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January 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | SGI settles 1996 US export licensing violation matter
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| Europe
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| | SARA organises annual supercomputer user meeting
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| | International Teletraffic Congress issues Call for Papers
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| | University of Stuttgart organises workshop on iterative equation system solvers and parallelisation
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| Industry
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| | ECMWF Workshop - User experience with NEC SX-6 and IBM P3/4
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| | Pi record calculation on Hitachi super
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| | NCSA's Strategic Applications Programme aims to help researchers
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| | ORAD Hi-Tec System sells 10 DVG render units to Heinz Nixdorf Institute in Paderborn
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| | Sun selects Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a Center of Excellence in biomedical research
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| | IBM and universities expand research horizons
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| | The world's first 10-terabyte Business Intelligence Benchmark result
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| | Fakespace Systems and Mechdyne Corporation announce planned merger
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| | Sun names Taiwan National Cheng Kung University a Center of Excellence for bioinformatics
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| | BioMedSim Conference issues Call for Papers
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| | Brio Software streamlines research data reporting for Cincinnati Children's Hospital
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| | First European User Conference on noise and vibration simulation
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| | Delta Search Labs and Proteome Systems sign agreement
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | SAVE HPC Users Meeting in Bonn St. Augustin
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| | News from Fujitsu Siemens Computers' Linux Cluster hpcLine
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| | Roadmap of Scali and ParTec
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| | Climate problems in big clusters
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| | AMD and Intel Roadmaps
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| | Fraunhofer Research Center Birlinghofen - SCAI
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| | Batch Systems, LSF, openPBS, PBS and GridEngine
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| | Scali announces enhanced functionality in cluster management and high performance communications software
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| | Indian TeraFlop supercomputer ready
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| | Japan sweeps top three Gordon Bell Awards
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| | hpcLine now with new 1U dual Xeon processor nodes
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| | Platform Intelligence improves visibility of distributed enterprise IT assets
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| | AMD announces support from HPC vendors for the upcoming AMD Opteron processor
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab leads international team to win HPC Bandwidth Challenge
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| | ScicomP IBM Scientific System User Group Meeting issues Call for Papers
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| | Transmeta's 1 GHz Crusoe processor enables fast, high density blade server from RLX technologies
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| | HP claims no. 1 position in high performance computing revenues
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| | New IBM supercomputer packs 128 POWER4 processors in a single frame - revisited
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| | HP does well in Unix, Windows, and Linux servers
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| | International Conference on Supercomputing issues Call for Papers
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| | Tech Data U.S. and Sun Microsystems sign distribution agreement
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| Industry
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| | Scali demonstrates record-breaking MPI performance on Itanium 2-based cluster
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| | Linux NetworX and HP to collaborate on Linux cluster supercomputers
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| | Platform simplifies cluster management with $120-CPU entry-level version
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| | German city of Schwäbisch Hall goes entirely Linux
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| Industry
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| | NCF and SARA sign new agreement for the availability of VR facilities and visualisation support
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| | SGI demonstrates flight simulators with Multigen-Paradigm at I/ITSEC 2002
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| | Unicore is an "OGSA safe " integrated Grid platform
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| | More than 50,000 visitors to server that runs Primeur/EnterTheGrid
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| | OpenMolGrid - First European project led by Estonia
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| | The Grid is a fractal - Sophisticated brokerage is needed to glue it together
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| | UK Government announces a further GBP 31.6 million for PPARC's e-Science Programme
