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August 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | Indian Grid aggregrates 10 Tflop/s of computing power
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| | US house of representatives meeting: Supercomputing: Is the U.S. on the Right Path?
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| | Broadband services and equipment strategies for university campuses
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| | Last Call issued for Fernbach and Cray Award nominations
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| | Humanists, artists, scientists form consortium focused on the human dimensions of emerging science and technology
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| | SC 2003 issues Call for poster submissions
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| | Cooperation agreement between Berlin universities for centre for mathematical research for key technologies
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| | e-Science park Amsterdam
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| | Dutch Grid awaits entrepreneurs
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| Europe
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| | Experts define agenda for Next Generation Grids in Europe from 2005 - 2010
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| | Call open for Grid projects in EU IST programme
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| | European Commission organised IST 2003 event details programme
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| | inSiDE supercomputing in Germany
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| | Networking is getting underway at the IST 2003 site.
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| | ParCo 2003 issues Call for Participation
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| | NGC/ICQT'03 workshop organisers issue Call for Participation
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| | Workshop proposal writing for Framework 6
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| | University of Innsbruck requests doctoral studentships in cluster and grid computing
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| Industry
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| | RackSaver incorporates Intel Itanium 2 in servers
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| Industry
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| | Sandia selects Linux Networx and Fabric Networks to deliver InfiniBand cluster
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| | Indiana University releases LAM/MPI 7.0
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| | Aladdin licenses Cobion anti-spam technology
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| | Australian Bureau of Meteorology rinstalls NEC SX-6 supercomputer
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| | ESI and EASi to partner in virtual prototyping
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| | German Air Force Tornado simulator to be upgraded with CAE's Medallion-S visual system
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| | IBM Supercomputer undertakes complex simulations into cancer research treatments
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| | EuroPAM 2003 in Mainz
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| | Entelos and MIT to Study Causes of Immune and Inflammatory Diseases
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| | Danish Center for Biological Sequence Analysis purchases Altix 3000 Supercluster
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| | Oak Ridge National Lab installs 256-Processor SGI Altix 3000
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| | Spinnaker Networks provides storage power for brain cell and systems research at the Salk Institute
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| | PDCN 2004 conference
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| | IBM signs outsourcing contract with Ericsson for IT management
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| | IBM and Dassault to invigorate efficiency at BMW
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| | Simulation computed at NERSC matches historic Gamma-Ray burst
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| Industry
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| | DARPA selects three high productivity computing systems projects
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| | RLX Technologies selects Topspin to deliver InfiniBand-Enabled blade servers
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| | AMD Opteron in Chinese Dawning 10 Tlop/s supercomputer
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| | NAREGI - National Research Grid Initiative officially started
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| | NEC releases TX7 Series server for High Performance Computing and NX7700 Series UNIX servers
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| | ISC2003 - U.S. Plans Vector Supercomputer Revival
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| | ISC2003 - Earth Simulator Delivers New Science Results
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| | LINPACK results from TX7 refuels IBM/Intel chip debate
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| | Packetlight networks utilizes high-performance Xilinx platform FPGAs for optical transport
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| | New Itanium based servers from HP
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| | International Conference on High Performance Computing
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| | IBM powers up first Power5 servers
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| | New Intel server processors for the high-end
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| | Dot Hill's SANnet II Selected By Bodacion For Its HYDRA Web Services Appliance
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| | SGI triples backup and restore record, scalable technology protects large data environments
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| | Leibniz-Rechenzentrum increases its cluster performance 17-fold
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| | Western Fire Center installs two PSSC Lab Linux clusters
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server tops Oracle application benchmark
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| | SuSE and SAP to offer enterprise-ready Linux services
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| | Itanium benchmark by Linux Networx
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| | Los Alamos National Laboratory selects Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision
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| | Fakespace introduces two new advanced visualization solutions
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| | Racksaver offers new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 professional graphics solutions
