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| PRACE selected promising architectures |
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PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has selected a broad coverage of promising architectures for Petaflop/s-class systems to be deployed in 2009/2010. Prototypes will be installed at six partner sites starting in 2008.
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| e-IRG Workshop organizers to issue Call for Participation |
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The next e-IRG Open Workshop will be organised on the 21st and 22nd October 2008 in Paris. The e-IRG delegates Meeting will follow the e-IRG Workshop on 22nd of October. The Workshop will focus on information exchange between the ESFRI-PP - European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures - projects and e-Infrastructure community and provides a unique opportunity to meet a broad range of visionaries, experts and policymakers shaping the future of the European Research Area.
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| Fujitsu donates supercomputer to the Computer History Museum |
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Fujitsu has donated to the Computer History Museum several components based on technologies developed for the Numerical Wind Tunnel supercomputer, which was ranked no. 1 when it debuted in the Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list in November 1993. The museum will accept the gift at a dedication ceremony on September 12, 2008, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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| Altair ports RADIOSS, MotionSolve, and Optistruct CAE applications to Sun's Solaris 10 OS on X86 platform |
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Altair Engineering Inc., a global provider of technology and services that strengthen client innovation and decision-making, has now ported solver solutions to Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) on x86 systems. The ported versions of RADIOSS, OptiStruct and MotionSolve are scheduled to be available by the end of this year.
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| Angstrom Microsystems announces "green computing" initiative |
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Based on client input and its own research, Angstrom Microsystems Corp. is an expert in the market for "green computing" solutions. Green computing helps companies reduce their carbon footprint while considerably saving energy and money over traditional computing solutions, particularly in the data centre market, which accounts for 3% of all power consumption in the U.S. according to the EPA.
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| QualiPSo worldwide conference highlights strengths and challenges of Open Source Software, the state of play in the market, and future trends |
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Qualipso, a unique international alliance of ICT industry players, SMEs, research, public sector bodies and academics, whose role it is to help industry and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with Open Source software (OSS) recently published the report of its annual Conference, bringing together top speakers and participants from nearly 30 countries.
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| SDSC and Interactive Supercomputing Inc. to host advanced Star-P parallel programming workshop on October 6 |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), in partnership with Interactive Supercomputing Inc., will be offering a one-day workshop on Advanced Star-P parallel programming for UC MATLAB users on October 6, 2008 at the auditorium in the new SDSC building extension.
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| Acceleware and CST announce faster electromagnetic simulations with NVIDIA's CUDA |
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Acceleware Corp., a developer of high performance computing applications, and Computer Simulation Technology (CST), a supplier of leading-edge electromagnetic (EM) simulation software, have launched a new CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) based Acceleware solution for accelerating EM simulations with CST MICROWAVE STUDIO (CST MWS). Trial tests of this new acceleration product have delivered performance gains of up to 40% compared to the current product. This faster version is compatible with current generation GPUs, delivering significant speed-ups to CST customers without having to upgrade hardware.
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| CSC builds one of the largest data storage environments in Finland using Hitachi technology |
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CERN's decision to start-up the world's largest particle accelerator prompted CSC to increase its storage capacity by six-fold to half a petabyte. The Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC) is upgrading its storage capacity by using Hitachi Data System's storage systems. With the broad upgrade, CSC has increased its storage capacity from 80 terabytes to over 520 terabytes. CSC produces storage services for scientific computing to, for example, radio and TV archives and to all libraries of Finnish universities and higher education institutions.
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| Verari Systems extends award-winning blade storage technology with the SB5168XL DataServer |
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Verari Systems, a premier developer of energy efficient data centre consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, has added the SB5168XL DataServer to its blade-based hybrid server and storage system family. The newly introduced architecture combines an Intel Xeon 3000 series processor and 10G Ethernet connectivity with the highest storage density available in a blade server. The combination of high capacity, low-cost blade-based storage with a general purpose server is a powerful enabler for a wide range of vertical markets where data and applications such as Web 2.0, Cloud and file system solutions need to be hosted on a single platform.
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| TotalView Technologies partners with European educational software distributor and training provider |
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TotalView Technologies, a provider of dynamic analysis and debugging tools for serial and parallel codes, has partnered with European HPC software reseller SciWorks Technologies to market TotalView and MemoryScape to educational institutions in Europe. Sciworks will act as an authorized sales agent of TotalView Technologies' products for the education market in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. SciWorks will also provide training for commercial users across multiple markets on the continent.
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| Dolphin announces industry's first PCI Express Cluster and Multi-host I/O solution |
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At the Intel Developers Forum, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a global provider of high performance, high availability interconnect solutions, introduced a new Multi-host PCI Express I/O expansion product to its Dolphin Express line of clustering and I/O expansion solutions. The Dolphin Express solution provides the most flexibility of any PCI Express I/O expansion product; allowing clients to utilize a single interconnect for both clustering and PCI Express I/O expansion. Clients can now reduce their initial investment requirements in servers and PCs by implementing the Dolphin solution to provide current and future I/O scalability. In addition, the combined clustering and I/O solution simplifies deployment of database clusters, departmental clusters and distributed I/O applications.
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| First PRACE Industry Seminar redefines century-old 'mercator sapiens' tradition |
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Already in 1632 at the inauguration of Athenaeum Illustre, the University of Amsterdam's predecessor, Caspar Barlaeus held a plea for a harmonious marriage between sage policy and intuitive mercantile insight, according to Job Cohen, Mayor of Amsterdam during the first PRACE Industry Seminar, held September 3, 2008. The PRACE event, taking place in Hotel Krasnapolsky under the stylish hosting by the Netherlands National Computing Facilities (NCF) as one of the project partners, was a striking example of this old Dutch principle.
