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March 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | Sapphire/Slammer worm shatters previous speed records for spreading through the Internet
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| Europe
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| | 33rd SPEEDUP Workshop issues Call for Participation
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| | High-Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '02
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| | Highlights of the 18th International Supercomputer Conference - ISC2003
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| | First International Workshop on Autonomic Computing Systems issues Call for Papers
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| | Performance Tools 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| Industry
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| | Ontario government invests $2.9 million for leading-edge research at the University of Toronto
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| | Chinese broadcaster Guangdong TV selects DataDirect Networks' storage solution
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| | Johns Hopkins uses IBM technology in heart disease research
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| | NIH awards $1.3 million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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| | DataSynapse partners with Calypso Technology to scale front/middle-office analytics and decision support
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| | Lockheed Martin to support U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office's supercomputing effort
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| | Berkeley scientists create first 3D map of protein universe
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| | Phoenix Technologies unveils Core Managed Environment
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| | ESI Group announces PAM-CRASH 2G
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| | University of Michigan launches ambitious exploration of inner space
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| | IBM ships 2000th eServer p650 to discover financial services
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| | SGI Asian and Latin American regions announces major deals
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's David Quarrie to manage ATLAS software project at CERN
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| | IBM and Cerner expand strategic alliance to improve patient care
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| | Sistina secures US10 million funding
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| | IRI runs El Nino forecasting models on SGI 3400
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| | Navy provides mission-critical meteorological data to U.S. forces in Persian Gulf generated by SGI supercomputers
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| | Cognos Series 7 Version 2 delivers mission-critical performance
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | NEC founds new HPC company for Europe
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| | New annual report from Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation TU München
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| | Quadrics delivers interconnects for clusters based on Intel Xeon at Penn State University
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| | Critical Software announces WMPI II for general-purpose HPC clusters
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| | Try and Buy a NEC SX6i
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| | Cray receives $62 million in orders for X1 systems from U.S. government and prices public offering at $6.20 per share
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| | SGI wins bulk of DoD HPC modernisation programme's fiscal year 2003 supercomputer procurement
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| | nStor releases new 2Gbit fibre RAID controllers for OEMs and integrators
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| | A terabyte of solid state memory
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| | RackSaver installs supercomputer cluster at NVIDIA Corporation
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| | Cray announces fourth quarter and year end 2000 financial results
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| | SGI Origin 3000 posts results in high-performance Spec benchmark tests
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| | Customer demand for IBM blade servers reaches 5000
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| | SGI announces sales in Europe and other continents
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| | RackSaver improves node management
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| | NEC Solutions America, Intel and Microsoft announce record 32-way TPC-C benchmark
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| | Intel Silicon Research aims to accelerate convergence of computing and communications
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| | Dataram memory upgrades for SGI Origin 3900 supercomputers
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| Industry
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| | MPI/Pro for InfiniBand for RedHat Linux
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| | Appro HyperBlade Server Architecture advances high-density Linux clusters
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| | Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo issues Call for Presentations
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| Industry
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| | The Wizards of Viz
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| | Siemens introduces NXN alienbrain for visualisation projects
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| | Lockheed Martin selects SGI to power U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot training systems
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Grid Technology for the aerospace market: a real case
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| | eDiamond and Mammogrid to develop grid infrastructure for standardised annotated mammograms
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| | University of Amsterdam selectes Force10 for Grid networking
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| | Smallpox Research Grid Project to link more than two million computers
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| | Entropia's DCGrid selected by major health care company
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| | The European DataGrid crosses the barrier of 1000 CPUs
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| | HealthGrid should stop health care from looking like tenth century travelling
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| | Official opening and exhibit of CityCluster Virtual Reality and High Speed Networking project
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| | University of Edinburgh School of Informatics awarded GBP 1 million IBM Shared University Research Grant
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| | Avaki packages new Grid software Quick Connect introduction kit
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| | Lots of Grid tutorials at GGF7
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| | IBM introduces ten new Grid offerings
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| | Calient Networks chosen as a core platform for OptIPuter
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| | According to US NSF Panel Cyberinfrastructure, including Grid, is essential for research
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| | Platform LSF 5.1 drives plug-and-play Grid deployments and optimal workload prioritisation
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| | Merge between the EDG and CrossGrid Industrial Fora
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| | European Commission launches problem solving Grid-based approach across application sectors
