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November 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Louisiana State University's SuperMike 2nd fastest computer among academic institutions worldwide
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| | NCSA Outreach Programme seeks to revitalise rural education
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| | India offers supercomputer to Brazil
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| | Seventh World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics issues Call for Papers
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| Europe
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| | Commissioner Liikanen to speak on Web and Grid services, and semantic Web at IST Diffuse Final Conference
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| | International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments issues Call for Papers
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| | Algorithms and Applications in Computer Graphics and Visualization issues Call for Papers
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| | Parallel Computing Technologies Conference issues Call for Papers
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Paradigm qualifies its VoxelGeo and Reservoir Navigator visualisation solutions on SGI Onyx 300 and InfiniteReality4
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| | Sun launches StorEdge 3300 series in partnership with storage-system manufacturer DotHill
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| | Italy's Aerospace Research revitalised using NEC SX-6 at Cira
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| | UK academics buy NEC SX systems to study effects of storms on Seawalls
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| | Sandia National Laboratories purchases InfiniBand fabric equipment from Paceline Systems
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| | TeraBurst and SGI enable collaborative Visual Area Networking solutions between SGI Reality Center Environments
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| | Pittsburgh researchers release Visible Human Browser
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| | Dell high-performance clusters aid University of Utah to prevent accidental fires and explosions
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| | ModViz makes ultra-high-quality, real time 3D computer visualisation affordable reality
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| | SGI and Delaware Biotechnology Institute Summit examines technology's impact on bioterrorism and drug discovery
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| | SGI introduces high bandwidth SGI TP9500 Storage Array
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| | Xilinx delivers new ISE embedded development kit for the fastest FPGA processor solution in the industry
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| | REALVIZ Stitcher Gateway to CATIA V5 available October 2002
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| | Company-wide autonomic computing initiative
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| | The world's smallest operating computing circuits
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| | SciSys helps solve the biggest mysteries of the Universe
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| | NCSA helps create a smarter SC Conference with IntelliBadge Demo
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| | Xilinx expands programmable systems solution with groundbreaking co-design technology
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| | HyperRoll announces $12.5 million in Series B financing
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Cray MTA-2 System accepted by Naval Research Laboratory
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| | The NEC SX-7 is not the NEC SX-7
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| | Cray ships early versions of Cray X1 System
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| | 40 Tflop/s Red Storm to replace ASCI Red as Sandia's fastest supercomputer
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| | Fujitsu delivers parallel scalar supercomputer system to National Aerospace Laboratory
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| | Fujitsu Siemens Computers extends storage product portfolio with new FibreCAT CX400
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| | Sun reports first quarter results
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| | Unisys and Cornell demonstrate Windows-based Unisys ES7000 for scale-up high-performance computing
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| | Fujitsu introduces enhanced line-up of PrimePower servers with high-performance 1.35GHz SPARC64 V processor
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| | Dell recognises Cornell University for research and advancements in high-performance computing
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| | Circuit Semantics' DynaCell tool streamlines cell characterisation for Cray's MTA supercomputer system
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| | Cray announces third quarter 2002 financial results
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| | Center for Applied Research and Technology at CMU opens Incubator
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| | Cray ranked third fastest growing technology company in North America
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| Industry
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| | Linux Clusters simulate engineering applications in the German automotive industry
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| | SuSE Linux and SAP announce global technology partnership
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| | Linux NetworX and Fraunhofer-ITWM to advance cluster technology in Europe
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| | Quadrics involved in fastest Linux based cluster system installation ever at Lawrence Livermore
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| | SuSE Linux Openexchange server to create central hub of modern enterprise communication
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Mechdyne and SGI to provide second visualisation solution for John Deere
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Ohio Supercomputing Center to us HP Intel based cluster
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| | NSF's $35 million Extensible Terascale Facility award expands TeraGrid project
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| | The network is no longer the bottleneck for the Grid - it is the application
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| | Oxford University, IBM, and British Government build eDiamond Grid for breast cancer screening and diagnosis
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| | Gridbus project to release Grid Accounting Services architecture
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| | The Grid: your questions answered
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| | GridXpert enters market of Grid Computing implementation
