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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
October 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | San Diego Supercomputer Center to play major role in six NSF IT research awards
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| | National Science Foundation creates $10 million Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at UC San Diego
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| | UC Santa Barbara Ecology Center to receive National Science Foundation grant
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| | ESI Group announces AmeriPAM 2002, Fourth North American Conference and Exhibition on digital simulation
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| | 36th Annual Simulation Symposium issues Call for Papers
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| | Visionaries to discuss tech future at NYC Conference
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| | The Summit on Web services reveals keynote details
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| | DKRZ opens its services for Germany
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| | Bavarian supercomputer projects to report at workshop
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| | First Itanium 2 Application Benchmark Results from Stuttgart
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| Europe
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| | ISC2003 in Heidelberg
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| | University of Linz installs supercomputer built of standard PCs
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| | Euro-Par 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| | Fraunhofer Institute organises MultiGrid course
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| | IST2002 early registration rate available until October 1st
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| | IBM Germany to organise High Performance Computing in Chemistry and Life Sciences workshop
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| | First Workshop on Application Specific Processors issues Call for Papers
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| | Singleimage organises two workshops on Framework 6 in October 2002
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | NSC Sweden upgrades SGI Origin to 128 processors
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| | HP installs euro 22 million supercomputer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in U.K.
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| | NERSC helps climate scientists complete 1000-year run of climate change modelling application
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| | University At Buffalo leverages Sistina's Storage Infrastructure software to enable high-performance Linux clustering project
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| | DKRZ inaugurates Europe's fastest supercomputer for climate research
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| | From Supercomputers to PDAs: Cactus on an iPAQ
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| | Fluent delivers indoor environmental airflow modelling for under $6000
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| | Sun powers Asia's largest smart card-based health card project
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| | Barco integrates real-time geometry distortion into active-stereo DLP projector
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| | Ace launches DSP community web site to promote knowledge and endorsement of the DSP-C programming language
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| | ECMWF and UK Met Office, gear up for Climate Modelling challenges
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| | Ford Motor Company adopts ESI Group Composite Manufacturing Simulation Solution to reduce costly trials
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| | Statoil purchases three SGI Reality Center facilities
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| | RLX Technologies offers improved clustering solutions
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| | @HDL releases distributed processing support in functional verification product
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| | ESI Group announces PAM-STAMP 2G
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| | Celera Genomics and Applied Biosystems select IBM supercomputers for drug discovery
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| | US Department of Energy's ESnet deploys simultaneousy IPv4 and IPv6
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| | ESI Group expands its relationship with Vibro-Acoustic Sciences
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| | ADIC and SGI enter into reseller alliance for solutions to intelligently manage complex data
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| | Xilinx and Accelight team to deliver high performance agile service aggregation solutions
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| | New simulation shows 9/11 plane crash with scientific detail
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| | Silicon Storage Appliance and MidStream combination delivers more than 450 simultaneous DVD-quality streams
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| | Baranti designs Imaging Solution of the Year using Xilinx low cost FPGAs
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| | Xilinx ships PowerPC with RapidIO interface and latest version of Xilinx system generator for DSP tool compliant with The MathWorks release 13
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| | Syntegra to integrate MaXware's Identity Management software
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Cray sells two Cray SX-6 supercomputers to the University of Toronto
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| | Legend introduces 1 Tflops/s supercomputer made in China
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| | Combined Speedup - ORAP forum
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| | SC2002 to feature largest-ever research exhibit section
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| | Cray receives $10 million in new financing
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| | Intel and NEC announce record TPC-C benchmark result with Itanium 2 processor-based NEC TX7 server
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| | RackSaver introduces the world's smallest footprint Tflop/s supercomputing cluster
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| | Dell launches programme for centers for research excellence
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| | RackSaver announces AMD Athlon MP 2200+ processor support
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| | RackSaver announces RS-4460, a 4U rack-optimised high-density server
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| | Indian Atomic Research Centre develops 64 processor cluster
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| | First European Nanotechnology Meets Business event coming up
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| | HP introduces multi-processor blade server
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| | Executive from Platform Computing joins Powerllel
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| Industry
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| | Swedish supercomputer centre NSC acquires 200 node cluster with Scali ClusterEdge
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| | MEGWARE to support infiniband technology in PC clusters
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| | Los Alamos National Laboratory selects Linux NetworX to build 10 Tflop/s Linux supercomputer
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| | Linear scaling on 64-processor SGI Linux Itanium cluster
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| | SuSE Linux 8.1 available in stores from early October
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| | WulfKit high-speed Interconnect supports Intel Itanium 2 server clusters
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| | Terra Soft signs on as Parasoft channel partner to offer Insure++ for Yellow Dog Linux on PowerPC
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| | UnitedLinux names Paula Hunter General Manager and offers Open Beta release
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| | NCSA to showcase latest InfiniBand HPC clusters at Intel developers forum
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| | Regal Entertainment Group adopts IBM and Linux for point-of-sale application
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| | Terra Soft debuts Xserves with Yellow Dog Linux at Cluster 2002
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| Industry
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| | 3D visualisation in the operating room improves accuracy of surgery
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| | SGI and Trimension deliver Reality Center solution to Landmark Graphics
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| | BBC MediaArc installs 844/X from Media 100
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| | Automotive designers at Ford Motor Company to use immersive visualisation
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| | OpenGL Architecture Review Board announces widespread adoption for newest graphics specification
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| Industry
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| | TurboGenomics introduces TurboBench 2.0 for life science computing
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| | Dutch Freeband initiative prepares for 4G network
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| | EnterTheGrid - a business analysis tool for the Grid
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| | Cardiff Distributed Visualisation Facility (CDVF) - part of the Welsh e-Science Centre
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| | California and Illinois researchers fashion new paradigm for data-intensive computing with Optiputer
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| | The new extreme-bandwidth standard: 35 Gbit/s into one location during iGrid2002 in Amsterdam
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| | GridSystems awarded with the European IST Prize
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| | Professor Alexander Reinefeld receives the IBM Faculty Award
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| | HP joins CERN Openlab collaboration to advance Grid Computing technologies
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| | Force10 Networks ships Ethernet switch/router for TeraGrid project
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| | Scali plans to make the ScaMPI library available for the InfiniBand