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| | Drug therapy decision support for infectious diseases showcased as prototypical Grid killer app
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| | PARS workshop in Basel
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| | SDCS announced SRB version 2.0.0
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| | ARM implements platform intelligence to improve productivity and profitability of Enterprise Grid
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| | BASF connects supercomputers and office PCs with Platforms' LSF
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| | Sun Fire V1280 High-End Performance - Low End Price
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| | Sun Fire B1600 - the First N1-System from Sun
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| | Autonomic Computing Workshop
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| | Tsunami research ships HiveCreator
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| | HP and BEA optimise BEA WebLogic Server for HP Itanium 2-based solutions
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| | Platform signs global Grid computing agreement with IBM
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| | Pixar builds massive Intel- and Racksaver-based renderfarm
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| | HWS Colleges in the USA install new Beowulf cluster
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| | LSF 5.1
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| | Avaki Closes US$4.2 Million financing
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| | Baird vice president Platform
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| Networking
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| | SDSC selected as a national Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center
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| | SGFS and HNF workshop meeting in Stuttgart
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| | Internet2 Abilene backbone network upgrade passes transcontinental milestone
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| | Albert Einstein Institute chooses Force10 Networks for computing cluster interconnect
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| | Foundry to expand second generation wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet products
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| | InfiniCon Systems demonstrates industry's first 16-node, InfiniBand fabric computing cluster
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| Networking
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| | Level 3 signs contracts with several universities
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March 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | Sapphire/Slammer worm shatters previous speed records for spreading through the Internet
A team of network security experts in San Diego, Eureka, and Berkeley, California, has determined that the computer worm that attacked and hobbled the global Internet 11 days ago was the fastest computer worm ever recorded. In a technical paper, the experts report that the speed and nature of the Sapphire worm, also called Slammer, represent significant and worrisome milestones in the evolution of computer worms. |
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| | 33rd SPEEDUP Workshop issues Call for Participation
The 33rd SPEEDUP Workshop issues its first Call for Participation. The workshop addresses the topic of "Modern Algorithms in Computational Sciences and Information Technology" and is being held March 19-20, 2003 at the Department of Computer Science, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
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| | High-Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '02
Egon Krause and Willi Jäger are the editors of "High-Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '02", which is published in Springer Verlag. It contains the presentations of the 5th Results and Review Workshop on High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, which was held at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), September 30th to October 1st, 2002. |
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| | Highlights of the 18th International Supercomputer Conference - ISC2003
The 18th International Supercomputer Conference will be held in Heidelberg, Germany, June 24-27, 2003. Twenty-four worldwide renowned speakers from the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Australia will be lecturing ISC2003. This year's keynote speakers are world renowned database expert Jim Gray. |
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| | First International Workshop on Autonomic Computing Systems issues Call for Papers
The First International Workshop ACS-2003 on Autonomic Computing Systems, a two day workshop in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2003), will be held September 1-5, 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline for paper abstract submission is March 8, 2003. |
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| | Performance Tools 2003 issues Call for Papers
The 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation will take place at Urbana, Illinois, USA, September 2-5, 2003. This conference is organised by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in co-operation with the University of Dortmund, Germany. Deadline for paper submission is February 24, 2003. |
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| Industry
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| | Ontario government invests $2.9 million for leading-edge research at the University of Toronto
The Ontario government in Canada is strengthening Ontario's innovation climate by investing CA$2.9 million in research infrastructure at the University of Toronto, as Associate Minister of Enterprise,
Opportunity and Innovation David Turnbull announced at the opening of the university's Molecular Design and Information Technology (MDIT) Centre. The investment will make it possible for drug researchers to use the centre's state-of-the-art supercomputer to focus on biomolecular
structure-based research and drug discovery. This will help researchers understand drug interactions and design before going into a laboratory for experiments. |
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| | Chinese broadcaster Guangdong TV selects DataDirect Networks' storage solution
Guangdong Television's new SAN-based integrated newsroom solution is being powered by an intelligent S2A storage controller from DataDirect. DataDirect's S2A6000 storage network controller serves at the core of the new newsroom system that integrates capture, editing, broadcasting, management and archiving into a solution that increases productivity while decreasing overall costs.
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| | Johns Hopkins uses IBM technology in heart disease research
Johns Hopkins University researchers are using IBM technology to discover how genes and proteins can influence heart disease. By understanding the origins of heart disease at the molecular level, the researchers hope to gain insights that could lead to new, more effective drugs for treating heart-related illnesses. |
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| | NIH awards $1.3 million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has received an award of $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to advance research in biology and medicine. This award, from NIH's National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), will provide for computational resources to support the work of several biomedical research teams.
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| | DataSynapse partners with Calypso Technology to scale front/middle-office analytics and decision support
Calypso Technology, the provider of cross-asset front-to-back trading systems, and DataSynapse, a provider of a self-managed grid computing platform have launched an integrated solution: the grid
computing capability of DataSynapse's LiveCluster joined with the trading platform of Calypso. The companies also announced the adoption of this joint solution by Wachovia Corporation.
