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December 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | National Science Foundation awards $1 million to develop protein database at UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer Center
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| | Rice plans Tflop/s system
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| | Image of rat cerebellum wins first place for UC San Diego medical research associate
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| | Colsa selects SGI Origin 3000 super
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| | SGI 3900 University of Tokyo
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| | LANL's super helps climate predection
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| | Workshop on Scientific Applications of Cluster Computing
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| | NPACI to showcase big data, big grids, big results, and new communities at SC2002 Conference
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| Europe
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| | First Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Workshop
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| | 4 TeraFlop/s HLRN Inauguration
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| | Block lecture Scientific Supercomputing
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| | Deadline extended in Call for Papers for IPDPS workshop on Massively Parallel Processing
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| | EuroPAR 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| | Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'03)
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| | DARES Workshop issues Call for Papers
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | ECMWF Workshop on Meteorology - Realising Teracomputing
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| | Grid Visualisation advances membrane protein research at Henri Poincaré University
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| | Energised heartbeats may explain why galaxies are continually stirred up according to UCSD research
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| | Cray sells cluster system to Ford
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| | Public scrutiny time for new Fortran Standard
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| | Workshop on Managed Run Time Workloads
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| | SGI's Visual Area Networking used by Statoil to demonstrate remote analysis of seismic data from Norwegian oil field
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| | IRGO software optimises work flow of high-productivity technical computing environments
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| | SGI announces key sales wins for first quarter
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| | CombineNet announces software license and service agreement with Procter & Gamble
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| | SGI Origin 3800 at Mazda
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| Industry
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| | CGG passes 15-Tflop/s mark with over 10,000 CPUs of PC cluster worldwide
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| | Inauguration of new supercomputer for scientific use in Finland
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| | Cray X1 - Vector alternative to IBM P4 in HPC
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| | Cray X1 systems for the Army HPC research centre
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| | Cray to win $8.4 million order for X1 supercomputer from Spain's National Institute of Meteorology
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| | Cray selects Samsung for supercomputer memory needs
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| | NERSC to offer 10 Teraflop/s system by early 2003
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| | Cray X1 System will help advance frontiers of science and engineering
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| | Cray to use Adic Stornext File System as SAN foundation for new X1 supercomputer
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| | Cray contracts with Iowa State University to test software for Cray X1 system
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| | Half a Tflop/s in a single frame
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| | IBM VM/VSE Users Conference in Jena and the Baby Mainframe
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| | DataDirect demonstrates SwiftCluster storage technology
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| | Sun accelerates UltraSPARC processor design programme with new Burlington compute ranch
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| | New SGI high-productivity, high-density system makes supercomputing more deployable
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| | Nexcom's Intel Xeon-based blade server from Taiwan
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| | Sun One application server 7
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| | New IBM servers based on latest Intel Xeon processors
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| | IBM share of server market grows
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| | NEC Solutions America introduces its Express5800/1000 server series brand at SC2002
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| Industry
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| | EDAG Engineering + Design AG to implement Teraport Linux cluster solution
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| | Swedish National Supercomputer Centre builds 200 node supercomputer
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| | Linux NetworX opens European headquarters in Kaiserslautern
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| | Mainline Information Systems and Sistina Software deliver zSeries Linux global file system for mainframes
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| | SuSE Linux develops Linux desktops for enterprises
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| | Next generation oSuSE Linux enterprise server
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server validated for running the latest version of IBM DB2 database software
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| | Linux NetworX expands into Asia
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| | Terra Soft installs 30 node parallel Apple Xserver
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| | Linux NetworX announces life sciences cluster optimised with bio tech software
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| | UnitedLinux releases Version 1.0
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| | UnitedLinux counts over 15,000 downloads of beta in first month
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| | Linux NetworX doubles density of its award-winning Evolocity cluster
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| Industry
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| | ViPr ushers in era of virtual presence communications
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | University of Texas at Dallas to join Italian research project on grid computing and high-speed networking
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| | Grid computing for financial institutions
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| | HP and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center form Grid alliance
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| | Sun selects Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as centre of excellence
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| | NRC-CBR first Sun Grid Center of Excellence in Atlantic Canada
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| | NCSA in the USA to install 2 Tflop/s supercomputer
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| | Evotec OAI agrees Entropia DCGrid delivers more cost-effective computing power
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| | Sistina's GFS file system is a Grid enabler
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| | C-DAC to unveil new Indian supercomputer
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| | GridSystems solutions available for commercial customers at IBM Design Centre for e-business on demand
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| | Entropia releases DCGrid 5.1
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| | PricewaterhouseCoopers Forecast highlights emerging patterns of Internet and Grid computing
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| | TACC and Platform to develop web-based grid portals
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| | Two new systems with Dolphin WulfKits in the TOP500
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| | University of Bufallo adds 300-node Dell cluster - number 22 on TOP500 list
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| | Chiaro Networks chosen by California Technology Institute to provide routing platform for Optiputer
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| | How to develop Grid computing applications
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| | Platform partners with Matrix Science to accelerate drug discovery for pharmaceutical companies
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| | Platform Computing powers physics research for Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory
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| | Texas Tech University on Avaki
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| | San Diego supercomputer center reaches 40 Gbit/s data transfer milestone
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| | A company Grid of 1600 CPU's at brookhaven
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| | Scientists to demonstrate TeraGrid at SC2002 in Baltimore
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| | SGI did showcase Grid applications at SC2002