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| | First sites on NEESgrid for on-line earthquake engineering laboratory now up and running
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| | General Motors installs 10 new supercomputers
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| | Library of Congress and SDSC to evaluate SDSC SRB Data Grid for preservation of digital holdings
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| | Kites Flying In and Out of Space exhibited at iGrid2002
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| | Avaki signs system integration agreement with HP
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| | Platform releases first Grid-enabled workload management solution for IBM eServer Intel and UNIX HPC clusters
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| | Internet2 university membership reaches 200 milestone
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| | Smithsonian Institution connects to Internet2 backbone network
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| | TurboGenomics and IBM team on life sciences grids and clusters
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| | Platform inked a global multi-year system integration and reseller agreement with HP
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| | Dell high-performance computing clusters power multiple research projects at Penn State
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| | Inaugural E.J. Krause Life Science Expo set for Baltimore to include biogrids
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| | MaXware leverages MaXware MetaCenter to offer a new generation of integrated provisioning tools
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| | Netezza unleashes Tera-scale data appliance for business intelligence
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| | IBM launches life sciences centre in Taiwan
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| | Grid Computing Planet Conference and Expo comes to the US East Coast next month
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| | Platform Symphony Grid computing product for financial services
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| | iGrid 2002 Conference opens on 23 September in Amsterdam
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| | SARA offers expertise and facilities for iGrid 2002
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| | Data Junction and Metis Technologies deliver real time integration to the enterprise
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Call for Participation in 20th TOP500 list
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| Networking
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| | First 10 Gigabit connection from US to Europe dedicated to research and education inaugurated at iGrid2002
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| | Next HNF-Europe meeting programme available
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| | The Tolly Group verifies line-rate performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet on the Force10 E1200 Swith/Router
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| | Ignis Optics and Xilinx demonstrate 2.5 Gbps serial optical interface interoperability
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| | Xilinx and Paxonet Communications announce industry's most complete platform FPGA-based LAN/WAN 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution
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October 2002
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| | San Diego Supercomputer Center to play major role in six NSF IT research awards
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, USA (UCSD) will help design and develop the information technology (IT) underpinnings for tomorrow's research in the geosciences, environmental science, biology, and other fields by playing a key role in six Information Technology Research (ITR) initiatives announced today by the National Science Foundation (NSF). These awards are designed to support "visionary work" that could lead to major advances in IT and its applications. Four of the projects involve large $5 million-plus ITR awards, among only seven highly competitive such awards made. SDSC is also participating in two medium-sized ITR awards. |
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| | National Science Foundation creates $10 million Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at UC San Diego
A consortium of research institutions in La Jolla, California, has been awarded $10,5 million over the next five years from the National Science Foundation to establish the world's leading centre in the emerging field of theoretical biological physics. The new Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, or CTBP, will combine the intellectual resources of the University of California, San Diego's Division of Physical Sciences, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Scripps Research Institute, and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. |
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| | UC Santa Barbara Ecology Center to receive National Science Foundation grant
The US National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara will receive approximately $3 million as part of a $12.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve computing and access to information technology. |
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| | ESI Group announces AmeriPAM 2002, Fourth North American Conference and Exhibition on digital simulation
ESI Group, a provider of virtual prototyping and manufacturing solutions, has announced AmeriPAM 2002, the fourth edition of the North American conference and exhibition on digital simulation. AmeriPAM 2002 will be held in a northern suburb of Detroit, Clinton Township, November 6, 2002. |
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| | 36th Annual Simulation Symposium issues Call for Papers
The 36th Annual Simulation Symposium will be organised March 30 - April 2, 2003 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The event is sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International in co-operation with the IEEE Computer Society's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Deadline for paper submission is October 15th, 2002. |
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| | Visionaries to discuss tech future at NYC Conference
Sixteen international technology visionaries will give their predictions on the future of emerging technologies and their impact on the data processing industry at a conference sponsored by Marist College on September 19 in New York City. Eight seminars on "The Data Center of the Future" will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the IBM Building, 560 Madison Avenue, Manhattan.
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| | The Summit on Web services reveals keynote details
The Summit on Web Services - "Uncovering the Business Value", October 22 - 24 in Boston, will provide a unique forum that zeros in on how to apply Web Services to create a service-based strategy that directly addresses key business challenges. DCI is working side by side with META Group to feature today's leading Web services vendors, providing attendees with the opportunity to test drive innovative products, discover today's Web Services technologies, have questions answered by highly qualified vendors and network with colleagues and summit faculty.
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| | DKRZ opens its services for Germany
The Höchstleistungsrechnersystem für die Erdsystemforschung, HLRE, (highest-performance computer system for earth system sciences) - one has to note the difference to the Hochleistungsrechenzentrum - DKRZ (German Climate Computer Centre) was opened by Staatssekretär Dr. Klaus Thomas. Its actual performance of 1 TFlop/s delivered by 16 NEC SX-6 nodes (128 processors) will be extended next year by another 8 SX-6 nodes. In a press meeting and the official inauguration the main objectives of this system have been disclosed. |
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| | Bavarian supercomputer projects to report at workshop
In the First Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Result and Reviewing Workshop selected projects that have been using the High Performance Computer in Bavaria (HLRB), Germany, will report. |
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| | First Itanium 2 Application Benchmark Results from Stuttgart
HLRS (Hoechstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart, HPC Computer Centre Stuttgart got one of five Itanium 2 systems in Europe with 4 processors from Intel. Thus HLRS benchmarked and tested this multiprocessor system for 10 weeks. First application benchmark results have been disclosed by the centre. |
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| | ISC2003 in Heidelberg
The International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) will be held in 2003 from June 24 to June 27, breaking with the 17 year tradition of ending the conference at Saturday. The keynote witll be delivered by Jim Gray from Microsoft. And, of course, the TOP500 will be presented in Heidelberg. |
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| | University of Linz installs supercomputer built of standard PCs
The Johannes Kepler University is specialised in the area of high performance computers in Austria. Recently, a so-called PC cluster has been implemented in addition to the already operating supercomputer, in order to make available this cost-effective technology for research and education.
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| | Euro-Par 2003 issues Call for Papers
The Euro-Par 2003 Conference will be held 26 - 29 August, 2003, in Klagenfurt, Austria. The deadline for paper submission is 9 February 2003. |
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| | Fraunhofer Institute organises MultiGrid course
A MultiGrid course will be organised at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI, formerly GMD-SCAI) from Friday 15.11.2001 to Sunday 17.11.2001. |
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| | IST2002 early registration rate available until October 1st
The IST priority in the 6th Framework Programme of EU research will be presented in the upcoming IST 2002: "Partnerships for the Future" in Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-6 November 2002. |
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| | IBM Germany to organise High Performance Computing in Chemistry and Life Sciences workshop
IBM Scientific and Technical Computing Europe is organising a two-day technical workshop on
"High Performance Computing in Chemistry and Life Sciences", October 15 and 16, 2002, at the Garching Computer Center (RZG) at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching, Germany.
