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| 15 March 1999 | EuroFlash
no. 351
USFlash no. 471 |
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ACE to release CoSy technology for Windows NT based compilers |
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| ACE Associated Compiler Experts developed a new version of its CoSy compiler development platform that supports Windows NT based compilers. This allows developers to use CoSy's code features and to port their compilers across versions of Windows. The new version enables the use of standard Visual C++ compilers to generate CoSy compilers for Win32 platforms.
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British Energy purchased TDMF from Amdahl |
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| British Energy bought the Transfer Data Migration Facility (TDMF) to replace existing Direct Access
Storage Device (DASD) storage systems and to prevent IT applications to go downtime. For example the 'Passport' maintenance application for nuclear power stations, now remains available during necessary 'power outages' used to schedule power station maintenance activity.
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Siemens unveils Linux strategy and launches new Celsius 400 |
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| Siemens presented its business strategy regarding Linux. At the centre of this strategy is the certification of the current models by sales partners with Linux experience who will award the Intel-based Primergy Servers and Celsius Workstations the certificate "Ready for Linux". Siemens also launched the new Celsius 400 workstations with Pentium III processors and 3D graphics.
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Sun and IBM to increase support Lunix |
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| Sun and IBM will support Lunix. Sun licensed its Java Media products to the Linux Blackdown Porting Team, an informal group of Linux developers.
IBM will work with four distributors of Linux: Caldera Systems, Pacific HiTech, Red Hat Software, and SuSE Holding. IBM and Sun made the announcement at Lunixworld.
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Swisscom already buys from new INTERSHOP/SGI alliance |
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| INTERSHOP Communications and Silicon Graphics signed a global alliance for Internet-based commerce. The companies already scored an initial success:
Swisscom is using INTERSHOP's shopping application with Silicon Graphics servers as the platform for its CommerceMaker transaction system.
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Workshop Computational Cattle Breeding '99 |
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| Computational Cattle Breeding '99 is a two-day workshop on state-of-the-art statistical methods and high performance computing in dairy cattle breeding. 18-20 March 1999, Tuusula, Finland
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CSPI to ship 2741 MultiComputer series |
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| CSPI MultiComputer Division is delivering the 2741 MultiComputer series, the latest processing modules for the 2000 SERIES systems. Recently the company successfully completed initial revenue shipments of the systems to multiple defense contractors. The MultiComputer provides 3.2 billion floating point operations per second.
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Intel officially presents Pentium III Xeon processors |
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| Intel will introduce its Pentium III Xeon processors during a series of events held on March 17.
The microprocessors will be presented to industry media and analysts in simultaneous presentations held in New York and San
Francisco. Hardware and software developers will demonstrate new products based on the chips. The processorsare expected to range from just under $1,000 and up.
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MICRO Researchers evaluate Sun's experimental Wildfire |
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| Researchers funded by the University of California MICRO programme are evaluating an experimental system from Sun Microsystems, called WildFire. The researchers try to determine whether Sun's combination of hardware and software can turn a hierarchical cluster architecture into a cc-NUMA shared memory system. Preliminary results of the research are expected soon.
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SGI wins patent lawsuit |
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| The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted a motion fom SGI for summary judgment in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by TM Patents. TM Patents is an entity created from the bankrupt estate of Thinking Machines.
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Sun acquires Maxstrat and signs agreement with IBM |
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| Sun has entered into a contractual agreement with IBM Global Government Industry to offer the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) software for Sun's Solaris. The software is scheduled to be available in stages starting in May, 1999. In addition, Sun recently acquired MAXSTRAT Corporation, a company specialized in storage systems.
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Tera: small MTA outperforms biggest supercomputers |
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| Tera claims it got multiprocessor results on an aerospace problem where a small Tera MTA system outperforming the world's fastest supercomputers. The company says its latest results show that multithreaded architecture deals effectively with an important architectural problem, "the Latency Bug" ,that insidiously slows down competing systems.
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University of Michigan upgrades IBM SP |
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| The IBM RS/6000 SP at the University of Michigan's Center for Parallel Computing (CPC), one of NPACI's resource partner sites, is upgraded from 64 to 96 processors, currently in a split configuration, with 1 GByte of memory on 48 of the processors. The older SP will undergo a network upgrade.
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High-Performance-Computing funding in Germany discussed |
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| On March 2 and 3, 1999, the third status meeting of the German Ministry of
Research and Technology (BMBF), High-Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC), took
place in Bonn. About 200 participants from the ministry, academia, research and
industry discussed new approaches in HPSC funding. Since 1994, the
BMBF invested 30 million euro in projects. There are proposals for
a few new supercomputer centres and
many supporting competence centres. Also other approaches to funding HPSC were
discussed in Bonn.
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Dutch national supercomputer acquisition on track |
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| For Dutch academic and research supercomputing in general, the National
Science Foundation (NWO) provides support through its
NCF:
the Foundation National Computing Facilities.
NCF funds for instance one large national supercomputer, currently a Cray C916 in
Amsterdam. Currently a procurement procedure is underway, to replace the old
machine.
Depending on how the procedure continues, Patrick Aerts, Director of NCF, expects
the inauguration of the new machine somewhere in Spring 2000.
The performance of the new supercomputer
is expected to be in the Tflop/s range.
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New Dutch HPCN projects approved |
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| In The Netherlands, the Foundation HPCN funds projects and activities which
have an industrial focus with money that stems from the Minstery of Economic
affairs. Also it administers the Dutch TTN. Late 1998, the Foundation has issued a
tender to disseminate the results of HPCN technology projects, especially into new
industrial application areas.
Out of the 26 submitted, nine dissemination projects were approved. They each get
a maximum of 200.000 euro additional funding.
The Foundation HPCN has also financially supported SURFnet's participation in the
TEN-155
European high-bandwidth network project Quantum.
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