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| Starting a European Research Infrastructure |
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Over 60 representatives from 14 European Countries held the kick-off meeting of the PRACE project at the Research Centre Jülich on January 29 and 30, 2008. PRACE lays the foundations for a future European supercomputer infrastructure. At the end of 2007 the project received a grant from the European Commission towards a total budget of 20 million euro for the coming two years. Thomas Rachel, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, opened the event.
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| Fastest civil supercomputer in the world officially unveiled in Juelich |
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An official ceremony has marked the inauguration of the fastest civil supercomputer in the world at the moment. The go-ahead was given by Prime Minister Juergen Ruettgers together with State Secretary Thomas Rachel. The computer, known as JUGENE, performs around 167 Tflop/s and is Europe's fastest supercomputer. In the current global ranking list, the TOP500, it holds second place.
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| Panasas parallel storage increases production capacity at Tele-Rilevamento Europa (TRE) |
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Tele-Rilevamento Europa (TRE) has halved the time it takes to access stored information by deploying Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage. This has significantly increased its production capacity and allows TRE to deliver processed satellite data much faster to its customers, which gives them a distinct competitive advantage in the market.
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| Cluster Resources releases final Beta of 'Escalante' and announces product name change to Moab Cluster Builder |
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Cluster Resources Inc. has finalized the name Moab Cluster Builder for the product code named "Escalante" and the release of the final Beta version of the full HPC-stack deployment solution based on Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. This powerful, out-of-the-box wizard, which includes the industry leading Moab suite of products with their associated ease-of-use HPC interfaces, installs and calibrates a complete Linux cluster quickly and easily.
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| Dolphin delivers unprecedented performance to the web applications market |
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a global provider of high performance, high availability interconnect solutions, has made further improvements to its Dolphin Express offering, specifically designed to enhance performance in all web servers and application servers based on the LAMP stack.
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| French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) and Bull announce record performance for image search in very large-scale databases |
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Bull and the CEA - the French Atomic Energy Authority - have achieved a record performance for image searches in very large-scale databases. Finding one image among 22 million stored in a database now takes just six seconds, i.e. 3.7 million images per second, 5 times faster than previously. This record result was achieved on a supercomputer designed and supplied by Bull, using the multimedia search software especially developed by CEA LIST - the CEA's systems and technology integration laboratory - as part of the FAME2 project. It opens the way to a vast field of applications ranging from business intelligence to comparison of medical images, from 'data mining' on the Internet to e-business and content management.
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| Co-operation between leading supercomputer centres in Switzerland and United States exchanging expertise and experience |
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The Swiss National Computing Center, CSCS, an autonomous unit of The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Energy Research Scienctic Computing Center (NERSC) in the United States. The MOU formalises the growing exchange of expertise and experience between the two organisations.
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| Cray and Sandia announce agreement to upgrade "Red Storm" supercomputer to 284 Teraflops |
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Sandia National Laboratories has entered into an agreement to upgrade its Cray "Red Storm" supercomputer, already one of the world's largest systems, from 124 Tflop/s to 284 Tflop/s. This significant boost in performance will allow researchers and scientists to run even higher resolution models to increase the accuracy of critical computer simulations.
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| HiPEAC Network of Excellence kicks off |
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With a special kick-off meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC (High-Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) has now been launched, the network will co-ordinate nine research clusters that will look into on-chip multi-cores technology and customisation, leading to heterogeneous multi-core systems.
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| New 'Adria' supercomputer among 250 most powerful in the world |
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The hydro-energy research organisation Turboinstitut will buy and IBM supercomputer. Named 'Adria' and based at the newly-established Ljubljana Supercomputing Center in Slovenia, the Linux-based system will be used by Turboinstitut to carry out complex water turbine design simulations in fractions of existing timescales. Performing calculations 50 times faster than current systems, Adria will reduce time-to-result from weeks to hours.
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| Berkeley Design Automation's Analogue FastSPICE selected by next-generation Japanese supercomputer project for 45nm verification |
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The Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator, developed by Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit Analysis technology for advanced analogue and RF integrated circuits (ICs), has been selected for complex analogue and mixed-signal block verification in a next-generation 45nm supercomputer chip developed by the University of Tokyo and RIKEN.
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| JAXA orders Fujitsu supercomputer; massively parallel system will rank among Japan's most powerful computers |
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Fujitsu Limited has received an order from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for a supercomputer system using Fujitsu's FX1 technical computing server. At the core of the new supercomputer is a massively parallel computer system comprised of 3392 FX1 computing nodes, delivering peak theoretical performance of 135 teraflops (TFLOPS). This system will replace the agency's existing supercomputer system, called the Numerical Simulator III.
