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September 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | National Institutes of Health Awards $15.5 million grant to independent biology lab
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| | Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics issues call for papers
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| | First Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Computing issues Call for Papers
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| | International Conference on Software Maintenance issues call for participation
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| | Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization issues Call for Papers
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| | MCNC Vice President accepts position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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| | International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques issues Call for Participation
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| | Research Center Jülich to install 5+ Tflop/s supercomputer
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| | Italy wants BIGEST Grid
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| Europe
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| | German Ministry for Education and Research to organise Symposium on Grid Computing
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| | EuroPVMMPI/DAPSYS issues Call for Participation
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| | Euro-Par 2002 calls for participation
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| | TRAIN-IT organises EU-funded training for technology start-ups
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| | CASES 2002 issues call for participation
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| | LISA Forum Europe addresses standards in localization and translation
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Dutch cluster computer solves antique game
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| | SGI receives major order to enhance DaimlerChrysler's Virtual Reality Center
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| | Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab to test new Cray X1 supercomputer
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| | SGI and ESI Group work together to optimise crash simulation and improve automotive safety
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| | Raytheon completes installation of Army's largest high performance computer system
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| | DaimlerChrysler chooses hybrid prototyping from MSC.Software and MTS
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| | MaXware opens Asia Pac office in Malaysia
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| | SGI announces key sales wins for fourth quarter
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| | Owens Corning nominated for first-ever e-Commerce Pioneer Award
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| | Xilinx ships Virtex-II eight-million-gate FPGA with clock speeds of over 400 MHz
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| | Media 100 expands 844/X feature set with over 100 additional capabilities for multi-layer content design
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| | Magic Earth launches MagicDesk
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | NASA Ames and SGI team receives prestigious NASA Honour Award for 1024-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer
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| | 'Overview of recent supercomputers' report provides descriptions of supercomputer systems, architectures and processors
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| | Fujitsu introduces 85 Tflop/s PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 supercomputer sucessor to VPP5000
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| | Cray wins $9 million order for Cray X1 supercomputer systems
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| | Cornell receives US$ 60 million for HPC software development
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| | HP announces powerful upgrades to PA-RISC and AlphaServer lines
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| | SunFire to integrate the 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor
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| | Dell advances high performance computing for customers in data-intensive environments
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| | Einux and MSI ship ultra-dense dual AMD Athlon MP processor-based 1U server
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| | Mainland PC maker wins deal to provide 300 supercomputer clusters
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| | Cray announces profitable second quarter
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| | CyberGuard uses most advanced encryption technology to connect networks securely
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| Industry
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| | SuSE and Dell set up 64 Dell rack server cluster for MTU Aero Engines
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| | DataDirect delivers Silicon Storage Appliance for use with Linux Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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| | First U.S.-based supercluster installed featuring Dolphin WulfKit 3D interconnect
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| | UnitedLinux announces partner and developer participation programme
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| | Tularik uses Linux NetworX Cluster Supercomputer for genomic research and drug development
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| | C-DAC adopts Linux platform for its High Performance Computing laboratory in Bangalore
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| | Customer wins build on IBM Linux leadership in key industries
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| | Apple computers pre-installed with Yellow Dog Linux
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| | Digium ships digital PBX for Yellow Dog Linux on PowerPC
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| | Telia Connect selects SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM mainframe
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines selects Evans & Sutherland Visual System
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| | SGI and Christie team up to enhance immersive visualisation experience with SGI Reality Center facilities
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| | EFILM delivers picture-perfect movies with SGI visualisation systems
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| | Media 100 844/X speeds up visual productions
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| | JSF developed on Onyx
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| | AVR post production company to use 844/X from media 100
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| | Xilinx ISE version 5.1i -fastest software for programmable logic and system design
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | GridBus merges Grid technology with business requirements
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| | Sun expands Grid Computing portfolio for enterprise-wide Linux platforms
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| | AlgoNomics installs 96-processor Fujitsu Siemens hpcLine cluster computer
