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March 1999
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| German Scientific Council
advises positive on Bavarian proposal to install a very large vector supercomputer at LRZ in Munich in new national supercomputer centre
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The German "Wissenschaftsrat" - research council - has advised to start a second national supercomputer centre at Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) in Munich, Bavaria. To this end the centre plans to acquire a large moderately parallel vector supercomputer. The machine,
should be used for grand challenge applications.. The supercomputer will be in the order of ten times faster than the current German supercomputers.
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| Gordon Bell Keynote speaker in Mannheim
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Gordon Bell will
deliver the keynote at the Mannheim Supercomputer Seminar on June 10. The same day,
there will be presentations and discussions with the Chief technical officers from HP, SGI, Compaq, IBM, Fujitsu, Sun, Tera and NEC. Also the new TOP500 list will be presented.
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| SuParCup '99 Award for outstanding contribution in
parallel computing
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To promote Parallel Computing the Mannheim
Supercomputer '99 announced the "Mannheim SuParCup '99
which will be awarded in the Mannheim during the conference, June 10-12, 1999. The Award, with a first price of
euro 2500, should appeal to anyone with experience in the use of parallel computers - including MPP, SMP, PVP systems and PC/WS clusters - for the solution of real problems.
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| Sequent to partner with Comparex
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Sequent Computer Systems has signed a strategic agreement with Comparex. The partnership will see Comparex taking responsibility for Sequent's sales activities in Austria, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Because Sequent already has success in the UK, France and Italy, the company will continue to sell directly in those countries.
In other countries Sequent has existing partner arrangements which remain unchanged.
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| CSC
Finland elected new scientific director
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Professor Kari Laasonen (35), from the department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oulu, has been elected as scientific director of CSC, the Center for Scientific Computing, for a two-year term. The tasks of the scientific director include strategic planning and development of CSC's services in scientific computing, contacts with research and industry, and general promotion of scientific computing in Finland.
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| Sjur Fjellbirkeland
new president of Scali
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Norwegian computer comopany Scali has appointed Sjur Fjellbirkeland as new President
on January 1st.
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| Baltic Sea simulations on NEC SX-4
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In late 1998, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
Computational Modelling (ICM), at the University of Warsaw, Poland, purchased a 2-CPU NEC SX-4B supercomputer with
a 2 GBytes of SDRAM main memory and a peak performance of 3.6 GFlop/s . The NEC SX-4B is used for Weather forcasting and modelling the Baltic Sea catchment region. Another important application area
which the SX-4 is used is advanced molecular ab initio quantum-mechanical computations.
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| Warsaw Installs NEC SX-4 for quantum-mechanical computations
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In late 1998, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
Computational Modelling (ICM), at the University of Warsaw, Poland, purchased a 2-CPU NEC SX-4B with
peak performance of 3.6 GFlop/s. The NEC SX-4B is used for advanced molecular ab initio quantum-mechanical computations as well as for simulations and modelling of large biomolecular systems using molecular mechanics, molecular dynamics and quantum-dynamics methods. Another application area
is
Weather forcasting and modelling the Baltic Sea catchment region.
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| Amdahl signs agreement with Swedish information warehousing specialist
QlikTech
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Amdahl has
added QlikView,
an integrated data warehouse solution from Swedish supplier QlikTech, to
its portfolio, Amdahl is now able to provide its customers with even
easier access to data warehouses.
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| 25th speedup workshop: trends in HPCN
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At March 25- 26 In Cadro-Lugano Switzerland the 25th SPEEDUP Workshop ' Trends in High-Performance Computing: systems, services, and user requirements' will be held. The workshop will address the current trends in HPC systems, but also raise the question whether these trends are going to persist in the future.
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| IBM S70 gets threefold performance boost on Baan benchmark
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IBM has achieved good performance benchmark results on Baan's IVc application on
RS/6000's 64-bit S70 Unix server. With 10,269 Baan Reference Users (BRUs), IBM RS/6000
is the performance leader in a Unix environment for concurrent users of Baan Company business applications, IBM claims. This benchmark represents a nearly threefold
performance boost within the S70 server family.
