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| The Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany chooses Bull to deliver a 200-teraflops supercomputer for the JuRoPa project |
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The Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany's leading HPC center and the instigator of the JuRoPa project, aimed at accelerating the development of high performance cluster computing in Europe, has ordered from Bull a supercomputer with a performance of 200 Teraflops, to be deployed at the beginning of 2009 and integrated within the Jülich's data centre network.
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| Thomas Schulthess appointed new CSCS-Director |
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Thomas Schulthess is the new Director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) at Manno. He studied physics and earned his Ph.D. degree at ETH Zurich. As CSCS director, he will also be professor of computational physics at ETH. He replaces professor Marco Baggiolini who was the acting director of the Centre.
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| ORACLE RAC for business applications at low cost and high efficiency thanks to the Italian E4 Computer Engineering technical solutions |
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Very recently, the Italian Services Company CAPODARCO - it belongs to the DARCO Group, a social co-operative which employs approximately 1500 people, most of them with physical disabilities, and provides services to regional public health institutions - and Oracle - the leading database company - have reported that, thanks to E4 - the Italian independent hardware company based in Scandiano, near Reggio Emilia - technical solutions, they have achieved an unprecedented level of efficiency, effectiveness and dependability for their ORACLE RAC (Real Application Cluster) installation in Rome.
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| Bull accelerates strategic repositioning and confirms ambition to become European IT leader in the High Performance Computing market |
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Bull is making a major investment in one of its flagship core businesses - High-Performance Computing (HPC) - with the agreement to acquire science + computing ag (s+c), a German company with significant expertise in HPC solutions and services, particularly for major clients in the automotive and aeronautical and related industries. This acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval, and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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| Daresbury Laboratory chooses TotalView for application development on the Blue Gene/P |
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The STFC Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington, U.K. has chosen to use TotalView to improve scientific research efforts and parallel application development on its IBM Blue Gene/P system.
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| PRACE investigated application requirements |
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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, investigated application requirements for European Petaflop systems. The investigation work consists of an analysis of the behaviour of a set of applications on current hardware platforms, and a survey of key users.
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| Cray-KMA joint centre sponsors third round of supercomputer-driven weather and climate research |
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The Earth System Research Center (ESRC), a co-operative venture between Cray and the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), has funded a third round of projects that promise to benefit public welfare by improving weather, seasonal climate and natural disaster predictions, and by producing scientific information on climate change. The ESRC was established in 2005 to advance the science of earth-system modelling over the East-Asia Pacific region and to leverage the collective knowledge of academia, government and industry in Korea by promoting collaboration across these communities.
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| ClusterVision to deliver Belgium's fastest computer |
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ClusterVision, specialist in high performance compute, storage and database clusters, has been selected by the University of Gent to deliver a supercomputer based on IBM hardware and ClusterVision software. The supercomputer will be used by scientists at the university to boost research in various fields of science, including Informatics, Chemistry, Medicine and Genetics.
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| PRACE hosts scientific workshop during ICT 2008 |
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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is arranging a scientific workshop in Lyon on November 26, to be held in parallel with ICT 2008. The themes of the scientific workshop are applications, architectures and training needs for petascale computing. Participants will receive first-hand information outlining the current status of the PRACE project, including its progress with hardware infrastructure, software applications and training.
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| Top UK researchers achieve breakthrough science on Cray supercomputer |
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Researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) are already achieving breakthrough science in a number of key disciplines using the powerful and highly scalable Cray XT4 supercomputer that was unveiled in January 2008 as part of the UK's High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR) project. Housed at the University of Edinburgh, the Cray supercomputer forms the basis for the UK's national high performance computing (HPC) service established as part of the HECToR project to enable scientific breakthroughs and advancements among the nation's academic community.
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| The MathWorks enables deployment of parallel MATLAB applications and extends parallel programming language |
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The MathWorks' Parallel Computing Toolbox now enables MATLAB users to create parallel applications and distribute them to other users as standalone executables or software components for use on computer clusters. In addition, Parallel Computing Toolbox introduces a new language construct, called spmd, which simplifies the development of data-intensive parallel applications.
