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| A global climate of turbulent change - including HPC |
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"Our civilisation is destroying itself because it is determined to disregard all limits in all areas". Dominique Bourg, philosopher of sustainable development. Global warming and its dire consequences have at long last permeated the special interests barriers and is at the centre of political debate. A recent EU Research magazine produced a special report with the title: "Global warming we can't wait any longer" stating: "The 4th IPCC report was issued and adopted this spring amidst a blaze of publicity and debate. It summarises two decades of important multidisciplinary research and formally concludes that the symptoms of global warming due to human activity are real ... The world must act ..." to mitigate the worst effects. (Chris Lazou)
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| Penn engineers design computer memory in nanoscale form that retrieves data 1000 times faster |
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Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memory technologies.
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| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory acquires Cray XMT supercomputer |
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The Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has taken delivery of the first-of-its-kind Cray XMT supercomputer designed for data intensive computing research. The Cray XMT system has a unique "massively multithreaded" architecture and large global memory that is configured for applications, such as data discovery, business intelligence, bioinformatics and power grid analysis, that require access to terabytes of data arranged in an unpredictable manner.
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| Tech Data U.S. exclusive distributor of cluster computing solutions from Clustercorp |
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The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division (AIS) of Tech Data Corporation has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Clustercorp, a provider of software, services and support for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Clustercorp software enables users to tie together server hardware to create more robust computing systems capable of processing intensive data calculations such as long-term financial projections and engineering design.
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| NAG announces changes to Executive Team |
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The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), a provider of mathematical and statistical software components for academia, announces changes to its Executive Team. Susan Shayler has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Deputy Director at NAG Ltd.; her appointment as COO adds to her existing role as Group Financial Controller for all NAG operating companies. Susan assumes the COO and Deputy Director responsibilities from Steve Hague.
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| SDSC launches user-settable supercomputer reservations |
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Supercomputers keep growing ever faster, today to nearly one petaflops. In contrast, the experience of a computational scientist can be anything but fast - waiting hours or days in a queue for a job to run and yield precious results needed for further steps. The unpredictably of queues can impede the course of research, slowing progress with unexpected periods of waiting.To address this problem, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has released version 1.0 of a new User Portal, featuring an innovative user-settable reservation system that gives researchers more control over when their jobs will run on the centre's supercomputers. The service, not previously offered in high performance computing centres, is debuting on SDSC's DataStar and TeraGrid Cluster systems.
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| Rensselaer celebrates grand opening of world-class Supercomputing Center |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has celebrated the grand opening of the world's most powerful university-based supercomputer with a "virtual" ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), the result of a $100 million partnership involving Rensselaer, IBM, and New York state, was recently ranked seventh in the world, and it is the most powerful of any system based exclusively at a university, according to the 29th edition of the closely watched TOP500 list.
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| Acceleware announces multi-track webinar series for GPU computing users |
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Acceleware Corp. is launching its Webinar Series covering emerging Graphic Processing Units (GPU) solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. This innovative series is designed to educate attendees about leading-edge topics in the HPC market, supply new product information and provide knowledgeable insight from leading industry experts.
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| Cray opens engineering development centre in Austin |
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Cray Inc. has opened a new engineering development centre in Austin, Texas.
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| With SGI Altix ICE, University of Exeter aims for the stars and hopes to learn how they are born |
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British astrophysicists at the University of Exeter know how trying it can be to simulate the birthing ground of new stars. Using 16 processors of a supercomputer located at another university, the scientists needed an entire year to model a cloud of hydrogen and helium gas so vast it would take a beam of light four years to travel from one end to another. The Exeter scientists found that waiting for results on this resource hobbled their productivity, so to tackle one of the remaining fundamental problems of astrophysics they turned to SGI Altix ICE, a new, high-performance computing (HPC) blade system from SGI.