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| | HealthGrid organises first conference in Lyon
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| | Sandia "Be There Now" hardware examines huge data sets remotely yet interactively
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| | ClusterVision to focus on delivering HPC clusters
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| | Texas university to use United Devices MetaProcessor Grid software
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| | The Grid gets real with the European DataGrid project delivering stable software
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| | TIGRE project team builds Internet Grid for research and education
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| | Grid Engine Portal available as open source
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| | Gridbus Project releases GridSim 2.0 toolkit at SC 2002
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| | Entropia's PC Grid technology debuts at IBM's European Design Centre for eBusiness on demand
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| | Avaki introduces commercial data grid software for enterprise IT environments
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| | NTT Data chooses United Devices to bring Grid Computing to Japan
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| | Phoenix Technologies launches ServerBIOS 3.5 Grid Edition and announces collaboration with AMD
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| | Alan Blatecky joins San Diego Supercomputer Center as executive director
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| | UK seminar: The Grid in Environmental Systems Modelling
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| | GridMathematica
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| | Platform provides access to LSF source code for user interface commands and first-come-first-serve scheduler
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| | Kontiki announces Grid Delivery Server software for video-on-demand
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| | The UK e-Science Institute unveiled its new Grid training room
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| | Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop
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| | DataSynapse in Montpellier Grid demo centre
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| Industry
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| | Quadrics Top in Top 500 and IDC Rating
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| Networking
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| | Orano and Bell Canada to build one of the world's largest research and education optical networks
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| | California Technology Institute Cal-(IT)2 and UC San Diego to receive $400,000 in technology from Ixia
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| | Munich University of Technology, Foundry Networks, and GE CompuNet win NetworkWorld Technology Award 2002
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January 2003
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| | SGI settles 1996 US export licensing violation matter
SGI has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle
the export licensing issues related to the sale of four deskside computers
in 1996 to a Russian government laboratory. SGI has agreed to acknowledge
two violations of export licensing requirements and pay a fine of $500,000
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| | SARA organises annual supercomputer user meeting
SARA, the Dutch high performance computing centre, is organising its 19th annual supercomputer user meeting on 12 December 2002. SARA offers a varied and interesting programme. Professor Ed Seidel from the NCSA and Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitations-physik in Berlin is presenting this years' key note on how the "Grid" is helping him to perform simulations of colliding black holes. |
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| | International Teletraffic Congress issues Call for Papers
The 18th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) will be organised from 31 August to 5 September 2003 at the Haus am Köllnischen Park in Berlin, Germany. The theme of the Congress is "Providing QoS in Heterogeneous Environments". Deadline for paper submission is December 31, 2002. |
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| | University of Stuttgart organises workshop on iterative equation system solvers and parallelisation
The Supercomputer Center at the University of Stuttgart organises a course on iterative equation system solvers and parallelisation, February 24-28, 2003. The target group addressed by this course is comprised of students and candidate Ph.D.'s in engineering, physics, informatics, mathematics, as well as scientists in application-oriented research institutes and industry. |
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| | ECMWF Workshop - User experience with NEC SX-6 and IBM P3/4
As promised two weeks ago, this article reports on some user experiences with the NEC SX-6 and IBM P3/4, presented at the ECMWF workshop on meteorology.
Presently, two competing computer architectures, namely the NEC SX-6 parallel vector system and the IBM P4 scalar system dominate the weather/climate field. Bill Kramer from NERSC, Don Middleton from NCAR, Glenn Rutledge from NOAA, Wolfgang Sell from DKRZ, and Paul Burton from the UK Met Office were some of the presenters describing their centres' activities and plans using the above two architectures. Most of these centres have contracted for systems with Teraflop/s peak performance, achieving about 300 to 500Gflop/s sustained, but some have contracts with vendors for Teraflop/s sustained, in the 2004/5 timeframe. (Chris Lazou)
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| | Pi record calculation on Hitachi super
A team of researchers at a leading Japanese national university have set a world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places. Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400 hours in September.