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| | Universia and Gridsystems will provide university researchers access to Next Internet Generation
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| | Mobil Travel Guide picks IBM for on-demand computing
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| | Entropia and Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre launch Grid Computing partnership to accelerate virtual screening
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| | ESA organises Grid Workshop
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| | Grid tutorial calls for participation
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| | The Grid as a working horse
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| | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center installs Platform Grid software
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| | U.S. Department of Energy selects HP for ASCI PathForward scalable rendering programme
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| | NERSC installs Zambeel Aztera storage system
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| | GlobusWorld 2003 Conference calls for participation
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| | Metis Technologies launches Pathways, the first BPM solution to automatically integrate best practices
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| | Grid Communities Research issues Calls for Participation
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| | Entelos appoints new Chairman
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| | United Devices' Dr. Jikku Venkat named Austin Technologist of the Year
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| | Sun powers National Education Association content management system
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Blue Planet to challenge Earth Simulator Computenik
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| Networking
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| | Quadrics delivers interconnects for clusters based on Intel Xeon and Itanium processors
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| | First European Forum for Internet exchange points welcomes 50 delegates
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| | It is the end of Gigaport as we know it
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| | Taiwan to invest euro 86 million in next generation network system
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| | DataDirect launches ultrafast FC-2 Storage Network and SAN system
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| | Xilinx to launch Serial Tsunami initiative, CarCube solution, and first programmable Crossbar Switch tool
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| | California Education Initiative benefits from Looking Glass Networks' rapid dark fiber delivery
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Leads
November 2002
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| | Louisiana State University's SuperMike 2nd fastest computer among academic institutions worldwide
In an effort to significantly enhance the high-performance-computing resources that are available to Louisiana's students and academic researchers in various subfields of information technology, Louisiana State University (LSU) has acquired through Atípa Technologies a Beowulf-class supercomputer with 1024 Intel 1.8 GHz Xeon DP processors that are tightly coupled through Myricom's myrinet network. The system contains 1 Terabyte of RAM and more than 40 Terabytes of disk storage. It has been christened, "SuperMike".
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| | NCSA Outreach Programme seeks to revitalise rural education
A new programme led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois and East Carolina University (ECU) in North Carolina will introduce teachers in rural areas of those states to cutting-edge technologies that can expand the scope of science and mathematics education in small-town middle and high schools.
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| | India offers supercomputer to Brazil
The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology studies a proposal made by the Indian government to install, in Brazil, a supercomputer for scientific and strategic use.
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| | Seventh World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics issues Call for Papers
SCI 2003 will be organised July 27-30 in Orlando, Florida, USA. This conference is making emphasis on the area of Computer Engineering, and mainly High Performance Computing. Deadline for paper abstract submission is December 18, 2002. |
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| | Commissioner Liikanen to speak on Web and Grid services, and semantic Web at IST Diffuse Final Conference
The IST Diffuse Final Conference, entitled "Convergence of Web Services, Grid Services and the Semantic Web for delivering e-Services?" will be hosted by the European Commission at Centre
Borschette, Brussels, on 12th December 2002. The Opening Keynote Address will be provided by Erkki Liikanen, Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society, European Commission. |
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| | International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments issues Call for Papers
The 8th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments
(HIPS 2003) will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2003 on April 22, 2003, in Nice, France. Deadline for paper submission is November 18, 2002. |
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| | Algorithms and Applications in Computer Graphics and Visualization issues Call for Papers
Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, organises a technical session on "Algorithms and Applications in Computer Graphics and Visualization" in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, held February 3 - 7, 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. Paper abstract submission deadline is October 10, 2002. |
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| | Parallel Computing Technologies Conference issues Call for Papers
The Seventh International PaCT 2003 Conference will be held September 15-19, 2003 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and will be sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Fund for Basic Research, and the Ministry of Higher Education. Deadline for paper submission is January 20, 2003. |
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| Industry
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| | Paradigm qualifies its VoxelGeo and Reservoir Navigator visualisation solutions on SGI Onyx 300 and InfiniteReality4
Paradigm's VoxelGeo (Volume-Based Seismic Interpretation) and Reservoir Navigator (Integrated 3D Visualisation Canvas) qualify on the new SGI Onyx 300 system fitted with the InfiniteReality4 multipipe graphics system. Boasting up to 32 MIPS 14000 CPUs and 8 graphic pipes, this system represents the top-range graphic server currently available from SGI.
