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| One more time, CERN of Geneva selects the Italian E4 Computer Engineering and Super-Micro Computers Inc. for further expanding its computational capacity |
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Once again E4 Computer Engineering, a small but fast growing Italian computer company, has been awarded by CERN, the large and prestigious European Centre for Nuclear Research, an order for 300 Super-Micro SuperBlade servers, equipped with INTEL Xeon Quad-core, bringing the total of computing and storage servers supplied to CERN in the last 3 years to more than 1500.
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| ACE invests in multiprocessor technology startup |
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ACE Associated Computer Experts bv, the holding company of the ACE Group, has made a strategic investment in Compaan Design bv. Compaan Design is a spin-off from one of ACE's research partners in the field of compilation technology: the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) of Leiden University. Compaan Design offers a high-potential, leading edge technology that will offer a solid solution to the problems that are associated with programming and development of parallel, multiprocessor, embedded systems. The Compaan technology provides the ability to quickly program complex high-performance streaming applications and map from a single specification in high-level programming languages like Matlab or C onto today's heterogeneous multicore systems, in particular FPGA's.
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| At Technische Universitaet Dresden, SGI Altix accelerates three months of research into a single day |
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At Technische Universitaet Dresden (TU Dresden), a massive deployment of compute and data management solutions from SGI is enabling researchers throughout Germany to break through information processing barriers in a broad range of disciplines, including physics, chemistry, engineering, bioinformatics and nanotechnology. A team of German researchers is running complex simulations to determine how medical device makers might fuse biological materials with plastics or ceramics to create the ideal hip replacement. Another group is semantically analysing 16 million scientific articles to efficiently grasp the world's combined understanding of gene expression and protein structures.
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| From opals to optical chips |
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Materials known as photonic crystals could form the building blocks of future optical computers and micro-scale communications devices. Scientists have developed a low-cost and versatile way to make photonic crystals, and combined them in ways that bring optical 'transistors' a step closer.
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| Bull High-Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions to appoint Fabio Gallo |
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Fabio Gallo has been appointed as Vice-President, and Director of HPC Solutions at Bull. Fabio Gallo was previously Vice-President, responsible for Sales Development for Europe and the Middle East at Scali, a company specializing in middleware for networked HPC solutions.
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| Cray joins European Automotive Simulation Center |
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Cray Inc.'s German subsidiary has joined the Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart (ASCS), a groundbreaking and innovative public-private partnership aimed at advancing the automobile industry through high-performance computing (HPC). Composed of software designers, scientists and researchers and top automobile manufacturers, ASCS will combine the expertise of key scientists and industry representatives with leading-edge supercomputing technologies to conduct research aimed at developing quiet, low pollution vehicles; creating products for the market that reduce fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions and enhance safety; increasing cost efficiency and speeding time to market with new products.
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| NSF partners with Google and IBM to enhance academic research opportunities |
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The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has created a strategic relationship with Google Inc. and IBM. The Cluster Exploratory (CluE) relationship will enable the academic research community to conduct experiments and test new theories and ideas using a large-scale, massively distributed computing cluster. In an open letter to the academic computing research community, Jeannette Wing, the assistant director at NSF for CISE, said that the relationship will give the academic computer science research community access to resources that would be unavailable to it otherwise.
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| NEC to deliver SX-9 vector supercomputers to JAXA for new supercomputer system |
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NEC Corporation will deliver a supercomputer configuration consisting of three SX-9 vector supercomputers that together achieve a maximum performance of 4.8 TFLOPS for the new supercomputer system being installed at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). JAXA is Japan's national research and development organisation for space exploration and aeronautical technology. The agency is involved in development projects related to rocket and space transport systems, the International Space Station and other manned space activities, satellites and probe vehicles, and aircraft and aero-propulsion systems. It also promotes research into space and earth sciences, and strives to enhance key aerospace technologies.
