystems Inc. The total investment, which includes more than $40 million in Sun technology, will dramatically increase the computing power, reliability, availability and scalability of the HPCF. |
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| | Applications with petaflop/s needs
In the last three articles, I focused mainly on hardware developments for Petaflop/s computing and the network Grid infrastructure. In this article I briefly report on requirements of applications in need of petaflop/s. (Chris Lazou)
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| | Ethical issues - Genetic engineering
At ISC2002, the most thought provoking presentation titled: "Genetic engineering" the utopian idea of perfect human beings’ - was given by Professor Jens G. Reich, Max-Delbrück Centre of Molecular Medicine, Humboldt University Medical Faculty (Charité) Department of bio-informatics, Berlin, Germany.
He started by saying: "Perfection of human beings is an old dream of certain philosophers and political thinkers who are concerned about the future and the fate of the human race."
(Chris Lazou)
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| | SGI powers Philips' next-generation digital and interactive video technology study
Philips Research in Eindhoven has installed a 32-processor SGI Onyx 3400 high-performance graphics system to accelerate its research of ways to combine standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) video streams and graphics technology. The Onyx 3400 system is an essential component of the infrastructure used in the HomeLab. This is a simulated environment in which high-end graphics and media technology is being applied to consumer and residential settings.
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| | Cray, ZIB and Bielefeld University collaborate on advanced bioinformatics software solutions
Cray is collaborating with Germany's Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fur Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) and Bielefeld University to develop advanced software solutions for tackling some of the most challenging problems in the burgeoning new field of bioinformatics: EST clustering, sensitive protein database searches, and three-dimensional protein structure prediction. Better solutions for these problems could accelerate understanding of the genetic bases of diseases and lead to more-effective drugs and medical treatments.
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| | Intel-based systems power Audi's high-tech car safety tests
German car manufacturer AUDI AG will use Intel Corporation-based servers from Fujitsu-Siemens to optimise its car safety testing procedure. Intel Pentium III and Intel Pentium 4 processor-based systems will enable Audi's crash-test simulations to be faster and more efficient. A second phase will see the introduction of an even more powerful infrastructure based on the latest Intel Xeon processor-based servers. The Intel-based platforms will be coupled in a clustered configuration to run applications ported from proprietary architecture and RISC-based systems. |
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| | NASA using HP supercomputer for advanced environmental research
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is using a powerful HP AlphaServer supercomputer for climate research studies into environmental issues such as global warming. |
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| | Livermore scientists create highest resolution global climate simulations to date using supercomputers
Atmospheric scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have performed the first global climate simulations with spatial resolutions of roughly 50 km (30 miles). This capability will be used to assess climate change and its societal impacts.
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| | Dot Hill's SANnet chosen for Multimedia Messaging Service Centre
Tecnomen, a Finland-based global telecommunications provider, has chosen Dot Hill's SANnet as the standard storage component for its Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) platform. Tecnomen MMSC allows operators and service providers to rapidly deploy a range of customised, next-generation messaging services to meet market demands.
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| | Brigham and Women's Hospital chooses Procom Technology's NetFORCE as storage solution in Surgical Planning Laboratory
Hospital patients' lives depend on the safety, clarity and purity of their medical records. The precise shape and size of a brain tumour is contained in a patient's computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, but could elude a surgeon who can only see the tumour as a series of sliced, one-dimensional images on film. The Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL) of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has chosen Procom Technology's NetFORCE 3100 as its network data storage solution.
