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Contents Primeur Monthly
July 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium issues Call for Papers
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| | First Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia issues Call for Papers
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| | Performability Modelling of Computer and Communication Systems Workshop extends paper deadline
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| Europe
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| | International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications issues Call for Papers
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| | SP-XXL gathers in Finland in July
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| | Fifth European Workshop on OpenMP issues Call for Participation
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | MSC.Software announces release of MSC.Marc 2003
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| | Xilinx and Williams F1 team up to enhance the performance of 2003 Challenger BMW FW25
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| | HP helps DreamWorks create bold new world for Shrek 4D animated attraction
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| | Raytheon awarded $90 million supercomputing technology support contract by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory
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| | Fakespace and Christie Europe to expand availability and services for visualisation solutions in Europe and the Middle East
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| | American Diabetes Association and Entelos to present insight discoveries to Diabetes Research Forum
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| | Virtual Biopsy, a new way to look at cancer
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| | Visual Numerics and NEC offer first comprehensive mathematical library on fastest computing platform
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| | Germany is catching up in the climate research race
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| | Dell selects Scali for major supercomputing cluster at Saudi Aramco
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| | ESI Group announces AutoSEA2 2003, new version of noise and vibration simulation software
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| | TGS brings Virtual Reality to large-screen and dome theaters
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| | Industry visionaries herald new era of programmable systems at Programmable World 2003 in Japan
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| | Genomic-based prospective medicine collaboration announced by Duke University Medical Center and the Center for the Advancement of Genomics
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| | Amazonia Simulator
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| | NOAA National Weather Service activates new IBM supercomputer
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| | DDT gets powerful data visualization and analysis capabilities
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| | Ansys provides increased accessibility to advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
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| | Dutch Challenge Project will calculate global warming this summer
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| | ESI Group increases presence in casting simulation market
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| | Kitasato University collaborates with SGI to predict structures of SARS viral proteins
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| | Finnish Information Society in Facts and Figures
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Sun is unit shipment leader in worldwide Unix server market
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| | HP captures no. 1 position in total server revenue worldwide
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| | HP extends NAS portfolio with entry-level solution
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| | VMware to power HP server consolidation and workload management
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| | Opsware Inc. and HP join forces to deliver enhanced automation for HP's Utility Data Centre
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| | Teraflop/s supercomputer for Adelaide
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| | IBM flips the switch on deep computing on demand
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| | New wave of HP Itanium 2-based systems delivers breakthrough performance for technical computing users
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| | SGI announces first customers for new Intel Itanium2 processor for Altix 3000 systems
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| | Fujitsu Paris offers ASP on hpcLine with advanced engineering codes
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| | The hpcLine cluster at CEA
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| | HPC News from Fujitsu Siemens Computers at the SAVE Meeting
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| | Opteron or Itanium
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| | Scali focuses on middleware between applications and hardware interconnect
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| | Paderborn pathfinders experiment with PadFEM or parallel adaptive finite element methods
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| | Results and experiences with Xeon, Itanium and Opteron clusters at PC2 in Paderborn
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| | PrimeurLive! from ISC2003
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| | Linux Networx and Fluent offer integrated CFD cluster system
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| | Fluent upgrades Remote Simulation Facility
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| | IBM delivers new high-end mainframe systems
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| | Sun leads Linux+Unix server market in revenue and marketshare
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| | Dot Hill teams up with ASL in Thailand
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| | SpiritWave ESB Server version 6.0
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| Industry
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| | MSC.Software implements 8-node MSC.Linux and IBM cluster at AB Sandvik in Sweden
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| | Indiana University Avidd Linux clusters achieve milestone in speed of calculations
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| | ClusterVision to install first AMD Opteron processor based supercomputer cluster for computational chemistry applications in Europe
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| | HP and SuSE Linux expand global alliance
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| | Terra Soft offers Apple G5s prepared for Yellow Dog Linux
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| | RAL CCLRC installs 850 Gflop/s 53 Tbytes clusters from NEC-ClusterVision consortium
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| | Sistina Software and Fujitsu Systems Europe partner to push Linux clusters into the enterprise date centre
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| | Aspen systems releases version 2.0 of Beowulf cluster management software
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| | PSSC Labs reaches milestone of 250 Linux-based clusters delivered
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| | Penguin Computing to acquire Scyld
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| | SuSE Linux Desktop for enterprises
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 12 conference
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| | Denver planetarium opens with virtual reality immersive space travel
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | Platform signs agreement with NEC to deliver grid-enabled solutions to global customers
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| | Access Grid Technology used by Taiwan in fight against SARS
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| | Tutorial on the EU-DataGrid technologies organised in Rome
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| | GridIron applies distributed computing to MPEG-4 encoding
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| | MSC.Software plans to integrate and support Sun One Grid Engine software
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| | WulfKit high-speed interconnect helps support e-Science Grid in the United Kingdom
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| | BAE Systems to collaborate with Entropia on Grid computing development
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| | ClusterVision and PCC University of Amsterdam partner on Grid computing
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| | Advance registration for Global Grid Forum 8 now open
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| | Second HealthGrid Conference issues Call for Papers