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| | Scali ClusterEdge for Intel Itanium 2 Processor
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| | NCSA's GPT software helps simplify Grid Computing
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| | Industry trend to "Cluster as Server" drives momentum for Platform Clusterware
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| | Australian GrangeNet to provide Grid and advanced communications services
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| | Survey on Grid Technology Acceptance
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| | High-performance networking Europe (HNF) meeting
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| | Fluent announces remote simulation facility
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| | IBM introduces computer cluster for workload consolidation
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| | DCGrid affords SDCS breakthrough in molecular databases research
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| | United Devices teams with Accelrys on cancer research
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| | Sageza publishes Grid Computing report
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| | Max-T's InfinARRAY Clustered File System on DataDirect NAS
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| | IBM gives commercial support and distribution for Globus Toolkit
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| | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company installs Platform desktop Grid
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| | LION bioscience presents LION DiscoveryCenter to help speed Drug Discovery
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Rice university in Texas builds terascale computer
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| | Information from TOP500, EnterTheGrid used to enrich supercomputer overview report
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| Networking
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| | NCREN boosts Internet bandwidth to North Carolina Universities by 60 percent
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| | NSF signs three-year agreement with NLANR measurement and network analysis group
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| | Net Optics contributes 10 Gigabit technology to CalNGI network performance reference lab
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| | NASA chooses QualNET to manage distributed computing systems
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| | ATEAM labs partner to investigate complex networking issues within Internet2 and beyond
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| | US Naval Research Laboratory awards firstwave $29 Million research and development contract
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September 2002
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| | National Institutes of Health Awards $15.5 million grant to independent biology lab
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health has awarded the Molecular Sciences Institute a $15.5 million, 5-year grant supporting MSI's Center for Genomic Experimentation and Computation (CGEC). The federal government also named MSI one of its four Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science, an acknowledgement of the MSI's past and future research contributions to the new field of predictive biology. MSI is an independent, nonprofit research laboratory that combines genomic experimentation with computer modelling.
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| | Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics issues call for papers
The Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics will be held June 27-30, 2003 on the campus of M.I.T. Final Papers are due before September 30, 2002.
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| | First Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Computing issues Call for Papers
The First Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (SPDSEC) will be organised in Charlottesville, Virginia, September 22-25, 2002
in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference on Parallel Architectures and
Compilation Techniques (PACT). Deadline for paper submission is August 9, 2002. |
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| | International Conference on Software Maintenance issues call for participation
The International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM 2002, will be organised 3-6 October 2002 in Montréal, Canada. Held continuously since 1983, ICSM 2002, the International
Conference on Software Maintenance, is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and management. |
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| | Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization issues Call for Papers
The first Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization will be held March 23-26, 2003, in San Francisco, California, with special emphasis on feedback-directed and runtime optimization. Deadline for paper submission is September 16th, 2002. |
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| | MCNC Vice President accepts position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Thom H. Dunning, Jr., MCNC Vice President for the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) division, will step down on September 1, 2002, to accept a position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a full professorship at the University of Tennessee.
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| | International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques issues Call for Participation
The eleventh International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques will be organised September 22-25, 2002. The early-registration deadline has been extended until August 30, 2002. |
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| | Research Center Jülich to install 5+ Tflop/s supercomputer
The Research Center Jülich, Germany, and IBM have signed a contract for the delivery and installation of a new supercomputer at the Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM).
The new supercomputer will be based on IBM POWER4 microprocessor technology and will have a peak performance of 5.8 Tflop/s.
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| | Italy wants BIGEST Grid
In Italy, there are several initiatives to create large scale Grids. The first is a recently accepted proposal called MIUR-FIRB that is co-ordinated by the Italian National Research
Council (CNR). MIUR-FIRB will enable ICT platforms for distributed high-performance Computational
Grids oriented to the development of complex multi-disciplinary applications and scalable
Virtual Organizations. A second initiative, co-ordinated by the Italian high-energy physics organisation INFN, called Italian Grid for Business, Industry, Government and
E-Science & Technology (IG-BIGEST), aims at the creation of an Italian Research Area (IRA)
and supporting infrastructure. This is an Italian e-Science initiative, currently in proposal stage.
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| | German Ministry for Education and Research to organise Symposium on Grid Computing
On the occasion of the completion of the UNICORE Plus project, BMBF, the German Ministry for Education and Research along with UNICORE Plus will hold a Symposium on Grid Computing. It will take place on November 27th and 28th, 2002 at the Science Centre in Bonn.