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| Industry
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| | United Devices and Sumisho Electronics ink partner agreement
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| | SOAP Version 1.2 used in web services and Grid services now a standard
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| | Purdue Information Technology Division to employ UD Grid computing
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| | Cracow Grid Workshop issues Call for Papers
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| | Argonne National Lab Deploys Force10 switch for Supercomputing Cluster
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| | Version 1.1 of the Java CoG Kit released
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| | Topspin debuts intelligent backplane for on demand computing
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| | Multicast Streaming Technology for the Grid
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| | Globus Toolkit 3.0 implementation of OGSI released
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| | Sistina launches GFS 5.2 for scalable, enterprise-level data sharing and protection
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| | Call for Proposals launched for links to international e-science
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| | NTT Data and United device expand Grid computing partnership in Japan
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| | The Gridbus Project to release GridSim 2.1 Toolkit
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| | Internet computing finds cancer growth inhibitors
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| | Gridnode Gridtalk Integration Solution powered by IBM WebSphere
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| | Find-a-Drug starts a fighting AIDS programme
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| | Pfizer selects Avaki Grid software
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| | Russia wins Grid Wars 2
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| | Jefferson Lab CIO staff develop powerful, lower-cost capabilities through SciDAC
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| | Jefferson Lab CIO staff develop powerful, lower-cost capabilities through SciDAC
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| | San Diego Supercomputing Center licenses Genego's Metacore platform for Systems Biology applications
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| Networking
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| | NetherLight provides multi-Gigabit connectivity in The Netherlands
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August 2003
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| | Indian Grid aggregrates 10 Tflop/s of computing power
The Indian Grid IGrid, incorporates 10 Tflop/s of computing power and has at least 100Tbyte of data storage and has primary nodes in some ten Indian cities, including New Delhi, Bangelore and Pune, explained Sharad Purohit, Director of the Centre of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in India, at ISC2003 in Heidelberg. C-DAC also develops the Indian supercompter PARAM.
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| | US house of representatives meeting: Supercomputing: Is the U.S. on the Right Path?
The Earth Simulator has a great impact on the US. It acts as a computenik. Meanwhile, the US Governement is pumping additional money in the Supercomputer industry. Now, the US House of Representatives Scientific Committee has held a hearing "Supercomputing: Is the U.S. on the Right Path?" It even questioned whether the focus from for instance the National Science Foundation on Grid Computing does not harm supercomputing. This was denied by the NSF representative. The Ford representative, said the US government cannot rely on industry to drive fundamental computer design and that "U.S. leadership is at risk." Meanwhile in Japan, the Earth Simulator is just seen as a good tool to do important science, not as an innovative supercomputer design in itself. Strange enough, no-one in America is even considering the easiest solution to get back the fastest machine in the world: Order an Earth Simulator from NEC directly or through Cray. Since the export restriction on Japanes supercomputers were lifted some time ago, because they were not considered a danger to the US supercomputer industry anymore, this cannot be too difficult and it is not as expensive as try to re-invent it. But before you form your own opinion, first read the information on the Supercomputing hearing.
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| | Broadband services and equipment strategies for university campuses
According to a report from the PELORUS Group and Waxberg Consulting entitled “Broadband Opportunities In Higher Education Markets", over the next 24 months, US college campus broadband budgets will swell from $2.5 Billion to $3.4 Billion. Although that represents a substantial leap in only two years, no single vendor or service provider has a lock on this trove. Indeed, Group concludesm the university broadband market is up for grabs, and what will ultimately determine the winners depends on which players best interpret the needs of campus CIO’s, and then implement targeted campaigns that address those needs.
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| | Last Call issued for Fernbach and Cray Award nominations
The nomination deadline for nominations for the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award and the Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award is Thursday, July 31. These awards, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, will be presented during the awards ceremony at SC2003 in Phoenix this November. |
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| | Humanists, artists, scientists form consortium focused on the human dimensions of emerging science and technology
HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, was launched in the USA as a strategic alliance of scientists, humanists, artists, social theorists, legal specialists, and information technology specialists. HASTAC is founded on the belief that the future of cyberinfrastructure must be driven by creative discovery across disciplinary divides because of the profound impact of new technologies on individuals and society. HASTAC scholars and researchers will think transformatively about their disciplines and engage in the design and application of innovative computing and scientific technologies for the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences.
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| | SC 2003 issues Call for poster submissions
The SC2003 conference on high-performance computing and networking is seeking submissions for posters displaying cutting-edge research in high performance computing and networking. Posters are an excellent way to convey ideas and results not yet developed into a full paper. The deadline for submitting posters is Thursday, July 31, 2003.
