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May 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | Web site to submit proposals for SC2003 programme is now open
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| | CCGrid 2003
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| | India's First Itanium 2-Based SGI system for SERC
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| | iQstor Announces Expanded Channel Program
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| | NEC Solutions America supports Windows Server 2003 on 32-way Intel Itanium 2-based Servers
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| Europe
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| | Announcement of EWOMP'03 - Fifth European Workshop on OpenMP
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| | Computers in Cardiology 2003 issues Call for Papers
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| | IST 2003 and IST Prize issue Calls for Proposals
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| | Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing issues Call for Papers
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| | Tenth European PVM/MPI Users' Group Conference issues Call for Papers
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| | Euro PVM/MPI 2003
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| Industry
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| | National Center for Atmospheric Research uses SGI Visual Area Network to advance science with collaborative visualisation
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| | STMicroelectronics announces new compilers to support AMD Opteron processors
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| | MSC.Software implements MSC.Linux platform and VPD Campus System at Eurocopter Germany
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| | NCSA's IBM POWER4 Available to Research Community
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| | E92Plus and Cobion team to offer anti-spam and content filtering solutions
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| | Neuroscientists map how Alzheimer's disease engulfs the brain
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| | Powerllel software boosts performance of Gerber Capital Trading analytics
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| | ESI Group unveils at Micad comprehensive vibro-acoustic simulation solution
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| | Modeling seminar
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| | DataDirect S2A storage appliances to power Matrox NewsFlow at NAB 2003
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| | HiPC 2003 call for submissions
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| | Brocade introduces next-generation fabric operating environment for storage area networks
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| | CSC wins US DoD high-performance computing tasks valued at $82 million
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| | ProMicro introduces Itanium-2 based server
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| | HP and Microsoft top transaction processing performance
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| | DataDirect Networks introduces S2A8000 storage network controllers to broadcasters at NAB 2003
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Supercomputing always has been a cost-performance trade-off - An interview with Justin Rattner - part 1
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| | It is difficult to justify Grid computing for commercial applications - An interview with Justin Rattner - part 2
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| | Supercomputing goes in and out of fashion - An interview with Justin Rattner - part 3
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen in Germany Part 4: Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart and hww GmbH
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| | Höchstleistungsrechen in Germany Part 5: Local Centres, Political issues with the Wissenschaftsrat and the DFG
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| | HPC Funding by the German Ministry of Research
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| | New IBM p630 with Power4+ plus p650 Linux Ready Express
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| | Sun expands high performance and technical computing business
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| | Intel and HP provide KTH with Itanium 2-based systems to more quickly anlayse complex life sciences issues
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| | New Sun supercluster configurations offer platforms for terascale computing
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| | ISC2003 - HPC in Focus
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| | Arun Shourie inaugurates C-DAC's supercomputing facility
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| | Cray reports first customer acceptance of full production version of Cray X1 system
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| | Russia-Belarus Union State to have its own supercomputers
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| | IDC HPC user forum will hold dialogue meetings between European and US users
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| | RackSaver incorporates AMD Opteron processor into servers
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| | Complete Xilinx DDR400 SDRAM interface for FPGAs
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| | Nauticus selects xilinx platform FPGAs for rapid deployment of new intelligent data center
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| Industry
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| | The world's fastest Linux cluster - just got faster!