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| | NCSA's Strategic Applications Programme aims to help researchers
A new programme at the US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) will help scientists find solutions to their toughest computational problems. The Strategic Applications Programme (SAP), as it is called, also is expected to benefit the larger scientific computing community by solving problems related to scaling, I/O, cache optimisation, porting codes to different platforms, and a wide range of other issues. |
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| | ORAD Hi-Tec System sells 10 DVG render units to Heinz Nixdorf Institute in Paderborn
Orad Hi-Tec Systems, specialised in scalable high performance image generators in the field of visual simulation, has been selected by the Heinz Nixdorf Institute in Paderborn, Germany to provide the ORAD DVG Graphic Cluster Technology to upgrade its Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory. Princess Interactive Software GmbH/Magdeburg, ORAD's Distributor for the Visual Simulation Market in Germany worked closely with the Unity AG/Büren to complete the deal. |
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| | Sun selects Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a Center of Excellence in biomedical research
Building on its commitment to advance academic research through high performance computing technology, Sun Microsystems Inc. has selected Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ) as a Center of Excellence (COE) in Biomedical Research. The National Center of Competence in Research for Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions (NCCR Co-Me), hosted by ETHZ, is utilising Sun's high performance computing systems and graphics solutions to aid in the promotion of a new model for medical interventions and ultimately, patient care. |
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| | IBM and universities expand research horizons
IBM is working to speed cancer research and explore advanced technical applications in "e-education", medicine, bioinformatics and human behaviour through partnerships with more than 130 universities, as part of its expanded, $36 million global university award programme.
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| | The world's first 10-terabyte Business Intelligence Benchmark result
Based on the data warehouse industry standard TPC-H benchmark, IBM set the worldwide record, delivering a 10-terabyte business intelligence performance benchmark. |
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| | Fakespace Systems and Mechdyne Corporation announce planned merger
Fakespace Systems Inc. and Mechdyne Corporation have signed a letter of intent to merge their businesses by the end of the year. |
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| | Sun names Taiwan National Cheng Kung University a Center of Excellence for bioinformatics
Sun Microsystems has awarded the Center for Computational Biology, at Taiwan National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) for Bionformatics.
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| | BioMedSim Conference issues Call for Papers
The Third Conference on Modelling and Simulation in Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
(BioMedSim 2003) will be organised 27-30 May 2003 at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. Deadline for extended abstract submission is December 15, 2002. |
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| | Brio Software streamlines research data reporting for Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has selected Brio Intelligence, a key component of the Brio Performance Suite, as its standard query and reporting solution alongside its Oracle research data repository storing data sourced from more than 20 disparate systems. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a world leader in paediatric research and one of the busiest paediatric facilities in the United States. Researchers there are now relying on Brio and Oracle to help understand how a child's clinical and genomic characteristics influence the outcome of care. |
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| | First European User Conference on noise and vibration simulation
ESI Group's first European Vibro-Acoustic User Conference will take place January 29-30, 2003 at the Bremberg Centrum Hotel in Leuven, Belgium. This conference represents a unique opportunity in Europe for technical exchange between experts of vibro-acoustic simulation. |
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| | Delta Search Labs and Proteome Systems sign agreement
Delta Search Labs and Proteome Systems today announced a Memorandum of Understanding between the two companies to explore commercial opportunities at the intersection of computational engineering and proteomics. |
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| | SAVE HPC Users Meeting in Bonn St. Augustin
Twice a year the Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) users group Scientific Computing meets at different users locations. On December 5 and 6 the participants went to Castle Birlinghofen, St. Augustin. The former GMD (German Mathematics Research Centre) now belongs to the Fraunhofer Society. The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) hosted the event. About 50 participants in this busy pre-Christmas time followed the themes: roadmaps of hpcLine, Scali, Partec, AMD and Intel, site reports, cluster cooling, and different batch systems for clusters. In this special several of the topics will be discussed. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | News from Fujitsu Siemens Computers' Linux Cluster hpcLine
Eric Schnepf, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), described the history and the future of the Linux-based IA-32 Intel and AMD cluster. End of December, FSC has delivered orders of 100 clusters with about 3000 processors. Interesting is the distribution in application areas and users. About 70% of the systems and processors are running in industry, the other 30% are installed in academia and research. Further on, Eric Schnepf discussed the hpcLine roadmap. |
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| | Roadmap of Scali and ParTec
Fujitsu Siemens Computers partners with both companies in the field of System Area Networks, they presented new strategies. Scali for example will broaden its base for ScaMPI. Partec will start its ParaStation 4 in the first quarter next year. |
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| | Climate problems in big clusters
In big clusters with lots of nodes, the air cooling can become a problem. As one of the DataGrid Centres, the Research Centre Karlsruhe (RCK) will run into these difficulties. Manfred Alef, RCK, presented a water cooling solution. Robert Gattereder, m + w Zander, discussed an industrial solution. |
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| | AMD and Intel Roadmaps
Again AMD and Intel entered the ring to discuss their approaches in new processor technology. |
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| | Fraunhofer Research Center Birlinghofen - SCAI
Dr. Linden from the well-known HPC Institute SCAI presented their activities. |
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| | Batch Systems, LSF, openPBS, PBS and GridEngine
As batch processing is essential, the organisers presented talks which covered the spectrum. |
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| | Scali announces enhanced functionality in cluster management and high performance communications software
Scali, specialised in high-performance cluster communication and management solutions, has released expanded functionality in version 3.1 of the core Scali Software Platform (SSP). The product enhancements support Scali's strategy to develop solutions that enable customers to leverage high performance clusters that deliver optimised performance with increased system efficiency and reliability.
