| Primeur Monthly - issue September 2003 |
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| INCITE Programme to allocate major Department of Energy Office of Science computing resources to key scientific projects |
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Proposals are now being accepted for a new US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science programme to support innovative, large-scale computational science projects, according to the Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. The programme, entitled Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE), will award a total of 4.5 million supercomputer processor hours and 100 trillion bytes of data storage space at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The NERSC Center in the US is the Office of Science's flagship facility for unclassified supercomputing.
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| I-SPAN 2004 issues Call for Papers |
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The 7th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks will be held May 10-12, 2004 in Hong Kong. The event is organised by the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems of the University of Hong Kong and the Department of Computing of the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Deadline for paper submission is December 1, 2003.
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| Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing issues Call for Papers |
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The Second International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing will be held December 7- 10, 2003, in Shanghai, China. Deadline for paper submission is September 15, 2003.
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| SC2003 seeking innovative visualisations for opening video |
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In what has become an SC conference tradition, an innovative video serves as a prelude to the opening session of the technical programme. Creators of the opening video for SC2003 are now seeking computer simulations and models. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 5.
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| Workshop on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Systems calls for participation |
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The Sixth ACM International Workshop on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems will be organised on September 19, 2003 in San Diego, California, USA. The event will be held at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel in conjunction with ACM/IEEE MobiCom 2003 and is sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE.
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| Charm++ 2003 Workshop issues Call for Papers |
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The 2nd Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications 2003 is hosted by the Parallel Programming Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will be held October 20th-22nd, 2003. Deadline for paper submission is September 15, 2003.
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| Second Workshop on Application Specific Processors issues Call for Papers |
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The 2nd Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP'03) will be held in conjunction with the 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36) in San Diego, California, December 2, 2003. Deadline for paper abstract submission is September 26, 2003.
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| New 1000-processor metacluster due at the University of Utah |
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Construction of a $2 million supercomputer will begin in September at the University of Utah, where researchers will use the powerful machine to tackle complex problems in biomedical research. After a bidding process, the centre recently chose Angstrom Microsystems of Boston to provide the components and assemble the "metacluster" supercomputer, which will include 1000 AMD Opteron processors. Each AMD Opteron is a 1.4-gigahertz processor with at least one Gbyte of memory. The Opteron processors in the supercomputer together will have more than on Tbyte of memory.
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| Tarari delivers 20-times algorithmic acceleration for selected high-performance comouting applications |
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Th new Tarari High Performance Content Processor for high performance computing (HPC) can be used to offload compute-intensive algorithms from servers, cluster nodes, and embedded processors, enabling VARs, ISVs and OEMs to increase the available cycles in new and existing clustered computing applications as well as individual servers and processors.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers launches new rack-optimised PRIMERGY RX800 and RX200 servers |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched two new PRIMERGY rack server models. The high-end PRIMERGY RX800 server consists of 8 (16) processors in 4 (8) height units designed to meet the demanding requirements of a modern IT infrastructure. The PRIMERGY RX200 server is outfitted with two processors in a single height unit and is targeted at ASP and ISPs who need a front-end and application platforms. The entry-level prices for the models now available are 3,300 euro for the RX200 and 36,900 euro for the RX800 in Germany.
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| Registration open for SC2003 Conference promising to "ignite innovation" |
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Registration opened Friday, August 8, for SC2003, the annual conference of high-performance computing and networking. This year's meeting, with the theme "Igniting Innovation", will convene November 15-21 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center.
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| ISR and Cray settle patent lawsuit |
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Isothermal Systems Research (ISR) and Cray have settled the pending lawsuit brought by ISR relating to evaporative spray cooling technology patents and trade secrets. The court has now dismissed the lawsuit. In the settlement, ISR and Cray have each agreed to license certain technology to the other.
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| Cray announces record financial results |
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Cray Inc. has reported record financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2003. Total revenue for the quarter was $61.8 million compared to $38.6 million in the same quarter last year. Net income was $7.9 million, up from $1.2 million. Second quarter results benefited from previously announced revenue of approximately $6 million that was deferred from first quarter 2003.
