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| 18 February 2002 |
EuroFlash no. 495
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The Cross Grid project, with support from the European Commission, has started. Cross grid will develop, implement and exploit new Grid components for interactive compute and data intensive applications. The project, with partners from eleven European countries, will also develop new tools, and install Grid test beds.
KONWIHR, the Kompetenz-Netzwerk für wissenschaftliches Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen in Bayern, and LRZ, the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, organise two supercomputing tutorials. OM March 21, 2002: Cache Based Iterative Algorithms and on March 22, 2002: Algorithms for Parallel Computers.
A new European Commission funded project NOMAD is aimed at the development of technologies to replace the assembly line-based approach to welded fabrication. Simulation and robotics are important techniques used in the project.
The first UK e-Science All-Hands meeting will be held on Monday through Wednesday, September 2-4, 2002, at the Sheffield Hallam Conference Centre.
Saab Aerospace has selected an SGI Onyx 3000 series high-performance graphics system to serve as the image generator for its Presentation and Maneuvering Simulator (PMSIM), a development simulator for human-machine interface in Linkoping, Sweden. The upgrade, worth $2.3 million, will improve the flight experience of pilots during testing and development of the Swedish Gripen fighter aircraft.
SuSE announced the implementation of mySAP.com on "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server", one of the most advanced enterprise Linux computing systems, at the SuSE Nuremberg headquarters. Since the beginning of this year, SuSE Linux uses SAP's enterprise resource planning tool on Compaq hardware for the company's business operations.
REALVIZ released ImageModeler 3, that can be used to create accurate and highly realistic 3D models from photographs. REALVIZ ImageModeler 3 eases the modeling process, with a workflow solution simplifying the complex task of creating 3D models.
Land Rover, part of Ford Motor Company's Premier Automotive Group, has awarded Compaq a contract to supply 18 AlphaServer ES40 systems and two ES45 systems running Tru64 UNIX and to provide ongoing project management, systems administration, and maintenance support. This is part of Land Rover's plan to improve its Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) capability. The servers will be used to run a variety of applications in four key areas of the vehicle design process: crash analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); structures analysis; and Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) analysis. This will dramatically increase efficiency, cut costs and development time as well as improve design quality.
After several meetings of the IDC-convened HPC Forum in the period end 1999 - end 2001 a new benchmark for High Performance Systems was defined and the first results were released during the SC 2001 Conference in Denver in November 2001: the IDC Balanced Rating HPC Benchmark. In this article the usability of this new benchmark is discussed. We conclude it is not very usable. Some suggestions on better benchmarks are given.
Reinforcing its leadership in grid computing and its commitment to provide powerful architectures and tools for the enterprise, Sun Microsystems Inc. has integrated its software platforms for grid computing and services on demand. Leveraging its integratable software stack to provide transparent, Web-enabled access to distributed resource management (DRM) capabilities and the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE), Sun's integrated platform is unmatched in the industry today.
NEC Corporation has received an order for a large-scale blade server system from Global Scientific Information and Computing Center in Tokyo Institute of Technology (GSIC). NEC's blade server system will be used as the platform of GSIC's Grid computing project.
Indiana University has vastly increased capacity for TransPAC, the high-speed international Internet service connecting research and education networks in the Asia Pacific to those in the United States. This will make a vital contribution to continuing and expanding international collaboration between researchers in the United States and those in the Asia Pacific in digitally enabled science, widely called e-science.
With the developments of Web services and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, enterprises have an opportunity to combine those technologies to increase efficiencies, according to Gartner. Gartner analysts have developed an implementation model called the service station, which leverages some of the best features of the new technologies. The service station establishes a model for accessing data through Web services and P2P computing.
SGI has made available faster MIPS R14000A microprocessors for its high-end servers, workstations, and advanced graphics supercomputers. The new 600 MHz processor boosts performance of SGI products by up to 37% percent.
DataSynapse, an emerging provider of high performance distributed applications solutions, and recent recipient of the Risk Waters' "2002 Software of the Year" award, has hired Frank Cicio as Chief Operating Officer.
WMPI is a 1-day workshop on May 25 in Anchorage, Alaskar, that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss advances in computer technology, architecture, software systems, and algorithms that address the growing disparity between memory and CPU/network speeds. Hardware and software techniques that address this performance gap are equally welcomed by the organisers.
Telemate.Nethas its NetSpective WebFilter appliance been chosen to become the Internet access management solution for Alabama Supercomputer Authority (ASA).
According to Gartner Dataquest's Q4 US Server Database Report, Sun remains the number one leader in Unix/Risc units and revenue by a wide margin. Over the past five years, Sun has grown its market position to a solid number one in Unix/Risc systems.
Sun leads the U.S. workstation market with $197 million in revenue and 30 percent marketshare for the total workstation market covering all operating systems, according to Q4CY'01 results reported by analyst firm Gartner Dataquest.
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