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April 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | US Federal government announces first federal eGov health information exchange standards
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| | HIMSS supports adoption of uniform health information standards for federal government
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| | Research triangle virtual center of excellence in bioinformatics and computational biology
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen or Highest Performance Computing in Germany - Part 1
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen in Germany Part 2: John von Neumann Institute for Computing and Computer Centre Garching of Max Planck Society
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen in Germany Part 3: Climat Research in Hamburg and Leibnizrechenzentrum in Munich
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| Europe
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| | Special session on "Large-Scale Scientific Computations" at PPAM 2003 Conference
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| | ParCo 2003 issues final Call for Papers
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| | Joint 33rd Speedup and 19th PARS Workshop organisers issue Call for Participation
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| | HiCOMB 2003 Workshop issues Call for Participation
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| | Second Workshop on Scalable Parallel Global File Systems issues Call for Participation
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| | Special Session organisers on Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatic Applications issue Call for Papers
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| | VECPAR 2004 issues Call for Papers
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| | IPDPS 2003 issues Call for Participation
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| | Fifteenth ORAP Forum issues Call for Participation
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| | Organisers Web Mining Day issue Call for Participation
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | Commerzbank AG consolidates its UNIX systems by new Sun Fire servers
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| | Commerzbank AG consolidates its UNIX systems by new Sun Fire Servers - Part 2
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| | SCICOMP7 in Göttingen
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| | Some News about the IBM Power5 processor
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| | HPC: Strategy and Directions at IBM
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| | The Advanced Computing Technology Centre - Tools and Services
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| | BlueGeneL
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| | Linux on Power4
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| | Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR enhances its information systems for aerospace research
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| | Cobion to unveil anti-spam product for businesses and home Web filtering product for ISPs
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| | Oxford University unravel mystery of the universe with help of a Dell supercomputer system
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| | iCAPTUR4E Centre uses IBM technology to study heart, lung and blood vessel diseases
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| | Reservoir simulation pushed beyond the limits with Athos and SGI Altix 3000
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| | Computer calculates when reinforced concrete will rust
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| | Ten years promoting European cooperation in research
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| | Linux Networx Cluster used to investigate Iceland's weather and geothermal energy sources
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| | Audi chooses IBM's Shark to drive its storage network
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| | Xilinx announces breakthrough 10 Gbps technology
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| | Arctic Region Supercomputing Center installls IBM super
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| | Germany's Waterway Engineering and Research Institute chooses SGI supercomputers to meet simulation challenges of the future
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| | Xilinx significantly reduces design and device costs with enhanced ISE 5.2i software
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| | Orion redefines the economics and delivery of enterprise software
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| | Sikorsky Aircraft selects SGI technology for advanced concept project
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| | 2002 annual ESI turnover in line with expectations
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| | University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute set to begin production runs with scalable Linux supercluster
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| | Xilinx shipping all advanced FPGA product lines on 300 mm technology
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| Industry
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| | Jülich on the path to its new supercomputer
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| | Microsoft's Dr. Jim Gray on database issues in commercial and scientific environments
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory buys Cray X1
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| | Dot Hill releases SANnet II fibre channel storage solution
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| | Dot Hill extends agreement with Sun Microsystems to deliver NAS
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| | Streamline Computing releases 64-bit parallel debugger
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| | ScicomP7: IBM's Scientific Computing Users Conference - A short summary of the given talks in Goettingen
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| | DOE's NERSC Center deploys 10 Teraflop/s IBM supercomputer
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| | Dot Hill introduces SANnet II NAS solution
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| | Hewlett-Packard Systems arrive at Pittsburgh
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| | HP leads in worldwide standard Intel architecture servers, blade and Itanium revenue
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| | University of Maryland Chaos-Weather Forecasting Team to install Microway cluster
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| | Dot Hill enhances its Channel Partner Programme
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| | New fully-integrated Sun One Web Services Platform designed to simplify developer experience
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| | NEC and RIKEN realize world's first quantum entanglement in a 2-bit solid-state device
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| | Sun claims number one position in Unix servers
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| | IBM ranks number 1 in worldwide revenue for high performance computing
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| | TrueSAN and SGI forge alliance to optimise SAN management in rich media and HPC environments
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| | Powerllel appoints financial software industry veteran to Director Global Sales
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| | Xilinx first to 130nm 300mm production qualification at UMC with Virtex-II Pro
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| | Mountain View Data acquires TurboLinux's PowerCockpit
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| | Clustervision and NEC HPC Europe partner on Linux Supercomputer Clusters
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| | Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters now available on UnitedLinux 1.0
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| | NEC High Performance Computing Europe bundles a Linux-Package with Clusters and Itanium-2-Servers
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| | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing issues Call for Papers
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| | Oracle extends Unbreakable Linux Platform to include UnitedLinux
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| | New SuSE Linux for home users
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| | Terra Soft's new Xserve Cluster Node offers competitive price/performance
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| | SuSE Linux intensifies partner focus with new comprehensive partner programme
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| | YDL.net Enhanced launched
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| | Terra Soft unveils Yellow Dog Linux 3.0
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| | Fakespace teams with Xi Graphics to expand availability of Linux-based immersive visualisation
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| | Immersive Theater powered by SGI Reality Center opens at Sci-Quest Science Center in Huntsville, Alabama
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| | Mechdyne and ModViz agreement allows for affordable and accessible turn-key visualisation solutions
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| | The Polytechnic University of Valencia and GridSystems create with Grid technology the biggest virtual supercomputer in Spain
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| | Expert group to identify FP6 research priorities for next generation Grids
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| | FlowGrid Project will change Computation Fluid Dynamics Simulations
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| | "Sandbox Gridding" feasible solution for compute-intensive bio-informatics tasking?