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| AMD introduces Opteron processor Model 246 |
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AMD has made immediately available the AMD Opteron processor Model 246 designed for servers and workstations. The AMD Opteron processor Model 246, which will power the IBM eServer 325, provides a unified platform for servers and workstations, enabling simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing. The IBM eServer 325 is planned to power one of the world's largest Linux supercomputers at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
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| MySQL and SGI deliver MySQL on the SGI Altix 3000 Supercluster |
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MySQL AB, has signed a strategic alliance with SGI to provide the MySQL database on the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters. MySQL AB and SGI are cooperating on engineering optimisation, marketing and sales for the Intel Itanium 2-based Altix 3000 supercluster running MySQL on Linux to power heavy-load, high-performance database applications.
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| Sun completes acquisition of CenterRun |
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Sun has completed the acquisition of CenterRun., a privately-held company based in Redwood City, California. CenterRun provides software that enables customers to rapidly provision, track and update their networked application services across many network devices in an effort to minimise costs and maximise availability and business advantage.
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| HP delivers faster ProLiant blade servers and high-performance networking switches |
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HP is now shipping faster processor upgrades across its line of HP ProLiant blade servers, offering customers increased performance and unparalleled investment protection. The company also introduced the next generation of its GbE2 Interconnect Switch, which delivers high-performance switching capabilities for HP ProLiant BL p-Class infrastructures.
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| Former IBM executive Peter Ungaro joins Cray |
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Cray has appointed Peter Ungaro as vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. Peter Ungaro joined Cray from his position as vice president, worldwide deep computing sales for IBM. In that role, he led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets.
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| Tarari signs Racor Systems to sell reconfigurable high performance computing content processor |
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Texas-based Racor Systems will be selling the Tarari High Performance Computing Content Processor in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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| TeraBurst Networks and SGI deliver interactive visualisation environments over optical networks |
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SGI has become an authorised reseller of TeraBurst's optical networking products for distributed visualisation applications. This agreement complements existing SGI VAN offerings by adding TeraBurst optical networking products for connectivity between SGI Reality Center facilities.
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| Singapore's Nanyang Technological University unveils new Reality Theater |
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SGI and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have opened the NTU Reality Theater, Southeast Asia's first virtual reality centre for institutions of higher learning. A joint project between NTU and SGI, the facility will enhance collaborative research in biological and medical science, scientific visualisation, virtual engineering, civil contingency planning, education, and digital media.
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| Discreet and SGI deliver SAN for film mastering and video production |
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SGI joined Discreet's infrastructure sparks partner programme. As part of the agreement, Discreet and SGI are qualifying key elements of the SGI InfiniteStructure solution, including the SGI SAN Server family and SGI CXFS shared file system, to work with Discreet's systems and software product lines.
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| Inventory of European Grid projects proposes new Grid Road Map |
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The GridStart project has published a final draft of an inventory of the current 20 European Grid projects: "IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap". It povides a detailed analysis of the projects, and their contributions to Grid developments. A detailed Road Map concludes the report. In this special we provide the main conclusions and suggestions of the Grid Road Map.
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| Architecture of the future Grid |
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As part of the "IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap" report, an architecture of the future Grid is sketched. At the abstract level, it consists of four layers: Fabric and network services; OGSA middleware; OGSA compliant toolkits; and application specific portals.
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| Key areas for future Grid development |
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In the previous two articles summarising the Future Grid Road Map from the "IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap" report, the main suggestions and the overall architecture were described. In this article some of the report's Road Maps' main concepts and the future impact are extracted. It also details to what level current European projects address the issues.
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| CESGA and CESCA join their supercomputing resources Globus and MPICH-G2 |
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The Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA) at Santiago de Compostela and the Supercomputing Center of Catalunya (CESCA) at Barcelona have successfully joined the largest machines they manage in order to solve the needs of research groups that require access to large data sets and computing capacity. This Grid will allow users from both centres to approach larger scale problems.
