With G-VMP, the articles of your publication, the real assets of your magazine are stored as XML. The lay-out is stored separately. This has several advantages. First, they are stored in a readable text format: if you want, you can read them with any word or text processor. They are not locked into a proprietary format. Secondly, the lay-out is stored separately from the articles. The advantage here is that you do not have to change each article when you want to change the lay-our of your site. You go to the set-up menu, change the colour or any other parameter, and push the publish button.
G-VMP works with menus and has a sophisticated easy-to-use editor. You do not have to follow a training course, learn XML or specific word-processor key-strokes.
With G-VMP you can make a choice of a number of proven standard lay-outs. You have a choice of menus, and can decide where to put them, and you can choose the colours to be used.
With the editor of G-VMP you can then start writing your articles. The editor shows the sections of your magazine. Pictures can be uploaded to the G-VMP repository and used in any article where they are needed. You can work on an article as long as is needed. You just set it on "publish" when it is ready.
Then, with one push of a button, you publish the next issue. G-VMP automatically creates the table-of-contents and formatted versions of the articles. The back-issues are created too.
G-VMP comes with a build-in Search facility.
When finished, you can publish your new issue on a Web site, or send it by e-mail to your readers.
With G-VMP Standard which runs on any operating system, you can manage one publication.
G-VMP uses the industry stylesheet language XSLT for its stylesheets. You can write your own stylesheets and include them in the G-VMP system. With G-VMP you can use different stylesheets for the same issue too. For instance with one stylesheet you create the issue for the e-mail, and with another one for inclusion in a news channel.
The editor of G-VMP is fully configurable. Hence your authors see a screen especially designed for your magazine or Web site section. When you call it "lead" your authors see "lead", call it "byline" and they see "byline", call it "chapeau", and they see "chapeau".
Director: Christopher Lazou
HiPerCom consultants Ltd is a company limited by shares created in 1995. In its memorandum of association HiPerCom lists its functions as follows: to carry on all or any of the businessess of High Performance Computer Consultants, specialists and engineers, and to cover all aspects of writers, designers, organisers, marketers and dealers in high performance computer systems, scientific and commercial computer software and of computer programmers and consultants in relation to the use of computers and data processing; to carry benchmarks, procurements and strategic marketing analysis for optimal solutions when using high performance computers.
HiperCom operates on a virtual company model with links with many experts so it can focus expertise to solve a particular problem without having to retain highly skilled staff. HiPerCom offers consultancy in software and hardware, market assessments, risk management and R and D services for computer vendors, industrial clients, and universities.
Customers are vendors in the introduction of new products in the HPC arena in Germany with all the necessary activities, starting from promotion, workshops up to marketing and sales contacts. An other aspect is the special situation in Germany in the academia and governmental field. Here background information and advisory in the legal procedures can be given.
The owner studied Mathematics and computer sciences at the University in Hannover, Germany. He headed the group of numerical mathematics in the advisory department at the Regional Computer Center for Lower Saxony at University Hannover (CDC Cyber76). In 1980 he became leader of the project group vector and parallel computers, was the contact point for the county's academic usage of the Cray in Berlin and benchmarked all HPC systems available. In 1986 he moved to industry, Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft in Ottobrunn near Munich and was responsible for the vector processor Fujitsu/Siemens VP 200 (first in Europe), marketing, sales, advisory services, training, documentation etc. In 1990 changed to debis (Daimler-Benz Interservices) Systemhaus in Munich, member of the Daimler-Benz Group. Since 1993 independent Consultant.
Based on this long experience, qualified evaluation in this field is possible. Because of personal activities, HSC is well known in the German but also international HPC community and thus involved in several big HPC centers.
Activities: Uwe Harms was organizer of a workshop series "Supercomputer and Chemistry" from 1986 till 1991, publishing the proceedings partly in Springer-Verlag. He was the local organizer of High-Performance Computing and Networking Europe (HPCN) 1994, Conference and Exhibition in Munich, and Co-editor of the proceedings published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Until 1996 he joined the HPCN organiser team.
HPC in Chemistry, Conference at Research Center Juelich, February 1998, responsible for the industrial part.
Cooperating and working for Hewlett-Packard/Convex, NEC, SGI/Cray, Siemens Nixdorf, SUN, reporting on scientific as well as commercial applications (e.g. SAP R/3) on user sites.
Supporting the HPC centers at CSCS (Manno), Juelich and HWW in Stuttgart, as well as debis Systemhaus (HPC group).
Actively working in the ESPRIT project HOISE, covering the German speaking countries and reporting on the specific situation in Germany.
Publishing articles in magazines like Blick durch die Wirtschaft (commercial magazine belonging to Frankfurter Allgemeine), Computerwoche, Computer Zeitung, HPCwire, iX (Unix magazine), VDI nachrichten (engineering), Computer World (Switzerland) for example.