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| | Cooperation agreement between Berlin universities for centre for mathematical research for key technologies
Three Berlin universities, the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and the Weierstrasz-Institut signed an agreement to form a DFG-Forschungszentrum (national research organisation funded research centre) for mathematics for key technologies. The centre, spearheaded by the TU Berlin, will be funded with anually 5 million euro
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| | e-Science park Amsterdam
The institutes of the Amsterdam Science park, including the national supercomputer centre, the high-energy physics institute NIKHEF, the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) and the University of Amsterdam, plan to develop an e-Science centre Amsterdam. The e-Science centre incorporates several supercomputers, large storage and fast networking and software and projects, including Netherlight, the Dutch branch of DataGrid and the Dutch Virtual Laboratory project.
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| | Dutch Grid awaits entrepreneurs
At an Executive Forum meeting "e-Science als motor van innovation" last week in Amsterdam, several Dutch research institutes and companies discussed the state of grid computing in The Netherlands. At the meeting, organised by the Science Park Amsterdam, in cooperation with SURFnet and the Telematica Insitute, Prof. Hertzberger, the driving force of the Dutch Virtual Laboratory developments, said the Grid developments offer opportunities for industry. What The Netherlands needs is people with an entrepreneurial spirit to take further the Grid software developments. Other presentations covered Grid developments in The Netherlands in Genomics, and industrial research.
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| | Experts define agenda for Next Generation Grids in Europe from 2005 - 2010
An expert group, invited by the European Commission, convened in two meetings at Brussels to provide an expert's view on the 5 to 7 year research priorities for the European context. This group's opinion was that current Grid implementations lack many essential capabilities, which would enable the vision of complete resource virtualisation. The group defined three perspectives to envision Next Generation Grids (NGG): the end-user vision in which the simplicity of the Grid is exemplified; the architectural vision of a large-scale, self-organising network; and the software vision of the Grid as a programmable system.
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| | Call open for Grid projects in EU IST programme
In the second IST call, that was published on June 17, 2003, the European Commission requests proposals for Grids for Complex Problem Solving. The closing date for proposal submission is October 15, 2003. First projects from this call are expected to start in Spring next year.
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| | European Commission organised IST 2003 event details programme
The IST 2003 site has been extensively relaunched. The first details of the conference programme and exhibition are now available. Plenary conference sessions will feature contributions from Erkki Liikanen, Commissioner for the Information Society, Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Technology and Innovation, President Roberto Formigoni of the Lombardy Region, as well as leading ICT personalities such as Nobel Laureate Professor Harold Kroto; Dr Pasquale Pistorio, President and CEO of ST Microelectronics; and Corporate Vice Presidents from Nokia and SAP.
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| | inSiDE supercomputing in Germany
The German Federal Supercomputing Centres in Munich (LRZ), Juelich (NIC), and Stuttgart (HLRS) published the first issue of their new supecomputing newsletter InSiDE - Innovatives Supercomputing in Deutschland. The newsletter was published during the ISC2003 supercomputing conference in Heidelberg. Next issue is scheduled for Fall 2003 during SC2003 in the USA. The first issue covers applications, Grid news (including Unicore), and news from the centres. An article of general interest covers "Processor A and Application Performance in Modern Supercomputers" that compares RISC, Intel and vector processors for supercomputers.
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| | Networking is getting underway at the IST 2003 site.
Complementing the conference and exhibition, networking sessions bring together people to discuss project ideas, research activities and business partnerships at IST 2003 in Milan, 2-4 October. The highly interactive Call allows participants to propose their own session, discuss proposals with others on-line, and generally build up useful contacts before the event so they can make the most of their time at the conference. The networking deadline is extended until September 15, 2003. |
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| | ParCo 2003 issues Call for Participation
ParCo 2003 will be organised in Dresden, Germany from 2-5 September 2003. The organisers have assembled a 5-track programme with 3 regular sessions and 2 mini symposia running in parallel featuring a total of 5 mini symposia, an industrial session and exhibit with many manufacturers, and 3 prominent invited speakers. |
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| | NGC/ICQT'03 workshop organisers issue Call for Participation
The NGC/ICQT'03 workshops will be held in Munich, September 16-19, 2003, in co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM and in the follow-up of COST 264. Registration option holds in-advance rates until August 1, 2003. |
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| | Workshop proposal writing for Framework 6
A workshop proposal writing for Framework 6 will be held 12 September 2003 - St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge, UK. This workshop is aimed at those preparing a research proposal for submission to the European Commission under its Framework Programme. 16 September 2003, there will be a work shop on Consortium Agreements.