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| | SUN Cluster Tools integrated with GridEngine
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| | Platform enhances its HPC tools
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| | Sun makes the Grid work at Supercomputing 2002
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| | RackSaver demonstrates cluster computers
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| | Samuel J. Palmisano elected IBM chairman, talks about Grid computing
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| | Capacity on Demand 2.0 for mid-range Sun systems
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| | More Intel based systems in the TOP500
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| Industry
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| | 20th Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released
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| | Number of Tflop/s systems in Europe tripled in six months
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| | The November 2002 TOP500 in Germany
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| | Argonne install 1 Tflop/s cluster
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| | Sun posts major gains on TOP500
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| | HP retains first position in TOP500 supercomputer number of systems ranking
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| | IBM number one in supercomputing processing power in TOP500
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| | U.S. Department of Energy orders 100 Tflop/s systems
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| | Linux NetworX supercomputer ranked as fifth fastest in the World
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| Networking
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| | Kerberized Grid Computing
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| | Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first U.S. nationwide imaging network
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| | Second release of US National Middleware Initiative released
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| | Force10 Networks lands third TeraGrid customer, the California Institute of Technology
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| | Cross-continent file system simulated
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| | Lightscape Networks updates Metropolitan Area Network management technology software
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| | Force10 Networks is the Ethernet switch/router of choice for SC2002 bandwidth challengers
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| | Xilinx delivers fully programmable solution for Sonet backplanes and expands high-speed serial I/O solutions
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| | UTStarcom selects Force10 E-Series
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| | DataDirect to show world's fastest fibre channel FC-2 storage controller at SC2002 Conference
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December 2002
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| | National Science Foundation awards $1 million to develop protein database at UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer Center
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded more than $1 million for research at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego to develop the Protein Kinase Resource, a database cataloguing a family of enzymes that play key roles in cellular regulation. |
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| | Rice plans Tflop/s system
Rice University's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) plans to build Texas' fastest academic supercomputer, the Rice Terascale Cluster (RTC). Scheduled to come online early next year, RTC is to be built on HP's Intel Itanium 2-based workstations and servers. |
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| | Image of rat cerebellum wins first place for UC San Diego medical research associate
A striking red, blue and green microscopic image of a small portion of rat brain, taken by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researcher Thomas Deerinck, was awarded first place in the recent 28th Annual Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition. Selected from among 800 images submitted by 300 entrants from throughout the world, Deerinck's winning image brilliantly displays a tiny portion of rat cerebellum that highlights calcium channels in neurons and the organisation of brain cells called glia.
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| | Colsa selects SGI Origin 3000 super
COLSA Corporation of Huntsville, USA has selected SGI Origin 3000 series
servers as the central computing architecture for test beds located in the U.S.
Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Advanced Research Center (ARC), used
in support of new missile defense test and simulation programs managed by the
Missile Defense Agency. COLSA installed a 32-processor SGI Origin 3400 server in April and a 64-
processor SGI Origin 3800 server in September to support the ground-based
Midcourse Defense elements and the High-Performance Computing Center at the
ARC. |
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| | SGI 3900 University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo's
Human Genome Center (HGC), located within the university's Institute of Medical Science, has purchased an SGI Origin 3900 server, the newest model of the SGI Origin 3000 series of supercomputers from SGI. The installation, scheduled to begin operations in January, comprises the first large-scale Origin 3900 system in the world. |
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| | LANL's super helps climate predection
SGI said the 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer, installed in July at Los
Alamos National Laboratory, USA, is allowing scientists to complete intricate
climate simulations in weeks rather than months. |
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| | Workshop on Scientific Applications of Cluster Computing
The Workshop on Scientific Applications of Cluster Computing, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science 2003 (ICCS 2003), which will be organised June 2-4, 2003 in Melbourne, Australia, has issued a Call for Papers. Submission deadline is December 24, 2002. |
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| | NPACI to showcase big data, big grids, big results, and new communities at SC2002 Conference
The National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) is emphasising "big" in a research exhibit and related demonstrations at SC2002, this year's edition of the world's largest annual high-performance networking and computing conference. Visitors to
the NPACI exhibit booth will have not only a chance to explore supercomputing technology and the breakthrough science it makes possible, but they also are invited to participate in the community that makes up NPACI, which includes 41 partner institutions in 17 states, and Australia, Italy, Spain, and Sweden.
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| | First Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Workshop
On October 10 and 11, the Leibniz Computer Center in Munich, belonging to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, which operates the Höchstleistungsrechner Bavaria (HLRB), organised the First Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Result and Reviewing Workshop in the Technical University of Munich, Campus Area Garching. In 32 talks in different application areas the users of the HLRB and participants of KONWIHR, the Competence Network for Technical-scientific Hoch- and Höchstleistungsrechnen (high- and highest-performance computing) in Bavaria, projects presented their final or preliminary results. Additionally the projects and usage was reviewed by a scientific board.
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| | 4 TeraFlop/s HLRN Inauguration
On November 13, HLRN (Hochleistungsrechenzentrum Nord) opened its official services with the inauguration by Thomas Opperman, Minister for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Thomas Flierl, Senator for Science, Research and Culture of Berlin, and Erwin Staudt, COO, IBM Germany. With its aggregated peak performance of nearly four TeraFlop/s, it is the fastest in Germany, although the computers at the different sites are listed in the actual Top500 list. |
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| | Block lecture Scientific Supercomputing
The University of Karlsruhe organises a Block lecture on Scientific Supercomputing which will be held 17-21 February, 2003. |
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| | Deadline extended in Call for Papers for IPDPS workshop on Massively Parallel Processing
The Third Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing, to be held in Nice, France, on April 26, 2003, has extended the deadline for paper submission to November 18, 2002. This workshop is part of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003). |
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| | EuroPAR 2003 issues Call for Papers
Euro-Par is the annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The conference will be held in Klagenfurt, Austria, August 26-29, 2003. Deadline for paper submission is February 9, 2003.
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| | Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'03)
The Sixth International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'03), held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) which will be organised April 22-26, 2003, in Nice, France has extended its paper submission deadline to December 5, 2002. |
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| | DARES Workshop issues Call for Papers
The International DARES Workshop on "Distributed Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems" will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, USA; May 19-22, 2002. The deadline for paper submission is November 20, 2002.
