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| Sun launches one terabyte tape storage drive |
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The new Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive offers customers one terabyte of native storage capacity on a single cartridge for open or mainframe systems environments.
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| Leading-edge data analytics, visualization set for world's fastest open science supercomputer |
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The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability to complement its distinction as the fastest computer in the world for open science and the third fastest overall computer in the world.
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| Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum |
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The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in data transmission, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use in cell phone communications, bioinformatics, speech recognition and many other areas of information technology.
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| Researchers run world's largest-scale fusion energy simulation on Cray supercomputer |
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Researchers from the University of California-Irvine (UCI) have conducted the largest-ever fusion energy simulation on a Cray XT4 supercomputer. Codenamed "Jaguar" and housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), researchers harnessed the power of the highly scalable Cray system to simulate electron transport for a prototype fusion reactor developed to study the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy.
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| CRL solving grand-challenge problems on its supercomputer Eka |
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Eka, the fastest supercomputer in Asia and among the top 10 supercomputers globally, has further upgraded its performance from 117.9 teraflops (TF) to 132.8 teraflops through software enhancements and tuning. Eka has been built by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons.
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| Members of PRACE supercomputing project adopt TotalView Debugger |
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The TotalView Debugger has been adopted by numerous members of the PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe - Consortium to accelerate development of software applications on supercomputing platforms. PRACE members currently using TotalView include CINECA - Italy, CSC - Finland, the Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany, SARA - The Netherlands, IDRIS - France, and LRZ - Germany.
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| Daresbury Campus earmarked for GBP 65 million Government science investment |
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Two cutting edge science centres have been given the go-ahead at Daresbury following investment announced by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). A GBP 65 million capital contribution - provided through the Government's Large Facilities Capital Fund - will finance a world leading computer sciences centre and a research facility to develop detector systems at the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus.
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| First candidate applications for PRACE Petaflop/s systems identified |
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PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has recently conducted a major survey of the utilisation of HPC (High Performance Computing) resources across Europe. The objective of the survey was to understand the existing key applications in Europe and to identify likely applications that may be used on future Petaflop/s systems.
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| New Star-P enhanced for Platform LSF and SGI Altix ICE |
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Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) launched a new version of its Star-P software that enables customers to accelerate and better manage high performance computing (HPC) application workloads across clusters and supercomputers. The new version also adds support for SGI Altix ICE line of blade servers built to handle HPC applications and large scale-out workloads.
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| Indiana University and Purdue to allow business access to supercomputer |
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Indiana University (IU) and Purdue University have made available a new website aimed at helping Indiana businesses harness the power of one of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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| "Ranger" Supercomputer now available to researchers at Texas higher education institutions |
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"Ranger", one of the largest open science computing systems in the world, is now available to researchers at all Texas higher education institutions, according to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin.
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| "Ranger" Supercomputer gets processor boost; TACC upgrades system with faster Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center's (TACC) "Ranger" world-class Sun supercomputer has been upgraded with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. TACC now offers the national open science community a computing resource with a peak performance rating of 579.4 Tflop/s.
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| Spain-based Repsol and Barcelona Supercomputing Center use IBM supercomputer |
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Repsol YPF and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have issued research results using IBM BladeCenter QS22 supercomputers powered by the Cell Broadband Engine as the standard for future hydrocarbon exploration.
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| IBM and ETH scientists advance supercomputing simulations to improve diagnosis of osteoporosis |
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Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors a "high definition" view of the strength and fragility of bones they never had before. This achievement could lead to better clinical tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, a widespread disease that affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50.
