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| News digest 30 June 2006 |
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| PrimeurLive! from ISC2006 in Dresden |
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This year we again report Live! from Europe's main supercomputing event. We start our second decade of coverage this event with a new collaboration with the TOP500 site that will simultanously publish the breaking news.
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We start each issue with an "blog" giving you some personal impressions. The next sections provide traditional reporting. The last section "Company news" provides mainly press release type of information from the companies. Hence, a few items are brought to you from three different view points.
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| A Hot Seat can be really hot |
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While Jack Dongarra explains how it came about that the Linpack Benchmark became the yardstick for the TOP500 and whether or not to change that to the HPC Challenge Benchmark in the last presentation of the conference, we try to summarize the experiences here in Dresden. In the main conference programme the best presentations were kept for the last session. Especially Steve Chen on the HPC developments in China was worth listening to, read our regular issue on Monday for a longer description of his talk.
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| Bull supercomputers are for Europe only |
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Bull's Jean-Francois Lavignon explained how Bull got the fastest machine in Europe. The system at CEA, the Tera-10, in France is not a one time lucky shot but part of a longer development process. Today Bull is building and rolling out supercomputers in the European market, building customer confidence and experience. The Americans have to wait: the US market will be addressed later.
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| InSiDE supercomputing in Germany |
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Despite the overall dramatic loss in number of supercomputers in Germany in the TOP500 list, the three large German supercomputer centres are still alive and kicking. Duriing ISC2006 in Dresden the centres, LRZ in Munich, HLRS in Stuttgart and NIC in Juelich published their bi-annual newsletter inSiDE, of course they were also present at the exhibition.
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| Audi sticks to Linux for its computer-aided engineering applications |
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Through the use of Linux Audi has regained its hardware-vendor independence, stated Hans-Ulrik von Bülow in his talk at ISC2006. He deplored that up till now Dassault Systèmes hasn't developed any version of CATIA V5 for Linux but assured the conference audience that Linux on commodity hardware will continue to be the platform of choice for computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications in the industrial context in general and at Audi in particular.
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| Did the asteroid kill the dinosaur? |
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Dr. Galen Gisler, a geophysicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory but currently has his activities in Oslo, Norway, showed the ISC2006 audience some interesting simulation results of the Chicxulub asteroid impact event in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred in the late Cretaceous era. There might be some convincing evidence that there is a connection between the asteroid impact and the mass extinction which killed the dinosaurs in the early history of Earth.
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| Simulation model to lay bare trail of avian flu, SARS and HIV/AIDS |
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Dr. Theo Geisel and his colleagues D. Brockmann and L. Hufnagel, from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Göttingen, are busy with the task of globally predicting the spread of epidemics such as avian flu, SARS and HIV/AIDS. They have developed a model to forecast of the spreading of life-threatening diseases.
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| Tera-10' 42.9 Tflop/s drives Europe's HPC |
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Tera-10, the supercomputer installed by Bull and connected by 3 rails of Quadrics QsNetII interconnect, has become the fastest system in Europe and the 5th in the world. Tera-10 is the second stage of the TERA project which aims to install at CEA/DAM a computing power of 100 sustained teraflops (half a petaflops peak) in 2010.
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| Bull NovaScale systems run CD-adapco's STAR-CD simulation software |
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CD-adapco and Bull have co-operated to offer the world renowned Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution STAR-CD on Bull's most innovative Intel Itanium 2 based NovaScale servers and clusters.
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| Bartron Medical Imaging selects Scali Manage solution |
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Bartron Medical Imaging has selected Scali Manage to implement and manage a 64-node Hierarchical Image Segmentation Cluster, which is the first of ten Linux clusters that are planned for implementation in the United States.
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| PGI Compilers enable weather research and forecast model to run on Windows server x64 clusters |
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research has ported its widely-used meteorological Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model to Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 using Portland Group Inc.'s suite of high-performance parallelizing 64-bit Fortran compilers and tools. A prototype 64-bit version of WRF is being demonstrated in the Microsoft booth at the 2006 International Supercomputer Conference.
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| Mitrionics and SGI form alliance to make FPGA supercomputing adoption faster and easier for customers |
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Mitrionics Inc., developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, has signed a strategic technology and marketing alliance with Silicon Graphics to facilitate customer adoption for FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Supercomputing technologies used for commercial applications and deployments.
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