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| On-demand Grid computing is not an economical business model |
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On-demand computing is often used as an example of a business model that can be used for Grid computing. The model is that computing power is offered by companies or centres with idle computing power to companies that need (incidental) computing power. This would be one of the first areas, where Grid computing would have a major impact on business, the argument goes. However, in The IEEE Task Force NewsletterJim Gray published an article "Distributed Computing Economics" in which he explains that due to the network costs, this is not a good model in general. Only for very compute intensive applications, like rendering, it makes sense. In most other cases, a Beowulf cluster, with faster network connections than WANs, is a more inexpensive choice.
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| SUN and UK-Science programme release Transfer-queue over Globus (TOG) version 1.0 |
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TOG software allows to access remote compute resources via existing local Grid Engine installations. The TOG software integrates Grid Engine V5.3 and Globus Toolkit V2.2.4 to provide this access. The TOG software has been built as part of the Edinburgh EPCC Sun Data and Computer Grids project under the umbrella of the UK e-Science programme. TOG develops an industry-strength, fully Globus-enabled compute and data scheduler based around Grid Engine, Globus plus a wide variety of data technologies. It started in February 2002 and will run until January 2004.
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| European funding helps Merseyside Grid research |
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European funding is helping researchers on Merseyside to develop Grid business models. A £2 million Objective One grant to the Advanced Internet and Emergent Systems Institute (AIMES) at the University of Liverpool will help businesses capitalise on cutting-edge Grid research. The institute will use help companies harness spare computer processing power and tap into a virtual supercomputer through the Internet. It will also help them develop new business models, which could have the same impact as e-commerce. More than 40 companies on Merseyside alone are expected to be using software created through the project by 2007.
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| French Data Grid Explorer project approved |
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The French Data Grid Explorer project has been approved for funding with approximately 1 million euro from the ACI Grid programme. Grid systems can store and exchange large amounts of data: in the order of PBytes with an average aggregate throughput in the order of Tbyte/s. Storage and analysis of data at such a large scale is not easy. The Data Grid Explorer project will build an emulation environment to study large scale Grid configurations. The complete Grid Explorer project will cost about 2 million euro and did request from other funding agencies too.
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| e-Toile: French Grid star starts shining |
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The two year major French Grid project e-Toile is nearing completion: it runs until the end of this year. Currently a Grid platform is in place with several hunderd processors at sites accros the country with an aggregrate performance of 0.7 - 1,4 Tflop/s.
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| UNICOREpro released |
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Pallas has rereleased the commercial version of Unicore as UNICOREpro (professional Uniform Interface to Computing Resources) adding support training and consulting services. The package offers a ready-to-run Grid system including client and server software. UNICOREpro makes distributed computing and data resources available in a seamless and secure way through intranets and internet.
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| Access Grid Toolkit 2.1.1 released |
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The Access Grid Toolkit enables rich collaborations including people, data, and grid computing resources. The new Access Grid Toolkit 2.1 includes several improvements, including eaier packaging and installation. meanwhile also version 2.1.1has been released. This is a bug fix release for 2.1, which improves the stability and functionality.
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| SDSC releases version 1.0 of SKIDLkit data mining toolkit |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has released the initial version of the SKIDLkit data mining toolkit, giving scientific users a user-friendly set of advanced data mining capabilities. In developing SKIDLkit, researchers in the SDSC Knowledge and Information Discovery Lab (SKIDL) focused on end-to-end applications in close collaboration with discipline scientists in Earth systems science, medical science, and monitoring the safety of civil infrastructure such as highway bridges.
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| DataSynapse expands European presence by partnering with PCIB to serve German market |
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DataSynapse and PCIB, a German information technology consulting firm, will deploy and resell DataSynapse solutions in the German market. DataSynapse's GridServer offering, supported by PCIB, is currently being evaluated at a number of premier German financial institutions. DataSynapse and PCIB are committed to additional joint sales, marketing, and technical initiatives to deploy their combined solutions at other German companies.
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| Tenax consultant addresses legal issues at Grid Computing Conference |
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Grid computing experts experienced their own sense of shock and awe when Tenax Inc. consultant, Donna Johnson Edwards, presented at The Open Group Conference in Boston last week, attended by about 150 global Information Technology experts. The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium. The conference focus was Grid Computing and Boundaryless Information Flow achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner.