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| World's fastest Ethernet compute cluster relies on Woven Systems 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fabric |
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The ATLAS compute cluster at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany, achieved top ranking among the 285 Gigabit Ethernet clusters in the most recent TOP500 list of supercomputer sites. The ATLAS cluster successfully leverages the Dynamic Congestion Avoidance feature in Woven Systems' 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Fabric to reach a performance level of 32.8 Teraflops, making it the fastest Ethernet cluster in the world today. Woven Systems Inc. is an innovator of Ethernet Fabric switching solutions based on its patented vSCALE technology for data centres and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
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| Armed with 13-fold increase in compute power, HLRN inaugurates new SGI supercomputer |
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Ushering in a new future for Germany's scientific community, German officials have inaugurated a powerful new supercomputer equipped with systems from SGI. The North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) maintains the new system in two separate cities, Berlin and Hanover. Both sites have installed identical SGI supercomputers, and although they are located 155 miles apart, they can be combined to attack large-scale problems via a high-speed network.
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| New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation |
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European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach heralds the next era of faster, smaller and more efficient electronics.
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| AMAX unleashes one of Top 200 supercomputer in the world |
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AMAX, a server and storage system builder in North America launches one of the world's 200 fastest supercomputers. AMAX's supercomputer features a reliable and scalable architecture with 2,816 Intel Xeon CPU cores, 5,632GB of RAM, and 2,816 Terabytes of hot swap storage.
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| AMD delivers world's first Tflop/s graphics chip |
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AMD has achieved two world firsts in visual computing: the launch of the first Tflop/s graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4850, and the launch of the first graphics card featuring ultra high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 4870.
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| Lifeboat to distribute Allinea's debugging tool |
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Allinea Software, a provider of innovative products for large-scale scalar and parallel high performance computing applications, has signed a new agreement with international speciality software distributor Lifeboat Distribution. Under the terms of the deal, Lifeboat will now offer Allinea's Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) and Optimization & Profiling Tool (OPT) to its network of resellers and solutions providers across the United States and Canada.
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| Mellanox InfiniBand adapters provide storage connectivity to Galactic Computing's line of VSTOR storage systems and gateways |
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Mellanox's 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters provide the low-latency, high-performance storage interconnect for Galactic Computing's line of VSTORTM storage systems and gateways, providing an adaptive and responsive infrastructure for business continuity and disaster recovery applications such as remote mirroring and replication.
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| Mellanox InfiniBand accelerates Dawning 5000A HPC system |
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Mellanox Technologies' ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and InfiniScale III InfiniBand switch silicon provide the optimal low latency, high-performance interconnect for Dawning's innovative and highly scalable computing platforms. This high-performance, high-density, blade server platform is the foundation for the 5000A, China's most powerful supercomputer achieving a peak performance of 160Tflop/s.
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| BLADE Network Technologies joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative |
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BLADE Network Technologies Inc., specialized in network virtualization for servers and storage, has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organisation dedicated to reducing computer power consumption by 50 percent by 2010.
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| StreamServe selects DataDirect Technologies for enhanced database connectivity |
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StreamServe, an enterprise provider of dynamic document composition, management and delivery solutions, has embedded the DataDirect Connect for ODBC and DataDirect Connect for JDBC database drivers into the latest version of StreamServe Persuasion.
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| Latest TOP500 List shows number of HPC processors licensed to run Moab increased by 30 percent over November 2007 List |
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Following the recent release of the 31st edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Cluster Resources announced that of the 2.4 million processors on the new Top500 list, more than 23 percent are on Moab-licensed systems, reflecting a 30 percent increase over the previous list, released in November 2007.
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| Terra Soft and Argo Graphics provide Power Linux to Japan |
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Terra Soft Solutions of Loveland, Colorado, USA and Argo Graphics of Tokyo, Japan have made a collaborative effort to bring enterprise level support to Linux for Power architecture systems in Japan, with immediate support for the IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.2 GHz based QS22 blade and the IBM Cell SDK.
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| Schneider Electric and Bull use their joint skills to launch new IT energy audit services |
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Schneider Electric and Bull have combined their respective skills to form a partnership offering comprehensive data centre energy audit services, designed to help organisations meet the challenge of energy efficiency.