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| Analogue logic for quantum computing |
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Digital logic, or bits, is the only paradigm for the IT world, and up to now researchers used it almost exclusively to study quantum information processing. But European scientists, in a series of firsts, have proved that an analogue approach is far easier in the quantum world.
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| Esxalop supercomputer targeted by new Institute for Advanced Architectures |
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Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories. An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers - the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia - currently are the state of the art. They do trillions of calculations a second. Exaflop computers would perform a million trillion calculations per second.
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| Cray wins four of five Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Programme Awards |
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Cray Inc. has been awarded four of the five high performance computing (HPC) system awards by the Department of Defense (DOD) as part of its 2008 High Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP) acquisition for large HPC systems. The contract, worth over $30 million including services, is one of the largest ever DOD HPCMP system awards to a single vendor. As part of the contract, Cray will provide four of its innovative and highly scalable Cray XT5 systems to be located at top military research centres including the Army Research Laboratory, Naval Oceanographic Office and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center.
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| Georgia State adds new IBM supercomputer to keep pace with demand |
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Georgia State University has purchased an IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputer through a regional partnership programme between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). This purchase is the latest addition to the school's expanding inventory of supercomputing resources.
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| IBRIX and HP to provide high-performance storage solution to DreamWorks Animation |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. has added IBRIX Fusion file servers to its HP server-based infrastructure to improve lighting and rendering processes beginning with its next theatrical release,Kung Fu Panda, which opens in the U.S. on June 6, 2008.
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| Listening to the sound of a celestial black hole |
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Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's (SU) Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole. The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU Gravitational and Relativity Cluster), will soon receive massive amounts of data from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that was collected over a two-year period at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). LIGO is funded by the National Science Foundation and operated by Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| The Hormel Institute buys IBM supercomputer as it expands role and scope of research |
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The Hormel Institute, a medical research unit of the University of Minnesota, will use a IBM Blue Gene. The Institute's acquisition of a Blue Gene supercomputer is part of a multi-year expansion for the facility. The expansion and the new computer will allow the Institute - recognized worldwide for its leading-edge cancer research - to triple the amount of projects it undertakes.
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| SIMtone Corporation acquires ASPEED Software |
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SIMtone Corporation, a privately held company delivering the next virtual computing paradigm, has acquired ASPEED Software, a provider of application acceleration and optimization solutions. The acquisition enables SIMtone to offer its customers with optimized scalability and performance on the server side of the cloud.
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| Illinois Institute, LSU Center for Computation & Technology and NVIDIA to collaborate on GPU computing capabilities for Petascale systems |
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High-performance computing is entering a new era as researchers work to develop petascale systems that will enable researchers to solve a new class of complex problems, such as designing new materials from the atom up, predicting changes in the earth's climate and ecosystem, and simulating entire engineered systems like power plants and aircraft for better performance. Massive, fine-grained parallel computing capabilities will be needed to help researchers effectively use petascale computing environments. In particular, petascale computing will gain performance speed from the parallel processing capabilities of graphics processing units (GPU) such as the NVIDIA Tesla series.
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| University of Missouri-St. Louis uses TotalView Debugger in new IT Enterprises High-Performance Computing Center |
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The University of Missouri-St. Louis has chosen the TotalView Debugger as a core component in the software development tool set that will be available as part of the new IT Enterprises project, which is designed to enhance economic development, technology transfer, and research and educational opportunities.
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| Cray to resell Moab Cluster Suite from Cluster Resources |
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Cluster Resources, a provider of HPC resource management and scheduling software, has signed an agreement that will establish Cray Inc. as an official reseller of the Moab cluster, Grid, data center and adaptive computing products.
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| Panasas Parallel Storage boosts seismic application performance by 5x for oil services giant Fugro N.V. |
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Fugro N.V. has boosted its seismic application performance by 5x since implementing Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage. The Panasas parallel storage solution allows Fugro to more quickly deliver vital geophysical data to the company's exploration and production customers, thereby speeding up the discovery and retrieval of oil & gas reserves.
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| New Dolphin Express resellers in Asia |
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Dolphin Interconnect has introduced three new Asian resellers targeting the enterprise applications markets. StarBridge Inc. has added the Dolphin Express product line to their existing line of Dolphin products. StarBridge was instrumental in introducing Dolphin's StarFabric products to the Japanese embedded and enterprise market, and has a long successful track record of selling Dolphin's products and solutions. StarBridge's deep expertise in multi processor and I/O-systems over PCI and PCI Express has lead to design wins with OEMs such as Advantest, SEIKO EPSON, Furukawa Network Solution and Sony Manufacturing System.
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| Cray appoints Ian Miller senior vice president of sales and marketing |
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Cray Inc. has appointed Ian Miller to the position of senior vice president responsible for sales and marketing. With more than 25 years experience in the enterprise computing market, Ian Miller will be responsible for all Cray sales and marketing activities worldwide.