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| | Supercomputing clusters power Grid-based disease mapping and physics research at the University of Liverpool
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| | A Petabyte for Pittsburgh
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| | Dynamic Grid Optimisation
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| | Prism Forum organises the Pharma Grid Retreat
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| | SpaceGRID Workshop presentations available
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| | DataSynapse and HanoverTrade announce Grid-enabled mortgage portfolio valuation and analytics
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| | Platform LSF to power ASCI-Q in Los Alamos
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| | Australian Belle Data Grid testbed prototype demonstrated
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| | DataSynapse announced the general availability of GridServer 3.2
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| | Hungarian Grid Competency Center
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| | MS.NETGrid Technology Preview 1.0 released
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| | Persist offers an all-inclusive plug-and-play appliance for active-archiving for the secure storage
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| | Grid Computing an opportunity for Telecom
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| Industry
- TOP500 |
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| | Intel helps push high performance computing mainstream
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| | Quadrics Number One in capability cluster computing in the Top500
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| | Linux Networx cluster system climbs to third fastest supercomputer in the world
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| | 21st Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released
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| Networking
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| | Xilinx and Samsung Team to develop adaptable Metro Edge network solution
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| | ProCurve extends HP family of high-performance ethernet switches
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| | TACC selects Topspin for InfiniBand solution
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| | Fabric Networks results from InfiniSwitch and Lane15 merger
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| | Next-Generation Internet Protocol to enable net-centric operations says US Department of Defense
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| | International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium issues Call for Papers
The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004) will be organised from Monday, 26 April to Friday, 30 April, 2004 at the Eldorato Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The conference is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP), and is hosted by the University of New Mexico. Deadline for paper submissions is October 3, 2003. |
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| | First Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia issues Call for Papers
The First Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, ESTIMedia 2003, is held October 3-4, 2003 in Newport Beach, California, USA. The workshop is co-located with CODES-ISSS 2003. Deadline for paper submissions is July 11, 2003. |
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| | Performability Modelling of Computer and Communication Systems Workshop extends paper deadline
The Sixth International Workshop on Performability Modelling of Computer and Communication Systems
(PMCCS-6) will be held September 5-7, 2003 in Monticello, Illinois, USA. The workshop is part of the 2003 Illinois International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems. The deadline for paper abstract submission has been extended to June 16, 2003. |
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| | International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications issues Call for Papers
The Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003) will be held October 23-25, 2003 in conjunction with the 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003), October 26-29, 2003 in Delft, The Netherlands. Deadline for camera-ready paper submission is August 15, 2003. |
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| | SP-XXL gathers in Finland in July
SP-XXL, the user group of non-commercial IBM SP supercomputer sites will meet in Espoo, Finland, July 14-18, 2003. The meeting is hosted by CSC, the Finnish IT center for science.
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| | Fifth European Workshop on OpenMP issues Call for Participation
The Fifth European Workshop on OpenMP (EWOMP'03) will be held September 22-26, 2003 in Aachen, Germany, hosted by the Center for Computing and Communication of the Aachen University. This series of workshops is designed as a forum for discussion of the latest developments in OpenMP, in its compilers, tools and applications. It is part of the cOMPunity initiative whose main objective is the dissemination and exchange of information about OpenMP.
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| Industry
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| | MSC.Software announces release of MSC.Marc 2003
MSC.Software Corporation, a global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software, services and systems, has made available MSC.Marc 2003. MSC.Marc is a general-purpose, non-linear, parallel finite element programme used everyday by customers around the world in several industries including rubber/tires, automotive, aerospace, electrical/electronics, bio-medical, construction and manufacturing. |
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| | Xilinx and Williams F1 team up to enhance the performance of 2003 Challenger BMW FW25
Xilinx Inc. has signed a collaboration with BMW Williams F1 Team for the 2003 Formula One season. The technology alliance represents the culmination of a long-standing relationship between the two companies. Xilinx provided Williams F1 with its technology and support services for the vehicle control module (VCM). The Xilinx-enabled VCM is used to control essential components such as the gearbox, differential, traction control, launch control and telemetry.
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| | HP helps DreamWorks create bold new world for Shrek 4D animated attraction
HP has announced the latest milestone in its technology partnership with DreamWorks SKG with the unveiling of Shrek 4D, an animated, three-dimensional Universal Theme Park attraction featuring the characters from the Academy award-winning movie "Shrek".
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| | Raytheon awarded $90 million supercomputing technology support contract by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to provide technology support to the U.S. war fighter in both classified and unclassified computing environments.
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| | Fakespace and Christie Europe to expand availability and services for visualisation solutions in Europe and the Middle East
Fakespace Systems and Christie have signed an agreement that will see a strengthening of their relationship in Europe and the Middle East allowing Christie to offer Fakespace's range of solutions and services. This new agreement includes co-operative marketing, solution demonstration opportunities and the development of customer support programmes. |
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| | American Diabetes Association and Entelos to present insight discoveries to Diabetes Research Forum
The American Diabetes Association and biotechnology firm Entelos Inc. have delivered the first set of insight discoveries to the Diabetes Research Forum (DRF). The insights, discovered as part of the on-going development of the Metabolism PhysioLab technology, consist of novel targets and hypotheses into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes. Additionally, the Association announced the members of the Scientific Advisory Board selected to support the Scientific Alliance between Entelos and the Association. The Board, comprised of six key thought leaders in type 2 diabetes research, will work with the Alliance on the further development of the Metabolism PhysioLab technology as well as review and approve insights for delivery to the Forum. The Diabetes Research Forum is a groundbreaking collaboration between Entelos, the Association and a select number of
pharmaceutical companies to advance research in the diagnosis and treatment of Type 2 diabetes. |
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| | Virtual Biopsy, a new way to look at cancer
Scientists are using new imaging technology to help them perform "virtual biopsies", biological profiles of specific tumours that may help predict a patient's response to treatment and probability of long-term survival. This whole new realm of imaging is called functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), a process that offers insight into a tumour's character, not just its superficial structure.
