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| 22 March 1999 | EuroFlash
no. 352
USFlash no. 472 |
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NAG released IRIS 4.0 with shared visualisation |
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| Release 4.0 of visualisation package IRIS Explorer is now available from the Numerical Algorithms Group( NAG) The major new feature is collaborative visualisation. This allows geographically separate users to share data, map construction and control of modules. In addition, new collaborative modules can be built using the module builder. Iris 4.0 is available
for Windows NT and major Unix platforms with other implementations to follow.
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PC2 released new version of WIN32-RSHD |
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| The Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing (PC2) released a new version of WIN-32-RSHD, software that allows remote execution on Windows 98/NT systems. This funcionality, standard available in Unix, is an important building block for creating parallel or distributed applications.
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SGI and Dassault to certify Windows NT and Unix for CATIA 5 |
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| Silicon Graphics and Dassault Systemes will
make available CATIA Version 5 software on the recently announced Silicon Graphics visual workstations for Windows NT. CATIA V5 will also be available on Unix-based hardware platforms from Silicon Graphics.
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TEN-155 at 5 Framework conference: most circuits have traffic now |
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| The new Europan TEN-155
network that offers band width to researchers is now on power. Altogether 14 of the 20 TEN-155 circuits are
carrying production traffic. The MECCANO project was the first user of the network. The network traffic between the national research networks increased by 50%, showing everybody was eagerly awaiting the network upgrade.
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Tera increases productivity with German JMS |
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| Tera Computer installed the German job management system Codine
on the networked workstations in its engineering offices, to simulate ASIC designs.
The resulted in a 100% increase inproductivity
which allowsTera to double the number of
prototype tests.
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Altschuler and Vinson join Deloitte & Touche to battle Cybercrime |
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| Law enforcement professionals Leland B. Altschuler has joined
Deloitte & Touche as group leaders in the Forensic and Corporate Investigative
Services group. He was involved in
prosecuting one of the first high-technology transfer cases in 1989: a secret
object code for supercomputers with military applications. The insider in this
case attempted to sell the code to Russian operatives.
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EAI and SAP partner in visualizing R3 |
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| SAP will integrate and leverage EAI's 2D and 3D visualization technology with
SAP'S R/3. This will provide SAP users with a tool to navigate and retrieve
product and process information as well as viewing product data in a single visual
environment.
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FORE to provide ATM for Delta Air Lines |
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| Delta Air Lines seleced Fore Systems to provide hardware for its new network, including ATM core switches and Ethernet edge switches. Delta's new network will leverage a core backbone based on ATM to facilitate the implementation of a variety of applications.
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General Motors purchases Sun platform for online car-buying service |
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| General Motors Corporation has selected Sun's Solaris as its primary server platform to handle related to its national online car-buying service, BuyPower. BuyPower recently went all over the U.S. with more than 5,600 dealers.
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HP's PA-8600 processor earlier to ship than expected |
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| Originally planned for release in mid-2000, Hewlett-Packard's new PA-8600 processor now is expected to ship by the first quarter of 2000, at frequencies from 500 MHz to 550 MHz. The PA-8600 processor will be improved in performance and high availability.
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IBM extends '3D' contract with Labtec |
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| IBM extended its manufacturing agreement with Labtec, a developer and marketer of high technology and multimedia. IBM has signed a two year extension to the contract, dated April 1993. Under the agreement Labtec (formerly Spacetec IMC Corporation) will continue to manufacture Spaceball 3D input devices for use with IBM's RS/6000 workstations and servers.
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Japanese Yokohoma University buys SGI system to process 3D graphics |
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| Nihon SiliconGraphics has supplied Yokohama National University with a system that can process 3-D computer graphics at high speeds. The engineering department will use the supercomputer to conduct research on transforming photographs into 3-D computer graphics. A 48-CPU server generates computer graphics, and an Onyx 2 workstation converts the graphics into 3-D images.
The system uses an ATM-LAN operating at 622 Mbytes per second.
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Mercury delivers hardware worth $6 million for Joint STARS aircraft |
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| Mercury Computer Systems has received orders from General Dynamics Information Systems and Northrop Grumman Corporation for RACE Series MultiPort processing hardware for deployment on the U.S. Air Force's Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft. These orders, totaling $6 million, (5.8 million euro) are part of the Joint STARS Computer Replacement Programme.
Additional orders are likely to follow as the Air Force funds upgrades for additional airframes.
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New York Stock Exchange installs six Onyx2 systems at "the Ramp" |
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| The New York Stock Exchange has installed six Onyx2 visualization supercomputers at the heart of its recently remodeled operations center. Located on the trading floor, and known as "the Ramp," the computers consolidate the data streams from the various floor trading systems into one 3-D
system. With this display an interactive virtual representation of the trading floor is created.
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Sun to release FullMoon out of WolfPack |
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| Sun Microsystems plans to release FullMoon out of Microsoft's WolfPack availability clustering technology.
Sun's FullMoon clustering software will allow users to scale their SPARC powered 64-bit Ultra Enterprise Workgroup Servers from one to 64 CPU's.
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HPCN Europe'99 - workhop progammes |
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| HPCN Europe in April sees a large collection of workshops and an
additional
conference on (tele)medial
applications. As a service to our readers we provide the programme
of the workshops with more general interest: Distributed and metacomputing;
Virtual
Reality Workshop; EuroTools workshop;
Applications in Finance Workshop; High Performance Computing on Very Large
Data
Sets; Traffic Simulation Workshop. See the seperate article in this issue for
more
info on the ITIS/ITAB99 conference. The main conference programme of HPCN Europe
99
is listed on the web site.
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Aspects of assessment, education, security and practice in telemedicine at ITIS-ITAB'99 |
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| Barely will the Easter chimes have faded out before the starting signal of the
ITIS-ITAB'99 telemedicine conference will be given on April 12th at the RAI Centre
in Amsterdam.
Twenty-three paper presentations and two forum sessions will highlight every
crucial angle in the 21st century realm of the International Telemedical
Information Society.
This wealthy offer of lively interaction and cutting-edge information should raise
the utmost attention of all last minute subscribers to conference registration.
If you hurry, you can still join this provocative and stimulating event and
participate in the creative brainstorming on telemedicine as a valuable and viable
approach to future health care.
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