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| | British e-Science Programme faces ambitious e-Health Care Agenda and Grid middleware deployment
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| | Axceleon launches academic high-performance grid computing package
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| | IBM and Butterfly to run PlayStation2 games on Grid
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| | CERN chooses for Alcatel IP Core Network Router DataTAG testbed
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| | TeraGrid 40 Gbit/s back bone installed
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| | Dolphin Interconnect launches CompactPCI SCI card
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| | Bob Grossman leads masterclass in Amsterdam on Data grids and beyond
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| | Ninf-G 1.1.1 is available
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| | Last call for Open Grid Services draft standard
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| | University Of Waterloo RAPTOR Program Ranked first in Protein-Structure-Prediction competition
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| | Gridiron software releases XLR8 Version 1.0
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| | Altair Engineering acquires Veridian's PBS Pro workload management technology
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| | Grid applications in pharma
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| | The ChessBrain Project creates first computational Grid devoted to computer chess
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| | Axceleon releases EnFuzion 7.2 delivering several new features for computational Grid computing
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| | SGI enables visualisation on the Grid at Hokkaido University
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| | Several European customers for Dell clusters
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| | SDSC releases version 2.0.0 of Storage Resource Broker
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| | Distributed Management Task Force releases final status of WBEM Specifications
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| | Global Grid Forum 8 issues Call for Participation
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| | IBM releases several new Grid resources
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| | Itochu group to launch grid computing business
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| | PBS Pro v5.3 from Altair
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| | Linux Networx Asia and DigiGenomics penetrate biotech market
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| | New study points to organisational politics as key barrier to commercial acceptance of grid and shared computing
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| | Massey University in Auckland about to form huge supercomputer for grid applications
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| | Axceleon and Power Technologies deliver grid computing for global electricity transmission company
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| | IBM and Michigan State's Broad School form Center for On Demand Supply Chain Research
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| | SC Global seeking innovative, collaborative ideas for connecting SC2003 Conference to the world
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| | Platform computing Grid software powers scientific research for U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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| | University of Texas selects Force10 Networks for high performance campus computing grid
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| | Platform Symphony enables real time, on-line computing
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| | Avaki Data Grid Software to improve data access across multiple sites for Aventis
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| | IBM open sources software for sharing life sciences data
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| | ClusterWorld Conference & Expo launches to serve customers in rapidly-growing clustering markets
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| | Distributed Resource Management Application API proposal for Grid computing released at Global Grid Forum 7
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| | IBM's Linux-only mainframe selected by University of Florida for Grid computing research
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| | Problem Solving Environments conference in Portugal
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| | Call for Participation in 21th TOP500 supercomputing list
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| Networking
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| | Abilene Backbone Network upgrade passes transcontinental milestone
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April 2003
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| | US Federal government announces first federal eGov health information exchange standards
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) have announced the first set of uniform standards for the electronic exchange of clinical health information to be adopted across the federal government. These standards are part of the foundation of the National Health Information Infrastructure that will serve consumers, patients, health care providers and public health professionals. |
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| | HIMSS supports adoption of uniform health information standards for federal government
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) supports the announcement, by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, of the adoption of uniform standards for the electronic exchange of clinical information within the federal government. The departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) are the three agencies leading the way in this initiative, laying the groundwork for all federal agencies to use the same information technology standards for sharing clinical information.
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| | Research triangle virtual center of excellence in bioinformatics and computational biology
A new Sun North Carolina Research Triangle Center of Excellence (COE) in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology brings together seven prominent universities, institutions and business partners as participants of the first virtual, multi-member COE. |
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen or Highest Performance Computing in Germany - Part 1
As this year the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)/ZAM at the Research Centre in Jülich will install its IBM Regatta system later this year and there will be an acquisition decision at HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), it is time to give a detailed overview on what is going on in Germany in HPC. I will give in this series some historical and political background, the actual machinery and applications at the centres and the planning of new machines as well as the commissions of the German Research Society and the Wissenschaftsrat. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen in Germany Part 2: John von Neumann Institute for Computing and Computer Centre Garching of Max Planck Society
In this part, I describe two Höchstleistungsrechenzentren in the Research. The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) is located at Research Centre Jülich and is operated by ZAM (Central Institute for Applied Mathematics). The Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics operates the Computer Centre Garching of the Max Planck Society. Although there are local computer centres of Max Planck Society, for example in Stuttgart, here the biggest machines are installed. Both Supercomputer centres use big IBM Regatta systems. At NIC, they have to wait until the new computer room will have been finalised, then the whole, acquired system can be installed. |
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen in Germany Part 3: Climat Research in Hamburg and Leibnizrechenzentrum in Munich
In this part, two centres with a vector oriented architecture are described. The HöchstLeistungsRechenzentrum für die Erdsystemforschung (HPC Centre for Earth System Research), HLRE, in Hamburg uses a NEC SX-6 vector supercomputer. The Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Bavaria (HLRB) is operated by the Leibnizrechenzentrum (Leibnizcomputercentre) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. They run a pseudo vectorsupercomputer Hitachi SR8000-F1. |
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| | Special session on "Large-Scale Scientific Computations" at PPAM 2003 Conference
A special session on "Large-Scale Scientific Computations" will be organised during the PPAM 2003 Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics to be held in Czestochowa, Poland from September 7 to September 10 2003. Deadline for paper submission is April 30, 2003. |
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| | ParCo 2003 issues final Call for Papers
The Parallel Computing 2003 Conference will be held at the Technical University Dresden, Germany,
from September 2 to 5, 2003. Starting in 1983 in Berlin, this series of international conferences is the longest running on Parallel Computing in Europe. Deadline for paper abstract submission is March 15, 2003. |
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| | Joint 33rd Speedup and 19th PARS Workshop organisers issue Call for Participation
The Joint 33rd Speedup and 19th PARS Workshop will take place at the University of Basel from March 19-21, 2003. |
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| | HiCOMB 2003 Workshop issues Call for Participation
The Second IEEE International Workshop On High Performance Computational Biology will be held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium on April 22, 2003 at the Nice Acropolis Convention Center in Nice, France. |
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| | Second Workshop on Scalable Parallel Global File Systems issues Call for Participation
The High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart, together with T-Systems, is organising the second two-day Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems on Monday - Tuesday, March 31 - April 1, 2003. Also, HNF Europe will join this event with their Spring 2003 Meeting. |
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| | Special Session organisers on Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatic Applications issue Call for Papers
A Special Session on Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatic Applications will be held during the
PPAM 2003 Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics,September 7-10, 2003, in Czestochowa, Poland. Deadline for paper submission is April 30, 2003. |
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| | VECPAR 2004 issues Call for Papers
The Sixth International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science will be held at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain on June 28-30, 2004. Deadline for paper submission is October 31, 2003. |
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| | IPDPS 2003 issues Call for Participation
The 17th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003, will be held from Tuesday, 22 April to Saturday, 26 April, 2003 at the Nice Acropolis Convention Center in Nice, France. IPDPS 2003 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP).