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| Cardiff University chooses Bull to provide new supercomputer for advanced research computing |
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Bull has been selected by Cardiff University to provide a High Performance Computing (HPC) solution to support a range of advanced research projects, enabling researchers to tackle problems of significant size and complexity. Cardiff University is one of the leading research centres in the United Kingdom including two Nobel Prize winners; Professor Sir Martin Evans FRS being awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2007 for ground-breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cell and DNA recombination in mammals and Professor Robert Huber who was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
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| ISC'08 calls for participation |
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ISC'08, the 23rd International Supercomputing Conference will be held in Dresden on June 17-20, 2008. ISC'08 will present a four-day conference and exhibition programme featuring many of the world's leading experts in HPC. More than 50 invited speakers from high-level research, industry and business organisations will share their expertise and experiences.
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| The University of Tokyo and Sun commence joint research projects on high performance computing and web-based programming languages |
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The University of Tokyo and Sun Microsystems Inc. have launched two joint research projects that will focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and web-based programming languages. These research projects are a direct result of the joint development agreement signed in June 2005 to establish a new university-corporate collaboration model. The research projects will be the first international collaboration that comes out of the Proprius21 scheme advocated by the University for producing visible results from research collaborations with private enterprises.
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| HP and Dolphin support Oracle RAC over UDP, TCP and RDS |
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a global expert in high performance, high availability interconnect solutions, has made available Dolphin Express interconnect solution for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) utilizing the Reliable Datagram Socket (RDS) protocol. Together with Hewlett-Packard, Dolphin has benchmarked Oracle RAC with results showing a quadrupling of performance, both in terms of response time and throughput.
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| Voltaire appoints networking veterans Rafi Maor and Yaffa Krindel to Board of Directors |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of Grid backbone solutions for the data centre, has appointed Rafi Maor and Yaffa Krindel to the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Maor is president and CEO of ECI Telecom Ltd., a global telecommunications company and Ms. Krindel is a general partner in Tamarix Ventures, a new cleantech venture capital fund.
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| Absoft Fortran compilers are now available for the Rocks cluster distribution in Roll form |
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Clustercorp, a provider of commercial software and support for the Rocks cluster distribution, has made available a new Absoft Roll as part of its Rocks+Rolls programme. The Absoft Roll includes the Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite for x86_64 systems and is fully compatible with Rocks+ 4.3 and the open-source Rocks 4.3 software stack. The Absoft compiler suite includes optimizations for the complete line of AMD and Intel x64 processors, as well as specialized tuning for the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, which is particularly pertinent to the HPC Cluster community. Clustercorp developed the Absoft Roll to enhance its commercial Rocks+ product line, and is making the Absoft Roll generally available to end-users as part of its expanded support to the open source Rocks community.
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| Florida State University installs Panasas parallel storage in new computing facility to improve research efficiency |
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Panasas Inc.'s ActiveStor Parallel Storage has been installed at Florida State University, along with Dell servers, to provide faster access to the institution's computational-based research generated primarily by the math, meteorology, and computer science groups. This new HPC infrastructure will elevate the capabilities of Florida State by increasing the productivity of research students and further attracting talented individuals to their undergraduate programme.
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| Future 'quantum computers' will offer increased efficiency... and risks |
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An unusual observation in a University of Central Florida (UCF) physics lab may lead to a new generation of "Quantum Computers" that will render today's computer and credit card encryption technology obsolete. The observations are documented in the on-line version ofNature Physicsunder Advance Online Publication. The title of UCF Professor Enrique del Barco's paper is "Quantum Interference of Tunnel Trajectories between States of Different Spin Length in a Dimeric Molecular Nanogmagnet".
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| Appro unleashes Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer for better reliability and system performance |
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Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, has launched its second Xtreme-X Supercomputer offering, the Appro Xtreme-X2 based on dual-socket, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. This supercomputer series represents a next-generation platform based on scalable clusters that brings all of the advantages of the company's expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a cost-effective, highly available, scalable, and energy-efficient architecture.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers announces new and comprehensive Server Management |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' new Server Management Suite is now compatible with the centralized management of virtualized and physical servers and I/O resources in the data centre. The new structure extends the functionally of the PRIMERGY ServerView Suite, making it easier and more economical to manage servers and storage systems. The new simplified structure includes Deployment, Analysis, Integration and Operation management topics. The new PRIMERGY ServerView Suite is available as of 1st of April 2008.
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| Supercomputer confirms theory of the universe |
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Scientists have used a supercomputer to shed new light on one of the most important theories of physics, the Standard Model, which encapsulates understanding of all the material that makes up the universe. This 30-year-old theory explains all the known elementary particles and three of the four forces acting upon them - however, it excludes the force of gravity, which is its shortcoming.
