Primeur Weekly
in collaboration with
ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service
USFlash no. 439
| Primeur Weekly in collaboration with ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service |
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no. 319
USFlash no. 439 |
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A 3-D virtual replica of Michelangelo's Pietá |
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 | Michelangelo's Pietá,found in the Museum of the Opera del Duomo in the Cathedral of Florence, is the subject of a 3-D replica to be build by IBM. By the end of 1998 nearly two billion bits of data are compiled to build a 3-D digital replica of
the Florentine Pietá. The study, brainchild of Jack Wasserman, a historian of Italian art and Temple University professor emeritus, will shed new light on the mystery surrounding the Florentine Pietá, and lead to new technologies and applications for three-dimensional computer representations of real life items. The final result will be a single visual virtual model of the Pietá that will be set up in a computer and enables Wasserman to study this work of Michelangelo and draw some long-awaited conclusions.
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Hitachi and UniKix provide Uniprise for mainframes |
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| Hitachi Data Systems France and UniKix Technologies to provide Uniprise for entry-level mainframe servers. Uniprise combines Hitachi Data System's (HDS) Power PC-based Unix servers with networking software from UniKix. Uniprise consists of UniKix's transaction systems, VSAM File Manager, Batch Manager, KixScan performance monitor, SecureTran mainframe class security product, SNA and TCP/IP networking software, and HDS' UNIX servers.
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IBM and Dassault Systemes release CATIA-CADAM version 4 |
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| IBM and Dassault Systemes released three new products and 37 others enhanced in CATIA-CADAM version 4 release 2.0. This expands the CATIA portfolio to 115 products. It operates on IBM, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Unix workstations. The product is available immediately.
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Quantum moves forward |
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| the QUANTUM network, the successor of the TEN-34 network will use
ATM
as a bandwidth management tool to optimise the use of the
circuits. The individual national research networks will have the choice between ATM or IP
access to the network.The QUANTUM network will receive co-funding from the EC ESPRIT and Telematics for Applications programmes. The QUANTUM Policy Committee has also mandated DANTE to negotiate detailed arrangements with the EC ACTS programme for the support of ACTS projects as well as with the Commission in general to prepare the final EC contract for QUANTUM.
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UK buys a £26M supercomputer for academic research |
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| UK Minister for Science, Energy and Industry, John Battle, announced a £26 million supercomputer procurement contract for UK Research Councils. The supercomputing service will be provided by a consortium, Computation for Science (CfS), led by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) with Silicon Graphics and the University of Manchester. A 700 Gflop/s peak performance Cray T3E-1200E at the University of Manchester will be installed. The installation is to commence immediately with a small system with service expected on stream by the autumn.
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DHC receives Best Practices Award for over 1 Tbyte of data |
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| Dayton Hudson Corporation (DHC) has received the 1998 Best Practices Award in the Very Large Data Warehouse Technology category for its data warehouse, based on the NonStop Himalaya technology from Tandem. To qualify in the Very Large category, the data warehouse must contain at least 350 Gbyte of actual data and have applications in production that provide a strategic business advantage. Dayton surpasses 1 Tbyte of user data.
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Hitachi improved its M parallel series |
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| Hitachi expanded its
large-scale computer systems for the Japanese market by the addition of eleven new
models for each of the MP5800E and MP5600 series. The MP5800E provides up to 1.3 times the uniprocessor performance of existing models. For the MP5600E this ratio is 2.
Hitachi is currently engaged in the development of a
new generation of M Parallel Series as the successor to the MP5800E.
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Khoral Research and R3vis bring stereo imaging to the desktop |
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| Khoral Research and R3vis Corporation cooperate in the pre-release of VUMaster, a tool for displaying and registering stereo image pairs. VUMaster is an application that combines R3vis' RM visualization technology and KRI's Khoros technology and brings it to the desktop. The application displays images in either red/blue or time-multiplexed, multi-buffered format.
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Sun and IBM jointly implement Java RMI interface over IIOP |
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| Sun Microsystems and IBM agreed to develop support for the Java Remote Method Invocation over the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP). This implementation will combine the advantages of the Java RMI interface for distributed systems programming with the Object Management Group's CORBA architecture for distributed computing. The implementation will ship as standard extensions to the latest release of the Java DevelopmentKit (JDK software 1.1.6) and the next major release of this software.
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Sun launches new workstations |
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| Sun launched a 333 MHz version of its Ultra 10 workstation as well as the new, four-way Ultra 450 workstation. The new Ultra 10 comes with the Sun Elite3D m3 graphics accelerator. In addition to the faster UltraSPARC IIi microprocessor, the system has four times the cache of the original Ultra 10. The Ultra 450 is Sun's first workstation to provide up to 4 Gbyte of memory. The 333Mhz Ultra 10 starts at $11,095, the Ultra 450 is available at a starting price of $32, 865.
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Sun pays 1/3 of agreed Encore storage systems purchase prize |
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| Sun Microsystems set off a total of $10.1 million against the $35 million portion of the purchase price for Encore's storage products business which was payable early this month.
The set off is based upon Sun's estimate of certain claims for indemnification under the Asset Purchase Agreement between Encore and Sun dated as of July 17, 1997. Encore is contesting substantially all of the set off amount and is in the process of analyzing each of the contested claims.
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