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| | Sun launches StorEdge 3300 series in partnership with storage-system manufacturer DotHill
The Sun StorEdge 3300 Series products extend Sun's promise of Complete Storage Solutions by delivering enterprise features into the workgroup. Available October 15 at the Net@Work 2002 Partner Forum show in Florida, the new storage arrays will bring added value to businesses with small to medium deployment requirements and enable customers to do more with less. The first product in the series will be the Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI array. The new series are the fruit of a partnership with storage-system maker DotHill. DotHill is developing the systems to Sun's specifications. DotHill's hardware features are compliant with Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) standards required by telecommunications companies for computing equipment that withstands shocks, smoke, and high temperatures. |
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| | Italy's Aerospace Research revitalised using NEC SX-6 at Cira
Capua is a fascinating historical small town just north of Naples, southern Italy. In Roman times, it was famous for being the site of a renowned school of Gladiators, the fierce warriors trained to fight often to the death, providing a spectacle during the games at Rome's Coliseum. Some two thousand years later, Capua is the site of CIRA, the National Italian Centre for Aerospace Research, a highly sophisticated and leading-edge technological institution which looks after the progress and innovation of Italy's aeronautics and space activities. (Chris Lazou and Giacomo Polosa)
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| | UK academics buy NEC SX systems to study effects of storms on Seawalls
NEC SX Systems are normally associated with multi million dollar computer centres, but now with the introduction of the SX-6i academic departments are also starting to utilise the strengths of vector
shared memory systems. (Chris Lazou)
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| | Sandia National Laboratories purchases InfiniBand fabric equipment from Paceline Systems
Sandia National Laboratories has purchased a complete 4x InfiniBand fabric from Paceline. The Paceline products will be deployed in the Laboratories' InfiniBand-based computational cluster testbed.
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| | TeraBurst and SGI enable collaborative Visual Area Networking solutions between SGI Reality Center Environments
TeraBurst Networks and SGI announced their intent to jointly market TeraBurst Wide Area Visualisation Solution (WAVS) for real time distance collaboration between visualisation theaters, along with SGI's Visual Area Networking (VAN) initiative. |
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| | Pittsburgh researchers release Visible Human Browser
Researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have publicly released the PSC Volume Browser (PVB), an interactive graphical interface and rapid-retrieval system. When used with the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human, PVB provides a versatile, self-teaching resource in human anatomy for medical students and a tool for planning of surgery and radiation therapy. |
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| | Dell high-performance clusters aid University of Utah to prevent accidental fires and explosions
Researchers at the University of Utah are using a Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) to research and help prevent accidental fires and explosions. The university's Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions (C-SAFE) will use the cluster to provide government and corporations with insights into the safety of storing and handling chemicals and hazardous materials. |
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| | ModViz makes ultra-high-quality, real time 3D computer visualisation affordable reality
Affordable, high-quality, computer-based 3D visualisation of complex models and processes in real time, a technological "Holy Grail" for industries of every type, is being made possible by ModViz, a new Silicon Valley start-up whose software turns clusters of ordinary personal computers into super graphics engines. |
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| | SGI and Delaware Biotechnology Institute Summit examines technology's impact on bioterrorism and drug discovery
SGI and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) jointly sponsored a summit that examines the impact of emerging technology on life sciences research, focusing on such compelling issues as safeguarding against bioterrorism and advancing the drug discovery process.
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| | SGI introduces high bandwidth SGI TP9500 Storage Array
SGI announced the Total Performance 9500 (TP9500) RAID storage array at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) International Exhibition. |
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| | Xilinx delivers new ISE embedded development kit for the fastest FPGA processor solution in the industry
Xilinx has launched its new Embedded Development Kit (EDK), an all encompassing suite of design tools accelerating the design of highly optimised programmable systems. EDK provides an easy-to-learn entry point for both embedded software and hardware designers who want to design with the PowerPC processors embedded into the Xilinx flagship Virtex-II Pro FPGAs or the MicroBlaze 32-bit soft processor core in Xilinx Virtex and Spartan Series devices. With the new tools, designers can significantly reduce system costs and/or increase performance by optimising software and hardware on the same programmable platform. |
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| | REALVIZ Stitcher Gateway to CATIA V5 available October 2002
In January 2002, Dassault Systèmes welcomed REALVIZ as a new partner to the Software Community Programme. At that time, Dassault outlined the forthcoming programme, in which REALVIZ would develop and sell two products, which would expand the powerful realistic rendering capabilities of CATIA V5 and ENOVIA Portal DMU Solutions, by enabling 3d PLM customers to integrate their 3D virtual products into real environments. REALVIZ now can confirm that the first product outlined, REALVIZ Stitcher Gateway to CATIA V5, will very shortly be available for purchase. |
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| | Company-wide autonomic computing initiative
IBM has launched the next phase of its company-wide autonomic computing initiative. The initiative will provide the hardware, software, and services needed by businesses to reduce complexity by making their computing systems more self-managing.