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| | SuSE introduces enterprise-ready Linux for the AMD Opteron
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| | RackSaver expands into the enterprise market with the HIVE cluster leveraging Intel EPSD products
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| | Curl introduces Linux version of rich client application development platform
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| | Sistina Global File System software achieves Red Hat Ready status
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| | SuSE Linux names key executives
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| Industry
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| | SGI delivers core digital technology for transmission centre of Bayerischer Rundfunk
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| | New digital news production system at Czech Television
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| | Media 100 announces version 8.2 software
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| | Media 100 announces iFinish Version 4.6 software, new configurations and pricing
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| | Media 100 to debut 844/X Version 2.0 at NAB 2003
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| | Fakespace Systems completes merger with Mechdyne Corporation
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| Industry
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| | The SpaceGRID Workshop
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| | United Devices continues expansion into European market with additional key customer
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| | UNICORE will become the Middleware of the Japanese Grid-Initiative
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| | United Devices unveils three new service programmes
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| | California Institute of Technology selects HP Itanium 2 Systems for scientific research on TeraGrid project
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| | Cambridge University Cosmos Project, led by Professor Stephen Hawking, chooses SGI Altix 3000 supercluster
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| | IBM to help CERN build massive data Grid to understand origins of the universe
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| | OSCAR 2.2.1 released
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| | United Deviced unveils Grid MP platform
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| | NPACI releases free cluster software solution for Itanium2 and x86
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| | IBM and Platform bring Grid computing to Linux on the mainframe
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| | Kontiki enhances its Grid Delivery Technology for rich media delivery
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| | Grid computing software EnFuzion deployed by France and England National Power Grid Operators
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| | GRID WARS parallel programming challenge in June
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| | NPACI releases Rocks Cluster software solution for Itanium2 and x86 processors
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| | Workshop on Grid Information Services - National e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 24-25th April 2003
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| | Gigaport seminar
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| | Grid Computing Symposium Amsterdam
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| | San Diego Supercomputer Center Director appointed to Endowed Chair in UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
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| | Smallpox Research on Linux networx
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| | Robert Gordon of Platform to speak at Deutsche Bank conference
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| | Datasynapse grid market offering for IBM zSeries
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| | IBM to provide on demand Services to General Dynamics Electric Boat
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| Networking
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| | SURFnet builds test network on basis of dark fibre
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| | Caspian Networks introduces Apeiro flow-based router for service provider networks
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| | InfiniSwitch announces general availability of end-to-end switched fabric networking solution
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| | SwXtch receives Notice of Allowance for U.S. patent on layer one packet switching
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May 2003
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| | Web site to submit proposals for SC2003 programme is now open
Technical programme proposals for SC2003, the conference of high performance networking and computing, are being accepted through Friday, April 25. SC2003 will be held November 15-21, 2003, in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference offers seven days of technical programmes, technological demonstrations and exhibits, educational outreach and mind-boggling visualisations of computational data. |
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| | CCGrid 2003
The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003) will be held May 12-15, 2003 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference consists of the refereed paper presentations, tutorials, posters, and several workshops related to cluster and grid technologies. The conference program highlights are enclosed for your consideration.
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| | India's First Itanium 2-Based SGI system for SERC
The Supercomputing Education Research Centre (SERC), India's leading center for high-performance computing (HPC) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, has purchased India's first SGI AltixTM 3000 system, powered by 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors.
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| | iQstor Announces Expanded Channel Program
iQstor Networks,a developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, announced the U.S. expansion of its worldwide channel partner program in advance of the company's iQ1000 Storage System release. iQstor has recently signed master reseller agreements to resell, service and support their full line of integrated SAN solutions in the Asia Pacific market.
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| | NEC Solutions America supports Windows Server 2003 on 32-way Intel Itanium 2-based Servers
NEC Solutions (America), Inc. announced that the company will offer its entire line of NEC Express5800 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Included among its general purpose, fault tolerant and high performance servers, NEC Solutions stated that its 64-bit Express5800/1000 series servers will be offered with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, 64-bit.
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| | Announcement of EWOMP'03 - Fifth European Workshop on OpenMP
The 5th European Workshop on OpenMP - EWOMP'03 - will be organised in Aachen, Germany, September 22 - 26, 2003. The Workshop is a forum for application programmers and for compiler and tool developers using OpenMP. This year's workshop will consist of a theoretical part with invited and contributed talks and a practical part with a hands-on lab session. Deadline for paper submissions is June 10th, 2003. |
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| | Computers in Cardiology 2003 issues Call for Papers
The 30th annual meeting of Computers in Cardiology will be hosted by the Laboratory of Medical Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It will be held in the Athos-Pallini resort located in Kassandra, Chalkidiki from September 21st to September 24th, 2003. This conference provides an international forum for scientific presentations focusing on computer applications in clinical cardiology and cardiovascular research. Deadline for paper abstract submission is May 1, 2003. |
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| | IST 2003 and IST Prize issue Calls for Proposals
The Calls for Ideas for Conference Workshops and Research Exhibits have just opened for IST 2003, to be held on October 2-4 in Milan in partnership with SMAU, one of Europe's largest ICT events. The Calls close on May 5, and will be followed by a interactive Call for Networking Sessions. Applications for the European IST Prize close on May 15. |
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| | Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing issues Call for Papers
The Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC) will be held October 16-18, 2003 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and will be organised within the framework of the IS'2003 Multiconference. Due to the fact that the symposium will be organised as one of eight events it will help establishing links with researchers in other fields. Deadline for paper submission is August 1, 2003.
