"...Chinese government is looking to deliver (Linux based) software that is affordable to its citizens..."
(see end of this post to read the full article) Forwarded from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hankam/message/8649 ================================================================= As part of the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), The Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH has purchased an SGI Altix supercomputer to help the United States military maintain its technological supremacy over its adversaries in weapon systems. The SGI Altix supercomputer will be available to more than 1,000 researchers across the U.S. DoD, and will be used to: aid weapon systems design of innovative materials; advance design concepts; improve and speed modification programs; increase high fidelity simulations; and enable more efficient tests and evaluations. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/35643-1.html 04/25/05 Defense buys big iron for serious sims By Joab Jackson GCN Staff The Defense Department bought a supercomputer to help the services design weapons and undertake other computationally intensive jobs, officials said today. The General Services Administration purchased a 2,048-processor SGI Altix System on behalf of the Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. DOD spent $13 million on the supercomputer and a number of other, smaller, undisclosed Army systems, according to Benn Stratton, SGI Federal's director of the defense and civilian agencies business unit. The Aeronautical Systems Center's Major Shared Resource Center, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will let other Defense Department agencies use the system, according to Steve Wourms, director of the center. The facility is one of four High Performance Computing Major Shared Resource Centers that provide computer resources to the Defense research, development, test and evaluation communities. According to Wourms, the services have a backlog of jobs that require big iron, ranging from designing weapons to providing high-quality simulations of fluids and structures. "There is much more demand in the DOD environment than all the resources that the centers in this HPC program have put together," Wourms said. "On top of that, researchers are leveraging these much-improved machines to do much higher resolutions, or much finer grids." SGI delivered the system on March 23, according to Wourms. Nicknamed "Eagle," this machine will feature 2T of shared memory, accessible by any of its processors via SGI's SGI Numalink interconnect. It will run 1.6 GHz Intel Itanium 2 processors on the Linux operating system. While still at the SGI manufacturing facility, the machine tested at 11.636 TFLOPS, a faster Linpack benchmark rate than any Defense Department computer on last November's Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, according to Stratton. The Top 500 List, maintained by the universities of Mannheim and Tennessee, is a biannual compilation of supercomputer performance benchmarks voluntarily submitted by owners. ================================================================= Sun Notches Linux Win With Chinese Gov't By Peter Galli November 17, 2003 Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a technology partnership with two IT ministries in the Chinese government as well as the formation of a new company, China Standard Software, to deliver a China-branded software stack based on Sun's Java Desktop System. - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - A Sun executive who asked not to be named told eWEEK that while the current Java Desktop System is powered by SuSE Linux, the Chinese deal will probably have a custom Linux Standards Base-compliant Linux operating system that will be supported by the Chinese government and its IT partners. - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - The Chinese agencies and their partners will provide all of the infrastructure, support and marketing services around the offering, he said, adding that the Chinese government already has a strong initiative around Linux, and this makes it easier for them to get the solution to market quickly. Microsoft Windows and Office are "just too expensive for most ordinary citizens," he said. The new company, China Standard Software, will be funded by a couple of existing Chinese IT companies as well as by two of the information technology ministries within China, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Information Industry, which were responsible for setting the IT standard for the government and education in the country. - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - Sun has no investment stake in that company: "Our contribution is really the IP and technology base," Sasaki said, adding that the Chinese government is looking to deliver software that is affordable to its citizens as well as create a standard for use in government and education. "There is also a big digital divide between the western parts of China and the eastern parts, which include Beijing and Shanghai, which is a lot more technology savvy than on the west," he said. (similar condition apply to Indonesia) The Chinese government itself has a large initiative to bridge that divide by building up infrastructure and delivering Linux-based solutions to many of its citizens, Sasaki said, adding that the good news for Sun is that it will now work with the Chinese government to deliver an open, standards-based desktop environment. - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - c u t - - - To read this article in full, please go to : http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1385673,00.asp (page 1) and http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1385680,00.asp (page 2) Other reff: Linux in Government http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8253 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. 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