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| | The world's smallest operating computing circuits
IBM researchers have built and operated the world's smallest working computer circuits, using an approach in which individual molecules move across an atomic surface like toppling dominoes. The new "molecule cascade" technique enabled the scientists to make working digital-logic elements about 260,000 times smaller than those used in today's semi-conductor chips.
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| | SciSys helps solve the biggest mysteries of the Universe
INTEGRAL, the world's most sensitive gamma-ray space observatory, is launched to discover how the universe became habitable. The Space Division of SciSys has developed the Integral satellite's key on-board, mission control and simulation systems.
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| | NCSA helps create a smarter SC Conference with IntelliBadge Demo
A demonstration of "smart" technology called IntelliBadge will allow participants in SC2002 to track people with similar interests, monitor conference events, view conference statistics, and view visualisations of patterns of people flowing through the conference.
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| | Xilinx expands programmable systems solution with groundbreaking co-design technology
Xilinx has announced early access of a new technology designed for both hardware and software engineers involved in the common design of programmable systems using Xilinx FPGAs with MicroBlaze and PowerPC processor cores. The new technology expands the company's current solution for programmable systems by enabling customers to define an entire system in ANSI-C to obtain the most optimal implementation by rapidly partitioning and repartitioning between hardware and software. The technology represents another solution from Xilinx in bringing system-on-a-chip to the masses, delivering lower system cost, higher performance, and significantly improved productivity. |
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| | HyperRoll announces $12.5 million in Series B financing
HyperRoll Inc. a provider of high-speed, high-performance aggregation and analytics engine for database systems, has completed a $12.5 million Series B financing led by Sequoia Capital and Greylock. Vertex Venture Capital also participated in the financing round, as well as existing HyperRoll investors Microdent Ventures and Denali Ventures. Additional funds will be used to accelerate sales and marketing activities in a market where the company already has customers and exceptional results. |
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| | Cray MTA-2 System accepted by Naval Research Laboratory
A 40-processor, all-CMOS Cray MTA-2 system with a multi-threaded architecture has completed customer acceptance testing at the Washington, D.C. facilities of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Cray provided the Cray MTA-2 system to NRL under a contract with Northrop Grumman Information Technology, a premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial businesses. |
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| | The NEC SX-7 is not the NEC SX-7
NEC has introduced a special version of the SX-6 with up to 32 CPU's connected in SMP-mode. It is called the "SX-7" which has created some confusion. Although it contains a bit of new technology, it is not in fact the full-blown follow-up to the SX-6-architecture. The SX-6 will remain the main supercomputer offering of choice from NEC for some time to come. Then it will be superceeded by a new SX-7 architecture. NEC expects the current "SX-7"-model is only of a interest for a few customers mainly in Japan. |
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| | Cray ships early versions of Cray X1 System
Cray has shipped five early-production units of the new Cray X1 supercomputer.
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| | 40 Tflop/s Red Storm to replace ASCI Red as Sandia's fastest supercomputer
The US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and Cray have finalized a multiyear contract, valued at approximately $90 million, under which Cray will collaborate with Sandia to develop and deliver a new massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer called Red Storm. Red Storm will peak at 40 Tflop/s, and have AMD processors. |
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| | Fujitsu delivers parallel scalar supercomputer system to National Aerospace Laboratory
Fujitsu has delivered a parallel scalar supercomputer system to the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL). |
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| | Fujitsu Siemens Computers extends storage product portfolio with new FibreCAT CX400
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched an additional FibreCAT storage system in the midrange area for IT infrastructure consolidation. The new FibreCAT CX400, available immediately, is a full 2 Gbit/s fibre channel storage product designed to focus on intelligent storage management functions. Outstanding features include a leading price/performance ratio combined with an extensive portfolio of software products for managing heterogeneous storage environments.