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| | Tenth European PVM/MPI Users' Group Conference issues Call for Papers
The 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Conference - EuroPVM/MPI 2003 - will be organised in Venice, Italy, September 29 - October 2, 2003. The European PVM/MPI Users' Group Conference is a forum for the users and developers of Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), Message Passing Interface (MPI), and other message-passing programming environments. Deadline for paper submissions is April 23, 2003. |
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| | Euro PVM/MPI 2003
The EuroPVM/MPI 2003 conference will deal with various aspects of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and their application. The scope of the conference has been extended to specifically include Cluster and Grid Computing. The conference will be held September 29 - October 2, 2003 in Venice, Italy
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| | National Center for Atmospheric Research uses SGI Visual Area Network to advance science with collaborative visualisation
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, has installed SGI Visual Area Networking (VAN) technology aimed at ushering in the next generation of very-large-data exploration and collaborative computing. NCAR's new visualisation lab is powered by an SGI Onyx 3800 graphics supercomputer running SGI OpenGL Vizserver software, enabling individual users or teams to access the advanced visualisation, high-performance computing and complex data management capabilities of a centralised visualisation server.
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| | STMicroelectronics announces new compilers to support AMD Opteron processors
The Portland Group Compiler Technology team of STMicroelectronics has made available a Beta Release of the PGI Workstation 5.0 Fortran and C compilers for AMD Opteron processors. This is the first publicly available release of STMicroelectronics' upcoming suite of optimising software development tools for AMD 64-bit technology processors. The PGI Workstation compilers and tools are used by scientists and engineers to solve some of the world's most challenging technical computing problems in weather modelling, geophysical processing, aerodynamic simulation and related fields. STMicroelectronics will begin commercial shipments of these compilers and tools in June 2003.
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| | MSC.Software implements MSC.Linux platform and VPD Campus System at Eurocopter Germany
Eurocopter Germany has invested 148,000 Euro in two MSC.Linux Clusters from MSC.Software and is planning to introduce MSC.Linux as their standard CAE platform in Germany. In addition, Eurocopter has also purchased an MSC.Software VPD Campus Licensing System giving them access to the entire MSC.Software software portfolio on a pay-for-use basis.
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| | NCSA's IBM POWER4 Available to Research Community
NCSA's new IBM POWER4 p690 supercomputer, capable of performing 2 Tflop/s, becomes available to the general scientific research community on Tuesday, April, 1. The system will be used by researchers in a wide range of science and engineering disciplines, including chemistry, biology, astrophysics, atmospheric sciences, materials sciences, high-energy physics, and structural mechanics.
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| | E92Plus and Cobion team to offer anti-spam and content filtering solutions
Specialist IT security distributor, e92plus Limited, has signed an agreement with Cobion to offer the company's innovative web and e-mail content filtering products to resellers in the UK, Ireland and The Netherlands. This agreement comes as businesses are struggling under the crush of spam. According to Ferris Research, spam cost European businesses $2.5 billion in 2002 and things are going to get worse. A Harris Interactive poll, taken at the end of 2002, found almost all users (80%) saying they find spam very annoying.
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| | Neuroscientists map how Alzheimer's disease engulfs the brain
University of California (UCLA) and University of Queensland (Australia) neuroscientists using a new imaging analysis technique have created the first three-dimensional video maps showing how Alzheimer's disease systematically engulfs the brains of living patients.
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| | Powerllel software boosts performance of Gerber Capital Trading analytics
Gerber Capital Management, a New York based proprietary arbitrage fund, has selected the Powerllel solution to accelerate its trading analytics. Powerllel software easily enables the accelerated computing of performance demanding applications. Powerllel's software
provides a development framework for creating and orchestrating parallel and distributed applications for the financial, insurance and energy companies.
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| | ESI Group unveils at Micad comprehensive vibro-acoustic simulation solution
At Micad ESI Group has unveiled the most comprehensive solution available on the market for vibro-acoustic simulation. ESI Group's virtual acoustic prototyping solution includes RAYON, a powerful low frequency vibro-acoustic software well suited for the prediction of trimmed vehicles' acoustic performances, and AutoSEA, the most effective software for the control of broadband airborne noise and sound-induced vibrations, such as acoustic noise from engine and tires of automotive and aerodynamic noise experienced by aircraft. |
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| | Modeling seminar
The Finnish supercomputer centre CS will organise a seminar on Modeling in industry and Research on May 13, 2003.