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| | Lockheed Martin to support U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office's supercomputing effort
Lockheed Martin Space Operations (LMSO) has been selected by the U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service (GSA-FTS), to support the Naval Oceanographic Office's Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), located at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. The MSRC operates under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing (HPC) Modernization Programme and is a premier provider of HPC services and support to a nationwide DoD user community. LMSO's base contract runs from February 2003 to September 2003, and then will be followed by six one-year options. Total value of the contract could exceed $30 million.
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| | Berkeley scientists create first 3D map of protein universe
The universe has been mapped. Not the universe of stars, planets, and black holes, but the protein universe, the vast assemblage of biological molecules that are the building blocks of living cells and control the chemical processes which make those cells work. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have created the first three-dimensional global map of the protein structure universe. This map provides important insight into the evolution and demographics of protein structures and may help scientists identify the functions of newly discovered proteins.
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| | Phoenix Technologies unveils Core Managed Environment
Phoenix Technologies has introduced the Phoenix Core Managed Environment, or cME, heralding a new standard for the way essential applications and device-critical services can be built into digital products, making them always protected and always accessible. |
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| | ESI Group announces PAM-CRASH 2G
ESI Group has made available PAM-CRASH 2G, the second generation of its crash simulation software. A new environment facilitates model preparation and analysis. Major innovative features have been added. The first predictive rupture model available in the industry provides accurate answers to material deformation, including composites, high-strength steel and aluminum. An enhanced solver offers a highly scalable parallel version for overnight computation, while a Distributed Memory version on Linux clusters or Itanium 2 platforms enables to intensive calculation at a very competitive cost. |
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| | University of Michigan launches ambitious exploration of inner space
A path-breaking collaborative effort of University of Michigan researchers will attempt to capture never-before-seen views of the chemical activity inside living cells in real time and 3D. The three-year project brings together public health, engineering, chemistry, biology, physics and statistics with support from a $1.5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation in Los Angeles. The University of Michigan has committed an additional $500,000 to the project. |
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| | IBM ships 2000th eServer p650 to discover financial services
In only two months since it became available, the 2000th eServer p650 has been purchased by Discover Financial Services. This new eServer, the first to include IBM's newest POWER4+ microprocessor, is transforming the economics for midrange server customers by redefining the price/performance matrix; it's affordably priced without making any compromises on performance.
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| | SGI Asian and Latin American regions announces major deals
SGI regional sales offices throughout Asia and Latin America are winning major multimillion-dollar deals and providing SGI solutions to governments, institutions, and local and multinational corporations. |
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| | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's David Quarrie to manage ATLAS software project at CERN
David Quarrie, a senior computer scientist of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, has accepted a two-year appointment as software project leader within the reorganised computing organisation for the ATLAS experiment in Geneva, Switzerland. The ATLAS particle detector, scheduled to begin generating massive amounts of data in 2007, is part of the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre.
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| | IBM and Cerner expand strategic alliance to improve patient care
The Cerner Millenium architecture will include IBM WebSphere and DB2 middleware to improve hospital performance and deliver faster medical treatment to patients by unifying disparate hospital information systems.
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| | Sistina secures US10 million funding
Sistina Software,a storage infrastructure software company delivering data-sharing solutions for enterprise and technical computing customers, secured a round of financing from venture capitalist firms for $10 million. Led by Crescendo Ventures, the series B round includes Validus Partners and series A lead St. Paul Venture Capital, bringing the Company's total funding to more than $20 million. |
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| | IRI runs El Nino forecasting models on SGI 3400
Columbia University's International Research Institute
(IRI) for Climate Prediction is using two 32-processor SGI Origin
3400 high-performance computing systems to run computationally
intensive climate forecasting models. These SGI servers are helping
IRI to accurately predict seasonal climate changes several months in
advance and to make this information available to those affected by
climate fluctuations, particularly weather phenomena such as El Nino
that cause devastating impacts on humans and the environment. |
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| | Navy provides mission-critical meteorological data to U.S. forces in Persian Gulf generated by SGI supercomputers
A U.S. Navy weather centre, powered by supercomputers from SGI, is providing U.S. military forces deployed in the Persian Gulf with highly accurate meteorological information critical to conducting land, sea and air operations.
