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| News digest 27 June 2007 |
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| PrimeurLive! on ISC2007 in Dresden |
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This year we will again report on the ISC supercomputer conference in Dresden. ISC2007 is the major supercomputing in Europe.
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In addition a special has been published in:
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| TOP500 |
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| 29th TOP500 List of world's fastest supercomputers released: DOE/LLNL BlueGene/L still no. 1 but list sees largest turnover ever |
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The 29th edition of the closely watched TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers shows a lot of shuffling among the top-ranked systems and the largest turnover among list entries in the history of the TOP500 project. The Top500 list, which is published every June and November, was released today, June 27, 2007, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'07) in Dresden, Germany.
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| GAUSS Supercomputers are the fastest in Germany - Thanks to decisive expansion, 1st place in Europe will be achieved in autumn |
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In the TOP500 list published today, which contains the fastest computers in the world, German Gauss Centre for Supercomputing holds top positions. The supercomputer HLRB-II at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum is the fastest computer in Germany and number 10 in the world. Research Centre Jülich is 2nd place in Germany with its JUBL supercomputer and 18th place worldwide. Research Centre Jülich has set itself the goal of installing a supercomputer with 220 teraflops by autumn, which will see it become the number 1 in Europe and achieve a place amongst the top three in the world. The delivery contract was signed last Monday. Together the partners of Gauss Centre for Supercomputing want to build one of the planned European Supercomputing Centre in Germany till 2009.
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| IBM Blue Genes dominate list of fastest supercomputers |
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IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer continued its four-year reign atop the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list announced today. IBM systems account for 42% of the combined computational might of the planet's most powerful computers - more than any other supercomputer vendor, according to the list.
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| CSC Flagship - The Cray XT4, comes on stream |
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From the beginning of April phase one (10.6 Teraflop/s) of the Cray XT4TM, MPP, purchased by the Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC) in Finland, became operational. The final Cray XT4 configuration planned for 2008, is to deliver over 70 Teraflop/s of compute power to CSC's HPC users. (Chris Lazou)
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| Sun Microsystems ushers in a new era of network supercomputing at ISC 2007 |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is demonstrating innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions this week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Sun will provide a first glimpse of the Solaris 10 Operating System-based Sun Constellation System, one of the world's first open Petascale computing environments. The result of a collaboration between Sun and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas in Austin, the Sun Constellation System is expected to be one of the most powerful computing platforms in the world.
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| ClearSpeed announces introductory price for advance X620 Developer Bundle |
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ClearSpeed Technology, specialized in acceleration technology for high performance computing (HPC), has launched a new specially priced, limited-time offer of a bundled solution for software developers ready to take advantage of ClearSpeed's industry-leading performance per watt by accelerating their applications by 10x or more. Consisting of a ClearSpeed Advance X620 Accelerator, the 2.50 release of the ClearSpeed Software Development Kit (SDK) and 12 months support, the Developer Bundle is designed to extend the reach of ClearSpeed Acceleration as the initial step in developing software that fully exploits the potential of heterogeneous multi-core architectures.
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| Tektronix successfully tests world's fastest, longest Infiniband cable from Intel |
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Tektronix Inc., a worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring solutions, has successfully validated the performance of the new Intel 100 meter Infiniband cable operating at speeds up to 20 Gb/s. The world's longest InfiniBand optical cable has an electrical interface on either end and uses four serial data lanes at 5 Gb/s each. The cable will be useful in accelerating the performance of large computing clusters. The cables will be used as the part of the backbone network at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) show in Dresden, Germany.
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| HPC technologies to become Intel Cluster Ready certified using Platform Open Cluster Stack |
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Platform Computing will enable HPC Technologies to become Intel Cluster Ready through Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS). Intel Cluster Ready is a new programme and technology designed to simplify the development, purchase, deployment, usage and management of clustered computer systems. Platform OCS is the first commercial software system used to create certified Intel Cluster Ready systems that enable the consistent delivery of scale-out application clusters. HPC Technologies, a Dell Japan reseller, will be bundling Platform LSF and Platform OCS with their cluster offerings.