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| | DataDirect S2A storage appliances to power Matrox NewsFlow at NAB 2003
DataDirect Networks' intelligent Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) storage network controllers will be enabling best-of-breed SAN solutions in the Matrox Video Products Group booth at NAB 2003. DataDirect's S2A controllers deliver compelling application productivity, cost-effective scalability and simplified management benefits to real-time broadcasting, non-linear editing and post production applications, and Matrox will be using S2A technology as the foundation of their new NewsFlow demonstration at NAB 2003. |
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| | HiPC 2003 call for submissions
Submission deadline for the 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing on December 17-20, 2003 Hyderabad, India is May 02, 2003.
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| | Brocade introduces next-generation fabric operating environment for storage area networks
Brocade Communications Systems, a provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), has announced OEM availability of the Brocade Fabric Operating Environment, an array of significant new features and capabilities for the Brocade Fabric Operating System (Fabric OS) and fabric management tools. |
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| | CSC wins US DoD high-performance computing tasks valued at $82 million
Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced today it was awarded four task orders to support the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program by providing technical operations as well as user support and outreach services at two DoD sites. The combined value of the task orders is more than $82 million if all options are exercised over six years. The task orders were awarded by the General Services Administration under the Federal Technology Service's Millennia contract. |
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| | ProMicro introduces Itanium-2 based server
Promicro introduced the ProServer 4430 Intel Itanium 2-based server. The ProServer 4430 enables businesses to seamlessly manage large volumes of data across multiple operating platforms. |
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| | HP and Microsoft top transaction processing performance
HP and Microsoft set the single-system TPC-C (OLTP) benchmark to of 658,277 transactions per minute. The TPC-C benchmark, independently verified by an authorized TPC auditor, is recognized as being among the most complex online transaction processing benchmarks in the industry.
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| | DataDirect Networks introduces S2A8000 storage network controllers to broadcasters at NAB 2003
DataDirect Networks introduces their intelligent S2A8000 storage network controllers to broadcasters and professional video users at NAB 2003. The blazingly-fast S2A8000 allows creation of high performance SANs quickly with a simple to deploy, easy to manage storage network controller, bringing performance, cost-effective scalability and simplified management to broadcast and production environments.
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| | Supercomputing always has been a cost-performance trade-off - An interview with Justin Rattner - part 1
One of the keynotes at Europe's main supercomputer event, the international Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg, in June, will be delivered by Justin Rattner, designer of the first machine to break the 1 Tflop/s barrier: the ASCI Red supercomputer. Currently he is focusing on processor design at Intel. In this first part of the interview, we asked him, of course, about the Earth Simulator and the impact, if any, on processor design. Will the next Intel processor be a vector processor? Read the complete article for the answer. |
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| | It is difficult to justify Grid computing for commercial applications - An interview with Justin Rattner - part 2
In this second part of the interview with ISC2003 keynote speaker Justin Rattner, we talked about the second main development in high performance computing - The Grid. Although there is a case for Grid computing in technical and scientific computing - Rattner mentions aerospace and automotive, the future of the Grid in the commercial area is still fuzzy. Security and billing are still open issues, according to Rattner. |
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| | Supercomputing goes in and out of fashion - An interview with Justin Rattner - part 3
High-end supercomputing is much more depending on politics than most of those active in the field want to admit. It is always going in and out of fashion, depending on how important the national security and defense issues are perceived. At least in the USA that is the case, according to ISC2003 keynote speaker Justin Rattner.
There is a transition from main stream supercomputing towards more cluster computing. A new breed of companies, system integrators focusing on cluster computing, is emerging as a result. According to Justin Rattner, however, SMP will remain a viable architecture for many years to come, building on single-chip multiprocessors. |
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| | Höchstleistungsrechnen in Germany Part 4: Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart and hww GmbH
In this issue the actual Höchstleistungszentrum Stuttgart (HLRS) and its co-operation with industry via the enterprise hww GmbH will be discussed. As HLRS/hww has old computers it is just in the acquisition phase. In April this year the proposal goes to DFG (German Research Society). Thus the result of the decision is not clear yet. |
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| | Höchstleistungsrechen in Germany Part 5: Local Centres, Political issues with the Wissenschaftsrat and the DFG
In this last part some Hochleistungsrechenzentren like Aaachen, Berlin and Hannover will be discussed shortly. The political importance of the Wissenschaftsrat and the Commission for Computers of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) will be highlighted. Additionally some new proposals of the Wissenschaftsrat of the future supercomputer scene will be mentioned. |
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| | HPC Funding by the German Ministry of Research
Ministerialrat Bernd Reuse, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), gave at ISC 2002 in Heidelberg an overview of the actual funding activities of BMBF in this field. Here, a reprint from the article from Primeur Live in a shortened version. |
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| | New IBM p630 with Power4+ plus p650 Linux Ready Express
When visiting me, Leo Steiner and Simone Rohde presented the new midrange systems p630 for small and medium enterprises. Additionally we talked about the European project "Port Now". This is an initiative for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to port their programs and applications to AIX 5.1 and 5.2. Thus SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) can afford a midrange server, which has a broad application spectrum. The Linux version starts $ 19,025. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | Sun expands high performance and technical computing business
Sun Microsystems has launched the creation of a new, expanded High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) business unit to span Sun and drive HPTC customer requirements to a broader range of future developments. The move brings into a single view Sun's HPTC products, programmes and investments across all of its divisions, including software, services, sales, storage and computer systems products.