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| | ECMWF Workshop on Meteorology - Realising Teracomputing
"... one flap of a sea-gull's wing may forever change the future course of the weather" (Lorenz, 1963)
About 150 meteorology experts, computer practitioners and vendor representatives, spent a week exchanging experiences about the latest results in meteorology and the infrastructure which goes with it. This excellent relatively small and friendly workshop provided a forum for the crème-de-la-crème of HPC users. What followed was a tour de force in meteorological and computing techniques by active practitioners striving to maximise the latest HPC technology to refine and improve their weather forecasting models. They presented today's practical reality, followed by their aspiration and vision for realising Teracomputing and beyond. To give some idea, there were over 50 presentations given by experts from major meteorological centres from the USA, Europe, Japan, Australia and China plus several from HPC vendors (Cray, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC and SGI). Friday was devoted to a brain storming debate, hoping to identify solutions to the many pressing needs, of this ever increasing in importance field of science.
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| | Grid Visualisation advances membrane protein research at Henri Poincaré University
The Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry Group at the Henri Poincaré University in Nancy, France, has become the first visualisation services client of the National Higher Education Computing Center (CINES) supercomputing facility at the University of Montpellier in southern France. The centre is newly equipped with a 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 server and an eight-processor Silicon Graphics Onyx2 visualisation system with four InfiniteReality2 subsystems.
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| | Energised heartbeats may explain why galaxies are continually stirred up according to UCSD research
Until now, astronomers haven't been able to offer a full explanation for why the Milky Way and other galaxies produce new stars at a relative snail's pace. While they have known for decades that high turbulence keeps huge clouds of hydrogen gas from condensing into stars, they haven't identified all the causes of the galactic perturbations. In a report to be published in the November 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a well-known, but overlooked source of heating - regular outbursts of ultraviolet radiation from clusters of very large, bright stars - may play a significant role in keeping the Milky Way's gas continually stirred up.
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| | Cray sells cluster system to Ford
Ford Motor Company has purchased a Linux-based cluster from Cray with 192 processors. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ford engineers will use this supercomputer at its Dearborn, Michigan, data centre for vehicle safety simulations in order to improve vehicle performance. Vehicle simulation is a well-established engineering design tool in the Ford development process.
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| | Public scrutiny time for new Fortran Standard
The British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group hosted an excellent one day Forum to explain the proposed new ISO Fortran standard and solicit public comments. Speakers included John Reid, ISO WG5 Convenor; Malcolm Cohen, Numerical Algorithms Group; and Steve Morgan, from Liverpool University, who are participating in WG5 deliberations. Although, the standardisation process is driven by WG5, the technical development is subcontracted to J3 a Fortran committee of ANSI, USA.
(Chris Lazou)
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| | Workshop on Managed Run Time Workloads
A one -day workshop, held March 2003 in San Francisco, will focus on characterizing these differences, and understanding the implications for system design, and processor design.
The target audience include processor architects, system architects, compiler writers, performance analysts, and operating system specialists.
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| | SGI's Visual Area Networking used by Statoil to demonstrate remote analysis of seismic data from Norwegian oil field
On September 25, 2002, geoscientists at Statoil, equipped with a standard, off-the-shelf PC, were able to run a fully interactive interpretation session involving large 3D volumetric models of an oil field from a remotely located SGI Reality Center facility. This demonstration, the first of its kind by energy industry leaders, proved the benefits of SGI Visual Area Networking technology, which allows geographically dispersed teams to view and manipulate highly complex graphical data collaboratively using virtually any thin client over standard data networks. |
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| | IRGO software optimises work flow of high-productivity technical computing environments
SGI has made available SGI IRGO HPC work flow optimisation features for the IRIX operating environment to help developers compile and optimise high-productivity solutions for mission-critical and business-critical technical compute environments. IRGO provides tools for run-time optimisation, development optimisation and work flow security, enabling the creation of highly efficient code in a secure environment.
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| | SGI announces key sales wins for first quarter
In its recently completed first quarter for fiscal year 2003, SGI posted several key sales wins, saw its government and defense sector grow to a third of its total business, launched its new-generation InfiniteReality4 graphics for SGI Onyx family visualisation systems, and began generating excitement for its upcoming expansion of the SGI 3000 series and a system based on Intel Itanium 2 processors and SGI NUMAflex architecture running the Linux operating system. |
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| | CombineNet announces software license and service agreement with Procter & Gamble
CombineNet has signed a software license and service agreement with Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble (P&G). Although the specific terms and conditions of the transaction have not been disclosed, both parties offered that the deal involves a number of events over an extended term. CombineNet will provide P&G access to its flagship combinatorial optimisation product, ClearBox, as well as consulting services for the company's global sourcing of direct and indirect materials and transportation, with possible applications across its supply chain on planning and sourcing problems.
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| | SGI Origin 3800 at Mazda
SGI Japan has completed the implementation of an SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer for Mazda Motor Corporation. Mazda is using the machine to enhance computer-aided
engineering (CAE) capabilities for fluid dynamics and structure analysis
related to engine design and development. |
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| | CGG passes 15-Tflop/s mark with over 10,000 CPUs of PC cluster worldwide
CGG's worldwide network of seismic data processing centres has passed the 10,000 CPU mark and offers an overall computer capacity of over 15 Tflop/s. This huge increase in computing power, following the recent installation of an additional 1536 CPUs in Houston, 1088 CPUs in London and 320 CPUs in Kuala Lumpur, is necessary to support the worldwide commercial success of A+ (CGG's anisotropic Kirchhoff pre-stack time and depth migration services) and the recent launch of WaveVistaTM (CGG's no-compromise shot-domain wave-equation migration).
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| | Inauguration of new supercomputer for scientific use in Finland
A new IBM supercomputer was inaugurated at CSC on Tuesday, November 5th. The system is indisputably the most powerful in the Nordic countries, the second most powerful computer for academic use in Europe, and globally it ranks 33rd. The high-performance computer can compute 2.2 teraflop/s, or
in other words, more than two thousand billion calculations per second.