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| | Indian TeraFlop supercomputer ready
India's most powerful computing platform PARAM Padma, with a peak of 1 Tflop/s, is ready and working. The Union Secretary for Information Technology, Shri. Rajeeva Ratna Shah, has announced this at the inauguration of the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing in the Asia Pacific region (HPC Asia 2002), being held in India for the first time.
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| | Japan sweeps top three Gordon Bell Awards
Each year, the Supercomputing event appears to go from strength to strength and SC2002 in Baltimore this November was no exception. Regrettably, I was unable to attend this year, but with over 7,000 participants and over 200 exhibitors, I was redundant to requirement. From reports I received, the HPC community was as usual buzzing with excitement not only about new product announcements from vendors, but more importantly about the many special recognition honours presented at this event. As HPC regulars know, these also include the prestigious Gordon Bell Awards. (Chris Lazou) |
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| | hpcLine now with new 1U dual Xeon processor nodes
Fujitsu Siemens Computers today announced that its successful Linux Cluster series hpcLine can be equipped with 1U dual Xeon 2.8 GHz processor nodes, which use the Intel E7501 chipset with a 533 MHz front-side bus. |
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| | Platform Intelligence improves visibility of distributed enterprise IT assets
Platform Computing has introduced Platform Intelligence, a products that enables IT professionals to understand and pro-actively manage complex distributed IT computing environments. This "IT Analytics" solution provides visibility into the utilisation, performance and value of distributed enterprise-wide IT resources. With this data, organisations can adopt a more flexible IT strategy to ensure consistent service delivery, effective capacity planning, and informed IT investments. |
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| | AMD announces support from HPC vendors for the upcoming AMD Opteron processor
AMD has announced tool and hardware interconnect support for high-performance computers based on the AMD Athlon MP and the upcoming AMD Opteron processors.
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab leads international team to win HPC Bandwidth Challenge
An international team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory achieved their third consecutive victory in the High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge at the SC2002 Conference. An international team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory achieved their third consecutive victory in the High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge at the SC2002 Conference on high-performance networking and computing.
The team won top honors for the Highest Performing Application, moving data at a peak speed of 16.8 Gbit/s which was more than five times higher than the team's record-setting win at the SC2001 conference. |
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| | ScicomP IBM Scientific System User Group Meeting issues Call for Papers
The seventh annual meeting of ScicomP, the IBM Scientific System User Group, will be held March 4-7, 2003 at the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.
The meeting is hosted by the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen. The early registration deadline is February 7, 2003. Abstracts for user and vendor presentations are now being solicited.
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| | Transmeta's 1 GHz Crusoe processor enables fast, high density blade server from RLX technologies
Transmeta Corporation has announced that its energy efficient, 1 GHz Crusoe TM5800 processor extends the RLX Technologies Inc. dense blade product line. The RLX ServerBlade 1000t replaces the RLX ServerBlade 667 and is designed for those customers who want to maintain high density and low total cost of ownership, while increasing processing performance. It offers an exceptional combination of density and performance in the blade server space. |
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| | HP claims no. 1 position in high performance computing revenues
HP again was the revenue leader for High Performance Computing (HPC) servers with 35 percent share of the market, according to market research firm IDC's Technical Computing Quarterly Update for Q3 2002. HP posted the highest revenues in three of the four IDC technical computing market segments with 46 percent in the Technical Capability segment, 62 percent in the Technical Enterprise segment and 27 percent in the Technical Departmental segment. According to IDC, the total HPC market for Q3 was $1 billion.