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| | Sun reports first quarter results
Sun has reported results for its fiscal first quarter which ended September 29, 2002. Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal year 2003 were $2.7 billion, down 4 percent as compared with $2.9 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2002. However, the company did post a loss of US $111 million and will cut over 4000 jobs (11% of its workforce). |
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| | Unisys and Cornell demonstrate Windows-based Unisys ES7000 for scale-up high-performance computing
Unisys and the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) plan to demonstrate the value of the Unisys Enterprise Server ES7000 as a platform for use in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. As part of the CTC TechExchange Consortium, Unisys will work with CTC to optimise the performance of HPC solutions for key industry markets using ES7000 servers based on both Intel Itanium 2 (IA-64) and Xeon MP (IA-32) processors. Performance test results and other findings will demonstrate the capabilities of industry-standard Windows- and Intel-based platforms in an area traditionally dominated by clusters of UNIX computers and proprietary vector supercomputers. |
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| | Fujitsu introduces enhanced line-up of PrimePower servers with high-performance 1.35GHz SPARC64 V processor
Fujitsu Limited has enhanced its PRIMEPOWER family of Solaris Operating Environment compatible SPARC compliant servers with the global introduction of three new models for business-critical UNIX enterprise computing environments. Boasting unprecedented performance and reliability features, the new PRIMEPOWER 900, 1500 and 2500 models use 1.35GHz SPARC V processors, currently the highest clock speeds available in the SPARC V9 architecture. Equipped with 1.35GHz SPARC64 V, PRIMEPOWER 900 has achieved a top-class performance rating of 1205 floating point operations under the SPECfp 2000 benchmark. |
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| | Dell recognises Cornell University for research and advancements in high-performance computing
Dell has recognised the Cornell University with a Dell Centers for Research Excellence award during the opening of the Cornell Theory Center's (CTC) new solutions center in Manhattan. The award is part of an initiative by Dell to acknowledge exceptional use of the company's high-performance computing clusters (HPCC) for groundbreaking commercial research and projects that can benefit society. These clusters link large numbers of standards-based servers and storage systems together to act as a single resource to solve complex computational problems.
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| | Circuit Semantics' DynaCell tool streamlines cell characterisation for Cray's MTA supercomputer system
For the past four years, MTA design engineers from Cray (formerly: Tera) have been using DynaCell, a software product from Circuit Semantics (CSI), to characterise their standard cell library for the circuitry on the MTA-2 system board. DynaCell is an automated characterisation and validation tool for standard cell libraries, I/Os, and custom cells that is intended for synthesis and custom design methodologies. |
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| | Cray announces third quarter 2002 financial results
Cray has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2002. Total revenue for the quarter was $42.1 million compared to $29.4 million in the same quarter last year. Net income for the third quarter was $2.1 million or $.04 cents per diluted share, compared to a loss of $10.8 million or ($.26) cents per diluted share last year.
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| | Center for Applied Research and Technology at CMU opens Incubator
A new 12,000-square foot (SF), $1.5-million high-tech incubator in the 300-acre Center for Applied Research & Technology at Central Michigan University (CART) in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, offers flexible lease options for emerging start-up companies, plus access to a powerful IBM supercomputer, high-speed Internet connections, and state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS) and data mining technologies. |
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| | Cray ranked third fastest growing technology company in North America
Cray ranked number three on the 2002 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 1997-2001. Cray grew 180,450 percent during this period.
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| | Linux Clusters simulate engineering applications in the German automotive industry
End of last year, science + computing GmbH, the Tübingen based Linux experts, organised an infoforum with the title: "Linux Clusters for the numerical simulation in engineering applications". All the well-known hardware vendors presented their Linux offerings. Compaq offers huge Alpha clusters with a migration path to Itanium systems as well as IA-32 clusters based on their ProLiant series. Fujitsu Siemens Computers started their hpcLine in Germany as early as in February 1999. In the meantime, it uses Intel and AMD processors. Since 1999, Fujitsu Siemens Computers installed about 1000 processors in their Linux clusters in science and industry. Hewlett-Packard clustered its NetServer or the IA-32 workstations, e-utilica is a solution for service provider. IBM delivers its pre-configured eServer 1300. NEC uses the Express Server with Intel or AMD processors as well as IA-64 based AzusA for the clusters. |
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| | SuSE Linux and SAP announce global technology partnership
SuSE Linux and SAP AG announced a global technology partnership. SuSE is the first Linux enterprise operating system to enable SAP clients worldwide to run SAP's e-business applications on Linux and the first Linux provider to become "SAP Global Technology Partner".