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| | Cray X1 - Vector alternative to IBM P4 in HPC
The Cray X1 supercomputer system was announced on 14 November. This heralds the rebirth of parallel vector processors (PVPs) made in the USA. This is a very significant announcement as it provides a new path away from the monoculture cul de sac, in which the ASCI programme has pushed the U.S. scientific community in the last few years. (Chris Lazou) |
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| | Cray X1 systems for the Army HPC research centre
Network Computing Services (NCSI) has completed the installation and acceptance of two Cray X1 supercomputer systems. NCSI is the Support Infrastructure contractor for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC). The systems will be used to support the activities of the AHPCRC and, through the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernisation Programme (HPCMP), the larger defense science and technology community. The new CRAY X1 systems are installed in the NCSI Minneapolis Operations Center. |
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| | Cray to win $8.4 million order for X1 supercomputer from Spain's National Institute of Meteorology
Cray has won a multi-year order, valued at about $8.4 million, for a Cray X1 supercomputer system from Spain's National Institute of Meteorology (INM). The order includes an interim Cray SV1 system. The Cray X1 system is scheduled to be installed in INM's Madrid facility in mid-2003 and to be expanded in early 2005, according to Cray officials. It will be used for weather forecasting and climate modelling. At its final size, the system will increase INM's computing capacity by a factor of 225.
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| | Cray selects Samsung for supercomputer memory needs
Cray has selected Samsung Semiconductor's RDRAM technology for the Cray X1 supercomputer. |
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| | NERSC to offer 10 Teraflop/s system by early 2003
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center will double the size of NERSC's 3,328-processor RS/6000 SP supercomputer, creating a machine with a peak speed of 10 teraflop/s. |
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| | Cray X1 System will help advance frontiers of science and engineering
Cray has officially launched the Cray X1 system. The new product is available with up to 52.4 Tflop/s of peak computing power and 65.5 terabytes of memory. U.S. list pricing starts at about $2.5 million. |
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| | Cray to use Adic Stornext File System as SAN foundation for new X1 supercomputer
Cray will deliver Advanced Digital Information Corporation's StorNext File System as the primary SAN file system in its new Cray X1 supercomputer. The file system, which is being made available through a long-term source license agreement, will be configured for Cray's UNICOS operating system and will be delivered with every Cray X1 system. |
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| | Cray contracts with Iowa State University to test software for Cray X1 system
Cray and Iowa State University in the US have signed an agreement for Iowa State to test software products developed by the company for its new Cray X1 supercomputer.
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| | Half a Tflop/s in a single frame
IBM introduced a new Itanium based eServer that packs up to 128 POWER4 rocessors per frame, is available in four or eight processor building blocks and has a peak performance of half a Tflop/s. |
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| | IBM VM/VSE Users Conference in Jena and the Baby Mainframe
End of September Guide Share Europe, the IBM users group, held its VM/VSE autumn conference in Jena. One of the main topics was the Enterprise Application Integration of heterogeneous systems. Another focus was Linux on the mainframe and the resulting server consolidation. This week IBM announced a new "Baby" Mainframe for small and medium enterprises, one processor runs a mainframe operating system, the other only Linux. (Uwe Harms)
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| | DataDirect demonstrates SwiftCluster storage technology
DataDirect Networks is demonstrating its SwiftCluster clustering framework at SC 2002. SwiftCluster is a technological breakthrough which combines DataDirect's S2A8000 parallel block level storage controller, its scalable serial PCI I/O node interface, Direct Memory Access optimized protocol layer, all tying into a highly efficient parallel file system, to create a blueprint for the future of clustering. |
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| | Sun accelerates UltraSPARC processor design programme with new Burlington compute ranch
Sun Microsystems opened a new processor design compute ranch at the company's Burlington, Massachusetts campus. The new compute ranch joins a national network of facilities in Sunnyvale, California and Austin, Texas that consist of over 7500 UltraSPARC processor nodes operating at a sustained 98 percent utilisation rate 24 hours a day. In addition to helping Sun bring new processors to market, the ranch infrastructure acts as a proving ground for advanced grid and virtualised "N1"-style computing technologies.
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| | New SGI high-productivity, high-density system makes supercomputing more deployable
SGI has launched the SGI Origin 3900 server, the newest model of the SGI Origin 3000 supercomputer family that packs four times the computational density of previous configurations into a single industry-standard rack. |
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| | Nexcom's Intel Xeon-based blade server from Taiwan
Nexcom has launched its product HiServer 420, an Intel Xeon-based blade server for use in high performance computing, dynamic Web page delivering, streaming video service, and terminal server farm.
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| | Sun One application server 7
Sun has released two new editions of the Sun ONE Application Server 7. The product is now tightly integrated with the new Sun ONE Studio for Java, Enterprise Edition 4.1 set of Web services tools. |
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| | New IBM servers based on latest Intel Xeon processors
The company demonstrated the scalability of the new IBM x440 models by achieving industry-leading performance for four-way 32-bit Intel-based servers and price/performance for eight-way systems on the TPC-C benchmark.
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| | IBM share of server market grows
IBM's share of worldwide server revenue grew 2.1 points in the third quarter of 2002 compared with the third quarter of 2001 according to the just-released Gartner Dataquest Worldwide server quarterly statistics. |
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| | NEC Solutions America introduces its Express5800/1000 server series brand at SC2002
NEC Solutions America Inc., a provider of business solutions and services for the high-end commercial and technical markets in North America, has unveiled a new brand name in North America for its 64-bit, Intel Itanium 2-based computer systems, the Express5800/1000 series, previously known as the TX7 series. Leveraging pioneering technology from its SX series supercomputers and mainframe systems, the new Express5800/1000 series continues NEC Solutions America's relentless drive to provide technology solutions that offer breakthrough levels of performance, reliability and scalability.
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| | EDAG Engineering + Design AG to implement Teraport Linux cluster solution
Teraport GmbH has developed and installed an efficient and high performance Linux cluster environment in CAE reach at EDAG Engineering + Design AG. At the automotive industry Engineering-Partner EDAG headquartered in Fulda, ten Linux clusters totalling 170 CPUs, more than 13 TByte of storage and over 180 GByte RAM are operating successfully at present. The cluster environment has been distributed between two locations with the aim for worldwide expansion.