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| SGI Supercomputing Solutions enable Professor Stephen Hawking's UK Cosmos Consortium to shed light on the structure of the Universe |
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To take advantage of substantial increases in speed and energy efficiency, the COSMOS consortium which has been using SGI high-performance computing (HPC) solutions since 1997, has upgraded its system with the purchase of a 152-core, 456GB SGI Altix 4700 shared-memory system from SGI.
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| Bull achieves performance, powerful consolidation and virtualization capabilities with the new server designed to simplify data centre management |
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To respond to the latest demands for enterprise server consolidation and virtualization, to provide scalable performance, high-level data protection and simplified systems administration, Bull has launched its NovaScale R480 E1 quad-core four-socket server featuring the new Intel Xeon processor 7300 series - codenamed Caneland.
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| Verari Systems boosts performance of energy efficient servers with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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Verari Systems' BladeRack 2 blade server platform and RM series of rackmount servers will now support AMD's new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor. The latest AMD processors are an addition to Verari's highly scalable systems designed to be upgradeable to the newest technology for enterprise customers seeking higher levels of performance-per-dollar and performance-per-watt.
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| Panasas to provide update on parallel NFS at forthcoming Storage Developer Conference |
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Panasas Inc., specialized in parallel clustered storage solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC) market, will be presenting a development status update on parallel NFS (pNFS) at the Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Developer Conference, to be held September 10-13, 2007 in San Jose, California.
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| Scali announces outstanding results for high performance computing applications on Quad-Core AMD Opteron |
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Scali has released the first benchmark data using AMD's newly released Quad-Core Opteron model 2350 processor with the Mellanox ConnectX interconnect. The results highlight the increased importance of high performance MPI and InfiniBand interconnects as the core count increases in current and future systems.
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| New Supercomputer "Buin" inaugurated at CSCS - Quantum leap in weather forecasting |
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Starting from 2008 Switzerland will be the first country in Europe to benefit from a high-resolution weather forecast. The installation of the new Cray XT supercomputer laid the technical foundation for this. The increasing number of extreme weather conditions observed in recent years has a strong impact on the alpine region. Switzerland's mountainous relief can lead to surprisingly distributed weather patterns: there can be sun on one side of a mountain pass, whilst the opposite valley is drenched in rain. Such phenomena can only be anticipated with the help of high-resolution weather forecasts.
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| HP expands Quad-Core server portfolio |
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HP has enhanced its line-up of multi-processor-based server systems built to improve performance and cut costs. Based on the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series, these energy-efficient servers are designed for customers running data-intensive business applications such as databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and large mail and messaging platforms in virtualized environments.
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| Virginia Tech faculty members earn IBM awards |
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Three faculty members in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science, Kirk Cameron, Wu-Chun Feng, and Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, have received IBM Faculty Awards. According to IBM, these awards are "internationally competitive", and candidates are required to have an outstanding reputation for contributions in their field.
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| Stirling 4x4 Processing - Aberdeen's Server delivers Quad, Quad-Core power |
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Aberdeen LLC, the Custom Server Solution Provider, and Supermicro Computer Inc., a manufacturer of high-quality motherboards, have joined forces to deliver an innovative HPC server solution. Featuring the 4-way quad-core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series, Aberdeen's Stirling 444, high-performance server, caters to enterprise server markets such as Grid computing, HPC (High Performance Computing) and EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing).
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| Florida State University selects Dell high-performance computing cluster for wide-ranging research |
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Florida State University (FSU) has selected a next-generation high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from Dell to enable a wide range of academic research designed to benefit society. The cluster is housed at FSU's main data centre in Tallahassee. From the custom design of the cluster to the final on-site installation, Dell simplified the process of purchasing and installing the cluster for FSU. Fewer than four weeks elapsed from order to initial operations.