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| QLogic and LSI to cross-certify InfiniBand-based products |
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QLogic Corp., an expert in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), and LSI Corporation will be working together to cross-certify InfiniBand-based storage systems from LSI with QLogic InfiniBand networking products. LSI, a charter member of the QLogic HPCtrack programme, plans to build on its longstanding relationship with QLogic through cross-certification efforts that allow both companies to deliver better InfiniBand solutions and support to joint customers.
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| Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT platform FPGAs used in NEC's SX-9, world's fastest vector supercomputer |
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NEC Corporation has adopted the Xilinx high-performance Virtex-5 LXT platform for its SX Series, SX-9, vector supercomputer, the world's fastest supercomputer. With its PCI Express Endpoint blocks and RocketIO GTP transceivers, NEC chose the Virtex-5 LXT platform for its ability to support the unique SX I/O interface.
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| SGI HPC momentum continues with acquisition and investment |
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SGI has acquired the core assets of Linux Networx Inc. In exchange for the issuance of SGI common stock, SGI has acquired key Linux Networx software, patents, technology and expertise. Linux Networx is a recognized technology expert in the clustered HPC space and boasts a significant customer base. The acquisition is expected to advance SGI leadership in production-ready high performance computing solutions.
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| University of Arkansas installing state's fastest supercomputer |
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Scientists and engineers at the University of Arkansas will soon be able to conduct complex research projects using a new supercomputer system, dubbed the "Star of Arkansas". Once it is installed later this spring, the Star of Arkansas will be the fastest and most powerful computer in the state, allowing researchers to design vastly more complicated experiments, models and simulations than previously possible. The supercomputer will let scientists and engineers push the boundaries of knowledge in subjects ranging from bird flu to weather prediction.
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| Green Data Systems adds Hitachi BladeSymphony to its green IT offerings |
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Green Data Systems have signed their appointment as a distributor for Hitachi BladeSymphony server products in Europe. Through this agreement Green Data Systems is now authorised to distribute the Hitachi BS1000 and BS320 blade servers into the European market. Hitachi BladeSymphony range of blade servers aggressively addresses the computing needs of the rapidly expanding market for datacentre computing where high performance, high availability and low power are essential.
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| HP Helps Alcatel-Lucent create state-of-the-art data centre |
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HP and Alcatel-Lucent have successfully migrated to a new state-of-the-art, Tier Four data centre. Located just outside of Paris in Marcoussis, France, it is the most robust, secure and fault-tolerant type of data centre available to date.
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| MIT is turning 'funky' quantum mysteries into computing reality |
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The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd. Quantum mechanics is the set of physical theories that explain the behaviour of matter and energy at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It includes a number of strange properties that differ significantly from the way things work at sizes that people can observe directly, which are governed by classical physics.
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| Panasas achieves record results in 2007 |
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Panasas, Inc., a global expert in parallel storage solutions, experienced a record-breaking year in 2007, recording its highest annual billings ever and increasing its customer base by 35 percent. Panasas storage is currently installed in over 30 countries across six continents as parallel storage is being adopted globally as the preferred solution for high performance computing environments.
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| Rackable Systems Inc. announces 13 new servers featuring the latest Intel 1600 MHz bus technology |
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Rackable Systems Inc., a provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centres, has made available thirteen new high-performance servers based on two new motherboard offerings featuring the new Intel 5400 chipset.
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| NetApp sets new standard in performance benchmarking proving greater value for customers' data centres |
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The NetApp FAS3040 modular storage system outperformed the EMC CLARiiON CX3 Model 40 based on a series of recently submitted SPC-1 Results, the industry's most recognized storage performance benchmark. The NetApp FAS3040 outshined the EMC CLARiiON CX3-40, delivering 30,985.90 SPC-1 IOPs versus 24,997.48 SPC-1 IOPs (baseline result) and a robust 29,958.60 SPC-1 IOPs versus just 8,997.17 SPC-1 IOPs (baseline result with snapshots enabled). These results further validate NetApp as the high-performance leader for real-world data centre deployments featuring value-add data management and data protection functionality.
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| LSI storage technology implemented in world's third fastest supercomputer |
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LSI Engenio storage technology has been installed as part of the world's third fastest supercomputer in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The SGI InfiniteStorage 4500 solution includes 200 terabytes of fibre-channel storage based on the LSI Engenio 6998 storage system, which will be integrated with a 14,336-core SGI Altix ICE supercomputer for New Mexico's Department of Information Technology. The solution will be used to drive research in fields ranging from aerospace and automotive design to drug development and alternative energy.