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| | Intel and HP provide KTH with Itanium 2-based systems to more quickly anlayse complex life sciences issues
Sweden's largest engineering school, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), is increasing its high performance computing capability through the deployment of a 180 processor cluster comprising of 74 two-way Intel Itanium 2-based HP Server rx2600s and 16 two-way Intel Itanium 2-based HP Workstations zx6000. The new system will provide Swedish academic researchers and their international collaborators with a huge boost in processing power and shared memory to analyse complex problems in all areas of life sciences, bio-informatics, computational chemistry, materials science, astrophysics, fundamental physics and computational engineering.
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| | New Sun supercluster configurations offer platforms for terascale computing
Addressing the increasing demand for the combination of high-performance and highly productive computing, Sun Microsystems has made available Sun Fire Superclusters based on the Sun Fire 6800, Sun Fire 12K and Sun Fire 15K server platforms. Outclassing competitors with a solution that provides an open platform to thousands of applications and increases access to compute resources via Sun ONE Grid Engine software, Sun's new Sun Fire Superclusters also feature Sun HPC ClusterTools 5 software and Sun's industry-leading Sun Fire Link interconnect technology. |
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| | ISC2003 - HPC in Focus
The deadline for registering for the annual International Supercomputer Conference and Exhibition - ISC2003, to be held in Heidelberg, the heart of Europe, June 24-27, is getting close, May 9. If you haven't yet registered, but intend to go, it is time you had. It helps the organisers to attend to the numerous operational details, which makes possible a seamless conference.
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| | Arun Shourie inaugurates C-DAC's supercomputing facility
C-DAC's Terascale Supercomputing Facility (CTSF) which houses the next generation high performance scalable supercomputing cluster - PARAM Padma, currently with a peak computing power of one Teraflop was inaugurated by Shri. Arun Shourie, Minister for Disinvestment and Communications & Information Technology, Government of India, at the C-DAC Knowledge Park. |
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| | Cray reports first customer acceptance of full production version of Cray X1 system
Cray Inc. has reported the first customer acceptance of a full-production version of the new Cray X1 supercomputer system. The system was accepted by Network Computing Services Inc. (NCSI), systems integrator and computing facilities manager for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC).
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| | Russia-Belarus Union State to have its own supercomputers
The complex Russian-Belorussian programme for the production of supercomputers will allow to begin outputting competitive powerful and relatively cheap machines very soon. The press service of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Moscow quoted a Russian-Belorussian group of scientists engaged in the creation of the Union State's own supercomputer as saying so.
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| | IDC HPC user forum will hold dialogue meetings between European and US users
The HPC User Forum, consisting of high performance computing users from government, industry and academia, will hold its first dialogue meetings between European and U.S. users on Tuesday May 20, 2003 in Bristol, UK and on Thursday, May 22, 2003, in Annecy, France.
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| | RackSaver incorporates AMD Opteron processor into servers
RackSaver products will be supporting the AMD Opteron processor. Products include its BladeRack XT, QuatreX-64, and the RS-1164/op.
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| | Complete Xilinx DDR400 SDRAM interface for FPGAs
Xilinx announced a complete suite of solutions to help advanced system designers to quickly implement FPGA-based interfaces to the latest breed of double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) devices.
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| | Nauticus selects xilinx platform FPGAs for rapid deployment of new intelligent data center
Nauticus Networks selected the Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGA family for its recently launched N2000 Series of Intelligent Data Center Switches. Nauticus Network's N2000 and N2000V Series of Intelligent Data Center Switches provide high performance network and security application services while dramatically reducing capital and operating expenses
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| | The world's fastest Linux cluster - just got faster!
