TeamHPC Inc. has successfully finalized the structure of a new corporate entity focused solely on Open Source development, customized software applications and High Performance Computing. In setting up the new corporate structure, TeamHPC Inc. has assembled a group of Linux engineers and sales and marketing professionals. Corporate focus will continue with software support to existing industry customers that have purchased Beowulf Type computational machines as well as a long list of some of the nation's major researchers.

Cray will collaborate with theUS Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to provide the world's most powerful supercomputer. The leadership-class system will be used for advanced scientific research.

IBM has opened the first Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centre in Europe. The new facility, located in Montpellier, France, is the second of its kind in the world, and will provide IBM customers access via the Internet, to powerful, highly secure supercomputers.

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will grant Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and its development partners, Cray , IBM and Silicon Graphics, $25 million in funding to begin to build a 50 Tflop/s science research supercomputer. The department selected ORNL from four proposals received from its non-weapon national labs.

Cray has received an order for a Cray X1 supercomputer system from GMRI. Under the contract terms, the Cray X1 system was recently installed at the NASA Ames Research Center facility in Moffett Field, California. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Cray and Best Systems have signed a non-exclusive agreement designating Best Systems as a Cray business partner in Japan. Best Systems and Cray Japan will work closely together to address the increasing interest in Cray's high-performance computing systems in the Japanese marketplace.

Verari Systems, previously RackSaver has acquired MPI Software Technology., an independent provider of high-performance software products and related services for managing parallel and cluster computers.

Cray has reported that a Canadian organisation has placed an advance order for the company's upcoming product based on the Sandia Red Storm supercomputer. The Red Storm-based system is scheduled to be installed at the customer's facility in late 2004. Further terms were not disclosed.

Citrix has made available MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 for Windows, the newest release of the company's flagship product.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is now offering two new models in its FibreCAT networked storage family. The new FibreCAT AX100 models, tailored to the small & mid-sized enterprise (SMEs) segment, were designed to combine networked storage functionality with simplicity and are a perfect match for the European IT vendor's Intel-based PRIMERGY servers. Available from channel partners starting in June, the FibreCAT AX100 – ideal for companies with over 500 employees – will offer 1 Terabyte (TB) of storage capacity for under 6000 euro excl. VAT.

The world's smallest computer - around a trillion can fit in a drop of water - might one day go on record again as the tiniest medical kit. Made entirely of biological molecules, this computer was successfully programmed to identify, in a test tube, changes in the balance of molecules in the body that indicate the presence of certain cancers, to diagnose the type of cancer, and to react by producing a drug molecule to fight the cancer cells.

Japan-based JM-net I will ship a high performance and power efficient blade server in Japan and Asia based on Transmeta's Efficeon processor. JM-net's EC86S blade server, for data centre and Grid computing environments, utilizes Transmeta's Efficeon to provide a compact system design with minimal heat dissipation.

Xilinx has made available its QPRO Virtex-II radiation-tolerant reconfigurable Platform FPGA family. Offering densities of up to six million system gates and high performance system features such as high performance embedded block RAM, embedded multipliers, Digital Clock Manager, and integrated I/O termination (XCITE), the QPRO Virtex-II family leads the industry in offering high density, high performance reconfigurable solutions specifically designed for mission-critical applications in aerospace and defense.

HP has secured the no. 1 ranking in customer satisfaction among vendors of Intel-based servers in the first quarter of 2004, according to newly released results from Technology Business Research Inc.'s ongoing IT customer satisfaction study.

The Fujitsu group of companies, including Fujitsu (Japan/Asia Pacific), Fujitsu Computer Systems (North America), Fujitsu Services (EMEA) and Fujitsu Siemens Computers (EMEA), has outlined its global strategy for development and deployment of products, solutions and services to help users optimize their IT infrastructure. The TRIOLE strategy is designed to help customers reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO) and will strengthen the group's abilities to generate innovative offerings, allowing customers to enhance business efficiency, business agility and business continuity. TRIOLE is also part of Fujitsu Siemens Computers' long-term Business Critical Computing focus and will embrace the European IT vendor's wide range of server, mainframe, storage and middleware product lines.

With the Danube Cluster another computing cluster for high performance tasks went operational at GUP Grid and Cluster Computing Lab (G2C2), which is located at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Consisting of single PCs and a high-speed network, the system allows researchers to cope with tasks that could not be tackled with a single personal computer. With the resulting price/performance ratio this solution is especially interesting for organisations with less extensive budgets.