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| | Dassault Systèmes partners with car crash simulation editor Mecalog for CAA V5 software
Mecalog has joined the Software Community Programme as a CAA V5 Software Partner. Mecalog will
develop and sell the new generation M-Crash environment integrated within the CATIA Analysis V5 solutions. The new product, M-Crash CAA V5 Based, will provide transportation companies with industry-proven crash modelling capabilities fully integrated within the CATIA V5 environment. |
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| | US Defense contracts add $17.1 million for Chippewa Valley businesses and $25 million for Cray to new budget bill
Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey has added $17.1 million for military research and development work to be conducted by Chippewa Valley high-tech companies in the new Defense budget bill along with $25 million for research by Cray Inc., which develops high-powered supercomputers for U.S. intelligence services and the military. Mr. Obey, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, inserted the funds in the Defense Appropriations Bill for next year, bringing Chippewa Falls a total of $42.1 million in business. |
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| | NEC released TX7 series server with Intel's latest 64-bit CPU Itanium 2 processor
NEC Corporation has sold its latest products, the "TX7/i9000, TX7/i6000" series computer systems. These systems include a server which can be configured with up to 32 of Intel's new 64-bit processors, "Intel Itanium 2 processor". NEC is the only corporation that has released a server with 32 of Itanium 2 processors at this time. |
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| | HDF5 wins R&D 100 Award for NCSA and three DOE labs
R&D Magazine, the magazine of research and development, will present a 2002 R&D 100 Award to HDF5, Hierarchical Data Format 5, a software package developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and Los Alamos National Laboratories. |
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| | UCLA Urban Simulation Laboratory receives first delivery of SGI InfiniteReality4
Urban sprawl, aging infrastructure, traffic congestion nightmares that could describe almost any downtown area in any large city in the United States. Los Angeles is the first city in the nation to solve urban planning problems by using supercomputers and high-speed 3D graphics visualisation. The Urban Simulation Laboratory at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) selected InfiniteReality4 graphics from SGI because it allows them to construct the virtual downtown Los Angeles area with highly realistic, textured 3D models. |
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| | SGI unveils SGI File Server to address network-attached storage management needs
SGI has made available the SGI File Server, a high-performance network-attached storage solution that centralises critical data for efficient management in multiplatform environments. Relying on the world-leading SGI XFS filesystem, SGI File Server provides virtually unlimited capacity by scaling to more than 50TB. SGI File Server provides the unmatched capacity, scalability and flexibility required by customers in technical and creative computing environments to manage extremely large data sets and ensure high performance.
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| | IBM and Molecular Mining Team to advance drug discovery
IBM and Molecular Mining Corporation (MMC) will collaborate on technology offerings that can help researchers analyse gene and protein expressions, discover relationships among the data to diseases, and predict drug responses. |
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| | Institute for Systems Biology turns to IBM for Linux solutions
The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a world renowned non-profit research institute, has selected IBM to provide its infrastructure technology. ISB will use IBM servers, storage and data integration products to support its research on protein-protein interactions to better understand and predict diseases, and identify potential preventions and treatments.
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| | 4SC decides to use IBM Linux Cluster technology, based on the eServer Xseries, for drug discovery
The biotechnology company 4SC AG has decided to use IBM Linux Cluster technology for drug discovery. The installation of 256 double-processor eServers from the xSeries 330 and one xSeries 342 will begin immediately. This high-performance computing solution will enable the Munich based company to produce computer simulations of drug targets and lead substances for the development of new drugs. |
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| | HP announces portfolio of Itanium 2-based systems, solutions and services
HP has announced the worldwide roll out of an extensive portfolio of Intel Itanium 2-based systems, integrated solutions and comprehensive services. With this launch, HP delivers the industry's broadest offering of Intel Itanium 2-based servers and workstations featuring breakthrough price and performance for HP-UX, Microsoft Windows and Linux environments. |
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| | BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals launches corporate Web site
BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals Inc. has launched a corporate Web site. The new site offers insight into the company's management, technologies, and patents, as well as information on ongoing clinical programmes including Phase III studies of the company's lead product candidate BNP7787. In addition, the site features a link to a streaming video produced by Cray Inc. highlighting the central role played by supercomputers in pharmaceutical development at BioNumerik.