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| Carnegie Mellon's Edmund M. Clarke wins A.M. Turing Award, computing's highest honour |
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Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Professor Edmund M. Clarke and two computer scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Grenoble in France, are winners of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award in recognition of their pioneering work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. The method, called Model Checking, is the most widely used technique for detecting and diagnosing errors in complex hardware and software design. It has helped to improve the reliability of complex computer chips, systems and networks. The Turing Award, presented annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is considered to be the most prestigious award in computing. Often referred to as "the Nobel Prize of computing", it is named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing.
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| New Dell EqualLogic solutions simplify storage |
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Just days after closing its EqualLogic acquisition, Dell has begun worldwide delivery of next-generation iSCSI storage area network (SAN) arrays - the Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers advances standardized central storage and server management |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' ServerView Suite management solution will support third-party storage systems as well as the company's own FibreCAT storage solutions using SNIA's (Storage Networking Industry Association) SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative – Specification). ServerView is among the first management applications to utilize this innovative standard, especially in a cross vendor scenario. Now users of FibreCAT CX and EMC CLARiiON storage systems will also be able to monitor their PRIMERGY servers and their storage systems centrally over a standard interface in the PRIMERGY ServerView Suite on a central platform.
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| Researchers design copper connections for high-speed computing |
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As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless card. And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their performance requires better connections that operate at higher frequencies with less loss. Improving these two types of connections will increase the amount and speed of information that can be sent throughout a computer, according to Paul Kohl, Thomas L. Gossage chair and Regents' professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Paul Kohl presented his work in these areas at the Materials Research Society fall meeting.
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| Terra Soft offers IBM QS21 cluster w/YDE |
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Terra Soft now offers complete, turn-key IBM BladeCenter QS21 Cell blade solutions with Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux pre-installed and fully configured. The QS21 blades with Cell processors offer a unique opportunity to accelerate compute-intensive tasks such as image processing, signal processing, and graphics rendering. These single-wide blades double the compute density over prior QS20 product, with up to 6.4 TFLOPS in a single BladeCenter H chassis. On-board 2GB RAM and dual gig-e NICs, with optional 4x Infiniband, Serial Attached SCSI, and 2GB buffer I/O memory is also included.
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| HP expands BladeSystem portfolio with Integrity Blade for large data centre workloads |
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HP has expanded the HP BladeSystem portfolio with an Integrity blade designed to handle memory-intensive data centre workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time. As the company's first four-socket Integrity server blade, the HP Integrity BL870c combines the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem with the business-critical capabilities of Integrity servers.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers positioned in leaders quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Worldwide Server Vendors |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has been positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Worldwide Server Vendors, 4Q07" report. The report evaluates server vendors for their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Vendors in the leaders' quadrant for servers, such as Fujitsu Siemens Computers, are recognized by Gartner as being "able to transform their vision and ability to execute into strong sales over a broad market base".
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| HP signs seven-year, $675 million outsourcing services contract with Unilever |
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HP and Unilever have extended their relationship with the signing of a seven-year outsourcing contract for the management of Unilever's technology infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey and Middle East. HP will provide an infrastructure designed to quickly adapt to the changing needs of Unilever's business by standardizing, virtualizing and optimizing Unilever's enterprise computing environment in the regions above as well as its client services environment in Asia Pacific, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East.
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| Storage virtualization in action: Gwinnett County improves storage flexibility through IBM solution |
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Georgia's Gwinnett County is using a virtualized information infrastructure that is enabling them to reduce overall storage costs, respond quicker to increased storage needs, and dramatically improve the speed of data migration processes by up to four times.
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| New SGI Virtualized Storage Migration Solution enables Iridium to keep pace with enterprise data growth |
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Iridium Satellite LLC is deploying the SGI Virtualized Storage Migration Solution, which gives enterprises the freedom to migrate their data to any standards-based storage environment.
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| IBM 3D data centres show virtual worlds fit for business |
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IBM has launched new technologies that recreate data centres in a secure virtual world - bringing real-time data from different facilities into a 3D environment to visualize hot spots, data flow, server utilization and more to better monitor and manage the entire IT platform.
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| IBM scientists first to measure force required to move individual atoms |
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IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement provides important information for designing future atomic-scale devices: computer chips, miniaturized storage devices, and more.
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| NEC Express5800/1320Xf dual-core Itanium server achieves highest TPC-C performance of Intel 16-processor architecture server platforms |
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On January 21, 2008, NEC Corporation of America's NEC Express5800/1320Xf server with 84 NEC D3-10 storage arrays reported the highest TPC-C performance benchmark result among 16-processor Intel server platforms that use Oracle Database and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. BEA Tuxedo 8.1 transaction processing monitor (TPM) was used to deliver the workload.