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| | Linux NetworX and Fraunhofer-ITWM to advance cluster technology in Europe
Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful and easy-to-manage Linux cluster computing solutions, has signed an international partner agreement with German-based Fraunhofer-Institut fur Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (Fraunhofer-ITWM). Fraunhofer-ITWM is a major research institute for industrial mathematics in Europe. Fraunhofer-ITWM and Linux NetworX will work together to meet the increasing demand for high performance computing (HPC) in Germany. |
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| | Quadrics involved in fastest Linux based cluster system installation ever at Lawrence Livermore
Providing a step closer to the realisation of supercomputing via the deployment of Linux, Quadrics announces its involvement in the fastest Linux based cluster system to date. The system, called MCR, will be housed at the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory at Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) in California and will ultimately provide close on 11 Tflop/s compute capacity, comprised of many thousands of processors connected by the largest Quadrics network yet. The system is expected to reach the TOP5 of the world's fastest supercomputers. |
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| | SuSE Linux Openexchange server to create central hub of modern enterprise communication
SuSE Linux has released SuSE Linux Openexchange Server, the latest link in the chain of SuSE Linux Business Solutions to be available on November 4th. The Openexchange Server combines the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system, a proven e-mail server, and extensive groupware functionalities. The result is an innovative all-in-one communication and groupware solution for companies of all sizes at an unmatched price/performance ratio. |
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| | Mechdyne and SGI to provide second visualisation solution for John Deere
Mechdyne and SGI have won a contract to build an immersive visualisation system for John Deere, USA. As the second Mechdyne and SGI visualisation solution for Deere, the system will be used primarily for design analysis and virtual prototyping applications. |
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| | Ohio Supercomputing Center to us HP Intel based cluster
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) will deploy an HP supercomputer based on a cluster of more than 150 Intel Itanium 2-based HP Workstation zx6000 systems. The HP cluster will use Myricom's Myrinet high-speed interconnect and run the Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation, a 64-bit Linux operating system. |
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| | NSF's $35 million Extensible Terascale Facility award expands TeraGrid project
The National Science Board (NSB) has approved awards of about $35 million to be made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to three research institutions to expand the previously funded TeraGrid project, a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. Final amounts will be determined through negotiation between the NSF and the awardees. The NSB is a 24-member policy body that guides the NSF in its role as an independent federal agency supporting scientific and
engineering research. |
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| | The network is no longer the bottleneck for the Grid - it is the application
At iGrid2002, more than 30 Gbits/s bandwidth was available to connect to the outside world, including the USA. This allowed for streaming HDTV over the ocean, applications distributed over three continents and connected collaborating Caves. The demanding applications could not
fill the available bandwidth. According to SURFnet director Kees Neggers, this shows connectivity is not the problem for Grid applications anymore. SURFnet, the Dutch research network
organisation was one of the organisers of iGrid. It will continue to exploit a large part of the network that was laid out for the iGrid2002 conference as part of its high-end backbone.
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| | Oxford University, IBM, and British Government build eDiamond Grid for breast cancer screening and diagnosis
Oxford University has joined with IBM and the British Government to build a sophisticated computing Grid that will enable early screening and diagnosis of breast cancer, and provide medical professionals with more information to help treat the disease. The project, which represents an investment of approximately $6 million jointly by IBM and the United Kingdom, has been named "eDiamond" by Oxford researchers and is part of the British government's eScience initiative. |
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| | Gridbus project to release Grid Accounting Services architecture
Alexander Barmouta and Rajkumar Buyya from the University of Melbourne, Australia, have published a paper on "GridBank, a Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems Sharing and Integration". This paper might be of interest to the commercial community since it describes one of the missing components in today's Grid computing and thus is filling a gap. |
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| | The Grid: your questions answered
What Grid middleware technologies are currently employed by the European Grid community? What do users expect from a computational Grid and which services will they require? What will the HPC systems of the future be like? Which ones of available Grid enabling technologies show the greatest promise? These are just a few of the questions that ENACTS, the European Network for
Advanced Computing Technology for Science, attempts to answer. This EC-funded initiative brings together the key players of the diverse European HPC community in a bid to evaluate future trends in the way that computational science will be performed. |
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| | GridXpert enters market of Grid Computing implementation
GridXpert is a new player in the Grid Computing market. The French company was founded in May 2002 by Chief Executive Officer, Sven Lung, Chief Technical Officer, Bruno Emsellem, and Chief Operating Officer, Edgar Madar. GridXpert provides a specific framework for controlling the implementation of Grid Computing. Its solutions are based on Grid platforms, in particular open source solutions such as Globus, but also other Grid technologies. |
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| | Universia and Gridsystems will provide university researchers access to Next Internet Generation
Andres Pedreño, the Universia.net portal CEO, and Joan Massó, GridSystems President, have signed a collaboration agreement with the goal to provide all the university research groups with access to the new Grid technology. This collaboration starts with Spanish universities and will include in a second phase Latin American universities. Thanks to this initiative, Universia.net positions itself again at the forefront of the information technologies applied to the university world. |
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| | Mobil Travel Guide picks IBM for on-demand computing
IBM will provide the Mobil Travel Guide with large-scale computing infrastructure on-demand over the Internet. The contract for on-demand mainframe and storage computing services is the first of its kind in the travel and transportation industry.