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| | First Workshop on Application Specific Processors issues Call for Papers
The First Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP 2002) will be held November 19th, 2002 in conjunction with MICRO-35 in Istanbul, Turkey. The deadline for paper submission is September 11th, 2002 with one week extension automatically. |
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| | Singleimage organises two workshops on Framework 6 in October 2002
Singleimage Limited is running two workshops for EU R&D project proposers, administrators
and managers, in October 2002. Both workshops will include up-to-date information on Framework 6. |
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| Industry
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| | NSC Sweden upgrades SGI Origin to 128 processors
The Swedisch National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) will expand the SGI Origin 3800 supercomputing system at NSC to 128 500 MHz R14000 processors and 128 GByte of memory. The NSC, a unit of Linkoping University, provides supercomputing services to government, academia and industrial corporations across the country. |
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| | HP installs euro 22 million supercomputer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in U.K.
HP has installed a supercomputer system valued at more than euro 22 million at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) in the United Kingdom. The HP AlphaServer system will significantly expand WTSI's scientific research capabilities in the field of genomics and double WTSI's information technology computing power in the next two years.
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| | NERSC helps climate scientists complete 1000-year run of climate change modelling application
Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have just completed a 1000-year run of a powerful new climate system model on a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Accurately predicting global climate change demands complex and comprehensive computer simulation codes, the fastest supercomputers available and the ability to run those simulations long enough to model century after century of the global climate. |
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| | University At Buffalo leverages Sistina's Storage Infrastructure software to enable high-performance Linux clustering project
Sistina Software is supporting a new high-performance clustering implementation unveiled at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY), one of the world's leading academic high-performance computing sites. The high performance computing cluster (HPCC) will be used in the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo for human genome research, bio-informatics, protein structure prediction and large-scale computer simulations. In this cluster, Sistina's Global File System is providing enhanced data sharing functionality, managing data traffic amongst more than 2000 nodes. |
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| | DKRZ inaugurates Europe's fastest supercomputer for climate research
The German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), Hamburg, inaugurated one of Europe's fastest supercomputers in production, used for climate research. This consists of the latest supercomputer in NEC's SX-6 series, which is the core of the modernisation project costing Euro 34 million. The first phase of this system went into operation with 64CPUs last spring and was able to process climate simulations forty times faster than the Cray computer it replaced. The second phase, this September, doubled this to 128 CPUs and the contract requires it to treble in the final phase, spring of 2003. The DKRZ will then have the most powerful NEC system in production outside Japan. In 2003, this supercomputer may well be one of the world's five fastest computers with regard to sustained performance delivered to climate application codes - a fact of which the DRKZ can be very proud. |
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| | From Supercomputers to PDAs: Cactus on an iPAQ
Cactus was originally designed as a framework for physicists with largescale applications which, to model complex natural phenomena with adequate fidelity, need the kind of computational resources only supplied by the world's largest supercomputers. One important design requirement has been to ensure that the physicists developing and running their simulations had a common working environment. Their codes should be able to be developed and debugged on local laptops and workstations, and then be immediately run on any final production machine, whether it be a Linux cluster, a Cray T3E or any other supercomputer. |
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| | Fluent delivers indoor environmental airflow modelling for under $6000
Fluent has made available Airpak/RSF, a new service that significantly reduces the entry cost for using engineering simulation software in the design of buildings and other facilities. This new subscription-based service delivers Airpak airflow modelling software through a secure internet portal. The user pays for simulation time, rather than having to purchase additional hardware and software. |
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| | Sun powers Asia's largest smart card-based health card project
Sun Microsystems announced the successful deployment of Java Card technology and Sun network solutions by the Bureau of National Health Insurance of Taiwan (BNHI). The BNHI has started to roll out 22 million Java Card technology-powered Integrated Circuit (IC) health cards to Taiwan citizens in July, replacing its original paper-based system. This new smart card will bring substantive time and cost savings to the BNHI.
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| | Barco integrates real-time geometry distortion into active-stereo DLP projector
After the introduction of integrated geometry distortion in its LCD projectors SIM6 (SXGA) and SIM6 ultra (UXGA), Barco introduces the Barco Galaxy WARP, a 5000 ANSI lumen projector that can perform real-time geometry distortion at double refresh rates (active stereo). Its high processing power and ease-of-use, combined with the high brightness and proven picture quality of the Galaxy, make the Galaxy WARP ideally suited for the most demanding stereo applications. |
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| | Ace launches DSP community web site to promote knowledge and endorsement of the DSP-C programming language
As a strategically instrumental developer of the DSP-C language extensions for high-level DSP programming,Amsterdam based ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv has launched a Web site devoted to educating and promoting use of DSP-C. The Web site will initially provide the DSP-C specification, news and events, industry support updates, and comparisons and descriptions for the DSP programming language options. As use of DSP-C continues to grow, the site will expand to include information about the process of the International Standards Organization (ISO) to include the DSP-C specification in the evolving C standard.
