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February 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | Technical Session on Computational Finance at ICCSA 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| | SPECTS 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| | Francine Berman appointed to California Council on Science and Technology
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| | PACT 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| | Server Blade Summit issues Call for Participation
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory seeking applicants for post-doctoral fellowship in computational science
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| Europe
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| | The year 2002 in Grid and HPC: from Computenik, hypes and Kites
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| | University of Strathclyde organises ANWIRE Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile & always connected"
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| | European Commission issues First Call for Proposals in Sixth Framework Programme
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| | PPAM 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| Industry
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| | Locus Discovery changes name to Locus Pharmaceuticals
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| | Web services reliability specification published by leading IT vendors
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| | DaimlerChrysler simulates the fluid using Star-CD on an IBM Regatta
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| | HLRS parallel programming workshops Spring 2003
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| | Rochester Institute of Technology collaborates with IBM on genomic research
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| | Nearby Supernova Factory announces 34 supernovae in one year
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| | University of Tokyo deploys Japan's largest genome analysis system based on Sun solution
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| | Advanced visualisation from Fakespace Systems supports U.S. Army research programmes
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| | HP lowers cost of entry-level solutions for SANs and clustering with enhanced modular storage array
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| | SGI boosts price/performance on Fuel visual workstation family up to 25%
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| | Transmeta expands target markets with new Crusoe SE processors for x86, fanless embedded applications
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| | Low cost silicon from Xilinx drives industrial revolution
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| | General Dynamics air defense system better enables forward-deployed operations through SGI
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| | Cerius2 available with three new scientific modules
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| Industry
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| | The "Computenik" from Yokohama
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| | Dolphin SCI 3D WulfKit3 Interconnect at the heart of X-Prime's new high-performance SQL database server
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| | Arctic Region Supercomputing Center signs $16.4 million contract for Cray X1 supercomputer and maintenance
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| | Garry Kasparov beats Deep Junior supercomputer
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| | SPEC HPG releases new benchmark suite based on HPC Applications, MPI and OpenMP
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| | Cray ships first production version of Cray X1 system
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| | $15 million order for Cray X1 supercomputer equipment for Army HPC research center
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| | UK number crunching scientists want real supercomputers
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| | Fujitsu to work with Intel to develop new mission-critical enterprise servers
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| | IBM ASIC technology helps power new Cray supercomputer
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| | Cray files registration statement for public offering of its common stock
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| | Sun reports second quarter results
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| | ESI Group announces PAM-CAST 2002
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| Industry
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| | UnitedLinux to deliver enhanced Linux platform for telecommunications carriers
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| | SuSE Linux Office Desktop brings Microsoft Office to Linux
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| | Powerllel and Egenera to collaborate on high-performance Linux computing
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| | SGI seizes lead in Linux for technical computing
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| | SGI's new Linux servers and superclusters shatter scalability and performance records
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| | IBM delivers new Linux offerings from devices to servers
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| | UnitedLinux adds HP as Technology Partner
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| | New UnitedLinux professional certification programme and software developers programme launched
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| | SGI demonstrates sharing of complex medical images in real time
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| | University of Toronto expands SGI molecular visualisation facility for post-genomic research
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| | Media 100 introduces version 2 844/X Finishing Release, HD technology and real-time Gaussian blurs for 844/X
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| | Mental Images software developers receive Academy Award
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| | VIRTEX-II multimedia development board
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Next steps for the Grid - turning the hype into reality
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| | Globus Toolkit 3.0 delivers grid standards
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| | New European project addresses Grid Resources for Industrial Applications
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| | The Grid needs ontologies - onto-what?