The MCR system housed at the Department of Energy National Laboratory at Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) entered at number five in the November 2002 TOP500 llist with a Linpack performance of 5.69 Tflops. Since that time Quadrics, LLNL and the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences have worked together to optimize the performance of Linpack on IA32 Quadrics based clusters. With this work MCR has now reached a figure of 7.63 delivered Tflops out of a peak of 11.06 Tflops for an efficiency of 69.03% of peak on Linpack. The QsNet cluster fabric allows Linpack performance to scale linearly with system size. MCR was delivered by Linux Networx Inc.
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| | SuSE introduces enterprise-ready Linux for the AMD Opteron
SuSE Linux announced the availability of the first enterprise-ready Linux server operating system for the AMD Opteron processor: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64, Powered by UnitedLinux.
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| | RackSaver expands into the enterprise market with the HIVE cluster leveraging Intel EPSD products
RackSaver has launched a new product called The HIVE (High-density, Interconnected, Vertically cooled, Enterprise) cluster is a twist on RackSaver's extremely popular BladeRack design. It holds up to 22 Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors, 176GB of memory and utilises the same patent-pending Vertical Cooling System (VCS) as the BladeRack. |
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| | Curl introduces Linux version of rich client application development platform
At IBM developerWorks Live, Curl Corporation has launched Linux OS support for its Curl Client/Web Platform, a rich application development environment designed from the ground up as client-side technology dedicated to the delivery of enterprise-class applications via the Web. Debuting the Curl Linux version, this announcement marks the delivery of the first Linux client side engine for rich Internet application development. |
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| | Sistina Global File System software achieves Red Hat Ready status
The Sistina Global File System (GFS) has achieved Red Hat Ready status for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v2.1) platform from Red Hat Inc., an open source and Linux provider. Through the Red Hat Ready programme, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can better leverage Red Hat's brand, expertise and products in the Linux market. |
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| | SuSE Linux names key executives
SuSE Linux named three key executives and announced the selection of new public relations and marketing agencies - enhancing the company's worldwide marketing, technology and partnering capabilities.
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| | SGI delivers core digital technology for transmission centre of Bayerischer Rundfunk
SGI will provide the core digital infrastructure technology for Germany's most modern transmission centre, which is being created for the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in Munich. SGI has been commissioned by the system house T-Systems, the main contractor for the project. Initially ordered last December, the SGI solution will provide an extremely flexible, high-performance digital infrastructure to record and store all incoming and in-house-generated video content, ensure an optimised work flow for on-line access and transmit finished material to air. |
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| | New digital news production system at Czech Television
The Czech Television (CT) public service television in the Czech Republic awarded its new server-based newsroom project to SGI for the delivery of a complete digital news production system (DNPS) for managing the production of news and sports broadcasts. The project consists of two implementation phases and has an estimated completion date of February 2004. |
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| | Media 100 announces version 8.2 software
Media 100 Inc., a provider of advanced media systems, has launched new Version 8.2 software for the company's family of Media 100 i digital video solutions for the Mac OS X platform. Built on the Version 8 code base that the company redesigned in 2002 to take full native advantage of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, Version 8.2 expands the Media 100 i toolsets for editing, effects design, and media management. |
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| | Media 100 announces iFinish Version 4.6 software, new configurations and pricing
Media 100 Inc. has launched Version 4.6 software for iFinish, the company's family of Windows-based professional editing systems, with new support for Windows XP and OMF Exchange capability plus numerous work flow improvements. In addition the Company announced new iFinish PowerGrade configurations that come complete with an HP Workstation xw6000. Media 100 expects first shipments of iFinish Version 4.6 software to begin in the third quarter of 2003. New iFinish PowerGrade configurations are available immediately with prices starting at GBP 2895. |
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| | Media 100 to debut 844/X Version 2.0 at NAB 2003
Media 100 Inc. will demonstrate 844/X Version 2.0 at NAB 2003, including support for XBLUR, the company's new 844/X option for real-time four-stream 50-pixel Gaussian Blur effects, and HDX Technology, the company's new 844/X technology for capturing, processing, and displaying in real time HD and SD formats on a single 844/X system. Version 2.0 and XBLUR are both expected to ship in May 2003; HDX Technology is planned to ship in the second half of 2003.