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| | ECMWF and UK Met Office, gear up for Climate Modelling challenges
Last week, I reported from DKRZ, Hamburg, on the occasion of inaugurating their new NEC SX-6 system. During that event, two of the technical scientific talks came from the UK. They are complementary to each other and merit a joint article. The first of the UK presentations was given by Dr. Walter Zwieflhofer, head of the computing division of the European Centre for Medium Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) titled: "Requirements on a HPC Centre for Earth System Modelling". (Chris Lazou)
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| | Ford Motor Company adopts ESI Group Composite Manufacturing Simulation Solution to reduce costly trials
PAM-RTM, formerly LCMFLOT, software is helping Ford Motor Company accelerate and improve the manufacturing process of composite parts. PAM-RTM software simulates Liquid Composite Molding (LCM), where a dry preform is held in a closed mold and injected with a resin. |
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| | Statoil purchases three SGI Reality Center facilities
Statoil, specialised in the production, development and distribution of petroleum products, has purchased and installed three SGI Reality Center facilities to help in its continual search for new energy supplies. The new visualisation systems, installed last spring and early summer in Statoil facilities in Harstad, Stjordal and Trondheim, Norway, augment two Reality Center installations that the company, based in Norway, has employed since 1998. |
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| | RLX Technologies offers improved clustering solutions
RLX Technologies has released new cluster computing solutions, RLX Compute Cluster Solution, RLX MPI Compute Cluster Solution, and RLX BLAST Cluster Solution, now upgraded with Platform LSF 5 and available on the new, high-performance RLX ServerBlade 1200i. RLX also announced the release of RLX ServerBlade 1200i and RLX Control Tower 4. |
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| | @HDL releases distributed processing support in functional verification product
@HDL will include support for Platform Computing's workload management software LSF. The integration of Platform LSF within the @Verifier functional verification product family provides designers working on multimillion gate System-on-Chip (SoC) designs significant performance benefits. Running in a distributed environment, the time speed-up for running the formal model checking properties is nearly linear, with respect to the number of processors utilized. |
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| | ESI Group announces PAM-STAMP 2G
ESI Group reveiled PAM-STAMP 2G, an integrated sheet metal stamping simulation solution from die design feasibility to process validation and optimization. The PAM-STAMP 2G solution includes PAM-DIEMAKER for fast design and optimization of binder surface and die-addendum, PAM-QUIKSTAMP for rapid stamping evaluation, and PAM-AUTOSTAMP for forming process validation and quality control.
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| | Celera Genomics and Applied Biosystems select IBM supercomputers for drug discovery
Celera Genomics Group and Applied Biosystems Group, Applera Corporation businesses, and IBM have signed an agreement under which the Applera businesses will use IBM eServer products and services for support of therapeutic discovery research and on-line life sciences applications. IBM and the two Applera businesses also are expected to explore potential collaborations on a wide range of initiatives designed to accelerate drug discovery and development by using advanced information technologies. These initiatives include joint research projects to solve complex, computationally intensive problems related to identifying new drug targets, and developing and co-marketing new life sciences solutions based on both companies' products and technologies. |
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| | US Department of Energy's ESnet deploys simultaneousy IPv4 and IPv6
Juniper Networks and the U.S. Department
of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) announced that ESnet has deployed one of the industry's first large-scale production networks to run both IP version 4
(IPv4) and IP version 6 (IPv6) simultaneously on the same routers, connecting hundreds of thousands of scientific researchers around the world. |
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| | ESI Group expands its relationship with Vibro-Acoustic Sciences
ESI Group has acquired a controlling stake in Vibro-Acoustic Sciences (VASci), a US-based company and world leader in digital simulation software for high-frequency noise and vibration engineering.
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| | ADIC and SGI enter into reseller alliance for solutions to intelligently manage complex data
SGI and Advanced Digital Information Corporation have signed a reseller alliance that will make ADIC's entire line of automated tape libraries available through SGI's worldwide sales force. |
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| | Xilinx and Accelight team to deliver high performance agile service aggregation solutions
Xilinx is collaborating with AcceLight Networks, an aggregation switching and cross connect company, in the delivery of AcceLight's PXS 540 family of Photonic Service Switches (PSS). AcceLight's unique architecture, enabled by Xilinx's high-density, high-speed Virtex-II Platform FPGAs, delivers an integrated system for SONET/SDH STS-1 grooming, optical path and MPLS label switching from 80G to 1.28 terabits in capacity. Today's service providers can benefit from the agile service configurations of the PXS 540 to deliver inter-city TDM, optical, and MPLS switched services for the wavelength core.
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| | New simulation shows 9/11 plane crash with scientific detail
Engineers, computer scientists and graphics technology experts at Purdue University have created the first publicly available simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what theoretically happened when the Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon last September 11. |
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| | Silicon Storage Appliance and MidStream combination delivers more than 450 simultaneous DVD-quality streams
DataDirect Networks has announced the qualification of the company's Silicon Storage Appliances with MidStream Technology's IP 2000 Series of Video Servers. Combining the two purpose-built appliances allows cable operators and video service providers to easily deliver more than 450 simultaneous DVD-quality streams, gain increased productivity and lower operating costs using a centralised, flexible and easy-to-scale delivery infrastructure with an extremely efficient footprint. |
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| | Baranti designs Imaging Solution of the Year using Xilinx low cost FPGAs
The Baranti Group Inc. a Xilinx XPERTS design services provider, has utilised Xilinx Spartan-II FPGAs in its latest design collaboration with Betacom. The VT300 VisAble Video Telescope, engineered by Baranti for its client, has been selected as the 2002 Advanced Imaging Magazine's "Imaging Solution of the Year". The size of a small camcorder, the VisAble Video Telescope is designed to enhance the vision of individuals with visual impairments. |
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| | Xilinx ships PowerPC with RapidIO interface and latest version of Xilinx system generator for DSP tool compliant with The MathWorks release 13
Xilinx Inc. has made available its Virtex II Pro device containing the world's first PowerPC processor with RapidIO interface. System architects in need of an overall system performance boost can now leverage the tightly integrated IBM PowerPC processor and RapidIO interface to implement high performance, low latency applications such as network control planes, DSP traffic aggregation and enterprise storage channel processing. Developed in collaboration with IBM, the complete solution leverages the embedded PowerPC processors and proven SelectI/O-Ultra of the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro programmable platform. |
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| | Syntegra to integrate MaXware's Identity Management software
Syntegra, British Telecommunication's Consulting and Systems Integration division, and MaXware International AS, Provider of Identity Management Software, enter into partnership within the areas of user administration and access management. |
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| | Cray sells two Cray SX-6 supercomputers to the University of Toronto
Cray has sold two interconnected Cray SX-6 supercomputers to the University of Toronto. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Cray SX-6 systems will support University of Toronto research related to the Earth's interior and atmosphere. Specific projects include modelling the Earth's magnetic field; simulating ice age development and the accompanying variations in sea level; enhancing a coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice-land climate model; simulating the distribution of methane and carbon monoxide in the troposphere; and modelling the thermal convection process within the Earth's mantle, which causes plate tectonics.