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| | EuroPVMMPI/DAPSYS issues Call for Participation
The Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria is organising the 9th EuroPVM/MPI and 4th DAPSYS Conference from September 29 to October 2, 2002. The 9th EuroPVM/MPI conference will be jointly held with the 4th Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS). |
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| | Euro-Par 2002 calls for participation
Euro-Par 2002 will be held in Paderborn, Germany, August 27-30, 2002.
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| | TRAIN-IT organises EU-funded training for technology start-ups
The next TRAIN-IT course will be held 15-21 September 2002. |
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| | CASES 2002 issues call for participation
The International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES 2002, will be organised October 8-11, 2002 in Grenoble, France. The conference is co-located with EMSOFT 2002, held October 7-9, 2002.
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| | LISA Forum Europe addresses standards in localization and translation
The 2002 LISA Forum Europe and the Annual Meeting of the LISA General Assembly is the 44th international conference. This programme will focus on the successful implementation and optimisation of globalisation, internationalisation, localisation and translation (GILT) standards in multi-lingual work flows and Web services. |
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| Industry
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| | Dutch cluster computer solves antique game
With the game "four-in-a-row", it already worked out; with checkers, chess, and go, it is still wishful thinking. Anyhow, using a cluster computer consisting of 72 PCs, the informatics expert Dr. John Romein from the Computer Systems Department at the Free University (VU) of Amsterdam has calculated to the limit the 3500-year-old African game "awari" In the near future, it will be possible to play "awari" on the Internet against the Web at the highest level. Within the area of artificial intelligence, researchers have been working for years to solve the most complex games.
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| | SGI receives major order to enhance DaimlerChrysler's Virtual Reality Center
SGI has been commissioned by DaimlerChrysler AG to completely update and expand the auto manufacturer's Virtual Reality Center (VRC), located in Sindelfingen, Germany. As the lead contractor and system integrator, SGI is responsible for all project activities for expanding the capacity and functional capabilities of this key visualisation technology, which has already proven productive for DaimlerChrysler AG. Based on SGI Reality Center technology, these latest enhancements will ensure that DaimlerChrysler's VRC holds an unequivocal top position as the world's largest and most complex central facility for immersive visualisation used on a productive day-to-day operating basis. |
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| | Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab to test new Cray X1 supercomputer
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will test the effectiveness of a new Cray x1 supercomputer architecture in solving important scientific problems in climate, fusion, biology, nanoscale materials, and astrophysics.
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| | SGI and ESI Group work together to optimise crash simulation and improve automotive safety
SGI and ESI Group have reached new industry performance levels in crash simulation using the latest generation SGI supercomputer, the SGI Origin 3000 series server, and ESI Group's PAM-CRASH 2001 distributed memory parallel version, a world leading crash-test simulation software application. In simulation tests conducted by the SGI and ESI Group team, sustained performance of 19 GFLOPS was achieved using an SGI Origin 3000 series server with 126 MIPS R14000 processors at 600 MHz. This represents exceptional computing power and the highest performance level achieved for PAM-CRASH in a crash simulation, beating the 12 GFLOPS sustained performance reached in October 2000 using an SGI Origin server and PAM-CRASH 2000 distributed memory parallel version on a BMW model.
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| | Raytheon completes installation of Army's largest high performance computer system
Raytheon Company has installed a supercomputer at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) that is about 4000 times faster than the average Pentium-based PC. As part of the Defense Department's High Performance Computing (HPC) Modernization Program, the U.S. Army awarded Raytheon $14 million in April 2002 to procure a high performance computer system for the ARL Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Raytheon completed the installation, integration and transition of the 768-processor, 1.3 GHz Power4- based IBM supercomputer. The system, which is composed of 28 cabinets, arrived on June 21 and entered operation for pioneer users on June 27. |
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| | DaimlerChrysler chooses hybrid prototyping from MSC.Software and MTS
DaimlerChrysler's US Michigan development and testing facilities have been able to reduce the time and cost associated with obtaining road loads by combining a hybrid testing approach developed with MSC.Software's MSC.ADAMS technology and MTS Systems. |
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| | MaXware opens Asia Pac office in Malaysia
MaXware, a provider of vendor neutral and technology independent Identity Data Management solutions, has opened an Asia Pac office. Yoke-Kan Cheong, who previously worked as Regional Manager, South East Asia and Greater China within Critical Path Inc., will manage MaXware Asia Pac. The Asia Pac offices of MaXware are located at Petaling Jaya in between the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) and Kuala Lumpur city centre. This is an ideal location
for fast growth and support for new and existing customers and partners in the Asian Pac market.