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| Sun ignites blades market with dramatic revenue and customer growth |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has achieved dramatic customer and revenue growth for its entire line of Sun Blade systems, distinguishing Sun as the worldwide leader in year over year blade server growth in unit shipments and factory revenue (Q3CY07), according to IDC. Since re-entering the blades market in mid-2006, Sun tied for number 4 in blade server market share for factory revenue (Q3CY07), released 29 new blade and supporting products, and gained more than 300 new Sun Blade customers. Sun also is introducing the Sun Blade X8450 server module, bringing the energy-efficient performance of Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors to the Sun Blade 8000 system family.
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| Sun selects TSMC to fab future generation of UltraSPARC CMT processors |
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Sun has selected Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) as its foundry partner for processors based on 45-nanometer geometry as well as future generations. Sun partner Texas Instruments (TI) will continue to test and package the 45-nanometer processors.
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| Cluster Resources releases TORQUE 2.3 and GOLD Allocation Manager 2.1.5 |
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Cluster Resources Inc., a provider of workload and resource management software and services for cluster, Grid, data centre and utility-based computing environments, has released and made available for download the most recent versions of TORQUE Resource Manager and Gold Allocation Manager. Both TORQUE and Gold are open source solutions.
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| New knowledge base for European Grid Initiatives on-line |
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The European Grid Initiative Design Study (EGI_DS) has set up an interactive knowledge base on-line to provide information on the status of European National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and thus further the collaboration towards a sustainable European computing Grid infrastructure. The knowledge base was unveiled by the design study team in the framework of the annual Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project user forum, held in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Its design is similar to that of the well-known online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, so that the NGIs themselves can enter and edit the content.
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| Stock exchange for 'Grid' computing? |
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You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block - until European researchers developed a successful free-market approach to Grid computing.
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| 7th International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems issues Call for Papers |
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The International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems (DAPSYS) is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. The seventh DAPSYS edition will be held in Debrecen, Hungary, September 3-5, 2008. Deadline for paper submission is March 15, 2008.
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| First International HealthGrid meeting to be held in U.S. issues call for papers |
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The HealthGrid U.S. Alliance is now accepting papers for the first International HealthGrid conference to be held in the United States, "Global HealthGrid: eScience Meets Biomedical Informatics". The previous five annual conferences were held in Europe, as part of the e-Science framework programme e-Health initiative.
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| Virtual human in HIV drug simulation |
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The combined supercomputing power of the UK and US 'national Grids' has enabled University College London (UCL) scientists to simulate the efficacy of an HIV drug in blocking a key protein used by the lethal virus. The method - an early example of the Virtual Physiological Human in action - could one day be used to tailor personal drug treatments, for example for HIV patients developing resistance to their drugs.
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| Missing link: software connects researchers across networks |
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Researchers from Europe, America and China are creating software to better link research networks, paving the way for future scientific breakthroughs. Major research network Grids across the European Union are often developed independently from each other, using different types of software and hardware, making it difficult for scientists working on a particular project to use resources outside their own. The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe (OMII-Europe) project is designed to break down such barriers by adopting common standards for Grid middleware.
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| HPC4U Fault Tolerant Resource Management: Internet Grid Migration released |
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The HPC4U European research project (FP6), active in Grid computing technologies, released a cluster middleware providing fault tolerance for parallel applications and allowing job migration over the Grid. This system offers the user the possibility to negotiate on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), then running parallel applications on a given site (e.g. CETIC, Belgium). The jobs are regularly checkpointed in an application transparent manner. If a failure occurs (e.g. node outage), the HPC4U cluster middleware is not only able to restart the job locally, but also to migrate the job over the Grid on a remote site (e.g. University of Paderborn, Germany or Fujitsu, France). There the computation restarts from the latest checkpoint. This mechanism prevents loosing computation time and ensures SLA-compliance also in the case of resource failures.
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| New York's leading technology and research institution, Polytechnic University, joins NYSGrid |
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Polytechnic University, New York's leading technology-focused higher educational institution, has become the 20th member of NYSGrid, a collaboration among New York institutions to create an advanced technological infrastructure in the State. Founded in 1854, Polytechnic, the United States' second oldest private engineering school and pre-eminent resource in science, technology and research, is the home of one of the original four New York State Centers of Advanced Technology (CAT).
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| Getting ready for the "Grid-Shift" |
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Grid computing is opening new horizons for the software and software service industry. The Second ECSS Workshop on April 3, 2008 in Budapest fathoms the challenges the European Union will have to face. Experts from research and industry are invited to an open dialogue and to contribute to a joint White Paper for the European Commission, showing the necessary steps towards a strong, flexible, distributed computing technology development.
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| The Green Grid continues momentum with further industry collaboration and membership growth |
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The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems, has signed a formal collaboration with the DMTF, a consortium dedicated to advancing the adoption of interoperable management standards. The DMTF joins the growing ecosystem of government, non-governmental and industry organisations that are working with The Green Grid in mutually beneficial relationships that underscore the importance of its mission. The DMTF is scheduled to join Members of The Green Grid at its first annual Technical Forum and Members' Meeting, being held at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, February 5th and 6th.