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| Philips and IBM to jointly develop smart cards
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Philips Semiconductors and IBM Research have plans to jointly develop a new generation of multi-function smart cards for applications such as banking, electronic purse, medical records, secure authentication and customer loyalty programmes. The cards, based on Philips' SmartXA smart card processor, will incorporate JavaCard virtual machine software being developed by IBM.
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| Agreement between Digital and De Lage Landen terminated
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The Dutch company De Lage Landen International and Compaq Capital Corporation agreed that De Lage Landen's leasing and financing support to Digital Equipment Corporation customers in select European markets has been terminated. Prior to Compaq's aquisition of Digital in 1998, Digital had engaged De Lage Landen to provide leasing support to its customers in various countries in Europe. Compaq Capital will take over De Lage Landen's portfolio.
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| Cadcentre to ship PDMS PE-Direct
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Cadcentre is to launch its PDMS PE-Direct system. The new software provides engineers with a
route to import engineering information from Visio Technical into Cadcentre's Plant Design Management System (PDMS). PDMS PE-Direct will be available from Cadcentre in the second quarter of 1999.
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| Upgrade brings Cambridge University's Hitachi super to 77 Gflop/s
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The High Performance Computing Facility at Cambridge University has upgraded its
Hitachi SR2201 parallel vector
supercomputer by an additional 32 nodes, bringing the total to 256. The new peak performance of 76.8 GFlop/s makes this supercomputer the fastest university owned high performance computing facility in the country and is Hitachi's biggest supercomputer installation in Europe.
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| Ordering groceries while sitting in the lazy chair
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Good news for UK
couch potatos. From February 1, customers at Safeway superstore are using `Easi-Order' portable shopping devices, developed with IBM, which allow them to pre-select their weekly groceries anytime. The software makes suggestions about purchases as well as sending customers individual promotions and new product details. The service is based on a scaleable server infrastructure, using IBM DB2 and data mining technology.
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| VSMM'99: Virtual reality in a new virtual millennium
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'Next generation virtual reality: milestones for a new virtual millennium'. This is the topic of the VSMM'99' conference to be held 1 - 3 September, 1999 in Dundee, Scotland. In the spirit of defining concrete milestones for virtual reality and multimedia technologies, VSMM'99 conference will explore next generation VR.
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| Northamber
SGI distributor in the UK
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Silicon Graphics has chosen Northamber as distributor in the UK. This step marks the first phase of SGI's 'channel strategy' to handle sales of the new workstations. In the UK, Silicon Graphics has adopted a 100 per cent channel approach to the market. Access Graphics will continue to be the sole wholesaler for Unix products and will also recruit new NT resellers.
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| HPCnet archives available
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The archives of HPCnet contain a wealth of information of which much is still valid. The Primeur news service has now made them available again for the European HPC community, with permission from the olde Network of Exellence and support from
the
EuroTools consortium,
that
brings together HPCN tool providers and users.
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| The HPCnet archives
- a record of
HPC activities in Europe in the late nineties
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The archives of HPCnet
consists of four parts.
In Applications, a large number of HPCN applications can be found, rangeing from adcanced engineering to medicine.
In the Geography section,
centres involved in HPCn are listed. The Technology area lists the major players and the Education section provides some examples of
teaching HPCN technology.
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| Find you way in
HPCN conference land with Primeur
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Want to submit a paper on a HPCN topic
to the EuroPar conference? Then
you are probably too late: closing date was January 31. What are the alternatives in Europe and abroad? You could try Conpar99 in August: dead line is February 28, or PaCT99 in September with a February 5 deadline. The Primeur Calendar
provides an overview of all the important HPCN and supercomputing events, especially in Europe. Not only does it list the dates, titles and a short description, but it also mentions the submission dead-line, which comes in handy when you are looking for a convenient place to present a paper.