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| | SGI announces key sales wins for fourth quarter
In its recently completed fourth quarter for fiscal year 2002, SGI posted several key sales wins, saw its government and defense sector grow to nearly a third of its total business, secured another DARPA contract, saw growth in its graphics business, and launched its shared SAN filesystem solution.
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| | Owens Corning nominated for first-ever e-Commerce Pioneer Award
Owens Corning has been selected as a finalist in the first-ever e-Commerce Pioneer Awards. The e-Commerce Pioneer Awards are presented by the ECom Ohio initiative, and recognise businesses' and citizens' ability to deploy the new tools of electronic commerce. |
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| | Xilinx ships Virtex-II eight-million-gate FPGA with clock speeds of over 400 MHz
Xilinx shipps what the company claims to be the world's fastest, highest-density programmable chip available on the market. At eight million gates with clock speeds of over 400 MHz, and I/O speeds of 840 Mb/s, the Virtex-II Platform FPGA XC2V8000 is 73 percent larger than any competitive device available today.
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| | Media 100 expands 844/X feature set with over 100 additional capabilities for multi-layer content design
Media 100 Inc., a provider of advanced media systems, has shipped a new, expanded feature set for 844/X, the company's system for multi-layer content design. 844/X, first shipped in April 2002, enables breakthrough speed of unlimited layering with 10-bit quality throughout. The new 844/X software release includes more than 100 new features and enhancements to the system's capabilities. |
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| | Magic Earth launches MagicDesk
Magic Earth, a wholly owned subsidiary of Halliburton, has released MagicDesk, the company's new desktop solution for the geoscience interpretation market. MagicDesk combines the advanced tools of Magic Earth's industry-leading, volume visualisation and interpretation software, GeoProbe, with a cost-effective PC platform using the Linux operating system. |
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| Industry
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| | NASA Ames and SGI team receives prestigious NASA Honour Award for 1024-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer
In recognition of their outstanding work in creating the world's only 1024-processor SGI Origin 3800 shared-memory supercomputer, a joint NASA Ames Research Center and SGI team received one of NASA's most prestigious awards, the NASA Honour Award for Group Achievement.
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| | 'Overview of recent supercomputers' report provides descriptions of supercomputer systems, architectures and processors
Aad van de Steen from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands has published the twelfth edition of the report "Overview of recent supercomputers". It provides descriptions of supercomputer systems, architectures and processors. Hence it provides architectural overviews of the current parallel, and supercomputers. When available, benchmarks are listed too. The report is available on the Internet. Later this year, NCF will publish a printed version. Primeur/EnterTheGrid Analysis provides an XML version, and a version enriched with TOP500 information and EnterTheGrid company profiles. |
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| | Fujitsu introduces 85 Tflop/s PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 supercomputer sucessor to VPP5000
Fujitsu introduced a new massively parallel scalar supercomputer, the PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 with a theoretical peak-formance of 85.1 Tflop/s and scalable up-to a maximum of 128 x 128-processor nodes or 16,384 processors. Main memory size is a maximum of per 512 Gbyte per node. Targeted at the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market, the new supercomputer becomes the top-of-line model in Fujitsu's flagship PRIMEPOWER servers for the UNIX market and is presented as a succesor to the VPP5000 vector supercomputer too. Fujitsu expects to sell a hundred systems over the newx two years. |
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| | Cray wins $9 million order for Cray X1 supercomputer systems
Cray has received an order valued at $9 million for delivery of two early-production Cray X1, previously code named SV2, supercomputer systems and related services to the U.S. Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC). |
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| | Cornell receives US$ 60 million for HPC software development
Cornell Theory Center
(CTC) inked an agreement with Dell, Intel, and Microsoft to develop
and deliver CTC High-Performance Solutions, a suite of industry standards-based
high-performance computing (HPC) solutions and services for business, government
and academic clients. The agreement provides $60 million worth of resources
over the next four years. |
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| | HP announces powerful upgrades to PA-RISC and AlphaServer lines
HP has launched powerful enhancements to its PA-RISC-based server and AlphaServer lines targeted at demanding business and technical computing needs. UNIX systems vendor, HP also announced world-record benchmarks for both server lines. |