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| | Legend introduces 1 Tflops/s supercomputer made in China
Legend Group Limited has developed a high performance computer called the "Legend Deepcomp 1800 large-scale computer system" ("Legend Supercomputer") in Beijing. This is the first computer in China to reach a computing speed of 1 Tflop/d. |
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| | Combined Speedup - ORAP forum
On September 26, 27, the Swiss Speedup and the French Orap organisations will organise a workshop on "Life Science Applications". Topics cover a wide range, including computational science and Grid computing, bio-informatics, bio-pharmacy and more. |
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| | SC2002 to feature largest-ever research exhibit section
The SC2002 exhibit space will be packed wall-to-wall with research and industry displays, including the conference's largest-ever research exhibit section complete with a technology-centered "train station" and military defense systems that use the most cutting-edge, high performance computing and networking technology. SC2002, the annual conference of high performance networking and computing, will convene Nov. 16-22 at the Baltimore Convention Center. |
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| | Cray receives $10 million in new financing
Cray has raised $10 million from institutional investors in the form of common stock and warrants. These securities were sold under the company's shelf-registration statement. The company issued a total of 2,941,176 shares of Common Stock at $3.40 per share and four-year warrants covering 294,117 shares of Common Stock with an exercise price of $4.50 per share. |
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| | Intel and NEC announce record TPC-C benchmark result with Itanium 2 processor-based NEC TX7 server
Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation announced that a 32-processor, Itanium 2-based NEC TX7 server has achieved the world's best TPC-C benchmark result on a non-clustered Microsoft Windows platform. The 308,620 transactions per minute (tpmC) performed by the NEC system, running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) beta on Microsoft Windows .NET Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, nearly doubles the previous non-clustered Windows TPC-C record and highlights the outstanding performance achieved by NEC's servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors and Microsoft software for large-scale enterprise applications. |
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| | RackSaver introduces the world's smallest footprint Tflop/s supercomputing cluster
RackSaver has introduced its RS-1100VMX BladeRack line of "MegaDense" servers. The new "MegaDense" BladeRack will house up to 88 RS-1100VMX RackBlades featuring two 2.8GHz Intel Xeon processors per blade for a total of 176 processors in a single 7' cabinet. RackSaver's "MegaDense" BladeRack line of servers and clusters will be highly sought after by anyone requiring high-performance computing (HPC) power. The oil and gas, life sciences, entertainment, and finance industries, as well as government entities and universities are just a few of the groups always needing greater computing power in a more dense form factor.
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| | Dell launches programme for centers for research excellence
Dell announced the Dell Centers for Research Excellence, a programme recognising the use of Dell high performance computing clusters (HPCC) for groundbreaking commercial research and projects that ultimately can greatly benefit society. Michael Dell presented the first such award to the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, for its innovative research that could eventually help speed drugs to market to combat cancer, Alzheimer's, AIDS and a variety of other diseases.
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| | RackSaver announces AMD Athlon MP 2200+ processor support
RackSaver announced support for the just released AMD Athlon MP 2200+ processors in BladeRack which was announced earlier this year. |
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| | RackSaver announces RS-4460, a 4U rack-optimised high-density server
RackSaver, a provider of high-density individual rack-mounted computer servers, supercomputers and BladeRack clusters, will support the Intel Itanium 2 processor. RackSaver's RS-4460, based on the Intel Server Platform SR870BN4, was unveiled at the 2002 Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, California.
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| | Indian Atomic Research Centre develops 64 processor cluster
The computer division of The Indian Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed the ANUPAM-PIV 64-node cluster with a sustained performance pf 43 Gflop/s. |
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| | First European Nanotechnology Meets Business event coming up
The first European "Nanotechnology Meets Business" event will be held April 8-9, 2003. It is organised by the Institute of Nanotechnology and aims to promote the commercial potential of nanotechnology across Europe. |
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| | HP introduces multi-processor blade server
HP announced the industry's first multi-processor blade server architecture - the HP ProLiant BL p-Class system, which provides high performance and high availability for enterprise applications. |
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| | Executive from Platform Computing joins Powerllel
Powerllel Corporation, a provider of applications services solutions for parallel, distributed and Grid Computing, has announced the addition of Tony Bishop, Senior Vice President, Solutions Group.
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| | Swedish supercomputer centre NSC acquires 200 node cluster with Scali ClusterEdge
The Swedish National Supercomputer Center (NSC) is installing a 200
node Scali cluster with SCI based interconnect and ClusterEdge parallel
application middleware.
The 200 nodes in the cluster are interconnected as a three-dimensional
torus (5x5x8) with distributed switching, using SCI adapter cards from
Dolphin ICS. The 200 nodes with dual 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon CPUs and 2
GByte memory combined with the hardware and software infrastructure in
ClusterEdge takes the solution to the forefront of supercomputing
performance where it will by far be Scandinavia's most powerful
computer with an estimated LinPack performance around 800 GFlop/s. |
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| | MEGWARE to support infiniband technology in PC clusters
As one of the first PC manufacturers worldwide, MEGWARE Computer GmbH is focusing on the novel "InfiniBand Technology". In collaboration with the Technical University of Munich, the Chemnitz-based computer and cluster specialist is building a supercomputer in which the new Bus Technology, called "InfiniBand", will be integrated. In the near future, this technology will replace the currently dominating PCI-Bus technology, which will lead to a next quantum leap in the development of the information and communication technology.
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| | Los Alamos National Laboratory selects Linux NetworX to build 10 Tflop/s Linux supercomputer
Linux NetworX has been selected to build the two most powerful Linux clusters in the world for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LinuxBIOS and the LinuxBIOS Utilities comprise a key component on both systems. LinuxBIOS and LinuxBIOS are utilities for use on the Evolocity line of cluster systems. LinuxBIOS is an Open Source BIOS alternative that provides remote BIOS management capabilities and decreases the boot time for the entire cluster. |
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| | Linear scaling on 64-processor SGI Linux Itanium cluster
At the Fall 2002 Intel Developers' Forum, SGI announced it has attained linear scalability on a 64-processor Itanium 2-based system and world-record results among microprocessor-based systems on the STREAM Triad benchmark, which tests memory bandwidth performance. Demonstrating linear scalability from 2 to 64 processors, the Itanium 2-based prototype system from SGI exceeded 120 GB per second on a single system image. |
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| | SuSE Linux 8.1 available in stores from early October
SuSE Linux will make available the latest version of Europe's most popular Linux distribution from the beginning of October. Linux 8.1 offers new set-up tools and system profiles manager, wireless lan data encryption and severla updates of application software. |
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| | WulfKit high-speed Interconnect supports Intel Itanium 2 server clusters
WulfKit, the high-performance server clustering system developed by Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, now provides Message Passing Interface (MPI) communication libraries for server clusters based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor. Developed by Dolphin partner Scali AS of Oslo, Norway, the new MPI middleware supports data transfer rates in excess of 320 Mbytes/sec with less than 4 microseconds latency between user processes in different cluster nodes. The middleware is available immediately. |
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| | Terra Soft signs on as Parasoft channel partner to offer Insure++ for Yellow Dog Linux on PowerPC
Parasoft, the provider of Automated Error Prevention software, and Terra Soft Solutions Inc., the
developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, have signed a new channel partnership in which Terra Soft will co-market and resell Parasoft Insure++, an automated run-time error detection tool for C/C++, exclusively for Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) on PowerPC.