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| Eastman Chemical
use German JMS technology
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Eastman Chemical Company
headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA will use the Codine job management system from German company Genias Software on a cluster of SGI, AIX and Compaq-Digital-Alpha's and Linux servers to carry out research using molecular modeling
programs.
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| Medical applications of HPCN and Virtual Reality in April HPCN event
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Medical applications ogf HPCN, and VR will be a major focus of the HPCN event
that takes place in Amsterdam from 12-14 April. The yearly mini conference on telemedicine ITIS99-ITAB99 gets company from a
workshop "Healt Care of the Future" organised by the Dutch TTN. The conference of the International Telemedical Information Society (ITIS)covers a diverse range of topics, which all have a direct input on how a multi-disciplinary information society for health care can be created. The workshop "Health Care of the Future" will showcase a number of medical applications developed in TTNs all across Europe, including
hospital logistics & management; intelligent systems; and improving treatment and care
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| Eurotools workshop
on performance measurement and prediction
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A half day workshop on performance measurement and prediction will be organised on
April 13, 1999 by the Eurotools Consortium at HPCN Europe. Topics include "The GRADE graphical parallel programming
environment" and
"Performance Prediction with DIMEMAS".
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| Spatial and HKS Announce ACIS-Enabled ABAQUS/CAE
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Spatial Technology a developer of open, component 3D modeling technology, and Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen (HKS),
announce ACIS-enabled ABAQUS/CA. The modeling performance and functionality in ABAQUS/CAE are built on the ACIS, 3D modeling kernel. ABAQUS/CAE provides a complete environment for modeling, managing, monitoring, and visualizing results from ABAQUS analysis applications.
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| NAG launches its numerical libraries implemented for PCs
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The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has released the NAG Fortran 77 Library, NAG fl90 (the Fortran 90 library) and NAG FL90plus for Windows 95/98/NT using the Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 (LF95). These products extend the range of numerical and statistical libraries for PC users.
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| Pallas announces new
PGI
Workstation 3 for Linux, Solaris and NT in Europe
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Pallas announced the availability in Europe of the Portland Group's PGI Workstation 3.0, a newly updated suite of parallel Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools. PGI Workstation 3.0 is supported on Intel processor-based workstations, servers, and clusters running the Linux, Solaris86 and NT operating systems.
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| Visual Numerics verifies
IMSL Fortran 90 Library on
RS/6000 SP POWER3 SMPnode
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Visual Numerics,
has tested its IMSL Fortran 90 Library on IBM's new RS/6000
SP POWER3 SMP Node and found complete compatibility.
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| Platform finialised agreement with SGI
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Platform Computing has come to a formal agreement with SGI to provide
workload management solutions for Silicon Graphics platforms.
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| Squeezing the most out of your workstation cluster - Dynamite test versions available in March
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The Dynamite Consortium will make available first test versions of its Dynamic cluster software interface in March/April
to selected software vendors and developers. Dynamite delivers work-load balancing of parallel tasks to work station cluster environments. Unique is its ability to
dynamically
adapt to changing work loads. Dynamite is especially useful for small to moderate sized
workstation clusters with much development work and one big application. When built into the application, the user does not even have to notice it is there.
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| Infodata Systems
signs VAR agreement with Platform
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Infodata Systems Inc. has signed on as the company's first solution-specific value-added reseller in North America for Platform Computing.
Under the terms of the agreement, Infodata will use Platform Computing's load sharing product
for its Compose Document Conversion Server, a high-volume document conversion system.
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| First device that makes light from steady stream of photons
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Physicists at Stanford University have produced the first device that can create a beam of light made up of a steady stream of photons. Normal light sources, even lasers, generate photons at random intervals. Finding a way to produce photons one by one at a regular interval has been a long-standing research goal, wich can be useful in the computer-industry and telecommunications.
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| Japanese Research Institute bought Compaq Alpha DS20
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The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, near Tokyo, has bought a cluster of the new Compaq AlphaServer DS20 servers to run its technical applications. The system consists of 70 Compaq AlphaServer DS20 dual-processor compute servers, plus one AlphaServer DS20 single- processor server for cluster management - all using the latest
Alpha 21264 processors.