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| | Grid Computing - the IBM View
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| | UNICORE Grid Computing for Research and Science
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| | Grid Computing: Starting for an e-Science
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| | OGSA and Grid Standards
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| | Avaki and Globus to collaborate on OGSI
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| | Data Access and Integration for the Grid now released
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| | Grid and e-utility Computing
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| | The First European Across Grids Conference
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| | EuroPVM/MPI 2003
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| | PGS Data Processing gets supercomputing on demand
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| | Next Global Grid Forum in Japan
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| | GlobusWorld takes Grid computing to another level
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| | HP to demonstrate UDC-Grid connection at GlobusWorld
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| | German and Spanish universities buy Altix clusters
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| | ZetaGrid in the IBM Lab Böblingen
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| | IBM Global Services (IGS) services and offerings today
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| | Sun contributes Grid Engine Portal technology to Open Source Grid Engine Project
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| | Platform software boosts performance of HP's most powerful generation of Alphaserver systems
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| | Friendy Enterprises Grid
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| | GGF7 student scholarships call for application
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| | Engineered Intelligence announces Parallel Programming Contest where battle programmes fight for parallel processors
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| | Sun's take on HP's virtualisation strategy
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| | Promia introduces supercomputer level security manager
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| | Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation on Altix
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| Networking
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| | SDSC researchers find unnecessary traffic saturating a key Internet root server
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| | Successful field trial achieved by Alcatel, Oasis Micro Networks and Sherman & Reilly of new optical micro cabling technology in the US
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February 2003
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| | Technical Session on Computational Finance at ICCSA 2003 issues Call for Papers
The ICCSA 2003 technical session on Computational Finance will address fundamental computational problems arising in the finance industry. Deadline for paper submission is January 31, 2003. The 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2003) will be held May 18-21, 2003 in Montréal, Canada. |
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| | SPECTS 2003 issues Call for Papers
The 2003 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2003) will be organised July 20-24, 2003 in Montréal, Canada. The deadline for paper submission is January 31, 2003. |
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| | Francine Berman appointed to California Council on Science and Technology
Francine Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD and a professor of computer science and engineering at the university, has been appointed a member of the California Council on Science and Technology in the US. Dr. Berman was appointed to a three-year term on the council, a not-for-profit corporation established by the California State Assembly to examine urgent public policy questions relating to science and technology in California, including the state's
competitiveness. |
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| | PACT 2003 issues Call for Papers
The 12th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2003) will be held September 27 - October 1, 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Deadline for paper abstract submission is April 4, 2003. |
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| | Server Blade Summit issues Call for Participation
The upcoming Server Blade Summit is scheduled to take place March 4- 6, 2003 at the Wyndham San Jose. All Blade Server companies will be participating and enhancing their products at this very focused show. |
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory seeking applicants for post-doctoral fellowship in computational science
The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is now accepting applications for the Luis W. Alvarez Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computational Science. The deadline for applications for the coming academic year is Monday, March 3, 2003.
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| | The year 2002 in Grid and HPC: from Computenik, hypes and Kites
The Earth Simulator rocketed into the first position of the TOP500 in June. Cluster computers invaded the TOP10 in November. That were the two main news items in supercomputing in 2002. In Grid computing everyone continued relabling meta-computing, distributed computing, p2p computing and the like into "Grid computing". The waiting for and working on standards was the main development. All major countries like for instance the UK, France and Italy now have national Grid programmes under way. With a record of 35 Gbit/s into one location in Amsterdam during iGrid2002 and a lot of applications running on it, it looks like indeed the network is not the bootleneck for high-end Grid computing anymore: it is the application. (Flying kites that where calculated on different locations over the world and displayed in a Virtual Reality Cave in Amsterdam, showed it is not only eScience and commercial Grid computing that use grid resources, it can also be applied for arts.) Of course, most of use, especially in industrial Grid computing, do not have that type of band width yet. A selection of the articles illustrating the main developments that were published in Primeur/EnterTheGrid in 2002. |
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| | University of Strathclyde organises ANWIRE Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile & always connected"
In conjunction with EPMCC 2003, the University of Strathclyde organises the ANWIRE Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile & always connected" on April 22, 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland. Deadline for paper abstract submission is February 21, 2003. |
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| | European Commission issues First Call for Proposals in Sixth Framework Programme
The European Commission has launched the First Call for Proposals in the new Sixth Framework Programme for indirect RTD actions under the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area".