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| | SGI announces commitment to deliver Intel Itanium 2 processor-based systems
SGI will support the Intel Itanium 2 processor as a part of the company's high-performance computing server family. SGI has the world's most scalable shared-memory system architecture, which is designed to meet the particular needs of technical users. With this announcement, the company plans to extend its unique system architecture to support Itanium 2 processor-based systems running a high-performance Linux operating system implementation. |
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| | Xilinx ships industry's first FPGA-based solution for hypertransport applications
Xilinx Inc. has made available its new HyperTransport single-ended slave intellectual property (IP) cores for use with the company's Virtex-II Platform FPGAs. Now, designers of networking and storage systems have an off-the-shelf, flexible solution that supports HyperTransport interface requirement. The Xilinx HyperTransport core and other Xilinx Platform FPGA SystemIO solutions creates an ultimate connectivity platform, helping customers to preserve their investment in legacy designs by seamlessly bridging between new and mature interfaces such a HyperTransport to Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). |
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| | DataDirect's S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance enters production
DataDirect Networks has begun production of a plug and play appliance that allows IT professionals
to create affordable and scalable SANs for workgroup and departmental use. The S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance is a simple to deploy, easy to manage and affordable storage network appliance that allows companies to achieve application performance gains, cost-effective scalability and simplified management with an appliance-enabled SAN. |
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| | Microvision and Silicon Graphics see opportunity for delivering high-end mobile visualisation solutions
Microvision a specialist in light scanning technologies for personal displays, has entered into a co-marketing relationship with Silicon Graphics.
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| | Bivio Networks teams with Xilinx to deliver Gigabit speed carrier class IP service platform
Bivio Networks, a developer of IP network service platforms, selected Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs to enable reprogrammable networking solutions for a variety of Enterprise and Service Provider environments. Bivio Networks used the Xilinx FPGAs to implement an element of Bivio's eXpressLANE technology which is used for high speed internal system communication. Bivio's enterprise and service provider customers benefit from dramatic reductions in Capex/Opex spending through network simplicity and increased flexibility. The ease of use of the Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE) provided Bivio with a significant time-to-market advantage over the competition. |
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| | HP/Compaq merger in HPTC area smoothly
At ISC2002 in Heidelberg, we talked to HP's HPC-Technology Programme Manager from Richardson, Texas, Frank Baetke, on the experience with the HP/Compaq merger of the high-performance units,
the supercomputer and Grid strategies. Frank Baetke pointed out that supercomputing is present at a high level in the organisation of HP. HPTC (High Performance Technical Computing) became a divison of HP, part of "Enterprise systems Group", one of the 4 big columns of HP. The other three columns are: access devices, services, and imaging and printing. |
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| | Scali is a global player in the cluster market
Scali has raised 40 million NOK (about 5.5 million euro) in a second round of financing. The deal, preannounced in May this year, gives Scali the possibility to grow into a global player in cluster computing. Coming from a small European country, Norway, this is essential to survive and grow in the exploding cluster market. The Scali cluster software will be able to manage all types of clusters.
The deal, lead by Norway's renowned venture capital firm Four Seasons Venture, shows it is still possible to raise venture capital for good IT technology. |
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| | Pallas goes Intel
During ISC2002 and the Intel Developers Forum Pallas GmbH, Bruehl, Germany, demonstrated Intel's Software Developer Tools and Vampir. As Pallas is involved in HPC and new processors, it is porting its suite of tools on these architectures. Werner Krotz-Vogel, Pallas told me that the analysis tool for parallel systems, VAMPIR, is not only running on all the US ASCI supercomputers but also on the new Itanium II based 16 processor system, built and demonstrated an the Intel Developers Forum in Munich. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | NSF provides $3.7 million for NCSA-based distributed applications support team
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3.7 million to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) to continue providing technical support, tools development, and community education to the NSF-funded high-performance networking and applications communities. |
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| | IDC Benchmark, a discussion with Earl Joseph II
During the International Supercomputer Conference I had a meeting with Earl Joseph II from IDC to discuss some elements and misunderstanding of the IDC benchmark and its rating. This clarified some open questions concerning the data and the ranking.