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| Sao Paulo's National Center for High Performance Computing, CENAPAD-SP, leverages SGI technology to accelerate research |
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Today marks the inauguration of a major addition of SGI technology at the The National Center for High Performance Computing - Sao Paulo (CENAPAD-SP). With this recent expansion, CENAPAD-SP is one of the largest SGI Altix computer installations - and one of the largest HPC facilities - in Brazil. Shipped in September, CENAPAD-SP, at the Universidad de Campinas (Unicamp), completed the installation of four new SGI Altix 450 systems and added 25TB to an existing 5TB SGI InfiniteStorage system. The new and larger-capacity SGI systems join four SGI Altix 350 systems purchased two years ago, which have been in constant use on a large variety of physics and chemistry research by universities and state laboratories throughout Brazil.
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| Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers established as the fastest-growing vendor among the top five in the worldwide server market |
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Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the fastest-growing vendor among the top five in the worldwide server market, according to the latest report from market research company Gartner. The company exhibited a record year-on-year growth of 17.9 percent in server unit shipments. In the x86 server market, Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers also delivered the strongest growth among the top five server vendors with 19.8 percent.
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| Science + Computing AG joins Altair's Simulation Data Management Implementation Partner Programme |
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Germany-based IT service provider, science + computing ag (s+c), has joined Altair Engineering Inc.'s Implementation Partner Programme. The agreement will leverage s+c's IT services expertise to implement and deeply integrate Altair's enterprise product performance data management solution, Altair Data Manager (ADM), at client sites throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Following the completion of the programme's implementation training, s+c IT consultants will be certified to implement, support and develop tailored ADM applications and solutions. In addition, s+c will establish a dedicated internal ADM test environment to handle client integration and support inquiries.
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| IBM researchers develop world's tiniest nanophotonic switch to route optical data between cores in future computer chips |
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IBM scientists today took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world's tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair. The switch is an important building block to control the flow of information inside future chips and can significantly speed up the chip performance while using much less energy.
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| Will the first Petaflop/s system make it into the next TOP500 at ISC'08? |
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Since the beginning of the TOP500 project in 1993, the June edition of the TOP500 list with the fastest supercomputers in the world has been published at the International Supercomputing Conferences, ISC, in Germany. During the ISC'08 Opening Session, the 31st list will be released and its highlights and the changes in the supercomputing market will be presented. Wait and see whether the first Petaflop/s system will have made it into the TOP500.
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| Silicon chips for optical quantum technologies |
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A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards the long sought after goal of a super-powerful quantum computer. Dr. Jeremy O'Brien, his PhD student Alberto Politi, and their colleagues at Bristol University have demonstrated the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate - the building block of a quantum computer. The team were able to fabricate their controlled-NOT gate from silica wave-guides on a silicon chip, resulting in a miniaturised device and high-performance operation.
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| Sun awarded $44 million Department of Defense contract to develop microchip interconnect system |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Sun $44.29 million funding for a five and a half-year research project focused on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication. Part of DARPA's Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communication programme, the project commences with an incremental delivery of $8.1 million to Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics and Laboratories divisions.
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| Argonne and DOT open transportation research, computing centre |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in co-operation with the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has opened the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC) in suburban Chicago. The new, state-of-the-art modelling, simulation and high-performance computing centre will tackle a host of intractable transportation problems, including traffic congestion in major cities, the effects of stresses on transportation infrastructure, and the crashworthiness of vehicles.
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| University of Iowa engineer receives $473,636 NIH grant to support cardiopulmonary research |
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Ching-Long Lin, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Iowa (UI) College of Engineering and research engineer at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, has received a $473,636 Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to purchase a supercomputer - one of the most powerful on the UI campus - that will aid more than a half dozen existing UI projects involving cardiopulmonary computing and imaging.
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| New customer wins drive HP BladeSystem growth |
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Several businesses have chosen HP BladeSystem over competing offerings to increase hardware utilization, improve energy efficiency and control data centre costs. Customers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, MRV Engenharia of Brazil and the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom are among those that have helped HP increase its server blade market share lead. According to fourth calendar quarter 2007 figures released by industry analyst firm IDC, HP now holds 45.5 percent unit shipment share and 47.7 percent factory revenue share of the $1.2 billion blade server market.