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| Need for faster, larger simulations is stretching the supercomputer realm |
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At the First PRACE Industry Seminar CEA-GENCI CTO Dr. François Robin in his keynote talk stressed that computer simulation is essential for scientific discovery, for addressing societal challenges, and for competitiveness in the industry. Progress will in most cases depend on being able to perform larger or faster simulations. This can only be achieved with larger supercomputers.
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| PRACE HPC infrastructure aims to foster competitiveness in Europe |
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PRACE co-ordinator and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Research Centre Jülich, Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem delivered the introductory keynote at the First PRACE Industry Seminar by stating that PRACE is not just an activity for science but not in the least wants to foster competitiveness in Europe. For this reason, the PRACE partners decided to start a very heavy discussion with industry in order to see which bridges have to be built and to introduce to industry what PRACE is about.
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| Don't worry too much about technology, mind the legal issues |
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Industry participation and experience with the United States Department of Energy INCITE programme was covered by Dr. Sharan Kalwani, HPC Manager at General Motors, USA at the First PRACE Industry Seminar. Dr. Kalwani gave an overview of the INCITE technology test problems at GM but also stressed the need to clear all legal issues right from the start.
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| EDF in search of petaflop performance for problems concerning us all |
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The background of Dr. Jean-François Hamelin, Director of Information Systems at Electricité de France (EDF) is R&D in fact and not computers. At the First PRACE Industry Seminar he presented a clear approach of the HPC simulation challenge at EDF and explained why and how EDF got involved in HPC.
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| Kaleidoscopic seismic imaging "down from Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico" |
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Dr. Jesús García San Luis is Director of Innovation at Repsol in Spain. His company is involved in oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. At the First PRACE Industry Seminar Dr. San Luis talked about the Kaleidoscope Project which experiments with seismic methods to facilitate the oil exploration business.
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| CEA joins DEISA |
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The DEISA Consortium operates the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications. DEISA aims at delivering a turnkey operational solution for a future persistent European HPC ecosystem, as suggested by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). By joining DEISA, CEA will become an integrated part of the European HPC infrastructure, and DEISA is enhancing the European HPC ecosystem by completing their members with a future Tier-0 HPC centre.
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| Force10 Networks partners with T-Platforms to build Russia's largest supercomputer at Moscow State University |
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Force10 Networks, a pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, has aligned with its 10 Gigabit Premier partner T-Platforms to build the most powerful supercomputer in Russia at Moscow State University (MSU). The Force10 C-Series family of resilient switches and S-Series family of access switches deliver the resiliency and scalability MSU requires in its SKIF-GRID supercomputer to support peak performance of more than 60 Teraflops.
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| New NASA supercomputer will play critical role as scientists simulate climate, weather and solar activity |
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IBM has introduced a new supercomputer that NASA scientists will use to simulate and better understand Earth's climate and weather, the planet's relationship with the sun, and the evolution of cosmic phenomena. It will also play an essential role in developing methods to analyse the rapidly increasing amount of data the agency collects from Earth- and space-observing satellites.
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| New nanoscale process created by UCSB scientists will help computers run faster and more efficiently |
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Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have made a major contribution to this field by designing a new nanotechnology that will ultimately help make computers smaller, faster, and more efficient. The new process is described inScience Express, the on-line version of the journalScience.
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| IBM supercomputer boosts Bulgaria's advance towards knowledge-based economy |
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The Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC) and IBM Bulgaria have launched the Bulgarian IBM Blue Gene/P - the first installation of the world famous Blue Gene computer in Bulgaria. SAITC will use IBM Blue Gene/P for high-end computing-intensive projects in life sciences, new drugs discovery, financial modelling and education.
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| Microsoft and Cray team up to drive high productivity computing into the mainstream |
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Cray and Microsoft have introduced the new Cray CX1 supercomputer pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008. With U.S. list prices starting at $25,000 to over $60,000, "ease-of-everything" features and the ability to fit into standard office environments and work flows, the new product reflects Microsoft and Cray's shared goal to drive high productivity computing farther into the mainstream in a broad array of markets including financial services, aerospace, automotive, petroleum, life sciences, government, academic and digital media.
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| First PRACE Industry Seminar greatly successful |
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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, organised a one-day seminar titled "Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC". The seminar targeted large European companies with potential interest in High Performance Computing (HPC) for increasing their competitiveness and productivity and to accelerate innovation. (See also our PRACE special in a previous Primeu Weekly .)
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| Microsoft takes its newest high-performance computing platform to the street |
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Microsoft Corp. has released to manufacturing its newest server - Windows HPC Server 2008, giving Wall Street firms an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective and scalable high-performance computing (HPC) solution. This event kicks off a series of global launch activities in the coming weeks to support the new product.
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| Mellanox touts InfiniBand deployment in new Cray CX1 supercomputer |
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Mellanox Technologies' InfiniBand adapters and switch silicon ICs provide the interconnect for the recently announced Cray CX1 supercomputer, an advanced compute system designed for workgroups and departments in larger firms.
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| Cray adopts Windows HPC Server 2008 to help drive Hpc into the mainstream |
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Cray Inc. is offering the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system on the new Cray CX1 supercomputer to help drive high performance computing (HPC) into the mainstream in markets including financial services, aerospace, automotive, petroleum, life sciences, government, academic and digital media.
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| Dot Hill pioneers SAS RAID solutions with 450GB disk drives |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp., a market expert in providing flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators (SIs), has introduced one of the industry's first SAS RAID arrays with 450GB drives, the largest capacity SAS drives in the industry.
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| Dell and EMC combine next-generation technology to maximize and simplify Oracle Data Warehouse environments |
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Dell and EMC have expanded support for the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative with a new solution designed to make it easier for companies to implement cost-effective, high-performing, scalable data warehousing. The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Dell and EMC is built on Dell's next generation of PowerEdge rack-optimized servers and the new EMC CLARiiON CX4, the latest generation of the CLARiiON family of networked storage systems. The CLARiiON CX4, which includes virtual provisioning, flash storage, advanced connectivity and other capabilities, is offered by Dell under the Dell|EMC brand.