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| | New IBM supercomputer packs 128 POWER4 processors in a single frame - revisited
In last week's Primeur Weekly issue, there was a slight mistake in the article "Half a Tflop/s in a single frame". Here is the correct version.
IBM has released an ultra dense UNIX server targeted at the High Performance Computing market that is capable of reaching half a trillion operations per second in a single frame in peak processing power. The new eServer packs up to 128 POWER4 processors per frame and is available in four or eight processor building blocks. |
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| | HP does well in Unix, Windows, and Linux servers
HP says it has has taken the no. 1 position in total worldwide UNIX server revenue and has maintained the no. 1 position in Standard Intel Architecture Servers revenue for the third quarter of calendar year 2002, according to figures released today by market research firm IDC. HP also is no.1 in total worldwide server shipments (30.3 percent), shipping more than twice as many servers as IBM. In addition, HP leads the emerging Itanium-based server market with 80 percent of market revenue. |
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| | International Conference on Supercomputing issues Call for Papers
The 17th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2003) will be held June 23-26, 2003 in
San Francisco Bay Area, USA and is sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH. The paper submission deadline is February 10, 2003.
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| | Tech Data U.S. and Sun Microsystems sign distribution agreement
Tech Data Corporation, a worldwide provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services signed a distribution agreement with Sun Microsystems. Tech Data will carry the manufacturer's new LX50 server and StorEdge 3310 SCSI Array, providing U.S. channel partners with an opportunity to sell and support advanced server and storage products in small-to-midsize-business (SMB) markets.
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| | Scali demonstrates record-breaking MPI performance on Itanium 2-based cluster
Scali has announced record-breaking Message Passing Interface (MPI) communication performance by surpassing 385 MBytes per second on a HP Itanium 2-based cluster with the HP Chipset zx1. The Linux cluster was installed in the Advanced Computing Research Laboratory (ACRL) within the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) at the University of Houston by Scali and Brock Computer Applications Inc. (BCAI), a Houston-based HP "Gold" channel partner.
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| | Linux NetworX and HP to collaborate on Linux cluster supercomputers
Linux NetworX is partnering with HP to expand each company's Linux cluster supercomputing solution offering. As part of the agreement, HP will now offer Linux NetworX ClusterWorX software as a cluster supercomputing management tool and Linux NetworX will offer HP Itanium 2-based systems running Linux to customers wanting 64-bit capability for meeting their high-performance technical computing needs. Linux NetworX will continue to offer its turnkey Evolocity Linux cluster solutions. |
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| | Platform simplifies cluster management with $120-CPU entry-level version
Simplifying cluster management, Platform Computing Inc. will offer a GBP 75-CPU, entry-level version of Platform Clusterware for small-scale Linux compute clusters. Platform Clusterware (On-line) can be deployed in a matter of minutes on smaller clusters of up to 64 CPUs running Linux on 32-bit hardware. With Platform Clusterware (On-line), small workgroups, start-up businesses or departments can roll out low-cost industry standards-based clusters faster, reduce operational costs, and improve computing productivity by managing the "cluster as server". |
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| | German city of Schwäbisch Hall goes entirely Linux
The German city of Schwäbisch Hall (population 36,000) will build its IT infrastructure entirely on SuSE Linux - replacing a more costly Windows installation. The town will deploy SuSE Linux on IBM Intel-based servers as well as up to 400 PCs - saving the city an estimated amount of more than one hundred thousand Euro over the Windows installation. |
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| | NCF and SARA sign new agreement for the availability of VR facilities and visualisation support
During the 19th Dutch National Supercomputing User Meeting, held on December 12, 2002 at SARA in Amsterdam, the Foundational National Computing Facilities (NCF) and SARA Computing and Networking Services, signed a new agreement covering Virtual Reality and Visualisation.