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| | Cognos Series 7 Version 2 delivers mission-critical performance
Cognos, specialised in business intelligence (BI) and performance management, has announced that organisations like Pitney Bowes, Arla Foods and Deltek have embraced Cognos Series 7 Version 2. |
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| | NEC founds new HPC company for Europe
The former NEC business unit European Supercomputer Systems (ESS) will be transferred by February 1st into the new formed NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH (HPCE) sitting in Düsseldorf. HPCE is a 100% daughter of NEC and takes over the employees and the tasks of ESS. Dr. Jörg Stadler, Marketing Manager, discussed in a meeting with me in Munich the reasons for finding this new company. |
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| | New annual report from Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation TU München
The Lehrstuhl für Rechentechnik und Rechnerorganisation (LRR-TUM) recently published its annual report, which covers the years 2000/2001/2002 (first half of 2002), Volume 27. This is the 11th report of LLR-TUM as part of the department of Informatics at Technische Universität München. Professor Arndt Bode discussed in his preface some highlights, the Hitachi SR 8000 at Leibnizrechenzentrum, the foundation of KONWIHR, HPC projects funded by the State of Bavaria, and co-operation with microbiology. Besides his role as Vice President of TU München, Arndt Bode became the chief information officer (CIO) of TU. The report discusses the work of the research groups on different topics. |
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| | Quadrics delivers interconnects for clusters based on Intel Xeon at Penn State University
Quadrics has signed a partnership with the Pennsylvania State University in building its latest high-performance computing cluster, Lion-XL, to further the research computing endeavours of scholars from a variety of departments and disciplines. |
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| | Critical Software announces WMPI II for general-purpose HPC clusters
Critical Software Inc. has released WMPI II, the most comprehensive implementation of version 2 of
the MPI standard for general-purpose clusters. The MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard defines a middleware abstraction layer that enables the deployment of computing demanding
applications on clusters of workstations in a portable fashion. MPI is believed to be a critical piece of the forthcoming GRID infrastructures. |
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| | Try and Buy a NEC SX6i
The new founded NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH (HPCE) starts its activities with a great offering. Interested scientists from academia, research and industry can test a NEC SX-6i running their most innovative projects. In Germany and the United Kingdom, they can use the machine in their lab three months for free and then decide to buy, rent or give the machine back to NEC HPCE. The research groups have the opportunity to submit proposals of their ambitious and compute-intensive research projects to NEC until April 1st. |
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| | Cray receives $62 million in orders for X1 systems from U.S. government and prices public offering at $6.20 per share
Cray has received orders valued at approximately $62 million for Cray X1 equipment and related services from the U.S. Government. Shipments are scheduled to commence later this month and continue through October 2003. No other contract details were disclosed. Cray also has priced its public offering of 7,355,000 shares of common stock from the company and 145,000 shares of common stock from certain selling shareholders at a public offering price of $6.20 per share. Cray intends to use the net proceeds from its sale of shares for general corporate purposes.
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| | SGI wins bulk of DoD HPC modernisation programme's fiscal year 2003 supercomputer procurement
The U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service, on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernisation Programme (HPCMP), issued an initial order for SGI hardware, software, and services worth $26 million. SGI technology will provide DoD researchers with the added processing power and shared memory to compute and analyse increasingly complex mission-critical problems and keep the DoD HPCMP at the forefront of advanced high-performance computing. |
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| | nStor releases new 2Gbit fibre RAID controllers for OEMs and integrators
nStor Corporation has released its family of flexible 2Gbit Fibre Channel RAID controllers. nStor's new 2Gbit Fibre Channel RAID controllers are targeted for adoption by OEMs and storage integrators. |
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| | A terabyte of solid state memory
Imperial Technology announced MegaRam-10000, its newest solid state accelerator featuring up to one terabyte of zero latency solid state storage capacity. |
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| | RackSaver installs supercomputer cluster at NVIDIA Corporation
RackSaver has installed its server products at 3D graphics expert NVIDIA Corporation. The seven-cabinet RackSaver RS-1200 chassis-based systems selected by NVIDIA boast a total of over one thousand Intel Pentium III and Pentium 4 processors: four 96-node cabinets featuring 192 Intel Pentium III processors and three 96-node cabinets featuring 96 Intel Pentium 4 processors. Each node occupies a scant 1U of rack space, delivering incredible performance density.
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| | Cray announces fourth quarter and year end 2000 financial results
Cray has reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2002. Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $39.2 million compared to $26.1 million in the same quarter last year. Net income for the fourth quarter was $1.3 million , compared to a loss of $17.3 million in the fourth quarter last year.
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| | SGI Origin 3000 posts results in high-performance Spec benchmark tests
SGI said its high-density MIPS based SGI Origin 3000 server is leading the field in special versions of SPEC benchmark tests for high-performance technical computing. |
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| | Customer demand for IBM blade servers reaches 5000
IBM has reached a new milestone in its blade server sales with the receipt of the 5000th IBM eServer BladeCenter order, two and a half months after introducing the product. IBM was the first major server vendor to ship Intel Xeon processors based blades with this powerful processor for enterprise customers.