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| | HP Superdome Server achieves world record benchmark results with enhanced processor technology
HP introduced its new PA-8700+ processor in the high-end HP Superdome server, providing customers with performance enhancements and improved investment protection. The server also achieved record-breaking 1 terabyte performance and price/performance ratings on the TPC-H data warehousing benchmark, outstanding Java application performance on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, and industry-leading price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
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| | Cray awarded $10 million in co-funding to develop next-generation supercomputer technologies
Cray has signed an agreement with the U.S. Government to pursue the development of next-generation supercomputer technologies. The agreement calls for the Government and Cray to each invest $10 million over the next two years. |
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| | SteelCloud delivers supercomputer cluster to world renowned research laboratory
SteelCloud, specialised in the development of custom server solutions, has delivered a supercomputer cluster to one of the world's foremost high energy physics research laboratories. The initial 50 server cluster is based on Intel's E7500 chipset and high-speed Xeon processor. This cluster will serve as the first portion of a unified computer facility that will grow to between 500 and 1000 servers implemented over the next several years.
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| | The colourful storms, made in USA
Last week from Heidelberg, I focused mainly on the Earth Simulator and device technology developments for Petaflop/s computing from NEC Japan. In this article I concentrate on developments from the USA. (Chris Lazou) |
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| | SGI boosts total performance 9100 storage array with full 2 Gigabit fibre channel support
SGI has made available a 2Gb configuration for the SGI Total Performance 9100 (TP9100) storage array that now offers increased performance in an innovative high-density design, providing the bandwidth and capacity to tackle the world's toughest data access problems. The flexibility of the SGI TP9100 storage system's unique high-performance 2Gb Fibre Channel architecture allows it to be tailored for high-availability, high-performance or low-cost entry-level requirements.
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| | Intel begins shipping Itanium 2 processors
Intel Corporation has begun initial commercial shipment of Itanium 2 processors. Systems and software based on the new processors are expected to be available beginning this quarter. Over the next year, a broad base of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are expected to offer a range of server and workstation models with support from leading enterprise software and operating system vendors. |
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| | Dell brings together leaders in high-performance computing research
Dell recently hosted research experts from around the world to discuss advances in low-cost supercomputers to conduct cancer and AIDS research, seismic data analysis for oil exploration, and large-scale simulations for oceanic tide modelling.
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| Industry
- Linux |
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| | Itanium 2-based MSC.Linux V2002 delivers strong clustering capabilities
MSC.Software Corporation, has released the first and only commercially available Linux distribution for Intel Itanium 2-based systems for high performance computing. |
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| | Linux supercomputer to bolster national security projects at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) selected Linux NetworX to design, integrate and deliver what will be the largest and most powerful Linux supercomputer by Fall 2002. Multiple programmes at LLNL will use the Linux NetworX Evolocity clustered supercomputer to support the Laboratory's national security mission. When delivered, the Intel-based cluster is expected to be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world. |
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| | IBM delivers new directory offerings for Linux
Building on the directory integration momentum created by its recent acquisition of Metamerge, IBM has made available new directory software. The offering provides enterprises with a software infrastructure for identifying enterprise resources, controlling access to networked systems, and securely deploying Web services across all leading operating systems, including Linux, for Intel and zSeries servers. |
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| | SuSE Linux Groupware Server now most powerful Lotus solution for Intel and AMD 32-bit processors
SuSE Linux has released an updated version of the SuSE Linux Groupware Server. The interweaving of the Linux operating system with the newly released Lotus Application Server 5.0.10 makes the SuSE Linux Groupware Server the most powerful Lotus solution for Intel and AMD 32-bit processors. |
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| | Terra Soft ships Yellow Dog Linux 2.3
Terra Soft Solutions Inc., a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions ships Yellow Dog Linux 2.3, the latest update to the company's flagship product.