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| International HealthGrid meeting extends deadline for papers to February 15th |
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In response to numerous requests to extend the deadline for submitting professional papers for the Sixth Annual International HealthGrid Conference scheduled for June 2-4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the conference's programme committee has extended the date to February 15.
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| IBM and European Union launch joint research initiative for cloud computing |
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Expanding its cloud computing initiative, IBM has formed a consortium with 13 European partners to develop technologies that automate the fluctuating demand for IT resources in a cloud computing environment. The EU-funded initiative called RESERVOIR - Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers - will enable the deployment and management of IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. The cloud computing project is designed to provide a foundation for a service-based online economy, where resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed.
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| SGI to integrate eXludus software into cluster offering |
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eXludus Technologies, a developer of multi-core system capacity management, virtualization and provisioning solutions, has signed a reseller relationship with SGI, an expert in high-performance computing. SGI will embed eXludus Grid Optimizer software in its new BioCluster solution, developed specifically for the life sciences market.
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| DataSynapse partners with Informatica to deliver data integration solution for the agile enterprise |
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DataSynapse and Informatica have made available a joint solution for the agile enterprise that creates more agile, scaleable and manageable data integration environments for global corporations. DataSynapse also announced that it will begin reselling Informatica's PowerCenter Enterprise Grid Option.
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| NetApp unveils Kilo Client, a massive Grid computing environment to help customers transform their data centres |
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NetApp has developed the NetApp Kilo Client, a massive testing environment capable of exceeding the most scalable and extreme performance conditions that most enterprises deploy with NetApp solutions in their data centres. The NetApp Kilo Client provides an environment in which utility computing approaches can be tested in real-world environments and on a scale unavailable from other storage vendors today.
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| CoreGRID Symposium 2008 issues Call for Papers |
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The CoreGRID Symposium aims at being the premiere European event on Grid Computing for the dissemination of the results from European and member states initiatives as well as other international projects in Grid research and technologies. It is organized jointly with the Euro-Par 2008 conference, August 25-26, 2008, Canary Islands, Spain. The CoreGRID Symposium will focus on all aspects of Grid computing including service infrastructures and as such will bring together participants from Research and Industry. Deadline for paper submission is March 14, 2008.
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| Sun expands Network.com On-Demand application offerings |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has added 14 new applications in the Network.com Application Catalogue, a collection of on-line Grid-enabled applications that are available from Network.com's Sun Grid compute utility service on a pay-per-use basis with "Click and Run" ease. Sun also launched a new partner programme, "Sun Network.com Connection," for independent software vendors (ISVs) to create and expand lucrative on-demand service offerings to end-users at a lower risk and cost with access to new channels. Additionally, Sun has expanded Network.com's international availability with the Netherlands being the latest of the 25 countries worldwide from where its services can be utilized.
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| Catching-up in supercomputing must be done at European level, according to expert |
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Climate change research, genetics, material engineering - supercomputing power has become a core factor for success in both science and engineering as it enables researchers to test their theories and models by simulation. Supercomputers, however, are still largely funded and operated at national level, separately, and not as a much more powerful Grid. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) project is determined to change that by creating a permanent European supercomputing infrastructure.
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| NYSGrid members Brookhaven and Rensselaer collaborate to bring Blue Genes on-line |
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New York State is home to two of the world's most powerful supercomputers with 103 Tflop/s and 90 Tflop/s peak operated jointly at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively. Both systems are IBM Blue Gene massively powerful supercomputers and are the centerpieces of state-industry-university collaborations at the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at Rensselaer and at the New York State Center for Computational Sciences - a joint effort between Stony Brook and Brookhaven. The three institutions are members of NYSGrid, a New York State consortium focused on building an advanced cyberinfrastructure ecosystem in the state.
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| Platform Computing launches financial services solution for Cell-based IBM BladeCenter |
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Platform Computing has launched Symphony for the IBM BladeCenter with Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) technology, a High Performance Computing (HPC) solution for financial services that delivers scalability and enhances performance of Platform Symphony. Platform Symphony is the only service-oriented software solution that supports the deployment of compute-intensive risk and analytical applications to this fast and powerful IBM server.
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| Voltaire switches included in new PNNL supercomputer dedicated to accelerating environmental science research |
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will use Voltaire's Grid Backbone switching solutions as part of a new high-performance computing (HPC) system from HP, designed to accelerate research discovery in environmental molecular sciences. This represents a multimillion dollar deal for Voltaire for planned delivery in 2008.