All proposals in this First Call are due before March 25, 2003. They include the priority thematic area of research "Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health". Grid technology has to wait for the second call. |
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| | PPAM 2003 issues Call for Papers
The Fifth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2003) will be organised September 7-10, 2003 in Czestochowa, Poland. The first day of PPAM 2003 is reserved for tutorials including a Globus Toolkit tutorial. There will be workshops and mini-symposia on
grid computing; algorithms and tools for parallel computing on heterogeneous clusters; and high performance numerical algorithms. The organisation also has planned special sessions on parallel and distributed bioinformatic applications and parallel/distributed/co-operative constraint solving. The deadline for paper submission is April 30, 2003. |
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| | Locus Discovery changes name to Locus Pharmaceuticals
Locus Discovery Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics utilising its proprietary computational technology, has changed its name to Locus Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
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| | Web services reliability specification published by leading IT vendors
A group of leading IT vendors, consisting of Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Sonic Software, and Sun Microsystems, has announced the publication of the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification working draft. By providing a fundamentally more reliable transport infrastructure, WS-Reliability will help accelerate adoption of Web services, making them relevant for an even wider range of enterprise application and integration challenges.
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| | DaimlerChrysler simulates the fluid using Star-CD on an IBM Regatta
The development center of Mercedes Benz PKW at DaimlerChrysler in Sindelfingen added a new IBM p690 turbe (well known as Regatta) to its existing computer power. There are IBM SP2s, one with 16 Power2 and one with 64 Power3 CPUs. They are all used by the Center EP/GF for simulation of the flow around the whole car and are heavily loaded. |
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| | HLRS parallel programming workshops Spring 2003
HLRS will organise several parallel programming workshops during this Spring in Stuttgart and Dresden. The course language is German. All slides and handouts are in English.
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| | Rochester Institute of Technology collaborates with IBM on genomic research
New doors to genetic understanding will open at a remarkable rate in the near future, thanks to upcoming applied research in the field of bioinformatics, say university and industry experts.
Ahead of the curve, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and IBM have launched a collaboration based on RIT bioinformatics expertise and IBM's scientific computer leadership. Toward that end - with the help of an award from IBM's Shared University Research (SUR) programme - RIT is constructing an IBM eServer xSeries Linux Cluster to support a high-performance computing environment for genomic research and development.
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| | Nearby Supernova Factory announces 34 supernovae in one year
The Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), an international collaboration based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has discovered 34 supernovae during the first year of the prototype system's operation - all but two of them in the last four months alone. The announcement was made at the 201st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
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| | University of Tokyo deploys Japan's largest genome analysis system based on Sun solution
The Human Genome Center (HGC), a branch of the Institute of Medical Science of the University of Tokyo, has deployed Sun Fire 15K servers as the basis of its human genome analysis system. Powered by Sun's high-end 64-bit servers, the system went fully operational on January 1, 2003. The University of Tokyo's genome analysis system is the second largest Sun Fire 15K server supercluster in the world.
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| | Advanced visualisation from Fakespace Systems supports U.S. Army research programmes
Fakespace Systems Inc. has delivered a reconfigurable visualisation system as part of an Immersive Environment Simulator, used to study how soldiers use equipment in combat zones, at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The RAVE II visualisation system consists of three detachable, large-scale stereoscopic display units that ARL uses to project realistic imagery of simulated hostile environments. |
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| | HP lowers cost of entry-level solutions for SANs and clustering with enhanced modular storage array
HP has unveiled major enhancements to the HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 that drive down the cost of entry-level storage area network (SAN) solutions and broaden support for customers with heterogeneous server environments. The MSA1000 is a modular, entry-level Fibre Channel storage array that enables companies to easily move from direct-attach storage (DAS) to SANs as the foundation of a company's adaptive infrastructure, increasing a business' ability to quickly and efficiently respond to change.
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| | SGI boosts price/performance on Fuel visual workstation family up to 25%
SGI has launched the Silicon Graphics Fuel visual workstation with a choice of MIPS processor speeds, including the new MIPS R16000 700 MHz processor. The combination of MIPS processor power, aggressive pricing and attractive bundling options delivers a boost in price/performance value of up to 25%. This improvement is based on Silicon Graphics Fuel configurations with increased processor performance at the same price point. |
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| | Transmeta expands target markets with new Crusoe SE processors for x86, fanless embedded applications
Transmeta Corporation has introduced new energy efficient Crusoe Special Embedded (SE) processors targeting a wide range of x86 embedded applications, including industrial automation, scientific instrumentation, retail kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automotive infotainment, process control and home automation systems. Transmeta also announced an Embedded Partners Programme for leading BIOS/firmware companies, embedded operating system companies, and silicon component suppliers committed to supporting customers developing efficient embedded designs based on Crusoe SE processors.