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| | SuSE Linux joins TSANet Support Platform
SuSE Linux joins TSANet - the "Technical
Support Alliance Network". TSANet is a global support platform
that hosts more than 150 hardware and software providers. Within
the scope of TSANet, various manufacturers cooperate in providing
solutions for problems their enterprise customers encounter in
connection with their applications. |
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries enhanced
SuSE Linux released an update for SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries systems.
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| | SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1 with latest Linux technologies available
SuSE Linux has made available the SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1 with expanded system functionalities. SuSE's easy-to-install, comprehensive e-mail solution assisting in managing appointments, tasks, and resources, serves specifically small and medium-scale enterprises as well as workgroups and
public administrations. |
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| | Cyrusoft and Terra Soft Solutions form strategic alliance to co-market Mulberry and YDL
Cyrusoft International makers of the independent cross-platform e-mail client, Mulberry, and Terra Soft Solutions, a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions announce the signing of a strategic alliance. The companies will co-market and resell their products to this fast growing Linux community, each offering additional solutions to their own customer base.
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- Media |
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| | NVIDIA Quadro4 Solutions power Ohio Supercomputer Center graphics cluster
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has purchased and deployed over 50 NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL workstation graphics boards for an integrated visualisation cluster used to research large scale visualisations.
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| | New engineering-focused implementation guide details simple, scalable, easy-to-manage SANs for VOD applications
DataDirect Networks has made available "Digital Media Delivery: Content on Demand", a new
engineering-focused, "hands on" implementation guide that details how broadcasters and other content creation and distribution professionals 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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| | Video Technology automatically pinpoints target location for better military decision-making
Pyramid Vision Technologies (PVT), a provider of video intelligence systems, has made available the Acadia Video-GPS, a real-time, fully-automatic video geo-positioning system for directing aerial military vehicles and improving tactical decision-making.
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| | SGI and Fakespace Systems deliver advanced visualisation capability for oil and gas exploration
SGI and Fakespace Systems Inc. have completed of an advanced visualisation system for oil and gas exploration at the Houston, Texas, offices of Norsk Hydro, Norway's second-largest energy company. Norsk Hydro, which already has six immersive SGI Reality Center installations in Norway, attributes an $86 million return on investment to its work with visualisation since the first system was implemented in 1997. |
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| | Sobey Digital chooses DataDirect S2A 3000 as storage network backbone for broadcast applications
Sobey Digital Technology Co. Ltd. has chosen DataDirect's S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliances to serve as a powerful, cost efficient and easy to manage storage networking infrastructure for two of their broadcasting customers. DataDirect's S2A 3000 overcomes the many limitations of first generation storage networks, bringing application acceleration with high QoS to broadcasters and professionals in a scalable, plug and play appliance. The S2A 3000 allows broadcasters to quickly
deploy a complete high performance SAN ranging in capacity from 500 GB to 14 Terabytes in a physically small yet powerfully efficient package. |
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Total European funding for Grid computing now 50 million euro
The latest call for the European research programme IST, related to Grid computing will result in nine new projects for a total of euro 14 million. This will bring the total Eruoepan Grid funding, not including networking, to 50 million euro. The new projects include large test beds in medical applications, and chemistry and knowledge Grid projects which include ontology, categorisation and self-learning technology. |
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| | Overwhelming participation to Global Grid Forum in Edinburgh feeds fear for overhyping
The biggest threat to Grid is overhyping. That is the fear of Global Grid Forum (GGF) president Charlie Catlett. At the fifth Global Grid Forum (GGF5) in Edinburgh, Scotland, he welcomed close to a thousand participants. Far more than expected. The standardisation process going on in GGF is, by the very nature of it, slow. The organisation of GGF is in place, said Catlett, the first documents will enter the formal standardisation process soon, but we cannot rush that process. Good interoperable standards are key for creating a healthy Grid market with several competing but interoperable products. This opinion was also advocated by a number of other presenters in Edinburgh. |
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| | ITBL cornerstone of Japanese Grid programme