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| DataSynapse adds integration of Cisco VFrame to FabricServer software |
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DataSynapse Inc., an expert in dynamic application service management software for the next-generation data centre, has integrated its FabricServer software platform with Cisco's VFrame data centre provisioning and infrastructure orchestration product. As a result of this technology integration, enterprise data centre architects can now dynamically scale a complete application service stack as virtualized application and hardware infrastructure objects. As a result, IT organisations can reduce capital and operating costs while delivering significant improvement in time to market and service levels for critical business applications.
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| Sun showcases Oracle momentum worldwide on SPARC enterprise servers |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. highlighted demand and sales growth in emerging markets around its Solaris Operating System, Sun SPARC Enterprise server family and joint Oracle deployments, as well as strong momentum showcasing numerous world record benchmarks and new reference configurations for Oracle data warehouses on Sun platforms.
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| Bull to integrate RH@psodie, the French Navy's Human Resources payroll Information System (HRIS) |
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The French Navy has entrusted Bull with the integration of its new human resources and payroll information system, RH@psodie. Originating in the framework of the programme of Ministry of Defense reforms, RH@psodie is based on the common inter-ministry kernel being steered by the National Payroll Office. It is built around a pre-configured version of SAP's ERP, SAP ECC6. The project involves adapting Navy HR and payroll practices, and rationalizing the different inter-force systems in a step-by-step programme of overall convergence.
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| IBM to offer remote 'test drive' of Microsoft's new Windows HPC Server 2008 |
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IBM will offer remote, $99 "test drives" of Microsoft's newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM Computing on Demand facilities.
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| BLADE Network Technologies and Verari Systems team up to develop and deliver Verari's new NB1010 Series BladeSwitch |
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BLADE Network Technologies Inc., specialized in network virtualization and high-performance solutions for servers and storage, and Verari Systems Inc., a developer of energy efficient data centre consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, have signed a joint integration agreement to develop Verari's NB1010 Series BladeSwitch, a high-performance blade network switch. The new switch incorporates BLADE's advanced Ethernet switching technologies to deliver to users of Verari's BladeRack 2 X-Series data centre consolidation solutions all the benefits of network aggregation using blade-based platforms for data centre computing without compromising on performance or energy efficiency.
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| TS-Associates, Voltaire and Accolade announce "TipOff - Wombat Data Fabric Edition" for performance monitoring of InfiniBand fabrics |
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Trading Systems Associates plc, Voltaire Ltd. and Accolade Technology Inc. have introduced TipOff - Wombat Data Fabric Edition, a new variant of TS-Associates' middleware monitoring product, incorporating software developed by Voltaire and hardware developed by Accolade. TipOff - Wombat Data Fabric Edition has been designed to deliver ultra-low latency and performance monitoring for Wombat Data Fabric systems deployed on InfiniBand, the NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions flagship middleware offering.
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| OptimaNumerics partners with NVIDIA to support NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform |
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OptimaNumerics, a provider of high performance numerical software, will support the NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform.
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| Cray unveils high-efficiency "Green" Cooling technology for the Petascale computing era |
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Cray Inc. unveiled a revolutionary liquid cooling technology that will allow computers to operate at unprecedented speeds of multiple petaflops (thousands of trillions of calculations per second) while delivering significant energy savings and installation flexibility. Cray XT5 systems will begin shipping with the company's new ECOphlex (PHase-change Liquid EXchange) technology later this year.
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| Multi-core chip research to lead to performance gains and power reduction for high- and low-end |
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The Us National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), have set up a major joint initiative for multi-core chip design and architecture. The three-year programme, funded by the two organisations, will focus on several components of multi-core system architecture design that can significantly enhance and accelerate solutions for advancing semiconductor performance. About $6 million in funding is available to U.S. universities, who have been invited to submit research proposals in key areas.
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| Stretch supercomputer 50th anniversary |
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IBM is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stretch supercomputer - a machine that was not a commercial success in its era, but helped revolutionize the computer industry by pioneering technologies that power everything from today's laptops and iPods to the world's largest supercomputers. Just as important, it helped establish a culture of innovation at IBM that carries on to this day.
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| New "petascale" computer models lead to better understanding of weather-climate links |
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New "petascale" computer models depicting detailed climate dynamics, and building the foundation for the next generation of complex climate models, are in the offing.
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| Sun and Xilinx introduce feature-rich, high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform |
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At the International Conference for Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Sun and Xilinx unveiled a feature-rich, high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform. The platform provides academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace & defense, and storage and networking.
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| Most powerful PRIMERGY ever makes debut |
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The most-powerful PRIMERGY server ever is introduced by Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The PRIMERGY RX600 S4 industry standard server, powered by the new six-core Intel Xeon MP 7400 series processors, codenamed Dunnington, provides unprecedented levels of performance, and sets new standards for performance per Watt.
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| Panasas Parallel Storage drives completion of seismic processing jobs up to six times faster for Geofizyka Krakow |
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Through the deployment of a Panasas AS3000 parallel storage solution, Geofizyka Krakow is completing seismic processing jobs up to six times faster. This performance boost positively impacts its geophysicists' productivity by providing faster results and the opportunity to run more job iterations for improved imaging results. Ultimately the deployment of Panasas parallel storage also benefits Geofizyka Krakow's Oil and Gas customers' exploration efforts by providing faster project turnaround with high-quality results that will help them locate energy reserves faster.