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| IBM launches new "System z10" mainframe |
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IBM has launched the System z10 mainframe to help clients create a new enterprise data centre. The system z10 is designed from the ground up to help dramatically increase data centre efficiency by significantly improving performance and reducing power, cooling costs, and floor space requirements. It offers unmatched levels of security and automates the management and tracking of IT resources to respond to ever-changing business conditions.
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| VMware and HP announce agreement to embed VMware ESX 3i on HP ProLiant servers |
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VMware's ultra-thin hypervisor software, VMware ESX 3i, is expected to be broadly integrated and available beginning March 31, 2008, on 10 models of HP ProLiant servers. The joint offering helps customers adopt virtualization with greater speed and simplicity. Virtualization helps companies share and pool technology resources to better optimize their datacenters, resulting in greater flexibility to meet business demands and business pressures to reduced costs.
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| Sun and VMware announce OEM agreement to add VMware virtualization to Sun x64 server and storage portfolio |
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Sun Microsystems and VMware Inc. have signed an OEM agreement to expand their virtualization offerings. Starting today, Sun is offering the VMware Infrastructure product suite on Sun hardware systems with full support from Sun. This helps enable customers to capitalize on the high performance, scalability and energy efficiency of Sun's x64 servers while leveraging VMware's ground-breaking virtualization solutions to improve asset utilization, operational efficiency, and business agility. The agreement also benefits systems integrators and channel partners by providing a fully supported, seamlessly integrated solution from these two technology providers.
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| Panasas and CD-adapco partner to advance CAE productivity |
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Panasas has entered into a strategic alliance with Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) market leader CD-adapco. Recent certification of CD-adapco's STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+ Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software on Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage delivers new and significant performance advantages for a broad range of CAE simulations.
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| Bull reduces the complexity and extends the scope of enterprise data protection and management with its new StoreWay Calypso software suite |
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Bull has made available StoreWay Calypso, an integrated data protection and management software suite. Based on a modular architecture and a common software platform, StoreWay Calypso responds to a wide variety of data back-up, archive, replication and search requirements across all major server and storage infrastructures. Providing both operational simplicity, and economies of scale, StoreWay Calypso enables enterprises to reduce both the risk and cost of managing and securing their information assets.
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| ING Renault F1 team chooses Appro Xtreme-X supercomputers for new Computational Fluid Dynamics Centre in UK |
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Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, has been awarded a contract for a 38TF Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer for the ING Renault F1 team Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Centre, a brand new modern technology-driven research facility designed to place Renault "in the pole position" in Formula 1 competition. This award marks another milestone for Appro's supercomputers in international HPC markets. The Appro Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer will be shipped and installed by Appro at the Renault F1 CFD Centre in the UK by the end of June, 2008.
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| Dot Hill announces OEM partnership with Stordis GmbH |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp., a market expert in providing high-performance, flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators, has entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Stuttgart based Stordis GmbH. Under the terms of the agreement, Stordis will integrate Dot Hill's high-performance modular storage systems of the 2000 and 5000 series into the product family of Stordis' Snapstor storage arrays. Stordis will market these arrays through distributors, storage resellers and system integrators throughout Europe.
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| PRIMERGY retakes the top score for mono-processor servers |
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The new PRIMERGY TX150 S6 tower server has set a new industry performance record for mono-processor servers in the widely-recognized SPECjbb2005 benchmark tests. The TX150 S6, ideal for use as a departmental server and for virtualization, ships with the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon X3360 processor from March 2008.
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| IBM and Hitachi form research collaboration to study chip characteristics at near atomic scale |
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IBM and Hitachi Ltd. have signed a unique, two-year joint semiconductor metrology research agreement in order to speed the pace of semiconductor innovation. The agreement marks the first time Hitachi and IBM have collaborated on semiconductor technology - the two companies currently work together on enterprise servers and other products.
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| Bull introduces the all-in-one virtualization server solution |
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Bull introduces NovaScale VMBox to simplify, secure and drive down implementation costs of virtualized infrastructures. Thanks to its expertise in implementing virtualization projects, and within the framework of its "Bio Data Centre" strategic approach to reduce the carbon footprint, Bull has designed NovaScale VMBox to free up companies from choosing and testing components, sizing servers and integrating hardware and software components. Enterprises are thus able to dedicate themselves to the migration of existing infrastructures.