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| | Fifteenth ORAP Forum issues Call for Participation
The 15th ORAP Forum will be held at the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris, France on March 27, 2003. The general theme is "Simulation Codes: Challenges and International Context". |
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| | Organisers Web Mining Day issue Call for Participation
Dr. Nouri Taoufik is organising a call to participate in a day on Web Mining at the Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz, Bittertenstrasse 15, 4702 Oensingen/Switzerland on Monday, 10 March, 2003. |
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| | Commerzbank AG consolidates its UNIX systems by new Sun Fire servers
A lot of financial services providers focus in cost reduction in the information processing with the highest priority. Thus the Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt, started the cost reduction initiative "Efficient IT Production" in 2001. It should result in a slim organisation and optimised operation. The Commerzbank checked its installed base, 19 Sun Enterprise 10000, 5 Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Primepowers and several midrange servers. Both vendors offered proposals for consolidation concepts and offerings. Commerzbank decided to accept the Sun package for cost reduction, the removal of the computer centre, and the performance improvements. It was the most economic offering. |
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| | Commerzbank AG consolidates its UNIX systems by new Sun Fire Servers - Part 2
The Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt, started the cost reduction initiative "Efficient IT Production" in 2001 and resulted in a slim organisation and optimised operation with a higher computer performance. The winner in the game of two, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers and Sun Microsystems was Sun. It installed seven Sun Fire E15K with 900 MHz, and 9 Sun Fire E10K with 466 MHz. In this second part, I discussed the topics why the Commerzbank chose Solaris, of which the applications are running and why they follow the ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) basics for the service and operations management.
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| | SCICOMP7 in Göttingen
SCICOMP7 from March 4th to 7th took place in Göttingen, Germany, this year. More than 80 participants from all over the world up to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center came together to discuss interesting topics concerning IBMs scientific computing efforts. This considers the global Program, while in different articles specific topics will be covered. |
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| | Some News about the IBM Power5 processor
Pratap Pattnaik, IBM, gave an overview of the Evolution of IBM Power Architecture. As I arrived during his talk, I only participated in the second part. He discussed the Simultaneous Multithreading, the complexity and the Power based CPUs. |
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| | HPC: Strategy and Directions at IBM
During Scicomp7 Peg Williams, Director AIX and HPC Software Development gave an overview on IBM's HPC vision concerning the hardware and software roadmap as well as the success and challenges. The HPC HW Strategy is based on processors, Power4, Power5, Power6, the systems like Regatta (32-way) and Squadron (64-way) and the interconnects, SP Switch, SP Switch 2 and Federation Switch. The Software side covers the data management, GPFS, message passing MPI, LAPI, resource management LoadLeveler, Tooling, systems management PSSP, CSM. The drive is towards zero downtime and zero systems administration costs - autonomous computing. |
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| | The Advanced Computing Technology Centre - Tools and Services
March 2003 David Klepacki, IBM Advanced Computing Technology Centre (ACTC), discussed tools and services as well as its mission. It conducts research on application oriented HPC for IBM servers. |
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| | BlueGeneL
Sid Chatterjee, IBM, presented the actual situation of BlueGeneL which started in December 1999 for protein folding. But now it will be used as advanced state of the art in biomolecular simulations and in computer design and software for extremely large scale systems. |
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| | Linux on Power4
Christoph Pospiech discussed the decision to choose AIX or Linux on the pSeries. He looked into the users and the administrators view and listed the support. He additionally looked into Linux tomorrow. |
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| | Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR enhances its information systems for aerospace research
A new NEC supercomputer is to boost the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) aerospace research capabilities. The new system is the first TX7 series computer that NEC HPCE has installed in Europe since the introduction of its new series in January 2003. It will enhance one of the world's most advanced general purpose computing facilities for aerospace research. |
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| | Cobion to unveil anti-spam product for businesses and home Web filtering product for ISPs
Cobion Corporation, a provider of content security software, will unveil OrangeBox Mail 2.0 and OrangeBox Web Home, two new anti-spam and Web filtering products for businesses and ISPs. In contrast to other e-mail filters, OrangeBox Mail 2.0 combines multiple techniques to block spam and junk mail. This ten-level checking procedure prevents false positives, or the inadvertent over-blocking of legitimate e-mails. Cobion maintains a global spam database that is updated by its 1000 processor-server data centre in Kassel, Germany.
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| | Oxford University unravel mystery of the universe with help of a Dell supercomputer system
Oxford University's physics department will implement a Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) solution to conduct research that will assist in a project aimed to unravel the secrets of the universe. The cluster of Dell PowerEdge servers will analyse and store data used to investigate mass, inertia and antimatter, thereby helping to understand the behaviour and effects of elementary particles on the universe.
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| | iCAPTUR4E Centre uses IBM technology to study heart, lung and blood vessel diseases
IBM and Vancouver-based iCAPTUR4E Research Centre are teaming up to investigate the linkages between genetic and environmental influences on the leading causes of death in North America which are heart, lung and blood vessel diseases. The collaboration, announced at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, brings together the world-renowned researchers of the iCAPTUR4E Centre, a partnership of St. Paul's Hospital, the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre and the University of British Columbia (UBC), and IBM scientists and state-of-the-art information technology (IT). |
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| | Reservoir simulation pushed beyond the limits with Athos and SGI Altix 3000
IFP, Beicip-Franlab and SGI have made available Athos on high-performance SGI Altix platform based on Intel Itanium 2 processors. Athos, the IFP Group parallel reservoir simulation solution and the associated Reservoir Modelling Line (RML) have been widely used on Intel Xeon processor-based platforms by Oil and Gas companies for more than 2 years now. |
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| | Computer calculates when reinforced concrete will rust
Dutch researchers have developed a computer model that calculates the rate at which salt and moisture penetrate reinforced concrete. The model can be used for both the design of new concrete structures as well as analysing the lifespan of existing ones.
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| | Ten years promoting European cooperation in research
The European Commission has contributed 3 million euros to enable some 300 European researchers to come to Catalonia to use the CESCA-CEPBA computer resources.
