Primeur Weekly
in collaboration with
ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service
USFlash no. 449
| Primeur Weekly in collaboration with ESIS - European Supercomputing Information Service |
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| - 28 September 1998 | EuroFlash
no. 329
USFlash no. 449 |
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European researchers get high-bandwidth network at last |
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 | The European Research network organisation Dante has officially announced
a high speed network for European research community,
TEN-155, as it is called,
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European researchers with a core network at 155 Mbps based on SDH technology with nodes in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia and Spain will be connected to the core at 34/45 Mbps. There will be 10 Mbps links to Luxembourg and Portugal. The design of the TEN-155 network also provides for extension of the service to the USA and other Continents.
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Eurotunnel turns to ATM for coordinating train traffic |
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| Eurotunnel, the company operating the high-speed shuttle train linking France and the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel, bought ATM high-speed networking
products and technology from FORE System. Eurotunnel's ATM supports administrative and voice applications, including it's call center, control tower and traffic-control systems. The company also conducts videoconferencing over the network, reducing the need for staff to travel between company offices in Folkestone and Calais.
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HPCN Europe in Amsterdam, it's time |
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| HPCN Europe '99, the "High Performance Computing and Networking Europe" conference, takes place in Amsterdam from April 12 - 14, 1999. The dead-line for paper submission is December 1st. The conference has three themes: Computational Science; Computer Science research in HPCN; and
Industrial End-user Applications of HPCN, such as WEB applications, Medical applications, data mining, automotive and aerospace, chemical, and climate modelling.
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Michelin to buy CATIA 5 for designing tires |
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| Michelin, Dassault Systemes and IBM signed a strategic agreement in which Michelin chooses CATIA version 5 for designing, simulating and manufacturing its tires.The agreement covers the progressive installation of several hundred CATIA Version 5 stations on Windows NT platforms to be used on all Michelin's product ranges. The three partners are also working to set up CAX (CAD/CAM/CAE) for the group around CATIA following the re-engineering of the design and manufacturing processes for tires and moulds.
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Romanian bank of development choses Fujitsu's Unix servers |
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| The Romanian Bank for Development (RBD) has chosen Unix Servers & PCs from Fujitsu Computers to run a new integrated real-time, banking system. The system is based on ICLĖs iBank retail banking software package. When operational, the system will enable RBD to automate its deposit, loan and mortgage accounts, control cheque handling procedures and manage customers' accounts. On completion of the pilot project, the system will be rolled out to the bank's 180 branches.
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Saudi Aramco selects Sun to install SAP R/3 for enterprise resource planning |
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| Oil producer Saudi Aramco has awarded Sun Microsystems and Abdulla Fouad Co., one of Sun's Middle Eastern distributors and service providers, a multi-year contract to supply the hardware infrastructure, operations management and support services necessary for the implementation of one of the largest SAPR/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects to date. When the Enterprise10000 server (Starfire) is installed, approximately 20,000 people will use the sytem.
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Fore completes acquisition of Berkeley Networks |
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| Fore has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity of California-based Berkeley
Networks. The first product to market as a result of the acquisition is available for order immediately.
ATM integration enhancements are planned for
release the first quarter of 1999.
In addition, FORE will provide integrated Network Management Software in the first appropriate release of ForeView in 1999.
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Northern Telecom donates US$600,000 to the University of California for Internet2 research |
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| Nortel (Northern Telecom) Bay Networks business has donated US$600,000 to the Communication & Network Services (CNS) organization at the University of California, Berkeley. The donation will facilitate research on next generation Internet2 applications. CNS will integrate Accelar switches into a redundant
backbone the university is testing as part of its involvement with Internet2 and the campus's Millennium Project.
The routing switches will be used to connect high performance Network Of Workstation (NOW) clusters together around campus, and to the Internet2 backbone.
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Pilot software agrees to resell Thinking Machines' data mining software |
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| Pilot Software is going to resell to Thinking Machines' Darwin Data Mining Solution and wants to integrate Darwin with Its Pilot Decision Support Suite OLAP.This agreement enables Pilot to focus on its core OLAP business, while maintaining data mining capability through Darwin.
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U.S. Oceanographic Office buys 16 processor Cray SV1 |
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| The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) ordered a 16-processor Cray SV1 to help it more accurately model the world's oceans. NAVOCEANO uses the supercomputer in itswork for the U.S. Department of Defense. NAVOCEANO creates navigational charts and provide specialized information, including submarine tracking and global land and sea atmospheric mapping.
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US Open site scored 382 million hits in two weeks |
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| The1998 US Open Web site
www.usopen.org
, powered by IBM for the United States Tennis Association (USTA), recorded a massive 382 million hits and 242 million page views during the two week tournament. The peak was on September 8 with 4.7 million hits. The record traffic totals on the US Open Web site surpassed the marks set only months ago by the official sites of the French Open and Wimbledon, also powered by IBM.
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Veritas to install next generation 'seismic' NEC |
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| Veritas DGC Asia Pacific will
install NEC's next generation SX-5 Series in 1999. An opening ceremony was held at Veritas DGC in Singapore on September 21. On July 29 the company accepted a NEC SX-4/8A, making it the 3rd SX-4 system operating in Veritas DGC's centres. According to Veritas, this recent SX-4 system is the most powerful seismic processing computer in the Asia Pacific region.
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