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| | University of Innsbruck requests doctoral studentships in cluster and grid computing
The Institute for Computer Science of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, invites applications for
funded research positions for PhD students in the Distributed and Parallel Systems group.
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| | RackSaver incorporates Intel Itanium 2 in servers
RackSaver announced its next generation server: the RS-2164/it supports the new Intel Itanium 2 processor running at 1.50 GHz with 6MB of level 3 cache in a 2U rack-optimized form factor.
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| | Sandia selects Linux Networx and Fabric Networks to deliver InfiniBand cluster
Sandia National Laboratories has issued an order to for Linux Networx to build a 128-node Evolocity II (E2) cluster system, which will be the largest InfiniBand cluster announced to date. Sandia will use the system to evaluate InfiniBand technology from Fabric Networks by running scientific computing applications on the 128-node cluster. This will be the first public, fully integrated cluster of this magnitude in the United States based on 10 Gb/s InfiniBand technology.
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| | Indiana University releases LAM/MPI 7.0
Indiana University's Open Systems Lab has released version 7.0 of its widely-deployed LAM/MPI parallel computing middleware. LAM/MPI is an open source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard software that researchers and developers use to enable clusters and Grid-enabled computers to operate in parallel on a single problem.
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| | Aladdin licenses Cobion anti-spam technology
Aladdin Knowledge Systems singend a collaboration with Cobion and launched its Advanced Anti-spam Service.Aladdin's new Advanced Anti-Spam Service includes Cobion technology for URL Classification, Hash Signature Data, and Heuristic Text Analysis for full text classification including comparison to Cobion's database of known spam. The global spam database contains digital fingerprints of hundreds of thousands of currently circulating spam e-mails that have been collected from across the world.
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| | Australian Bureau of Meteorology rinstalls NEC SX-6 supercomputer
The Bureau of Meteorology has awarded NEC Australia the contract for supply of its next supercomputing project, including an NEC SX-6 parallel vector supercomputer. The new supercomputer will provide core high performance computing at the Joint Bureau of Meteorology/CSIRO High Performance Computing and Communications Centre in Melbourne. By December 2003, an NEC SX-6 parallel vector supercomputer capable of producing in excess of one trillion results per Tflop/s will be operating at the Bureau's new HQ site in Docklands, Melbourne. The project sees the HPCCC regain its status as the most powerful production and research supercomputing site in Australia
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| | ESI and EASi to partner in virtual prototyping
Paris based ESI Group and US based EASi inked a strategic partnership in software integration and engineering services. Joining forces will enable ESI Group and EASi to reach each other's installed base with extended decision-making solutions in 'Computer Aided Engineering' (CAE) and 'Virtual Prototyping' (VP).
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| | German Air Force Tornado simulator to be upgraded with CAE's Medallion-S visual system
CAE, teamed with STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH, has received a contract from the German defence procurement organisation BWB to upgrade a Tornado flight and tactics simulator with CAE's Medallion-S visual system. CAE's share of the contract is valued at approximately 9.3 million euro (C$14 million). |
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| | IBM Supercomputer undertakes complex simulations into cancer research treatments
An IBM supercomputer is deployed for complex biocomputing applications at the data centre of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg for analysing the structures of human genomes
and proteins within the worldwide "Human Genom Project". The recently expanded supercomputing system consists of IBM supercomputers including IBM eServer p690 systems with a total of 96 POWER processors. |
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| | EuroPAM 2003 in Mainz
ESI Group announced its 13th European conference and exhibition to be held October 16-17, in Mainz, Germany. Focused on digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes, EuroPAM 2003 is expected to draw 400 European delegates representing major automotive manufacturers and suppliers, as well as a wide spectrum of industries including, aerospace, defense, energy, and manufacturing.