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| | SGI demonstrates flight simulators with Multigen-Paradigm at I/ITSEC 2002
SGI demonstrated the highest fidelity and most realistic real-time 3D fast jet and helicopter flight simulations with MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., a provider of real-time 3D visualisation software solutions, at the I/ITSEC trade show Orlando. |
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| | Unicore is an "OGSA safe " integrated Grid platform
The German Unicore plus project has delivered the Unicore 4.0 vertically integrated Grid environment. Unicore 4.0 is an industry-strength platform that has been developed during the past five years with support from the German government. At the final meeting in November 2002 in Bonn, David Snelling, one of the architects of Unicore, showed a road map on how to get Unicore "OGSA compliant". Althought the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a standard under development, David Snelling showed that the basic structure of OGSA and Unicore are very similar. This is remarkable considering that at the time when Unicore was conceived, Grid computing was not in focus. The Unicore software is not as widespread yet as the Globus toolkit. Main reason, in my opinion, is Globus comes from the USA and Unicore does not. Also there is the misconception of Unicore not being "open source". In a number European Commission funded projects, like EuroGrid, Grip and OpenMolGrid, Unicore is used, however, as in the UK project RealityGrid. Apart from the stability and robusteness, the feature that allows to create an application plug-in for Unicore which allows to present the user his usual application environment with Unicore functionality proves useful. |
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| | More than 50,000 visitors to server that runs Primeur/EnterTheGrid
For the first time, the HOISe server that runs Primeur/EnterTheGrid, received more than 50,000 unique visitors in one month. This can be concluded from the November 2002 server statistics. This makes Primeur/EnterTheGrid the largest news source that reports on both HPC and Grid computing in the world. Visitors come from all over the world, including Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Primeur/EnterTheGrid offers a weekly news magazine for subscribers, a free monthly news digest, and EnterTheGrid.com, the largest catalogue on Grid Computing in the world.
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| | OpenMolGrid - First European project led by Estonia
At the Unicore symposium in Bonn, Mati Karelson from the Centre of Strategic Competence (CSC) of the University of Tartu, Estonia, explained the OpenMolGrid project goals. OpenMolGrid is one of the European Commission funded Grid projects. It is the first large scale European project with a project co-ordinator from Estonia. OpenMolGrid will make the OpenMol molecular design package running on the Grid, by creating a seamless interface to the Unicore Grid software. Then it will use the European-wide Grid platform EuroGrid to generate molecular structures with given chemical properties or biological activities. |
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| | The Grid is a fractal - Sophisticated brokerage is needed to glue it together
"The Grid" as such does not exist. There are many small Grids, which sometimes can co-operate, but most of them are not even aware of each other. Hence "The Grid" can be considered as a worldwide conglomerate of small fractions that have dynamics of their own. Eventually, many of them will be connected to each other. One of the tools that are needed for this to happen is a universal brokerage mechanism. A Grid broker can take a request from a user to run, for instance, a computer job, get quotes from Grids and show the user the possibilities. At the Unicore Symposium in Bonn Germany, John Brooke, from the University of Manchester, shared his ideas on the fractal nature of the Grid, the need for brokerage, and the resource broker system that is being developed at the University of Manchester by Jon MacLaren and which is used in, for instance, EuroGrid.