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| Tyan Computer Corporation's personal supercomputing solutions to become Intel Cluster Ready certified using Platform Open Cluster Stack |
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Platform Computing will enable Tyan Computer Corporation to rapidly become Intel Cluster Ready through Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS). Tyan will be the first personal supercomputer vendor to become Intel Cluster-certified using Platform OCS, delivering the power and convenience of High Performance Computing (HPC) without the cost of a full-scale cluster solution.
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| Platform Computing announces collaboration with Intel on Cluster Certification Programme |
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Platform Computing will collaborate with Intel Corporation on Intel Cluster Ready, a new programme and technology designed to simplify the development, purchase, deployment, usage, and management of clustered computer systems. Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) is the first commercial software system used to create certified Intel Cluster Ready systems that enable the consistent delivery of scale-out application clusters.
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| Bull and the University of Düsseldorf join forces to design the high-performance computing systems of the future |
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The Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf and Bull Germany have signed a two-year co-operation agreement to coincide with the commissioning of Bull's supercomputer at the University's Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (ZIM). This co-operation agreement was announced during the Dresden International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2007), and covers the areas of visualization technologies, software components and HPC cluster technologies. The results of joint development will be gradually incorporated into Bull's product range.
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| Scali solutions now available with HP's Flexible Computing Services |
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Scali Manage and Scali MPI Connect are now available through HP for customers of its HP Flexible Computing Services. Scali Manage, an integrated and flexible cluster management and monitoring system, and Scali MPI Connect, the highest performing MPI solution, is now available as an option for HP Flexible Computing Services, which offers organisations the ability to obtain compute power that is centrally provisioned, administered and managed by HP in a highly secure data centre.
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| Scali and Liquid Computing sign OEM agreement |
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Scali and Liquid Computing have signed an OEM agreement supporting Scali MPI Connect on Liquid Computing's LiquidIQ server. Scali MPI Connect is a high performance, scalable and fully supported implementation of the industry standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) which is widely used in high performance computing applications. LiquidIQ is an award winning fabric computing server that delivers industry leading performance, flexibility and cost advantages.
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| Scali MPI Connect to support Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 |
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Scali MPI Connect will be available on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, addressing the growing need for high performance solutions on Windows Clusters.
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| Mobile access to scalable solutions at ISC'07 |
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At the forthcoming International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, 26-29th of June, GridwiseTech, a vendor-independent expert on scalable solutions, will present demo versions of applications for selected business sectors. At the booth D16, visitors will have a unique chance to see mobile access to Grid-complied applications.
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| eXludus Technologies debuts Grid Optimizer Enterprise Edition |
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At the ISC2007 international Supercomputer Conference, June 26-29 in Dresden, Germany, eXludus Technologies introduced Grid Optimizer Enterprise Edition, the company's highly innovative patent-pending software technology for eliminating inefficiences in enterprise workloads.
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| Visual Numerics announces HPC application development support for IBM Blue Gene/P |
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Visual Numerics Inc., a producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, will provide support for IBM's Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. Visual Numerics' IMSL Fortran Numerical Library 6.0 will leverage the Blue Gene/P shared memory and distributed memory technology so that Fortran application developers can build high performance computing applications that exceed one petaflop.
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| Scali and Mellanox announce the first Quad-Core benchmarks on TopCrunch |
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Scali, specialized in higher performance computing software, and Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, have published the first comprehensive Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor benchmark results on the TopCrunch.org website. The results highlight the increased importance of high-performance InfiniBand interconnect and a high performance MPI as the core count increases in current and future systems.
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| Mitrionics demonstrates real-world FPGA supercomputing applications & acceleration technologies at International Supercomputing Conference |
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Mitrionics Inc., developer of the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, will be demonstrating its latest FPGA Supercomputing technologies at the International Supercomputing Conference this June 26-29, 2007 in Dresden, Germany.
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