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| | Entropia and Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre launch Grid Computing partnership to accelerate virtual screening
Entropia Inc., a provider of PC Grid Computing solutions, and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) will collaborate with the design to accelerate virtual screening in the pharmaceutical industry. Entropia and CCDC are working together to optimise PC grid computing for virtual screening. This will allow researchers to cost-effectively accelerate the analysis of large compound databases when using Entropia's DCGrid. |
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| | ESA organises Grid Workshop
The objective of the Grid Workshop, held at ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, on October 25, 2002, is to present space-related Grid activities that have been initiated in recent years, with a view of consolidating a policy that will be followed by ESA in the coming years.
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| | Grid tutorial calls for participation
A tutorial "Programming the Grid with Java COG, Web Services and Component Software" will be held at the joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2002 Conference in Seattle, Washington on November 3, 2002.
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| | The Grid as a working horse
In Primeur/EnterTheGrid, when reporting on the Grid developments in the USA, we usually report on the bleeding-edge projects like TeraGrid and the alliances administered in Urbana-Champaign and San Diego, that are involved in Grid and supercomputer research. However, most scientists in the USA, as in Europe and Asia, are not interested in being involved in Grid or supercomputer research. They want to do their bit of science and excell there. When Grid computing helps, fine, if not, they use another tool. In most countries, there are user organisations of collaborating universities that try to help scientists with the infrastructure they need. In The Netherlands that is SURF (no, not SURFnet, I will explain that later) and in the US that is Internet2. Internet2 and SURfnet were involved in the organisation of iGrid2002 in Amsterdam.
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| | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center installs Platform Grid software
Platform Computing, the
leader in distributed and Grid computing software solutions, today announced
that the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), one of the world's foremost
research labs, is using Platform LSF 5, the industry's premier solution for
building Enterprise Grids, to power groundbreaking research into the origins of
the universe. Platform LSF 5 will deliver the mammoth compute power that SLAC's
Linear Accelerator needs to process the data associated with intense high-energy
physics research, with the ultimate goal of answering fundamental questions
about the forces and matter in the universe. |
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| | U.S. Department of Energy selects HP for ASCI PathForward scalable rendering programme
HP has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop and demonstrate a
graphics visualization system capable of rendering and displaying terascale data sets. |
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| | NERSC installs Zambeel Aztera storage system
(NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has implemented a Zambeel Aztera storage system. NERSC has deployed Zambeel Aztera as part of its Parallel Distributed System
Facility (PDSF), a 390-processor Linux cluster used by researchers for algorithm
development, simulations, and data analysis in large-scale high energy physics
and nuclear science investigations. |
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| | GlobusWorld 2003 Conference calls for participation
The GlobusWorld 2003 Conference will be organised January 13-17, 2003 in San Diego, California, USA under the general theme "The Globus Toolkit - The Open Source for Grid Computing". |
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| | Metis Technologies launches Pathways, the first BPM solution to automatically integrate best practices
Metis Technologies Inc., specialised in next-generation Peer to Peer technology, has released Metis Pathways. Pathways is the first Business Process Management (BPM) solution with an open architecture that automatically integrates processes at every critical intersection in the business cycle: whether system-to-system, system to Web, people to system, or people to Web. Pathways enables the enterprise to automate processes, monitor performance of every process and incorporate best practice business processes in real time, increasing operational efficiencies and corporate profit.
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| | Grid Communities Research issues Calls for Participation
The Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech invites all interested parties to participate in a survey conducted as part of a research project on Internet Communities. The research focuses on the composition, size, management, dynamics, and security requirements of Grid communities as well as the ability of Grid Computing tools to improve community communication and collaboration efficiency.
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| | Entelos appoints new Chairman
Entelos has appointed Jon S. Saxe as Chairman of the Board.