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| | Visual Numerics and NEC offer first comprehensive mathematical library on fastest computing platform
Visual Numerics Inc., a provider of numerical analysis and visualisation software, and NEC Corporation (NEC) have made available Visual Numerics' latest IMSL Fortran Library version 5.0 for the NEC SX-6 Supercomputer, the first comprehensive mathematical library available for the world's fastest supercomputer. In high-performance computing, software availability for advanced systems, such as the SX-6, often lags behind the availability of the computing platform and slows the turnaround of applications. The combination of the IMSL Fortran Library with the NEC SX-6 provides customers in advanced science and research organisations with more speed and flexibility to develop mathematical and statistical applications, resulting in faster time to market. |
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| | Germany is catching up in the climate research race
The NEC supercomputer at the German Climate Research Centre (DKRZ) in Hamburg offers more computing power than 30,000 conventional PCs. This has earned it 33rd place on the recently published TOP500 list. The computer was installed in May and its performance has now been measured for the first time. In the Linpack benchmark performance test, the DKRZ fireball calculated 1.484 trillion computing operations per second (teraflops). This corresponds to 96.6 percent of the computers maximum performance of 1.536 teraflops. That is the highest performance output to ever have been measured on a teraflops system anywhere in the world. |
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| | Dell selects Scali for major supercomputing cluster at Saudi Aramco
Using software and services from Scali AS, Dell has installed its largest high performance computing cluster in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to date, at Saudi Aramco, an oil producer/exporter and a top producer of natural gas. The supercomputing cluster comprises 910 dual CPU Dell PowerEdge servers. Scali Manage was selected to ensure that the individual nodes could be managed from a central point with maximum efficiency and reliability.
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| | ESI Group announces AutoSEA2 2003, new version of noise and vibration simulation software
ESI Group has released AutoSEA2 2003 at the National Conference on Noise Control Engineering. Part of ESI Group's comprehensive suite of virtual prototyping solutions, AutoSEA2 addresses the critical need for the control of broadband airborne noise and sound induced vibrations. The product uses the Statistical Energy Analysis method to predict higher frequency and random vibro-acoustic response. AutoSEA2 cost-effectively simulates noise and vibration control measures enabling designers to meet critical quality specifications early in the development process. The 2003 version includes significant new capabilities such as simulation of vibration damping from acoustic treatment layers, and enhanced thermogram and energy flow diagnostic displays.
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| | TGS brings Virtual Reality to large-screen and dome theaters
The Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) has selected TGS' amiraVR visualisation software to present and interact with the 3D scenes of its new scientific shows. In Germany, Carl Zeiss Jena, the famous makers of optical equipment and planetariums, now turn their laser projection dome into an interactive science theater running amiraVR on a SGI Onyx computer. |
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| | Industry visionaries herald new era of programmable systems at Programmable World 2003 in Japan
This week at Programmable World 2003 Japan, more than 1000 attendees gathered in a packed auditorium at the Westin Tokyo to hear renowned visionaries from Sony, DDI Pocket, and Xilinx, Inc. discuss the leading technologies enabling the new era of systems design. |
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| | Genomic-based prospective medicine collaboration announced by Duke University Medical Center and the Center for the Advancement of Genomics
The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) and Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) have signed a formal collaboration to create the first fully-integrated, comprehensive practice of genomic-based prospective medicine. Through this new collaboration, Duke and TCAG plan to generate predictive and prognostic data on specific diseases that can aid both doctors and patients in the earlier detection and better treatment of these illnesses. |
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| | Amazonia Simulator
The Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia has been running for the last five years, trying to answer questions on whether it acts as a carbon sink or a source and what are the effects of the recent changes of land use (deforestation) on the rest of the world's environment and consequently on global warming. Below, Chris Lazou interviews Dr. Carlos A. Nobre, the scientific co-ordinator of the Amazonia project, who would like a supercomputer similar in power to the Earth Simulator to analyse their results. (Chris Lazou)
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| | NOAA National Weather Service activates new IBM supercomputer
The US National Weather Service (NOAA) has activated its weather-forecasting supercomputer, a massive machine with IBM eServer and storage systems that will extend the government's ability to forecast hurricanes from three days to five days in advance. Making its debut as hurricane season 2003 begins, the machine is expected to give businesses, government agencies and citizens crucial extra time to prepare for the violent storms.
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| | DDT gets powerful data visualization and analysis capabilities
Streamline Computing revealed version 1. of DDT, the Distributed Debugging Tool, with powerful new capabilities that set it apart from the competition. Major new features include support for SCore (v5.4.0+), 3D array visualization and support for queuing systems.