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| Scientists use powerful Cray supercomputer to develop groundbreaking strategies in weather prediction |
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Scientists have leveraged the power of a Cray supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to break new ground in weather prediction. Researchers from the University of Oklahoma's Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employed an innovative combination of high resolution and controlled manipulation of numerical model parameters and starting conditions to develop strategies that will allow forecasters to better anticipate the formation of severe storms and the supercells that give birth to destructive tornados. The research was part of the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Spring Experiment.
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| Dolphin launches PCI Express Clustering |
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ASA has launched PCI Express clustering products as additions to its existing Dolphin Express product line. Dolphin Express is a software and hardware interconnect architecture for creating powerful enterprise cluster systems using standard low cost servers. Dolphin Express today delivers industry leading enterprise application response time and throughput. It seamlessly supports standard off-the-shelf enterprise applications such as Oracle RAC and MySQL on cost effective clusters from 2 to 100's of nodes. These new native PCI Express products will complement Dolphin's existing host-to-host cluster solutions and its recently announced PCI Express I/O interconnect solutions.
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| Sun expands high performance computing portfolio with definitive agreement to acquire assets of Cluster File Systems, including the Lustre File System |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems Inc.'s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File Systems Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add support for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. As previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to deliver Lustre servers on top of Sun's industry-leading open source Solaris ZFS solution, which is one of the fastest growing storage virtualization technology in the marketplace.
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| Mitrionics opens new offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle as part of U.S. expansion in FPGA accelerated computing industry |
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Mitrionics Inc., developer of the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, has opened two new offices on the west coast of the United States. Based in Silicon Valley, California and Seattle, Washington, the new offices are part of the company's planned global expansion to be closer to its U.S.-based IC partners, OEM and module suppliers, and end-user customers.
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| SGI sets world record for Oracle E-Business Suite performance |
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SGI has performed verified test results that show SGI Altix to be the industry's fastest, most scalable Linux system for real-world, multi-tier applications running Oracle Database 10g. In fact, SGI delivered the best and only "All Linux" benchmark result with a medium-sized Oracle Database10g.
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| IBM POWER6 outscores HP in key server performance tests |
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IBM's new POWER6 processor-based UNIX server has posted world records in key metrics of computing performance vital to a broad range of technical and commercial applications. These leadership results were obtained on 1-core, 4-core, 8-core, and 16-core servers running either Linux or the IBM UNIX operating system, AIX, allowing customers substantial flexibility.
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| IBM doubles down on Cell Blade |
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IBM has introduced a new version of the breakthrough computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) - the IBM BladeCenter QS21 - that delivers twice the memory, density and I/O throughput as well as enhances power efficiency and the ability to work with existing IT infrastructure for both current and new customers. Also launched is the IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) for Multicore Acceleration Version 3.0 - the cornerstone of the Cell/B.E. software ecosystem and developer enablement programme.
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| Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo 2007 in Singapore calls for participation |
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The Gelato Federation, the technical community for Linux on Itanium architecture, is launching the technical programme for Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo set for October 1-2 in Singapore.
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| Dot Hill announces UK OEM partnership with Viglen |
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Dot Hill Systems has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Viglen Ltd., a British provider of cutting edge ICT solutions to Higher Education. Under the terms of the agreement, Dot Hill's high performance, modular enterprise storage platform, the Dot Hill 2730 based on the company's Rapid Evolution (R/Evolution) architecture will be incorporated into the product portfolio of the Viglen Storage Group to address the needs of its mid market customers.
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| PRIMERGY goes Quad to double performance |
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New Quad-Core Intel Xeon MP processors introduced in PRIMERGY RX servers from Fujitsu Siemens Computers, provide near-double performance over previous models, coupled with new savings in energy-efficiency. Underlining Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ commitment to the Dynamic Data Center, new PRIMERGY RX600 S4 rack-mount servers are ideally suited towards advanced virtualization, enabling further consolidation within the data centre.