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| United Devices and Optive Research to expand drug discovery technology |
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United Devices has partnered with life sciences software company, Optive Research to develop software for computer-assisted drug discovery (CADD) specifically optimized for United Devices' grid computing platform. The partnership will allow pharmaceutical companies to speed lead identification and lead optimization phases of the drug discovery process and will result in the development of novel cheminformatic and molecular design software.
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| New Grid and tools deployed across NPACI partnership |
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The US National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) has deployed the NPACI Grid across the partnership's main resource sites. NPACI Grid is a production, heterogeneous national Grid consisting of interoperable software, scientific applications, and hardware resources located at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The NPACI-Grid will soon be deployed at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena as well.
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| Organon implements TurboWorx’ PowerCloud to accelerate drug discovery |
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Organon International is successfully utilising Turboworx' PowerCloud software platform to efficiently utilise and dynamically allocate computing resources. Leveraging PowerCloud on cross-platform systems at its Newhouse, Scotland facility, the global pharmaceutical expert has been able to rapidly process data and computationally-intensive bioinformatics tasks and achieve superior Linux cluster performance at a total lower cost of ownership.
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| Avaki releases Data Grid 4.0 |
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Avaki released Avaki Data Grid 4.0, software that helps businesses easily provision, access and integrate distributed data from heterogeneous systems in real time within or across organisations.
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| Australian Grid Computing Workshop issues Call for Participation |
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The Second Australian Grid Computing Workshop, AusGrid 2003, will be held October 2, 2003 at Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Australia and is organised by the Australian Grid Forum in conjunction with APAC'03, the APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch. Deadline for presentation proposals is August 25, 2003.
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| IBM's Storage Virtualisation Technology will handle one PetaByte of data at CERN |
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In the context of the 70 Terabytes of disk storage at GridKa at Research Centre Karlsruhe, one has to mention that IBM joins the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications. They collaborate to create a massive data-management system built on Grid computing. A detailed article can be found in Primeur on 2 April.
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| Grid technology from SAS powers Environmental Health Organization |
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Through its advanced multiprocessing capabilities, which are available to every SAS tool and solution, SAS enables IT organizations and application developers to create a distributed computing environment that leverages unused computing resources to obtain information. One customer is the US National Institute of Environmental Health Science. SAS has also joined the Global Grid Forum.
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| Animation Company uses HP Utility Data Center for speeding up rendering |
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The four-minute film, "The Painter," was created by the award-winning production company 422, which is based in Bristol, England, and worked closely with researchers from the Bristol site of HP Labs. This commercial-quality animated film has been produced using an experimental rendering service from HP Labs and running on an HP Utility Data Center (UDC). HP plans to submit "The Painter" to the world-famous Sundance Film Festival and other animation competitions in Europe.
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| Dot Hill helps Diveo Mexico boost data center capacity |
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Dot Hill's SANnet II Fibre Channel (FC) storage systems are being used in the data center and colocation infrastructure by Diveo Mexico, a division of Diveo Broadband Networks in its Mexico City location. The deployment was done in conjunction with value added reseller, Technidata of Mexico City.
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| Sun supports BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform 8.1 |
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Sun Microsystems has made available the new version of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform 8.1 to customers on Sun's network computing infrastructure. Today's announcement coincides with the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, a unified, simplified and extensible platform that provides business integration through the convergence of application development and integration, from BEA Systems Inc.
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| TGen, ASU, IGC Collaborative selects Altair's workload management software |
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The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Arizona State University (ASU) and the International Genomics Consortium (IGC) have selected Altair's workload management software, PBS Pro, to manage its newly deployed supercomputing infrastructure.
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| ZapThink and ADT announce service-oriented architecture implementation poster |
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Application Development Trends and ZapThink LLC have released a landmark poster "ZapThink's Path to Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation". Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) based on Web Services provide cost-effective approaches to building agile application infrastructures.
