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data link for December 1999 |
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- Broadband
Revolution: Office of the Future
- "[W]orking to invent a new future for computer networking and to foster a
revolution in workplace collaboration" is the subject of an article by The Chicago
Tribune. The Access Grid, True Grid, CAVE and other Alliance advances
are included.
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- An Interview with Dan Reed
- HPCWire interviewed University of Illinois professor Dan Reed
prior to his invited talk at SC99. The Q&A session
gives insights about this HPC leader sees "performance."
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- Top 500 List
Published During SC99
- Take a look at the 14th Top 500 list published during last month's SC99 conference
in Portland, OR.
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- Clustering
Technology Based on Intel Itanium Processor Demo'd at SC99
- "The [high-performance computing] community will either continue down its familiar path of
company proprietary software and RISC processor building blocks or begin to move toward a new
model of high-performance computing based on commodity, high-volume parts and
common software building blocks," said Larry Smarr, NCSA director, at a special session during SC99 last
month. SGI, in conjunction with the Alliance and Intel Corporation, demonstrated the first-ever
cluster based on the Intel® IA-64 ItaniumTM processor.
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- Meet NCSA's Consultants
- If you are an NCSA-allocated user, you might wonder about the people who reply to
the email you send or answer the phone call you make. Take a look at the
brief bios and wonder no more!
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- MHPCC Hosts
SP Parallel Programming II Workshop
- An extension of the Parallel Programming I workshop, this new course
covers the latest IBM SP parallel hardware and software technologies, general
interest topics, and performance and optimization issues.
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- Announcing NLANR HPC Applications Database
- Preview the High Performance Connections (HPC) Applications Database
being developed by NLANR. The HPC Applications Database is the
initial phase of an HPC Clearinghouse under development as an online facility
that will provide support services and information about related projects,
applications, and resources.
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- Taking Stock of the Q-Bone Initiative
- Houston is the site of the "QBone: Early Experiences and the Road Ahead" workshop
scheduled for February 9 - 10. Campus network planners, advanced applications developers,
CIOs, gigaPoP planners, federal mission networks, NGI investigators, and members of the
network research community are encouraged to attend. December 22 is the deadline for
presentation proposals.
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- Editor's Note
- A comment on the closing of an old year and the coming of a new one
from the editor of data link.
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