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| IBM unveils two major nanotechnology breakthroughs as building blocks for atomic structures and devices |
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IBM has performed two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules. Although still far from making their way into products, these breakthroughs will enable scientists at IBM and elsewhere to continue driving the field of nanotechnology, the exploration of building structures and devices out of ultra-tiny, atomic-scale components. Such devices might be used as future computer chips, storage devices, sensors and for applications nobody has imagined yet.
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| Verari Systems pushes performance envelope of Blade-based computing with Intel Xeon MP platform |
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Verari Systems' BladeRack 2 blade server platform and RM (rackmount) series of servers will now support the Intel Xeon multi-processor (MP) server platform featuring Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors and the Intel 7300 chipset. Offering breakthrough performance, energy efficiency and support for Intel Virtualization Technology, the new platform is enabling Verari Systems to redefine the system responsiveness and flexibility of blade-based computing.
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| Rackable Systems announces availability of new servers based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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Rackable Systems Inc., a provider of servers and storage for large-scale data centres, has adopted the newly launched Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Available in select models of Rackable Systems’ Eco-Logical servers, the new quad-core systems achieve outstanding performance-per-watt while enabling exceptional power savings and reliability for even the most demanding data centre environments.
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| IBM introduces new "virtualization-ready" System x server |
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IBM has previewed the fourth generation of its chipset technology, X4, to be available in a high-end, scalable server leveraging the latest in quad-core processing technology from Intel. The System x3950 M2 server will debut a new embedded hypervisor capability, enabling clients to easily deploy virtualized server applications right out of the box.
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| SGI completes fiscal 2007 with key customer wins and launches new HPC Blade system |
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With a new CEO at its helm, SGI completed its fiscal year 2007 with the launch of a breakthrough blade system purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC), while racking up significant customer wins across SGI's server and storage product lines. The company also released financial results for the Fiscal Year 2007.
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| ProCurve Networking by HP delivers core switch with lifetime warranty |
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ProCurve Networking by HP has made available a high-performance network core switch supported by ProCurve’s lifetime warranty. Targeted at enterprise customers, the ProCurve Switch 8212zl completes ProCurve's core-to-edge network solution that unifies network technology, infrastructure, software, operation, management and support while reducing complexity and lowering costs. The switch is based on HP-developed ProVision ASIC technology.
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| Cray XT4 Systems with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor to provide petaflops capability |
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Cray Inc. expects to begin shipping its industry-leading Cray XT4 systems with new, ultra-powerful Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors by year-end. The company has already received significant orders for these enhanced quad-core systems, including orders from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CSC Finland, Engineer Research and Development Center for the US Army Corps of Engineers and the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the HECToR national academic service.
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| NASA's Aeronautics Research to get boost from SGI Altix ICE and InfiniteStorage solution |
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NASA acquired an SGI Altix ICE blade system powered by 4,096 Intel Xeon processor cores and 4 Terabytes (TB) of memory. NASA also purchased a new SGI InfiniteStorage 10000 solution capable of managing 240TB of data - an amount three times larger than the entire print collection of the Library of Congress.
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| SGI strengthens leadership team |
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Shahin Khan has been appointed vice president of Corporate Strategy at SGI. He will spearhead corporate development, strategic alliances, and manage the company's Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio.
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| Sun announces world's first Blade server uniquely designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module, the world's first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Sun also previewed a next-generation four-socket, 2U quad-core server that will be available by the end of the year, powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Building on Sun's momentum in the x86 server market, both systems enable customers to take advantage of Sun's unique systems design approach built around the power of the Solaris Operating System (OS) and AMD's much-anticipated native quad-core processors.
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| Sun breaks new design ground with preview of world's first four-socket, 2U Quad-Core server |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has previewed the first and only four-socket, 2U quad-core system on the market from a tier-one vendor, powered by the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series that Intel announced separately. At the processor launch in San Francisco, Intel also endorsed the Solaris Operating System (OS) as the only mission-critical UNIX operating system for the Intel Xeon processor, recommending that OEMs and systems builders show support for the Solaris OS on Xeon-based platforms.