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| Verari Systems mobilizes the power of data centre consolidation with FOREST container solution |
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Verari Systems has unveiled the Verari FOREST container solution, a portable data centre that can be rapidly deployed wherever extremely power-efficient compute and storage solutions are needed. The Verari FOREST container solution is designed to house up to 1400 blade-based compute servers or nearly 12 petabytes of blade-based storage by utilizing Verari's BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms in a modular unit. Verari is the market leader in blade storage, shipping over 30 petabytes in 2007.
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| Barclays selects HP to become first in Europe to roll out Dynamic Smart Cooling for new energy-efficient data centre |
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HP and Barclays have signed a letter of intent to introduce HP technology that is expected to significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with Barclays' new major data centre in Gloucester, U.K. HP Dynamic Smart Cooling technology is part of a package of energy-saving measures that will allow Barclays to save up to 13.4 percent of total energy used for its data centre. These measures will reduce its carbon footprint by approximately 7,470 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year.
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| Scalable Informatics and Wipro Technologies announce partnership |
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Wipro Technologies, the global R&D and IT services business of Wipro Limited and Scalable Informatics LLC, a privately owned, independent high performance computing solutions company, will partner to deliver high performance computing solutions to customers worldwide.
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| Balancing computing power, storage demands goal of Virginia Tech CAREER project |
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Ali R. Butt, an assistant professor of computer science in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, has received a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for creative junior faculty who are considered to be future leaders in their academic fields. The goal of Butt's CAREER research is to address the increasing performance gap between computing power and storage technology, especially for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers launches "Dynamic Data Center Challenge" |
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An initiative helping enterprises highlight how they can make savings of at least 40 percent in data centre operational costs is launched by Fujitsu Siemens Computers in seven countries across Europe. Countries participating in this initiative are Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The "Dynamic Data Center Challenge" offers participating companies the chance to take part in a value study showing how an individual organisation can significantly reduce cost. The value study is at Fujitsu Siemens Computers' own expense.
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| New HP offerings speed data centre transformation |
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HP has launched a set of products and services designed to help customers transform their data centres from a standalone collection of physical assets into a virtual and adaptive infrastructure designed to rapidly meet changing business needs. New research conducted on behalf of HP shows that more than one-third of chief information officers believe that in two to five years their data centres will be unable to meet the rapidly growing demand for business services and applications.
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| Platform Computing assembles influential leaders in High Performance Computing |
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Hundreds are expected to attend an elite High Performance Computing (HPC) conference to learn new ways to deliver faster, better and more cost effective HPC solutions. Platform Global Conference (PGC08) is the place where customers across industries such as electronics, manufacturing, financial services, oil & gas, education and government share experiences on how they leverage HPC infrastructure software and applications. PGC08 will take place May 19-21 at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California.
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| SGI Altix ICE Momentum thunders on with powerful new blade enclosures and options |
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SGI has introduced a range of enhancements to its SGI Altix ICE integrated blade platform. With new blade enclosures and blade options available today, Altix ICE delivers even greater performance and flexibility in a system purpose-built to meet the needs of high-performance computing (HPC) users.
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| Cray's Brian Henry co-awarded 2008 CFO of the Year by Puget Sound Business Journal |
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Cray Inc.'s chief financial officer (CFO) Brian Henry was co-awarded the 2008 CFO of the Year award in the Public Company category by thePuget Sound Business Journal. Brian's broad business experience, in addition to his strong financial background, and his achievements in readying Cray for a significant financial turn around and positioning the company for growth were cited as key strengths that earned him this recognition. Brian shares the award with the CFO of Bellevue's Coinstar.
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| Weston Geophysical achieves a 25% reduction in debugging time with the TotalView Debugger |
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Weston Geophysical Corp. has chosen to use the TotalView Debugger to streamline the development of software applications used to model seismic waves. Since Weston Geophysical developers began using the TotalView Debugger, the company estimates that time spent on debugging efforts has been reduced by at least 25%.