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| Cluster Resources to provide Moab Hybrid Cluster solution on new Cray CX1 personal supercomputer |
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Cluster Resources, a provider of workload- and resource-management software and services for cluster, Grid, data centre and utility computing environments, will provide Moab Hybrid Cluster on the new Cray CX1 personal supercomputer.
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| Iowa State researchers part of $208 million supercomputer project |
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Iowa State University researchers will be part of a research consortium helping to develop the world's most powerful supercomputer. That machine will deliver sustained performance of a quadrillion calculations per second. That kind of speed and power is called a "petaflop" in computing circles.
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| Sun delivers highly scalable X64 servers for next-generation virtualization and data centre efficiency |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has extended its family of Intel Xeon-based servers with the Sun Fire X4450 server and Sun Blade X6450 server module, powered by Intel Xeon processor 7400 series with up to six processing cores, run a variety of operating systems, including Solaris 10 10/08, the latest update to the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), in addition to Linux, Windows and VMware.
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| IBM unveils new 30 million euro data centre and global supply chain hub in Dublin |
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IBM and the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland (IDA Ireland) have invested 30 million euro in a next generation data centre at IBM's Technology Campus, Dublin. This new facility, which is fully owned and operated by IBM, will provide a wide range of new and cost effective IT Services for the Irish marketplace. The centre will also serve as a global hub for delivering IBM Software to clients in 84 countries worldwide.
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| KAUST and IBM to build Middle East's fastest and most powerful supercomputer |
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IBM and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have launched a joint project to build and conduct research on the most complex, high-performance computing (HPC) system in the region and among academic institutions in the world. The new system, named Shaheen, will serve the University's scientific researchers across dozens of disciplines, advance new innovations in computational sciences, and contribute to the further development of a knowledge-based society in Saudi Arabia.
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| HP Labs award will lay groundwork for next generation computers |
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While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists are laying the groundwork for exascale machines that will process more than a million trillion - or 10^18 - calculations per second. Just a few months ago, scientists reached the long-sought-after high-performance computing milestone of one petaflop by processing more than a thousand trillion - or 10^15 - calculations per second.
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| Voltaire InfiniBand helps deliver extreme performance for HP Oracle Database Machine |
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Voltaire Ltd.'s Voltaire InfiniBand switches and software are helping to drive previously unattainable performance for large Oracle data warehouses. HP Oracle Database Machine was unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco
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| HP exclusive systems provider for Oracle Exadata |
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HP is the exclusive systems and integration technology provider for the Oracle Exadata Storage Server. This new storage solution is designed to deliver dramatically improved performance for large data warehouses, resulting in speedier decision making for business users.
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| Oracle and HP deliver outstanding result on SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark |
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Continuing to demonstrate the superior performance and scalability leadership of Oracle Database, Oracle has achieved a leading 16-core result on the three-tier SAP Sales and Distribution Parallel (SD-Parallel) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP ERP 6.0 application.
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| Mellanox Interconnect Technologies drive performance and scalability for HP Oracle Database Machine customers |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of semiconductor-based server and storage interconnect products, has launched its InfiniBand-based adapter and switch solutions help deliver the interconnect backbone on the recently announced HP Oracle Database Machine.
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| Dot Hill announces plans to support Intel System on a Chip platform |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. plans to develop future storage solutions based on the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor family, formerly known as Tolapai.
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| Dot Hill in negotiations with Ciprico Inc. to acquire certain intellectual property assets |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. is in negotiations with Ciprico Inc. to purchase Ciprico's RAIDCore and NAS (Networked Attached Storage) intellectual property assets. Ciprico previously, on July 28, 2008, filed a voluntary petition pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code") in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota (the "Bankruptcy Court").
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| IBM introduces first blade server to reduce security threats and optimize network traffic |
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IBM has launched an intelligent blade server designed to help reduce security threats - such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and viruses - while helping service providers better manage network traffic for optimal performance.
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| Kotura awarded $14M silicon photonics contract with Sun Microsystems and DARPA |
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Sun Microsystems has signed a five year $14M development contract with Kotura, a provider of silicon photonic components, for DARPA's Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) programme. Sun is also participating in DARPA's $44M programme to advance a virtual supercomputer using an on-chip network of low-cost optical interconnects.
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| MIT probe could aid quantum computing |
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MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking.
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| SGI and Verari Systems sign Service Provider agreement |
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SGI has recently signed a Service Provider agreement with Verari Systems, a premier developer of blade-based energy-efficient data centre and desktop consolidation platforms. As the latest member of the SGI Support Solutions Plus (SSPlus) programme, Verari will contract with SGI to provide world-class service and support to Verari customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as well as in Asia Pacific regions.
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| Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors prove to be optimal choice for virtualization |
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AMD's Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors now power 37 platforms from global OEMs, nine of which are designed with virtualization in mind. With Dell's latest M905 PowerEdge blade server, AMD and Dell can claim the only 16-core x86 server to support 11 tiles or 66 Virtual Machines (VM) in VMmark performance testing. The new server is now available along with the Dell PowerEdge M805 blade.
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| Dell offers broad server line-up to meet small and medium business needs |
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Dell has made available the latest edition to its growing small-and-medium-business server portfolio - the Dell PowerEdge T100. Starting at $449 and available from Dell and its more than 40,000 channel partners, the T100 is an ideal first server for businesses looking to build a networked server environment to enhance productivity, flexibility and security - a top-of-mind issue among SMBs globally.
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| Dell triples EqualLogic storage scalability and enhances data protection for virtual infrastructures |
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Dell has added to its EqualLogic product line a new, highly-scalable array - the PS5500E - and introduced advanced software features, including the EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware edition to improve data protection for virtual server environments.
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| Dell simplifies virtualization with breakthrough performance, centralized management and ready to deploy services |
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Dell has launched new products, management tools and infrastructure consulting services designed to provide customers a smarter path to virtualization. Dell thus expands its leadership in offering its channel partners a broad line-up of industry-standard virtualization solutions that help customers simplify and lower the cost of managing their IT environments.