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| | Low cost silicon from Xilinx drives industrial revolution
Motion Engineering Inc. (MEI), a manufacturer of motion control solutions, utilised Xilinx Spartan-IIE FPGAs as a key enabler in the development of SynqNet technology, a high performance motion network designed to dramatically enhance machine performance and reliability. MEI developed the industry-adopted technology based upon Xilinx programmable logic. Xilinx also unveiled its roadmap for the Virtex-II Pro EasyPath solution, an extension of the highly successful Virtex-II Pro FPGA family.
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| | General Dynamics air defense system better enables forward-deployed operations through SGI
SGI and General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a unit of General Dynamics, are working together to produce the U.S. Navy's Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) Capability system powered by SGI computing and visualisation technology to better enable U.S. forces to conduct forward-deployed operations and defense.
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| | Cerius2 available with three new scientific modules
Accelrys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia Inc. has released Cerius2 4.8, the latest version of the modelling and simulation environment for SGI IRIX workstations and other servers including United Devices' grid computing metaprocessors. Three new and innovative scientific application modules are included in this release to address key issues in combinatorial library design, QSAR analysis, and structure-based drug design. |
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| | The "Computenik" from Yokohama
The completion of the Earth Simulator (ES) in Yokohama along with the U.S. American reactions certainly was the outstanding event in 2002. With a Linpack performance of 35.86 Teraflop/s, the ES took over the top position in the 19th and as well the 20th TOP500 list with a not yet seen nearly fivefold distance to the secondary most powerful system in the list.
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| | Dolphin SCI 3D WulfKit3 Interconnect at the heart of X-Prime's new high-performance SQL database server
The newly announced X1 Database Performance Cluster from X Prime Inc. of San Diego, California, offers a robust high-performance cluster-based solution for Microsoft SQL Server databases. The X1 Cluster provides pure linear scalability of database performance up to 1.5 terabytes through the use of patented X-Prime technology and the high-speed WulfKit3 three-dimensional cluster interconnect technology provided by Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. |
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| | Arctic Region Supercomputing Center signs $16.4 million contract for Cray X1 supercomputer and maintenance
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) has signed a $16.4 million order for a 128-processor Cray X1 supercomputer system with peak performance of 1.64 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), along with maintenance for this system and ARSC's existing Cray SV1ex, Cray SX-6, and Cray T3E supercomputers. |
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| | Garry Kasparov beats Deep Junior supercomputer
The First Official World Chess Championship: "Man vs. Machine", sanctioned by F.I.D.E., the Fédération Internationale des échecs has started. The competition sets chess champion Garry Kasparov against the ultimate chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Junior. The game was won by Kasparov.
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| | SPEC HPG releases new benchmark suite based on HPC Applications, MPI and OpenMP
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's High-Performance Group (SPEC HPG) has announced SPEC HPC2002, a new benchmark suite based on high-performance computing (HPC) applications and the MPI and OpenMP standards for parallel processing.