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| The future of computing - carbon nanotubes and superconductors to replace the silicon chip |
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The future of computing was under the spotlight at the Institute of Physics' Condensed Matter and Materials Physics conference at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London on 26-28 March. The silicon chip, which has supplied several decades' worth of remarkable increases in computing power and speed, looks unlikely to be capable of sustaining this pace for more than another decade - in fact, in a plenary talk at the conference, Suman Datta of Pennsylvania State University, USA, gave the conventional silicon chip no longer than four years left to run.
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| Verari Systems announces new Storage Group Business Unit |
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Verari Systems, a developer of energy efficient data centre and desktop consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based compute and storage solutions, has formed the Verari Systems Storage Group. The new business unit targets the needs of the high-growth Web 2.0 and Grid markets with high density, power and cooling efficient, blade-based storage solutions.
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| Bull strengthens its Bio Data Center offering with a new NovaScale blade server |
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Bull is launching the NovaScale B260LV (Low Voltage) blade server, designed to cut power consumption for IT infrastructures while boosting their availability. This new server strengthens Bull's Bio Data Center offering, aimed at combining flexibility, performance and sustainable development within the Data Center.
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| Dell and VMware delivering virtualization everywhere |
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Dell and VMware are helping to simplify virtualization for customers with a strategy that will deliver Dell PowerEdge servers embedded with VMware ESX 3i hypervisor with a "single click". The initiative, announced at VMworld, is the first in a series of innovations that will expand adoption of virtualization as a standard ingredient in data centre technology.
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| IBM announces nr. 1 UNIX benchmark and compelling economics for HP users to switch |
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BM has achieved outstanding new performance results on the new System p 550 Express, along with an aggressive programme that offers customers trade-in credit for replacing competitive machines from HP, Sun and other UNIX vendors. IBM is specifically reaching out to users who are still buying HP PA-RISC systems, as those customers may no longer be able to buy PA-RISC systems from HP by year end and have so far resisted the migration path HP is proposing to HP Integrity Systems. IBM estimates there are more than 170,000 of these systems still in customer production.
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| Lockheed Martin wins $344 million contract to support Defense Department high performance computing centres |
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Lockheed Martin has been awarded the Next Generation Technical Services contract by the Department of Defense. Valued at an anticipated $344 million, the contract calls for operation and maintenance of the high performance computing centres at four major Department of Defense scientific research sites. In support of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP), Lockheed Martin will provide systems administration, computer operations and management, systems integration, applications and user support, and data visualization services for each of the four DoD Major Shared Resource Centers.
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| Europe backs open standards to advance Grid adoption |
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The Open Grid Forum (OGF) has created OGF-Europe, funded by the European Commission forMobilizing and Integrating Communities on Grid Standards & Best Practices Globally. OGF-Europe will capitalize on European Commission investments in Grid technologies by driving Grid adoption and innovation across Europe in research, government, and industry.
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| Voltaire's unified fabric powers Q-layer Virtual Private Data Centre |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of Grid backbone solutions for the data centre, has been selected by Q-layer, a provider of data centre and storage virtualization software, as the fabric platform for Q-layer's Virtual Private Data Center solution. Q-layer is combining its innovative virtualization management software with VMware ESX and Voltaire's InfiniBand-based switching platform to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, and efficiency for service providers.
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| Mobile Grids nurture virtual organisations demonstrates Akogrimo project |
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Organisations co-operating on a task often have difficulties exchanging information and sharing resources. European researchers from teh Akogriomo project demonstrates how Grid technology could let diverse players, both fixed and mobile, share a common information space both in emergencies and for routine business needs.
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| GridGain 2.0: fastest growing Java Grid computing framework released by GridGain Systems |
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GridGain Systems has released GridGain 2.0, the next version of the fastest growing open-source Java Grid computing platform. GridGain 2.0 provides the industry only open-source Grid computing infrastructure that combines powerful and elegant simplicity, focus on Enterprise Java and industry-leading features. Since its release in August 2007 GridGain became the fastest growing Java Grid computing infrastructure with over 10,000 downloads and more than 500 unique projects utilizing it, and deployed in a dozen production systems.
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| Appistry launches free download programme |
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Appistry has unveiled an extensive new initiative providing free and easy access to its award-winning Grid-based application platform. The initiative introduces a new product, Appistry EAF Community Edition, an Open Distribution licensing model, and the company's new Peer2Peer developer portal.