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| New HP products and services enhance Microsoft virtualization from desktop to data centre |
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HP has launched new additions to its recently updated portfolio of servers, storage, software and services - driving more business value into Microsoft virtualization environments.
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| IBM research unveils storage innovations |
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As part of IBM's largest launch ever of new storage hardware, software and services - the building blocks for the world's strongest information infrastructure portfolio - the company has outlined next-generation technologies incubating in IBM's labs that could further enhance future information infrastructure offerings.
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| University of South Carolina expands bioinformatics research with SGI technology |
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The University of South Carolina (USC) has added a powerful mix of SGI server and storage technology. Installed in April, the SGI Altix system and SGI InfiniteStorage 4000 will be used primarily for bioinformatics, computational biology and medical research. The SGI Altix 4700 system is by far the largest shared memory system in South Carolina for academic usage, according to USC. USC plans to share the system with other universities within the state.
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| Sun outpaces disk storage systems market nearly three times over, according to latest analyst data |
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Sun has achieved strong results for disk storage systems sales, as highlighted in the IDC Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for Q2CY08.
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| Sun strikes multi-million dollar deal with leading ERP software company to deploy MySQL enterprise and GlassFish solutions |
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Sun has added the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Stésud to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed Sun's open source MySQL database and GlassFish application server software.
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| CentricStor VT now provides certified disaster recovery for EMC Centera platform |
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Certified disaster recovery for enterprise and commercial customers relying on EMC Centera active data archiving systems is introduced by Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Seven Ten Storage Software: Certification of CentricStor VT (Virtual Tape) from Fujitsu Siemens Computers with StorFirst software from Seven10, an expert in virtualization and data protection of regulatory-compliant enterprise archives, provides a guaranteed data protection solution for the popular EMC Centera Content Addressable Storage (CAS) product line.
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| First 3D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture |
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The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.
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| IBM develops computational scaling solution for next generation "22nm" semiconductors |
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IBM has developed a computationally based process for production of next generation 22nm semiconductors. Known as Computational Scaling (CS) - a process that enables the production of complex, powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors at 22nms and beyond - this new initiative will feature support from several of IBM's key partners initially including Mentor Graphics and Toppan Printing.
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| HP keeps up with accelerated customer demand for next-generation data centres |
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HP has signed data centre design services contracts with more than 60 customers in the last six months. EYP Mission Critical Facilities (EYP MCF), a company of HP, provides strategic planning, design and operations support to help companies transform their data centres, optimize energy efficiency and enable business growth.
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| Intel and Rogue Wave Software to demonstrate milestone in parallel computing at 2008 High Performance on Wall Street |
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Intel and Rogue Wave Software Inc., an expert in enterprise class C++ components and infrastructure, will jointly demonstrate results of recent performance tests of Intel's latest Xeon server and Rogue Wave's Hydra at the 2008 High Performance on Wall Street Conference.
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| Wyse and Novell announce first enterprise-class Linux thin client optimized for desktop virtualization |
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Wyse Technology, a global expert in thin computing, and Novell have jointly delivered Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise, the next-generation of Linux operating system designed for thin computing environments and available only on Wyse desktop and mobile thin client devices.
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| PlateSpin Forge protects the data centre with improved workload integrity and flexible storage options |
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PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, has made available PlateSpin Forge version 2.0, an innovative hardware-based disaster recovery appliance that uses embedded VMware virtualization to protect most x86 server workloads. The only product on the market to provide immediate failover and hardware-independent failback, PlateSpin Forge allows customers to rapidly recover their server workloads in the event of downtime or a site disaster.
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| Verari Systems' BladeRack 2 X-Series platform optimized to support Windows HPC Server 2008 |
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Blade servers for Verari's BladeRack 2 X-Series product line are now optimized to support Windows HPC Server 2008. By working with Microsoft, Verari Systems is able to offer its customers a new standard for today's data centres within the constraints of limited power, cooling and floor space.
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| Sun and GigaSpaces break 1.3 million-messages-per-second benchmark on Sun server with CoolThreads technology |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and GigiSpaces have achieved new benchmark performance results. In these tests, the energy-efficient Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server processed 1.3 million transactions per second with 60 concurrent clients to achieve an improvement of up to 40 percent over competing multi-threaded platforms.
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| Cluster Resources and Microsoft demonstrate Moab Hybrid Cluster solution for Windows HPC Server 2008 at HPC on Wall Street |
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Cluster Resources will present the Moab Hybrid Cluster solution at HPC on Wall Street in New York. The company will demonstrate how to maximize mixed Windows and Linux environments by leveraging the Moab Cluster Management toolset from Cluster Resources.
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| Cluster Resources works with IBM to provide Moab Hybrid Cluster solution on iDataPlex |
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Cluster Resources Inc. joins IBM to offer the Moab Hybrid Cluster solution with IBM's new iDataPlex to enable both Windows and Linux OSes to run on the same platform. This solution set will address the technology needs of massive data centres while enabling more efficient computing. Cluster Resources and IBM will demonstrate the Moab Hybrid Cluster solution on an iDataPlex server at HPC on Wall Street.
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| Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Now Available |
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Furthering its dedication to providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle has launched the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. This release marks the first free Eclipse 3.4 environment to support Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.
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| Docking@Home is back |
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Docking@Home is a collaborative project that aims to accomplish both bioscience and computer science goals. From the bioscience point of view, the project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals.
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| NVIDIA achieves monumental Folding@Home milestone with Cuda |
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NVIDIA GPUs are contributing over 1 petaflop of processing power to Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing application as of August 19, 2008, according to the statistics published by Stanford. Active NVIDIA GPUs deliver over 1.25 petaflops, or 42% of the total processing power of the application which seeks to understand how proteins affect the human body.