Belonging to the analysis team of the TOP500.
Harms-Supercomputing-Consulting (HSC) covers all aspects of High-Performance Computing:
Harms-Supercomputing-Consulting furtheron supports hardware and software.
The hpcLine is a family of highly scalable high performance computers, which is based entirely upon (de-facto) standards and off the shelf components using server and PC technologies. Compute bound applications within areas such as flow simulation, structural analysis, computational chemistry, simulation of electromagnetic compatibility, seismology or also 3D image processing can efficiently be executed with the hpcLine.
The projects Genias takes part in or did take part in are:
Primeur is an initiative of people from 10 European countries, co-operating in providing a weekly and monthly supercomputing newsletter. The news is mainly European computer news aimed at an academic and business audience. The Primeur Web site contains news on national computer projects, EC news on the computer front and provides a forum for discussion on high performance computing and related topics. Primeur regularly attends supercomputer meetings worldwide to report live to the reader.
EnterTheGrid is a portal for Grid computing, the Next Generation Internet.
Virtual Medical Worlds is a magazine on telemedicine, virtual surgery and enabling technologies, such as HPCN, virtual reality, large database technology.
More information at: The Primeur Web site. The The VMW Web site. The EnterTheGrid Web site.
The WebSET project aims to produce a standardised suite of interactive three-dimensional educational tools, delivered across the WWW. The major focus is put on the use of open technology and standards, as well as the production of learning components which can be used as building blocks for further development in a wide range of application areas, such as surgical training and physiological education. WebSET is supported by the European Commission under contract number IST-1999-10632.
More information on: http://www.vmwc.org/projects/webset/
IERAPSI (Integrated Environment for Rehearsal and Planning of Surgical Interventions) is an R and D project aimed at developing an interactive computerised environment for the planning and rehearsal of surgical procedures in individual patients. IERAPSI is supported by the European Commission under contract number IST-1999-12175.
More information on: http://www.vmwc.org/projects/ierapsi/
The objective of EROPPA is to design, implement and test remote access for Post Production Companies to 3-D graphics applications running on High Performance Computer Centers. Most of these companies cannot afford a truly High Performance Computer but need them badly for rendering images. Remote access to such a computer in a High Performance Computer Center would be an ideal solution. The European project EROPPA aims to provide the knowhow and the software and make this possible.
Genias Benelux' partners in EROPPA are:
Many companies own a massively parallel computing system without realising it. A survey pointed out that at a large company with many workstations, 75% of the time those workstations do not work at all. If only this idle time could be used productively ... The European project Dynamite aims to provide the software and the method to let those workstations work interactively when needed and to use their spare time for massively parallel computer tasks. To realise this, the workstations have to be monitored constantly and every change in workload will have to result in a different distribution of the computer tasks at hand.
Genias Benelux' partners in Dynamite are:
More information at: The Dynamite Web site.
The Computing Services of T-Systems can operate all or part of a data processing centre. T-Sustems' approach is based on shared responsibility. The company continuously optimises the systems, infrastructures and applications for a customer.
T-Systems operates data centres or networks of desktop systems, establishes user help desks, and sets up communications networks or entire applications systems.
The portfolio of application services ranges from leasing preconfigured industry-specific or generic solutions (application service providing) to the operation and maintenance of office communications and key business applications and systems for attracting and retaining customers (office, ERP and CRM applications), as well as other enterprise-wide applications, to the operation of custom, market-specific IT solutions.
EnterTheGrid, brought to you by Primeur, is your entrance to Grid Computing, distributed computing, peer-to-peer-computing and parallel computing.
The Grid is an emerging infrastructure, that makes computing and data access possible anywhere, anytime in a seamless way. The Age of the Grid has just dawned, with hundreds of active research projects in Europe, and other parts of the world, with active user groups as the Global Grid Forum and the Peer-to-Peer working groups, with many companies that try to harness the unused powers of the millions of PCs out there on the Internet, sitting idle.
With the editors of Primeur, we report on leading edge computing, since the dawn of supercomputing. Now the Grid calls for new initiative to keep you up to date with the developments in Grid Computing: that is why we have started EnterTheGrid.
EnterTheGrid provides you:
Primeur Weekly only costs you 125 euro per annum. A four week trial is available. All the other services are available for free.
The EnterTheGrid catalogue holds short descriptions. It is possible to extend that to a full page detailed description that can be maintained by your organisation/company for 1250 euro per year.
EnterTheGrid aims to bring news on the Grid, not only to those active in the field, but also to potential users of this emerging technology. Hence, the news section provides concise contributions, written in an accessible fashion.
Topics covered in the news section of EnterTheGrid - Primeur Weekly:
The web pag can be found at: http://EnterTheGrid.com.