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| HP's workstation sales rank first in IDC report for second year in a row
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Hewlett-Packard Company ranks the top spot in the International Data Corp's (IDC) report, "The Workstation Market, 1998: The Year in Review," for the second year in a row. According to IDC, HP shipped more systems than any other vendor in the combined worldwide Unix system and Windows NT-based workstation market, accounting for 21 percent market share.
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| HPCN Europe 99 hosts
12 workshops under one roof
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The final programme of HPCN Europe, 12-14 April, Amsterdam,
shows a collection of twelve workshops, ranging from Virtual Reality to Applications in Finance. In additon there is a mini-conference on telemedicine, and, of course the scientific track with 50 lectures and 80 posters. Key notes are delivered by
Gruber from EPFL:
"Parallel Computer Architectures for Commodity Computing";
Kesselman from the California Institute of Technology:
"'Life on the Grid" and
Adriaans from Syllogic:
"Fuzzy Logic".
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| IBM doubles performance RS/6000 SP supercomputer by including POWER3
processors
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IBM announced RS/6000 SP supercomputers
based on the 2 Gflop/s POWER3 microprocessor. The new machines have doubled the performance of the previous systems. IBM expects to market the new machine to new application areas
like data mining and business intelligence too. As of this month, IBM has shipped more than 5,500 SP systems with more than 55,000 nodes in the five-and-a-half years since the SP was introduced.
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| Silicon Graphics new road map shows Irix, NT and Linux
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Silicon Graphics, new
server strategy includes extending the MIPS
processor roadmap and developing a server based on the Intel IA-32 processor that will support Linux and Windows NT; operating systems. In addition, the company said it will continue to support
its Unix based 64-bit
IRIXoperating system,
for high-end server systems.
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| NEC and Toshiba license next-generation MIPS processor
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MIPS Technologies announced that NEC Corporation and Toshiba Corporation,
have secured licenses for MIPS Technologies' next generation
1,000 mips 64-bit design,
code named Ruby.
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| Compaq releases first Alpha based workstations
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Compaq Computer Corporation released its first Alpha based workstations the Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000. Based on the new 500 MHz Alpha 21264 processor, PowerStorm
graphics and a high-bandwidth systems architecture, the XP1000 runs the Tru64, Unix or Windows NT operating systems. Compaq also introduced a two-processor AlphaServer DS2.
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| Paderborn-Siemens-Scali: the right mix to develop a new European supercomputer
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The new 192 processor parallel machine which was installed in December 1999 at PC2 in Paderborn, is the result of three parties with their own expertise, working closely together: the Paderborn PC2 centre with its expertise in parallel architectures and programming, Scali with its hardware integration expertise and Siemens with its marketing and support knowledge. Alexander Reinefeld and Jens Simon explained in an exclusive interview to Primeur, why this works so well.
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| Silicon Graphics starts shipment of its NT workstations
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Silicon Graphics
began volume shipments of the new NT based 320 visual workstation.
The
540
is expected to ship in the second quarter of 1999.
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| Hitachi shipped first SR8000
supercomputer
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According to Hitachi, its Super Technical Server HITACHI SR8000 with 20 nodes was successfully shipped and installed in December 1998 at the first customer in Japan, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics. The following performance was achieved: Linpack performance of 20-nodes (48000x48000, without Strassen method) was 144.1 Gflop/s (90% of peak). No further details were reveiled.
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| Tera's 1998 results
shows euro 17.5 million loss
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Tera Computer Company reported a net loss for fiscal 1998 of euro 17.5 million compared with a net loss
of euro 14
million, for fiscal 1997. Net operating expenses in 1998 wereeuro 17.7
million, of which research and development costs accounted for approximately 82 percent.
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| IBM cuts pricing on F-Series Unix server hardware
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IBM
dropped pricing on its RS/6000 F50 and F40 Unix servers
with 30 percent and
launched a new line of AS/400e servers with faster processors. The all-new
product line consolidates several of IBM's existing server models into a
smaller package.