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| | Swedish National Supercomputer Centre builds 200 node supercomputer
The
Swedish National Supercomputer Centre (NSC), located at Linkoping University,
Sweden, has built a new cluster named "Monolith." At 200 nodes, it is the
largest supercomputer in Sweden. Each node features two Intel Xeon
processors at 2.2 GHz and is interconnected with the WulfKit3 system
provided by Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. The system ranks 51st on the 20th
Top 500 Supercomputers List announced last Friday and has a measured LinPack
performance of 960 GFlops. |
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| | Linux NetworX opens European headquarters in Kaiserslautern
Linux NetworX opened its European headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The office, called Linux NetworX GmbH. Recently, Linux NetworX announced a partnership with German-based Fraunhofer-ITWM to include the establishment of the Linux NetworX Research Lab. |
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| | Mainline Information Systems and Sistina Software deliver zSeries Linux global file system for mainframes
Sistina Software, a storage infrastructure software company delivering data-sharing solutions, and Mainline Information Systems Inc., an IBM Premier Business Partner and solutions provider, have signed an alliance that will deliver the industry's first, most advanced, Linux-based data-sharing solution for the IBM S/390 and zSeries platforms. |
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| | SuSE Linux develops Linux desktops for enterprises
Starting January 2003, small and medium-scale enterprises will be able to migrate to
Linux on desktops using the "SuSE Linux Office Desktop". "SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop", a Linux version optimised for desktop deployment in large-scale enterprises, is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2003. |
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| | Next generation oSuSE Linux enterprise server
SuSE Linux has launched the next generation of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Based on the joint industry standard, UnitedLinux 1.0, SuSE Enterprise Server 8 delivers increased security, scalability, reliability, standard-compliance, software maintenance, and support.
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server validated for running the latest version of IBM DB2 database software
The SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) has proved itself as a powerful Linux platform for IBM's
DB2 Version 8 database software with SLES latest certification for DB2. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first distribution to be validated on all hardware platforms supported by DB2 for Linux including IBM zSeries mainframes, and validated to run DB2 Enterprise Server Edition. |
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| | Linux NetworX expands into Asia
Linux NetworX plans to open Linux NetworX Asia, a joint venture with Japan-based Best Systems, with an expected launch of Dec. 2002. Best Systems is a supplier of high performance computing solutions to the scientific research community in Japan, and has been a leading reseller of Linux NetworX solutions since 1998. |
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| | Terra Soft installs 30 node parallel Apple Xserver
Terra Soft installed a 30-node Xserve cluster running
Yellow Dog Linux and Black Lab at the University of Colorado.
The cluster, underwritten by a grant from the National Science
Foundation, is housed in the Department of Biology, and will assist
researchers who are interested in understanding the biophysics of
computation in neural dendrites. |
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| | Linux NetworX announces life sciences cluster optimised with bio tech software
Linux NetworX has made available its Evolocity Life Sciences Cluster, a system designed specifically for bioinformatic and genomic researchers. This ready-to-run system combines the benefits of a Linux NetworX cluster configuration with popular life science applications such as BLAST, HMMer, ClustalW, Amber, Gaussian, and Sort.
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| | UnitedLinux releases Version 1.0
The UnitedLinux group has released Version 1.0 of its UnitedLinux product, a standards-based Linux operating system targeted at the business user. UnitedLinux is the result of an industry initiative to streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux. Founding companies of UnitedLinux are Conectiva S.A., The SCO Group, SuSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux Inc. UnitedLinux Version 1.0 is the engine that powers products to be sold by the four companies, each with its own local language support, value-add features, and pricing. |
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| | UnitedLinux counts over 15,000 downloads of beta in first month
From its initial availability on September 23, over 15,000 downloads of the UnitedLinux beta release were initiated, the UnitedLinux group reported today. This figure translates to more than 500 downloads per day - an impressively high rate. UnitedLinux is a standards-based Linux operating system targeted at the business user, the result of an industry initiative to streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux. UnitedLinux
founding companies are Linux industry leaders Conectiva S.A., The SCO Group, SuSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux, Inc. |
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| | Linux NetworX doubles density of its award-winning Evolocity cluster
At the SC2002 trade show next week in Baltimore, Linux NetworX will unveil Evolocity II (E2), its next generation cluster design with 0.8U nodes, which allows 100 CPUs to fit into a standard 42U rack - a 20 percent density improvement over 1U nodes. While E2 is being officially launched at SC2002, Linux NetworX has already implemented the technology when it delivered the world's fastest Linux cluster supercomputer to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in October 2002. |
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| | ViPr ushers in era of virtual presence communications
Marconi introduced ViPr, a new network appliance that enables
military and government personnel to create secure, high resolution, real-time,
multimedia communications between geographically dispersed locations, even over
high-speed encrypted circuits. Delivering a new level of DVD-quality video and
CD-sharp sound for point-to-multi-point desktop communications, ViPr turns the
vision of virtual presence into an every-day tool for better executive
decision-making. |
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- The Grid |
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| | University of Texas at Dallas to join Italian research project on grid computing and high-speed networking
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has been selected to join a consortium of university and government researchers in Italy studying grid computing and high-speed networking. The project is the first substantive manifestation of an agreement concluded last February between UTD and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, a university in Pisa, Italy. The agreement provides for joint research on advanced telecommunications networks and an exchange of faculty members and students of the two institutions. |
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| | Grid computing for financial institutions
Grid computing is strong in scientific and engineering markets. This originates from the time when supercomputing and metacomputing were focusing on that area. Financial applications, although many of them are also parallel in nature, were not addressed that much because of different operating systems and different programming languages used. With clusters of Linux computers that all has changed. And now, a company like Datasynapse starts with its non-stop distributed software called LiveCluster in the financial market, targeting banks as its first customers. With a first sales to Abbey National Treasury Services plc, part of the Abbey National Group - the sixth largest banking group in the UK, US-based Datasynapse has now also entered the European market.