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| | SGI announces sales in Europe and other continents
In its recently completed second quarter for fiscal year 2003, SGI posted several key sales wins. Included in these wins were early sales of the SGI Altix 3000 family of Linux OS-based servers and superclusters. Customers include the Computing Center at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Institute of Structural Mechanics at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, located in Weimar and the Academic Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poznan |
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| | RackSaver improves node management
RackSaver, a provider of high-density individual rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters, has launched its new RackSwitch product. RackSwitch, when installed with RackSaver's BladeRack or other rack-optimised server products, enables administrators to not only remotely monitor, but also power-on or power-off individual nodes of a cluster or even an entire cluster via a simple Web interface.
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| | NEC Solutions America, Intel and Microsoft announce record 32-way TPC-C benchmark
A 32-processor, Itanium 2-based server from NEC Solutions has achieved the world's best TPC-C benchmark result on a 32-processor SMP platform.
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| | Intel Silicon Research aims to accelerate convergence of computing and communications
Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and chief technology officer, outlined Intel's plans to accelerate convergence of computing and communications through advanced research in integrated silicon. Pat Gelsinger stated that silicon-based technologies with integrated computing and communication functions will help to expand Moore's Law into new areas, thereby delivering new capabilities and customer benefits for at least the next decade.
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| | Dataram memory upgrades for SGI Origin 3900 supercomputers
Dataram Corporation, a provider of server, workstation, and PC memory, has made available the authorised memory upgrades for SGI Origin 3900 supercomputers and SGI Onyx 3900 advanced visualisation systems through its agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc. The company also unveiled new, lower pricing on its full line of memory upgrades for all models of SGI Origin 3000, SGI Onyx 3000, SGI Origin 300, SGI Onyx 300, and Silicon Graphics Fuel systems, which are fully eligible for SGI service and support arrangements. |
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| | MPI/Pro for InfiniBand for RedHat Linux
MPI Software Technology (MSTI released MPI/Pro for InfiniBand for RedHat Linux. With the support of the InfiniBand interconnect, MPI/Pro offers enhanced scalability, robustness, and performance, for Beowulf and Grid clusters |
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| | Appro HyperBlade Server Architecture advances high-density Linux clusters
Appro demonstrated its new HyperBlade B221X cluster based on the Intel Xeon processors at the Intel Developer Forum. The Appro HyperBlade cluster solution will feature a combination of sixteen nodes Linux cluster-running MPI over InfiniBand 4x fabric provided by InfiniCon Systems and Lane15 Software. |
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| | Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo issues Call for Presentations
The Forum for Linux Datacenter Solutions and Strategies Serving the Enterprise will be held
June 4, 2003 (Pre-Conference Workshop) and June 5-6, 2003 (Conference & Expo) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Deadline for submissions is March 21, 2003.
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| | The Wizards of Viz
At last year's SC2002 conference in Baltimore, Berkeley Lab racked up its third straight win in supercomputing's annual Bandwidth Challenge with a data-gobbling visualisation of colliding black holes. "When it comes to remote scientific visualisation", says Wes Bethel with a smile, "we're the kings."
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| | Siemens introduces NXN alienbrain for visualisation projects
The industrial visualisation department at Siemens has introduced NXN alienbrain to manage their digital assets throughout the complete development cycle of their visualisation projects. With NXN alienbrain the Siemens team stores, tracks and manages all files needed to create virtual representations of factory outlets or other complex industrial sites. By visualising these large-scale construction projects, the team facilitates detailed planning and helps to minimise inaccuracies once the actual job begins.
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| | Lockheed Martin selects SGI to power U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot training systems
Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems, in Akron, Ohio, has purchased SGI Onyx 3000 series high-performance graphics supercomputers for use in the next five F-16 pilot training systems it will supply to the U.S. Air Force. The pilot training systems, part of the U.S. Air Force F-16 Mission Training Center programme, perform the same multi-role functions that F-16 fighter aircraft perform in combat missions.