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| Health Care major focus of this year's HPCN Europe event
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Health care will be a major focus of HPCN Europe, Amsterdam from 12-14 April with the
mini conference
ITIS'99 and a workshop "Healt Care of the Future" organised by the Dutch TTN. The conference of the International Telemedical Information Society (ITIS) covers a diverse range of topics, which all have a direct input on how a multi-disciplinary information society for health care can be created. The workshop "Health Care of the Future" will showcase a number of medical applications developed in TTNs all across Europe.
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| SGI ships first Cray SV1 to ETH Zürich and
US defense
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According to Cray the peak speed of the SV1 processor is 20 percent faster than originally announced in June 1998. The first Cray SV1 processors were shipped in December 1998 to the US Department of Defense HPC Center within the Naval Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, and the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.
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| NEC developed pico-second laser
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NEC has developed a pico-second (one-trillionth of a second) pulse emission, optical communications laser with precision control of signal wavelength and frequency. The laser can emit a wavelength controlled light pulse at a frequency of 10 gigahertz.
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| IBM AIX to be C2 certified
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IBM's says its AIX is the first Unix operating system supporting a 64-bit environment to be certified at the C2 level of trust classification. The certificate, issued by the United States National Security Agency, was presented to IBM on January 20, 1999.
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| Digital Unix renamed in Compaq Tru64 Unix
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Compaq renamed its Digital Unix operating system to Compaq Tru64 Unix. With the new name the company hopes it has a distinctive and descriptive name to help achieve a high level of awareness in its target markets. Compaq also wants to emphasize its goal of delivering "Tru" business advantages for its customers.
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| Fujitsu developed interface connection
allowing 2.5 Gbyte/s transmission
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Fujitsu and its U.S.-based
subsidiary HAL Computer Systems have developed high-speed interface circuit technology that allows data transmission at 2.5 Gbyte/s. Fujitsu plans to incorporate the technology in its Synfinity II interconnect technology for multiprocessing server systems, currently under development.
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| IDC:
Revenue slowdown in HPC-world
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According to IDC's recent bulletin, '1998 High-Performance Computer Market: Review and
Outlook', revenue estimates for the worldwide High-Perfomance and Technical Server market show little annual growth of 4.2% in 1998.
The overall market is estimated to total $5.2 billion at
the close of 1998. IDC thinks this revenue slowdown is largely due to SGI's performance.
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| Sequent plans 32-bit Unix and drops prices on servers
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While Sequent had a nett loss of $52 million in 1998, the company is to introduce NUMA-Q 1000 servers in March. Prices start at $93,583, with four Intel Pentium II Xeon processors, while the eight-way system will begin at $188,683.
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| Fakespace to deliver large-scale visualization display system at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Fakespace
has been awarded a contract to create a large-scale visualization display system at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
This system will be used in the development and presentation of supercomputer-generated scientific visualizations for LANL research programs, including the analysis of weapon system simulations to ensure the reliability of America's nuclear stockpile.
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| PictureVision
purchased 90 Sun StorEdge A1000 arrays
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PictureVision
has purchased 90 Sun StorEdge A1000 arrays, each expandable to 144 Gbyte, for archival and retrieval of digital photographs stored on its PhotoNet online photography service.
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| Alias-Wavefront Unveils Maya Complete
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Maya Complete is a suite of
software tools for digital content creation and visual effects. The software components are now integrated and can be bought for a single price. Previously they were seperately priced products.
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| Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCCG Symposium on Visualization
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The conference held form May 26-28, 1999, Vienna, Austria is looking for research papers from all areas of visualization.
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| Visual effects of 'Armageddon' and 'What dreams may come' made by Fibre Box
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Pacific Ocean Post (POP) Film, a visual effects house used Box Hill's FC-AL RAID storage system, the Fibre Box, to edit and store visual effects for the films "What Dreams May Come" and "Armageddon."
Both films have been nominated for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences'1998 Visual Effects Award.