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| Daimler chooses Fujitsu Siemens Computers' managed services for entire European data centre operations |
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Daimler AG has entrusted the operation of its European Data Centre (EDC) to Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The EDC provides a broad spectrum of IT services to Daimler Group companies all over the globe, including server operation and the integration of new hardware, databases and applications.
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| James River Technical and Velocity Micro unveil ProMagix VSC scientific workstations, accelerated by NVIDIA Tesla compute solutions |
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James River Technical Inc. (JRTI), and Velocity Micro have made available a full line of High Performance Computing workstation platforms based on the Tesla parallel computing engine from NVIDIA. The new Visual Supercomputer (VSC) will deliver unprecedented computational power to a user's desktop, making HPC capabilities available to a much broader market across all industries and scientific research disciplines.
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| IBM builds on industry-leading UNIX portfolio with new servers and software |
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IBM has introduced new POWER6 processor-based servers for enterprise and SMB clients and updated virtualization and systems management software designed to help clients improve performance, drive innovation, and maximize return on their IT investments in the new enterprise data centre.
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| Xenomorph and Microsoft ease strain on financial markets with HPC offering |
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Xenomorph and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to apply high performance computing (HPC) to data management in financial markets. Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 technology will be integrated with Xenomorph's TimeScape data and analytics management system.
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| San Diego Supercomputer Center and UCSD announce 'Triton Resource' |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California (UC), San Diego has launched plans for a unique facility called the Triton Resource, a high-impact, massive data analysis and storage system that will accelerate innovation, collaboration, and discovery through the use of leading-edge research cyberinfrastructure at SDSC.
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| Bull to open Grenoble High-Technology Center: the StoreWay Solution Center |
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Bull has opened its international Solution Center - the StoreWay Solution Center - dedicated to data protection and virtualization technologies in partnership with EMC, a major information infrastructure and solutions provider.
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| Verari Systems strengthens European sales network with new office in Germany |
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Verari Systems has opened a sales office in Hamburg, Germany to strengthen its European sales network and broaden local customer service capabilities.
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| TotalView Technologies adds batch and remote access debugging to TotalView 8.6 |
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TotalView Technologies has introduced the newest version of its award-winning source code analysis and error detection tool, TotalView 8.6. The new TotalView 8.6 release includes batch debugging with TVScript designed to automate test/verify/debug environments, and remote display debugging to enable developers to use TotalView across machines from any location.
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| Sun unveils first storage blade and delivers extreme dat centre efficiency with three new server blades |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has expanded its systems portfolio with the addition of a new storage blade and two new server modules targeted at improving efficiency in the enterprise. The Sun Blade 6000 disk module, Sun's first Open Storage blade, offers up to 1.2 TB of storage capacity and coupled with Solaris ZFS is a flash-ready platform targeted to change the economics of the enterprise data centre.
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| IBM acquires storage solutions company NovusCG |
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IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire NovusCG, a privately held storage solutions company based in Manassas, Virginia. Financial terms were not disclosed. Novus will become part of the Storage and Data Services business unit in IBM Global Technology Services.
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| IBM unveils next-generation storage offerings to help mainframe clients |
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IBM has launched new innovations in information infrastructure storage solutions for IBM System z environments, featuring next generation tape and disk storage offerings to integrate with the just announced IBM System z10 Business Class mainframe. These IBM storage offerings are designed to help clients simplify their storage infrastructures, support business continuity, safeguard their information and extract more value from their System z mainframe environments.
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| Sun announces suite of professional services for three phases of data centre management: strategy, design and build |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched a comprehensive suite of professional services intended to help customers strategize, design and build data centres optimized for energy, space, and cost efficiency. Continuing Sun's broad eco leadership, Sun consultants can now retrofit existing data centres to meet minimum power and efficiency needs, or develop new modular data centre design concepts that can maximize space utilization, increase power and minimize operating costs, based on customers' specific business needs.
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| Sun drives new levels of data centre efficiency for telco service providers |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has provided additions to its Sun Netra carrier-grade server family including the Sun Netra X4250 server, a 2U rackmount server powered by two high-performance LV quad-core Intel Xeon processors; the Sun Netra X4450 server, a 4U rackmount server and the industry's only carrier-grade server powered by four quad-core Intel Xeon processors; and the Sun Netra T5440 server, a 4U rackmount server powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor.