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| Dolphin continues to expand United States Reseller Network |
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a global provider of high performance, high availability interconnect solutions, has expanded its reseller network through an agreement with United States based Add-On Data.
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| Third Green500 List released, ranking energy efficient supercomputers |
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Roadrunner, the top-ranked supercomputer in the TOP500, is ranked third on the Green500. The first sustained petaflop supercomputer, Roadrunner was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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| First PRACE scientific workshop to be organized in Lyon, France |
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PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe - is arranging a scientific workshop on November 26th 2008, in Lyon, France, to be held in parallel with ICT 2008. The theme is Applications, Architectures and Training Needs for the Petascale Regime.
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| QLogic unveils 8Gb fibre channel for SANbox 9000 switch |
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QLogic Corp., an expert in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), has launched the 9008V 8Gb Fibre Channel I/O blade for the QLogic SANbox 9000 modular chassis switch, along with a road map that includes support for 16Gb Fibre Channel.
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| Major storm forecast modelling research project at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center incorporates radar data for increasingly accurate and advanced storm prediction |
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Researchers from the University of Oklahoma's Center for Analysis and Prediction Storms (CAPS) used a powerful Cray XT3 supercomputer housed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to incorporate real-time radar data into their high-resolution thunderstorm forecasting model for the first time. This critical milestone in severe weather prediction, part of the annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Spring Experiment, demonstrated an ability to predict storms more accurately and with improved lead time.
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| Dell takes on Blade workstations with Dell Precision R5400 |
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Dell is taking on blade workstations with the Dell Precision R5400 rack workstation. The company also introduced the Dell FX100 remote access solution with hardware based encryption and compression that doesn't compromise system performance. The Dell Precision R5400 starts at $1869 and the FX100 solution is $800.
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| Mellanox InfiniBand accelerates the Exegy Ticker Plant at major exchanges |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s 20Gb/s InfiniBand products provide the low-latency and throughput performance demanded by the Exegy Ticker Plant, a hardware-accelerated appliance which processes and enriches market data for the world's leading co-located trading operations.
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| Virginia Tech deploys the first 40Gb/s InfiniBand large-scale compute systems based on Mellanox Interconnect |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology interconnects the new 29TFlops computer systems research cluster at the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS) within the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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| Force10 Networks Terascale E-Series brings real-time shopping experience to Korean on-line marketplace |
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Gmarket, a Korean e‑commerce marketplace, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to power its on-line shopping mall. As the foundation of the network, the Force10 TeraScale E600 delivers the reliability and scalability Gmarket requires to support 14.3 million users and more than 18 million unique visitors each month.
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| QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Switches and HBAs receive Tolly 'First and Foremost' Certification as part of HP solution |
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The Tolly Group, a global provider of third-party validation services for IT vendors, awarded its First and Foremost and Up to Spec certifications to HP StorageWorks 81Q 8Gb PCI-e Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and HP StorageWorks 8/20q Fibre Channel switches as part of the HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit.
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| Bioinformatics pioneer will lead new initiatives at Emory University |
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Joel H. Saltz, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the fields of high-performance computing and biomedical informatics, will join Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center in September as director of the Center for Comprehensive Informatics and as Emory Healthcare's Chief Medical Information Officer. The announcement was made by Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, Emory executive vice president for health affairs, CEO of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and chairman of Emory Healthcare.
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| New ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager provides fast-track to virtualization |
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Setting up and managing Blade Servers in complex network environments is dramatically streamlined and simplified thanks to the introduction of ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager from Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
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| U.S. Department of Defense selects IBM supercomputer to help prevent disasters at sea |
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The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) will house a new IBM supercomputer that will be used principally to support the oceanographic modelling and analysis needs of researchers at the Department of Defense.
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| Acumem partners with Lifeboat Distribution |
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Acumem, a provider of intelligent software for single- and multi-core environments, has partnered with international speciality software distributor Lifeboat Distribution to distribute its multi-core optimization tools, initially SlowSpotter and SlowSpotter Pro, globally.