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| | Entelos and MIT to Study Causes of Immune and Inflammatory Diseases
Entelos and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced a collaboration to better understand how and why communication signals in certain immune system cells break down, a situation that can cause numerous widespread immune and inflammatory diseases such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.
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| | Danish Center for Biological Sequence Analysis purchases Altix 3000 Supercluster
The Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS), a division of the Technical University of Denmark, has selected SGI storage and a 64 processor Altix supercomputer to solve the massive data computation challenges associated with biological modeling. CBS research focuses on the creation of proteomic- and genomic-based models of cells for virtual analysis of complex biological processes.
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| | Oak Ridge National Lab installs 256-Processor SGI Altix 3000
The Center for Computational Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has purchased a 256-processor SG Altix TM 3000 system with 1.5 Tflop/s peak.
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| | Spinnaker Networks provides storage power for brain cell and systems research at the Salk Institute
Spinnaker Networks' SpinServer network attached storage (NAS) solution has been deployed at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to aid in brain cell and systems research in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. SpinServer's industry leading, single server and cluster performance coupled with complete functionality, including a global namespace, NFS, CIFS, server failover, and open support for industry leading storage subsystems, made Spinnaker the best choice for Salk. |
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| | PDCN 2004 conference
The IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2004) will be held from February 17 to 19, 2004, in the city of Innsbruck, Austria.
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| | IBM signs outsourcing contract with Ericsson for IT management
The announcement by IBM that the memorandum of understanding signed with Ericsson in June has resulted in a contract to manage and develop Ericsson's portfolio of IT software applications across the globy. |
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| | IBM and Dassault to invigorate efficiency at BMW
BMW Group is developing a new vehicle programme with IBM Product Lifecycle Management technology with software from Dassault Systèmes. |
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| | Simulation computed at NERSC matches historic Gamma-Ray burst
After three decades of scientific head-scratching, the origins of at least some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are being revealed, thanks to a new generation of orbiting detectors, fast responses from ground-based robotic telescopes, and a new generation of computers and astrophysics software. A GRB detected on March 29, 2003 has provided enough information to eliminate all but one of the theoretical explanations of its origin. Computational simulations based on that model were already being developed at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory when the discovery was made.
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| | DARPA selects three high productivity computing systems projects
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Cray Inc. teamed with New Technology Endeavors Inc. both located in Seattle, Washington; IBM in Armonk, New York; and Sun Microsystems Inc. in Mountain View, California as the three contractor teams for the second phase of the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) programme. |
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| | RLX Technologies selects Topspin to deliver InfiniBand-Enabled blade servers
RLX has selected Topspin to provide software, hardware, and systems that will allow RLX to deliver an InfiniBand-enabled blade server solution for high-performance computing (HPC).
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| | AMD Opteron in Chinese Dawning 10 Tlop/s supercomputer
Dawning Information Industry of China plans to use the AMD Opteron processor to build the fastest supercomputer in China. The Dawning 4000A supercomputer is planned to run at maximum speeds in excess of 10 Tflop/s. It is also expected to be the first supercomputer made in China to be considered among the most powerful in the world.
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| | NAREGI - National Research Grid Initiative officially started
The opening ceremony for the Center for Grid Research and Development accompanied with a commemoration lecture was held at Gakushi Kaikan in Tokyo on July 1, 2003.　 NAREGI (National Research Grid Initiative) is one of the Japenes collaboration projects among industry, academia and government, initiated by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology (MEXT). At the Center for Grid Research and Development, the research and development areas are Grid middleware and the networking technologies.
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| | NEC releases TX7 Series server for High Performance Computing and NX7700 Series UNIX servers
NEC has started the sales of NX7700 UNIX server series, which consists of six models. Equipped with the 64-bit Intel Itanium2 processor, the full line-up ranges from the entry machine with maximum two processors NX7700/i2010 to the high-end configuration with maximum 64 processors, NX7700/i10000. The NX7700 series systems will only be available in Japan. In Europe NEC HPC Europe will offer three enhanced models of TX7 server series with up to 32 processors for high performance computing applications. These will be offered with either Linux or HP-UX as operating system.