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| NQueens@Home is now listed in the official BOINC project's page |
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The NQueens@home project, from the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile, seeks to find the solutions to the N Queens problem for values of 26 and greater. The project is an attempt to find the results of the NQueen problem using a BOINC framework for board sizes starting from N=19.
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| First EGEE III MoU signed by EDGeS in Istanbul - EDGeS also price winner at EGEE08 |
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EDGeS signed the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the EGEE III project. This MoU marks the start of a collaboration between the two projecs on technical, application and dissemination level. The first MoU of EGEE III was signed at the EGEE'08 conference in Istanbul by EGEE project director Bob Jones and Peter Kacsuk, Project Director of EDGeS from the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI). In signing its first MoU with EDGeS, EGEE III clearly shows that it considers EDGeS as the most important strategic partner project. EDGeS and EGEE III will collaborate on linking their infrastructures together and supporting applications on both service grids and Desktop Grids.
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| New CoreGRID White Paper addresses virtualization management for Grids and SOA |
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Virtualization introduces an abstraction layer on top of resources, so that physical characteristics are hidden from the user. At present CPU, network, and storage virtualization are the most widespread forms. Academic and/or commercial data processing centres already use or are at the verge of adopting those virtualization technologies - mostly to increase their overall system utilization and to offer highly available services.
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| University of Extremadura to release Organizational Grid Manager |
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Organizational Grid Manager (OGM) has been released by the University of Extremadura. OGM is a system for Grid computing on organizational resources using BOINC.
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| From Enabling Grids for E-sciencE to European Grid Initiative: The future of Grids in Europe |
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), the largest multi-disciplinary Grid in the world has within seven years created a reliable, effective Grid, supporting scientists across the globe in a myriad of disciplines. Now in its third phase, the project needs to secure the future of the Grid for its research communities.
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| Ibercivis now open to the public. |
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Ibercivis, a joint project of several Spanish universities and research institutes, is now open to the public. You can sign up and support Spanish research. This project uses BOINC.
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| Ancient musical instruments play again through ASTRA project |
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Ancient musical instruments can now be heard for the first time in hundreds of years, due to a new computer modelling project. ASTRA - Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application - has recreated the sounds of the harp-like Epigonion musical instrument from Ancient Greece and has performed one of the oldest known musical scores dating back to the Middle Ages. To achieve this it used the advanced GÉANT2 and EUMEDCONNECT research networks to link high capacity computers together, sharing information to enable the computer-intensive modelling of musical sounds.
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| Digipede delivers .NET Grid computing solution for Windows HPC Server 2008 |
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Grid software provider Digipede Technologies' award-winning Digipede Network is available for Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008. As Microsoft launches the next version of its HPC solution, Digipede brings added value to that solution with the first all-.NET Grid computing software Certified for Windows Server 2008.
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| Grid-X funding totals $2M+ for 100 GigE offload engine |
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Grid-X has secured over $800k in new government contracts, customer contributions, and seed investments, bringing total funds to $2M+ to date, for developing the Grid-X series of offload engines. The new design uses patent-pending algorithms and coding to implement what will be the lowest cost, fastest offload engine on the market.
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| DNS Europe to offer Grid/Utility computing services using 3Tera |
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3Tera Inc. and DNS Europe Ltd., a London-based pan-European hosting and outsourcing business have launched Grid hosting services powered by the AppLogic Grid operating system from 3Tera Inc. Available immediately, DNS Europe's dual-facility Grid hosting services will provide customers across Europe with the choice of United Kingdom or Southeastern European Grid hosting and outsourced multi-tier AppLogic support services. Initial offerings include Virtual Grid Server and Virtual Datacenter products to meet the current market demand.
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| Pioneer of volunteer computing urges its adoption at University of Delaware |
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David P. Anderson, the pioneer of the volunteer computing paradigm and Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) of the University of California at Berkeley, spoke at the first-ever East Coast meeting of BOINC on August 29, 2008 in the University of Delaware's (UD) Gore Hall.
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| Novel drug discovery leverages SIMDAT Grid technology |
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Within the European SIMDAT project, at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) a substantial progress in pharmaceutical analysis has been achieved. It enables pharmaceutical companies to virtualise and globalise their research and development (R&D) chain, lowering costs as well as considerably improving knowledge exchange between industrial and academic partners.
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| The rewards of EGEE's strategy for business |
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The sea-change surrounding cloud computing has brought with it a push-pull towards lowest common denominator components on the one hand and higher level services on the other. As the goal posts keep moving, Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) has embarked on a strategy to evaluate the benefits and challenges of diverse solutions, with the aim of helping companies, large and small, to capitalise on its open source technology.
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| First success for the UNESCO - HP Project and CNRS in combating the brain drain from Africa |
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The combined efforts of the UNESCO - Hewlett Packard project "Piloting Solutions for Reversing Brain Drain into Brain Gain in Africa" and the Institut des Grilles (Grids Institute) of CNRS have recently enabled the installation of a first computing Grid within UCAD (University of Cheikh Anta Diop) in Dakar in Senegal, thereby offering researchers the opportunity of co-operating more fully on an international level. In the long run, this project aims to endow universities in five African countries with computing Grid technology in order to help curb the brain drain of African graduates by providing them with the tools they need for their research.
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| 3Tera takes cloud computing global |
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3Tera Inc., an innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, has made available global cloud services, based on 3Tera's AppLogic Grid operating system. Driven by demand from multi-national customers and customers outside the United States, 3Tera has selected partners to offer cloud solutions on four continents and provide redundant on-line resources worldwide. 3Tera currently has partners and is running in data centres in seven countries: United States, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Serbia - on four continents: North America, South America, Asia, and Europe, with additional resources in South America and Australia soon to be available as well.