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| Oracle Warehouse Infrastructure is the fast-track to optimal real-time enterprise data use |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers puts enterprises on the fast track to making the most of their real-time enterprise data through introducing Oracle Warehouse Infrastructure, a series of pre-tested, ready-to-run system configurations scaling up to 10TB.
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| SGI and Oracle expand reach of Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative to more enterprises |
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SGI and Oracle have introduced a new Oracle Optimized Warehouse based on SGI servers, supercomputers and storage solutions optimized for the world's most popular database.
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| Tricon Geophysics selects Force10 Networks to power its network infrastructure upgrade |
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Tricon Geophysics Inc. has deployed Force10's C300 resilient switches and S50 access switches at their data centres in Houston and Denver. The seismic data processing services provider chose Force10 as part of a companywide initiative to upgrade its infrastructure to power more efficient data movement while gaining greater transparency into network traffic for its clustered server environment.
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| Bill Balke and Bill Strecker join Terascala Board of Directors |
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Bill Blake and Bill Strecker have joined the Board of Directors of Terascala., a provider of high throughput, high capacity storage appliances.
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| Dot Hill strategic partner, Newtech, expands midrange storage solutions in Japan with 5730 arrays |
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Dot Hill Systems has expanded its strategic partnership with Newtech Co., Ltd., to better address the needs of midrange storage customers in Japan. Newtech, a provider of small to midrange enterprise storage products and solutions in Japan, has added the Dot Hill 5730 midrange storage array to its portfolio of storage solutions.
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| Fujitsu opens sustainable data centre in Sydney |
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Fujitsu Australia Limited has officially opened its new sustainable data centre at Sydney's Homebush Bay after extensive work to improve the facility's energy efficiency and reduce its environmental footprint.
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| Dot Hill certifies entry-level and midrange RAID solutions with full line of FalconStor data protection products |
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FalconStor, specialized in TOTALLY Open data protection solutions for Enterprises and SMBs, has core-certified Dot Hill's 2730 and 5730 RAID arrays for use with the FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL), FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR), FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) and FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), resulting in proven performance and scalability for businesses looking for storage virtualization, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.
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| HP strengthens security portfolio with new disk encryption and key management solutions |
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HP has launched new disk encryption features and improvements to key management for tape libraries, enhancing the security of business-critical data and simplifying the management of compliance-related operations for midsize to enterprise customers.
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| Sun and Fujitsu's SPARC Enterprise T5440 server redefines midrange enterprise computing with industry-leading price points, power management and multiple world record benchmarks |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Limited have launched the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, the first server to deliver the scalability and reliability of traditional midrange systems with the breakthrough performance and radical energy efficiency of the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture.
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| Sun sets multiple world records with new Solaris-powered Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server |
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The new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) has set seven world records on industry standard benchmarks including the best four processor result on two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, Oracle's Siebel CRM 8.0 Platform Sizing and Performance Programme (PSPP) and single-node SPECjAppServer2004.
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| Dell and Platform Computing collaborate on HPC management software solution |
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Platform Computing has released Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) - Dell Edition, a pre-integrated, vendor certified stack optimized to run on Dell hardware. Del and Platform Computing will market a pre-configured, open source, Dell supported solution that reduces the costs and complexity of running HPC environments.
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| IBM expands storage virtualization for SMBs with SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition |
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IBM's SVC storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, will be packaged for small and medium sized (SME) businesses, one of the faster growing parts of the storage marketplace.
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| Liquid Computing launches the next generation of LiquidIQ, industry's only converged communication, computing and storage system |
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Liquid Computing has released LiquidIQ 2.0 system that combines standard physical data centre resources, such as servers, switching, operating systems, network interfaces and storage, with FabricBoss sophisticated management and control software to create a true end-to-end data centre solution.
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| Bull teams up with SAP Research on joint R&D initiative for Green IT |
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Bull is entering into a joint R&D initiative with SAP Research that will put application software that will bring energy efficiencies to customers and data centres. Through this initiative, the companies will leverage their respective skills and aim to align the SAP business software portfolio with new data centre energy-efficiency policies. The development of best practices and operations guidance is based on a breakthrough, comprehensive approach to Green IT, covering hardware infrastructure, middleware and application software.