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| | ISC2003 - U.S. Plans Vector Supercomputer Revival
Over 400 participants from 22 countries attended the 18th International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg. This was the first opportunity for many of us in Europe to assess the impact of the Earth Simulator on expanding the science envelope and to also listen to our US colleagues about how they intend to address the issue of leadership, in large scale scientific technical computing. The presentations at the conference were broad based and at the same time at the cutting edge of developments. This first article highlights the U.S. rationale for re-entering the vector supercomputer capability field, assigning super-scalar systems to their natural turf of commercial capacity computing. As Gordon Bell, now a senior researcher at Microsoft, warned: "Off-the-shelf supercomputing is a dead end." (MIT Technology Review, Feb 2003). Another article will concentrate on the impact of the Earth Simulator on cutting edge scientific and climate research simulations. (Chris Lazou)
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| | ISC2003 - Earth Simulator Delivers New Science Results
As stated in the previous article, over 400 participants from 22 countries attended the 18th International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg. The first article highlighted the U.S. rationale for re-entering the vector supercomputer capability field, assigning super-scalar systems to their natural turf of commercial capacity computing. This article concentrates on the impact of the Earth Simulator on cutting edge scientific and climate research simulations. (Chris Lazou)
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| | LINPACK results from TX7 refuels IBM/Intel chip debate
The Intel Itanium 2 (1.5GHz Madison) chip was only announced 30th June, and already some vendors have announced their new Madison systems, tailored using specially designed chipsets. Examples of these include the 64 CPUs HP Superdome, the 64 CPUs SGI Altix and the 32 CPUs NEC TX7/i9510. (Chris Lazou)
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| | Packetlight networks utilizes high-performance Xilinx platform FPGAs for optical transport
Xilinx announced that PacketLight Networks, a provider of carrier-class multi-service metro optical transport solutions, selected Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs as a key enabling technology in its PL-16000 carrier-class integrated optical transport system. PacketLight Networks is among a growing number of companies utilizing Xilinx high performance low cost FPGAs to gain a competitive advantage in Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) applications.
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| | New Itanium based servers from HP
HP introduced a line of servers based on Intel's Itanium2 1.5-gigahertz processor. The new 64-bit HP Integrity servers, combined with the 32-bit ProLiant servers form a complete family of servers. The Integrity family ranges from one- and two-processor entry-level systems up to a 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome server. HP 's Itanium 2-based systems are backed by a broad network of more than 700 applications from major independent software vendors in both commercial and technical arenas.
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| | International Conference on High Performance Computing
An Autonomic Applications Workshop will be held during the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003)in Taj Krishna, Hyderabad, India on December 17th, 2003
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| | IBM powers up first Power5 servers
IBM powered up the first servers based on its next generation Power microprocessors. According to the company, initial internal performance tests indicate that Power5 based eServer systems are expected to offer four times the system performance over the first Power5 based servers.
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| | New Intel server processors for the high-end
Intel Corporation introduced new Intel Itanium2 processors and Intel Xeon processors MP.
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| | Dot Hill's SANnet II Selected By Bodacion For Its HYDRA Web Services Appliance
Dot Hill has been selected as the storage technology partner of Bodacion Technologies. Bodacion will integrate Dot Hill's highly reliable SANnet II Fibre Channel (FC) with its HYDRA secure Web services appliance. |
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| | SGI triples backup and restore record, scalable technology protects large data environments
SGI has achieved a sustained rate of 10.1TB per hour for a disk-to-tape file backup. SGI has also established an image restore record of 7.9TB/hour, the company says. The benchmark nearly triples the previous record of 3.6TB per hour for backup and is more than three times faster than the previous restore record of 2.2TB per hour. |
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| | Leibniz-Rechenzentrum increases its cluster performance 17-fold
The Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) in Munich will upgrade a Megware Intel Itanium based parallel cluster from 20 Gflop/s to 353 Gflop/s performance. The building block is Megware's 4-processor MiriQuid-M1-Server. During this year, LRZ has already increased its serial cluster capability pools from 130 Gflop/s to 406 Gflop/s.
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| | Western Fire Center installs two PSSC Lab Linux clusters
PSSC Labs delivered two Linux-based clusters to be used by Western Fire Center Inc. in Keslo, US. The clusters, running Intel Xeon processors, will enable predictive modeling to help ascertain the causes and effects of fires that are involved in litigation more quickly.