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| | Cray ships first production version of Cray X1 system
Cray Inc. has shipped the first production version of the new Cray X1 supercomputer system at the end of 2002. |
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| | $15 million order for Cray X1 supercomputer equipment for Army HPC research center
Cray announced a $15 million order for Cray X1 supercomputer equipment and maintenance from Network Computing Services Inc. (NCSI), systems integrator and computing facilities manager for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC). |
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| | UK number crunching scientists want real supercomputers
The annual machine evaluation workshop at EPSRC Daresbury Laboratories,
UK 11-12 December 2002 illustrated the year's main general HPC trend:
Cluster computers have got a firm foothold in the upper regions of the
TOP500 list of supercomputers. At Daresbury workshop, new vendors of
clusters, from the UK and abroad, presented their solutions, whilst the
established vendors displayed their own cluster machines. There were
some regrets expressed about this development: Number crunching UK
Scientists in practice need a capability system, but because of the
funding mechanism currently in place they ended up with a capacity
system. (Chris Lazou) |
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| | Fujitsu to work with Intel to develop new mission-critical enterprise servers
Fujitsu Limited and Intel Corporation plan to develop mission-critical enterprise servers for the worldwide computing market. The new Fujitsu systems, which will contain industry-standard Intel processors and run Linux and Windows operating systems, will complement Fujitsu's Unix- and mainframe-based mission-critical enterprise platform offerings. |
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| | IBM ASIC technology helps power new Cray supercomputer
IBM is the sole application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology provider for the new Cray X1 supercomputer, which is now being shipped to customers. The Cray supercomputer contains 800 IBM ASIC chips, designed by Cray exclusively for the X1 and manufactured by IBM. The chips feature gate counts as high as 14.2 million, an average gate count of about 9.5 million, and a total gate count of about 7.5 billion (a gate is a basic logic circuit). |
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| | Cray files registration statement for public offering of its common stock
Cray has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement for a proposed public offering of 6,000,000 shares of common stock from the company and 250,000 shares of common stock from certain selling shareholders. Cray intends to use the net proceeds from its sale of shares for general corporate purposes.
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| | Sun reports second quarter results
Sun Microsystems has reported results for its fiscal second quarter which ended December 29, 2002. Revenues for the second quarter were $2.915 billion, a decline of six percent as compared with $3.108 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2002.
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| | ESI Group announces PAM-CAST 2002
ESI Group, a provider of virtual prototyping and manufacturing solutions, has released PAM-CAST 2002, the industry's most comprehensive casting simulation solution. The new release offers advanced high pressure die casting capabilities, a new interface with thermo-mechanical coupling, and enhanced data exchange with CAD. PAM-CAST 2002 simulates a wide range of processes including gravity die casting, low pressure die casting, semi-solid, and lost foam processes. |
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| | UnitedLinux to deliver enhanced Linux platform for telecommunications carriers
UnitedLinux has announced plans to integrate the full OSDL Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 1.1 feature set for UnitedLinux 1.0, delivering for the first time enhanced abilities to develop and deploy advanced carrier-grade applications in a standardised Linux environment. The CGL features will be available as a Service Pack in the first quarter of 2003. The product as well as supplemental services will be provided through the UnitedLinux partners, Conectiva S.A., The
SCO Group, SuSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux Inc.
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| | SuSE Linux Office Desktop brings Microsoft Office to Linux
SuSE Linux has made available a desktop Linux product that gives users the full functionality of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. SuSE Linux Office Desktop, available January 21, is intended for small companies looking for an easy, preconfigured desktop as well as for personal users with little or no Linux experience. |
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| | Powerllel and Egenera to collaborate on high-performance Linux computing
Powerllel has joined the
Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program, validating Powerllel software for the
Egenera BladeFrame environment. |
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| | SGI seizes lead in Linux for technical computing
SGI announced an optimised Linux software environment that scales to hundreds of Intel Itanium 2 processors, with up to 64 processors in a single Linux node. The company has achieved this feat with an exclusive suite of tools and features designed to maximise performance on the most demanding technical and scientific applications. |
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| | SGI's new Linux servers and superclusters shatter scalability and performance records
SGI has made available the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters for advanced technical computing systems. SGI Altix 3000 systems combine SGI's supercomputing architecture with Intel Itanium 2 processors and the Linux operating system, shattering scalability and performance records. |
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| | IBM delivers new Linux offerings from devices to servers
At LinuxWorld New York, IBM has announced a variety of new offerings that can help companies expand the use of Linux across an e-business infrastructure, making it easier to integrate everything from access devices to servers with hardware, software and services on the open source operating system.