ITBL (IT-Based Laboratory) is an important piece of the Japanese supercomputer based Grid strategy. Dr. Hirayama explained the programme at the Global Grid Conference in Edinburgh. As a first step, six supercomputer centres will be linked together in 2003. From 2005 onward other facilities will be linked too. These joint research facilities will be made available to remote researchers. ITBL is also developing Grid middleware software. Over 5 years, Japan will invest euro 160 million in ITBL. |
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| | DotHill BV and Primeur/EnterTheGrid collaborate on Grid Computing catalogue and news
Dot Hill BV has teamed with Primeur/EnterTheGrid,
the premier online news service on Supercomputing and Grid computing
in Europe. The Primeur Weekly online news service and the EnterTheGrid
portal are both powered by Dot Hill's SANnet storage
systems. The EnterTheGrid portal is the largest catalogue of Grid computing
related items in the world. |
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| | CCGrid 2003 Symposium issues Call for Papers
The CCGrid 2003 Symposium will be held in Tokyo, Japan, 12-15 May 2003. Deadline for paper submission is October 30, 2002. |
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| | Alliance adds new tutorial, video, to access Grid How-to package
The National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) has added another Web-based tutorial and a Web video to its on-line materials designed to help organisations build, install, and use Access Grid nodes. |
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| | Platform Computing releases first Grid-enabled JobScheduler
To help commercial enterprises automate and better manage complex job scheduling in distributed, heterogeneous environments, Platform Computing Inc. has launched Platform JobScheduler 5, a
next-generation job scheduler engineered to meet the rigorous demands of distributed computing. Platform JobScheduler 5 is based on an open, Grid-enabled architecture that leverages the strengths of Platform LSF, the industry's premier workload management solution, to automate, schedule, and manage the job flows and process automation across distributed Linux, Unix
and Windows clusters. |
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| | Globus Project and UK e-Science Programme announce OGSA partnership
The emerging Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) standard for distributed computing has garnered a significant endorsement from the United Kingdom e-Science Programme. The UK data Grid project will adopt OGSA as a common framework for on-line collaboration and contribute OGSA interfaces to database services for the Grid community.
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| | Sun selects University College London as a Center of Excellence
More than 100 leading IT professionals, scientists, engineers and luminaries from around the world are converging at the Sun Microsystem's High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) event to discuss high-end scientific and engineering computing issues and trends. The bi-annual SHPCC is a premier conference for attendees to gain knowledge about Sun's products and plans in high performance and technical computing, as well as build community ties within the industry.
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| | Registration open for iGrid 2002
The iGrid 2002 event will be held September 23-26
in Amsterdam. It features a showcase of 29 high-bandwidth technical innovations
and applications from 15 countries will be on display. On
September 25-26, two full-day Topical Meetings will run
concurrently with the demonstrations, featuring speakers on
e-Science, Virtual Laboratory and Grid developments. |
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| | UK secures position on front row of Grid computing with OGSA DAI announcement
British scientists unveiled one of the key building blocks of the Grid. Researchers from UK e-Science Centres and IBM UK have released the specification for key parts of the "plumbing" at the heart of the Grid. It is OGSA DAI, the Data Access and Integration interface for Grid services. The announcement was made at the fifth Global Grid Forum (GGF), taking place in Edinburgh last week, being hosted by the National e-Science Centre.
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| | The global Grid challenge
In the last two articles, I focused mainly on the Earth Simulator and device technology developments for Petaflop/s computing from NEC Japan and hardware developments by vendors in the USA, which are mostly driven by requirements from the nuclear weapons Federal Laboratories under the auspices of the ASCI programme. In this article I want to briefly report on the Grid to see when and whether this paradigm would deliver Teraflop/s to the user. (Chris Lazou)
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| | IBM speeds e-business on demand with Linux Virtual Services
IBM introduced a service that for the first enables corporations to access large-scale computing infrastructure on-demand over the Internet. The new IBM e-business on demand service - Linux Virtual Services - connects customers with Linux-based applications to IBM e-business hosting centres that provide managed server processing, storage and networking capacity on an on-demand basis. |
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| | U.K. computing Grid to provide the power needed to model history of the universe
Platform Computing and the U.K. National Cosmology Consortium, headed by University of Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, have announced a new joint initiative to create a national U.K. Cosmology Grid.