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| | UnitedLinux names Paula Hunter General Manager and offers Open Beta release
UnitedLinux, founded by Linux industry experts Conectiva S.A., the SCO Group, SuSE Linux AG, and
Turbolinux , has appointed Paula Hunter, as its worldwide general manager. Hunter's appointment is effective immediately. The group also announced the open availability of the beta version of its UnitedLinux product on September 23. The open beta source code will be available for download at no charge. |
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| | NCSA to showcase latest InfiniBand HPC clusters at Intel developers forum
The US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that it will demonstrate the InfiniBand high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF). The IDF starts today and runs through Thursday, Sept. 12. |
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| | Regal Entertainment Group adopts IBM and Linux for point-of-sale application
Regal Entertainment Group, operator of the United States' largest chain of movie theaters, has begun using new IBM point-of-sale systems and open-source Linux technology to serve millions of customers at its high-volume Regal Cinemas concession stands in one of the first and largest roll-outs of Linux in the retail point-of-sale environment. Regal is also testing a new, in-theater, Linux-based kiosk that will enable movie patrons to purchase tickets or retrieve tickets purchased from an on-line service. |
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| | Terra Soft debuts Xserves with Yellow Dog Linux at Cluster 2002
Terra Soft Solutions showcased 1U Apple Xserves running Yellow Dog Linux at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Cluster Computing. |
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| | 3D visualisation in the operating room improves accuracy of surgery
In a successful experiment that could help to benefit the way surgery is performed, surgeons have begun viewing and manipulating 3D medical images of the very patients on whom they are operating while the operation is in progress. Early results indicate the potential for improving success rates on such procedures as the removal of cancerous tumours. |
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| | SGI and Trimension deliver Reality Center solution to Landmark Graphics
Trimension Systems, a division of SEOS, and SGI have just completed installation of an SGI Reality Center facility in the Executive Briefing Center at the Houston, Texas, headquarters of Landmark Graphics Corporation. The new immersive visualisation system, powered by a 16-processor SGI Onyx 3400 graphics supercomputer with three InfiniteReality3 subsystems, is the first-ever front-projected installation using Digital Light Processing (DLP) projectors on a curved screen with active stereo, not only in the energy industry, but at any commercial site internationally. |
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| | BBC MediaArc installs 844/X from Media 100
BBC MediaArc, the creative agency within BBC Resources, is the latest UK company to install 844/X, Media 100's breakthrough editing system for lightning-fast compositing of unlimited layers. Following its installation later this month, BBC MediaArc will use 844/X on a wide range of projects, from channel branding to programme content and design.
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| | Automotive designers at Ford Motor Company to use immersive visualisation
For automotive manufacturers, large-scale immersive visualisation is bringing new efficiencies to vehicle design. Innovative users of the technology, such as Ford Motor Company, have realised the benefits of integrating immersive visualisation into various stages of the design process. The company has begun using the second of two state-of-the-art visualisation systems in its North American facilities. The first is a large-scale flat wall system in the truck design studio. |
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| | OpenGL Architecture Review Board announces widespread adoption for newest graphics specification
The OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced that adoption of the OpenGL 1.4 specification is proceeding rapidly. The specification was ratified in July by the ARB and the leading graphics hardware vendors have quickly readied their product plans to include support for the new capabilities. Introduced in 1992 by SGI, OpenGL is the industry's leading cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API). With more than 60 hardware developer licensees today, OpenGL has the broadest industry support of any openly licensed graphics API. Software developers prefer OpenGL for creating interactive 2D and 3D visual applications for computer systems ranging from consumer PCs to graphics workstations and supercomputers.
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| | TurboGenomics introduces TurboBench 2.0 for life science computing
TurboGenomics, the life sciences industry expert in high-performance computing solutions, announced immediate availability of TurboBench 2.0, a revolutionary application software
platform that delivers previously unattainable levels of speed and automation for computational work flows common in drug discovery and throughout the industry. TurboBench 2.0 enables users to exploit all the computing power available on heterogeneous mixtures of multiprocessor servers, clusters, networked desktops, and computational grids without rewriting their current applications. The parallel and distributed computing technology that underlies TurboBench 2.0 makes it possible for users to complete jobs in just a few minutes instead of the hours or days required previously. |
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| | Dutch Freeband initiative prepares for 4G network
While the first 3G networks have still to be rolled-out in Europe after the costly acquisition of UMTS licenses in most of the countries, preparations are already underway for the next generation after that. Dubbed 4G, it is envisioned to be an integrated IP based environment for all telecommunication functions, including speech, broadcast media and the Internet. 4G would use both wireless and wired infrastructure. In the Netherlands, an initiative has been started to advance knowledge in the 4G area. Research into 4G is done within two projects: "Research Programme for Telecommunications" and "Research Programme for Telecommunication applications". The first focuses on technology, the second on services.
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| | EnterTheGrid - a business analysis tool for the Grid
Grid computing is a fast growing dynamic area. Depending on which analyst you talk to, the Grid will grow in double or even triple numbers in the coming years. Having the right business and marketing information at hand, can help you enter or stay in the Grid market. EnterTheGrid provides you with the marketing and business information you need. EnterTheGrid offers access to the largest Grid catalogue in the world on a yearly subscription base.
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| | Cardiff Distributed Visualisation Facility (CDVF) - part of the Welsh e-Science Centre
With the just-completed installation of SGI collaborative visualisation, high- performance computing and storage systems, Cardiff University, Wales, U.K., is poised to become an important player in the development of advanced visualisation systems for Grid-based computing. The new systems and Visual Area Networking (VAN) technologies from SGI, installed early last summer, will serve as the computing backbone of the Cardiff Distributed Visualisation Facility (CDVF), part of the university's Welsh e-Science Centre. This newly created institution is one of eight regional centres of expertise established by the U.K. Research Councils earlier this year to promote the use of distributed collaborative computing. |
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| | California and Illinois researchers fashion new paradigm for data-intensive computing with Optiputer
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $13.5 million over five years to a consortium led by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The funds will support design and development of a powerful distributed cyber "infostructure" to support data-intensive scientific research and collaboration. Initial application efforts will be in bioscience and earth sciences research, including environmental, seismic and remote sensing. It is one of the largest Information Technology Research (ITR) grants awarded since the NSF established the programme in 2000.