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| | UnitedLinux adds HP as Technology Partner
HP has joined UnitedLinux as a Technology Partner. UnitedLinux is the result of an industry initiative to streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform
distribution of Linux targeted at the business user. The role of Technology Partner includes, among other benefits, participation in the UnitedLinux Technical Advisory Board and its committees, pre-release access to UnitedLinux deliverables, the right to propose enhancements for consideration by the UnitedLinux Technical Steering Committee, and joint marketing activities. |
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| | New UnitedLinux professional certification programme and software developers programme launched
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier professional certification programme for
the Linux community, and UnitedLinux LLC, an industry initiative to streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform distribution, have signed a co-operative agreement to market a UnitedLinux professional certification programme. In addition, UnitedLinux unveiled its software developers programme, the UnitedLinux Developer's Zone. |
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| | SGI demonstrates sharing of complex medical images in real time
The advantages of the SGI OpenGL Vizserver solution for sharing complex medical images in real time and for collaborative decision making across vast distances were the focus of a dramatic interactive SGI demo at the 11th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) Conference, January 22-25.
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| | University of Toronto expands SGI molecular visualisation facility for post-genomic research
The University of Toronto's Molecular Design and Information Technology (MDIT) centre is increasing the computational power of its SGI Onyx 3800 visualisation supercomputer in use for molecular modelling and visualisation by the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy for research in drug design and delivery.
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| | Media 100 introduces version 2 844/X Finishing Release, HD technology and real-time Gaussian blurs for 844/X
Media 100 launched XBLUR for 844/X, providing the first-ever incorporation of real time Gaussian Blur effects in a nonlinear editing system.
Media 100 also introduced The Finishing Release, its Version 2.0 software release for 844/X.
In addition,and HDX Technology, a first-step expansion of its GenesisEngine media processor providing affordable support for HD and SD applications in a single 844/X system. |
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| | Mental Images software developers receive Academy Award
The developers of mental ray have been awarded an Academy Award by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Rendering software is used to "translate" 3D scene data into humanly visible, realistic images and the Academy commended mental ray as "a highly programmable computer-graphics renderer incorporating ray tracing and global illumination to realistically simulate the behaviour of light in computer-generated imagery". The Awards will be presented at a ceremony on March 1, 2003. |
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| | VIRTEX-II multimedia development board
Xilinx announced the availability of the Virtex-II Multimedia development board. The Virtex-II Multimedia development board is designed as a compact platform for developing multimedia applications. |
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| | Next steps for the Grid - turning the hype into reality
The Grid is at a crucial turning point in its development. The enormous progress made to date has largely been driven by the needs of the scientific communities. In order to justify the large amounts of public investment made at national and supra-national levels over the past three years, the Grid must start meeting the needs of all of the communities it seeks to serve. With the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture the Grid developer community has the opportunity to create a Grid services infrastructure which will meet the needs of users from basic scientific research to the financial services sector and beyond. However, while this opportunity clearly exists, it may prove as hard as ever to move from hype to reality.
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| | Globus Toolkit 3.0 delivers grid standards
The Globus Project issued its alpha release of the Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3), a set of open-source software and services. This is the first implementation of emerging standards known as the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA).
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| | New European project addresses Grid Resources for Industrial Applications
The GRIA project will take Grid technology into the real world, enabling industrial users to trade computational resources on a commercial basis to meet their needs more cost effectively. The GRIA consortium is developing business models, processes and semantics to allow resource owners and users to discover each other and negotiate terms for access to high-value resources. GRIA will implement an overall business process to find, procure and utilise resources capable of carrying out these high-value, expert-assisted computations. |
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| | The Grid needs ontologies - onto-what?