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| International Summer School on Grid Computing calls for participation |
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The sixth in the highly successful series of International Summer Schools on Grid Computing will be held at the Hotel Fuered Conference and Congress Centre of Balatonfuered, Hungary, from 6-18 July 2008. The deadline for applications is the 5th of May 2008.
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| IBM announces European Cloud Computing hub in Dublin |
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IBM and the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland (IDA Ireland) have established Europe's first Cloud Computing Center. Located in Dublin, the new facility will serve as a hub that will deliver Cloud Computing research and services to a number of satellite facilities to be built in Europe, Middle East and Africa. IBM experts from these centres will work directly with clients in the region, helping them adopt cloud computing solutions that spur technology research and business development.
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| IBM and Academia launch Autonomic Research Collaboration for Cloud Computing |
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IBM will collaborate with two of America's leading academic institutions on an initiative to develop new autonomic technology for cloud computing. The effort is aimed at developing future technologies and training IT professionals required to enhance the performance and energy usage of computing applications while increasing productivity in the workplace.
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| Digipede delivers first Grid computing solution certified for Windows Server 2008 |
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Grid software provider Digipede Technologies has launched its Digipede Network, the first distributed computing solution to earn the "Certified for Windows Server 2008" software certification. The Digipede Network is Grid computing software that dramatically improves application performance by distributing execution across a network of Windows computers.
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| Mellanox Technologies joins the Green Grid |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, has signed its membership in the Green Grid, a global non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.
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| South African Grid School calls for participation |
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The South African Grid School is a 3-day course on large-scale and high-performance computing. It will take place on July 23-25th, 2008 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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| Internet to revolutionize with KnowArc project |
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First there was the Internet and now the time is ripe for Grid, a new technology that will turn a regular PC into a sort of supercomputer. The World Wide Web was first developed at CERN, the European laboratory for high-energy physics in Geneva. Physicists are also behind the development of Grid technology, now within the framework of the EU project KnowArc, with partners in seven countries. Lund University in Sweden is playing a key role. The first Grid software packages were developed there for full-scale operation. The technological co-ordination of KnowArc is now also centred there.
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| Allegro releases latest version - Allegro 8.0 |
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Allegro, an energy trading and risk management solutions provider, has released its latest version, Allegro 8.0. After nearly two and half decades of delivering leading-edge solutions, Allegro has unleashed the power of Grid computing in conjunction with a platform for standardized integration components to the world's commodity exchanges, market data providers and enterprise platforms. Traders and risk managers can now leverage Allegro 8.0's Interactive Transaction Environment to simulate transactions, optimize portfolios, and execute strategies to live markets. Grid computing, integration with renowned market data providers and commodity exchanges, and proven Allegro solutions enable instant transparency and real-time optimization.
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| Oracle Database 11g sets world record TPC-H 10 Terabyte non-clustered benchmark result on HP Integrity Superdome Server and HP StorageWorks Arrays |
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Oracle has achieved a new world record TPC-H 10 Terabyte (TB) benchmark result for Oracle Database 11g, representing the fastest performance result for a non-clustered configuration and leadership price-performance overall. Along with this achievement, Oracle Database also holds world record performance results for the Three TB and 30 TB TPC-H scale factors, showcasing the software's superior data warehousing capabilities.
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| DedicatedNOW to release Virtual Clustered hosting leveraging 3Tera's AppLogic utility computing platform |
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DedicatedNOW, a premier managed hosting and infrastructure outsourcing partner, has offered Virtual Cluster - a new managed hosting solution that allows small businesses to quickly and effortlessly scale their on-line service.
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| Emerging technologies will marginalize IT's role in business intelligence (BI), according to Gartner |
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By 2012, emerging technologies will make it easier to build and consume analytical applications lessening IT's role in building these applications, according to Gartner Inc.
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| HP expands virtualization capabilities of HP ProLiant servers with support of industry-leading partners |
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HP has launched technologies that integrate virtualization capabilities into the HP ProLiant server platform, allowing customers to rapidly and simply virtualize their server environments. Called HP ProLiant iVirtualization, these technologies allow businesses of all sizes to lower costs, improve productivity and better allocate resources across their server infrastructures.
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