| Primeur Weekly 02 February 2004 |
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| EuroFlash |
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| e-Science takes on some of the grand challenges in medical research |
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A project to tackle the two diseases which together cause over 60 per cent of deaths in the UK ñ heart disease and cancer ñ was launched by Oxford University, which will work in collaboration with other leading universities, CCLRC, and IBM. The project will use e-Science, seen as the future of scientific research. Oxford also announced a £4 million building to house the development of e-Science.
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| HP becomes first commercial member of CERN Large Hadron Collider computing Grid |
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HP will support an operational Grid for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The LHC, the world's largest scientific instrument, enables research into the fundamental nature of matter. It is in the final stages of construction at CERN's facility outside Geneva. HP will link computing resources at its HP Labs locations in Palo Alto and Bristol (U.K.) as well as HP Brazil and HP Puerto Rico to CERN's LHC Computing Grid (LCG) to help manage and analyse the massive quantities of data expected to be produced by the facility.
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| 7th HLRS Metacomputing and Grid Workshop and 4th International LeGE-WG Workshop issue Call for Papers and Participation |
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The 7th HLRS Metacomputing and Grid Workshop and the 4th International LeGE-WG Workshop are being organised April 26-28, 2004 by HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany. Deadline for paper submission is February 16, 2004.
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| Dutch cluster company ClusterVision reports top year 2003 |
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ClusterVision said In 2003, it has won more European Tenders for clusters in the UK and Benelux than any other company, both in terms of number and monetary value of tenders. ClusterVision has also proven to be at the forefront of clustering technology, having been the first in the Benelux and one of the first in Europe to supply a cluster based on the InfiniBand network technology. ClusterVision was also the first in the UK to supply a cluster based on the AMD Opteron processor.
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| AMD64 technology selected by DaimlerChrysler for mission-critical computing applications |
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DaimlerChrysler AG has implemented its new AMD Opteron processor-based cluster in the Mercedes-Benz Technology Center (MTC) in Germany. Based on AMD64 technology, the new cluster is the second AMD processor-based cluster installed by DaimlerChrysler in the last three years.
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| AMD Opteron processor to power the University of Zurich's Matterhorn cluster |
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The University of Zurich has successfully installed an AMD Opteron processor-based supercomputing cluster named "Matterhorn" designed and built by Dalco. The high-performance Matterhorn supercomputing cluster will be used to simulate and study the biochemical, chemical and physical properties of complex molecules in an effort to help design advanced medicines to combat human diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Matterhorn will also be used to model the dynamics of galaxies and test advanced theoretical concepts.
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| SunHPC 2004 organisers issue Call for Participation |
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The SunHPC 2004 "High Performance Computing on the Sun Fire SMP-Cluster" Workshop will be organised March 29 - April 2, 2004 at RWTH Aachen University, Center for Computing and Communication, Aachen, Germany.
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| GenStat 7th edition released |
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VSN International has released the full commercial version of GenStat 7th Edition. The new release offers additions to its range of statistical techniques as well as an abundance of usability enhancements in areas such as user interface, graphics and data management.
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| PÂl Brevik joins Scali as Vice President of Sales for the strategic partnership with Dell |
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Scali has appointed a new Vice President (VP) focussing on managing the strategic partnership with Dell Computer. PÂl Brevik will spearhead Scali's relationship with Dell and continue to build traction and drive sales within Dell's global high performance customer base.
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| ESI Group and CFDRC to collaborate on virtual engineering |
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ESI Group and CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) establish a strategic partnership to deliver a virtual engineering software portfolio to the market. This partnership includes the acquisition of CFDRC's six software products and associated personnel, as well as a long-term agreement for collaborative developments with CFDRC's research team.
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| First phase of TeraGrid goes into production |
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The first computing systems of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project are in production mode, making 4.5 teraflops of distributed computing power available to scientists across the United States who are conducting research in a wide range of disciplines, from astrophysics to environmental science.
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| GridIron Grid computing technology to be included with Adobe After Effects |
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GridIron Softwareinked an agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated to provide the first commercially available solution for consumers and small to medium businesses to harness the power of grid computing. Adobe plans to include a version of GridIron Softwareís grid computing technology, GridIron XLR8, with the next release of its Adobe After Effects Professional software.
