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| Maui supercomputer center is doubling its computer capacity
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The
IBM RS/6000 SP located at the Maui High
Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), will be twice as powerful
following an upgrade scheduled for later this month.
MHPCC
is
currently ranked as the 67th most powerful system in the world. After
the upgrade, MHPCC is expected to
move into the top 30 on the new list of
TOP500 supercomputer list.
The upgrade will add 50 nodes of IBM's Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
POWER3 SP technology to MHPCC's supercomputing suite, providing 178
Gflop/s
of
additional peak computing power.
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| Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing in Vietnam
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The Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, March 27-31, 2000 Hanoi, Vietnam has issed a call for papers. 000
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| Supercomputer export control topic for American republican president candidates
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Republican presidential
candidate Gary Bauer
called on Gov. George W. Bush to reverse his
position calling for an ease on supercomputer export controls.
Bush outlined his position on supercomputers one day ahead of a federal
court indictment of a Boeing subsidiary for knowingly transferring
sophisticated machine tool equipment to a Chinese missile factory.
"By indicting Boeing this afternoon, even the Clinton administration
admits that our current policy towards China has produced significantly
increased risks to American national security," said Bauer.
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| Largest virtual supercomputer in the world
for extraterrestials
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The
University of California Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence project, SETI@home, reported a major milestone in
supercomputing history. The project has received more than 100,000
years of computing time from over 1.3 million volunteers in 223
countries, creating the world's largest supercomputing project.
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| New Excel add-ins from NAG
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NAG
has released its Statistical Add-Ins for Excel. By enhancing Microsoft Excel with the NAG Statistical Add-Ins, users are able to undertake regression, time series analysis, generalised linear modelling, analysis of experiments and multivariate analysis from a standard desktop utility.
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| Sun acquires Czech
NetBeans Java development envirnomet
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Sun Microsystems, has acquired NetBeans Ceska republika a.s., a Czech Republic joint stock company (NetBeans), by means of an asset purchase. NetBeans is a
developer of cross-platform Java-based integrated development environments (IDE).
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| New Escala
EPC2400 from Bull
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Bull introduced a fast Unix
server, the Escala
EPC2400. The company also strengthened the
mid-range of its Escala family of symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) 64-bit servers and added a host of new software solutions targeting e-commerce and other
applications. All server and software solutions are available immediately.
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| IBM and Dassault Systèmes expand their strategic partnership
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Dassault Systèmes
and IBM today announced
have signed an agreement to strengthen and expand their strategic partnership to reach and serve the needs of manufacturers, around worldwide service, consulting, marketing activities and dedicated sales channel. The announcement came at the CATIA Operators Exchange (COE), the American users' group meeting attended by nearly 2000 CATIA customers and users.
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| Fujitu-Siemens to pursue BS2000 mainframe strategy
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Fujitsu
Siemens Computers
announced its long-term mainframe strategy, making it
clear the new European company will systematically pursue its strategy based
on BS2000/OSD in the mainframe sector. The mainframe holds the number one position in Germany and is number two Europe wide.
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| CoCreate's SolidDesigner 3-D CAD system standard for Liebherr-Werk
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Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH, a
German manufacturer of mobile cranes, has made a strategic decision to standardize on HP
subsidiaryCoCreate's SolidDesigner 3-D design solution.
Under the terms of the contract, CoCreate supplied 34 seats of SolidDesigner including various modules and consulting to Liebherr this year.
For the year 2000, 46 more seats of SolidDesigner are planned, including additional modules.
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| U.S. supercomputers that will help
Russia keep its nuclear potential secure and efficient
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Russia and the United States seek to
establish a tougher control over the nuclear safety of the countries,
which signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the New York
Times writes.
The agreement should include the access of
Russian nuclear specialists to U.S. supercomputers that will help
Russia keep its nuclear potential secure and efficient.
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| New version of CoSy compiler platform released
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ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv
is now shipping the Summer 1999 release of its premier product, the CoSy compiler development system. This new CoSy release focuses on achieving maximum performance for today's complex, flexible architectures with significant instruction-level parallelism, such as high-end DSPs and VLIWs.