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| | Ansys provides increased accessibility to advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
ANSYS has released CFX-5.6 which provides increased accessibility to advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD). |
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| | Dutch Challenge Project will calculate global warming this summer
The Dutch national supercomputer in Amsterdam, will run this summer a "Dutch Challenge Project" funded by NWO/NCF. This project is initiated in order to study the impact of a warming world on the occurances of extreme weather events, such as extreme storms, cold and hot spells, and droughts. The project, initiated by the KNMI, the Dutch weather institute will use 256 processors for two months.
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| | ESI Group increases presence in casting simulation market
ESI Group announced that 15 new customers worldwide are now equipped with the company's casting simulation applications following the acquisitions of Calcom (CALCOSOFT software developer and European distributor of ProCAST) and ProCAST software from UES Software at the end of 2002.
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| | Kitasato University collaborates with SGI to predict structures of SARS viral proteins
The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kitasato University in Tokyo has collaborated with SGI Japan, Ltd. on research predicting the structure of a protein encoded by the coronavirus, which is responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
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| | Finnish Information Society in Facts and Figures
A new English language site introduces Finland as a country where Information Society of tomorrow is a reality today.
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| | Sun is unit shipment leader in worldwide Unix server market
Sun Microsystems Inc. grew its share of the worldwide UNIX+ server market, showing an increase in both factory revenue and unit shipment marketshare on a sequential quarter basis, comparing the fourth quarter of 2002 to the first quarter of 2003, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. |
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| | HP captures no. 1 position in total server revenue worldwide
HP has taken over the no. 1 worldwide position in overall total server revenue, with 27.9 percent market share for the first calendar quarter of 2003, according to figures released by IDC. HP gained 2.1 percent in server market revenue share over the previous quarter, Q402.
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| | HP extends NAS portfolio with entry-level solution
HP has expanded its StorageWorks network attached storage (NAS) portfolio with the introduction of the HP StorageWorks NAS 1000s solution for enterprise remote offices and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This offering delivers enterprise-class network storage functionality at entry-level pricing to provide customers with a low-cost answer to their file serving needs. |
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| | VMware to power HP server consolidation and workload management
VMware, specialised in virtual machine software for Intel-based systems, has extended its relationship with HP that now provides a total VMware solution for IT Consolidation Projects including HP Consulting, HP Customer Support & Subscription Services, VMware software, industry-standard HP ProLiant servers, and HP StorageWorks - providing customers with one-stop shopping for VMware-based solutions. HP Services offers HP branded services for supported operating systems, including support of Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, within VMware virtual machines. |
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| | Opsware Inc. and HP join forces to deliver enhanced automation for HP's Utility Data Centre
HP and Opsware Inc. have signed a strategic relationship that combines the HP Utility Data Centre (UDC), the market-leading data centre virtualisation solution, with Opsware's industry-leading data centre automation software. The combination provides enterprise customers with an enhanced utility computing solution that delivers virtualisation of computing resources, application metering, and software automation. |
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| | Teraflop/s supercomputer for Adelaide
A AU$1.7 million, supercomputer called Hydra will be unveiled at the University of Adelaide today by the Science and Information Economy Minister, Dr. Jane Lomax-Smith. With a peak of 1.2 Tflop/s, Hydra is among Australia's top three supercomputers and is one of the fastest of its kind in the world, offering unique benefits to South Australian researchers and industry. |
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| | IBM flips the switch on deep computing on demand
IBM has ushered in the era of deep computing on demand with the start-up of its first facility designed to deliver supercomputing power to customers over the Internet, helping to free them from the fixed costs and management responsibility of owning a supercomputer. Additional facilities are planned nationally and internationally.
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| | New wave of HP Itanium 2-based systems delivers breakthrough performance for technical computing users
HP has introduced Intel Itanium2-based servers and workstations delivering up to 50 percent faster application performance than the previous Itanium 2-based systems to technical customers. The new Intel Itanium2 processor with 6 MB of level 3 cache powers one- and two-way HP Workstations as well as HP Integrity servers, which range from one- and two-way entry-level servers to the 64-processor Integrity Superdome server.
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| | SGI announces first customers for new Intel Itanium2 processor for Altix 3000 systems
SGI has announced several early adopters in the technical markets who have purchased Linux-based SGI Altix 3000 servers and superclusters featuring the new Intel Itanium2 processors (1.30 GHz with 3M L3 cache, and 1.50 GHz with 6M L3 cache). With the faster processors, SGI Altix 3000 continues to deliver record performance on an industry-standard platform, inspiring customers in a range of technical markets and disciplines to order new systems and field upgrades. Although Intel announced commercial availability of the new processors today, several SGI customers have deployed pre-release versions in recent weeks. |
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| | Fujitsu Paris offers ASP on hpcLine with advanced engineering codes
Fujitsu has a long history of supporting technical and scientific applications. In the Technical Computing Facility in Paris, the main applications in the field are benchmarked together with the
Independent Software Provider (ISV) that develops the code. Goal is to understand the interface between application and machine and see how one or the other can be optimized. In the past year, many of the codes have been tested on the hpcLine. Fujitsu now also offers the
applications on the hpcLine a VPP5000 and a Primepower server as Application Service Provider (ASP). This way one can test and even develop ones own applications using state-of-the art hard- and software.