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| | Grid Technology for the aerospace market: a real case
GridSystems' aerospace area expert Mariano Vázquez, explains his experience with a real Grid implementation case at theat the Corporate Research Centre France of EADS in Toulouse. |
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| | eDiamond and Mammogrid to develop grid infrastructure for standardised annotated mammograms
At the First European HealthGrid Conference, Jérôme Declerck, chief scientist at Mirada Solutions, presented the British eDiamond and the European Mammogrid projects, both dealing with the screening and detection of breast cancer. These two-year initiatives were showcased as potential prototypes for supranational databases of medical images since both project consortia are trying to build grid-enabled federated databases of annotated mammograms and testing validation of the need for standardisation of fixed parameters to detect breast tumours using Mirada's Standard Mammogram Form (SMF) in eDiamond. |
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| | University of Amsterdam selectes Force10 for Grid networking
The University of Amsterdam has selected Force10 E-Series switch/routers to provide a high performance network infrastructure for next-generation grid computing applications. The E-Series aggregates Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections from computer nodes of the university's DAS-II (Distributed ASCI Supercomputer II) supercomputer cluster into a 10-Gigabit Ethernet upstream connection to SURFnet, which is the national research and education network in the Netherlands and connects 200 higher education and research organizations to each other as well as to other research networks in Europe and the rest of the world. |
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| | Smallpox Research Grid Project to link more than two million computers
IBM, United Devices and Accelrys have announced a project supporting a global research effort that is focused on the development of new drugs that could potentially combat the smallpox virus post infection. The project will be powered through a massive computing "Grid" that will enable millions of computer owners worldwide to contribute idle computing resources with the goal of developing a wide collection of potential anti-smallpox drugs. Results from the Smallpox Research Grid Project will be delivered to the United States Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense. |
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| | Entropia's DCGrid selected by major health care company
One of the world's top five health care companies has purchased Entropia's DCGrid to increase their high performance computing capacity available for executing applications that aid drug research and discovery. The company's goal in deploying a PC grid is to explore and exploit the untapped potential of their networked PCs as a complement to their other computing platforms. |
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| | The European DataGrid crosses the barrier of 1000 CPUs
At the beginning of 2003, the European DataGrid (EDG) testbed has surpassed the barrier of 1000 CPUs. Currently the EDG software manages more than 15 Tbytes of storage and 1075 CPUs on a single testbed distributed over 12 computing centres in five European countries. With these numbers, the EDG software starts demonstrating it can scale to solve real problems on real production infrastructures. |
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| | HealthGrid should stop health care from looking like tenth century travelling
Since thirteen years, Dr. Ilias Iakovidis is paving the way towards a person-centred type of health care within the European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society - eHealth unit. At the recent First European HealthGrid Conference in Lyon, he stressed that in the new development cycle of the upcoming Sixth Framework Programme, health care projects have to focus on practical implementation rather than on creating computer-savvy applications such as it occurred in the previous Framework Programmes. In this regard, the HealthGrid concept constitutes a tool for synergy in a collaborative environment by building on previous efforts. |
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| | Official opening and exhibit of CityCluster Virtual Reality and High Speed Networking project
CityCluster "From the Renaissance to the Gigabits Networking Age" is an innovative technological artistic project in which Tele-Immersion, collaborative virtual reality, high speed networking, culture, history, communication, and art are integrated into one unique piece. The official opening will take place on February 7th, 2003 in real time between Chicago (11:00 AM ) and Florence (6:00 PM) across two Virtual Reality Networking platforms: the CAVE Display System located in the Electronic Visualization Lab at the Illinois University of Chicago, USA; and the AGAVE Display System located in City Hall, Palazzo Vecchio Florence, Italy.
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| | University of Edinburgh School of Informatics awarded GBP 1 million IBM Shared University Research Grant
At an event hosted in the e-Science Institute at the University of Edinburgh, IBM donated one of its flagship e-Server p690 to the internationally renowned School of Informatics. The IBM eServer e-Series p690 is equipped with 16 processors, 128 GB of memory and several terabytes of disk. The award is being made to a team of database experts led by Professors Malcolm Atkinson and Peter Buneman in Edinburgh and IBM's Research Division in Almaden, California. The Edinburgh and IBM teams will use the machine to investigate how to use scientific data to accelerate in-silico research in areas such as genetics, medicine and engineering.
