| PrimeurWeekly 09 July 2007 |
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| Hans Meuer in interview: looking back on a successful ISC'07, forging plans for an ever expanding ISC'08 |
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Over the past 20 years the Supercomputer conferences, now in Dresden, have grown into a large event, this year with over 1200 attendees and 85 exhibitors. We asked ISC'07 chairman Hans Meuer about the reasons for this success and the highlights of the conference.
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| Japan working towards a Cyber Science Infrastructure and petaflop computer |
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At the Dresden supercomputer conference ISC2007, Kenichi Miura provided an overview of the Japanese national Grid project NAREGI and the plans for a Cyber Science Infrastructure and petaflop computer.
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| Overturning the Conventional Wisdom for the Multicore Era: Everything You Know is Wrong! |
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With a presentation titled "Overturning the Conventional Wisdom for the Multicore Era: Everything You Know is Wrong!" like the one from John Shalf NERSC Center Division, LBNL at ISC'07 in Dresden, there are two options: either you do not know what you are talking about and want to be funny, or you are an expert with a message. The attendees in Dresden, where the supercomputing conference took place, rated the presentation as one of the best of the conference, so we may safely assume something is really changing in the landscape of parallel computer architecture.
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| Airplane certified before it is even built |
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The ultimate goal of airplane simulation is to digitally predict the flight performance of an airplane and the way it can be handled before the machine takes off for its first flight. This requires real time simulation of a complete aircraft. To achieve this, integration of all disciplines involved is needed: aerodynamics, structures and flight control. Nortbert Kroll (DLR) and Klaus Becker (Airbus) provided an overview of numerical simulation of aircraft aerodynamics.
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| Some highlights from ISC2007 |
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"...The slow one will later be fast and the present now will soon be the past, the order is rapidly fading. The first one now will later be last, for the times, they are a changing...", sang by Bob Dylan, 1964.vFirst the conference preliminaries. Over 1200 participants from 44 countries attended the 22nd International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) and 85 exhibitors took part in the associated exhibition in the city of Dresden. This ISC annual event enables many Europeans to appraise the new technology from Japanese and USA vendors and to also be updated by our U.S.A. colleagues about where they are, in addressing the issue of leadership, in large scale scientific technical computing. The presentations at the conference were broad based and some at the cutting edge of developments. (Chris Lazou)
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| Quadrics, ParTec and Forschungszentrum Juelich launch the new high-performance cluster project JuRoPA |
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Forschungszentrum Juelich enters the future of high-performance cluster computing in close co-operation with companies from the EU and USA. With the JuRoPA system - JuRoPA stands for "Juelich Research on Petaflop Architectures", a new cost-efficient performance class of supercomputers shall be realized and possible paths towards peta-scale general purpose computers is going to be explored. A balanced combination of the hardware and software components optimizes the communication between the high-performance processing units.
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| Indiana University's Big Red supercomputer and Data Capacitor shine at International Supercomputer Conference |
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Indiana University's (IU) "Big Red" supercomputer is again ranked among the world's fastest, and IU accomplishments in advanced cyberinfrastructure have attracted attention and acclaim at the International Supercomputer Conference held last week in Dresden, Germany. "Big Red" is placed 30th on the June 2007 list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. Additionally, Indiana University's Data Capacitor team, with partners from Technische Universitaet Dresden, demonstrated impressive performance on a distributed transatlantic Lustre file system designed to move large amounts of scientific data quickly and easily.
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| Alenia Aeronautica-Quadrics to close partnership with MSCSoftware for virtual test technology |
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Through its subsidiary Quadrics, Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, and MSC.Software have started a partnership related to the ALENET initiative, a Virtual Test technology that allows the digital representation and virtual validation of flight and performance characteristics of an aircraft. MSC.Software's SimManager is the test technology chosen for this initiative.
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| Virtual institute will boost complex simulation codes |
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To advance the state-of-the-art programming tools in high-performance computing (HPC), Forschungszentrum Juelich has joined forces with RWTH Aachen, TU Dresden and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Together they have established the Virtual Institute High-Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS), a co-operation supported by the Helmholtz Association and combining the expertise of key players in the area of performance-analysis and error detection tools for high-end computing systems. The keynote speaker during the inauguration ceremony in Juelich is Douglass Post, Chief Scientist of the US Department of Defense HPC Modernization Programme.
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| Cluster Resources develops full HPC-stack deployment solution based on Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 |
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Cluster Resources Inc. has developed an integrated High Performance Computing (HPC) Deployment Solution for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 from Novell. This enterprise-class, fully supported HPC package deploys and configures a complete cluster environment quickly and easily. The solution is now in closed beta, moving soon to open beta.