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| Dell number one in iSCSI SANs worldwide |
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Dell is the worldwide leader for iSCSI storage area networks (SANs), with more than double the share of its nearest competitor in the first quarter 2008 according to industry analyst firm Gartner.
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| Sun extends Open Storage revolution with new industry-leading, high-performance product lines |
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Sun Microsystems has introducd a new line of economical storage arrays and a new highly efficient, high-performance addition to the popular Sun Fire X4500 "Thumper" family. The new Sun Storage J4000 product line becomes the industry's most scalable and reliable storage building blocks and offers a 10x savings over traditional arrays when combined with Sun's industry leading servers, OpenSolaris operating system and Solaris ZFS.
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| Sun and Fujitsu unveil next-generation SPARC enterprise servers |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Limited have launched an enhanced line of SPARC Enterprise servers - M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 - that delivers a highly scalable, enterprise-class virtualization and consolidation platform with up to 80 percent better performance on commercial applications and 2x better performance on HPC workloads and using 44 percent less energy per core.
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| Dot Hill selected by General Dynamics C4 Systems |
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Dot Hill Systems was chosen as a subcontractor by General Dynamics C4 Systems to provide technology to support development of a conduction cooled RAID controller storage module for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) programme's Integrated Computer System (ICS).
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| HP helps customers manage business growth with compact, shipped-to-order data centres |
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HP has launched a container-based data centre offering that enables customers around the globe to rapidly expand their data centre capacity in support of their IT and business growth.
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| IBM introduces the industry's fastest one terabyte storage tape drive |
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IBM has introduced the industry's fastest one terabyte (TB) storage tape drive, which will enable clients to protect and archive more information with less cost and less energy usage - the highest capacity and performance of any tape drive in the market.
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| Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive computing |
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The newest breed of supercomputers have hardware set up not just for speed, but also to better tackle large networks of seemingly random data. And now, a multi-institutional group of researchers has been awarded $4.0 million to develop software for these supercomputers. Applications include anywhere complex webs of information can be found: from internet security and power grid stability to complex biological networks.
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| Panasas and Penguin Computing partner to improve manageability of Linux-based MANAGEABILITY OF LINUX-BASED CLUSTER SOLUTIONS |
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Panasas and Penguin Computing are planning to bring to market a comprehensive compute and storage solution that will deliver unprecedented productivity and ease of use to the fastest growing segments of the technical computing market. The solution tightly integrates Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage with Penguin's Scyld ClusterWare Linux clustering software and Penguin server platforms.
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| Dell FlexAddress simplifies blade deployment and management |
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Dell introduced FlexAddress, a patent pending tool for blade chassis virtualization and persistent identity. Dell FlexAddress is a simple, low-cost way for customers to deploy and manage blade infrastructures while reducing data centre downtime.
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| Verari introduces first quad-socket, quad-core visualization solution supporting 256GB of RAM |
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Verari Systems has launched the RM4510 server, a new high-performance visualization and interpretation solution. The new solution is the ideal enterprise computing solution for industries whose applications require extremely large memory models.
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| Bull co-ordinates major project in the fight against cancer |
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Bull's NovaScale supercomputer has helped to support a major step forward in cancer treatment, by enabling the extremely precise calculation of the dose of photons and electrons for external radiotherapy treatments.
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| $2 million computer will help unravel major medical ailments |
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A US federal grant will allow Johns Hopkins researchers to purchase a powerful $2 million computer that will speed up their efforts to find new ways to diagnose and treat brain disease, heart illnesses, cancer and other medical ailments.
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| PRACE hosts Petascale Summer School in Stockholm, Sweden |
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The PRACE project - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe - will organize a Petascale Summer School, August 26–29, 2008 at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm, Sweden. This four day PRACE Petascale Summer School will be held at the Parallelldatorcentrum (PDC) on the KTH campus in Stocholm, Sweden. It will include lectures in the morning and hands-on exercises in the afternoon.