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| | HP and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center form Grid alliance
HP and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have formed a strategic alliance to demonstrate the potential of the National Science Foundation's extensible TeraGrid. HP will add a cluster of HP Itanium 2-based systems running Linux to PSC's computing environment, and PSC will participate in HP's worldwide grid programme. PSC also will join the Gelato Federation, an HP-sponsored worldwide consortium focused on enabling open source Linux-based Itanium computing solutions. Membership in Gelato is awaiting approval from the organisation's council.
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| | Sun selects Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as centre of excellence
Sun Microsystems selected Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) in New Generation Networks, Grids and Portals. Through the centre's development of a scientific research portal, an environment that provides access to computational services using advanced grid infrastructure, researchers will be able to seamlessly access the high performance computing environment (HPCE), and focus on scientific problems rather than computational operations. The benefits of the scientific research can be applied to a wider range of business partners and government applications such as distributed storage, back-up and recovery applications, developmental testbed environments for benchmarking new applications, security capability testing and resource sharing across enterprises. |
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| | NRC-CBR first Sun Grid Center of Excellence in Atlantic Canada
Sun Microsystems and Canada's National Research Council (NRC) have selected NRC's Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (CBR) as a Sun Center of Excellence in Distributed Bioinformatics. The two organisations are collaborating to create a grid computing network powered and managed by Sun technology for the Canadian bioinformatics research community. The new grid computing network builds upon NRC-CBR's initial acquisition of Sun hardware and software for its intranet, unveiled in 1997.
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| | NCSA in the USA to install 2 Tflop/s supercomputer
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA will deploy a new 2 Tflop/s supercomputer to study a wide range of science and engineering problems, including structural mechanics, computational chemistry, and fluid dynamics. The machine will be part of Teragrid.
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| | Evotec OAI agrees Entropia DCGrid delivers more cost-effective computing power
Evotec OAI AG, a partner for integrated high-value-added drug discovery to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has deployed Entropia¿?s DCGrid for additional compute power in lieu of purchasing a more costly high performance computing solution. DCGrid is a powerful and cost-effective PC grid computing platform that provides high performance computing capabilities by aggregating the unused processing cycles from networks of existing Windows-based PCs. |
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| | Sistina's GFS file system is a Grid enabler
In Primeur/EnterTheGrid magazine, we report a lot about fast machines and applications in the Tflop/s range. What gets less attention is storage, and software storage. Nevertheless it is the storage that holds the data to be processed and it is the storage that takes back the results. Access to Tbytes and even Pbytes of data is not uncommon today. Managing storage is, however, not easy. Often one finds that just the acquisition of a storage array is not where it ends. One can easily spend as much as 6 times the acquisition amount on people who manage the storage over a three year period. Real global seamless storage management on the Grid is not feasible yet. There are projects, for instance the EU funded DataGrid project, that try to tackle these big problems. For companies that are doing Grid computing on an enterprise scale, mainly cluster computing, a cluster file system manageable from a single point, already simplifies "Enterprise Grid" management. One of the companies that provide a cluster file system is Sistina, that recently released GFS 5.1, the latest version of their Global File System.
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| | C-DAC to unveil new Indian supercomputer
The Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is launching its first one Tflop/s supercomputing machine in Pune for providing high-speed connectivity to public and private sector companies, besides R&D centres and the academia across the country. India will launch the One-Tflop/s supercomputer on December 16 and establish an Information-Grid. |
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| | GridSystems solutions available for commercial customers at IBM Design Centre for e-business on demand
GridSystems has made its software available now at IBM Design Centre for e-business on demand in Montpellier, France. At the Centre, GridSystems will showcase its InnerGrid solution, software for the creation of compute grids, to a wide range of European customers. |
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| | Entropia releases DCGrid 5.1
Entropia introduced DCGrid 5.1, a PC grid computing platform.DCGrid 5.1 optimizes application performance, providing advanced resource sharing, automation, and enhanced grid management capabilities. |
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| | PricewaterhouseCoopers Forecast highlights emerging patterns of Internet and Grid computing
PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued "Technology Forecast: 2002-2004, Volume 2: Emerging Patterns of Internet Computing", a publication that highlights advances in computing and communications technologies that are occurring in response to the increasing demands of enterprise computing and use of the Internet. The book focuses on major trends in information technology (IT) infrastructure that are expected over the next three years. The Forecast also discusses longer-term trends whereby the Internet will eventually emerge as a global networked computing utility, replacing computing as we know it today.
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| | TACC and Platform to develop web-based grid portals
Platform Computing
and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at
Austin announced that they will collaborate on research and development of
next-generation software technologies for Grid computing |
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| | Two new systems with Dolphin WulfKits in the TOP500
The 20th Top 500
Supercomputers list,
includes two new supercluster systems built with the Dolphin WulfKit high-speed
interconnect. The systems, ranking 51 and 302, are installed at Linkoping
University, Sweden, and Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, respectively. |
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| | University of Bufallo adds 300-node Dell cluster - number 22 on TOP500 list
The University at Buffalo has added a 300-node Dell
high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) to its Center for Computational
Research (CCR). The new supercomputing cluster at the University at Buffalo is the
highest-ranking Dell system on the TOP500 list at number 22. |
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| | Chiaro Networks chosen by California Technology Institute to provide routing platform for Optiputer
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2) and Chiaro Networks, the provider of transforming technologies in a high-end routing platform, have announced a partnership supporting development of the "OptIPuter", a next-generation optical networking Grid. Chiaro will supply the high-end platform, Enstara, to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) OptIPuter testbed and become a Cal-(IT)2 industry partner. It joins other institute partners, including IBM, Telcordia Technologies, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), on the OptIPuter initiative. |
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| | How to develop Grid computing applications
According to Gartner, many businesses will be completely transformed over the next decade by using Grid-enabled Web services to integrate across the Internet to share not only applications but also computer power. Liang-Jie Zhang, Jen-Yao Chung, and Qun Zhou from IBM introduce developers to the basic idea of Grid computing and the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). |
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| | Platform partners with Matrix Science to accelerate drug discovery for pharmaceutical companies
Matrix Science, a developer of bioinformatics products and services, has become a Platform Computing technology partner. Matrix Science has integrated Platform's flagship enterprise grid solution Platform LSF with its powerful search engine, Mascot. This technology partnership will accelerate drug discovery for pharmaceutical companies within the emerging life sciences sector of proteomics. |
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| | Platform Computing powers physics research for Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a world-class scientific research facility, has increased the size of its Platform LSF deployment to 1600 CPUs. With a new high performance, Grid-enabled architecture, LSF 5 is the foundation of Platform's Grid computing solutions, empowering enterprises to harness the untapped processing power of globally distributed, heterogeneous computing resources.