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| | Avaki packages new Grid software Quick Connect introduction kit
Avaki Corporation, specialised in commercial grid software solutions, has introduced Avaki Quick Connect, a packaged solution that will provide organisations with a fast and easily deployable introduction to Avaki Data Grid 3.0 and Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0. Avaki Quick Connect is available through June 30, 2003 to demonstrate the capabilities of Avaki Data Grid 3.0 and Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0. |
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| | Lots of Grid tutorials at GGF7
The next Global Grid Forum conference (GGF7) will be held March 4-7 in Tokyo. The conference has large number of tutorials on many aspects of Grid computing including EU datagrid, Access Grid, enterprize grids and Web services. |
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| | IBM introduces ten new Grid offerings
IBM introduces ten Grid offerings targeting key industries: aerospace, automotive, financial markets, government, and life sciences. |
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| | Calient Networks chosen as a core platform for OptIPuter
Calient Networks, a global provider of intelligent all-optical switching systems and software, will team with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) on development of the "OptIPuter", a powerful distributed cyber-infrastructure project designed to support data-intensive scientific research and collaboration. UIC has awarded a major purchase of all-optical switches to Calient Networks, which will install them at facilities in the United States and The Netherlands. |
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| | According to US NSF Panel Cyberinfrastructure, including Grid, is essential for research
The critical needs of science and rapid progress in information technology are converging to provide a unique opportunity to create and apply a sustained cyberinfrastructure that will "radically empower" scientific and engineering research and allied education, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The committee details its recommendations in a report entitled Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure. Cyberinfrastructure according to the report, is "essential, not optional, to the aspirations of research communities." For scientists and engineers, the report states, cyberinfrastructure has the potential to "revolutionize what they can do, how they do it, and who participates." The seeds of this revolution are seen in community-driven efforts, supported by NSF and other agencies, such as the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations (NEES), the Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) and the National Virtual Observatory (NVO). |
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| | Platform LSF 5.1 drives plug-and-play Grid deployments and optimal workload prioritisation
Increasing the speed and ease of Grid deployment, Platform Computing has made available Platform LSF 5.1, the latest version of Enterprise Grid foundation software. Platform LSF 5.1 harnesses IT resources to provide the industry's most reliable, flexible and scalable Grid computing solution, with enhanced prioritisation policies to optimally match compute resources with an organisation's business objectives. |
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| | Merge between the EDG and CrossGrid Industrial Fora
The European Grid Industry and Research Forum - merge between the DataGrid and CrossGrid Industry and Research Fora - has officially started during the First European Across Grids Conference organised by the CrossGrid project in Santiago de Compostela in February 13 and 14, 2003.
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| | European Commission launches problem solving Grid-based approach across application sectors
In view of the Sixth Framework Programme, the European Commission (EC) has created a fresh unit which will particularly focus on Grid-based systems for complex problem solving. Dr. Max Lemke, who is part of this unit, gave a short overview of its objectives and direction to the participants of the HealthGrid conference. Although the new unit is not specifically health-related, the EC changed her policy in such a way to enhance multi-disciplinarity and have synergies exploited across different sectors, allowing Grid-enabling application technologies to enter the field of the health care sector as well. |
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| | Drug therapy decision support for infectious diseases showcased as prototypical Grid killer app
At the University of Amsterdam, a distributed medical support system for drug therapy of HIV infection has been developed and is currently tried out in 25 hospitals and in 20 physician practices. Peter Sloot presented the rule-based expert system which was recently enhanced with a simulation unit, at the HealthGrid conference. Physicians can have fast access to the system through their PDA, WAP or mobile phone devices and via wireless networks. There are two ways to retrieve results quickly, whether by using the middleware approach, or by applying Java technology. |
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| | PARS workshop in Basel
The next PARS workshop (Parallel-algorithmen, -rechnerstrukturen
und -systemsoftware) will be held in Basel, Switzerland, March 20-21 in conjunction with Speedup. Topic include a wide range of parallel, distributed and Grid computing topics.
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| | SDCS announced SRB version 2.0.0
The San Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDCS) released version 2.0.0 of the Grid storage broker SRB. The SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) is a client-server middleware
that provides a uniform interface for connecting to heterogeneous
data resources over a network and accessing replicated data sets.
SRB, together with the Metadata Catalog (MCAT), allows to access data sets and resources based on their attributes
rather than their names or physical locations. |
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| | ARM implements platform intelligence to improve productivity and profitability of Enterprise Grid
ARM, a provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, has implemented Platform Intelligence and Platform LSF to better align IT resources with business objectives. Optimising the performance of ARM's IT infrastructure, Platform Intelligence, an IT analytics solution, and
Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Enterprise Grid solution, is being installed across up to 1200 CPUs at five design centres in the UK, France and the USA, and will integrate existing Sun Solaris systems and newer Linux systems into an Enterprise Grid. |
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| | BASF connects supercomputers and office PCs with Platforms' LSF
Badische Anilin- und Sodafabriken (BASF) connects its IBM Supercomputer, Linux Clusters and more than 300 office PCs, NT cluster, with LSF from Platform Computing, Toronto. This allows a more efficient and automated production of scientific research. Additionally this is a real grid approach.
