Primeur Weekly
in collaboration with
ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service
USFlash no. 455
| Primeur Weekly in collaboration with ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service |
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| - 09 November 1998 | EuroFlash
no. 335
USFlash no. 455 |
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DANTE upgrades US connection to 155 Mbit/s |
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 | Within the context of migration to the TEN-155 network, DANTE's US connectivity will also be upgraded to 155 Mbps. It is expected that this new link will be operational by mid-December 1998.
DANTE's 45 Mbps link to the United States performed well in September and October,
although availability dropped from 100% during August to 99.12% in September 1998. The reason for the lower availability were three outages in September caused by faulty cards on the Frankfurt multiplexer.
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DFN upgrades intercontinental link from 90 to 155 Mbit/s |
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| DFN, the German Research Network, is upgrading it's intercontinental communications infrastructure between its own research network B-WiN and the US-Internet from 90 Mbit to 155 MBps. DFN thinks users can profit from the increased capacity by the end of this year. In the first half of 1999, DFN intends to upgrade the Internet-link further with 155 Mbps.
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ESI and NEC offer crash and safety test simulation on SX supercomputers |
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| Paris based
ESI
and NEC agreed to offer ESI's flagship products PAM-CRASH and PAM-SAFE on NEC new SX-4 Series computers. The collaboration aims to strengthen the use of high performance computers in automotive, train and aircraft design by combining the computational power of NEC's supercomputers with the
ESI
simulation tools for crash analysis and testing of vehicle occupant safety.
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NAG to make IRIS Explorer available for Linux |
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| The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) had begun to make IRIS Explorer, their data visualization package, available on the Linux operating system.
IRIS Explorer is a visual programming system for data visualization that allows users and application developers to create applications for displaying and analyzing data interactively.
IRIS Explorer has been adopted by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, as a major component of their analysis environment.
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TotalView 3.8 now also debugs Fortran 90 |
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| Dolphin ToolWorks release version 3.8 of the TotalView Multiprocess Debugger, TotalView also debugs Fortran 90. Beginning of October this year TotalView was released for Compaq Digital Unix IBM AIX (including RS6000 and SP2 systems), SGI IRIX and Sun Solaris and SunOS.
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Two more of European computer science universities join the CoSy development network |
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| As part of its strategy of continuously enhancing its CoSy compiler development platform, ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is part of a research and development network that includes the computer science departments of many of Europe's leading universities. The University of Sussex (UK) and the Technical University of Vienna (Austria) have now joined this R&D network to develop powerful new optimisers and code generators for embedded systems and multimedia processors.
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ASCI Blue Pacific will bring IBM on first position in TOP500 |
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| The The Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
in California has inaugurated its new ASCI Blue Pacific supercomputer developed with IBM.
The $94 million
5,856 processor machine with 3.8Tflop/s peak, being currently the fastest machine in the world, should bring IBM to the first place of the TOP500.
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Chinese cable operator selects Fore to build ATM |
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| China Guangdong Provincial Cable (CGPC), a Chinese cable operator, has selected FORE Systems' networking equipment to build its asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network backbone.
The equipment will be provided through Global Net Broadband Industry, a China-based systems integrator. The new network will provide CGPC's 400,000 subscribers with new services, including broadcast video, distance learning, high-speed Internet access and voice switching.
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NPACI to Install IBM Teraflops supercomputer in San Diego |
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| The National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) agreed with IBM to install the first computer dedicated to academic researchers that is capable of Tflop/s performance. The supercomputer, to be installed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), will help researchers tackle demanding, deep computing problems such as determining chemical reaction rates, designing new materials, simulating the nervous system, and understanding the origins of the universe. When complete, the system will have more than 1,000 Power3 processors and be the largest constructed with IBM's next-generation hardware.