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| GridIron XLR8 version 2.0 released |
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GridIron Software, released GridIron XLR8 version 2.0, an application development tool and runtime software that makes it simple to develop, use and manage software with the added speed of parallel distributed computing. GridIron XLR8 enables computationally intensive applications to run faster on multiple computers. Version 2.0 of GridIron XLR8 introduces a new security model for Grid computing and powerful data transfer capabilities.
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| Ohio Supercomputer Center selects Voltaire InfiniBand |
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The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has selected Voltaire's high performance InfiniBand solutions to support a large computational Linux cluster. Advanced Clustering Technologies, a reseller of Voltaire's complete family of InfiniBand solutions, will deliver a turnkey solution to OSC consisting of Voltaire ISR 9600 switch routers, host channel adapters and 256 dual Intel Xeon compute nodes.
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| Virginia Tech Migrates Supercomputer to Apple's New Xserve G5V |
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Virginia Tech announced plans to migrate its cluster of Power Mac G5 desktop computers to Apple's new Xserve G5 rack mounted 1U server. Xserve G5, the most powerful Xserve yet, delivers over 15 Gflop/s of peak double-precision processing power per system and features the same revolutionary PowerPC G5, 64-bit processor used in Virginia Tech's cluster of 1,100 Power Mac G5s-the world's third fastest supercomputer.
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| HP collaborates with University at Buffalo to advance computational research |
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HP has joined forces with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB), to deploy infrastructure technology and academic resources that will power the university's world-class Center for Computational Research. As a foundation for bioinformatics and life sciences research, HP and UB are building an open storage area network (SAN) with a capacity of 75 terabytes, capable of housing roughly four times the information found in the Library of Congress.
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| Alberta researchers can accelerate results with new Grid computing initiative |
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A new three-year joint initiative between the Government of Alberta, Canada, Silicon Graphics and the University of Alberta will make it easier for Alberta researchers, universities and organisations to use Grid computing to solve complex scientific problems.
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| CTC Team ports bioinformatics software to Windows platform |
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Members of the Computational Biology Service Unit (CBSU) of the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) have ported the popular bioinformatics software known as HMMER to the Windows platform. The software can be downloaded for free.
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| Pacific Wave to be the first extensible International Peering Collaboration |
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The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) have agreed to cooperate in a joint project to create, deploy, and operate an advanced, extensible peering facility along the entire Pacific Coast of the U.S.
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| Sun closes deals that include Sun Fire 15K server |
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Sun has secured major deals with several industry-leading businesses and organisations that are looking to manage ever-changing workload needs with high-end servers. In addition to a comprehensive agreement with Office Depot, Sun has signed on Pemex, Morse plc and Science Application International Corporation.
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| TenFold announces LoadBalancing feature |
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TenFold Corporation, provider of the EnterpriseTenFold platform for building and implementing enterprise applications, has launched LoadBalancing, an important feature that enables EnterpriseTenFold to automatically optimize hardware utilization within and across server computers.
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| Parasoft SOAPtest 2.5 |
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Parasoft, a provider of Automated Error Prevention (AEP) software solutions, has released SOAPtest 2.5, the most comprehensive Web services testing product available today, verifying every aspect of a Web service from WSDL validation, to client/server unit and functional testing, to performance testing.
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| Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska to power its business with servers from NEC Solutions America |
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has selected NEC's Express5800/1000 series of Intel Itanium 2 processor-based servers to consolidate its existing environment and drive its data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives.
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| Yankee Group reports utility computing is a positive, fundamental shift in computing architecture |
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A Yankee Group report, "Performance Management Road Map for Utility Computing", asserts that utility computing, in whatever agreed-upon implementation, offers an unprecedented opportunity to align IT resources with the goals of the business. The key to making this alignment happen will be management tools that provide automation and control of the infrastructure and visibility into the performance of business services.
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| Dot Hill receives OEM agreement extension from Sun Microsystems |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. has announced that the existing three-year OEM partner agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc., first announced in May 2002, has been extended. The agreement will now continue through May 22, 2007, a two-year extension to the original agreement.
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