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| | SunFire to integrate the 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor
The SUN hhigh performance Sun Fire 3800, 4800, 6800, 12K and 15K servers will
integrate the 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor. The 1.05 GHz ULTRASPARC
III Cu-based Sun Fire servers show a 15 percent increase in performance. |
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| | Dell advances high performance computing for customers in data-intensive environments
Dell has enhanced its High-Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) programme for Linux customers running scientific and engineering research, financial modelling and data-intensive business applications. |
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| | Einux and MSI ship ultra-dense dual AMD Athlon MP processor-based 1U server
At Linux World, Einux and MSI, with the help of AMD's multi-processing technology, launched the revolutionary new A.Serv A120 Rackmount Server featuring Einux's high-density server architecture, MSI's K7D Master Dual AMD Athlon MP motherboard and dual AMD Athlon MP processors, up to Model 2100+. |
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| | Mainland PC maker wins deal to provide 300 supercomputer clusters
Legend Group, China's largest personal computer (PC) maker, has won a deal to provide 300 supercomputer clusters to Hong Kong University, making it the company's first deal with a Hong Kong-based academic institution.
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| | Cray announces profitable second quarter
Cray Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2002. Revenues for the quarter totaled $38.6 million, a 31 percent increase over $29.4 million reported in the same quarter last year. Net income for the second quarter was $1.2 million, compared to a loss of $9.9 million for the second quarter last year. |
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| | CyberGuard uses most advanced encryption technology to connect networks securely
CyberGuard Corporation, specialised in network security, has incorporated the most advanced encryption technology into its integrated virtual private network (VPN) solution. The U.S. Federal Government approved the adoption of the technology, called Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), as an official US Government encryption standard effective May 26, 2002. |
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| | SuSE and Dell set up 64 Dell rack server cluster for MTU Aero Engines
MTU Aero Engines has decided to
use a Linux cluster for its engine development. The Linux cluster
consists of 64 Dell PowerEdge 1550 standard rack servers with two
1.13 GHz Intel Pentium III processors each, and a total main
memory of 144 GB SDRAM for the implementation of additional
computing capacities. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 is used as
the operating system. The computers are networked using Fast
Ethernet and 2 GBit/s Myrinet. |
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| | DataDirect delivers Silicon Storage Appliance for use with Linux Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Linux NetworX will be using DataDirect Neworks' Silicon Storage Appliance as part of their new Linux-based supercomputer to be deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. DataDirect's S2A 6000 will manage the terabytes of metadata resulting from the 962 node Evolocity clustered supercomputer.
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| | First U.S.-based supercluster installed featuring Dolphin WulfKit 3D interconnect
The Bartol Research Institute, located at the University of Delaware, has completed installation and benchmarking of its second supercluster system. The system, known as SAMSON-2, was built by RackSaver in San Diego, California, and is the first supercluster system in the United States to use the new WulfKit3 three-dimensional interconnect, an innovative high-performance interconnect developed by Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.
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| | UnitedLinux announces partner and developer participation programme
Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE Linux, and Turbolinux have launched the membership levels for partner participation in UnitedLinux, an initiative to streamline Linux
development and certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux designed for business. Membership in UnitedLinux is designated by two main categories: Linux Distributors and Developer Partners. |
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| | Tularik uses Linux NetworX Cluster Supercomputer for genomic research and drug development
San Francisco-based Tularik is using a Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster supercomputer to boost datamining performance by 75x for drug development. Tularik, a biopharmaceutical company, relies on the Linux NetworX cluster to accelerate its drug discovery efforts by quickly identifying gene combinations behind diseases in the areas of cancer, immunology and metabolic disorders. Using the genomics information processed by the cluster, Tularik expects to develop pharmaceuticals that regulate gene expression.