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New ProLiant 800 with 400 MHz Pentium technology |
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| Compaq developed the ProLiant 6500 server with 400 MHz Pentium II Xeon technology to support 7X24, multi-server applications. The ProLiant 6500 is a foundation for the Compaq Parallel Database Cluster, a 6-node cluster for running Oracle Parallel Server (OPS)-based applications on ProLiant and Windows NT. Users will be able to upgrade the ProLiant 3000 to four Pentium II Xeon processors in early1999.
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SGI reports loss of $44 million |
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| SGI reported its results for the first quarter of its 1999 fiscal year whixh ended September 30. Revenue was $616 million, compared with $768 million in the same quarter a year ago. The reported net loss, including the gain on the initial public offering of its MIPS Technologies subsidiary, was $44 million, compared with a net loss of $56 million a year ago. Excluding the MIPS gain, the loss would have been $77 million.
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Tera tested four-processor MTA System |
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| Tera has been testing a four-processor MTA system with a four-board network at its Seattle headquarters.
Results have demonstrated scaling to the full capability of the network. Performance results will be announced at Supercomputing '98, in Orlando. The company signed an agreement with Unisys Corporation to provide circuit packaging and test services
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Time Warner buys Concurrent's MediaHawk Video Server system |
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| Time Warner Cable selected Concurrent's MediaHawk Video Server system for its
Pegasus video-on-demand (VOD) program. Specific test locations for Concurrent's MediaHawk and its cable backoffice software suite will be disclosed by Time Warner Cable closer to deployment. Initial systems will integrate with Scientific-Atlanta's broadband digital head-end system, featuring the Explorer 2000 digital set-top box.
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SC98 - ZIB Berlin linked to NLANR in long-distance supercomputing |
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| A demonstration at the annual high-performance computing and networking conference will push the limits of visual supercomputing over global networks by computing numerical relativity theory on machines
at ZIB in Berlin, in Germany and San Diego and visualizing the results in the
National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) booth on the conference floor in Orlando, Fla.
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SC98 - Alliance demo highlights advances in tele-immersion |
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| The US National Computational Science Alliance has the chance to showcase a powerful new application for collaborative knowledge discovery from within a virtual environment. The application called Cave5D/Virtual Director, or Collaborative Virtual Director (CVD), combines the functionality of Cave5D, an application used to visualize and interact with large oceanographic and atmospheric datasets in the CAVE | |
SC98 - Brookhaven to showcase world's fastest non-commercial supercomputer |
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| Just weeks after unveiling the world's fastest multipurpose non-commercial supercomputer, the team that built the 0.6-Tflop/s physics machine
showcases its unique architecture and capabilities at the SC98. The team, from the U.S. Brookhaven DoE Nat. Lab. and Columbia University, will show off a sample crate of motherboards from its MPP. They will also spotlight the inexpensive 'do it yourself' construction that kept costs to around $1.8 million for the entire project. The supercomputer is a finalist for the Gordon Bell prize for price-performance at SC98.
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SC98 - Globus Toolkit unveiled on international computational grid |
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| Globus, an
innovative software system for building future computational grids--advanced problem-solving systems that use high-speed networks to link people with high-speed computers, databases, and other devices--will be demonstrated in Orlando
by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the
University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI).
University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI).
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SC98 - SCinet98 at 2,5 Gbps |
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| If you want to bring the world's leading experts in supercomputing and high performance networking together, it helps to move quickly. Or at least move data quickly.At SC98 a specially-created high performance communications network will be running an OC-48 Local Area Network (LAN). Called SCinet (shorthand for Scientific Computing Network) the on-site network is ready for implementation. The all-volunteer SCinet98 staff has designed a world-class network to support the networking requirements of show participants, including on-site demonstrations and research.
The SCinet98 LAN is built upon an OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone.
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SC98 - Stay at home and still be there with the live webcast |
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| Live webcasts of special portions of SC98 will be broadcast over the World Wide Web (WWW) this year for the first time ever! NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) will offer live feeds from the Exhibit floor, and selected sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. See
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VEG/MEDIA/vidlib/webcast
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