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| | The hpcLine cluster at CEA
The French energy research centre CEA has a 48-processor hpcLine installed for a CFD project for nuclear applications. At the SAVE meeting in Saclay in May, Christophe Calvin from CEA talked about the experience they had with the machine.
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| | HPC News from Fujitsu Siemens Computers at the SAVE Meeting
You will not find the hpcLine in the upper regions of the TOP500, but for over four years, this "made in Europe" parallel machines is finding its way in research institutes and industry - mainly engineering - as a reliable workhorse for technical and scientific
applications. As Eric Schnepf from Fujitsu Siemens, the manufacturer of the hpcLine, explained at the SAVE meeting at CEA Saclay, 22nd May 2003, the past year, a number of new organisations have started to use the hpcLine, including several in the process and automotive
industry. In total there are 115 hpcLine installations with some 3600 processors. Several new Intel and AMD processors were introduced to the machine. Currently new technology, as Infiniband and the upcoming Itanium processors are under evaluation at test customer sites.
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| | Opteron or Itanium
For HPC computing, one needs 64-bits. Although some scientific and technical work can be done in 32-bits, this is not enough for real large-scale applications. This is one of the reasons, the traditional RISC processors are still dominating that landscape. Intel and AMD now both have processors to handle 64-bits. However, the approach of the companies to implement that in chip design is very different. At the SAVE meeting in Saclay, France, in May, both companies were
present, highlighting their new products and developments. And the winner is... |
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| | Scali focuses on middleware between applications and hardware interconnect
During the past year, Scali has redefined and extended its product suite, focusing on taking the difficulty out of optimising a parallel application onto different kinds of interconnect hardware.
The products are now called "Scali Manage" - Cluster Management Solution and Scali MPI Connect - High performance Inter-process communication. The Oslo based company also acquired a second tranche of financing earlier this year. |
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| | Paderborn pathfinders experiment with PadFEM or parallel adaptive finite element methods
Axel Keller described the PadFEM2 approach used by Stephan Blazy at the Paderborn Parallel Computing Center in a project on massive parallelising for the balancing of dynamic networks, led by Professor B. Monien, at the SAVE meeting in Saclay, France, in May. For the application of PadFEM or parallel adaptive finite element methods, the Fujitsu Siemens hpcLine and an Itanium2 based system are used as cluster, Grid and numerical computing resources. |
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| | Results and experiences with Xeon, Itanium and Opteron clusters at PC2 in Paderborn
At the SAVE meeting in Saclay, France, in May, Mr. Keller gave an overview of the different experiences with Itanium2, Opteron and Infiniband at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing. Paderborn has three systems in use: a A Xeon cluster, purchased from Dell in 2003; a Hewlett-Packard Itanium cluster dating from 2002; and an Opteron cluster, acquired from AMD in 2003. The benchmarks were performed by Dr. Jens Simon in Paderborn. |
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| | PrimeurLive! from ISC2003
As in previous years, the team of Primeur magazine will report live from Heidelberg. Two issues will be published: one on June 25, the second on June 27 and e-mailed to Primeur subscribers. PrimeurLive! will bring you the latest news from ISC2003 including the new TOP500, interviews with HPC and Grid key players, and vendor news. If you are unable to attend ISC2003, you can still keep up to date. If you are attending, you can check afterwards what more was happening in Heidelberg.
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| | Linux Networx and Fluent offer integrated CFD cluster system
Linux Networx announced today the availability of an Evolocity II cluster system optimized with leading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software from Fluent Inc., the market leaders in CFD. Linux Networx and Fluent formed a strategic partnership to design the pre-integrated cluster system, offering customers a significant decrease in CFD simulation time. Fluent gave the solution added endorsement by installing a cluster system in their Remote Simulation Facility (RSF), which provides customers with access to supercomputing power remotely.
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| | Fluent upgrades Remote Simulation Facility
Fluent did upgrade to Remote Simulation Facility (RSF). , Fluent has added an additional 96 Gflop/s of capacity with the addition of a Linux Networx Evolocity II cluster system. The Fluent Remote Simulation Facility lets users exploit supercomputer capacity with unlimited Fluent processes using "pay as you go" methods through a highly secure Internet portal. This provides a solution for Fluent users with a periodic need for high performance data processing.
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| | IBM delivers new high-end mainframe systems
IBM announced that it began shipments of new IBM eServer mainframe and high-end UNIX systems. The eServer z990 mainframe and the eServer p690 server with POWER4+ microprocessors are now shipping to customers in volume and on schedule. The eServer p690 runs Linux or AIX and supports 32 dynamic partitions. The eServer z990 supports thousands of virtual Linux servers in a single box, with processing power up to 11,000 transactions per second.
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| | Sun leads Linux+Unix server market in revenue and marketshare
Sun Microsystems says regained its position as the worldwide leader in Linux+Unix server revenue and unit shipments in the first quarter of CY2003, according to the 1Q03 Worldwide Server Database by Gartner Dataquest. |
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| | Dot Hill teams up with ASL in Thailand
Dot Hill is partnering with system integrator ASL Automated Ltd in Thailand. ASL, based in Bangkok, provides technology solutions and services to its extensive customer base. ASL also works closely with specialised vertical solution providers in the financial, insurance and health care sectors.