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| | Linux Networx Cluster used to investigate Iceland's weather and geothermal energy sources
The Icelandic Energy Authority (IEA), in conjunction with Iceland's Institute for Meteorological Research (IMR), is using an Intel-based Linux Networx cluster to boost its computing performance for 3D simulations of geothermal reservoirs and Icelandic climate conditions. With these capabilities, the IEA and IMR can accurately determine where geothermal power plants should be built and investigate the cause for disruptive weather events such as heavy precipitation and strong windstorms. |
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| | Audi chooses IBM's Shark to drive its storage network
Audi AG has selected the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server codenamed "Shark" to accelerate a heterogeneous storage area network (SAN) to help manage and protect data for the more than 700,000 automobiles Audi produces annually. Audi chose IBM's Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) to support a storage-networking infrastructure designed to efficiently move automobiles on the production line by enabling engineers and auto assembly workers to have the information they need in real time.
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| | Xilinx announces breakthrough 10 Gbps technology
Xilinx has demonstrated serial technology at 10 Gbps on a single channel. Xilinx claims it is the first PLD vendor to demonstrate 10 Gbps technology using a standard CMOS logic process. The demonstration is part of the the Xilinx Serial Tsunami initiative. Based on Non-Return to Zero (NRZ) signaling, this technology supports industry-leading chip-to-chip, chip-to-module, and serial backplane applications. Xilinx plans to deploy its groundbreaking 10 Gbps circuitry in products slated for delivery this year. |
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| | Arctic Region Supercomputing Center installls IBM super
IBM will provide the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) with a powerful new supercomputer that will help researchers gain new understanding of the complex environmental relationships that support salmon and whitefish populations in the Gulf of Alaska. |
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| | Germany's Waterway Engineering and Research Institute chooses SGI supercomputers to meet simulation challenges of the future
Germany's Waterway Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) heavily invested in SGI technology for high-performance computing (HPC) to meet challenges in future numerical simulation projects. BAW's coastal division in Hamburg, which designs, monitors, analyses and repairs all waterways and tidal flood zones in the country's coastal areas, has installed two of the new SGI Origin 3000 servers. The two supercomputers harness the power of 288 MIPS processors and run the high-performance SGI IRIX operating system.
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| | Xilinx significantly reduces design and device costs with enhanced ISE 5.2i software
Xilinx has made available its latest Integrated Software Environment (ISE) version 5.2i and ChipScope Pro 5.2i. With this latest release, Xilinx continues to reduce system costs by delivering 20% better design performance, 15% better logic utilisation, and 50% lower design costs than the nearest competitive offering. Additionally, the new "ASIC-strength" design tools help engineers quickly and easily reach timing closure, thereby reducing overall design costs and time spent in the design flow. |
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| | Orion redefines the economics and delivery of enterprise software
Sun Microsystems has previewed its enterprise computing environment code named Project Orion. With Project Orion, Sun converges the company's software offerings into a predictable, scheduled quarterly release of an integrated software system distributed on Solaris, Solaris for x86, and Linux.
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| | Sikorsky Aircraft selects SGI technology for advanced concept project
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has selected an SGI Origin 300 modular supercomputer, to support major engineering programmes such as the COMANCHE helicoptert. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, is specialised in the design, manufacture and service of advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and military uses.
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| | 2002 annual ESI turnover in line with expectations
ESI Group announced its consolidated turnover for the fourth quarter and fiscal year, ended January 31, 2003. 2002/03 annual turnover was 42.74 million Euros, stable compared to the previous year. Growth in annual turnover for 2002/03 increased by + 3.1% at constant exchange rate, and dropped by -7.2% at constant perimeter.
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| | University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute set to begin production runs with scalable Linux supercluster
The University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) has received a 108-processor SGI Altix system to be used as a shared supercomputing resource for ERI researchers. The recently delivered supercluster, set to begin production runs later this month, marks the first purchase and delivery of an SGI Altix system worldwide and the first full-scale high-end Linux OS-based parallel processing system in Japan. Launched in January, the SGI Altix family of superclusters features the 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor and the Linux operating system. |
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| | Xilinx shipping all advanced FPGA product lines on 300 mm technology
Based on its long-standing initiative to reduce cost through technology and deliver the lowest cost solutions to its customers, Xilinx Inc. is shipping all advanced FPGA product lines on 300 mm wafers including its Virtex-E, Virtex-II, Virtex-II Pro and Spartan-IIE FPGAs. |
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| | Jülich on the path to its new supercomputer
The ZAM (Central Institute for Applied Mathematics) at the Research Centre in Jülich plans a second step in the installation of its new IBM Regatta. In July 2003 there will be 6 nodes with 32 processors each in productive operations. |
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| | Microsoft's Dr. Jim Gray on database issues in commercial and scientific environments
"Indeed, I am trying to apply the techniques developed in the commercial world for large databases, parallelism, web services, XML, data mining, and visualisation to science problems." An interview with Keynote Presenter Dr. Jim Gray, Microsoft, at the International Supercomputer Conference 2003 in Heidelberg. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory buys Cray X1
Cray has received an order valued at approximately $30 million for Cray X1 equipment and related services from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Initial shipments of the multi-cabinet system, which has room for expandability, are expected to begin in March and to be completed in the third quarter of 2003, Cray officials stated.
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| | Dot Hill releases SANnet II fibre channel storage solution
Dot Hill's new SANnet II Fibre Channel (FC) storage solution has been released and will be generally available to reseller partners this month. The new SANnet II FC is a complete storage networking solution consisting of hardware, software, training, support and service for Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. As the second member of Dot Hill's next-generation SANnet II family, SANnet II FC solutions share a common modular architecture and unified management software with other SANnet II solutions such as SANnet II SCSI.
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| | Dot Hill extends agreement with Sun Microsystems to deliver NAS
Dot Hill has extended its multi-year product purchase agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. The existing agreement, first announced in May 2002, has been extended to include a new private-labeled network attached storage (NAS) product designed and engineered by Dot Hill to Sun Microsystems' specifications and manufactured by Solectron Corporation.
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| | Streamline Computing releases 64-bit parallel debugger
UK clustering specialist Streamline Computing has simultaneously released DDT, the Distributed Debugging Tool, for 64-bit AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium-2 and Sunfire systems.