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| IBM ships 25,000th high-end disk storage solution to the University of Pittsburgh |
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IBM has shipped the 25,000th high-end disk storage solution to the University of Pittsburgh. The new disk storage solution is part of a hardware, software and virtualization storage infrastructure to improve the learning environment for faculty and staff, enable the university to lower its total cost of ownership, improve data centre energy efficiency and respond rapidly to storage infrastructure demands.
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| Cray appoints Andrew Wyatt VP of Asia Pacific Region |
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Cray Inc. has appointed Andrew Wyatt to the position of vice president for its Asia Pacific region. Mr. Wyatt will be responsible for sales, service and customer support activities across the territory.
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| NEC and Sun to combine expertise and innovation and provide cost-effective professional services for high performance computing customers |
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NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, intends to work with Sun Microsystems Inc. to provide high performance computing (HPC) professional services in North America. The goal is to provide turnkey HPC services for the mid-market at industry leading prices. Previously available only to large enterprises, now both mid-market and large enterprises have a choice when they want to leverage HPC applications.
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| Wipro rolls out supercomputers for Indian market |
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Wipro Infotech, the IT business division of the $3.4-billion Wipro Ltd., has become the first Indian tech firm to roll out supercomputers with super storage for the domestic market. Christened Supernova, the supercomputers with teraflops and petabytes are custom built at the IT bellwether's Puducherry manufacturing facility in partnership with ZResearch Inc., the California-based technology firm, specialising in making supercomputers and super storage worldwide.
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| Bull optimizes the consolidation of Oracle Databases in Linux environments |
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Bull introduces the DataScale offering designed to simplify and secure the implementation of large Oracle Databases. DataScale provides a choice of pre-assembled and fine-tuned configurations combining servers, storage sub-systems and related implementation software and services.
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| Lufthansa Systems optimizes data protection with CentricStor |
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LufthansaSystems, one of the leading IT service providers for the airline and aviation industry, will adopt Fujitsu Siemens Computers' CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance to efficiently back up its customers' data and its own and to keep that data highly available.
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| SGI increases the velocity of research in universities throughout Australia and New Zealand |
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ac3 Research Consortium, Central Queensland University (CQU), Massey University, Otago University and University of Sydney have all recently installed new SGI Altix servers and SGI InfiniteStorage systems from SGI to increase the capabilities of their research facilities and their internationally recognised research projects.
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| Naval Surface Warfare Center selects SGI Altix for modelling of warhead impact |
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When scientists and engineers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Indian Head, Maryland needed to ensure they could make reliable, qualitative predictions regarding the vulnerability and survivability of targets for U.S. Navy warheads, they turned to SGI for a solution.
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| Scientists at Polar Research Institute of China leverage SGI technology to gain insight into global climate change |
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March 1, 2007, to March 1, 2008, marks the fourth International Polar Year (IPY) - a large scientific programme focused on research in both polar caps, the Arctic and the Antarctic, to recognize the strong links these regions have with the global climate changes. This year's activities mark China's first IPY efforts, and the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) selected compute technology from SGI to enable this important scientific research mission.
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| DataSynapse launches its VersaVision software, the first commercial product to provide visibility, analytics and reporting for service and demand virtualization infrastructures |
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DataSynapse, a global provider of application virtualization software, has launched its VersaVision software, the first commercial product that provides comprehensive visibility, analytics and reporting for service and demand virtualization infrastructures - enabling better service level management, capacity planning and fine-grained total cost of ownership analysis of application services.
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| German Government to support Grid technology with high-tech strategy development |
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Be it in science, industry, government or for personal use: The need for computational power is continually increasing. In this regard, the power of one single computer is no longer relevant. More important is the growing efficiency in the networking of computer resources. The key for this enhanced networking is the so-called Grid technology. "This technology will enable in the near future the access to data storage, supercomputing power, programmes and measuring instruments from anywhere in the world", stated Thomas Rachel, Parlementary Secretary to the State at the German National Ministery for Education and Research (BMBF) during the D-Grid All-Hands-Meeting in Goettingen, among the experts who are discussing the next steps for the Grid development in Germany. "All is clear in this respect: All people are benefiting from the computer network of the future."