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| | Texas Tech University on Avaki
Texas Tech University has chosen AVAKI's grid technology to exploit existing computing resources across its research departments with initial applications in physics and chemistry. |
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| | San Diego supercomputer center reaches 40 Gbit/s data transfer milestone
Movies and popular music are moving from tape to disk, but tape is still
on a roll at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University
of California, San Diego. The center's huge, updated tape storage system
has illustrated its effectiveness by transferring data at 828 megabytes
per second. |
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| | A company Grid of 1600 CPU's at brookhaven
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a world-class scientific research facility, has increased the size of its Platform LSF deployment to 1,600 CPUs. With a new high performance, Grid-enabled architecture, LSF 5 is the foundation of Platform's Grid computing solutions, empowering enterprises to harness the untapped processing power of globally distributed, heterogeneous computing resources. |
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| | Scientists to demonstrate TeraGrid at SC2002 in Baltimore
The five partners in the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project will use SC2002 to demonstrate a variety of applications on a prototype TeraGrid infrastructure. The demonstrations will showcase applications that are poised to take advantage of the computational capability of the TeraGrid, which will be deployed in 2003 as the world's largest, fastest, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research.
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| | SGI did showcase Grid applications at SC2002
SGI did present at SC2002 several demonstrations of scientific problems involving very large data sets using grid-based computation and visualization, including Virtual Surgery at the University of Manchester, applications on Canarie in Canada and distributed visualisation at the University of Utah. |
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| | SUN Cluster Tools integrated with GridEngine
Sun Microsystems announced the early access
program for the beta release of Sun HPC ClusterTools5 software.
Designed specifically for compute-intensive, high-performance,
technical computing environments, Sun's HPC ClusterTools 5
software provides a tightly integrated toolset to manage a workload of
resource-intensive applications and delivers an end-to-end software
development environment for parallel distributed applications. |
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| | Platform enhances its HPC tools
Platform Computing announced several additions to its High Performance Computing (HPC) software solutions, including Maui scheduler support and enhanced runtime support for parallel applications. |
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| | Sun makes the Grid work at Supercomputing 2002
At this year's Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore, Sun Microsystems showcased its leadership in grid computing, featuring demonstrations of cluster, enterprise and global grids accessed via Sun ONE Grid Engine software. Sun ONE Grid Engine software continues to be vastly successful in technical computing environments, and today powers more than 6000 grids worldwide, with 70 new grid deployments each week. |
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| | RackSaver demonstrates cluster computers
RackSaver did exhibit its multiple clustered
supercomputing solutions at SC2002. |
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| | Samuel J. Palmisano elected IBM chairman, talks about Grid computing
The IBM board of directors elected Samuel J. Palmisano chairman of the board, effective January 1, 2003. Mr. Palmisano will succeed Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., who will retire from the company and from the IBM board of directors at the end of this year. In his maiden speech, Palmisano emphasized on-demand computing as big blue's new focus. Grid computing, OGSA are components of this new strategy, the UK eScience project eDiamond as a flagship demonstrator.
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| | Capacity on Demand 2.0 for mid-range Sun systems
Sun introduced Capacity on Demand 2.0, an enhanced "pay-as-you-go" computing option that lowers system acquisition costs while increasing scalability and
flexibility in the data center. SUN customers can now purchase Sun Fire Midframe and high-end systems configured to scale
instantly, simply and in small increments - one processor at a time - when user demands increase. |
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| | More Intel based systems in the TOP500
The TOP500 supercomputer rankings
released at the Supercomputing 2002 conference show an increase in
the number of Intel-based systems being deployed in high-performance computing
(HPC) or supercomputing areas. Today's TOP500 list includes 56
Intel-based systems, versus just two only three years ago. |
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| | 20th Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released
In what has become a much-anticipated event in the world of high-performance computing, the 20th edition of the "TOP500" list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released today (November 15, 2002). The Earth Simulator supercomputer installed earlier this year at the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, is with its Linpack benchmark performance of 35.86 Tflop/s (trillions of calculations per second) retains the number one position. The #2 and #3 positions are held by two new, identical ASCI Q systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory (7.73 Tflop/s each). These systems are built by Hewlett-Packard and based on the AlphaServer SC computer system. |
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| | Number of Tflop/s systems in Europe tripled in six months
The new November 2002 TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers released shows that there are now 176 TOP500 class supercomputers in Europe, compared to 171 six months ago. The HP/Compaq Alpha server at CEA in France is still the fastest machine in Europe, and now on position 7 world-wide. There are 12 systems in Europe with a computing power of over 1 Tflop/s. Six months ago, there were only 4. |
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| | The November 2002 TOP500 in Germany
Germany improved the number of entries in the list from 64 in June to now 71. Additionally, the aggregated Rmax grew by 27% from 20.1 Tflop/s to 25.5 Tflop/s this November. This was caused by several new big machines in research and industry. Some of the new trends are discussed in this article. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | Argonne install 1 Tflop/s cluster
Linux NetworX has delivered a 1 Tflop/s Evolocity II (E2) Linux cluster to the US Argonne National Laboratory. The cluster, named "Jazz" by Argonne, is designed to provide optimum performance for multiple disciplines such as chemistry, physics and reactor engineering and will be used by the entire scientific community at the Lab. |
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| | Sun posts major gains on TOP500
Sun has posted considerable growth on this year's November TOP500 supercomputers list with 88 customer entries, up from 37 on this year's June list. |
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| | HP retains first position in TOP500 supercomputer number of systems ranking
HP again ranks as the no. 1 supercomputing supplier on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. Led by the HP Superdome server and AlphaServer systems, HP has for the second consecutive time more sites in the TOP500 list than any other technology provider. |
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| | IBM number one in supercomputing processing power in TOP500
IBM is the has a total of 93 Tflop/s on the TOP500 List of Supercomputers. This represents more than 31 percent of the total processing power on the list.