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| | ScicomP7: IBM's Scientific Computing Users Conference - A short summary of the given talks in Goettingen
This Spring ScicomP7 was organised from March 4th to 7th by GWDG (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen) in Göttingen, Germany. More than 80 participants from all over the world, from the Arctic Region Supercomputing Centre to those in Italy came together. This is a summary of the abstracts of the talks. In the meantime powerpoint or pdf versions of most of the talks are available on the Web. In previous issues of Primeur/EnterTheGrid, detailed articles were published.
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| | DOE's NERSC Center deploys 10 Teraflop/s IBM supercomputer
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, put its 10 teraflop/s (10 trillion calculations per second) IBM supercomputer into service last week, providing researchers across the country with the most powerful computer for unclassified research in the United States. |
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| | Dot Hill introduces SANnet II NAS solution
Dot Hill has introduced its new SANnet II NAS (network attached storage) solutions. SANnet II NAS is a complete storage networking solution consisting of hardware, software, training, support and service for Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. It shares a common modular architecture and unified management software with all the other products in the SANnet II family. |
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| | Hewlett-Packard Systems arrive at Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has received two GS1280 AlphaServers from Hewlett-Packard (HP), each housing 16 of the newest generation of the powerful Alpha processor, the EV7. HP introduced the new servers on January 20. |
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| | HP leads in worldwide standard Intel architecture servers, blade and Itanium revenue
HP says it is the worldwide leader in total server shipments for calendar year 2002, according to figures released by IDC. The market research firm also reported that HP led the world in standard Intel architecture server (SIAS), blade and Itanium server revenue and shared the lead for Unix revenue for this same period. Additionally, for the fourth quarter of 2002, IDC found that HP maintained the no. 1 position in SIAS and Linux and tied for the no. 1 position for Unix server revenue.
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| | University of Maryland Chaos-Weather Forecasting Team to install Microway cluster
Microway has been
chosen by the University of Maryland at College Park to manufacture a
new Beowulf cluster to be used for atmospheric research and numerical
weather prediction. |
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| | Dot Hill enhances its Channel Partner Programme
Dot Hill has enhanced its channel programme for value added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Building on its successful indirect sales strategy begun in 2002, the updated channel programme introduces new components that complement Dot Hill's hardware, software, support and service offerings to better address the evolving needs of its channel partners. Dot Hill's channel friendly SANnet II family is flexible, modular and scalable making it well suited to a variety of both horizontal and vertical market segments. |
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| | New fully-integrated Sun One Web Services Platform designed to simplify developer experience
Sun Microsystems Inc. has made available the Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition, the industry's first complete and fully-integrated platform for Java technology-based Web Services (Java Web Services) and application development. The Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Web Services Platform delivers a complete platform offered at a single price and contains all the elements in a single install necessary to develop network based, enterprise applications. |
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| | NEC and RIKEN realize world's first quantum entanglement in a 2-bit solid-state device
In experimentation conducted jointly by the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) and NEC Corporation (NEC), a state of quantum entanglement was successfully created between two solid state quantum bit (qubit). This is a world's first, and represents a major step toward the realisation of practical quantum computing. This result was achieved by the research group headed by Jaw-Shen Tsai of the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory, and the RIKEN Frontier Research System (Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Laboratory). The details of the present research results were published in the February 20 issue of the British science journal Nature.
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| | Sun claims number one position in Unix servers
Sun says the company grew its position as the worldwide leader in
Unix server revenue and unit shipment marketshare for CY2002, according to
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, February 2003. In addition, the
company said it gained Unix server revenue and unit shipment marketshare for the
year and in the fourth quarter. |
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| | IBM ranks number 1 in worldwide revenue for high performance computing
IBM was the leading high performance computing vendor in the fourth quarter of 2002, according to International Data Corporation's worldwide High Performance Technical Computer Quarterly View.
"Last quarter, the firm stood out among all vendors due to its solid increases in market share in nearly every segment", IDC reported.
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| | TrueSAN and SGI forge alliance to optimise SAN management in rich media and HPC environments
TrueSAN Networks has signed a strategic alliance with SGI to integrate TrueSAN's Cloudbreak storage networking software with SGI Total Performance storage systems. With this alliance, both companies will collaborate on bringing the advanced storage management capabilities of the Cloudbreak software to SAN infrastructures based on SGI storage solutions. |
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| | Powerllel appoints financial software industry veteran to Director Global Sales
Powerllel Corporation, a provider of software that is used for creating and orchestrating parallel and distributed applications, has appointed Dean Tallam as Director, Global Sales. Based in New York, Dean will be responsible for leading and managing the company's sales and marketing initiatives.
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| | Xilinx first to 130nm 300mm production qualification at UMC with Virtex-II Pro
Xilinx Inc., a provider of programmable solutions, has announced production qualification for its industry-leading 130nm Virtex-II Pro on 300mm wafers with fab partner UMC at its most advanced manufacturing facility, Fab12a in Taiwan.
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| | Mountain View Data acquires TurboLinux's PowerCockpit
Mountain View Data Inc., a provider of server management software and network storage software, has acquired TurboLinux's PowerCockpit, the leading-edge solution for deploying and provisioning software, and for managing groups of Linux and Windows PC servers and blade servers over the network and in grid computing environments.
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| | Clustervision and NEC HPC Europe partner on Linux Supercomputer Clusters
ClusterVision is partnering with NEC HPC Europe to expand each company's High Performance Computing offering. The partnership will target the clustering markets in the UK, Ireland, Benelux and Scandinavia.
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| | Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters now available on UnitedLinux 1.0
UnitedLinux has completed certification of UnitedLinux Version 1.0 with both Oracle9i Database and its database clustering technology, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. UnitedLinux is an industry initiative designed to streamline Linux development and certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux. |
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| | NEC High Performance Computing Europe bundles a Linux-Package with Clusters and Itanium-2-Servers
NEC High Performance Computing Europe (HPCE) GmbH offers from now on an optimised Linux-Package especially for its Itanium-2-HPC server of the TX7 series and PC-Clusters from NEC. NECs competence centre for Linux Technology in Stuttgart supports the Linux solution for HPC applications. It is available in different service levels. As the base, NEC HPCE uses standard Linux-Distributions and adapts these for high-performance applications. Additionally NEC HPCE offers support, starting from basic services up to a preferential support to guarantee high-available computer operations. Further on there are additional, specific support packages for an efficient operation. |
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| | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing issues Call for Papers
The IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing will be held December 1-4, 2003 in Hong Kong
and is organised by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Hong Kong. Deadline for paper submission is June 1, 2003.