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| WebConsortium Launches X3D Standardization Initiative for Web & Broadcast 3D Graphics
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The Web3D Consortium has initiated the process to define X3D, a 3D standard that includes integration with XML. Standing for "Extensible 3D," X3D is defined as an interoperable set of lightweight, componentized 3D standards for
markets like Internet and broadcasting. The Consortium goals to produce a draft standard by mid-1999.
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| IMSL C version 3 Library available mid-March
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Version 3.0 of Visual Numerics' IMSL C Numerical Library (CNL) will be available in mid-March.
First released in 1992, IMSL CNL is a set of more than 250 prebuilt mathematical and statistical analysis functions written in C. Version 3.0 features 22 new statistical functions and the product is better positioned for the financial services industry.
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| Internet2 backbone now from
New York to Seattle
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The Abilene Project, the backbone for the US Internet2 project has now connections from coast to coast, from New York to Seattle. Started in April 1998, the Abilene Project is led by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), working in collaboration with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and Indiana University. Abilene will operate at speeds up to 2.4 Gbit/s.
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| Dolphin spins off TotalView software in Etnus
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Dolphin
has
launched
Etnus to market its TotalView software: a multiprocess, multithread debugger for applications written in C, C++, FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90, and PGI HPF. It supports multiple parallel progamming paradigms including MPI, PVM and OpenMP. TotalView scales to handle complex applications running on very large systems. Dolphin's core business remains Interconnect
hardware, including SCI
network chips.
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| DANTE is looking for Network Engineer
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DANTE, a European company based in Cambridge, UK is looking for a Network Engineer for the European Research Network TEN-155. This is the largest European Wide Area Network interconnecting 16 European countries at speeds up to 155 Mbps.
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| I2-DSI launched part of new network for research and education
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The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) initiative launched the first component of a
new infrastructure designed to support advanced Internet applications. The IBM Web Cache Managers used in this initial deployment have a capacity of almost six Tbytes, or the equivalent of approximately 9,000 CD-ROMs. Led by the Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, I2-DSI is a part of the Internet2 project's effort to develop the new network services needed to enable collaborative research and distance learning.
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| IBM to launch new RS/6000 and Ethernet swich
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IBM today announced a new gigabit Ethernet switch: a nine-slot chassis device that delivers transparent internetworking between Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Token Ring and native ATM.
It also offers Layer 3 routing and support for Virtual Local Area Networks and Firewalls.
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| Sun Starfire for US Library of Congress
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The Library of Congress' new
integrated library system will run on two Sun Starfire systems. The ILS will use an
Enterprise 10000 (Starfire) server, which is a datacenter-class system
and an
Enterprise 3500
server, configured with 8 processors for use as a web server. The ILS
will also include
StorEdge D1000
RAID storage systems.
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| SDSC accepts Tera's four-processor MTA system
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San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has accepted Tera's system installed in December.
The machine
contains a four-processor network and four resource modules, consisting of four multithreaded processors, 4 Gbytes of memory and four I/O processors.
The system doubles the size of the MTA system that has been operating at SDSC since last April.
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| Clinton proposes $366 million investment in Information Technology
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President Clinton proposed for a $366 million government's investment in information technology research, an 28 percent increase compared to last year. The agencies benefitting from IT funding include the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense (including DARPA), the Department of Energy, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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| Lockheed Martin, Boeing and TRW to use Mercury 's RACE computers for laser aircraft
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Lockheed Martin, Boeing and TRW selected Mercury as the supplier of it's RACE computers for the Air Force Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft. The ABL aircraft is scheduled for a test flight in 2001. Seven aircraft are to be built upon completion of testing. With the major buys starting in 2001, this is a programme with multi-million dollar potential for Mercury.
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| DoE extends contract with Pittsburgh Supercomputing center providing $2,5 million
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) will provide $2.5 million to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), extending the PSC's contract through the end of the current federal fiscal year. The contract was to expire at the end of February, threatening the continued operation of the PSC, an important element of western Pennsylvania's technology infrastructure.
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