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| Green 500 List puts IBM supercomputers at the top |
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When it comes to supercomputing energy efficiency, IBM cannot be beaten - that's according to the findings of the latest Supercomputing 'Green 500 List' announced by The Green500.org. No fewer than the top 15 positions in the ranking of energy efficiency are held by supercomputers built on IBM high performance computing technology.
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| Solaris 10 achieves most complete global security certification for x86 and SPARC systems |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has completed a significant security benchmark for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Solaris 10 11/06 with Solaris Trusted Extensions has achieved Common Criteria Certification for the Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP) at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+, the highest commonly recognized global security certification. s.
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| Verari Systems announces blade-based solution that doubles VMware virtual machines and power efficiency |
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The Verari Systems' VB1257 VMware ESX 3.5 certified blade delivers twice the number of VMware virtual machines per blade than similar competitive blade offerings while consuming 50% less power.
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| Rackable Systems to include IBM Blades in "ICE Cube" modular data centre offering |
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IBM and Rackable Systems Inc. have entered into an agreement allowing Rackable Systems to offer IBM's high-performance BladeCenter servers inside its ICE Cube modular data centres. The ICE Cube will be outfitted with IBM's most rugged, high performance BladeCenter systems for harsh environments and demanding conditions.
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| QLogic announces support for IBM iDataPlex system |
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QLogic SilverStorm 9000 Series InfiniBand directors and switches are now qualified with IBM iDataPlex and System Cluster 1350 systems for HPC environments. IBM iDataPlex is a new category of server that dramatically increases compute density while significantly decreasing energy consumption and associated data centre costs for Internet-scale computing.
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| EU grant provides huge boost to computing power |
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The University of Westminster has received GBP 230,000 in funding from the European Union to link desktop computers across the University into a powerful new Grid. Sixteen hundred PCs across the institution are about to be linked together to provide greatly enhanced computing power for the University's researchers.
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| UninCluster Grid.org Community launches major site upgrade |
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Grid.org, the open source community for cluster and Grid users of UNIVA UD Unicluster, administrators and developers, has unveiled its new website.
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| GPU computing has arrived to BOINC |
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The GPUGRID.net project from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) uses CUDA-capable NVIDIA chips to create an infrastructure for biomolecular simulations.
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| SensorWeb 2.0 software released |
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The GRIDS Lab at the University of Melbourne and NICTA - National ICT Australia - have released SensorWeb 2.0 software, which supports unification of Sensor Networks and Grid Computing with the World-Wide Web. In simple terms, it allows clients to access sensors using Web services.
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| European initiative on Grid computing, Biomedical Informatics and Nanoinformatics |
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From the 1st June 2008 a consortium of seven European and Latin American partners has launched ACTION-Grid, an initiative funded by the European Commission to analyse and link three areas: Biomedical Informatics, Grid technologies and Nanoinformatics.
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| Univa UD extends UniCluster to Amazon EC2 Cloud |
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Univa UD has published a white paper and supporting tools that document the process of implementing its open source UniCluster product in Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) web service.
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| The EU-funded Interactive European Grid (Int.eu.grid) results |
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The EU-funded Interactive European Grid (Int.eu.grid) allows researchers to access a Gridk of computers at ten sites in seven European countries - Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Austria, Ireland, and Slovakia. The Int.eu.grid joins the computers locally, and at a European level through the existing high-speed Géant research network.
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| Call for participation to first East Coast BOINC Meeting |
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Global Computing Lab at the University of Delaware in the USA will host the first East Coast BOINC meeting on BOINC in Research, Science, and Education on August 29, 2008.
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| Grid computing school shares teaching resources through digital library and behind-the-scenes blog |
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The sixth International Summer School on Grid Computing is scheduled for 6-18 July in Hungary. The school will train approximately 40 students from 20 countries in the ways of Grid computing.