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| 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop issues Call 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-Hernandez (LIG), Daniele Herzog (INRIA), and Arnaud Legrand (CNRS).
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| CoreGRID - Sustainable European project in the international Grid research arena |
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This year's CoreGRID Symposium marks the end of CoreGRID as a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission. Most important, it corresponds to the re-launch of CoreGRID as the self-sustained ERCIM Working Group covering research activities on both Grid and Service Computing while maintaining the momentum of the European collaboration on Grid research.
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| Grid MP saves millions, independent report reveals |
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A white paper published by The FactPoint Group, a Silicon Valley-based research and consulting firm, reveals millions in financial benefits gained by a Fortune 100 company using Univa UD's Grid MP software.
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| Demandware powers stylish new eCommerce site for Barneys New York |
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Luxury retailer Barneys New York is now live on the Demandware eCommerce Platform. Its flexible on-demand platform will enable Barneys to scale as needed across key holiday seasons and handle complex transactions, while providing the luxury retailer the ability to own merchandising capabilities and have full control over the day-to-day management of the site.
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| GÉANT2 provides connectivity to CERN's new worldwide LHC computing Grid |
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International research and education network provider DANTE's GÉANT2 network, together with the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), are providing the high speed connectivity to underpin CERN's new Worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid infrastructure. The LHC is the world's largest scientific experiment and the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) has been designed to integrate computers around the world to create a massive processing capability through the creation of an optical private network (OPN) using GÉANT2 and other suppliers.
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| GigaSpaces launches latest release of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) |
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GigaSpaces Technologies has released GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 6.6, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of a new generation of application platforms and raising the technology bar for the middleware industry. The new release is a scale-out application server designed to scale predictably and on-demand, allowing businesses to cost-effectively plan for future growth while always being prepared for peak loads and spikes in demand for their applications and services.
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| SoftModule brings high-performance Grid computing capabilities to Tervela Advantage Partner Programme |
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SoftModule, an innovative provider of enterprise-class Grid computing solutions, has joined the Tervela Advantage Partner Programme (TAPP). The companies will be working together to provide a high-performance GridSwitch computing solution that leverages the Tervela Message Network to effectively meet the demanding requirements for large-scale Grid computing platforms.
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| Penguin Computing and Altair to deliver enhanced utility to HPC cluster users |
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Altair and Penguin Computing are partnering to deliver Linux HPC clusters with unprecedented ease of use to the rapidly growing technical computing market.
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| Grids: More than just an infrastructure |
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) has held its 5th annual conference in Istanbul and it is the breadth of research areas using EGEE that keeps the collaboration vibrant. At each meeting more and more new work is unveiled and this year was no different, with researchers from 50 countries around the world highlighting their latest research in the conference's demonstrations and poster sessions.
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| Oracle delivers new release of Oracle WebLogic Application Grid |
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A new version of one of Oracle's application Grid products was unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle WebLogic Application Grid. Oracle WebLogic Application Grid is part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family and a keystone offering in Oracle's application Grid strategy, an architecture for application infrastructure that enables greater resource efficiency, dynamic scale-out, and predictable quality of service for enterprise applications. The suite includes a new version of Oracle Coherence 3.4, the industry's leading distributed in-memory data Grid solution, which has improved performance and manageability along with additional language support.
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| Oracle introduces the HP Oracle Database Machine: delivering 10x faster performance than current Oracle data warehouses |
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In a keynote address to nearly 43,000 OpenWorld attendees, Oracle Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison unveiled the HP Oracle Database Machine, a system designed for extreme performance data warehouses. The HP Oracle Database Machine consists of a Grid of Oracle Database Servers and a Grid of new Oracle Exadata Storage Servers packaged in a single rack ordered as a complete system from Oracle.
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| Oracle and Intel collaborate to accelerate enterprise-ready cloud computing |
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Oracle and Intel Corporation are collaborating to help accelerate enterprise readiness of cloud computing and make it more efficient and secure. The companies will also identify and drive standards to enable flexible deployment across private and public clouds.
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| Oracle gains momentum as platform for independent software vendors providing SaaS and cloud-based applications |
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Continuing to demonstrate momentum as a foundation for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing offerings, Oracle achieved that more than 250 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have adopted the Oracle SaaS Platform for the development and delivery of their enterprise SaaS and cloud-based applications.
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| Oracle and Dell deliver world record dual-node result with SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark |
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Oracle has achieved a world record Dual-Node SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark result for Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebLogic Server, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware - together with Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux running on Dell PowerEdge servers delivered record-breaking performance in this benchmark category.
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| HP encourages CIOs to rethink virtualization in business terms |
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HP has introduced new products, services and solutions designed to simplify the implementation and management of virtualization so that the technology delivers greater business value.
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| Sun unveils xVM VirtualBox 2.0 and new enterprise support subscription |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software, as well as Sun xVM VirtualBox Software Enterprise Subscription, a new offering for 24/7 premium support for enterprise users.
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| Oracle buys ClearApp |
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Oracle has agreed to acquire ClearApp, a supplier of application management solutions for composite applications. ClearApp addresses the increasingly difficult task of managing composite applications built on SOA platforms by providing visibility of business services across all related application components.
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| Callidus Software reports strong momentum in telecom industry |
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In 2008 Callidus has signed various new telecommunications customers, including Vodafone New Zealand, Ventelo and Orascom, to name a few. Callidus provides telecom companies with advanced SPM solutions that improve productivity and efficiency for any sized company.
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| Sun expands cross-platform virtualization collaboration with Microsoft |
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Sun has launched new and significant developments in its cross-platform virtualization initiatives with Microsoft Corp. Making it simple to integrate and interoperate with Sun's xVM portfolio, Sun has made key pieces of its virtualization software available in open source via the OpenxVM.org community.
