| Magazine Issue 25 June 2003 |
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| More participants at ISC2003 supercomputing conference in Heidelberg |
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Despite the crises in the world that have a negative impact on travels, the ISC2003 Supercomputing Conference that started this morning in Heidelberg attracted more participants than last year. Particpation is up to over 400 participants from more than 20 countries. This year, we publish again two PrimeurLive! issues from the event. The one you are currently reading is the first one. The second will be published Friday, June 27th.
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| ALiCE Cluster in operation for 3 years |
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The ALiCE Cluster (Alpha-Linux-Cluster-Engine) in Wuppertal is based on 128 Alpha-processors and runs for 3 years now. Professor Dr. Thomas Lippert is responsible for the operation of this system. The university now plans a new 1024 processor cluster. Primeur discussed the main issues for this cluster, his experiences and where he sees important components like middleware concerning stability and operation.
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| TOP500 supercomputing |
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| Clusters march into TOP3 of the TOP500 supercomputer list |
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Clusters will dominate the TOP500 in two years time, predicts Hans Meuer, one of the compilers of the TOP500 list of the worlds fastest supercomputers at ISC2003 here in Heidelberg at the presentation of today's new TOP500 list. By that time, we also will see a 100 Tflop/s machine, and he is confident from extrapolations from the biannual lists that by the end of the decade we will see a 1 Pflop/s (Petaflop/s) machine.
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| Europe losing ground in the TOP500 |
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With only 155 machines in the TOP500, Europe is losing ground. In the previous list 176 machines were installed in this continent. In the TOP10 only one machine in Europe is left: the HP Alpha server at CEA in France. The second machine in Europe is the UK HPCx machine - an IBM pSeries server. Germany is still Europe's main supercomputer country with 54 machines in the TOP500.
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| A 100 Tflop/s supercomputer for the UK in 2005 |
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At ISC2003 in Heidelberg, Hugh Pilcher-Clayton, Head of High End Computing, of the Research Council EPSRC in the UK, explained the strategy and procurement procedure for the next-generation supercomputer in the UK. The procurement period starts this year, and will lead to a first installation of a 50-100 Tflop/s system in 2005. Procurements take long, too long according to Pilcher-Clayton.
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| The Earth Simulator evaluated after its first year in business |
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The TOP500 number one Earth Simulator has now been up and running for one year. Tetsuya Sato from the Earth Simulator Center at the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center provided the ISC 2003 Conference audience with an overview of what has been accomplished during this time period. It seems obvious that the Earth Simulator has demonstrated a superior performance. So far, the system has not experienced any problems except for the traditional initial troubles which lasted a few months. On top of this, its stability is surprisingly good.
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| Selecting the best suitable HPC architecture for Earth system modelling at ECMWF |
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At the ISC 2003 Conference, Walter Zwieflhofer presented some of the work done at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) and the major role high-performance computing is playing to support researchers to better understand the components of the Earth system as well as the interaction between these components. Which architecture is more suitable for the Earth system modelling programme: is it vectorised or scalar processing?
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| Community Climate System Model to simulate ocean, land and atmospheric models |
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At the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, scientists are working with the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) to simulate climate change on Earth. Warren M. Washington presented some of the ongoing research at the ISC 2003 Conference in Heidelberg.
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| The future of anthropogenetic, historical and evolutive climate change research in Europe |
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Ulrich Cubasch from the Metereology Institute at the Free University of Berlin gave a talk on supercomputing and climate modelling at the Annual SCI 2003 Conference. The audience was provided with an overview of simulation scenarios for anthropogenetic, historic and future climate changes. The speaker also handed solutions for an efficient approach of scientific Earth climate system research in Europe.
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| The Grid |
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| On-line Science the worldwide telescope as a prototype for the new computational science |
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In the keynote talk Jim Gray from Microsoft Research discussed new aspects in handling and analysing data that is held in databases and huge files. He presented the evolution of X-Info, the World Wide Telescope as Archetype and did Data Mining, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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| HPC and Grids in Asia |
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At the Heidelberg Supercomputer Conference, Kahaner, from ATIP in Japan, gave a "virtual presentation" to the audience on HPC in Asia, answering questions over a link to New York. In Asia, in the high-end HPC, the Earth Simulator is the major achievement, that creates new science. But the USA breadth and depth in hardware, software applications, and system integration, will continue to provide leadership. In the "real world" in Asia, below the level of the Earth Simulator, there is significant creation of capacity, software and system integration developing locally in most countries.
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| Company news |
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| SuSE Linux enterprise server selected by Cray for Department of Energy's new "Red Storm" supercomputer |
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SuSE Linux has been chosen by Cray Inc. to drive key aspects of the Department of Energy's new massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer called Red Storm at Sandia National Laboratories. Red Storm is expected to become operational in the late 2004 timeframe and will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD Opteron processors featuring HyperTransport technology in conjunction with Red Storm's high-bandwidth, low-latency internal switching architecture.
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| First 15 nodes of the NEC SX-6 supercomputer installed successfully at UK Met Office in Exeter |
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The first 15 nodes of the NEC SX-6 supercomputer were installed successfully at the Met Office's new HQ site in Exeter. This is part of the new system, bought under a contract signed last year with the NEC Corporation.
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| ClusterVision to install first supercomputer cluster in Europe based on Infiniband technology |
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ClusterVision has received an order from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands for the installation of a 66 processor Linux supercomputer cluster using InfiniBand technology from Fabric Networks. This will be the first public, production-ready cluster in Europe based on InfiniBand technology.
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| Intel, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and HP open Life Sciences Center in the Swiss Biotech Valley |
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Intel Corporation has signed an agreement to collaborate with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and HP on an international life programme to develop next-generation life sciences solutions and help create a common set of tools and expertise fundamental to research in life sciences. Life Sciences is concerned with living systems ranging from genes to proteins, biotechnology to pharmaceuticals, and Agra sciences to bio-defense. Life sciences software solutions such as identifying and understanding all proteins used by an organism, are compute and data-intensive. These highly complex calculations require high-performance computing solutions that handle massive amounts of data using the best technology available.
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