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| | SpiritWave ESB Server version 6.0
SpiritSoft did release SpiritWave ESB Server version 6.0 with Global Clustering technology, (NIO) non-blocking input/output and JMX (Java Management Extensions).
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Sweden's Sandvik Group, a high-technology and engineering company which specialises in the tooling, industrial machinery and materials science industries, has invested in an 8-node IBM Linux Cluster powered by MSC.Linux to increase the performance of their MSC.Software VPD tools including MSC.Marc and MSC.Patran. The cluster is currently being used by the Sandvik Materials Technology and Sandvik Mining & Construction businesses to simulate production processes like strip-rolling, forging, wire-drawing and to perform various dynamic analyses. |
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| | Indiana University Avidd Linux clusters achieve milestone in speed of calculations
Indiana University's Analysis and Visualisation of Instrument-Driven Data (AVIDD) facility has achieved a calculation rate of 1.02 Teraflops, or just over one trillion mathematical operations per second. This milestone in performance was achieved using a programme called the Linpack Benchmark on the two largest of AVIDD's four geographically distributed Linux clusters. These two clusters are located in Bloomington (IUB) and Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the I-Light network connects these two systems across the 50 miles separating the two cities. |
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| | ClusterVision to install first AMD Opteron processor based supercomputer cluster for computational chemistry applications in Europe
Manchester University in the United Kingdom has selected ClusterVision, specialist in Linux supercomputer clusters, to install a 70 processor supercomputer cluster using the new 64-bit AMD Opterontm processor. This will be the first public, production-ready AMD Opteron processor based cluster for chemistry applications in Europe. |
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| | HP and SuSE Linux expand global alliance
HP will resell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, powered by UnitedLinux, on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HP's Itanium-based servers. This relationship provides customers a single point of purchase, support and maintenance for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and makes SuSE Linux a preferred vendor for HP.
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| | Terra Soft offers Apple G5s prepared for Yellow Dog Linux
Terra Soft Solutions Inc., a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is accepting pre-orders
for Apple G5 Power Macs, soon to be supported by Yellow Dog Linux.
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| | RAL CCLRC installs 850 Gflop/s 53 Tbytes clusters from NEC-ClusterVision consortium
NEC High Performance Computing Europe (HPCE) and ClusterVision have completed a large compute and storage cluster installation at the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC)'s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire (UK). The 53 TByte storage and 160 processor, 850 Gflop/s compute clusters were installed for the e-Science Centre of the UK CCLRC to boost its capacity to store and process data for the particle physics Grid project GridPP.
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| | Sistina Software and Fujitsu Systems Europe partner to push Linux clusters into the enterprise date centre
Fujitsu Systems Europe has selected Sistina GFS as the exclusive cluster file system running on Fujitsu's line of High Performance Computing (HPC) clustering solutions. Through this partnership, Sistina and Fujitsu will provide customers and partners with Fujitsu's first pre-configured and packaged Linux cluster solution for both industrial computing applications and enterprise-class data centre deployments. |
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| | Aspen systems releases version 2.0 of Beowulf cluster management software
Aspen Systems released version 2.0 for their turnkey, browser-based software management system, Aspen Beowulf Cluster (ABC) Management Software. ABC 2.0 is built on the foundation of the currently ABC 1.2.
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| | PSSC Labs reaches milestone of 250 Linux-based clusters delivered
PSSC Labs announced the delivery of their 250th Linux-based Beowulf cluster. The company, has also built NASA's largest Intel/Linux cluster named Thunderhead, a 536-processor weather modeling system.
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| | Penguin Computing to acquire Scyld
Penguin Computing will acquire privately-held Scyld Computing Corporation. Scyld is a manufacturer of Beowulf cluster management software, which enables scalable and manageable high-performance computing clusters using Intel based servers. Scyld will maintain its own brand as a software division within Penguin Computing.
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| | SuSE Linux Desktop for enterprises
SuSE Linux announced the availability of the first enterprise-class Linux desktop solution, SuSE Linux Desktop, a desktop built for large IT infrastructures, software development and high performance computing environments.
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| | Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 12 conference
The Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 12 conference will be held January 15 - 17, 2004 in Newport, USA.
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| | Denver planetarium opens with virtual reality immersive space travel
The new Gates Planetarium in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science opens by taking visitors on an immersive solar system voyage featuring the highest-resolution graphics ever presented in a digital planetarium. The planetarium lets the audience fly through outer space to experience awe-inspiring close-up views of some of the most remarkable objects in the universe.
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| | Platform signs agreement with NEC to deliver grid-enabled solutions to global customers
Platform Computing has signed a comprehensive OEM agreement with NEC Corporation, in which NEC will offer Platform Computing's software on its IA Server Express5800 Series. Through this partnership, NEC will provide its customers in manufacturing, government and education with comprehensive, integrated solutions to increase productivity and performance through improved collaboration and sharing of heterogeneous compute resources across multiple domains and geographic locations within and between companies.