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| | The new extreme-bandwidth standard: 35 Gbit/s into one location during iGrid2002 in Amsterdam
Never before, so much bandwidth has been available to one place on earth as to the WTCW centre in Amsterdam during iGrid2002 last week. No less than 35 Gbit/s bandwidth was available for connections to the USA and Geneva: that is a million times more than an ordinary dial-up connection offers. Even the current plans for SC2002, the world's largest supercomputer exhibition, that will be held later this year, do not yet foresee this type of bandwidth. This type of bandwidth was made possible by using new generation Lambda routers. There was so much bandwidth available that the applications demonstrations had a hard time to fill it up. This despite the fact that there were a number of very bandwidth-intensive applications, like multi-Cave interactions and multi-channel HDTV over Internet. Playing music together with people in Chicago, flying kites that are calculated around the globe, dancing with people in other Caves were some of the non-scientific applications. |
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| | GridSystems awarded with the European IST Prize
InnerGrid, the software developed by GridSystems to easily integrated Grid technology in corporate intranets, has been awarded the European IST Prize. It has been selected by a group of 16 European experts nominated by Euro-CASE, for its technical excellence, innovative content, and potential market value.
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| | Professor Alexander Reinefeld receives the IBM Faculty Award
Professor Alexander Reinefeld, Head of the Computer Science Department at Konrad Zuse Institute Berlin and Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin, has received an IBM Faculty Award and 40.000 Dollar. He was honoured for his scientific work in the field of Grid Computing. IBM sponsors with the IBM Faculty Award guiding research work of international scientists in the field of Information Technology. |
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| | HP joins CERN Openlab collaboration to advance Grid Computing technologies
HP has joined the CERN Openlab project for DataGrid applications. The CERN openlab is an industrial collaboration formed to push the limits of emerging Grid technologies by developing novel solutions to the massive data storage and analysis challenges of both the research community and the IT industry.
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| | Force10 Networks ships Ethernet switch/router for TeraGrid project
Force10 Networks has launched the Force10 E-Series, a scalable and high performing Ethernet switch/router. The E-Series provides unmatched scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality for high-performance Ethernet applications. The E-Series has been selected by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) - both part of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid Project - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the London Internet Exchange (LINX). |
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| | Scali plans to make the ScaMPI library available for the InfiniBand
Scali plans for making the ScaMPI MPI library available
for the InfiniBand interconnect technology. The implementation will
use an intermediate layer conforming to the DAT standard for enabling
plug-and-play operation across different interconnects for high
performance clustering. The DAT implementation will also enable ScaMPI
to run over standard TCP/IP based socket layers on top of legacy
interconnect |
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| | First sites on NEESgrid for on-line earthquake engineering laboratory now up and running
The first connections in a network infrastructure that will link earthquake engineering sites across the United States and create a national virtual earthquake engineering laboratory are now active at the University of Nevada in Reno, Oregon State University in Corvallis, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. |
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| | General Motors installs 10 new supercomputers
General Motors has selected a supercomputing infrastructure with a combined power of 4 Tflop/s, based on IBM pSeries 690 servers to power the company's vehicle design applications. |
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| | Library of Congress and SDSC to evaluate SDSC SRB Data Grid for preservation of digital holdings
The US Library of Congress has assembled numerous important digital collections such as American Memory, a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than seven and a half million digital items on more than 100 topics from the collections of the Library and other repositories. Items include encoded text, images, and audio and video files varying in size from 25 Kbytetes to 5 Mbyte each, for a total of some 8 Tbyte of digital data.
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| | Kites Flying In and Out of Space exhibited at iGrid2002
Jackie Matisse's "Kites Flying In and Out of Space" is the first high bandwidth art piece ever created. Exhibited at the iGRID2002 Conference hosted by SARA in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 23-26, 2002, "Kites Flying In and Out of Space" utilises a "Grid" model for real time steering of calculations on computers distributed over high-speed networks. Each of the 12 kites appearing in the piece utilises up to 15 megabits per second. This art piece uses a total of approximately 180 megabits per second in calculating the forms and theoretically could utilise even more. CAVEs around the world could potentially view this application through a connection to the Starlight high-speed networking programme. |
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| | Avaki signs system integration agreement with HP
Avaki Corporation has signed a worldwide systems integration agreement with HP. Under the terms of the agreement, HP Services will resell the recently announced AVAKI 2.5 grid software to its prospects and customers around the globe.
The AVAKI grid software will be available with HP's family of high-performance AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX and industry-standard ProLiant servers running the Linux and Windows operating systems. |
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| | Platform releases first Grid-enabled workload management solution for IBM eServer Intel and UNIX HPC clusters
Platform Computing Inc. has launched Platform HPC for IBM, a new Grid-enabled job management solution for IBM high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Platform HPC for IBM is designed specifically for midrange to high-end distributed HPC clusters running on IBM eServer xSeries and pSeries systems. This out-of-the box offering maximises the performance and capability of
parallel workloads across AIX and Linux servers, enabling government, research, life sciences and manufacturing users complete compute-intensive tasks faster and more reliably at reduced costs. |
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| | Internet2 university membership reaches 200 milestone
The US organisation Internet2 announced that university
membership in the advanced networking research and development
consortium has reached a new milestone of 200 institutions. Internet2
was established in 1996 by 34 universities to foster the creation and
deployment of advanced network applications for research and higher |
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| | Smithsonian Institution connects to Internet2 backbone network
Internet2 announced that the Smithsonian Institution now has access to US nationwide high-performance Abilene backbone network. The the Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum and research complex in the USA. |
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| | TurboGenomics and IBM team on life sciences grids and clusters
TurboGenomics Inc. and IBM have signed an agreement that paves the way for new solutions that will provide improvements in the performance of life sciences computing clusters and grids. The collaboration brings together, for the first time, IBM infrastructure software for managing diverse life sciences data with high-performance TurboGenomics tools for distributing application workloads and managing work flows across large computing clusters and grids.