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| Seminar
on parallel tools on the Cray T3E
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Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre announced a one-day seminar: Parallel Libraries and Tools, to be held at Daresbury Laboratory (UK) on 24 November, 1999. This immediately precedes the 10th Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop, which takes place on 25-26 November.
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| Unix
reigns in
European HPC
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MPP is
still the most wideley used HPC architecture in Europe. Unix is used by almost everyone (95 percent) and 97 percent of the HPC users expect to use
it at the same level, or even more in three years time. These conclusions can be drawn from a survey conducted by Dr. Rob Baxter for Direct, a group of European research supercomputer centres. The Direct survey, amongst 190 supercomputer centre users, also concludes that
NT
is no longer gaining ground in the HPC arena. In three year's time, 23 percent of the respondents expected to use the NT operating system less than today. Only 41 percent
is using it today. The survey also shows that a majority is using clusters of workstations. Vector-SMP is the third widely used architecture with 45 percent.
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| HPC has become truly a tool for scientific investigation
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Want to get an overview of the processors currently in use in HPC machines? Interested in knowing the types of computer architectures available and how they are used in Europe? The report Whither HPC in Europe?
provides a nice overview. The report, written by Dr. Rob Baxter for the Direct Initiative of European supercomputer centres, equally lists the results of a survey amongst academic HPC centre users. Several of the HPC processing technologies and capabilities have become mainstream in particular disciplines, such as prototyping procedures in the automotive and aerospace industries, and 3D imaging, rendering, and data storage in the medical sector.
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| Second call IST closes in January
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The second call for IST proposals under the Fifth Framework programme has been issued by the European Commission on October 1st 1999. Closing date for Research and Development proposals is January 17th 2000. However, the current places emphasis on proposals for take-up measures, for which a number of specific topics are mentioned.
A structure of take-up support nodes, similar to the HPCN Technology Transfer nodes in the previous programme, will be put in place.
The budget available for this call is 400 million euro.
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| CATIA Version 4 Release 2.2 available
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IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced
CATIA Version 4 Release 2.2. The companies expect that customers in the automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding and construction industries are among the major beneficiaries of the 15 enhanced products in the new release.
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| Raytheon selects Sun for SAP applications
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Raytheon Company is deploying a new mission-critical SAP backbone for managing enterprise applications on a
platform comprised of Sun Enterprise
servers, software and 1.5 terabytes of storage.
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| EDS selects Starfire to power interactive billing service
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EDS has
selected Sun's technology, including the Sun Enterprise 10000
Starfire
server and
Java
to support its
new Interactive Billing Service called iBilling.
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| Amdahl announces Linux support
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Amdahl
will
provide support for its LVS 4600 and 4800 Open Systems
Storage products attached to Fujitsu
team servers
and other Intel e-based servers running the Linux operating system.
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| IBM Announces $480 million Outsourcing Agreement with Mazda
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In the largest outsourcing agreement in Japanese manufacturing history, IBM Japan, Ltd. today announced that Mazda Motor Corp. will outsource most of the development and operation of its information systems to IBM Japan in a deal worth approximately $480 million over ten years.
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| PNNL chooses
PAM-CRASH to run on its 512 processors IBM SP supercomputer
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The US Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL), which is operated by Battelle for the
U.S. Department of Energy, has chosen PAM-CRASH for the Northwest
Alliance for Transportation Technologies (NATT) energy efficient
vehicle initiative. PNNL owns IBM's largest non-defense
supercomputing facilities in the US with a 512 and a 128 nodes SP-2.
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| Elliptic Curves could solve the security problem
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Irish mathematician Robert Harley announced today the solution to the seventh and most difficult Certicom ECC Challenge problem so far.
The solution was arrived at by 195 volunteers in 20 countries after 40 days of calculation distributed on 740 computers.