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| Digipede offers Microsoft's MVPs free licenses to award-winning Grid computing software |
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Grid software provider Digipede Technologies has provided free licenses to its powerful, award-winning Digipede Network Grid computing solution for technology professionals named by Microsoft as Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs. The MVP designation is reserved for technology innovators and influencers who have earned wide recognition, making them exceptional community assets whose professional assessments allow informed technology decision-making at organizations around the world.
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| Trigence enhances global presence through strategic partnership with the Virtualization Consolidation Academy |
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Trigence, an expert in application virtualization solutions for the data centre, has signed a partnership with the Virtualization Consolidation Academy (VCA) to utilize the academy's facilities to make application virtualization technology visible and understandable to end-users. VCA evaluates different technologies and tests solutions for feasibility, compatibility, implementation and user-friendliness. Additionally, VCA trains partners and large enterprises throughout the region on virtualization technology and best practices.
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| Sonian introduces the most affordable, reliable and scaleable e-mail archiving solution for all messaging systems |
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Sonian provides the most affordable and reliable e-mail archiving solution in the market by leveraging Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The hosted archiving solution makes it easy for companies to manage the growing retention challenges created by regulatory and corporate requirements. With Sonian you can archive, store and retrieve unlimited data for one low fixed price. The Sonian solution allows you to search for any data any time. It scales infinitely, and unlike many other services there are no hidden storage costs.
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| Cellnet+Hunt powers highly available wireless metering communications system for utilities with Oracle Grid Computing |
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Advanced metering and energy efficiency company, Cellnet+Hunt, has deployed an Oracle Grid to support utility companies across North America. Built using Oracle Database 10g Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, Cellnet+Hunt's Grid delivers the performance, scalability, business continuity, and the flexibility required to deliver its wireless metering network applications and services.
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| Taming the data deluge with the new open source iRODS data Grid system |
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The Data-Intensive Computing Environments (DICE) group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has released version 1.0 of iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, a new open-source approach to managing digital data.
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| Cassatt joins The Green Grid |
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Cassatt Corporation, an expert in making data centres more efficient, has become member of The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.
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| PFSweb selects Demandware to power new end-to-end eCommerce solution |
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PFSweb Inc., a business process outsourcing firm specializing in multi-channel commerce and high-touch customer experience delivery, will embed the Demandware eCommerce Platform within its new, next-generation end-to-end ecommerce solution. Under this agreement, PFSweb will integrate and deliver the Demandware eCommerce Platform along with its services for order management, fulfillment, customer service, and emarketing, to offer a single unified solution for outsourced end-to-end ecommerce operations.
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| IBM awarded National Security Agency High Assurance Platform (HAP) contract to improve secure information sharing |
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The U.S. National Security Agency has awarded IBM a technology and services contract for the High Assurance Platform (HAP) programme. NSA and IBM will work together to design and develop the next generation of high assurance workstations, servers and pervasive computing technology. The contract, awarded in the fourth quarter, has an estimated contract value of $9.4 million over 15 months.
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| Altair Engineering and ACUSIM Software integrate PBS Professional into AcuConsole creating an optimized Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) process |
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Altair Engineering and ACUSIM Software have integrated PBS Professional software for cluster, Grid and on-demand computing, with AcuConsole, part of an industry-leading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver solution. The unified solution includes an innovative PBS Button within AcuConsole that enables a seamless interface between graphics-based pre-processing and cluster computing operations for organisations performing CFD.
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| IBM WebSphere Application shatters industry benchmark and powers SOA |
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IBM WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.
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| Grid Computing: A Vertical Market Perspective 2006-2011 |
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The "Grid Computing: A Vertical Market Perspective 2006-2011" report explores the implications of Grid computing on vertical markets and industries, with a special emphasis on the telecommunications industry. Grid computing provides consistent, inexpensive access to computational resources (supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, instruments, and people) regardless of their physical location or access point. As such, The Grid provides a single, unified resource for solving large-scale compute and data intensive computing applications.
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| Oracle offers private hosting for Siebel CRM On Demand |
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Oracle has launched Siebel CRM On Demand - Single Tenant, Enterprise Edition, which enables the highest levels of regulatory and internal compliance, security and flexibility. This offering allows organisations to access a fully dedicated database, middleware and application instance of Siebel CRM On Demand. With today's announcement, Oracle continues to provide the widest range of choice of deployment options for its best-of-breed on demand software and services, from multi-tenant to private instance, to best fit the business needs of its customers.
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| Sun announces availability of Sun xVM Ops Center |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has made available Sun xVM Ops Center, an easy-to-use, highly scalable data centre automation tool that enables customers to simplify the management of heterogeneous IT environments and reduce costs. Sun xVM Ops Center is a key component of Sun xVM software, the company's open virtualization and management platform.