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| | C-DAC adopts Linux platform for its High Performance Computing laboratory in Bangalore
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is developing a world-class National High Performance Computing Laboratory utilising Linux-ready platforms from IBM for developing applications and research in eGovernance solutions, Life Sciences, Seismic Analysis and Weather Forecasting. The selection of Linux public software and its deployment by C-DAC will provide a boost to the research activities of the scientific community in India. The laboratory is scheduled for commissioning at C-DAC's Knowledge Park in Bangalore by the end of this year. |
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| | Customer wins build on IBM Linux leadership in key industries
Ten new customers are moving to Linux with the help of IBM and its Business Partners. These are the latest of more than 4600 IBM customer engagements around Linux. |
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| | Apple computers pre-installed with Yellow Dog Linux
Terra Soft Solutions Inc., a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions has made available Apple computers with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed. |
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| | Digium ships digital PBX for Yellow Dog Linux on PowerPC
Digium, provider of Linux-based Open Source PBX/IVR software/hardware and services, announces from LinuxWorld availability of the WildCard series of interface cards for Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC. |
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| | Telia Connect selects SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM mainframe
Telia Connect, a Danish subsidiary of Telia, Scandinavia's largest telecommunications and Internet service provider, executed a long-term agreement with the Nuremberg-based SuSE Linux AG for the
maintenance of its IBM zSeries G7 mainframe systems. |
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| | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines selects Evans & Sutherland Visual System
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation's new EP-1000CT visual system has been selected by KLM for a new Boeing 777 flight simulator to be installed at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The simulator is to be manufactured by Thales Training & Simulation Ltd. This latest order brings the total number of firm orders received by Evans & Sutherland (ES) for EP-1000CT to date to eight. Also included in these orders are options for future systems. |
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| | SGI and Christie team up to enhance immersive visualisation experience with SGI Reality Center facilities
Enhancing the immersive visualisation experience with SGI Reality Center facilities is the focus of an agreement between SGI and Christie Digital Systems of Cypress, California. SGI is now providing first-line customer support for Christie's Mirage stereoscopic DLP projectors that are sold for SGI Reality Center solutions. Customers who purchase SGI direct support for their entire SGI Reality Center facilities will be ensured timely response for all service requirements, backed by SGI's professionally trained and experienced service organisation and the SGI global call-tracking database. |
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| | EFILM delivers picture-perfect movies with SGI visualisation systems
A host of Hollywood hits now in release or premiering this month - Spy Kids 2, Crocodile Hunter, XXX, Blue Crush and We Were Soldiers - are among the first feature films ever to be entirely digitally mastered in the United States. The digital masters were created by EFILM, a cutting-edge digital film laboratory in Hollywood, which is a subsidiary of Panavision, and wholly owned by Panavision and Deluxe Laboratories. EFILM's parent companies plan to expand its operations both domestically and internationally. |
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| | Media 100 844/X speeds up visual productions
Media 100, a developer of advanced media systems, has installed the breakthrough 844/X system for multi-layer content design at Visual Productions, a move that is allowing the Canadian-based commercial and corporate producer to turn around high-end broadcast and commercial projects in record time. The first Canadian site to maximise the fast, integrated editing and compositing work flow and unprecedented image quality enabled by 844/X, Visual Productions is using the system to increase its productivity and profitability by completing complex, multi-layer projects more rapidly than ever before. |
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| | JSF developed on Onyx
Lockheed Martin Aeronauticshas purchased
SGI visualization technology to find the best ways to design, build
and maintain the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). |
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| | AVR post production company to use 844/X from media 100
Media 100, a developer of advanced media systems says the AV production and post-production company AVR Productions (AVR) has re-launched its entire UK-based facility around 844/X, Media 100's system for multi-layer content design that combines editing with breakthrough speed of unlimited layering and 10-bit quality throughout and is based on top of the GenesisEngine media supercomputer.
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| | Xilinx ISE version 5.1i -fastest software for programmable logic and system design
Xilinx is shipping the world's fastest design software for programmable logic and system design: version 5.1i of its Integrated Software Environment (ISE) software family. Starting now and continuing through the remainder of 2002, the company will introduce a series of embedded and system-level design tools that extend the ISE series solutions into the realm of system design. |
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| Industry
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| | GridBus merges Grid technology with business requirements
The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the
University of Melbourne in Audtralia has started an open source project, Gridbus, which focusses on developing technology that enables Grid computing and business. |
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| | Sun expands Grid Computing portfolio for enterprise-wide Linux platforms
Sun Microsystems has launched a new Linux version of Sun ONE Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 software.