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| Big Grid launched |
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On September 17, Big Grid has been officially launched in Amsterdam. Big Grid is a large Dutch eScience Grid effort that will run until 2011 with a budget of 28.8 million Euro. Big Grid board member Jaap van Herik explained the project. BiG Grid will be connected to the European Grid. Currently that is EGEE. Its director, Bob Jones, explained the rationale behind the new EGEE3 project, that currently is under review by the European Commission, is based on national organised Grids that are connected, as opposed to the current EGEE2 where its is the individual centres, organised in regions that are partner of the project. Both Van den Herik and Jones emphasized the need to turn the eScience Grid into a sustainable e-Infrastructure. there should be a structural funding, not based on projects that may or may not be approved.
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| Cracow'07 Grid Workshop calls for participation |
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The Cracow Grid Workshop (CGW'07) will be held October 15-17 in Krakow, Poland. The workshop is organized for the seventh time to support the community of researchers, developers, practitioners as well as current and potential Grid users who work in the fascinating field of Grid technologies and their applications.
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| The CoreGRID Symposium - a premiere in the spreading of European Grid Technologies research results |
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CoreGRID gathered key players from European and Member States initiatives in Grid research, as well as international projects in the field, to disseminate signigificant research results in Grid Technologies. These results were presented at the CoreGRID Symposium in Rennes on August 27 and 28. More than 120 participants from Research and Industry had the opportunity to meet and exchange their experience on all aspects of Grid computing, including service infrastructures. Having been active for three years, CoreGRID is now committed to move further towards sustainable integration and to enhance the economic fall-outs of Grid research progress. In particular, the growing involvement of industry representatives will be essential to exploit the full potential of the latest Grid research results.
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| BEgrid Seminar calls for participation |
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The yearly BEgrid Seminar is already becoming a tradition. The next issue is scheduled on the 16th of October in Brussels. Location is The International Auditorium, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 in 1210 Brussels, Belgium.
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| 36 national Grids initiatives in Europe support the EGI concept |
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36 national Grids initiatives in Europe have recognized the need for an European Grid Initiative (EGI) that will link existing national Grid initiatives and actively supports the set-up and initiation of new Grid initiatives.
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| Craig Lee named Open Grid Forum's new President |
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Open Grid Forum (OGF) has appointed Craig Lee to the position of President effective October 1, 2007. Craig Lee has been deeply involved in OGF since its founding (as GGF) in 1999, working to develop interoperability standards for Grids across a number of scientific and enterprise applications.
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| Dell and SURA partner on Grid computing initiative |
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The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and Dell have signed an agreement to expand SURAgrid, a high-performance Grid computing infrastructure for the research and education community throughout the Southeastern United States.
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| Imperial College London contributes major computing resources to the UK National Grid Service |
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The UK National Grid Service (NGS) expanded further in August as Imperial College London joined as an affiliate member.
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| JPPF 1.0 beta2 released |
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The JPPF Team announced a new version of itr Java Grid software suite. JPPF is now integrated with JMX, and uses it to provide administration and monitoring services. Monitoring capabilities have now been extended to the nodes as well as to the executed tasks. The Administration console now provides an extended view of the JPPF network. Critical issues were fixed that would cause a node to crash in specific conditions.
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| IBM and the University of Cape Town to develop regional climate models for Africa |
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IBM and the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town are launching a global computing effort to improve regional climate models in order to make better projections about what effects a changing climate will have in Africa.