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| | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server tops Oracle application benchmark
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 has achieved the highest performance rating on any 32- or 64-bit Intel based server running the Linux operating system in the Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB), in a non clustered environment. Among Linux operating systems, SuSE achieved the highest single system performance result - 5,656 concurrent users and an average response time of 0.49 seconds.
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| | SuSE and SAP to offer enterprise-ready Linux services
SuSE Linux has signed a Cooperative Support Agreement with SAP AG to provide Linux support to corporate customers around the world. Under the agreement, SuSE will collaborate with SAP on support for joint enterprise customers providing optimum support for mission-critical SAP business solutions on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, powered by UnitedLinux.
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| | Itanium benchmark by Linux Networx
Linux Networx did a benchmark validation for the Intel Itanium 2 processor running on the Intel SR870BH2 server platform. Intel's SR870BH2 server platform supports dual Itanium 2 processors, and is a good option for customers who desire 64-bit cluster computing. On the Linpack benchmark it reached 8 Gflop/s
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| | Los Alamos National Laboratory selects Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision
The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., has purchased an 80-processor, 34-pipe Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision for virtual testing of safety, reliability and performance of America's nuclear stockpile.
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| | Fakespace introduces two new advanced visualization solutions
Fakespace Systems today introduced two new interactive, visualization systems. The dStation (Decision Station) is a movable modular system for collaborative work, offering high-resolution monoscopic images with integrated audio, video and multi-windowing capabilities. The ROVR (Rapidly Operational Virtual Reality) is a large screen, digital active-stereo system that sets up in fifteen minutes and delivers bright, sharp imagery for use in field research, work reviews, special events or trade shows.
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| | Racksaver offers new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 professional graphics solutions
RackSaver has launched support for the new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 in its RS-2100 (2U, 2-way) server and in the NemeSys graphic workstation. The RS-2100 server will be specifically customized to house the new cards. NVIDIA will showcase the RackSaver solution at the SIGGRAPH 2003 Conference & Expo, which begins on July 29, 2003 in San Diego, California. |
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| | United Devices and Sumisho Electronics ink partner agreement
United Devices announced that Sumisho Electronics will be a key distributor of the company's Grid MPTM 4.0 grid-computing software. Sumisho chose United Devices over several competitors due to the company's abundant experience building large-scale, secure, enterprise grid environments.
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| | SOAP Version 1.2 used in web services and Grid services now a standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) did release the SOAP Version 1.2 Recommendation, consisting of the SOAP Version 1.2 Primer, the SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework, SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts, and the SOAP Version 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol intended for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment such as the Web or the Grid. A W3C Recommendation is the equivalent of a Standard.
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| | Purdue Information Technology Division to employ UD Grid computing
United Devices is in the process of linking 2,300 computers at Purdue University to create a computational Grid to perform research that previously was performed using supercomputers.
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| | Cracow Grid Workshop issues Call for Papers
The Cracow Grid Workshop 2003 will be held October 27-29, 2003 in Cracow, Poland. Deadline for paper abstract submission is September 21, 2003. |
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| | Argonne National Lab Deploys Force10 switch for Supercomputing Cluster
The Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, USA) has successfully deployed Force10 E-Series switch/routers to connect to the TeraGrid.
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| | Version 1.1 of the Java CoG Kit released
The Java CoG Kit development team has released Version 1.1 of the Java CoG Kit. New features include an updated security library and an updated Myproxy client. Cog stands for Java based Commodity Grid Kits.
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| | Topspin debuts intelligent backplane for on demand computing
Topspin Communications announced, what it callas a significant technology enhancement to its Switched Computing System. Topspin has added a hardware abstraction layer and programmable APIs to its switches which provide the first server, storage, and software agnostic programmable interconnect for creating flexible grid computing architectures.
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| | Multicast Streaming Technology for the Grid
In the UK project MUST the Complexity Research Group (CRG) of BTexact Technologies and the RealityGrid consortium of EPSRC’s e-Science initiative aim to facilitate Multicast Streaming Technology for the Grid.
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| | Globus Toolkit 3.0 implementation of OGSI released
Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3) is releases. It is the first full-scale implementation of the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) version 1.0.