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| QLogic achieves near-native Fibre Channel I/O performance on Windows server 2008 Hyper-V |
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QLogic and Microsoft achieved industry leading performance results that demonstrate near-native transaction performance for a virtualized computing environment. The companies tested storage area network (SAN)-attached, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines and achieved I/O performance that closely matches the 200,000 IOs per second performance native with QLogic 8Gb adapters and Windows Server 2008.
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| e-IRG meeting in Lugano: Discussion on active e-Infrastructures Education and Training |
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The 14th e-IRG meeting was held in Lugano on 26th and 27th of June, 2008. The e-IRG is an inter-governmental policy body comprising national delegates from more than 30 European countries. The e-IRG members meet on a regular basis to reach consensus on policies in order to provide relevant recommendations on the shared use of electronic resources in Europe. The highlight of the meeting was the Education and Training Task Force (ETTF) report that proposes strategic actions to establish, promote and resource the Grid and e-Science curricula in Europe. The ETTF report has been a major European effort and has already been noted on the international level, e.g. in the Open Grid Forum (OGF).
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| DataSynapse further strengthens Japanese operations with NS Solutions partnership |
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DataSynapse has entered into a reseller agreement with NS Solutions, a Japanese systems integrator. NS Solutions will be reselling DataSynapse's dynamic application infrastructure solutions in Japan, including its GridServer, FabricServer and VersaVision software.
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| Third EGI Workshop on discussion of the EGI Blueprint |
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The Third European Grid Initiative (EGI) workshop was organised at CERN on the 30th of June, and followed by the EGI Policy Board meeting on the 1st of July. More than 100 attendees took part in the CERN workshop and discussed the EGI Blueprint proposal prepared by the EGI Design Study. The purpose of this EGI Blueprint draft is to assess a possible model for the future sustainable Grid infrastructure in Europe and to get feedback leading to the final Blueprint that should be produced by September 2008.
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| Linden Lab and IBM achieve major virtual world interoperability milestone |
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Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, and IBM have successfully demonstrated virtual world interoperability by teleporting avatars between the Second Life Preview Grid and an OpenSim virtual world server. The joint development project represents an industry first of a quantifiable milestone for virtual world interconnectivity.
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| Fourth Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop calls for participation |
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A workshop on volunteer computing, distributed thinking, and BOINC will be held 11-12 September 2008 in Grenoble, France. It is being hosted by the MESCAL team of INRIA, and supported by IBM. The general organizers are Derrick Kondo (INRIA) and David Anderson (UCB). The local organizers are Carlos Barrios-Hernández (LIG), Daniele Herzog (INRIA), and Arnaud Legrand (CNRS).
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| Net One Systems becomes 3Tera's exclusive distributor of AppLogic in Japan |
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Net One Systems, Japan's largest network integrator, and 3Tera, an innovator of Grid computing technology and cloud computing services, have signed a multi-year agreement naming Net One Systems as the exclusive distributor of 3Tera's AppLogic, a commercial Grid OS for cloud computing, in Japan. Starting immediately, Net One Systems will offer cloud computing infrastructure and services using 3Tera's AppLogic. First customer deployments will be announced later this month.
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| Cambric Switches to the HyperWorks CAE Suite as its simulation backbone worldwide |
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Cambric Corporation, a global provider of engineering services, is now using Altair Engineering Inc.'s HyperWorks as its primary computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution to serve its customers.
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| Virtual world is sign of future for scientists and engineers |
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Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes.
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| Grid Computing Now! launches environmental competition "Grid computing for a greener planet" |
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Grid Computing Now!, a government funded knowledge transfer network, has launched the competition "Grid computing for a greener planet". The competition, which is open to UK residents, will invite participants to harness the power of Grid to help minimise the environmental impact of human activity.
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| Univa UD announces release of Grid MP 5.6 |
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Univa UD has made available Grid MP 5.6, the company's industry-leading product for non-dedicated distributed computing.