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| | United Devices' Dr. Jikku Venkat named Austin Technologist of the Year
United Devices' Dr. Jikku Venkat has been identified as the Austin Chief Technology Officer of the Year by the Austin Technology Council (ATC) and the Austin Chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP). Dr. Venkat was recognised for his demonstrated leadership skills in product development and benefits by leading the team that delivered to market United Devices' flagship product, the MetaProcessor platform. |
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| | Sun powers National Education Association content management system
Sun Microsystems Inc. has contributed Sun solutions, including Sun hardware and Sun ONE technology, valued at more than $250,000 to the National Education Association (NEA), which will be used to power and manage the NEA's content management system project. Comprising of four Sun Fire V880 servers, a Sun Blade 100 workstation, Solaris PC Netlink, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment and Veritas Volume Manager, this contribution marks Sun's continued commitment to advancing the learning environment for teachers, students, and education administrators by delivering key technology resources to the education community. |
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| | Blue Planet to challenge Earth Simulator Computenik
In April this year, the Japanese Earth Simulator rocketed into the position of fastest supercomputer in the world. The difference with the number 2 in the TOP500 list is so big - even the combined power of the first dozen of US made supercomputers together did not match the Earth Simulator, that the machine was dubbed Computenik, shattering the US supercomputing hegemony. Since this event, US scientists and government are looking for an answer. One of the more interesting proposals is the "Blue Planet". In a proposal from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne national laboratories, and IBM, Blue Planet is developed as a machine that could deliver twice the Earth Simulator performance at half the cost in 2005. This should bring a US machine back on top of the lists. If the Japanese do not do anything in the mean time that is.
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| | Quadrics delivers interconnects for clusters based on Intel Xeon and Itanium processors
Quadrics has announced the support of its QsNet high performance network products for Intel Itanium 2 processor and Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. QsNet provides a high capability solution, offering low-latency, high bandwidth and scalability, for building Linux cluster systems. A number of QsNet systems supporting these processors are already being used in production environments.
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| | First European Forum for Internet exchange points welcomes 50 delegates
The largest-ever gathering of Internet exchange points, the "telephone exchanges" of the Internet, held in Barcelona, Spain, September, 23-24, 2002, increased international co-operation aimed at improving the efficiency and security of the Internet. |
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| | It is the end of Gigaport as we know it
Advancing the design, specification, realisation and use of broadband innovative and experimental networking for in the Netherlands is the goal of the Gigaport project. Two main activities were the funding of the next-generation research network, the connection of that network, and the access to that network by SURFnet, and several large-scale demonstration projects on application level, mostly initiated and managed by the Telematics Institute. At the end of this year, the Gigaport project will be finished. There will be a follow-on, called Gigaport Next Generation, aimed at next generation datacommunication networks, including full QoS, and custom ownership. Gigaport Next Generation will also look into generic utility components on middleware level.
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| | Taiwan to invest euro 86 million in next generation network system
The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) decided in a meeting that it will invest NT$3 billion (euro 86 million) over the three years starting from 2003 to build a "next generation network system". Vice Premier and CEPD Chairman Lin Hsin-i presided over the meeting that heard a National Science Council (NSC) report on the "Asia-Pacific Center" project.
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| | DataDirect launches ultrafast FC-2 Storage Network and SAN system
DataDirect Networks has launched the S2A8000, the company's newest flagship Silicon Storage Appliance that allow the scientific, supercomputing and broadcast communities to deploy and scale 2 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel storage area network infrastructures.
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| | Xilinx to launch Serial Tsunami initiative, CarCube solution, and first programmable Crossbar Switch tool
Xilinx Inc. has launched a bold initiative to accelerate the industry move from parallel to high-speed serial I/O by delivering a new generation of connectivity solutions for system designs that meet bandwidth requirements from 3.125Gbps (gigabits-per-second) today to 10Gbps and beyond.
In addition, Xilinx and ACUNIA, a provider of next generation telematics technology based in Belgium, have made available the CarCube solution, a ready-made cost-effective field upgradeable design platform that provides OEMs with the ultimate in telematics functionality and performance.
The company has also launched the Crossbar Switch, a programmable parameterisable custom design implementing digital cross-point switching functions on Xilinx Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro FPGA devices. The crossbar switch is ideal for use in applications such as digital crossconnects, add-drop multiplexers, video, broadcast, and ATM switches. |
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| | California Education Initiative benefits from Looking Glass Networks' rapid dark fiber delivery
Looking Glass Networks Inc., a facilities-based provider of metropolitan data transport services, has signed a dark fiber agreement with the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), a non-profit corporation founded by California's public and private universities. Looking Glass is providing dark fiber connections to CENIC's Los Angeles network facilities that support groundbreaking modes of teaching, learning, collaboration and research by joining all of California's education institutions. |
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