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| Sun servers demonstrate enterprise and HPC performance leadership |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has achieved five new world record results on industry-standard benchmarks using x64 servers based on Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron architectures, powered by the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Linux. Sun posted the first-ever submissions on two new benchmarks from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) - SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008, as well as record-breaking results on SPECfp2006, ABAQUS and Fluent application benchmarks for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
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| Greener data centres taking priority in United Arab Emirates, according to Fujitsu Siemens |
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More energy-efficient or 'green' data centres are assuming a vastly increased priority on the 'to do' lists of CIOs and technology decision-makers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to Fujitsu Siemens Computers. While the effort is being complicated by a lack of standards and information sharing, Fujitsu Siemens Computers presented solutions which cut through the maze, at a Dynamic Data Centre Forum for its customers at The Monarch, on October 19, 2008.
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| The Pantry Inc. goes green with the implementation of new energy efficient data centre designed by Altruent Systems |
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Altruent Systems, a systems integration company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, that specializes in the consulting, design, and installation of mission-critical infrastructure, has completed a new energy efficient data centre for Sanford-based The Pantry Inc. Altruent Systems was selected to design, engineer and construct The Pantry's new data centre with state-of-the-art infrastructure that allows for energy savings on power and cooling.
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| Intel demonstrates world's first working 'Moorestown' platform |
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The surge of new Internet-based applications and innovations will require a common, yet flexible platform from which the industry can innovate upon, and the Intel Architecture is well positioned at the core of exciting new innovations and transformation, according to Intel executive Anand Chandrasekher.
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| Intel showcases 80-core research chip at GITEX |
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Intel Corporation is showcasing the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip at GITEX Dubai. The 'Teraflop Research Chip' is able to deliver more than one trillion mathematical calculations per second (1 Teraflop) of performance, and is not much larger than the size of a finger nail, whilst additionally using less electricity than most of today's home appliances.
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| New solar energy material captures every colour of the rainbow |
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Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture. Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues combined electrically conductive plastic with metals including molybdenum and titanium to create the hybrid material.
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| IBM reports third-quarter results |
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IBM has issued third-quarter 2008 diluted earnings of $2.05 per share from continuing operations compared with diluted earnings of $1.68 per share in the third quarter of 2007, an increase of 22 percent. Third-quarter income from continuing operations was $2.8 billion compared with $2.4 billion in the third quarter of 2007, an increase of 20 percent. Total revenues for the third quarter of 2008 of $25.3 billion increased 5 percent (2 percent, adjusting for currency) from the third quarter of 2007.
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| Verari Systems introduces HyDrive disk blade concept featuring Intel X25-E Extreme SATA solid-state drives |
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Verari Systems has launched HyDrive, a hybrid enterprise storage blade. The new Verari HyDrive disk blade integrates the Intel X25-E Extreme SATA 2.5-inch Solid-State Drives (SSD) as well as high capacity 3.5-inch SATA hard drives into the highly successful Verari BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms.
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| Denser, more powerful computer chips possible with plasmonic lenses that 'fly' |
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Engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.
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| HP offers customers new level of performance with thin client and blade workstation |
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HP has introduced a high-performance thin client and blade workstation that provide virtualization customers a true workstation experience combined with the security, ease of management and lowered total cost of ownership of thin client computing.
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| Memoirs of a qubit: Hybrid memory solves key problem for quantum computing |
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An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics which could crack problems unsolvable by current technology.
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| IBM and Intel drive adoption of open switch specification for blade servers |
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IBM and Intel Corporation are extending their collaboration in the blade server market to drive adoption of an open industry specification for blade switches. This will enable switch vendors to maximize return on their research and development by developing products to a single design, reaching more customers with just one product.
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| IBM launches next-generation mainframe for midsize customers |
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IBM has introduced a new mainframe to help midsize companies and customers in emerging markets jumpstart new application development efforts, consolidate IT server sprawl, and give qualified organisations a "pay-as-you-grow" financial platform to build the mainframe as the foundation of their new enterprise data centre.