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| Cornell Theory Center joins The MathWorks Connections Programme |
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The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), specialised in Windows-based high-performance computing, has become a member of The MathWorks Connections Programme, The MathWorks third-party partner programme. The MathWorks Connections Programme is available to third-party organisations that develop and distribute complementary, commercially available products and services based on the MATLAB technical computing environment. Connections Programme members help MATLAB users by providing industry or application-specific technology to fill their need for a complete solution.
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| Axiom SL chooses Powerllel to enhance parallel processing |
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Risk management and enterprise data technologies specialist Axiom Software Laboratories Inc., a has chosen Powerllel Software for integrating with its RiskMonitor application to run in a distributed and parallel computing environment. Through this integration, Axiom SL’s customers, including major financial institutions, asset managers and energy companies, will be able to benefit from Powerllel technology to obtain performance benefits provided through parallel and distributed computing.
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| MTU Friedrichshafen implements MSC.ADAMS to improve engine development process |
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MTU Friedrichshafen, a manufacturer of large diesel engines and complete drive systems and a division of DaimlerChrysler AG, has invested in the MSC.ADAMS product line including ADAMS/Engine powered by FEV. MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH will be integrating MSC.ADAMS into their development process and using it in concert with other MSC.Software products like MSC.Nastran 2004 for integrated virtual engine development.
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| University of Queensland buys 208 processor Altix 3000 supercomputer for research into earthquake phenomena |
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The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has invested $3.25 million in powerful SGI supercomputing technology as part of an initiative to increase Australia's research abilities in earth sciences and earthquake phenomena. The investment is the result of funding from the Queensland State Government to establish crucial supercomputer hardware systems for the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACcESS), which seeks to address environmental and natural resource issues and to deepen understanding of earthquake mechanisms.
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| MTU Aero Engines invests in MSC.Enterprise Mvision to improve material data exchange and collaboration |
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MTU Aero Engines, a wholly owned affiliate of DaimlerChrysler has invested approximately 100,000 Euro in MSC.Enterprise Mvision. MSC.Enterprise Mvision provides material information and data management for virtual product development, ensuring consistent data for engineers evaluating new designs.
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| Multigrid Course - Introduction to Standard Methods |
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A Multigrid course will be hedl Friday 21-11-2003 to Sunday 23-11-2003. in St. Augustin, Germany. This course results from several lecture series Algorithms I/II. At the end of the course even beginners without numerical experience will be able to write standard Multigrid programs for model problems.
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| Xilinx Virtex series reaches two billion dollar revenue milestone |
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Xilinx has reached two billion dollars in cumulative revenue for its Virtex line of FPGAs. The milestone marks the first product series from a programmable logic company to reach the two billion-dollar mark in less than five years. The Virtex brand has been the number one choice of designers worldwide based on its industry-leading capacity, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
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| SGI and ABAQUS announce availability of ABAQUS on SGI Altix 3000 Servers |
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SGI and ABAQUS Inc. have made available the latest finite element analysis package ABAQUS release, 6.3-5, on the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers.
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| Washington University Biology, Chemistry, Astrophysics researchers benefit from new SGI Altix 3000 Supercluster |
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Biology, chemistry and astrophysics researchers, among many others, have begun running a wide range of applications on a new SGI Altix 3000 supercluster at the Center for Scientific Parallel Computing (CSPC) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The Linux OS-based SGI Altix 3000 system enables university researchers to write and share code for studies ranging from quark interactions to the characteristics of neutron stars.
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| Evernham Motorsports uses Product Lifecycle Management from IBM and Dassault Systèmes |
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IBM and Dassault Systèmes have signed a contract for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions with Evernham Motorsports LLC, a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race team. IBM PLM Solutions, with CATIA V5 for collaborative product development and SMARTEAM for collaborative lifecycle management from Dassault Systèmes, will allow Evernham Motorsports to develop high performance race cars through virtual testing rather than building costly, full-scale physical prototypes.
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| NCSA to install 17.7 Tflop/s Dell cluster |
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The US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will acquire more than 1,450 Dell PowerEdge servers that will be linked to form a high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) with a theoretical peak performance of 17.7 Tflop/s. Such performance capabilities would rank this cluster as the world's third most powerful system on the current TOP500 l of supercomputers and will increase NCSA's total computing power to close to 24 Tflop/s.