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| JANET delivers Europe's first 40 Gbps wavelength service across National Research and Education Network with Ciena |
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JANET (UK) has successfully delivered its first 40 Gbps service in a production environment across JANET, the UK's national research and education network, using the new 40 Gbps capabilities of Ciena's CoreStream Agility Optical Transport System. This is the first time that a national research and education network (NREN) in Europe has deployed a true 40 Gbps signal across a single optical wavelength to carry live production traffic between sites.
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| Dolphin appoints new CEO |
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The Board of Directors of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ASA has appointed Tim Miller as the new CEO of the company, effective July 1, 2007. The current CEO, Kare Lochsen, has been appointed Executive VP Technology and Strategic Business Development.
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| Reading tops the University league for supercomputing in the United Kingdom |
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The University of Reading's Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET) Centre now has the most powerful academic supercomputer in the United Kingdom - meaning even greater accuracy in research on areas which affect the lives of millions of people. Thanks to a massive upgrade, the University's IBM supercomputer is now the most powerful academic computer in Britain, and the second most powerful computer in the United Kingdom overall - second only to the supercomputer at nearby AWE in Aldermaston.
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| Diligent expands over the Grid |
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Diligent is further expanding into Grid territory. Three more diligent partners (ENG, UNIBAS and UOA) are entering the Pre-Production gLite community.
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| TransitRail on the move: national peering programme footprint expands with turn-up of Chicago node |
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The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) have expanded the TransitRail commodity peering programme's national footprint with the activation of a connection point in Chicago, Illinois. With the Chicago node now active and the national footprint in place, TransitRail members have more TransitRail connection points to choose from, allowing groups to engineer both service redundancy and improvement of network performance through reduced transit times.
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| Cray supercomputers play key role in designing Boeing 787 Dreamliner |
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800,000 processor hours of computing time on Cray supercomputers went into the design of the highly successful Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Supercomputer-based modelling and simulation is far more efficient, cost-effective and practical than physical prototyping for testing large numbers of design variables. While physical prototyping is still important for final design validation, Boeing engineers were able to build the 787 Dreamliner after physically testing only 11 wing designs, versus 77 wing designs for the earlier Boeing 767 aircraft.
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| DRC Computer ships Reconfigurable Processor Unit |
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DRC Computer Corporation, a provider of dynamically reconfigurable coprocessor modules, has made available its Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU), the RPU110-L200. The RPU110-L200 includes an independent memory controller that provides greater memory bandwidth for maximum data flow. It also incorporates the largest FPGA available to deliver the greatest usable logic capacity for improved code efficiency and accelerated performance of compute-intensive applications.
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| Defense Information Systems Agency uses HP software to optimize SOA interoperability |
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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is using the company's software to optimize service-oriented architecture interoperability and to certify services across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusable and standards-based technology that can be quickly aligned to changing business needs.
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| Cornell Theory Center is now Cornell Center for Advanced Computing |
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The 22-year-old Cornell Theory Center has been reorganized and renamed in a move designed to make its high-performance computing resources more efficient and effective for the university's researchers and to take advantage of growing opportunities for research funding.
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| Texas Memory Systems introduces new Oracle Accelerator Kit |
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Texas Memory Systems, maker of the world's Fastest Storage, has launched a new Oracle Accelerator Kit - a product bundle designed to make it easier to accelerate Oracle database performance using supercomputer-class hardware. The Oracle Accelerator Kit includes Texas Memory Systems' RamSan solid state disks, QLogic switches and QLogic host channel adaptors (HCAs) designed for InfiniBand-based Oracle Grid computing environments.
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| Sikorsky Aircraft engineers tackle bigger, more complex simulations with SGI Altix XE cluster |
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A powerful cluster solution from SGI is helping engineers accelerate the process of designing the largest helicopter in the U.S. military. With the SGI Altix XE cluster, propulsion engineers at Sikorsky Aircraft, a business unit of United Technologies Corp. are able to run larger, more complex airflow simulations as they refine design concepts for the CH-53K, a next-generation cargo and personnel aircraft to be built for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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| New NetApp software enhances data centre |
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Network Appliance Inc. has strengthened its data management portfolio by bringing customers new software solutions to help simplify management, reduce complexity, and lower cost in the data centre. Customers demand cost-effective management, simple provisioning, robust protection, and continuous data access. The NetApp software portfolio offers all of these benefits, and now extends them even further to support heterogeneous, multi-vendor environments.
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