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| Sybase announces Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition |
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Sybase Inc., a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has made available its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition. This edition features patent-pending Virtualized Resource Management (VRM) technology that reduces the complexity of deploying a database application across a shared disk server cluster, and helps customers meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for performance and availability, while also reducing hardware and power costs through optimal resource utilization.
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| Unilever extends collaboration with Transinsight in the field of semantic searching |
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Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer products companies, will continue working with Transinsight towards a tailored solution from GoPubMed that meets Unilever Research's diverse scientific data mining requirements.
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| Computer analysis of 911 calls from California wildfires offers potential early warning system |
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University of California (UC) San Diego researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, using 9-1-1 data from wildfires and other emergency situations, have devised a method to analyse and visually display these calls to detect specific patterns. Their ultimate goal: to assist in developing an early warning system and co-ordinate responses on a wider scale that could one day save lives and limit property damage.
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| SDSC image of the Internet universe on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art |
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A visualization depicting a frozen moment of activity in the Internet universe using computer tools at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, will be part of a special exhibit set to open later this month at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The MOMA exhibit, calledDesign and the Elastic Mind, highlights the dramatic changes we have been experiencing as a society in what once were some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. The showing focuses on examples of successful translations of "disruptive innovation", as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design.
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| It's all about geometry: protein contact surfaces hold key to cures |
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Researcher Igor Tsigelny and colleagues at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a new tool known as MAPAS (Membrane-Associated Protein Assessments) which harnesses the power of supercomputers at SDSC and Argonne National Laboratory to study how proteins contact cell membranes. It turns out that this three-dimensional "virtual molecular world" is very good at letting researchers zoom in on key details of this all-important contact process, holding out the promise of new treatments for a wide range of devastating diseases, from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to kidney disease and cancer.
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| Iowa State researcher studies how enzymes break down cellulose |
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Peter Reilly pointed to the framed journal covers decorating his office. Each of the six showed the swirling, twisting, complicated structure of an enzyme. Those bright and colourful illustrations are the work of his lab. And they're part of Peter Reilly's work to understand how the structure of an enzyme influences its mechanism and its activity. In other words, he's trying to figure out "how is it that these things work", according to Peter Reilly, a professor of chemical and biological engineering and an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University. That's important because enzymes do a lot for all of us.
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| Unusual supernovae may reveal intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters |
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A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole's gravitational pull on the white dwarf would cause tidal forces sufficient to disrupt the stellar remnant and reignite nuclear burning in it, giving rise to a supernova explosion with an unusual appearance. Observations of such supernovae could confirm the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, currently the subject of much debate among astronomers.
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| Computer interaction gets some humanity |
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Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer interaction, well, 'similar' to the way humans do it.
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| Very Large Array retooling for 21st-century science |
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An international project to make the world's most productive ground-based telescope 10 times more capable has reached its halfway mark and is on schedule to provide astronomers with an extremely powerful new tool for exploring the Universe. The National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope now has half of its giant, 230-ton dish antennas converted to use new, state-of-the-art digital electronics to replace analogue equipment that has served since the facility's construction during the 1970s.
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| Malaysia Genome Institute advances bioinformatics research using SGI technology |
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To create an optimal work flow that encompasses the diverse computing requirements of bioinformatics research, the Malaysia Genomics Institute (MGI) selected SGI to design a unique SGI hybrid computing solution.
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| Global research community bridges digital divide between Africa and Europe through high speed network link |
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African research capacity is to be boosted through a high speed network link connecting the UbuntuNet Alliance to the international research community via the GEANT2 network. The connection between the UbuntuNet Alliance's network hub in London and the GEANT2 network enables researchers and scholars in Sub-Saharan African universities and research institutions to share information and data and to collaborate through a 1 Gbp/s link with their peers in Europe and the rest of the world.
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| Ukrainian research community joins European community via GEANT2 |
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DANTE, an international research and education network provider working alongside the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), has launched a high-speed connection link between the Ukrainian NREN, URAN and the high bandwidth, pan-European research network, GEANT2. The new link is a further step towards supporting a truly global research community with the integration of the Ukrainian NREN into Europe's most advanced research network.
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| Connecting the European Union & Asia: Internet for global research |
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The European Union is investing in EU-Asia research co-operation. The European Commission will provide a further 12 million euro for the Asia wide Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN). TEIN currently enables 10 countries in Asia and Pacific to use large-scale internet connection to carry out research projects globally. With the new budget and an additional 6 million euro coming from Asian partners, TEIN will be able to operate until 2011 with improved capacity in a greater number of countries.
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| Ubiquitous broadband, more than optical illusion |
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Better access to ultra-fast broadband networks in Europe is driving development of a host of new web services, promising everything from video conferencing to internet protocol (IP) television. But "ultra-broadband" like this needs a new champion, and European researchers think they have found it: optical networks.
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