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| | Oracle extends Unbreakable Linux Platform to include UnitedLinux
Oracle Corporation, along with UnitedLinux, furthered its commitment to Linux for the enterprise, announcing that it intends to provide its customers with enterprise-level, seamless technical support for the operating systems powered by UnitedLinux, in addition to support for the Oracle
products. With this announcement, Oracle extends its commitment to making an Unbreakable Linux platform available for customers worldwide.
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| | New SuSE Linux for home users
SuSE Linux has unveiled its latest version of Europe's most popular Linux package - introducing an easy to use, application rich desktop for home users.
Available from Mid-April, SuSE Linux 8.2 incorporates the latest version of KDE 3.1 - giving home users who want the stability and security of Linux easy transition from other platforms. Also, the wide variety of the latest Linux tools and applications provide customers a feature-rich and comprehensive Open Source operating system.
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| | Terra Soft's new Xserve Cluster Node offers competitive price/performance
Terra Soft Solutions Inc., a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, has promoted the new Apple Xserve "Cluster Node" and RAID boxes with highly competitive pricing for clusters of all sizes. |
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| | SuSE Linux intensifies partner focus with new comprehensive partner programme
The SuSE Linux Partner Programme will increase partner awareness and skills through focused knowledge transfer tailored to the specific skills, experiences and target markets of partners and enhance sales and marketing support, offering different levels from the SuSE Member Partner to the SuSE Premium Partner.
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| | YDL.net Enhanced launched
Terra Soft , a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux Solutions, has made available YDL.Net Enhanced, an extension to the Yellow Dog Linux online community.
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| | Terra Soft unveils Yellow Dog Linux 3.0
Terra Soft Solutions has launched an upgrade to the company's flagship product Yellow Dog Linux. Code-named Sirius, Yellow Dog Linux version 3.0 features the gcc 3.2.1 compiler, a powerful new foundation for code development. |
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| | Fakespace teams with Xi Graphics to expand availability of Linux-based immersive visualisation
Fakespace Systems and Xi Graphics, a supplier of graphics drivers for Linux and Unix-based systems, have made available a new software driver that enables stereoscopic immersive environments to run on the Linux platform. Now Fakespace visualisation systems that incorporate digital projection technology, such as the CAVE, RAVE II, WorkWall, and ImmersaDesk, can run Linux-based applications using off-the-shelf graphics cards.
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| | Immersive Theater powered by SGI Reality Center opens at Sci-Quest Science Center in Huntsville, Alabama
Sci-Quest, the North Alabama Science Center in Huntsville, is the first science centre in the United States to offer interactivity in an immersive, high-definition theater facility. It uses SG Reality Center technology powered by the SG Onyx 300 visualisation supercomputer and also features 6.2 surround-sound in a 56-seat interactive 3D environment. |
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| | Mechdyne and ModViz agreement allows for affordable and accessible turn-key visualisation solutions
Mechdyne Corporation and ModViz have announced an agreement to provide affordable and accessible immersive visualisation solutions for a wide range of industry customers. The agreement opens new doors for both companies in the emerging advanced immersive visualisation industry. |
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| | The Polytechnic University of Valencia and GridSystems create with Grid technology the biggest virtual supercomputer in Spain
The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has selected the Spanish company GridSystems to create a big interdepartmental Grid. This initiative is framed into the programme to update and increase the informatics resources started by the UPV.
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| | Expert group to identify FP6 research priorities for next generation Grids
The European Commission's Information Society DG is setting up a group of visionary experts to identify research priorities for future Grid technologies within the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The initiative was one of several outcomes from a two day workshop on "Grid computing for complex problem solving" hosted by the Commission on 29 and 30 January. The expert group will hold its kick off meeting in early April, and will meet again prior to the second FP6 calls for proposals, which will cover Grids projects.
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| | FlowGrid Project will change Computation Fluid Dynamics Simulations
The recently started EU-funded FlowGrid project aims to revolutionise the way Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are set up, executed and monitored.
FlowGrid will create a network of Grid-enabled CFD centres across Europe and the develop and validate software and knowledge for Grid-based CFD computations. As a result, a CFD Virtual Organization will come into being which will provide an easy and flexible access to CFD resources for the industrial end users. |
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| | "Sandbox Gridding" feasible solution for compute-intensive bio-informatics tasking?
Small health care and bio-informatics companies with a relatively limited staff need sufficient computing power to process their ongoing protein structure analysis projects in the light of drug discovery and research to fight contemporary diseases. To cope with this type of challenge, the answer may be found in Grid computing applications for bio-informatics tasks. The Danish health care company Novo Nordisk is a typical example of how Grid implementation can contribute to better treatment plans for diabetes, haemostasis management, growth hormone therapy, and hormone replacement therapy. Dennis Madsen from the Department for Scientific Computing at Novo Nordisk explained the company's strategy at the recent European HealthGrid Conference. |
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| | British e-Science Programme faces ambitious e-Health Care Agenda and Grid middleware deployment
At the First European HealthGrid Conference, Tony Hey, Director of the United Kingdom e-Science Core Programme, introduced some of the more relevant medically-related projects, which are being funded in this Programme. He also gave an overview of the present status of Grid middleware, the direction into which Grid services are moving, and the importance of developing open source software and standards to make the Grid computing concept generally available for everyone, whether scientific researcher or commercial user, who is in need of powerful collaborative applications. |
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| | Axceleon launches academic high-performance grid computing package
Axceleon, specialised in computational grid software, is offering special pricing to the academic community. Axceleon's EnFuzion software utilises the combined power of networked computers to significantly reduce application execution time. EnFuzion allows research departments to run multiple sets of input data across their grid or network to achieve results much faster and with greater accuracy. EnFuzion works with Windows, Linux and Unix based operating systems, and utilises all available computing hardware, including idle desktops, dedicated servers, rack mounted servers and blade servers.