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| | Sun Grid Engine boosts productivity of Render Farms
Sun did showcase the
rendering strength of Sun Grid Engine at Siggraph. With more than 5,000 deployed grids
worldwide - and growing at a pace of 70 new grids per week - Sun helps
design studios and animation shops reduce production time. Axyz Animation,
has successfully achieved distributed rendering across a Linux-based
compute farm using Sun Grid Engine software with the Houdini 3D solution.
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| | SGI joins Global Grid Forum
SGI has become a Platinum Sponsoring Member of the Global Grid Forum (GGF), the international organisation dedicated to the research and implementation of Grid computing strategies and technologies in universities, private industry and government settings worldwide. SGI is o |
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| | Sun and California Institute of Technology expand storage and analysis for large-scale data research
Sun Microsystems Inc. has selected Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) in Large Scale Data Analysis and Storage. Driven by the requirements of major ongoing scientific research projects in academia, government and commerce, the centre will address computing issues in performance, availability, movement and management for large datasets beyond the capabilities of current systems. It will analyse large-scale, heterogeneous, distributed scientific data in research at the frontier of science and engineering.
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| | Butterfly.net receives venture capital infusion
Butterfly.net, Adena Ventures and the West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust (JIT) announced the close of the second round of institutional venture capital raised by Butterfly.net, specialised in Grid computing for on-line entertainment. Butterfly.net's Grid computing solution, the Butterfly Grid, was introduced to the video game industry in May. Since then, thousands of game developers from around the world have downloaded Butterfly.net's software development kit, used to connect PCs, mobile devices, set-top boxes and dedicated video game consoles in "Massively Multiplayer" (MMP) on-line games.
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| | Avaki 2.5 announced
Avaki announced general availability of AVAKI
2.5, the latest version of its commercial grid software. AVAKI 2.5 incorporates compute and data grid enhancements, including advanced
caching mechanisms that increase data grid performance. These
improvements provide wide-area data access with performance comparable to local
area access and reduce the administrative burdens on end users and systems
administrators. |
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| | Will EDS gobble up a Grid Computing company next?
The recent announcement by EDS that it was acquiring Loudcloud's managed hosting business and licensing its Opsware IT Automation software could prove to be very interesting for many grid computing startups, and yes that includes Platform Computing, the 10 year old Canadian startup. |
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| | Sun awards grants to support the Biopathways Consortium and BioCyc database collection
Sun Microsystems has announced Academic Equipment Grants for two groups supporting the use of open standards and machine augmented data abstraction, the Biopathways Consortium (BPC) and the BioCyc project at SRI International. Earlier this year, Sun announced an Academic Equipment Grant for the open-bio.org, which promulgates open source standards such as BioXML, BioDAS and others. |
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| | Entropia announces release of DCGrid 5.0 for PC Grid computing
Entropia Inc., a provider of PC Grid computing solutions, announced immediate availability of DCGrid 5.0, a powerful and cost-effective PC Grid computing platform that provides high performance computing capabilities by aggregating the unused processing cycles of networks of existing Windows-based PCs. DCGrid 5.0's open platform architecture enables easy and rapid integration of business critical applications without accessing or modifying application source code, and its comprehensive security features ensure guaranteed and unobtrusive performance. |
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| | Sandia National Laboratories selects Platform Globus in first commercial adoption of Globus toolkit
Sandia National Laboratories has selected Platform Globus 2.0 in the industry's first commercial end-user adoption of the Globus Toolkit. Sandia will use Platform Globus for the ASCI(Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative) Grid, which securely connects three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Labs, including Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, California and Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the world's largest Grid. |
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| | Butterfly.net introduces Butterfly Lab development environment for on-line video games