This computation, coordinated from INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), has confirmed theoretical predictions that a 97-bit code based on elliptic curves is harder to break than a 512-bit code based on factorization such as RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman). A 512-bit key was cracked by Dutch researchers two months ago.
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| A 500 Gip/s simulation engine
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Comptek Research
announced
that as part of its delivery
to
Lockheed Martin Company Sanders, of the
most capable electronic warfare simulation system ever developed, the company,
through its Comptek Amherst Systems subsidiary, also developed and delivered a
supercomputer class processing engine.
The computer contains
almost 40 gigabytes of high-speed memory, integrated to provide a total
processing capability of over 500,000 million instructions per second (MIPS).
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| Star Bridge hypercomputer
used for fast information retrieval
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Scanz Communications
and Star Bridge Systems formed
a strategic alliance to jointly
develop server hardware and software for the Scanz Scannor, a
portable, handheld, wireless device that instantly retrieves and
replays digital video.
Under the
alliance, SBS will provide its Hypercomputers as database servers for
processing and broadcasting live video to Scanz Scannors.
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| FIDISOL/CADSOL program package
freely available for
scientific use
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The Karlsruhe FIDISOL/CADSOL, program package for the solution of partial differential equations is now available freely for academic use.
However, no supprt can be given.
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| Fujitsu Siemens post record SAP performance
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers makes its debut with a performance record certified by Walldorf-based
SAP AG. The result for the SAP R/3 two-tier Sales and Distribution (SD)
benchmark, achieved with model M600 of the new SPARC64 based GP7000F product
line, is the highest result for large departmental servers with up to
eight processors achieved to date. The GP7000F-M600 supports 430 SD benchmark
users, the highest number of users ever supported with the SAP R/3 release
4.0B on a central server.
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| Unisys 8-Way
world`s fastest Intel-Based SMP System
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Unisys Corporation claims the Aquanta ES5085R eight-processor server achieved the
fastest online transaction processing (OLTP) performance ever recorded for an
Intel-based symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server. The Aquanta ES5085R achieved 40,670.05 transactions per minute.
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| Active Tools unveils new version of Clustor 2.0
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Active Tools announces the release of Clustor 2.0
now with a complete set of application programming interface (API) commands for Software Developers.
It includes
new features that further simplify implementation of high performance farming type of distributed applications.
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| SP Switch brought to Netfinity to serve as a high-speed interconnect switch for server clustering
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The SP Switch enables customers to implement scalable Windows NT cluster solutions to increase availability and performance. Future implementations will include support
for interoperability with RS/6000 SP servers. Based on the successful RS/6000 technology, the SP Switch is a key component of the Netfinity 'Cornhusker' solution: a Windows NT based
clustering solution that allows up to eight server nodes to be interconnected
together wit ith up to 33.6 Gb/s of data throughput
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| Platform
unveils Service Farms
for e-Businesses
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Platform
launched its newest version of
SiteAssure
Suite, the
site management product for e-Businesses.
Part of Cisco's recently announced ContentFlow Architecture initiative for
ISPs and web hosting organizations, SiteAssure Suite 1.1 enables the creation
of 'service farms' to address traffic patterns and service requirements of
high-traffic Web environments.
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| SEPtools workshop and web site
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The SEPtools consortium holds the next workshop on Wednesday 14 December 1999 at the NEC CCRLE offices in Sankt Augustin. The consortium has also opened a web site. SEPtools provides an integrated software paltform to users of parallel programmes. It includes Dimenas, Vampir and CAPtools.
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| Compaq's new 50 GFlop/s performance
32-Alpha SMP GS320 presented at SYSTEMS
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At the international fair SYSTEM in Munich, Compaq showed a real Global Server GS320 with a peak performance of about 50 GFlop/s with 32 Alpha processors. The code name was wildfire. The system targets the commercial and the technical/scientific market.
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| AMD Ships World`s First 700MHz x86 Processor
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AMD introduced the 700MHz AMD Athlon processor. The company says it is the world's fastest and
highest-performance x86 processor. Major computer manufacturers including
Compaq and IBM also will announce the availability of systems based on the
700MHz AMD Athlon processor.