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| University of Kentucky supercomputer breaks the US$100 per Gflop/s barrier |
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Researchers at the University of Kentucky have constructed and demonstrated an innovative new, scalable, parallel supercomputer that achieves application performance of more than 1 Gflop/s for every US$100 spent on building the machine. The approach used to design and build this machine makes it cost-effective for solving a wide range of problems, from drug design using computational chemistry to design of quieter printers using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
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| Sandia Red Storm selects Etnus TotalView debugger |
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Cray and Etnus have signed a contract to provide Etnus TotalView for the ASCI Sandia Red Storm massively parallel computer system.
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| Terra Soft provides HPC system to the US navy through Lockheed |
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Terra Soft Solutions a developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, has been awarded the contract to fulfill a unique sonar imaging system for the United States Navy through defense contractor Lockheed Martin.
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| Los Alamos National Laboratory selects 11 Tflop/s ASCI computer system |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected Linux Networx to design, integrate and deliver one of the largest Linux clusters ever built, with a theoretical peak of 11 Tflop/s. Called Lightning, the computer supports the Advanced Simulation and Computing programme, or ASCI, which helps ensure the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence of underground The system called "Lightning" includes 2,816 AMD Opteron processors, making it the largest AMD Opteron processor-based system delivered in 2003 and the first 64-bit Linux supercomputer in the ASCI programme.
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| Los Alamos National Laboratory selects Linux Networx to build 256-node InfiniBand cluster |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected Linux Networx to build a 256-node Evolocity cluster system, which will be the largest InfiniBand cluster announced to date. Named Orange by Los Alamos, the cluster will become part of the Laboratory’s Institutional Computing project, which supports such computing-intensive research as the design of antibiotics and characterising the variability of the HIV-1 virus. This cluster will feature Mellanox InfiniScale 96-port 10Gb/sec switches and InfiniHost dual port host channel adapters.
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| Sun and SuSE Linux enter into global alliance |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and SuSE Linux have signed a global alliance to expand the reach of Java technology and SuSE Linux in the rapidly growing market for open systems. Under the terms of the agreement, SuSE commits to become a Java 2 Standard Edition source licensee and to distribute Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to further expand the deployment of the world's most popular application environment. In support of this global alliance, Sun will sell, ship and provide full customer support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on Sun's x86 systems.
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| Sistina integrates GFS with HP high performance clusters for Linux |
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Sistina Software has integrated its GFS (Global File System) with the new HP High Performance Compute Cluster LC Series. Sistina GFS was selected by HP as the premier cluster file system for the LC Series for its ability to enhance key data management and protection capabilities and to accelerate the deployment of Linux clusters in combination with storage area network (SAN) architectures.
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| Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology orders large IBM Linux supercomputer |
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Japan's largest national research organisation has ordered an IBM eServer Linux supercomputer that when completed will deliver more than 11 trillion calculations per second, making it the world's most powerful Linux-based supercomputer. It is expected to be more powerful than the Linux cluster currently ranked as the third most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the independent TOP500 List of Supercomputers.
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| IBM and SuSE Linux earn first security certification of Linux |
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SuSE has achieved the first ever security certification of Linux. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 has achieved Common Criteria Security running on IBM eServer xSeries. The Common Criteria (CC) is an internationally recognised ISO standard (ISO 15408) used by the USA Federal government and other organisations to assess security and assurance of technology products.
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| SGI to deploy SuSE Linux on SGI Altix 3000 Servers |
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Expected to be available in October, SGI will bundle SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on SGI Altix™ 3000 servers and superclusters. SuSE Linux will support the unique 64-processor single-node scaling capabilities of the SGI Altix 3000 platform. SuSE will also provide third-level customer support to SGI customers in a seamless support agreement with SGI.
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| Linux Clusters Institute organises workshops |
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In 2003, the Linux Clusters Institute will organise two workshops. The first one will be held in Montpellier, France October 13-18 at the IBM Scientific and Technical Computing Center EMEA/ATS. The second one will take place December 8-12 at the Center for HPC@UNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
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| Siemens Business Services selects SuSE Linux to drive payroll accounting and HR management systems |
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Siemens Business Services will use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 to underpin its mySAP HR application, processing payrolls for more than 170,000 employees worldwide, one of the largest payroll systems in the world. Siemens Business Services chose SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 as the operating system for the new Intel-based Primergy application servers - for its efficiency, performance and easy migration.