Butterfly.net and CollabNet, a provider of collaborative software development solutions, announced the availability of The Butterfly Lab development environment. The Butterfly Lab is the first on-line game development environment that deploys game logic directly onto a server Grid and offers both Web-based development communities and a real-time game-server infrastructure in a unified location. |
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| | Tackling the complexity of Grid programming with Self Adapating Numerical Software
Writing efficient numerical software for a complex, ever changing environment as the Grid, can be a nightmare at worst, and a very time consuming activity in the best case. Self Adapating Numerical Software (SANS) could be a solution, explained Jack Dongarra at the Heidelberg ISC2002 conference. |
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| | Platform and SGI to deliver Grid solutions integrating data, compute and visualisation resources
SGI and Platform Computing have announced a global Grid computing alliance. In Grid installations, SGI will work with Platform to deploy Platform Grid computing solutions, including Platform LSF, MultiCluster and Platform Globus, with SGI Grid solutions, including the SGI Origin server family, the SGI Onyx 3000 series, SGI Onyx 300 visualisation systems, OpenGL Vizserver and SGI CXFS. |
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| | HP supercomputer at PNNL to become largest computing resource on the Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will connect a 9.2-teraflop HP supercomputer to the DOE Science Grid. When the installation is complete, the supercomputer will be the largest attached to a computer grid anywhere in the world. |
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team achieves 10.6 Gigabits/second data throughput in 10-Gigabit Ethernet test
Although there has been a lot of discussion recently about 10-Gigabit Ethernet capability, actually achieving that level of performance in the real world has been difficult. Until now. A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which operates some of the world's most powerful computing, data storage and networking resources for the U.S. Department of Energy, teamed with Force10 Networks (switches), SysKonnect (network interfaces), FineTec Computers (clusters), Quartet Network Storage (on-line storage) and Ixia (line rate monitors) to assemble a demonstration system that runs a true scientific application to produce data on one 11-processor cluster, then sends the resulting data across a 10-Gigabit Ethernet connection to another cluster, where it is rendered for visualisation. |
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| | I-Wire activation first step toward national TeraGrid network
A new network infrastructure connecting the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the StarLight facility on Northwestern University's Chicago campus, and Argonne National Laboratory in southwest suburban Chicago is the first connection in what will become the TeraGrid network, the fastest dedicated optical research network in the world.
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, key vendors team up to make 10-Gigabit Ethernet data transfer a reality
With the IEEE's recent adoption of Standard 802.3ae for 10-Gigabit Ethernet equipment, the speed of Ethernet operations has increased by an order of magnitude, at least on paper. But achieving that 10-fold increase in actual Ethernet performance remains a challenge which can be met only with leading-edge equipment and expertise.
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| | Interoute selects Cisco Internet routers for high speed MPLS-based Pan-European IP network
Interoute has selected Cisco's next generation Internet Routers and switches to deploy MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) technology at the core of Interoute's pan-European IP network. Cisco 12400 Internet Routers interconnected at both the edge and the core of the network will provide a capability of up to 10Gbps per link across Interoute's wholly-owned DWDM infrastructure. |
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| | Nortel wins three new Metro Optical Ethernet customers
Nortel Networks [NT] announced three customer deployments of its metro optical portfolio, showcasing how enterprises and service providers can leverage existing technology.
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| | Industry visionary Vint Cerf and industry leader Dave House to headline Metro Optical Networking Forum
Vinton Cerf, senior vice president of Architecture and Technology at WorldCom, and Dave House, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Allegro Networks will be featured speakers at the Xilinx sponsored Metro-Optical Networking Forum. |
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| | Xilinx enables instant deployment of new PCI Express technology
Xilinx Inc. is enabling the instant deployment of PCI Express based systems with the immediate delivery of the world's first PCI Express intellectual property core. An industry first, Xilinx delivers the solution on the same day the PCI-SIG announces the specification as final, expediting the implementation of PCI Express by twelve to eighteen months and demonstrating the power of programmable logic. |
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