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| | AlgoNomics installs 96-processor Fujitsu Siemens hpcLine cluster computer
Belgium based drug discovery company AlgoNomics NV has installed a Fujitsu Siemens Computers hpLine cluster computer to expand its vaccine discovery platform. It is 96 processor 74 Gbyte memory system. |
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| | Scali ClusterEdge for Intel Itanium 2 Processor
The Scali ClusterEdge with communication libraries has been ported to the Intel Itanium 2
processor-based platforms with outstanding MPI performance. In excess of 320
MBytes per second transfer rates and less than 5 microseconds latency between user processes in different cluster nodes are achievable with Scali's MPI implementation ScaMPI.
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| | NCSA's GPT software helps simplify Grid Computing
Grid computing, which facilitates sharing of online resources and applications across multiple sites, requires software tools that provide standards for security, resource and data management, communication, job scheduling, and other functions. NCSA's Grid Packaging Toolkit (GPT) helps combine these tools in an integrated package. It handles compatibility, conversion, and version dependencies, works across multiple platforms, and makes it easier to upgrade and deploy grid-enabled applications. |
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| | Industry trend to "Cluster as Server" drives momentum for Platform Clusterware
Accelerating cluster adoption for supercomputing applications, Platform Computing. released Platform Clusterware 5 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Platform Clusterware leverages the strengths of Platform's flagship workload management software, Platform LSF, to provide the industry's first and only cluster management solution that combines workload management and systems management into a single, integrated package. |
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| | Australian GrangeNet to provide Grid and advanced communications services
Australia has started up GrangeNet, a three-year project to implement Grid Computing applications on a Next Generation multi-gigabit network. |
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| | Survey on Grid Technology Acceptance
The Grid seems to be entering main stream, is not it? To give a sound scientific answer to that question the Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, USA, is conducting a survey on Grid technology acceptance. Your participation is requested. Resultw are expected to become available by the end of this year. |
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| | High-performance networking Europe (HNF) meeting
The traditional Autumn meeting of HNF-Europe will be held on
11 October 2002 at the facilities of ECMWF in Reading, England.
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| | Fluent announces remote simulation facility
The specialist in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, Fluent Inc. has made available its Remote Simulation Facility (RSF). The Fluent Remote Simulation Facility lets users exploit supercomputer capacity using "pay as you go" methods through a highly secure Internet portal.
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| | IBM introduces computer cluster for workload consolidation
IBM introduced an expanded version of its powerful IBM eServer UNIX cluster, enabling businesses to reduce administration costs and floor space usage by consolidating many individual servers and managing them from a single point of control. Built with the company's virtual partitioning technology and management software, the IBM eServer Cluster 1600 has been pre-tested for 32 IBM eServer p690 32-way systems and IBM eServer p670 16-way systems. IBM also offers custom clusters connecting hundreds of servers for both commercial applications and supercomputing.
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| | DCGrid affords SDCS breakthrough in molecular databases research
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Entropia reported deployment of Entropia's DCGrid, a PC grid computing platform, for new biological and molecular research that was previously impossible. |
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| | United Devices teams with Accelrys on cancer research
United Devices, specialised in distributed computing software and services, has partered with Accelrys to launch a second phase of the Cancer Research Project on the world's largest commercial PC grid. This phase of the project will use Accelrys' high-throughput docking and scoring application, Cerius2 (C2) LigandFit, running on United Devices' MetaProcessor platform to refine the research by screening the massive number of "hits" produced in phase one against the original twelve protein targets. |
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| | Sageza publishes Grid Computing report
The Sageza Group announces the release of the concluding part of "Grid Computing: Contender or Pretender?" that provides an analysis of a technology which some have called the logical successor to the Internet. Included are profiles of key companies developing this technology: IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SUN, HP, and Platform Computing; as well as analysis of the emerging ways businesses are using the grid technology. |
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| | Max-T's InfinARRAY Clustered File System on DataDirect NAS
DataDirect and Maximum Throughput have announced that the Max-T's InfinARRAY, a massively scalable clustered file system and Sledgehammer, a high performance NAS system, have been certified for use with DataDirect's S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliances. The qualification of InfinARRAY and Sledgehammer with Silicon Storage Appliances allows supercomputing users in visualization, simulation and research an easy way to create scalable, mission-critical and extremely high performance converged SAN/NAS storage networks. |
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| | IBM gives commercial support and distribution for Globus Toolkit
IBM will commercially support and distribute the Globus Toolkit, a set of software that enables businesses and institutions of any size to deploy Grid applications and services.