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| | Sistina launches GFS 5.2 for scalable, enterprise-level data sharing and protection
Sistina Software, a storage infrastructure software company delivering data-sharing solutions, has made available Sistina Global File System (GFS) version 5.2 for the Intel Architecture, further extending Sistina's unmatched performance, flexibility and scalability for its powerful enterprise-class clustered file system. New features enhance key data management and protection capabilities to accelerate the deployment of Linux clusters in combination with storage area network (SAN) and blade-based computing architectures. |
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| | Call for Proposals launched for links to international e-science
The UK e-Science Core Programme,
asked for high quality proposals for travel and networking projects to establish links with leading Grid/e-Science projects from around the globe. This call, totalling approximately GBP300k, requests individual bids of up to a maximum of GBP40,000. A second call for links to Global e-Science Projects is anticipated in 2004. |
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| | NTT Data and United device expand Grid computing partnership in Japan
United Devices announced an expanded distribution partnership with NTT DATA Corporation to sell and provide professional service support for United Devices' Grid MPTM Enterprise software platform.
Using Grid MP software, NTT DATA built Japan's first public research grid, "cell computing(r)", performing approximately 611 years worth of computation in just four months
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| | The Gridbus Project to release GridSim 2.1 Toolkit
The Gridbus Project led by the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, did release the next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim 2.1 toolkit.
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| | Internet computing finds cancer growth inhibitors
Find-a-Drug isaid that the preliminary results of its Cancer Internet project have exceeded all their expectations. By using the spare computer time of thousands of PCs connected to the Internet to form a large supercomputer, Find-a-Drug has been able to evaluate the potential of more than 0.5 billion molecules and produce a set of molecules that are predicted to inhibit the growth of various types of cancer cell. Scientists at the US National Cancer Institute have tested the abilities of a small number of molecules from the set as part of their Developmental Therapeutics Program.
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| | Gridnode Gridtalk Integration Solution powered by IBM WebSphere
At the IBM Forum 2003, GridNode announced support for IBM WebSphere Platform with the enterprise-class operations of the GridTalk Integration Solution. The combination of GridTalk and WebSphere creates a platform for extending complex enterprise applications across enterprises. |
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| | Find-a-Drug starts a fighting AIDS programme
Find-a-Drug has launched its HIV project. The success of this project depends on members of the public volunteering their computer's free time. By harnessing the power of thousands of home PCs connected to the Internet, distributed computing software has the potential to significantly accelerate drug research.
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| | Pfizer selects Avaki Grid software
Pfizer Inc. has selected Avaki Comprehensive Grid software to provide researchers with automated, secure, wide-area access to research data and compute power across its global research sites. Avaki Comprehensive Grid Software provides Pfizer researchers with immediate access to the data and compute power that is critical to their drug discovery efforts. |
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| | Russia wins Grid Wars 2
Grid Wars II was held in San Jose, California, June 23-26, 2003 at a cluster conference. The championship events were organised live. HP was once again sponsoring Grid Wars.
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| | Jefferson Lab CIO staff develop powerful, lower-cost capabilities through SciDAC
Jefferson Lab is entering the second phase of a three-year effort to create an off-the-shelf supercomputer using the next generation of relatively inexpensive, easily available microprocessors. Thus far, scientists and engineers from JLab's Chief Information Office have created a "cluster supercomputer" that, at peak operation, can process 250 billion calculations per second. |
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| | Jefferson Lab CIO staff develop powerful, lower-cost capabilities through SciDAC
Science may be catching up with video gaming. Physicists are hoping to adapt some of the most potent computer components developed by companies to capitalise on growing consumer demands for realistic simulations that play out across personal computer screens. For researchers, that means more power, less cost, and much faster and more accurate calculations of some of Nature's most basic, if complex, processes. |
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| | San Diego Supercomputing Center licenses Genego's Metacore platform for Systems Biology applications
GeneGo will license its MetaCore platform to the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC). MetaCore is a proprietary computational platform for Systems Biology that combines analytical tools, data content, and algorithms for understanding the complex interconnected pathways that are affected in common human diseases. |
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| | NetherLight provides multi-Gigabit connectivity in The Netherlands
NetherLight is an advanced optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimised for high-performance applications in The Netherlands.
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