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| Heidelberg 24 June 2004
Yesterday evening was the get-together-party. This means food and drinks in the exhibition area to give the participants the opportunity to talk to the exhibitors. In another part of Europe, Portugal, the European soccer championships are underway. Yesterday evening Germany was playing against the Czech Republic. The Germans had to win to go to the next round. Of course, they lost. This meant that The Netherlands are now progressing to the next round. But there were not enough soccer minded Dutch people at the conference to build a celebration party. Anyway as I was there for the exhibition - and the food and beer, I visited the booths of the University of Manchester, which is participating in an impressive number of Grid computing projects, the NIC at Juelich, showing results of the OpenMolGrid project and a combined booth of SMC networks, Terrascale, Angstrom and some other companies. (AE)
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The OpenMolGrid project is involved in creating Grid software to support the work flow of finding new promosing chemical compounds. In an experiment the Unicore based software system produced some 30 results. One person is doing the same, but doing the procedure, using the same application software by hand. He still has to produce the first result. We look into it and write a more detailed report later.
Terrascale is doing a very fast parallel filesystem suited for clusters and, to a lesser extent, Grids. SMC networks showed a small mascotte tiger, see the picture, which certainly attracts attention. I should go back to the booth to get some more details on their technical product.
Also visited Quant-X. They have a newsletter called "Hot Topic". Have to read that first. |
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