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| CineGrid @ PICNIC'07 calls for participation |
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Going to the movies will become an extremely intense experience in the near future. The newest generation of digital cinema technology is ready to make its debut. This technology - called 4K cinema - is four times better than HDTV, many times better than normal television and offers crystal-clear definition and lifelike sound. During PICNIC'07, on 26 September, you will be able to experience this technology for yourself.
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| DoD CIO posts architectural vision for Global Information Grid |
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The US Department of Defense's Global Information Grid (GIG) architectural vision is now available on-line at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and DoD Chief Information Officer Web site.
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| Foedus agrees to become the first U.S. distributor of the Commerx Virtual Server Grid (VSG) |
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Foedus, an expert in Virtual Infrastructure technologies and services, has signed an agreement to become the first US distributor of the Commerx Virtual Server Grid (VSG), in order to better meet the utility computing requirements of both enterprise customers and service providers.
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| Univa and United Devices merge |
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Univa and United Devices (UD), pioneers in the Grid computing and cluster software arenas, have merged. The combined entity, "Univa UD", will offer a comprehensive set of cluster and Grid solutions based on open source and proprietary components.
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| University of Southampton provides Windows access to the UK National Grid Service |
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The University of Southampton is the latest university to join the UK National Grid Service with affiliate status. The Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing at the University will be providing access to the Microsoft Compute Cluster Service through a Globus gateway, the first instance of a Windows cluster being incorporated into a production level Grid.
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| Gridbus project to release GridSim toolkit 4.1 |
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The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia has released the next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 4.1. The new version of GridSim adds a new functionality that supports resource failures and failure detection of Grid resources. This work was done in collaboration with Agustin Caminero, a PhD student from Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain.
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| Layered Technologies announces new virtual private datacentre packages for developers |
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Layered Technologies, a provider of reliable, affordable, and scalable on-demand, self-managed utility hosting services, has launched new virtual private datacentre packages. The new packages, the Developer Lite and the Developer Core, are ideal for developers who want to take advantage of utility computing and want to test their applications on the Grid Layer.
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| The Green Grid announces collaboration agreement with the Department of Energy |
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The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the formation of two European-based working groups and the addition of more than fifty new members since April. The activities highlight The Green Grid's growth as well as the organisation's interest in working with governmental and non-governmental agencies worldwide to help address data centre and business computing ecosystems' energy use.
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| Emergent Game Technologies and 3Tera jointly explore technologies for the next generation gaming platform |
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3Tera Inc., an innovator of Grid computing technology and utility computing services for web applications, has entered into an agreement with Emergent Game Technologies to explore the integration of Grid computing technologies for the next generation gaming platform. The Emergent Platform provides developers the tools, technologies and services they need to create great games and reduce the risk in deploying and running them on-line.
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| GigaSpaces adds ten organisations to Global Channel Partner Programme |
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GigaSpaces Technologies has added ten European and U.S.-based organisations to its Global Channel Partner Programme. By aligning with GigaSpaces, the new partners can now offer their customers GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), a middleware platform for building applications with limitless scalability and low-latency performance. GigaSpaces XAP offers unparalleled scalability for high volume transactional applications by enabling extreme transaction processing (XTP), real-time analytics and high-performance SOA.
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| 3Tera enables large enterprises to leverage Utility computing in-house |
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3Tera Inc., an innovator of Grid computing and utility computing services for web applications, has made available enterprise licenses for 3Tera's AppLogic Grid operating system for enterprise customers.
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| 3PAR supports Oracle Database 11g |
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3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, will support for Oracle Database 11g, the latest release of Oracle's popular database. 3PAR's shared commitment to simple, efficient, and scalable storage for Oracle Database environments delivers compelling advantages for joint customers. Organisations using Oracle and 3PAR to support mission-critical applications are able to leverage both technologies for greater storage utilization and administrative efficiency.
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| Enpocket relies on Oracle Database Standard Edition on Linux as the foundation for its industry-leading mobile advertising platform |
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To help meet scalability requirements for its rapidly growing business while ens | | |