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| | Platform inked a global multi-year system integration and reseller agreement with HP
Platform and HP Services will provide consulting and integration services to deliver Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and Tru64 UNIX Grid computing and clustering solutions to joint customers around the world. Under the agreement, Platform's full portfolio of software solutions, including the newly released Platform Clusterware, will be available across HP's entire server line. |
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| | Dell high-performance computing clusters power multiple research projects at Penn State
Dell high-performance computing clusters are powering more of the world's important research at institutions such as the Pennsylvania State University's Academic Services and Emerging Technologies (ASET), a unit of Information Technology Services (ITS). Penn State is deploying three clusters using nearly 400 Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux to solve complex computational problems for research projects in biology, chemistry, meteorology and physics departments. These include the modelling of weather patterns, the prediction and control of human disease epidemics, models of intervention strategies for control of bio-terrorism agents, the study of laser abalation - the procedure used in LASIK laser eye surgery, gravitational physics, and economic-theory modelling.
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| | Inaugural E.J. Krause Life Science Expo set for Baltimore to include biogrids
E.J. Krause & Associates Inc., a technology event organiser, has announced plans for the inaugural E.J. Krause Life Science Expo, an event that will bring together pre-eminent scientists, research organisations, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from dozens of countries to discuss the real-world technical and financial challenges facing the life sciences, including Biogrids. The expo will run December 4-5 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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| | MaXware leverages MaXware MetaCenter to offer a new generation of integrated provisioning tools
MaXware International AS has launched provisioning capabilities in their carrier class MaXware MetaCenter product. Together with the other product offerings from MaXware such as meta-directory middleware and virtual directory, MaXware offers a full software suite to meet the demand for identity management in enterprises. |
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| | Netezza unleashes Tera-scale data appliance for business intelligence
Netezza has launched the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) 8000 Series a tera-scale data appliance for Fortune 1000 companies and other data-intensive organisations that need faster, more sophisticated Business Intelligence (BI). The NPS appliance delivers 10 to 20 times the performance for large, complex and constantly growing BI efforts at half the cost of existing systems. |
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| | IBM launches life sciences centre in Taiwan
IBM Taiwan has launched a life sciences centre at the Nankang software park in Taipei, the first IBM research and development facility of its kind in the Asia Pacific region. The centre will offer information technology solutions and services to help accelerate life sciences research and development, according to IBM Taiwan country general manager Jason Hsu. |
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| | Grid Computing Planet Conference and Expo comes to the US East Coast next month
Grid Computing Planet 2002 Conference and Expowill be held in Boston, USA October 28-29 and is hosted by Jupiter Research amongst others and produced by Jupitermedia Corporation. |
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| | Platform Symphony Grid computing product for financial services
Platform debuted the beta version of a new Enterprise Grid solution called Platform Symphony for use by financial institutions to process compute and time-sensitive applications, such as trading, pricing, risk analysis, profit and loss reporting and trade settlement, in real time across an Enterprise Grid computing infrastructure. Platform Symphony has been adopted by a major investment bank, JP Morgan, as the cornerstone of its globally distributed technology infrastructure. |
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| | iGrid 2002 Conference opens on 23 September in Amsterdam
From September 23 to 26, 2002, Gigaport in collaboration with the Centre of Science and Technology Watergraafsmeer (WTWC) is organising an international Grid Conference. iGrid focuses on visualising the potential of Grid technology. Primeur will cover the most important items in a Special next week.
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| | SARA offers expertise and facilities for iGrid 2002
From September 23 to 26, 2002, the third iGrid Conference is held at the Science and Technology Centre Watergraafsmeer (WTWC) in Amsterdam. During the Conference, iGrid, the bi-annual international Grid-event, presents the latest developments in the areas of e-science, Grid and virtual laboratory applications which are enabled by high-performance global networks. The SARA high performance and network services, located at WTWC, as iGrid 2002 Conference co-organiser offers supercomputers, virtual reality and other facilities, as well as expertise in the domain of networking to enable demonstrations to be held during the conference by international scientific collaboration teams. |
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| | Data Junction and Metis Technologies deliver real time integration to the enterprise
Metis Technologies specializing in Web Services grid computing, has signed a partnership with Data Junction Corporation addressing new Web services integration issues. This partnership will enable applications to be built with access to many different sources with little or no programming. With Data Junction, the Metis Collaboration Platform (MCP 5) assists enterprises in building applications quickly and easily and provides access to any data type in real time, resulting in lower development cost and the capability to dynamically deploy applications. |
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| | Call for Participation in 20th TOP500 list
The next release of the Top500 Supercomputer List will be presented at the SC2002 Conference, November 16-22, 2002 in Baltimore, Maryland. The deadline for submitting entries is October 1, 2002. All systems reported have to be installed by October 31, 2002. |
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| | First 10 Gigabit connection from US to Europe dedicated to research and education inaugurated at iGrid2002
The first long-term, trans-Atlantic 10 gigabit per second wavelength circuit dedicated to research and education, provided by Tyco Telecommunications to the Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF), and provisioned from the US to Europe through the efforts of Internet2 and SURFnet, was inaugurated at iGrid2002 with a demonstration of uncompressed HDTV over IP sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Gigapop and the Research Channel. |
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| | Next HNF-Europe meeting programme available
The next HNF-Europe meeting will be in Reading, UK, on 11 October 2002. Programme is now available.
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| | The Tolly Group verifies line-rate performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet on the Force10 E1200 Swith/Router
Force10 Networks Inc.'s E1200, which was introduced as part of the Force10 E-Series, has been tested by the independent laboratory The Tolly Group in Manasquan, New Jersey. The tests confirmed that the E1200 delivers non-blocking, line-rate forwarding across all 28 ports of 10G Ethernet with extended access control lists (ACLs) applied when tested with large frame sizes greater than 512 bytes. Tests that hammered the E1200 with smaller, more processing-intensive frame sizes yielded zero-loss throughput ranging from 98% to 99%. |
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| | Ignis Optics and Xilinx demonstrate 2.5 Gbps serial optical interface interoperability
Xilinx Inc. and Ignis Optics announced full hardware interoperability of a 2.5 Gbps serial optical interface between the Ignis IGP-2000 Series fiber optic transceivers and the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA with Rocket I/O multi-gigabit transceivers. The proven interoperability will be demonstrated at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) on September 15-19, 2002 in Dallas, Texas. |
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| | Xilinx and Paxonet Communications announce industry's most complete platform FPGA-based LAN/WAN 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution
Xilinx and Paxonet Communications, a Xilinx AllianceCORE member and leading telecommunications IP and Silicon provider, have made available Paxonet's 10 Gigabit Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) and Media Access Controller (MAC) cores for use in Xilinx Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs. |
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