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| | IBM and Butterfly to run PlayStation2 games on Grid
Butterfly has signed a PlayStation2 Tools and Middleware agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. to provide technology and networking services for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system. As part of the agreement, IBM and Butterfly activated a first-of-its-kind computing grid that allows on-line game developers to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of PlayStation2 by more efficiently provisioning resources to meet the demands of console gamers. |
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| | CERN chooses for Alcatel IP Core Network Router DataTAG testbed
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has choosen the Alcatel 7770 IP Core Router its trans-Atlantic multi-vendor DataTAG testbed. DaTAG is one of the EU funded data grid projects. |
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| | TeraGrid 40 Gbit/s back bone installed
Fiber optic links between Los Angeles and Chicago have been "lit up" to form the cross-country network backbone for the National Science Foundation's $88 million TeraGrid project. At 40 Gbit/s, the new "backplane," developed in partnership with Qwest Communications, will connect the resources of the TeraGrid. Scientists will use the TeraGrid to make fundamental discoveries in fields as varied as biomedicine, global climate, and astrophysics. The first applications will begin to use the TeraGrid capabilities from all sites this spring. |
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| | Dolphin Interconnect launches CompactPCI SCI card
Dolphin now supports CompactPCI systems with its new 3U cPCI to SCI Adapter Card. The cPCI-SCI interconnect gives OEMs a new option for integrating high-performance scalable coherent interface (SCI) interconnectivity into embedded applications and high-end server clusters. |
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| | Bob Grossman leads masterclass in Amsterdam on Data grids and beyond
Grid technology is fastly becoming an important factor in research and business environments. On the 25th of March 2003, ISOC.nl (Internet Society Nederland) organises a masterclass at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The wellknown expert Robert L. Grossman, Professor at the University of Chicago, and current holder of the world land speed record for transporting data, will speak about data grids and the other upcoming technologies, technologies for analysis and mining of huge amounts of data distributed across various countries and organisations. |
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| | Ninf-G 1.1.1 is available
The Ninf Project has released Ninf-G 1.1.1 of its Grid RPC system.
The Ninf Project is developing Grid technologies which allows users to access various resources such as hardware, software and scientific data on the Grid with an easy-to-use interface.
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| | Last call for Open Grid Services draft standard
The Open Grid Services Infrastructure Working Group has issued a last call for comments for the
Open Grid Services Infrastructure Draft on March 13, 2003. The Open Grid Services Infrastructure
(OGSI) builds on bothGrid and Web services technologies defining mechanisms for creating, managing, and exchanging information among entities the standard calls Grid services. |
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| | University Of Waterloo RAPTOR Program Ranked first in Protein-Structure-Prediction competition
The School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (UW) in Ontario, Canada, has won the Critical Assessment of Fully Automated Structure Prediction (CAFASP) competition using a 40-processor SGI Origin 3800. |
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| | Gridiron software releases XLR8 Version 1.0
GridIron Software released GridIron XLR8 version 1.0, an application development tool and runtime infrastructure that makes it Profoundly Simple to develop, use and manage software with the added speed of parallel distributed computing. GridIron XLR8 enables computationally intensive applications to run faster on multiple computers. |
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| | Altair Engineering acquires Veridian's PBS Pro workload management technology
Altair Engineering has acquired portable batch system (PBS) technology, including PBS Pro and Open PBS workload management software and related assets from Arlington, Virginia based Veridian Corporation.
PBS Pro is the commercial version of the Portable Batch System (PBS), originally developed to manage aerospace computing resources at the NASA Ames Research Center. |
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| | Grid applications in pharma
IT Pharma Solutions will take the IT Systems to the next level improving expectations for increased productivity and revenue on 16-18 June 2003, at Radisson SAS in Brussels, Belgium. This conference will host a session on Wednesday 18 June addressing Grid applications in pharma effective management of data and information where example applications will be showcased.
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| | The ChessBrain Project creates first computational Grid devoted to computer chess
The ChessBrain project has completed a computational Grid devoted to creating the largest chess computer in history. |
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| | Axceleon releases EnFuzion 7.2 delivering several new features for computational Grid computing
Computational Grid software company Axceleon has released EnFuzion 7.2. With support for mixed environments of Windows, Linux, and Unix based operating systems, EnFuzion 7.2 advances on several fronts, including ease-of-use and functionality Axcelon says. |
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| | SGI enables visualisation on the Grid at Hokkaido University
SGI Japan has delivered an SGI Onyx 300 visualisation system to the Hokkaido University Computing Center in Sapporo, Japan. Its intended use is in the emerging field of visualisation on the Grid. |
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| | Several European customers for Dell clusters
Dell has signed agreements with several customers in Europe, to provide high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) solutions. This includes MTU Aero Engine in Germany, Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) in France, University College Cork, Ireland (to be connected to Grid-Ireland),and Oxford University. |
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| | SDSC releases version 2.0.0 of Storage Resource Broker
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD has released a new version of its popular software that enables scientists to create, manage, and collaborate with data collections located on heterogeneous resources distributed across a network. Version 2.0.0 of SDSC's Storage Resource Broker (SRB) preserves existing capabilities of the earlier version for current users, while also providing a greater number of faster, more powerful services in an easier-to-use interface. |
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| | Distributed Management Task Force releases final status of WBEM Specifications
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has accomplished the final release of three Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Specifications. The status, "final release", indicates that the Specifications are stable and have been successfully used in multiple, independent implementations. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise and Internet computing environments. |
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| | Global Grid Forum 8 issues Call for Participation
The eighth Global Grid Forum will be held 24-27 June, 2003 in Seattle, Washington and will be organised right after HPCD-12, held 22-24 June 2003 at the same location. General theme of Global Grid Forum 8 is "Building Grids - Obstacles and Opportunities". |
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| | IBM releases several new Grid resources
IBM has released a number of new Grid computing articles, tutorials and tools, including a Grid Application Framework for Java and the IBM Grid Toolbox. Primeur/EntertheGrid offers a short overview. |
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| | Itochu group to launch grid computing business
Itochu Corporation and two of its group firms will soon jointly launch a grid computing business, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, without citing sources. Grid computing, the newspaper said, is a form of networking designed to harness the processing power of many computers to realise high processing performance at a lower cost. |
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| | PBS Pro v5.3 from Altair
Altair has launched PBS Pro version 5.3. It includes support for Intel Itanium and Macintosh OSX |
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| | Linux Networx Asia and DigiGenomics penetrate biotech market
Linux Networx Asia, K.K. has signed an international distribution agreement with Taiwan-based DigiGenomics Co. Ltd. DigiGenomics, a supplier to the bioinformatics industry in Taiwan, is the first new distributor to be announced in Asia since the formation of Linux Networx Asia in December 2002.