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| HP acquires LeftHand Networks to extend leadership in storage and virtualization solutions |
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HP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks Inc., a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. LeftHand Networks' solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large corporations to easily and cost-effectively protect critical business data. HP has agreed to purchase LeftHand Networks for $360 million in cash, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.
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| BEinGRID booklet published , titled "Better Business Using Grid Solutions" |
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BEinGRID, Europe's largest research project in the field of Grid Computing, releases a free booklet of compiled case studies and background information. Learn how to make your business more efficient and reduce IT costs using distributed computing.
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| New on-line PBS GridWorks Store sells PBS professional software licenses and support 24/7 to customers worldwide |
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Altair Engineering Inc., a global provider of technology and services that empower innovation and decision-making, has opened The GridWorks Store, an automated on-line facility that enables customers to purchase and download PBS GridWorks software around the clock from any location. Each purchase will include downloadable PBS Professional code, a one-year software license, and PBS GridWorks support.
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| Journal of Grid Computing issues Call for Papers for Special issue on Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids |
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TheJournal of Grid Computingwill publish a special issue on Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids. Paper submission deadline is January 31, 2009.
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| Cleversafe simplifies storage of exabytes of digital content |
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Cleversafe Inc., a provider of Dispersed Storage technology, has introduced new data storage appliance and software upgrades for the company's core Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet) technology - providing the enterprise with the most economical and efficient way to store exabytes of unstructured data, including audio and video files.
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| Fermat and Platform Computing partner to optimize risk management processes |
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Platform Computing and Fermat, a provider of risk and performance management products to the Financial Services Industry, have signed a partnership to integrate all Fermat products with Platform Symphony.
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| 3Tera brings Windows to Cloud computing |
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3Tera has introduced beta availability of AppLogic 2.4 which includes support for virtual appliances running Microsoft Windows Server incorporated in all infrastructure components necessary to run Web applications including storage, networking and load balancing.
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| Evergrid changes name to Librato |
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Evergrid Inc. will change its name to Librato Inc., effective immediately. The new name encompasses the expanded scope of the company's product offerings which now includes application workload management in addition to Grid computing products. Librato Load Manager helps balance application workloads to deliver predictable application performance and optimal resource utilization for x86 platforms on physical or virtual servers. These capabilities enable customers to run more applications on fewer servers without compromising business goals.
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| Parabon drives powerful Grid applications from the browser with new Frontier Dashboard |
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Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of Grid computing solutions that enable high-performance computation on demand, has launched a new browser-based "dashboard" interface to its flagship software product, the Frontier Grid Platform.
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| LabVantage's SAPPHIRE receives caBIG Bronze Compatibility Certification |
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LabVantage's SAPPHIRE Laboratory Information Management Suite (LIMS) has been awarded the caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) Bronze Compatibility Certification by National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB). Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), caBIG is a network of biomedical informaticists, researchers, physicians, patients, and others for establishing an interoperable information infrastructure.
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| eXludus Technologies introduces new Vice President, Engineering |
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eXludus Technologies, a developer of multi-core system capacity management, virtualization and provisioning solutions, has nominated Michael Declerck as Vice President, Engineering, effective immediately.
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| CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing |
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The LHC Grid Fest, held October 3, 2008 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, is expected to produce more than 15 million Gigabytes of data each year. Hundreds of millions of subatomic particles will collide each second, presenting a massive data challenge. The mission of the WLCG is to build and maintain the data storage and analysis infrastructure for this immense flow of data, thus helping physicists open new frontiers in our understanding of the Universe.
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| 1st EDGeS Grid training workshop & 2nd AlmereGrid Grid Experience workshop issues Call for Participation |
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On 27-28 November 2008, AlmereGrid and EDGeS with support from Gridforum.nl will organise a two-day Desktop Grid workshop in Almere, The Netherlands. This workshop will start with an overview of the current state-of-the-art of Desktop Grid technology - especially BOINC, XtremWEB, and the EDGeS Grid Bridge, and selected examples of successful Desktop Grid applications from both research and industry.
