News

12.7.2004
The current issue (28/2004, S.15) of the magazine Computer-Zeitung contains an article about ATOLL, unfortunately only in German. [..more]
3.6.2004
We have a stable MPICH2 for ATOLL. Further work will concentrate on performance optimizations.
22.4.2004
The current issue (May 2004) of the ClusterWorld Magazine contains an article about the ATOLL interconnect. [..more]
16.2.2004
We added another part to the PALMS package - the PALMS Atollrun environment. The initial distribution of host ports within an ATOLL application is now as easy as calling MPI_Init() in MPI.
The Atollrun documentation is available in the software section.
10.10.2003
The PALMS API reference is online! You can find it in the software section.
1.10.2003
The current newsletter of the IEEE TFCC contains an article showing ATOLL\'s performance. Check it out! [..more]
16.6.2003
We updated our Downloads section. We will offer Atoll-software downloads as soon as the software is in a release stage. PALMS, the basic Atoll software package, will be available around August/September.
10.2.2003
The major test phase of the Atoll hardware is finished now. We are now developing the Software that is needed to run Atoll (driver etc).
04 Nov 2002
A presentation about ATOLL is given at the PDCS conference in Cambridge, USA, November 04-06 2002
01 Nov 2002
Test of prototypes: PIO mode test with internal communication path successfully completed. Achieved hardware latency for internal communication as low as 480ns.
10 Jul 2002
Test of prototypes: First PCI accesses, first internal messages in PIO mode
03 Jul 2002
Assembly of the ATOLL PCB.
22 May 2002
Dies shipped by IMEC to our chair.
18 Feb 2002
Some significant milestones have been reached. [..more]
03 Aug 2001
A new ATOLL status update is released. [..more]
12 Jul 2000
Though we don't have a running chip yet, we made some detailed performance predictions. Have a look at the HPCN Europe 2000 presentation slides in the Documents section to know what you can expect from a running ATOLL system. [..more]
17 Mar 2000
ATOLL presentations on upcoming conferences give you the possibility to learn more about the ATOLL NIC. [..more]
10 Nov 1999
A presentation about ATOLL is given at the APPT conference in Changsa, China, October 19-21 1999. [..more]
20 Oct 1999
Sun Microsystems ships 4 Ultra 60 workstations to the Chair of Computer Architecture, University of Mannheim. These machines will be used to port the ATOLL software to the Solaris operating system. [..more]
06 Oct 1999
A Birds-of-Feather session High Speed Interconnects at the Supercomputing (SC99) conference in Portland, OR, Nov 13-19 1999, includes a presentation of ATOLL. PRESENTATIONS ARE ONLINE [..more]
Presentations are online
01 Aug 1999
An ATOLL test report is included in the 4/99 issue of 3DLIVE, the german magazine for visual computing & video. If you would like to read the full report (in german), please visit the documents section. [..more]
30 Jun 1999
A presentation about ATOLL is given at the PDPTA conference in Las Vegas, NV, June 28-July 1 1999. [..more]
10 Jun 1999
An ATOLL booth at the Supercomputer conference exhibition in Mannheim, Germany. For the first time, this new technology is presented to a large audience, and the feedback is very promising. [..more]
www.supercomp.de
02 May 1999
An article about ATOLL is published in the 9/99 issue of c't, the leading german computer magazine.link:
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