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| | Access Grid Technology used by Taiwan in fight against SARS
When the medical staffs of several key hospitals in Taiwan were quarantined by the SARS epidemic, threatening to make a critical situation even worse, computer scientists there, in the U.S., and
throughout the Asia Pacific Rim turned to grid computing technology and old-fashioned teamwork. PRAGMA, the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly, showed how relationships and expertise developed to tackle computational research could also help thousands of SARS patients in Taiwan. |
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| | Tutorial on the EU-DataGrid technologies organised in Rome
The next tutorial on the EU-DataGrid technologies will be held in Rome on 10th and 11th of June 2003.
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| | GridIron applies distributed computing to MPEG-4 encoding
GridIron Software Inc. has successfully encoded MPEG-4 video using multiple computers with its GridIron XLR8 software solution for distributed computing. While video encoding has been accelerated previously with hardware products, this represents the first time a software solution has been used to distribute and accelerate the encoding process across multiple "off the shelf" computers outside of a controlled laboratory environment.
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| | MSC.Software plans to integrate and support Sun One Grid Engine software
MSC.Software plans to integrate Sun's industry-leading Sun ONE Grid Engine software into its enterprise systems and high performance computing product portfolio. MSC.Software plans to market, implement and support Sun's grid computing platform and services to help its manufacturing customers worldwide reduce the time and costs associated with product development. |
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| | WulfKit high-speed interconnect helps support e-Science Grid in the United Kingdom
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxon, UK, has completed the upgrade of a 16-node, 32-processor high-performance computing (HPC) cluster christened "Hrothgar". The high-speed SCI (scalable coherent interface) interconnect supplied by Dolphin Interconnect, combined with AMD Athlon processors, is the key to the 71 Gflops performance achieved by the cluster. RAL is the largest laboratory of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), a provider of large-scale facilities and expertise in support of research throughout the UK. |
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| | BAE Systems to collaborate with Entropia on Grid computing development
Entropia inked a strategic development collaboration agreement with BAE SYSTEMS. Goal is to combine BAE SYSTEMS' global expertise in engineering and mechanical design with Entropia's technological knowledge in PC grid computing to further the goal of unifying BAE SYSTEMS' compute resources under a Grid architecture umbrella.
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| | ClusterVision and PCC University of Amsterdam partner on Grid computing
ClusterVision inked an agreement with PCC UvA BV to boost its Grid Computing software and services business. PCC UvA (Power Computing and Communications University of Amsterdam) is a technology transfer company of the University of Amsterdam specialising in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid Computing. As part of the partnership, PCC UvA has obtained a 15% share in ClusterVision.
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| | Advance registration for Global Grid Forum 8 now open
The Eighth Global Grid Forum (GGF8) is being held June 24-27 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The advance registration deadline is Friday, June 13th. By registering in advance, attendees can add tutorials at ~50% discount and attend the HPDC-12 immediately before GGF8 participation at a reduced fee. HPDC-12 will be held in Seattle as well. Here, the deadline is also Friday, June 13. |
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| | Second HealthGrid Conference issues Call for Papers
The HealthGrid Association organises the 2nd European HealthGrid Conference at Clermont-Ferrand, France, on January 2004, 29-30th. Deadline for paper abstracts is September 30, 2003.
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| | Supercomputing clusters power Grid-based disease mapping and physics research at the University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool has unveiled its new large-scale Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC), powered by Intel Pentium 4 processors, to underpin further ground-breaking disease mapping and physics research, and to enhance international public-interest work conducted on the University's own cross-campus Grid network (ULGRID). |
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| | A Petabyte for Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has selected an SGI storage solution to help the center meet its growing storage challenges, with plans to ultimately store and manage over a Petabyte of data. The storage will be integrated in TeraGrid.
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| | Dynamic Grid Optimisation
The GridPP (UK Grid for Particle Physics) production plan describes a future Grid infrastructure. A web-based simulation has been developed to demonstrate how such a data-intensive grid could work. Sample jobs based on real high energy physics analysis are simulated. A job consists of a set of files which must be read in sequential order with calculations performed on the data in each file. A single Resource Broker assigns jobs to sites based on a scheduling algorithm which takes into account the cost of accessing data for the job in terms of time and the current workload at each site.
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| | Prism Forum organises the Pharma Grid Retreat
The PharmaGRID Retreat will be organised by the Prism Forum June 30th-July 2nd, 2003 at the
Node Conference Centre, Welwyn, United Kingdom. This workshop brings together industry professionals, stakeholders and GRID practitioners to develop a shared understanding of opportunity represented by the GRID to the pharmaceutical industry.
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| | SpaceGRID Workshop presentations available
The European Space Agency (ESA) together with the SpaceGRID consortium organised the SpaceGRID Workshop, that was held on May 21-22, 2003 in ESA/ESRIN facilities located in Frascati, near Rome, Italy. The presentations are now available.
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| | DataSynapse and HanoverTrade announce Grid-enabled mortgage portfolio valuation and analytics
DataSynapse and HanoverTrade announced an integrated solution Grid-enabling Hanover/Busch Analytics with DataSynapse's GridServer application operating environment. One of the largest financial institutions in the world has deployed this joint offering, joining the growing list of marquee customers supporting their operations with DataSynapse and/or HanoverTrade solutions.