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| Sun and Unigraphs bring multi-threading to Unix MCAD market
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Sun Microsystems
and Unigraphics Solutions
are working together to develop the first multi-threaded Unix version of the Parasolid solid modelling kernel from Unigraphics for the Solaris Operating Environment.
Running on the SMP technology Sun Ultra60 workstation, the Unigraphics application based on this new version of the Parasolid kernel increases overall application performance for Unigraphics customers, providing engineers with increased power and performance.
This enables engineers to reduce design time and increase productivity.
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| Compaq Delivers V5.0 of Tru64 Unix & TruCluster Server
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Compaq started delivery of its Tru64 UNIX V5.0 and TruCluster Server V5.0
on-schedule
in August 1999. With V5.0, customers can now manage multiple systems as a single system.
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| Mercury Computer Systems Signs Corporate Purchase Agreement With Lockheed Martin
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Mercury Computer Systems,
a
supplier of real-time
digital signal and image processing systems,
has entered
into a preferred supplier corporate purchase agreement with Lockheed Martin
Corporation. The agreement, which is effective through June 30, 2002, covers
Mercury's entire line of RACE
Series PCI and VME high-performance
multicomputer systems.
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| Intel new A-64 Processors are called
Itanium
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Intel
Corporation today announced it has selected ITANIUM(TM) as the new brand name
for the first product in its IA-64 family of processors, formerly code-named
Merced. The ITANIUM brand extends Intel's reach into the highest level of
computing enabling powerful servers and high-performance workstations which
will address the increasing demands that the Internet economy places on
e-Businesses.
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| Price cuts on SGI workstations
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SGI
announced significant price performance adjustments to their O2
and Octane
visual workstation products, lowering memory upgrade prices by as much as 28%.
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| Winners 1999 RCI Seymour Cray award
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The 1999
RCI Seymour Cray industry recogonisation
award
will be presneted to Ken Kennedy, Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computational Engineering from
Rice University and Bill Joy, Founder and Chief Scientist Sun Microsystems at the upcoming RCI
HPCC
conference in November.
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| SUN workstations for PC price
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Sun Microsystems
has reduced the price of its
Ultra
5
workstation to deliver the industry's first sub-$2,000 64-bit Unix workstation.
Coupled with the SunPCi
PC co-processor card, the Ultra 5 offers the flexibility of six different operating environments in a single box: the Solaris Operating Environment and the
Java, Windows NT, Windows 95, DOS and Linux platforms.
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| Sun's Unix servers keep on selling well
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Sun
continues to lead the Unix server market, beating out all other vendors in second-quarter Unix server revenues and
shipments, according to the Q2CY99 Server Tracker report recently issued by
International Data Corporation (IDC). The high-end Starfire server skyrocketed 104 percent in total server shipments making Sun the only one of the top five vendors to experience
any type of growth. In total server market share, Sun's high-end line grabbed
10 percent and 27 percent of industry revenue and shipments, respectively.
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| Hitachi claims the
most powerful mainframe on the planet
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The Hitachi Skyline Trinium
is the first mainframe to process more than two billion
instructions per second (BIPS), faster than any other mainframe the companya says.
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| SGI posts considerable loss
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Silicon Graphics announced its results for its fiscal first quarter ended September 30, 1999.
Revenue for the first quarter was $585 million, a 5% decrease from the previous year.
The Company's net loss for the first fiscal quarter was $213 million compared with a net loss of $44 million, in the same quarter a year ago.
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| New
StorEdge
back up software from SUN
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Sun StorEdge
Instant Image software, allows users to perform backups, instant data recovery,
test and development and data warehouse loading without impacting 7x24 operations.
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| Solaris on Intel
64-bit Itanium processor
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The
Solaris Operating Environment
is running on engineering prototype systems based on Intel's Itanium processor. The milestone was reached during Sun's designated testing sessions at Intel's labs in Beaverton, Oregon.
