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| 03 May 1999 | EuroFlash
no. 358
USFlash no. 478 |
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Roger Hockney - In Memoriam |
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| On Wednesday, April 14 Roger Hockney passed away in Oxford. Having suffered from
cancer during the past three years, he had been hospitalised most of the time since
February. An In Memoriam by
Vladimir Getov.
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SuParCup '99 Award for outstanding contribution in parallel computing - closing date May 7 |
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| To promote Parallel Computing the Mannheim
Supercomputer '99 weminar 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.
The deadline for the contributions is May 7.
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Internet2, SURFnet and NORDUnet to connect |
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| NORDUnet, SURFnet and Internet2 agreed to connect their research and education backbone networks. Pairing with Abilene in New York City, an Internet2 backbone network was made possible through high speed links across the Atlantic provided by Teleglobe. The interconnection extends networking between U.S. and both Nordic and Dutch academic communities.
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MPI workshop: 8-9 June in Stuttgart |
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| The 8th and 9th of June at HLRS, Stuttgart, an MPI workshop will be held. The aim of this workshop is to give people an insight into the programming of parallel machines by MPI.
During the first day an introduction to MPI will be given. The second day will be dedicated to more sophisticated techniques of programming in MPI.
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NEC purchases CoSy compiler development platform license |
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| ACE Associated Compiler Experts licensed its CoSy Compiler Development Platform to NEC Corporation. NEC will use CoSy's advanced compile development environment to generate high-performance C compilers for the NEC µPD7701x and µPD7711x families of 16-bit DSP processor cores and for its next-generation DSP products.
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PPAM '99: third conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics |
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| The third PPAM, international conference on parallel processing and applied mathematics will be held September 14 - 17, 1999 in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. PPAM'99 is dedicated to a broad variety of subject areas within parallel and distributed processing, including theory and applications. The Conference is also intended as an open forum in the field of applied mathematics. More information at http://www.k2.pcz.czest.pl/~roman/ppam99.
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Unisys NOAAPORT lets organizations access weather free |
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| Unisys Corporation introduced
NOAAPORT (National Oceanographic Atmospheric
Administration Port) Receiving System. The Unisys system provides a
listening device to weather-sensitive organizations such as airlines
and emergency management offices through which they can receive free
weather data that the US National Weather Service broadcasts to its
weather forecast offices. NOAAPORT includes data from al kind of sources, including supercomputer generated dat.
Also ECMWF info is included.
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Chinese government approves new SCO business license |
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| SCO, a provider of Unix software, has been issued a business license by the Government of China to significantly expand its business presence in that territory. As a result, SCO has signed a joint
venture agreement in China with DASCOM Holdings, a distributor of SCO products. The joint venture, called SCO Software China Company, allows SCO to benefit from China's rapidly growing market for computer products.
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Hitachi installed 128 nodes Super Technical Server SR8000 at Tokyo University |
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| Hitachi installed aSuper Technical Server SR8000 with 128 nodes in the Computer Centre, the University of Tokyo in February.
The system, has
1 Tflop/s
peak performance, 1 TByte main memory, and 2 TByte RAID5 disk array.
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Java Grande and JavaOne conferences '99 |
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| The formerly ACM Workshop on Java for High-Performance Network Computing, now called: Java Grande Conference, will be held June 12-14, 1999 in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. This conference will be held right before JavaOne, Sun's 1999 Java Developer conference.
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Onyx2 to be used in making 3D atlas of the Milky Way |
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| A Silicon Graphics Onyx2
will be used to produce and project a scientifically accurate 3D atlas of the Milky Way Galaxy. This real-time visualization of space will take place at the new Hayden Planetarium, part of the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Centre for Earth and Space in New York City, opening in 2000.
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SGI files loss with third quarter results |
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| Silicon Graphics announced results for the third quarter of its 1999 fiscal year.
Revenue
for the third quarter was $619 million, compared with $708 million in the same
quarter a year ago. The company reported a net loss of $40 million compared
with a net loss of $153 million
in the same quarter a year
ago.
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SGI sells plant of 140,000 square feet to USTC |
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| SGI has sold its Integrated Circuit operations in Chippewa Falls to Union Semiconductor Technology Corporation (USTC), a semiconductor manufacturing business.
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Vice President NEC wins IEEE/CPMT Award |
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| Mr. Toshihiko Watari, Vice President of NEC Niigata Ltd and former Assistant General Manager of NEC Computer Division, has been awarded the "Outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award" for 1999.
The award is presented by the Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMT) of the IEEE. Mr. Watari is the first Japanese to receive such an award for technology developments that
have been applied to actual products, such as the NEC SX supercomputer series.
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An industrial HPCN centre in Hungary - many want to us it; few would financially participate |
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| The National Committee for Technological Development Hungary (OMFB) conducted a
study evaluating the risks and potential of establishing a supercomputer centre in
Hungary. The conclusion was, that most of the interviewed potential users support
this idea, but only few of them would participate actively e.g. financially. A
situation not too different from experiences elsewhere.
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Simulation of the inner atmosphere of a comet on shared multiprocessors |
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| Researchers of the Institute for High-performance Computing and Data Bases at St.
Petersburg described the inner atmosphere of a comet on shared memory multiprocessors
in trying to adress the problem of moderate complexity. The study showed that, even
when the level of problem complexity gets higher (f.e. in case of an increase in the
number of particles and cells) and a computer spends greater time to execute
paralllelized subroutines, the efficiency of the TLP algorithm will increase
anyway.
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