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| IBM builds on SOA leadership with new software and services |
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IBM Global Business Services has compiled SmartBusiness INsight, a series of industry-specific studies that can be used to help clients identify and prioritize strategic initiatives within their organisations, helping them set goals and objectives for those initiatives. These studies use industry subject matter experts to analyse macro-level trends and future industry challenges to provide guidance on how SOA is driving new strategies, business models and operational objectives.
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| SAFE Corporation opens Grid computing system for software IP comparisons |
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Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation (SAFE), a provider of software tools for detecting and measuring software intellectual property, has just announced CodeGrid, a distributed computing system that enables CodeSuite jobs to be run many times faster than ever before. CodeSuite is a suite of tools, consisting of CodeMatch, CodeDiff, and BitMatch, for comparing computer source code and object code to detect such things as plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trade secret theft. CodeSuite can also measure software intellectual property changes through various revisions of programme releases.
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| Grids get down to business |
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New technology developed by European researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using Grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives easy access to Grid resources. It is a big deal. The EU-funded A-WARE project has developed a platform that allows easy access to grid resources and has validated its approach by enabling Grid deployment across large enterprises.
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| Medical data 'Internet' goes live and boosts research |
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Medical and life scientists will be able to share information collected from many thousands of cases thanks to a digital network being launched at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
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| InforSense partners with GSK to enable virtual drug discovery |
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InforSense, a provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, has completed a pilot project at GlaxoSmithKline to enable virtual drug discovery through virtual outsourcing of data analysis via secure Grid technology. The project is sponsored by Simdat - a programme funded by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies Programme designed to test and enhance Grid data technology for product development and production process design.
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| First European Conference on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities Technologies issues Call for Papers |
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The First European Conference on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities Technologies will take place 13-14 January 2009 at the Diamant Conference Centre in Brussels, Belgium. The conference is organised by the CHALLENGERS and ECSS European Funded Projects. Deadline for the submission of abstract is 14 November, 2008. Deadline for the submission of the exhibition application forms is 28 November, 2008.
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| Parabon drives powerful Grid applications from the browser with new Frontier Dashboard |
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Parabon Computation has introduced a new browser-based "dashboard" interface to its flagship software product, the Frontier Grid Platform. Available now, the Frontier Dashboard provides users a convenient and easy-to-use web environment for running, monitoring and managing massively parallel, Grid-powered applications. Moreover, it provides developers with a full-featured application infrastructure - complete with single sign-on authentication, user account management and accounting/billing functions - that facilitates the creation of "Grid software as a Service" (GSaaS) applications and businesses.
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| Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3 now available |
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Addressing the requirements of business analysts and IT, Oracle has unveiled Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3 (Oracle BPM 10g R3), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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| Oracle unveils Oracle Entitlements Server 10g Release 3 |
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Oracle has made available Oracle Entitlements Server 10g Release 3.
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| Red Hat delivers first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing platform |
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Red Hat has delivered an integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters.
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| HP enhances SOA governance software; Telecom Co. triples return on investment using HP SOA solutions |
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HP has launched HP SOA Systinet 3.00, which helps IT organisations use their resources more efficiently to deliver better business value from their SOA initiatives.
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| LHC computing Grid launched |
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The LHC Grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centres from 33 countries to analyse and manage more than 15 Pbyte of LHC data every year.
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| Special IDIS Journal Issue on "Identity Management in Grid and SOA" issues Call for Papers |
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Professor Dora Varvarigou and Vassiliki Andronikou are organizing a Special Issue on "Identity Management in Grid and SOA" for theIDIS - Identity in the Information Societyjournal published by Springer. Deadline for paper submission is December 12, 2008.
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| IBM launches cloud services initiative |
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IBM has launched a company-wide initiative that extends its traditional software delivery model toward a mix of on-premise and cloud computing applications with new software, services and technical resources for clients and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). IBM's new cloud services can help businesses of all sizes more easily adopt cloud computing models to better manage data, lower operational costs and make collaboration easier.
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| New IBM servers to power Merrill Lynch |
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Merrill Lynch will use its new iDataPlex servers, a new class of data centre hardware that allows mass-scale, Internet-style computing in a compact, energy-saving package.