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| New IBM Linux database clusters |
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IBM has launched new Linux database clusters to help businesses of any size implement a low cost, high performance data centre based on IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux and the IBM eServer 325 systems that IBM is also introducing this week.
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| ICT Kenniscongres 2003 presents business card for ICT innovation in The Netherlands |
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The ICT Kenniscongres 2003 will be organised September 4-5, 2003 at the Dutch Congress Centre in The Hague, The Netherlands. The Congress is hosted by the Dutch Ministries of Economic Affairs as well as Education, Culture and Science. It provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of IT in The Netherlands.
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| Inauguration of 70 TByte Disk Space for GridKa in Karlsruhe |
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In a ceremonial act on July 24, the Research Centre Karlsruhe (FZK) opened its 70 TeraByte disc space for its Grid centre. In a pan-European call for tender, the team formed by the system house Systematics Technology Solutions and IBM, delivering the disks, won the multistep acquisition for GridKa, which will end with 340 TeraByte. The expectations of gridka are about 1.4 PetaByte disk space in 2008. Professor Dr. Reinhard Maschuw, Member of the Board of Directors of FZK, discussed the new paradigm of gaining knowledge out of data.
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| Research Centre Jülich starts operation of 1,3 TeraFlop/s system |
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At ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics) at Research Centre a new part of the IBM p690 acquisition went into operation on July 28. Now six nodes of the IBM p690+ with Power4+ processors, clocked with 1,7 GHz, are running. They deliver a peak performance of 1,3 TeraFlop/s. The final machine, which is expected in beginning of 2004, will consist of 37 nodes and will have an aggregated peak performance of 8 TeraFlop/s. The computer can be accessed for scientific projects, which have been examined by the Commission of Computing time of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) or of the Research Centre Jülich. Some of the operational aspects as well as the data conversion from Cray to IBM will be discussed.
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| The Grid Computing Centre at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe |
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During my visit Klaus-Peter Mickel, head of the Institute for Scientific Computing at Research Centre Karlsruhe (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), gave me an overview of the Grid centre, the future plans and the main tasks it had to solve in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. In the meantime German user groups that analyse actually running similar accelerator experiments now use the GridKa (Grid Karlsruhe) centre, in total 19 research institutes all over Germany with 41 user groups, in total about 350 scientists.
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| First Water-cooled PC Cluster in Production at GridKa |
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The GridKa computer centre at Research Centre Karlsruhe since October 2002 operates the first PC cluster world-wide whose waste heat is cooled completely by water.
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| Mellanox surpasses 100,000 InfiniBand port sales milestone |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a provider of InfiniBand silicon, has shipped more than 100,000 InfiniBand ports to customers for a broad range of InfiniBand based applications. This milestone comes just 6 months after Mellanox announced having exceeded the fifty thousand port shipment milestone.
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| Internet speed mark with Cern participation in Guinness World Records Book |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborated with researchers from the California Institute of Technology, European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Geneva, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to set the record for sending data over the Internet that the Guinness record-keepers recently certified as official.
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| University of California uses Adaptec network accelerator to speed genome research |
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Adaptec specialised in storage solutions, has made available a new network accelerator card that increases the performance of servers used in high-performance computing applications. The Adaptec network accelerator offloads all TCP/IP processing from the host to make more CPU processing power available for networked applications.
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| Conference on Complex Systems in e-Business issues Call for Participation |
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The Slovenian institute for innovation and technology is to host an international conference on complex systems in e-business from 13 to 17 October 2003 in Ljubljana. The event will provide an opportunity to review current research into the systems based approach to e-business, that is, the relationship between information technologies and the organisational structures that support them.
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| 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing issues Call for Papers |
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The 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC 2004 - will be held March 14 - 17, 2004 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Deadline for paper submission is September 6, 2003.
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