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| | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company installs Platform desktop Grid
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company )
has selected Platform's ActiveCluster to build one of the world's largest
Enterprise Desktop Grids for Life Sciences research. Platform ActiveCluster
will initially be implemented on several thousand desktops across research
sites in the Northeast United States. |
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| | LION bioscience presents LION DiscoveryCenter to help speed Drug Discovery
LION bioscience AG, a provider of integrated information solutions for the life science industry, presents its new, integration platform, LION DiscoveryCenter to give scientists a richer overview of drug discovery information and speed their research efforts. The launch is expected to happen in autumn this year.
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- TOP500 |
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| | Rice university in Texas builds terascale computer
Rice University
has secured grant funding from the National Science Foundation and
Intel Corporation to build a supercomputer that will rank among the
world's fastest. The Rice Terascale Cluster (RTC) will consist of at least 70 interconnected servers containing the
powerful new Intel Itanium-2 processor. |
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| | Information from TOP500, EnterTheGrid used to enrich supercomputer overview report
Recently, the report "Overview of recent Supercomputers - 2002" by Aad van der Steen has been published. It provides a detailed description of supercomputer systems. In this way, it complements the TOP500 list, that tells which machines or the most powerful currently and EnterTheGrid, that provides a description of the companies. However, if one is interested in combining the information from these three sources in their original formats, that is a tedious job. However, we made all three sources available in XML-format. Combining information and extracting knowledge is then an easier task. We did produce a version of the report that, for each supercomputer architecture section in the Overview report, also lists the TOP500 entries in the June 2002 list, and the latest company description from EnterTheGrid. Summary information has been extracted from the XML-sources and is presented too. The thus enriched report is available as a PDF-file.
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| | NCREN boosts Internet bandwidth to North Carolina Universities by 60 percent
The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Level 3 Communications to increase Internet access service to research and academic institutions throughout North Carolina.
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| | NSF signs three-year agreement with NLANR measurement and network analysis group
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide $3.28 million to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Measurement and Network Analysis (MNA) group for work to be conducted over the next three years. The new NLANR/MNA Cooperative Agreement is a follow-on to a programme that began in 1997. Since the programme's founding, NLANR's measurement and analysis activities have benefited thousands of researchers across the nation by improving the performance of the networks they depend on for high-speed access to supercomputing resources and on-line data libraries.
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| | Net Optics contributes 10 Gigabit technology to CalNGI network performance reference lab
Net Optics, specialised in passive monitoring access technology, has contributed a range of innovative Taps and Analyzer Switches to the CalNGI Network Performance Reference Laboratory (NPRL) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). One of the most important thrusts of NPRL is the test and measurement of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The Net Optics contribution is targeted specifically at the lab's 10 Gigabit test and measurement efforts.
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| | NASA chooses QualNET to manage distributed computing systems
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, USA chose
QualNet to model satellite communications for the Computing, Information, and
Communications Technologies Program (CICT). CICT is a project focused on developing a
seamless distributed computing and information system to support increased fidelity and
faster development of NASA applications. |
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| | ATEAM labs partner to investigate complex networking issues within Internet2 and beyond
The ATEAM (Advanced Test Engineering and Measurement) lab consortium has successfully completed the first of a series of test campaigns aimed at investigating complex networking issues by deploying an advanced measurement infrastructure across a wide area.
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| | US Naval Research Laboratory awards firstwave $29 Million research and development contract
Firstwave Secure Intelligent Optical Networks says its Federal Systems subsidiary has been awarded a $29 million research and development contract by the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Under the terms of the five-year contract, Firstwave will develop a new generation of high-speed, affordable, secure optical network management and switching solutions. |
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