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| | Sun Fire V1280 High-End Performance - Low End Price
Today Sun Microsystems announced the new Sun Fire V1280 as a Wintel alternative for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). It integrates RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) features of the enterprise for the Wintel market. It can contain 4, 8, and 12 CPUs in a rack-optimised compact design (12 CPUs in 12 Rack Units). |
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| | Sun Fire B1600 - the First N1-System from Sun
Today Sun announced the Sun Fire B1600 the first N1 system. Up to 16 complete computers can be installed in a chassis within 3 U. The single processors can be SPARC and Solaris and/or Intel x86 with Linux and Solaris. |
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| | Autonomic Computing Workshop
The 5th
Annual International
Active Middleware Workshop will focus on the Autonomic Computing. It will be held June 25th, 2003, Seattle, USA. |
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| | Tsunami research ships HiveCreator
Tsunami Research is now shipping version 1.0 of HiveCreator. HiveCreator is
a software toolkit that businesses and other organizations can use to enable
large numbers of dedicated, commodity computers to form a mission critical
computing environment called a Hive. |
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| | HP and BEA optimise BEA WebLogic Server for HP Itanium 2-based solutions
HP and BEA Systems Inc., an application infrastructure software company, have made available the BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 on HP's Itanium 2-based server platform, jointly providing a proven solution for cost-effective J2EE performance. Customers can now easily migrate applications to Itanium-based systems and realise a significant and sustainable computing performance edge. |
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| | Platform signs global Grid computing agreement with IBM
Platform Computing has signed a global master relationship agreement (MRA) with IBM Corporation to market and deploy Grid computing solutions to joint customers around the world. The scope of the alliance includes worldwide marketing, collaborative selling, software integration, implementation services, product development and performance optimisation. This agreement represents a joint commitment to pursue the worldwide Grid computing market, which is estimated to grow from US$180 million today to US$4.1 billion by 2005, according to industry estimates. |
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| | Pixar builds massive Intel- and Racksaver-based renderfarm
Pixar Animation Studios, the creator of "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc.", is working with Intel Corporation and RackSaver to create one of the most powerful computer installations ever used for digital animation. |
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| | HWS Colleges in the USA install new Beowulf cluster
A second Beowulf computer cluster has been built in the chemistry department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. It will be used for aids research on HIV and anti-cancer drugs currently being conducted by HWS students. |
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| | LSF 5.1
Platform Computing announced LSF
5.1. It incldues source code availability of LSF user
commands, first-come-first-served scheduler, Java API, Web GUI components,
and support for the MAUI Scheduler and other plug-in interfaces, new LSF 5.1
Enterprise capabilities. |
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| | Avaki Closes US$4.2 Million financing
Avaki Corporation has raised $4.2 million in an extension to its series A financing. Investments from Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners and Sofinnova Partners bring Avaki's total funding to over $20 million. |
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| | Baird vice president Platform
Platform
Computing has named Ian Baird as vice president of its recently
expanded Marketing and Sales Operations division. |
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| | SDSC selected as a national Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD has been selected by Internet2 as a national Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). The mission of the centre will be to test and evaluate leading-edge technologies for high-performance Internet2 networks working with
developers to test and refine network hardware and software for optimal end-to-end network performance up to 10 gigabits per second. Internet2 is a consortium led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced Internet
applications and technologies. |
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| | SGFS and HNF workshop meeting in Stuttgart
The Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart, HLRS, and the University of Stuttgart Computing Center, RUS, together with T-Systems SfR, and T-Systems are organising a two day workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems at HLRS, which is one of the major national high performance computing centres in Germany. Also, HNF Europe will join this event with their Spring 2003 Meeting. This workshop is to take place in Stuttgart, Germany, on Monday and Tuesday, March 31 - April 1, 2003.
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| | Internet2 Abilene backbone network upgrade passes transcontinental milestone
Abilene, the farthest reaching and most advanced research and education network in the United States, has put into service the first transcontinental path in its nationwide upgrade to the next generation of networking. When completed later this year, the upgrade will quadruple the capacity of more than 13,000 miles of network to 10 gigabits per second, more than 15,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. |
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| | Albert Einstein Institute chooses Force10 Networks for computing cluster interconnect
The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm and Hannover, Germany, better known as the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), has chosen the Force10 E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for their new, high-performance computing cluster. The E-Series will enable the AEI to build a scalable, high-performance computing infrastructure needed for computationally intensive research on Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. |
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| | Foundry to expand second generation wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet products
Foundry Networks expanded its 10 Gigabit Ethernet product portfolio to offer twice the density and bandwidth capacity of its current solution. In addition, Foundry announced aggressive prices to further accelerate the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in LAN, MAN and WAN. Foundry's new prices offer savings of up to 36% per port compared to the previous pricing.
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| | InfiniCon Systems demonstrates industry's first 16-node, InfiniBand fabric computing cluster
InfiniCon Systems' InfinIO Architecture was featured in three, industry-first demonstrations at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), February 18-21 in San Jose. Each demonstration showcased how the InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O and Clustering System leveraging its low-latency, 10 Gbps InfiniBand switched fabric and integrated I/O gateways streamlines server deployments and supports a modular, more flexible computing model for the enterprise data centre.
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| | Level 3 signs contracts with several universities
Level 3 Communications has signed network services agreements with The George Washington University, the University of Oregon and Southern Crossroads. One of the reasons for buying these services is the emergence of Grid computing. |
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