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| | New study points to organisational politics as key barrier to commercial acceptance of grid and shared computing
According to a new study of global Fortune 2000 firms, organisational politics - not technology - stands in the way of widespread commercial acceptance of Grid computing. Despite the significant benefits from Grid computing, such as cost savings and increased performance, the survey revealed that 89% of respondents feel that internal politics, such as "server-hugging", create significant barriers to widespread Grid adoption. |
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| | Massey University in Auckland about to form huge supercomputer for grid applications
Massey University Auckland, home of Helix New Zealand's fastest computer, is leading the way to form a huge supercomputer. Head of parallel computing research, Dr. Chris Messom, is calling upon universities and research organisations to form the country's first grid computing network.
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| | Axceleon and Power Technologies deliver grid computing for global electricity transmission company
Powerlink Queensland, a high-voltage energy transmission network, has deployed Axceleon's EnFuzion along with Power Technologies Inc. (PTI)'s Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSS/E). Network utilities, such as Powerlink, currently use EnFuzion to automate and speed up calculations of power transfer limits throughout their networks. By deploying EnFuzion, these corporations are able to save a great deal of time and resources.
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| | IBM and Michigan State's Broad School form Center for On Demand Supply Chain Research
Michigan State's Eli Broad College of Business and IBM will establish a centre for joint research and study of advanced supply chain practices at MSU's Broad School, one of the world's top schools for supply chain management and logistics. |
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| | SC Global seeking innovative, collaborative ideas for connecting SC2003 Conference to the world
It's time to start planning to participate in SC Global 2003, the Access Grid-enabled component of the SC2003 Conference Technical Programme, and this year's premier showcase for innovative uses of collaboration technologies in the context of high performance computing and networking. SC Global offers a chance for people to participate in SC2003 without leaving home, and to contribute to SC2003 from remote locations. During SC Global's debut at SC2001, 43 sites participated remotely, from locations in 11 countries spread across six continents. This year's conference will be held November 15-21 in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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| | Platform computing Grid software powers scientific research for U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Platform Computing Inc.'s Grid computing software will be used to power the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) $24.5 million, 11.4-teraflop HP supercomputer. Originally announced by HP in April 2002, the PNNL project is expected to create one of the world's most powerful Linux-based supercomputers, allowing researchers to apply an advanced computational infrastructure to address "Grand Challenge" scale environmental research problems.
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| | University of Texas selects Force10 Networks for high performance campus computing grid
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin has selected the E-Series switch/router to provide a next-generation, inter-campus grid computing infrastructure. The E-Series will initially aggregate Gigabit Ethernet connections from HPC computing resources located at TACC, and connects at 10-Gigabit Ethernet speeds across the Greater Austin Area Telecommunications Network (GAATN) to TACC and UT HPC resources located on the main UT campus. |
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| | Platform Symphony enables real time, on-line computing
Platform Computing has made available Platform Symphony 1.5, an application infrastructure solution designed to accelerate on-line and real time distributed processing. With its high
performance, Grid-enabled, service-oriented architecture, Platform Symphony helps companies move toward the real time enterprise by speeding up time-sensitive and mission-critical applications faster and more accurately than ever before. Platform Symphony offers commercial institutions
unprecedented scalability, improved performance, guaranteed service, and rapid deployment in a virtualised environment. |
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| | Avaki Data Grid Software to improve data access across multiple sites for Aventis
Global pharmaceutical company Aventis has chosen Avaki Data Grid software to provide automated, secure, wide-area access to bioinformatics research data across multiple North American research sites. Avaki Data Grid automates the sharing of business-critical data resources, enabling users to significantly speed the performance of applications. |
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| | IBM open sources software for sharing life sciences data
IBM has contributed software for specifying a common method of naming and locating Life Sciences data. The software - called the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) Resolver - provides a common way to name and find biological data, such as protein structures and DNA sequences. The software is designed to make it far simpler for scientists and bioinformaticians to integrate information from many locations to aid bioinformatics research to facilitate drug discovery.
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| | ClusterWorld Conference & Expo launches to serve customers in rapidly-growing clustering markets
ClusterWorld Conference & Expo, the world's premier event on clustered solutions for customers in commercial, research and academic computing, will launch June 23 through 26 at the San Jose Convention Center in California. ClusterWorld will be the first international exposition addressing the business and technology issues of clustered systems in high performance computing, mission-critical high availability applications and the rapidly-emerging field of "clusters of clusters" for distributed applications known as Grid computing. |
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| | Distributed Resource Management Application API proposal for Grid computing released at Global Grid Forum 7
Sun Microsystems has completed the proposed specification for the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA), one of the first specifications to enable the development and deployment of high performance Grid applications. Providing "write-once" capabilities to any DRM system that supports DRMAA, the specification makes it possible for new applications - both enterprise and technical - to be used in a Grid environment, thereby dramatically expanding the reach of Grid computing. |
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| | IBM's Linux-only mainframe selected by University of Florida for Grid computing research
The University of Florida has selected the Linux-only IBM eServer zSeries 800 as the heart of the university's Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) laboratory at the school's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Gainesville, Florida. The sale of the z800 was made by IBM Business Partner Cornerstone Systems Inc. The university is the 1000th customer of IBM's entry-class mainframe, the z800, which began shipping in March of last year. A collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation funded the purchase. |
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| | Problem Solving Environments conference in Portugal
The Euresco Conference will be organised 14-19 June 2003 in Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal. The conference programme addresses the state-of-the-art in infrastructure, standards, and core technologies i.e. data mining, intelligence, virtual interfaces, grid computing, for problem-solving environments (PSEs) and reviews PSE developments in health, bio-informatics, engineering, marketing and finance, environment, and education and training. Deadline for paper submission is March 24, 2003. |
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| | Call for Participation in 21th TOP500 supercomputing list
The next release of the Top500 Supercomputer List will be presented at the 18th International Supercomputer Conference, June 24-27 in Heidelberg, Germany. The deadline for submitting entries is April 15, 2003. All systems reported have to be installed by May 15, 2003. |
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| | Abilene Backbone Network upgrade passes transcontinental milestone
The first transcontinental path in the Abilene network's nationwide upgrade is now in service. 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. Qwest Communications International, Juniper Networks and Indiana University are providing equipment and services to implement the network upgrade. |
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