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| Moore's Law
valid after 2015 due to nanotechnology breakthrough
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The 1999 Feynman
Prizes in nanotechnology were awarded this weekend to Phaedon Avouris
of IBM for experimental work, and to a team led by William A. Goddard
III at Caltech for theoretical work.
Dr. Avouris, of the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights,
NY, is a leader in the development of carbon nanotubes for potential
computing device applications. This work is considered directly on the
pathway to molecular-scale computation -- necessary for the computer
industry to stay on the Moore's Law curve, which predicts atomic-level
precision before 2015.
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| EMC enters into strategic partnership with Fujitsu Siemens
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EMC Corporation,
a provider of enterprise storage systems, software, networks
and professional services,
announced that the company will extend its
existing cooperation with Siemens to include also the new European IT business
Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
The strategic partnership of Fujitsu Siemens Computers and EMC aims at accelerating
the growth of both companies - with the focus being on the markets in Europe,
the Middle East and Africa.
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| Fujitsu GP7000F with 64
Sparc processors delivers 99.999% availability
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Fujitsu Limited announced
the first high availability, Integrated Data Center
servers in its GP7000F Unix server range.
The new GP7000F Model 2000
scales to 64 SPARC64
GP processors, while the new Model 1000 scales
to 32 processors.
The new servers are expected to be able to achieve
around 150,000 transactions per minute, with plans in the next iteration
to aim for about three times this performance.
All GP7000F models run
the Solaris 7 operating system and provide levels of RAS (reliability
availability and serviceability) normally associated with corporate
mainframe systems.
In addition, the larger systems will include dynamic
system reconfiguration and hardware redundancy to support 24x7 operation.
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| Mathematical library for clusters resulting from American-Russian collaboration
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Mississippi State University, The Russian Federal Nuclear Laboratory (VNIIEF) at Sarov, Lawrence Livermore and Intel announced the availability of PMLP for Windows NT.
PMLP is a
mathematical library
for sequential and parallel
usage. A version for Linux will be offered in the future.
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| Etnus Delivers TotalView Parallel Debugging On Linux
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Etnus,
announced support for open source Linux platforms with the next release of its application debugger, TotalView. Linux support in TotalView will be available in January, 2000.
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| TurboCluster Server combines Linux with VI interface
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Giganet and
TurboLinux will
package cLAN drivers with TurboLinux's TurboCluster Server.
The combination
of cLAN and TurboCluster will provide for the first time, high performance
Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture-based clustering for Linux environments.
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| Compaq C for Linux Alpha Systems
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Compaq offers a C compiler for Linux Alpha systems with performance improvements in floating point operations of a factor of two and more and integer of 15% to 30%. It is compatible with gcc and includes most features and options of the newest C compiler for Tru64 Unix.
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| Version 4.0 of SGI Mediabase Broadband Media Server released
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SGI MediaBase 4.0 has been released:
a scalable
media streaming solution.
SGI MediaBase supports a full range of bit rates - from narrowband streaming such as QuickTime and RealNetworks to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams up to 15 Mbs that can be used
for Internet, enterprise, and broadband applications.
In addition, SGI MediaBase is scalable from one to thousands of streams to multiple clients, whether desktops or set-top boxes, regardless of bit-rate or format.
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| Concurrent and Nagravision
Integrate Video-On-Demand Server and Digital Subscriber Access Technology
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Concurrent Computer
Corporation and Nagravision, the digital pay TV division of the
Kudelski Group will be working together to integrate Concurrent's Video-On-Demand (VOD) platform with Nagravision's
Conditional Access System (CAS).
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| Origion 2000 supercomputer processes IKONOS satellite images
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Space Imaging has selected SGI to provide workstations and servers for its earth stations and training centers. According to Space Imaging, it will recommend SGI systems to customers because the products are superior in handling high-resolution earth imagery produced by IKONOS - the world’s first satellite to provide unclassified, one-meter resolution imagery to the general public.