The Grid is not only about accessing remote computers, it is as much about accessing remote data in large quantities. But it would be very time consuming to figure out for each database you may need, what is in it, what is the value of the information, where it fits into the whole knowledge world and how you can access it. This is where web and grid services come in, this is where the semantic web comes in, this is where ontologies are needed: standard ways to capture knowledge. In the end this will lead to the Semantic Grid. This all was discussed at the "Convergence of Web Services, Grid Services and the Semantic Web for delivering e-Services" conference in Brussels, December 12, 2002. That is a lot of buzzwords. But underneath are a few important concepts that are useful for Grid people. |
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| | Grid Computing - the IBM View
In December 2002 IBM organised a workshop on the topic Grid Computing at its Lab in Böblingen. The Programme covered the aspects IBM Grid Strategy, Grid usage today, and Grid developments. Ten talks, from Grid users from NIC, Jülich, and FZ Karlsruhe too, highlighted different approaches and IBM's view on Grid Computing. It contains not only Grid computing but autonomous, self-healing computing and computing on demand. Some of the talks are covered in this first part of the Grid event. |
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| | UNICORE Grid Computing for Research and Science
Dietmar Erwin, Head of the Department Operating Systems, Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM), Research Centre Jülich, presented the actual status and the real life experiences gained in the UNICORE grid project. |
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| | Grid Computing: Starting for an e-Science
Dr. Marcel Kunze, Department Grid-Computing and e-Science, Research Center Karlsruhe described the situation at the Research Center, which will be part of the DataGrid project from CERN. He presented the requirements of the Grid Computing Competence Centre GridKa. |
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| | OGSA and Grid Standards
Boas Betzler, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, highlighted the aspects of standards and the effect they have on every day works at the IBM Grid Seminar. Thus he presented the OGSA (Open Grid Service Architecture), the applications and the underlying servers. |
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| | Avaki and Globus to collaborate on OGSI
Avaki and the Globus Project will collaborate on the development of OGSI-conformant grid software components for integration into Avaki Data Grid software. The results of this collaborative effort will enable Avaki to deliver the industry?s first OGSI standards-compliant version of commercial data grid software. |
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| | Data Access and Integration for the Grid now released
The first release of the OGSA-DAI software has been made available. This release is based on the OGSA Technology Preview 4 from the Globus Team. A two day training course for the software will be run on the 11th and 12th of February at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh. |
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| | Grid and e-utility Computing
Werner Ederer, IBM Programme Manager Grid and e-utility Computing, gave an overview of the Grid reality, defined Grid Computing and e-utilities in the commercial sector and IBM's view. There more elements have been added like autonomic grids. Additionally he presented an example of web serving today and on-demand. |
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| | The First European Across Grids Conference
The objective of the "Across Grids Conference" that will be hold Februar 13-14 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain is to bring together and support a collaboration of all people participating in European and other Projects, researchers, developers, practitioners and potential
users of grid technologies.
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| | EuroPVM/MPI 2003
The 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group conference,
EuroPVM/MPI 2003, will be held from
September 29 - October 2, 2003 in
Venice, Italy. |
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| | PGS Data Processing gets supercomputing on demand
Norwegian company PGS Data Processing, will access IBM's new Supercomputing on Demand service. Using supercomputing grids employing their latest POWER or Intel
processor-based supercomputer clusters, IBM will assist PGS to
transform fixed costs into variable costs, matching state-of-the-art
capacity exactly to customer demand. The first project where PGS will
apply “Supercomputing on demand” is on an advanced deep-water seismic imaging project in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| | Next Global Grid Forum in Japan
Over 1000 participants from across the globe are expected in Tokyo, Japan for GGF7, The 7th Global Grid Forum, 4-7 March 2003. The theme for GGF7 is "Grids Around the World". |
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| | GlobusWorld takes Grid computing to another level
The first GlobusWorld conference will be held this week in San Diego, January 13-17, 2003. Attendees will benefit from tutorials, talks on experiences and future directions, and demonstrations of the Globus Toolkit. |
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| | HP to demonstrate UDC-Grid connection at GlobusWorld
HP has demonstrated research results that connect the HP Utility Data Center (UDC) to the Grid at GlobusWorld in San Diego, January 13-17. The demonstration was designed to show how Grid users could potentially use the HP UDC to run commercial applications simply and easily. Traditionally, the Grid - the worldwide network that uses the Internet to build distributed computing infrastructures - has been used mainly for technical and scientific applications. |
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| | German and Spanish universities buy Altix clusters