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| | UK Government announces a further GBP 31.6 million for PPARC's e-Science Programme
Following the increased funding for science announced by the government today, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has received a major uplift of GBP 25 million in its baseline budget. In addition PPARC will receive continued investment in its e-science programme, and specific allocations to increase its investment in accelerator R&D, gravitational waves, and planetary exploration. PPARC will also receive funding to implement the recommendations of the Roberts report and to upgrade the infrastructure of its institutes. |
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| | HealthGrid organises first conference in Lyon
The first HealthGrid conference will be held in Lyon, France, on January 16-17, 2003, at the Doua campus. This workshop is co-organised by the European Commission, the French National Insitute for Scientific Research (CNRS) SDV, STIC, and IN2P3 departments, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and EMB net. |
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| | Sandia "Be There Now" hardware examines huge data sets remotely yet interactively
A surgeon in New York who wants the opinion quickly of a specialist in Los Angeles probably would send medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) files as e-mail attachments or make them accessible in Internet drop zones. Unfortunately for patients on operating tables, extremely large files may take a half-hour to transmit and require a very large computer to form images from the complicated data. Additionally, each rotation of the image for better viewing can take minutes to appear. |
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| | ClusterVision to focus on delivering HPC clusters
Cluster computers are now amongst the TOP10 fastest supercomputers in the world as can be seen from the recent TOP500 November 2002 supercomputer list. Not many people did believe cluster computers would be ever ready for real number crunching. Matthijs van Leeuwen and Alex Ninaber did. Hence they left their employer, a main-stream computer company, to set-up ClusterVision 6 months ago. ClusterVision, a Dutch/UK venture, is different, because it focuses on large scale HPC clusters. Preparing for providing systems for the Grid, is the company's division GridVision. |
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| | Texas university to use United Devices MetaProcessor Grid software
The Texas Advanced Computing
Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and United Devices signed a partnership
to establish a campus-scale computing Grid at UT that will
use United Devices' Enterprise MetaProcessor software
for harnessing the under-utilized cycles of computers running either Windows or
Linux operating systems. |
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| | The Grid gets real with the European DataGrid project delivering stable software
The European DataGrid (EDG) project has taken a major step towards making the concept of a worldwide computing Grid a reality. Its latest release of middleware, the software that makes a Grid of computers work together seamlessly, will support production quality Grid computing. Markus Schulz, one of the chief software developers at CERN, explained that this release will take the EDG project from the laboratory bench into the real world. |
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| | TIGRE project team builds Internet Grid for research and education
The Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) project will build a computational grid that integrates computing systems, storage systems and databases, visualisation laboratories and displays, and even instruments and sensors across Texas. TIGRE will enhance the computational capabilities for Texas researchers in academia, government and industry massive computing power and by integrating thisinto a Grid.
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| | Grid Engine Portal available as open source
Sun announced the availability of a new module in the Grid Engine
open source project called the "Grid Engine Portal". The Grid Engine Portal technology
provides easy and secure access to grid resources from any location inside
or outside a firewall via standard web browser interfaces. |
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| | Gridbus Project releases GridSim 2.0 toolkit at SC 2002
The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has released the next-version of Grid simulation software, GridSim 2.0 toolkit, at the recent SC2002 Conference, Baltimore, USA.
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| | Entropia's PC Grid technology debuts at IBM's European Design Centre for eBusiness on demand
Entropia Inc., a provider of PC grid computing solutions, is working with IBM to provide prospective European grid customers with easy access and evaluation of PC grid computing technology through IBM's Design Centre for eBusiness on demand. The Design Centre in Montpellier, France, showcases the latest grid solutions in an easy, convenient, one-stop centre that is designed to allow rapid evaluations via hands-on demonstrations, saving time and effort for enterprises considering grid computing solutions. |
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| | Avaki introduces commercial data grid software for enterprise IT environments
Avaki Corporation has unveiled Avaki Data Grid 3.0, the industry's first Java-based data grid software for commercial enterprise IT environments. Built on J2EE for ease of deployment and integration, Avaki Data Grid 3.0 provides secure, wide-area access to consistent, current data with breakthrough reductions in infrastructure complexity and cost. |
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| | NTT Data chooses United Devices to bring Grid Computing to Japan
United Devices, specialised in secure grid software and service solutions, has signed a partnership with NTT Data Corporation to bring large-scale grid computing to the Japanese market.
Under the agreement, United Devices will combine its MetaProcessor platform with NTT Data's existing expertise in broadband networking to provide a high-performance computing grid to businesses that will benefit from on-demand access to massive compute power.