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| Fujitsu Developed World's First High Performance CORBA which complies with VI Architecture
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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has succeeded in developing a world's first high performance CORBA, called "Crisp ORB", which complies with Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture) based on Fujitsu's enterprise application middleware INTERSTAGE to realize efficient development environment for scalable and high performance server application on cluster system. VI Architecture is the standard for interconnect technology for cluster system.
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| CoCreate's VRML Viewing Technology Selected by HP as Standard for
VISUALIZE
Workstations
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CoCreate's
FirstSpace
collaborative VRML-viewing product and entry-level collaboration tool, has been selected as the standard for HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations. VRML stands for Virtual Reality Modeling Language and enables users to interactively view and inspect complex 3-D engineering models.
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| A 30 Gop/s
image processor
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The newest in the
family of single-chip Media Accelerated Processors for digital imaging
and digital media products has been introduced by Equator Technologies. Running at 220MHz, the MAP1000A delivers an unprecedented 23 GOPS
(Billion Operations per Second) of processing power, the highest
available in the industry, the company claims.
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| New
Intergraph workstations
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Intergraph Computer Systems
announced support for
Intel 's Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon
733 MHz processors with 133
MHz front side bus (FSB) technology in follow-on models of the Zx ViZual
Workstation family. These higher performing workstations will be launched
delivering 64-bit PCI technology. In addition, Intergraph also announced its
Zx1 ViZual Workstation powered by Intel's Pentium III 700 MHz processor with
100 MHz FSB technology.
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| Internet2 and Dante connect European and U.S. high-speed networks
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DANTE and Internet2
connected high-performance research and education backbone networks across the Atlantic Ocean. Peering between Abilene, an Internet2 backbone network, and TEN-155, the pan-European research network, will enable collaboration among researchers and educators in the US and in Europe in ways not possible on today's commercial Internet. The interconnection will operate at 45 megabits per second.
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| A survey of
Europe's telecommunications suppliers
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The introduction of competition to Europe's telecommunications market is having a positive impact, according to a survey commissioned by SGI and carried out by Public Network Europe (PNE). The survey of more than 1,000 PNE registered end-user readers reveals that 91% of respondents assessed the impact of liberalisation as "positive" or "very positive," and 73% agreed that service levels have improved thanks to increased competition.
Liberalisation has also accelerated the introduction of new services and lower prices.
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| World's largest
H.323 Internet video conference
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More than 80
national and international research institutions and networking
organizations
participatiedin Megaconference, the world's largest
H.323 Internet video conference, being held on October 11 in Seattle.
The Megaconference is a
permanent, continuous multipoint H.323 Internet video conference
organized and supported by OARnet and OSC (Ohio
Supercomputer Center),
located in Columbus.
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| InfoGLOBAL will develop telematic space of Eureka
project
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Spanish
company InfoGLOBAL
says it was selected for
the construction of the telematic infrastructure of Eureka, one of the
most important European projects, on the beginning of the starting
Spanish presidency of its committee.
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| NEC Developed Photonic Router Technology
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NEC Corporation announced that it has developed basic technologies to realize Photonic Router. Photonic Router is next generation ultra high speed router combining WDM and IP technology. It provides methodology constructing terabit network to accommodate various services including carrier class IP service.
NEC presented the new technology at TELECOM99+
in Geneva, Switzerland.
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| Fujitsu succeeds in world's first 1 Terabit/sec WDM transmission over distance of 10,000 km
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Fujitsu Laboratories Limited has recently
succeeded, for the first time in the world, in achieving terabit-level
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission over a distance of
10,000km.
This successful experiment is expected to pave the way to
realization of transpacific fiber optic transmission using 104 WDM
channels -- each providing 10 gigabits per second (Gb/s) data
transmission for a total of 1.04 terabits per second (Tb/s) -- over a
single optical fiber.
Fujitsu presented details at
ECOC'99 (European Conference on Optical Communication), which was held
in Nice, France from September 26 - 30.
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