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| | U.S. Department of Energy orders 100 Tflop/s systems
At SC2002,US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded IBM a contract valued at $216 to $267 million to build the two fastest supercomputers in the world with a combined peak speed of up to 467 Tflop/s). These two systems will have more combined processing power than the combined power of all 500 machines on the recently announced TOP500 List of Supercomputers.
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| | Linux NetworX supercomputer ranked as fifth fastest in the World
MCR, the cluster supercomputer Linux NetworX built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been ranked as the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world on the TOP500 supercomputing list. The 2304-processor cluster can process 5.7 Tflop/s running the Linpak benchmark, and is the only Linux-based supercomputer to be ranked within the top five. A 361-node cluster Linux NetworX built for Argonne National Laboratory also broke the Tflop/s barrier, capable of 1.6 Tflop/s and is ranked 46th on the TOP500 supercomputing list. The TOP500 lists the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world based on Linpak benchmark results. |
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| | Kerberized Grid Computing
An important goal of the US National Middleware Initiative (NMI) is the integration of Grid research environments with the campus enterprise. One example is KX.509, a client-side tool that extends the widely-used Kerberos campus authentication mechanism for use in Grids. Developed at the University of Michigan, KX.509 has been packaged with the GRIDS Center Software Suite in both NMI releases (NMI-R1 and -R2). Another NMI team, EDIT (Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies) also supports KX.509 separately from the GRIDS suite. It provides a bridge between Kerberos and the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) associated with Grid security. GRIDS Center leaders like Carl Kesselman believe KX.509 can play a crucial role in the adoption of Grids on campuses and in other organizations where Kerberos is used.
(This article, authored by Tom Garritano, Project Manager, the GRIDS Center, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, is reprinted with permisson from "GRIDS Center News Digest #2".) |
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| | Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first U.S. nationwide imaging network
Brain images from hundreds of people with schizophrenia at 10 research sites nationwide will be shared in a first-of-its-kind research project funded with $10.9 million from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The project will create an extensive and unique database of brain information that is expected to expand our understanding of disabling brain illnesses such as schizophrenia and speed the development of new treatments. |
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| | Second release of US National Middleware Initiative released
The US National Science Foundation, through its National Middleware Initiative (NMI), is supporting development of the specially packaged and tested software. The term "middleware" refers to software and services that link two or more unconnected applications across the Internet. NMI's second release became publicly available this week. |
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| | Force10 Networks lands third TeraGrid customer, the California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) of Pasadena is using the Force10 E-Series, the most scalable and highest performing Ethernet switch/routers in the industry, in its grid computing network. The E-Series is connecting the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) to the TeraGrid project, the world's largest supercomputing grid, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Force10 has already won business with the National Center For Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC).
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| | Cross-continent file system simulated
SGI and LightSand demoed instant access to terascale data with the
testing of a high-speed multi-operating system shared filesystem over a wide
area network (WAN). This
capability allows geographically distributed organizations to collaborate and
combine their large-scale, multiplatform computational and storage resources.
It provides immense capability to solve very large and complex problems in
energy, manufacturing, the sciences, and government and defense. |
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| | Lightscape Networks updates Metropolitan Area Network management technology software
Lightscape Networks launched its next generation of network management technology aimed at enabling carriers to effectively manage their networks from the metro access to metro core and regional layers.
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| | Force10 Networks is the Ethernet switch/router of choice for SC2002 bandwidth challengers
Force10 Networks' E-Series chassis with line-rate 10-Gigabit Ethernet performance has been chosen by the majority of Bandwidth Challenge participants to power their entries into this year's
bandwidth contest at SC2002. In addition SCinet, the high-performance network built to support the SC2002 conference and the Bandwidth Challenge, will be using the E-Series to deliver 10GigE connectivity to the participants and test their entries. |
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| | Xilinx delivers fully programmable solution for Sonet backplanes and expands high-speed serial I/O solutions
Xilinx Inc. has made available its complete, ready-to-use solution for SONET based backplanes using the company's flagship Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs. Building on the customer-tested RocketIO multi-gigabit serial transceivers, the solution supports data rates of OC-48, OC-192 and beyond. Xilinx also provided key additions to its high-speed serial I/O design solutions built on leading Virtex-II Pro architecture. |
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| | UTStarcom selects Force10 E-Series
UTStarcom has chosen Force10's and Ixia's equipment to demonstrate high-performance switching in their booth at the PT/Expo, Beijing, China, October 29th through November 2nd. Ixia, a provider
of high-speed, multiport network performance analysis systems, is providing state-of-the-art testing platforms to validate performance of Force10's new E-Series switches, now being OEM'd by UTStarcom. Ixia's sophisticated test bed has been selected by Force10 to accurately verify line rate performance across its 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet platform.
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| | DataDirect to show world's fastest fibre channel FC-2 storage controller at SC2002 Conference
DataDirect Networks will be demonstrating the world's fastest storage controller at SC2002 in Baltimore from November 18 to 21, 2002. DataDirect's S2A8000 Silicon Storage Appliance is a new storage controller device that has been created to allow the deployment of extremely high-performance, easy-to-manage, and highly scalable 24/7/365 storage networking foundations that bring appliance-driven networks up and operational in hours, rather than days or weeks. |
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