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| | Fakespace Systems completes merger with Mechdyne Corporation
Fakespace Systems has finalised its merger with Mechdyne Corporation. Fakespace will continue to focus on markets such as energy, federal government, manufacturing, life sciences and education while exploring opportunities in other areas such as enterprise-wide visualisation, including onsite facility management. The company will be known as Fakespace Systems.
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| | The SpaceGRID Workshop
The SpaceGRID Workshop - The Grid in Space Research and Applications
21 and 22 May 2003 ESRIN Frascati (Rome) Italy. The aim of this workshop is to present the results of SpaceGRID study, to show the potential benefits of the Grid technology into space research and applications in Earth Observation, Space Science, Spacecraft Engineering, Space Weather, Radiation Transport and Spacecraft Plasma Interaction. |
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| | United Devices continues expansion into European market with additional key customer
United Devices, specialised in secure grid solutions, has secured Sanofi-Synthelabo as a key life science customer and has also established a United Kingdom-based office in order to meet growing European demand for its Enterprise MetaProcessor platform. |
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| | UNICORE will become the Middleware of the Japanese Grid-Initiative
As ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics) of Research Centre Juelich reported in its April edition of ZAM aktuell, that Dr. Makoto Furunishi of MEXT, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology, announced during the Global Grid Forum (GGF7) in Tokyo that UNICORE has been selected as the Grid middleware for the new National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI).
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| | United Devices unveils three new service programmes
United Devices, specialised in secure grid solutions, has announced several industry-leading service offerings for both customers and partners designed to ease enterprise adoption of grid computing technology. |
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| | California Institute of Technology selects HP Itanium 2 Systems for scientific research on TeraGrid project
The California Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) has installed HP Itanium 2-based servers running on Linux as part of its 32-node cluster dedicated to data intensive applications on the TeraGrid project, the world's largest, fastest, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research.
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| | Cambridge University Cosmos Project, led by Professor Stephen Hawking, chooses SGI Altix 3000 supercluster
SGI has signed a contract to provide an SGI Altix 3000 supercluster to the U.K. COSMOS consortium led by Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge as part of a long-term agreement between the two organisations. The latest addition to the consortium's SGI infrastructure, based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor, will form the next phase of a British computational and visualisation grid installed by SGI to support the COSMOS project. This initiative enables experts to collaborate on research to model the history of the universe from the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the present day, about 14 billion years later.
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| | IBM to help CERN build massive data Grid to understand origins of the universe
IBM is joining the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) openlab for DataGrid applications to collaborate in creating a massive data-management system built on Grid computing.
IBM's innovative storage virtualisation and file management technology will play a pivotal role in this collaboration, which aims to create a data file system far larger than exists today to help scientists at the renowned particle physics research centre understand some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the universe. |
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| | OSCAR 2.2.1 released
The OSCAR working group released version 2.2.1 of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit. This release offers full IA-64 support with the inclusion of updated SIS and Kernel_Picker packages. OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy to install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing.
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| | United Deviced unveils Grid MP platform
United Devices announced Grid MP 4.0, the company's newest grid technology platform. The Grid MP platform include a new paradigm in virtualization and control of resources, users, policies and applications within an enterprise - regardless of geographic or administrative boundaries. The new platform also supports MPI (Message Passing Interface).
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| | NPACI releases free cluster software solution for Itanium2 and x86
Researchers with the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the University of California, Berkeley have released version 2.3.2 of the "NPACI Rocks" cluster toolkit. |
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| | IBM and Platform bring Grid computing to Linux on the mainframe
IBM and Platform have announced several significant developments that highlight the rapid emergence of Grid Computing as a compelling choice for enterprises running Linux on the IBM zSeries mainframe. Platform will offer support for Linux on the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe, extending Enterprise Grid computing to the mainframe. By making its commercial Grid software solutions, including Platform LSF, MultiCluster, and JobScheduler, available for Linux on the zSeries mainframe, Platform and IBM can integrate heterogeneous systems into one virtualised infrastructure, optimising Intel-based xSeries, POWER4 based pSeries, and Linux systems on IBM mainframes. |
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| | Kontiki enhances its Grid Delivery Technology for rich media delivery
Kontiki announced enhancements to its Grid Delivery Technology for distributing video and other digital media over existing corporate networks and the Internet.