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| Sun expands virtualization portfolio with Sun xVM |
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Sun has made available Sun xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0, key components in its comprehensive virtualization strategy.
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| Voltaire introduces certified high-performance I/O virtualization solution for VMware |
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Voltaire, a provider of Grid backbone solutions for data centres, has launched its first certified I/O virtualization solution for VMware environments. Proven, tested and certified through Voltaire's new Certified Solutions Programme, the solution improves the performance, flexibility and cost savings of VMware environments. Voltaire will showcase the I/O virtualization solution for VMware at VMworld, September 15-18, 2008, at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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| Voltaire announces new Certified Solutions Programme providing customers a "Roadmap" to successful deployments |
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Voltaire has introduced a new Voltaire Certified Solutions Programme, which will develop, test and certify leading enterprise applications to take advantage of Voltaire InfiniBand's superior performance characteristics.
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| HP announces new virtualization offerings for VMware environments |
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HP has launched new products, services and solutions to help customers simplify their virtualized environments to realize business benefits from the data centre to the desktop.
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| 3Tera partners with Citrix to bring cloud computing into the mainstream |
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3Ter has signed a partnership with Citrix Systems Inc. to make enterprise grade cloud computing solutions available to customers of all sizes in external hosted clouds, or as a platform that can be deployed in corporate data centres behind customer firewalls.
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| Citrix unveils cloud computing strategy and product line |
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Citrix announced the new Citrix Cloud Center (C3) product family. The Citrix C3 solution integrates "cloud proven" virtualization and networking products that power many of today's largest Internet and web service providers.
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| Keeping computing compatible |
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As distributed computing becomes universal, the programmes that make devices work really have to work together. European researchers have gone back to basics to create a development toolkit that guarantees this sort of compatibility.
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| University of Tennessee Knoxville wins $16M Mathematics and Biology Center |
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Mathematicians and biologists from around the world will converge on the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, to take part in a new institute dedicated to finding creative solutions to pressing problems from animal disease to wildfire control.
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| Study merges decade of Arctic data as ice collapses into the sea |
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Last month, immense ice shelves collapsed into the Arctic Ocean. Polar bears are losing vital hunting grounds and countries are now staking claims to potential oil reserves under the pole. To better gauge the climate changes, Ohio researchers will "reanalyse" a decade of atmospheric, sea, ice and land surface data merged into a single computer model.
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| First beam in the LHC - accelerating science |
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The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world's most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 on September 10, 2008. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.
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| Astronomers tune in to 'Radio Universe' |
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Astronomers at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, have joined an innovative project that aims to address many of the key issues in astrophysics.
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| Esche and Chassapis awarded $500K by NSF for 'Virtual Environments for Collaborative Learning' |
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The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded $500,000 to two professors of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, to pursue the research goals laid out in their successful proposal, "Virtual Environments for Collaborative Learning".
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| Sun might be a long-distance traveler |
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A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is true, and now new simulations show that, at least in galaxies similar to our own Milky Way, stars such as the sun can migrate great distances.
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| Eye-Sys version 2.0 released |
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Version 2.0 of Eye-Sys, a revolutionary application that enables unprecedented control and ease in the development of visualization systems, is available for evaluation, testing and custom development.
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| New method for building multilingual ontologies that can be applied to the Semantic Web |
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Researchers from the Validation and Business Applications Group based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's School of Computing (FIUPM) have developed a new method for building multilingual ontologies that can be applied to the Semantic Web.
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| Force10 Networks increases deployment flexibility and investment protection of C-Series switches with FlexMedia line card |
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Force10 Networks, a pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, has increased the deployment flexibility of the C-Series family of resilient switches with the new FlexMedia line card that combines copper and fiber Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with 10 Gigabit Ethernet to help customers optimize their networks to meet unique traffic and application needs. As traffic demands change, the Force10 FlexMedia line card allows customers to cost effectively transition to higher speeds while protecting existing investments.
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| Atos Origin selects ADVA Optical Networking for high-availability connectivity between data centres |
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Global IT services company Atos Origin is relying on technology from ADVA Optical Networking to provide highly reliable connectivity between its data centres in Essen and Nuremberg. Atos Origin has deployed the ADVA FSP 2000 to link two critical data centres over fault-tolerant, redundant optical fiber paths. The company is also consolidating all its European mainframe systems in Essen. ADVA Optical Networking was chosen over rival vendors because of the reliability and scalability of its FSP 2000 platform, as well as for the system's superior energy efficiency and flexibility.
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| UCI receives $5.4 million to study large-scale computer networks |
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If your Facebook page - or "node" - disappeared, would your whole social network come crashing to a halt? A five-year, $5.4 million award to UC Irvine researchers will help them find out. The grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research will allow a research team to analyse networks of data on a significantly larger scale than ever before. The goal is to help scientists understand how networks the size of Facebook and LinkedIn are formed and how they evolve over time. The millions of Web pages connected through hyperlinks also will be studied.
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| ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 transforms Slovenia's IP-based national Academic and Research Network |
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The Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES) has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000, significantly expanding the data capacity of its network and enabling its 200,000 users to access the latest learning resources and research facilities. Connecting over 1100 education, research and cultural organisations throughout Slovenia, the network now spans 950km and supports bandwidth-intensive research applications and on-line education tools, including Grid computing, distance learning and multimedia sharing.
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| Telx launches 10 Gigabit Ethernet peering services powered by Force10 Networks |
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Telx, the Interconnection Company, has deployed the Force10 C300 resilient switch in its Phoenix Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) platform. The TIE platform provides one and 10 Gigabit Ethernet peering services. The Force10 C300 brings the reliability, network control and scalability Telx needs to serve participants who have growing traffic from video, on-line gaming and other bandwidth-intensive Internet applications.
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