The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed Hyperion.

3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, has expanded sales into India through a new channel partnership with global technology integrator Knitlogix Pvt, Ltd., based in Hyderabad, India. With offices across India, the Middle East, and the US, Knitlogix has agreed to sell and support 3PAR Utility Storage systems to enterprise customers in India as part of a focus on delivering utility and cloud computing integration.

Belgium's Catholic University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven) has selected an energy-smart, space-efficient cluster system from Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) to form one of the initial building blocks of a new supercomputer centre to drive research excellence in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

There have been several revolutions during the 60 year history of electronic computation, such as high level programming languages and client/server separation, but one key challenge has yet to be fully resolved. This is to break down large complex processes into small more manageable components that can then be reused in different applications. There are many possible ways of doing this, but none of them cope well with all processes, with the major problem lying in the dependent links, or correlations, between components that cannot be broken down, the threads that interconnect whole computer processes or programmes. These correlations are common to all processes in which computation is involved, including biological systems and the emerging field of quantum computing, as well as conventional programming.

At SC08, NVIDIA demonstrated a Lenovo ThinkStation equipped with Tesla C1060 GPU Computing processing technology. The demonstration showed cluster-class performance of complex seismic imaging data being generated on a single workstation.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has over the last nine years transformed itself from a product company into an IT infrastructure provider.

During Supercomputing 2008 in Austin Texas, NEC organizes a technical workshop on future developments in High Performance Computing. At Wednesday afternoon, 19 November 2008 visitors at the SC08 have the opportunity to learn about latest developments in Hybrid Supercomputing, Use of GPU's in Clusters and the advantages of vector technology in modern supercomputers. The presentations will be given by users from well-known research institutes in Japan and Europe.

Super Micro Computer Inc.'s Board of Directors has adopted a programme to repurchase, from time to time, at management's discretion, shares of the company's common stock. Under the plan, the company is authorized to repurchase up to 2,000,000 of its outstanding shares of common stock in the open market or in private transactions during the period ending June 30, 2009 at prevailing market prices in compliance with applicable securities laws and other legal requirements.

The dream of using the internet to allow people to access as much computer processing and storage power as they need, when they need it, is a step closer thanks to European researchers. Although a World Wide Grid running on top of the internet is still probably years away from being a reality, the grid, like the web before it, is starting to take shape between academic and scientific institutions. The idea is to develop a system which is middleware independent, so a user can access any grid in exactly the same way using the same actions and commands on the GUI. The g-Eclipse system also aims to allow users to work with different grids at the same time and switch data between them.

When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva are expected to produce up to 15 million gigabytes, aka 15 petabytes, of data every year. Andreas Hirstius, manager of CERN Openlab and the CERN School of Computing, explains in November'sPhysics Worldhow computer scientists have risen to the challenge of dealing with this unprecedented volume of data.