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Vol. 1, #3 - 8/24/00
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CTC Adds 128-Processor Dell PowerEdge Cluster
Dell Windows 2000 Server Named to World's Top 500
Roadmaps to the Future of Cluster Computing Summary Slides Available
AC3 Announces 32 New Members
CTC Releases New Windows 2000/NT Parallel Toolbox for MATLAB
On the Road
Training News
Members in the News
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CTC Adds 128-Processor Dell PowerEdge Windows 2000 Cluster
With the help of AC3 members, CTC installs 64 dual-processor Pentium
III server to expand Windows 2000 cluster complex to 470 processors.
CTC is now operating 8, 32, 48, 128, and 256 processor systems for its
clients in addition to Windows 2000 server farms for web-based
computing services.
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/er/media/2000/v+.release.htm
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CTC's Velocity, a Dell Windows 2000 Server Named to World's Top 500
Supercomputing Sites
Midrange to high end business and technical computing "need no longer
be limited to the few, the expert, or the wealthy." -- George Spix,
Director, Advanced Systems Enterprise Server Systems, Microsoft
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/er/media/2000/top500.html
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AC3 Cluster Computing Meeting Summary Slides Available
Over 160 AC3 cluster computing lab leaders and users attended the June
2 "Roadmaps to the Future of Cluster Computing" meeting. A PowerPoint
summary presentation is available.
IE: http://www.windowsclusters.org/users/cornell_ac3meeting/Cornellac3_review_ie5_files/frame.htm
Netscape: http://www.windowsclusters.org/users/cornell_ac3meeting/Cornellac3_review_files/v3_document.htm
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32 New Business, Education, and Government Agencies Join AC3
New AC3 members include Baylor University, Candle Corporation, Central
Michigan University, Center for the Development of Advanced Computing,
Columbia University, Conceptual Reality Presentations, Czech Technical
University, KLA-Tencor Corporation, Louisiana State, National Center
for High Performance Computing, NIST, Notre Dame, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Ohio State, Queens University, Rensselaer Polytechnique
University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers, State of
Florida, Syracuse University, Texas College, Tufts, UCLA, University
of Georgia, University of Houston, University of Missouri, University
of Southampton, University of Tennessee, University of Texas-Arlington
& Austin, United State Navy, and Wolfram Research.
Call Paul Redfern at 607-254-8693 for membership information.
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CTC Releases New Windows 2000/NT Parallel Programming Toolbox for
MATLAB http://www.tc.cornell.edu/er/media/2000/cmtm.html
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AC3 On the Road
CTC was on the road with AC3 presentations at the Microsoft CIO Summit
and Dell High End Server Seminar, and hosted visitors from the US
Census Bureau, Eastman Kodak Company, the State of Florida, and Air
Products and Chemicals.
Upcoming events:
Sept 21-23, Washington, DC - SIAM Computational Conference
https://www.siam.org/meetings/cse00/index.htm
Oct 10-13, Nashville, TN - EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/conference/e2000/
Nov 4-10, Dallas, TX - SC2000
http://www.sc2000.org/
Nov 28-Dec 2, Saxony, Germany - IEEE Cluster 2000
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/RA/cluster2000/
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Training News
Beginning Sept 25, CTC will hold a Virtual Workshop titled
"Introduction to Cluster Computing on CTC's Velocity Complex". The
workshop will include an overview of resources, access methods,
software, using the batch system, compiling codes for Velocity,
cygwin, migration issues and a case study, and data management. More
information and the registration form can be found at
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/Intro/
A variety of in-house workshops and Virtual Workshops are planned for
the coming year. Topics include system updates, software, migration
issues, compilers, MPI, optimization, performance, and tools. A
tentative list of upcoming workshops can be found at
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/Events/
Intel has released IA-64 Manuals
http://developer.intel.com/design/ia-64/manuals/
IA-64 software developer information is now available at
http://developer.intel.com/design/ia-64/devinfo.htm
Scalable Terminology: Farms, Clones, Partitions, and Packs: RACS and RAPS
http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/papers/MS_TR_99_85_Scalability_Terminology.pdf
Compaq Visual Fortran Tutorial Available
http://www.digital.com/fortran/dvf/overview.html
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AC3 Members in the News
CTC Named 2000 Smithsonian/ComputerWorld Nominee for Velocity and AC3
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/er/media/2000/smithsonian.html
Agilent Technologies Introduces VEE Pro 6.0 with MATLAB Script from The MathWorks
http://www.mathworks.com/company/pressroom/latestnews/agilent6_00.shtml
Cornell Researcher, CTC Make Cancer Cell Growth Discovery
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July00/Tomato.bpf.html
Dell Announces Alliance with Blackboard -- Blackboard's Courseinfo
techology developed by former CTC employees, Daniel Cane and Timothy
Chi while students at Cornell
http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/corporate/press/pressoffice_us_2000-07-20-rr-001.htm
Dell Windows 2000 Professional Deployment
http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/corporate/press/pressoffice_us_2000-07-13-rr-001.htm
Fluent Announces CFD Software for Plasma Modeling
http://www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/pr10.htm
NCRR at NIH and CTC Sponsors "From Genes to Proteins to Biological
Function" Symposium
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Events/2000/NIH/symposium.html
Mathematica 4 Adds High-Speed Numerics
http://www.mathematica.com/products/mathematica/newin4/
Microsoft .NET Framework
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/jul00/07-11.NETframework.asp
SAS Announces New US Census Bureau Agreement
http://www.sas.com/news/feature/31jul00/census.html
Visual Numeric's Announces New Release of IMSL C Numerical Library
http://www.vni.com/books/press/cnl40.html
XML to Eliminate System and Device Barriers
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/jul00/07-10xml.asp
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