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| Oracle unveils BEA's role in product strategy for next-generation middleware |
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In a live webcast attended by partners and customers from around the world, Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Fusion Middleware Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian outlined Oracle's middleware strategy, which combines the best products from BEA and Oracle Fusion Middleware and provides continuity and investment protection for both customer bases.
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| Univa UD unveils new data centre automation strategy and leadership team |
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Univa UD has named industry veterans Alex Brown and Kent Purdy to lead its data centre automation business division and retool its product suite. The announcement comes as Univa UD officially launches Reliance as its cornerstone product for service-based management of application delivery environments.
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| ISO to provide insurers better analytic solutions with SAS |
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To help build more accurate analytic models for the property/casualty insurance industry, ISO has selected software from SAS, the leader in business intelligence. Since 1971, ISO has been a leading source of information about risk. The company provides data, analytics, and decision-support solutions for insurers to operate more efficiently and increase competitive advantage.
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| HP to power Department of Defense cloud computing infrastructure |
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HP will be supplying the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with scalable technology to enable its Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to deploy a cloud computing infrastructure.
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| Demandware powers Compact Appliance and Living Direct eCommerce sites |
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Richlund Ventures has selected the Demandware eCommerce Platform to power all of its home living destination ecommerce sites. The multi-brand retail equity firm recently launched two Web storefronts on Demandware with plans to roll out additional sites in the coming months.
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| Oracle Database 11g powers businesses worldwide |
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Organisations worldwide including NaviBank, Olam International, Servicio Electronico de Pago, S.A., and Xactly Corporation, among others, are in production with Oracle Database 11g to run their key business applications.
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| 3PAR and SYSDBA launch utility storage in South Africa |
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3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, has signed a new partnership with SYSDBA in South Africa to deliver innovative utility computing solutions built on 3PAR Utility Storage.
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| 3PAR debuts new management console for utility storage |
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3PAR has launched the 3PAR InForm Management Console, a new management interface that provides greater visibility, control, and management of 3PAR InServ Storage Servers. In addition, 3PAR introduced enhancements to its Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) provider designed to enable heterogeneous enterprise management. 3PAR's SMI-S provider is an open application programming interface (API) based on specifications set by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
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| CSI integrates HyperWorks simulation tools into its automotive product development process |
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CSI S.p.A. - a European supplier of testing, engineering development support, and certification services - has added Altair's HyperWorks simulation platform to its automotive product development process. CSI's recently expanded Automotive Department will use the HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) technology suite to increase its focus on virtual and performance engineering. The company plans to improve its entire development cycle by creating a close relationship between simulation and physical testing.
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| PaTech to promote and sell Altair's HyperWorks Platform |
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Canadian software distributor PaTech - Practical Application of Technology - has joined the Altair Channel Partner Programme to actively promote and resell the HyperWorks Platform for Enterprise Analytics.
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| Alert Logic launches new version of Log Manager |
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Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, has released version 1.1 of its flagship log management product, Alert Logic Log Manager. Log Manager fully leverages the power of Grid computing and virtualization technologies.
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| Journal of Grid Computing issues Call for papers for special issue on Grid interoperability |
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The Journal of Grid Computing will publish a special issue on Grid Interoperability. Interoperability of world-wide Grid and e-Science infrastructures and technologies is a major requirement to make the Grid a success story like the World Wide Web. The submission deadline is 29 September 2008.
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| CommScope Enterprise Solutions joins The Green Grid |
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CommScope Enterprise Solutions, a division of CommScope Inc., has joined The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems. As a general member of The Green Grid, CommScope will collaborate with other member companies and gain access to a wealth of information about energy efficiency advancements within data centres.
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| Univa UDlaunches Open HPC Management Interoperability Project |
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Univa UD, a pioneer in HPC systems management products for the complete distributed computing lifecycle, has launched the Open HPC Management Interoperability Project/
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| DataSynapse strengthens sales force with strategic executive hire and promotion |
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Technology veteran Mark Milford joins DataSynapse as Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. The company also announced the promotion of Christopher Nathan to Managing Director, EMEA and APAC.