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| | Grid computing software EnFuzion deployed by France and England National Power Grid Operators
Computational grid software company Axceleon, said the Reseau de Transport d'Electricite (RTE) and National Power Grid Company, the operators of the transmission systems in France, England, and Wales, are using EnFuzion to automate and accelerate Assess, a power systems analysis application.
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| | GRID WARS parallel programming challenge in June
The next GRID WARS parallel programming challenge, where competing programs written in CxC ("C by C") fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors, will be held live in San Jose, USA, June 23-26.
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| | NPACI releases Rocks Cluster software solution for Itanium2 and x86 processors
Researchers with the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have released version 2.3.2 of the NPACI Rocks cluster toolkit for both 64-bit and 32-bit processors. NPACI Rocks is developed by the Grid and Cluster Computing Group at SDSC and by partners at the University of California, Berkeley, Singapore Computing Systems in Singapore, and individual open-source software developers.
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| | Workshop on Grid Information Services - National e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 24-25th April 2003
We are organising a workshop on Grid Information Services at the
National e-Science Institute, Edinburgh 24-25th April 2003. It should
be of interest to anyone using or developing middleware which
encapsulates information about e-Science and Grid projects, their
users, resources and applications. We would like to invite you to
attend this event and to participate in discussions about Grid and Web
Services information systems and related issues. (Robert J. Allan) |
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| | Gigaport seminar
On May 12, the Dutch high-speed network application organisation Gigaport organises a seminar on innovation. Topic range from Grid computing to eHealth and includes tracks on secure networks and high-speed network developments.
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| | Grid Computing Symposium Amsterdam
A Grid Computing Symposium will be held during the CUO/Interex/DECUS European Users Conference and Expo on Tuesday 20 May 2003 in the RAI Conference Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| | San Diego Supercomputer Center Director appointed to Endowed Chair in UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering has announced that Francine Berman has been appointed first holder of the Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing. Berman is a UCSD professor of computer science and engineering and directs the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD. |
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| | Smallpox Research on Linux networx
Linux Networx said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using a Linux Networx( Evolocity( cluster supercomputer to study smallpox genomics in light of the threat of possible bioterror attacks. The cluster is designed to provide optimum performance for bioinformatics problems and will be used by the Biotechnology Core Facility Branch at CDC, the US's leading public health agency. |
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| | Robert Gordon of Platform to speak at Deutsche Bank conference
Platform's ceo Robert Gordon will speak at Deutsche Bank's Software and Services Conference in New York at the Millennium Broadway April 28-29, 2003.
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| | Datasynapse grid market offering for IBM zSeries
DataSynapse released LiveCluster 3G for the IBM's eServer zSeries mainframe for Linux through its LiveCluster 3G. DataSynapse's LiveCluster grid computing infrastructure allows customers to harness zSeries platforms to operate as part of a virtual grid supercomputer.
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| | IBM to provide on demand Services to General Dynamics Electric Boat
IBM signed a multi-year contract by General Dynamics Electric Boat to build the shipbuilding industry's first Internet-based supply chain network. IBM will provide on demand computing infrastructure to automate Electric Boat's supply chain, linking together partners, suppliers and other shipyards in a single integrated organization to help the company accelerate the building of submarines for the U.S. Navy.
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| | SURFnet builds test network on basis of dark fibre
SURFnet, the internet provider for higher education and research in the Netherlands, has started rolling out a test network. It has concluded contracts with various suppliers of managed dark fibre. The separate test network allows testing of new network technologies without burdening the production network, SURFnet5. The roll-out of the network takes place within the context of the GigaPort project.
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| | Caspian Networks introduces Apeiro flow-based router for service provider networks
Caspian Networks has made available its new first-of-its kind Apeiro flow-based router. The product, based on a dramatically different architecture from traditional core routers while adhering to industry standards, introduces new ATM-equivalent Quality of Service (QoS) to IP networks that enables new capabilities and offers a new approach to scalability that ensures network growth costs remain predictable. |
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| | InfiniSwitch announces general availability of end-to-end switched fabric networking solution
InfiniSwitch Corporation has made available three new products that are all part of an integrated end-to-end cluster computing networking solution. The solution includes the InfiniSwitch 12/24 Port Leaf Switch, the Lane15 Fabric Manager-Enterprise Version, and the InfiniSwitch Dual Port Host Channel Adapter. |
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| | SwXtch receives Notice of Allowance for U.S. patent on layer one packet switching
SwXtch Inc. has been awarded a U.S. Patent Notice of Allowance for its pioneering invention of "Layer 1 Packet Switching".
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