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| NetMass announces ServerSafe Version 8.0, a fully-automated remote back-up and recovery platform for the enterprise |
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NetMass, the safe data company, has unveiled ServerSafe 8.0, the newest version of the company’s remote D2D back-up solution. ServerSafe 8.0 introduces enhancements in speed, performance, functionality and reliability for state-of-the-art off-site data protection.
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| REvolution Computing's new ParallelR Version 1.2 product enhances statistical analyses through parallelization of multiprocessors |
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REvolution Computing, commercial provider of software and support for the R open source statistical computing language, has launched ParallelR version 1.2. ParallelR enables R users to complete statistical analyses much more quickly by taking full advantage of multiprocessor systems and network systems.
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| NetLogic Microsystems and Endeavor Security collaborate to accelerate intrusion prevention systems to 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) performance |
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NetLogic Microsystems Inc., specialized in the design and development of knowledge-based processors and high-speed integrated circuits, and Endeavor Security Inc., an expert in intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies, have set up a broad collaboration between the companies to enable intrusion prevention capabilities for a wide range of performance levels, ranging from high-end carrier and enterprise networks to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB).
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| National Ignition Facility utilizes Oracle Database 11g in search for nuclear fusion |
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The National Ignition Facility & Photon Science (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses Oracle Database 11g and its unique features for managing, storing and analysing massive amounts of data and images resulting from the facility's large scale experiments on thermonuclear fusion. NIF is the world's largest laser featuring 192 intense laser beams.
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| Layered Technologies upgrades network to enhance enterprise-class services and expand virtualization offerings |
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Layered Technologies Inc.'s recently completed network upgrades further strengthen its ability to handle complex requirements of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms, while simultaneously positioning Layered Tech to effectively manage its rapid growth.
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| Layered Technologies extends DEFCON managed services across product line to include virtual machines |
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Layered Technologies Inc.'s virtualization investments and acquisition of FastServers.net have helped drive DEFCON managed services across its broad range of products, including virtual machines. This latest advance from Layered Tech now enables customers of its Grid Layer virtual machines (VM) to experience the same highly developed services available to its dedicated server clients.
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| The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates first data |
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Three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest particle accelerator - the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates the start of its crucial data challenge: the analysis and management of more than 15 Petabyte of data every year, to be produced from the hundreds of millions of subatomic collisions expected inside the LHC every second. This data-handling feat marks an essential stage in the process of enabling researchers to discover new physics.
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| Cluster Resources and Microsoft demonstrate Moab |
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Cluster Resources has presented the Moab Hybrid Cluster solution at HPC on Wall Street in New York. The company has demonstrated how to maximize mixed Windows and Linux environments by leveraging the Moab Cluster Management toolset from Cluster Resources.
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| LHC to be officially inaugurated on 21 October 2008 |
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Following the successful circulation of first beam in the LHC on 10 September 2008, the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument will be officially inaugurated at CERN on 21 October 2008. Representatives of the governments of CERN's Member and Observer States and other participating nations have been invited.
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| The MathWorks enables MATLAB parallel computing tools to run on the EGEE Grid |
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The MathWorks' parallel computing products - Parallel Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server - are now running on the EGEE Grid - Enabling Grids for E-sciencE. These tools are fully integrated with gLite, the middleware used by EGEE, which is Europe's largest high performance computing consortium. Prior to this integration, users could not work with MATLAB in a Grid environme.
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| Researchers teach computers to search for photos based on their contents |
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A pair of Penn State researchers has developed a statistical approach, called Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time (ALIPR), that one day could make it easier to search the Internet for photographs. The public can participate in improving ALIPR's accuracy by visiting a designated website, uploading photographs, and evaluating whether the keywords that ALIPR uses to describe the photographs are appropriate.
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| NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-earths |
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Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets.
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| UWE computer experts assist the construction of experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider |
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Computer scientists in the Complex Cooperative Systems (CCS) research centre at the University of the West of England (UWE) have developed a tool called CRISTAL - Co-operating Repositories and Information Systems for Tracking Assembly Lifecycles - that has revolutionised management systems used to control complex work flow procedures.
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| KAUST announces partnership with UC San Diego to build world's most advanced visualization centre |
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have signed a special partnership to develop and conduct joint research in visualization and virtual reality and training facilities, which will make the KAUST campus in Saudi Arabia the site of the world's most advanced visualization suite.