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| UC San Diego researchers identify potential new drug candidates to combat 'bird flu' |
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A team of University of California (UC) San Diego scientists - with the help of resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), also at UC San Diego - have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new "designer drugs" might be developed to combat the bird flu disease. In some cases, the compounds appeared to be equal or stronger inhibitors than currently available anti-flu remedies.
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| Researchers use supercomputer to track pathways in myoglobin |
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Some 50 years ago, after decades of effort, John Kendrew determined the structure of the small globular protein, myoglobin, which is responsible for oxygen storage in cells. For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Max Perutz, who did similar work on hemoglobin. But a mystery remained: Exactly what paths does oxygen follow as it moves in and out of myoglobin? An interdisciplinary team led by researchers at Virginia Tech has provided a computational solution to the decades-old puzzle.
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| Calit2 to release world's highest-resolution scientific display system |
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As the size of complex scientific data sets grows exponentially, so does the need for scientists to explore the data visually and collaboratively in ultra-high resolution environments. To that end, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has unveiled the highest-resolution display system for scientific visualization in the world at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
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| Semantics gives the web meaning - for machines |
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Where would we be without the web? It is such an immense and rich source of information; we feel that every answer is out there. All it takes is a bit of searching ...
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| Prima Industrie chooses HyperWorks simulation platform to develop 2D laser cutting machines |
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Prima Industrie, an Italian developer, manufacturer and provider of high-power laser systems for cutting, welding and drilling three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) parts, will implement Altair Engineering's HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) software platform into its design development process. The HyperWorks suite and OptiStruct, the leading design synthesis optimization technology, will be used to optimize existing cutting machines and to develop new 2D machines in the future.
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| Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer |
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Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new research from a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that if we want to carry out artificial computations, all we have to do is literally look around.
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| Bottero chooses Altair HyperWorks simulation platform for development of glass production lines |
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Bottero, a world expert in the design and construction of hollow and flat glass production lines, has selected Altair HyperWorks as their preferred computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite for the optimization and verification of structural components used in their production lines.
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| IBM supercomputer in Canada bolsters cancer research |
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IBM has deployed Canada's fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments. The Ontario Cancer Institute's new supercomputer will allow data to get on the Grid for complex analysis, and enable faster and more detailed analysis of results from the Grid computation. It is ranked in 395 position in the recently announced TOP500 List of global supercomputers.
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| Huygens supercomputer at SARA installed |
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SARA Computing and Networking Services, the Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF), and IBM announce the successful installation of the new supercomputer, Huygens POWER6 at SARA in Amsterdam. The new system, funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), is based on IBM POWER6 chip technology, the world's fastest microprocessor. Dr. Ronald Plasterk, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, will officially unveil SARA's new supercomputer on September 11, 2008.
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| Making sure the internet delivers |
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European researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet. Internet applications across the globe are currently being re-engineered in anticipation of the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from version 4 over the next three to four years. But before companies can make their IPv6 products commercially available, they will have to thoroughly test performance, standards-compatibility and interoperability.
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| Next-gen broadband at your service |
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Faster, smarter broadband networks are on the way, thanks to European research. The next step will be to usher in compelling services for European consumers. Already companies are eager to get their hands on the technologies developed by the MUSE project.
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| Sun and Intel break million-messages-per-second barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has issued new benchmark performance results for Thomson Reuters market data platform. The new benchmark demonstrates that running the platform, known as Reuters Market Data System 6.0.3 (RMDS), on Sun technology shows throughput performance breaking the million-messages-per-second barrier.
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| Europe's next-generation broadband |
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An enormous research effort by Europe's leading broadband players has helped accelerate dramatically the roll-out of next-generation broadband services reaching speeds in the 10s of Mbit/s in many European countries. That is just the start.
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