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| | Platform LSF to power ASCI-Q in Los Alamos
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has selected Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Grid solutions, to power its ASCI-Q (Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative) supercomputer. LANL's ASCI-Q supercomputer currently consists of two segments, each of which consists of 1024 4-CPU HP AlphaServer ES45s. The first segment is ranked number #2 on the November 2002 Top500 supercomputers listing, with a peak performance of 10 Tflop/s.
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| | Australian Belle Data Grid testbed prototype demonstrated
A prototype Grid - the Australian Belle Data Grid testbed - was demonstrated at a Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) workshop in Melbourne, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS). PRAGMA is an organization composed of 13 member institutions from throughout the Pacific Rim, whose mission is to establish sustained collaborations and advance the use of grid technologies in advanced scientific applications.
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| | DataSynapse announced the general availability of GridServer 3.2
The next generation of DataSynapse's LiveCluster, GridServer hosts web services and applications requiring scale on a Grid environment in production, capable of servicing high throughput or compute-intensive requests. With its standards-based approach, GridServer commoditises IT infrastructure costs so organizations can deploy, manage and operate business applications' workloads and web services in a virtual, heterogeneous operating environment.
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| | Hungarian Grid Competency Center
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eotvos Lorond University of Sciences, the Computer and Automation Research Institution, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National Information Infrastructure Development Office established the Hungarian Grid Competency Center.
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| | MS.NETGrid Technology Preview 1.0 released
The MS.NETGrid released the MS.NETGrid Technology Preview 1.0. The goal of the MS.NETGrid project is to provide a practical demonstration to the UK e-Science community of the applicability of Microsoft .NET technologies to the hosting, development and deployment of Grid Services.
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| | Persist offers an all-inclusive plug-and-play appliance for active-archiving for the secure storage
PERSIST Technologies announced PERSIST AppStor an all-inclusive plug-and-play appliance that offers immediate active-archiving for the secure storage and instant retrieval of data from any location at any time. PERSIST AppStor claims to effectively addresses major issues associated with the growth, storage and retrieval of enterprise content and reference information, including email, office documents and rich digital media.
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| | Grid Computing an opportunity for Telecom
Adoption of Grid computing technologies will gain considerable momentum next year, when major independent software vendors (ISVs) begin releasing their grid-enabled business-process applications. Spending by enterprises on grid technologies will climb into the billions of dollars by 2008, according to a new market research study by Insight Research Corporation
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| | Intel helps push high performance computing mainstream
More than one-third of the world's most powerful computers with Intel processors inside of them are now deployed in commercial settings, signaling that high performance computing (HPC) is evolving from its academic and research origins to mainstream business usage.
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| | Quadrics Number One in capability cluster computing in the Top500
The current TOP500 list shows a continued growth in clusters coupled with an increasing widespread use of Quadrics QsNet technology within Linux, especially within the capability sector of supercomputing. Now 6 of the top10 Supercomputers in the world use QsNet as the underlying network. |
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| | Linux Networx cluster system climbs to third fastest supercomputer in the world
A cluster supercomputer Linux Networx built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2002, advanced two rankings to become the third fastest supercomputer in the world on the 21st TOP500 supercomputing list. The Linux Networx Evolocity system, called MCR by LLNL, can process 7.6 trillion calculations per second (teraflops) running the Linpack benchmark, and is also the fastest Linux cluster in the world. |
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| | 21st Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released
In what has become a much-anticipated event in the world of high-performance computing, the 21st edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released today. The Earth Simulator supercomputer built by NEC and installed last year at the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, with its Linpack benchmark performance of 35.86 Tflop/s, retains the number one position. The number 2 position is held by the re-measured ASCI Q system at Los Alamos National Laboratory. With 13.88 Tflop/s, it is the second system ever to exceed the 10 Tflop/s mark. ASCI Q was built by Hewlett-Packard and is based on the AlphaServer SC computer system.
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| | Xilinx and Samsung Team to develop adaptable Metro Edge network solution
At SUPERCOMM 2003, Xilinx Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America, a supplier of Metropolitan Area Network solutions, announced that Samsung developed its next generation of IP switch/router products using Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs. Samsung showcased its next-generation Galaxy Technology Platform at SUPERCOMM 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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| | ProCurve extends HP family of high-performance ethernet switches
HP ProCurve Networking has launched the HP ProCurve Switch 2626. Designed for mid-size enterprises that require a smaller, more cost effective switch without sacrificing performance, the Switch 2626 broadens the scope of HP's Ethernet switch offerings, providing a lower cost option as a part of the HP ProCurve Switch 2600 series.
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| | TACC selects Topspin for InfiniBand solution
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), a research facility at the University of Texas at Austin, has selected Topspin's Switched Computing System as a planned key component of its high-performance visualisation cluster. |
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| | Fabric Networks results from InfiniSwitch and Lane15 merger
As a result of the recent merger of Lane15 Software and InfiniSwitch Corp. the companies continue under the name Fabric Networks Inc.
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| | Next-Generation Internet Protocol to enable net-centric operations says US Department of Defense
Implementation of the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 that will bring the US Department of Defense closer to its goal of net-centric warfare and operations was announced by John P. Stenbit, assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration and DoD chief information officer.
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