Universities in Austria, Australia, Germany, Japan, Poland and Spain, have already ordered the SGI Altix supercluster product for applications in biochemistry, bioinformatics, chemical computation, physics, mathematics, earthquake research and computational fluid dynamics. |
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| | ZetaGrid in the IBM Lab Böblingen
During the Grid event in Böblingen, IBM demonstrated its own Scientific Grid. In the beginning of 2001, Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski, IBM Consulting IT Architect, developed a simple, platform-overlapping Software with the name ZetaGrid. |
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| | IBM Global Services (IGS) services and offerings today
IBM's specific offerings in the grid area described Dr. Martin Mähler, Director Emerging Business Development, IBM Global Services (IGS) at the IBM Grid Seminar. IGS delivers application specific solutions for different industry sectors. |
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| | Sun contributes Grid Engine Portal technology to Open Source Grid Engine Project
Sun Microsystems Inc. has expanded its commitment to the open development of grid computing technologies with the contribution of its Grid Engine Portal portlet technology to the open source Grid Engine Project. The portlet, which integrates Sun ONE Grid Engine software with Sun ONE Server Portal technology, helps enable commercial enterprises and research institutions to easily and securely access grid resources from virtually any location inside or outside the firewall. It can be particularly powerful in collaborative environments, providing remote team members, partners and suppliers with secure access to compute resources in a central grid. |
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| | Platform software boosts performance of HP's most powerful generation of Alphaserver systems
Platform Computing announced support for HP's most powerful AlphaServer systems to date. Based on EV7 Alpha processor technology, HP's next-generation AlphaServer delivers the scalability, reliability and availability required to dramatically improve application performance, making it an ideal system for Platform software solutions. |
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| | Friendy Enterprises Grid
Another Demo was conducted by Dr. Nikolaus Breuer. He demonstrated the access of a Grid-based LifeScience application using WebServices. A small search object, for example a DNA sequence gained by an actual experiment, was compared with very log DNA sequences stored in huge, world-wide distributed databases. The aim was to find out, if and where surprising similarities with the unknown sequence can be detected. |
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| | GGF7 student scholarships call for application
The Global Grid Forum is offering a limited amount of scholarships available for students to GGF7, the Seventh Global Grid Forum, March 4-7, 2003 Tokyo, Japan. Deadline for application submission is 30 January, 2003. |
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| | Engineered Intelligence announces Parallel Programming Contest where battle programmes fight for parallel processors
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) has launched "GRID WARS", a parallel programming challenge where competing programmes written in CxC fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors. With EI's language for parallel programming, developers are asked to write battle programmes and upload them into the on-line GRID WARS battlefield, where they compete for prizes and industry recognition. |
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| | Sun's take on HP's virtualisation strategy
Sun's approach to delivering virtualisation, which is the first phase of Sun's N1 initiative, is through a data services platform that can span multiple heterogeneous storage devices, to a wide variety of hosts, across a standard storage network.
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| | Promia introduces supercomputer level security manager
Promia Incorporated introduced the Intelligent Agent Security Manager (IASM) system. The IASM is a supercomputer level system that uses a CORBA secure component architecture. This architecture is designed to manage accurately and consistently the detection and validation of internally and externally generated network incidents. |
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| | Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation on Altix
The Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation (QPSF), a technology consortium of six universities in Australia's Queensland State, will take delivery of two SGI Altix 3000 supercomputing systems based on the Linux operating system. |
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| | SDSC researchers find unnecessary traffic saturating a key Internet root server
Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analysing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries. DNS root servers provide a critical link between users and the Internet's routing infrastructure by mapping text host names to numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Researchers at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at SDSC conducted a detailed analysis of 152 million messages received on October 4, 2002, by a root server in California, and discovered that 98 percent of the queries it received during 24 hours were unnecessary. The researchers believe that the other
12 DNS root servers likely receive similarly large amounts of bad requests. |
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| | Successful field trial achieved by Alcatel, Oasis Micro Networks and Sherman & Reilly of new optical micro cabling technology in the US
Alcatel, Oasis Micro Networks and Sherman & Reilly have announced the successful completion of a field trial in Atlanta, Georgia, USA of a newly developed optical micro cabling technology for the deployment of fiber optic cables. In the trial, a fiber optic cable route of approximately 20,000 ft (6,100Km) was installed in slightly under an hour and a half. |
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