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| | Phoenix Technologies launches ServerBIOS 3.5 Grid Edition and announces collaboration with AMD
Phoenix Technologies has collaborated with AMD for the Phoenix ServerBIOS 3.5 Grid Edition, a solution for designing and building 32/64-bit brick, blade, and grid-compatible servers. |
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| | Alan Blatecky joins San Diego Supercomputer Center as executive director
Alan Blatecky will join San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) as executive
director. Blatecky currently directs the National Science Foundation's Middleware
Initiative (NMI), a pioneering program that is developing the foundation
for the next generation of information technology and
cyberinfrastructure. |
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| | UK seminar: The Grid in Environmental Systems Modelling
A Grid seminar on December 11th in London,
will focus on innovative Grid technologies and how they can
be applied in environmental systems measurement, modelling and prediction.
Participants will be able to consider how these technologies can lead to business
advantage in their own businesses |
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| | GridMathematica
With the release of gridMathematica, Wolfram
Research offers a complete parallel computing solution for dedicated grids or
clusters. GridMathematica can run on any cluster of
machines, including Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, and requires no more than
TCP/IP connectivity. |
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| | Platform provides access to LSF source code for user interface commands and first-come-first-serve scheduler
Platform Computing will provide access to the source code for user interface commands and the first-come-first-serve scheduler in Platform LSF. This will enable customers to more easily adapt and integrate custom applications to address unique computing requirements. Platform LSF is the foundation of Platform's Enterprise Grid solution, enabling organisations to harness existing hardware resources and optimize IT performance and productivity.
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| | Kontiki announces Grid Delivery Server software for video-on-demand
Kontiki has added new Grid Delivery Server software to
its enterprise software suite, the Kontiki Delivery Management System (DMS). The
DMS enables enterprises to upgrade their existing networks to securely and
automatically deliver corporate video and documents. |
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| | The UK e-Science Institute unveiled its new Grid training room
The UK e-Science Institute unveiled its new Grid training room. The Swanston Training Room as it is called, will be used for
providing workshops on for instance, "Advanced
Java for Web Services" and a Globus 3 tutorial that will be organised early in the New Year. |
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| | Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop
A Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop will be held June 2 - 4 , 2003 in Melbourne, Australia in conjunction with ICCS'2003 - the International Conference on Computational
Science. |
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| | DataSynapse in Montpellier Grid demo centre
DataSynapse joined IBM's European Design Center for eBusiness on Demand in Montpellier, France.
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| | Quadrics Top in Top 500 and IDC Rating
Analysing the Top500 under the perspective of high-end clusters, Quadrics ranks with 3 of the top 5 as the network of choice in high-end computing. These machines use Quadrics QsNet as the system area data network. The same is true with the IDC Balanced Rating Benchmark of Capability Computers from November 2002. Here 5 of the leading 15 systems use Quadrics QsNet, although IDC deleted the second machine of Los Alamos National Lab, as both are identical. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | Orano and Bell Canada to build one of the world's largest research and education optical networks
The Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario (ORANO) and Bell Canada announced a $25 million contract to deliver optical fibre and equipment for the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION), which spans 3,700 kilometres and will link Ontario's major educational institutions and research facilities. |
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| | California Technology Institute Cal-(IT)2 and UC San Diego to receive $400,000 in technology from Ixia
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will use hardware and software provided by Ixia to analyse the performance of a next-generation optical network. The Calabasas, California-based company, a provider of high-speed, multiport network performance analysis and optimisation systems, will donate approximately $400,000 worth of traffic generation and performance testing equipment as part of its partnership with the campus-based California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2). The donation will come from Ixia's University Partners Programme (IxUPP), set up to further advancements in Internet research and development.
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| | Munich University of Technology, Foundry Networks, and GE CompuNet win NetworkWorld Technology Award 2002
Foundry Networks, Munich University of Technology, and the system integrator GE CompuNet have received the NetworkWorld Technology Award for their network design in the university's new mathematics and computer science building. The network solution has been jointly developed by the three partners, and was officially inaugurated on November 14. GE CompuNet will provide technical support and maintenance for Munich University of Technology.
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