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| CERN inaugurates the LHC |
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Swiss President Pascal Couchepin and French Prime Minister François Fillon were joined at CERN by science ministers from CERN's Member States and around the world to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument.
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| What system biologists can find under the SYCAMORE tree |
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Finding answers to the complexity of questions emerging in modern biology requires the use of quantitative, computational approaches. Mathematical modelling is a critical component of systems biology studies of biochemical networks. However, the use and applicability of computational methods in systems biology is often hampered by the complexity of the software tools available for the modelling and simulation tasks. SYCAMORE stands for a SYstems biology Computational Analysis and MOdelling Research Environment. It has been developed in order to support the user, particularly the non-expert user, in setting up, simulating and analysing biochemical models.
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| International science community to establish global virtual library for scientific data |
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The existing networks for collecting, storing and distributing data in many areas of science are inadequate and not designed to enable the inter-disciplinary research that is necessary to meet major global challenges. These networks must be transformed into a new inter-operable data system and extended around the world and across all areas of science. The General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) agreed to take the first strategic steps to establish such a system.
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| ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards load up compelling gaming and multimedia features |
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AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest additions to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics line up.
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| Scientists focus on hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to assess likely changes |
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Researchers are homing in on the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to assess the likely changes, between now and the middle of the century, in the frequency, intensity, and tracks of these powerful storms. Initial results are expected early next year.
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| The science of speed - how world-class UK research is behind the fastest car in the world |
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World class UK research is helping to build the fastest car in the world thanks to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The BLOODHOUND SSC Project, led by Richard Noble OBE, is aiming to set a new world land speed record of a thousand miles per hour by 2011. The challenge at the heart of the project is to create a car capable of 1,000mph - a car 30% faster than any car that has gone before.
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| Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation |
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When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers in the the EU-funded POPEYE project allows independent, ad hoc, secure networking anywhere.
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| EU and ASEM secure financing for high-speed internet link until 2011 |
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Building on the success of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network 2 (TEIN2) research and education network the European Union (EU) and its partners have announced the launch date of its successor. The TEIN3 network will enable continued EU-Asia co-operation, directly benefiting researchers and the wider population. Funded by the European Union with 12 million euro and an additional 6 million euro from Asian partners, the TEIN3 network will run until 2011. In comparison to its predecessor TEIN2, it will operate at a higher speed and across additional Asian countries. The official launch is foreseen for 8 December at the ASEM Workshop on ICT for Development in Vientiane, Laos.
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| tw telecom to provide high speed Internet service to Louisiana Universities and Health Science Centers |
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tw telecom inc., a provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions, has deployed a dedicated 600 Megabit Ethernet connection to the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI). LONI will deploy and manage tw telecom's Internet solution to connect Louisiana's 12 major research universities in order to greatly improve collaboration on research projects and deliver results faster, with greater accuracy.
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| Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light |
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Boston University's (BU) College of Engineering is a partner launching a major programme, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves. Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create "Smart Lighting" that would be faster and more secure than current network technology.
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| Cisco selects winner of global I-Prize innovation contest |
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Cisco has selected the winner of the Cisco I-Prize innovation contest. The winning team, based in Germany and Russia, presented Cisco with a business plan that improves energy efficiency by taking advantage of Cisco's leadership in Internet Protocol (IP) technology.
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| Indian paint company deploys Force10 to power next-generation data centre |
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Asian Paints has deployed Force10's C-Series resilient switch at its data centre in Mumbai, India. The Force C150 switch serves as the network backbone for India's largest paint company, supporting its growing application landscape and its expanding global distribution network.
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| German Internet Exchange deploys Force10 Networks C-Series resilient switch to deliver cost-effective 10 Gigabit Ethernet serivces |
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ECIX, an Internet exchange in Germany run by the Peering GmbH, has deployed Force10's C-Series resilient switch to cost-effectively deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet peering services to its enterprise and service provider customers in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg. The Force10 C300 provides the scalable and reliable foundation that enables ECIX to deliver the high-bandwidth services its customers require and to guarantee their service level agreements.
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