| PrimeurWeekly 13 May 2008 |
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| EuroFlash |
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| First EDGeS User and Industry Forum meeting calls for participation |
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The combined EDGeS User and Industry Forum meeting/XW'08 - Second XtremWeb Users Workshop will be held in Orsay, Paris, France, May 28-29, 2008. The Workshop will provide a unique opportunity to get acquainted with Desktop Grids, especially based on XtremWeb, and the EDGeS infrastructure and software that will ease the use and programming of Desktop Grids and the integration with Service Grids.
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| EDGeS BOF Session "Integrating Service and Desktop Grids" at OGF23 in Barcelona |
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On Monday, 2 June 2008 in the afternoon, the EDGeS project team will organize a Birds-of-a-Feather Session on the integration of service and desktop Grids (ISDG) at the Open Grid Forum Event - OGF23 - in Barcelona, Spain. The main objective of this session is to discuss how to support new Grid user communities with extensions of existing Grid infrastructures by integrating existing services Grids and desktop Grids.
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| International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden closes advance registration May 19 |
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The International Supercomputing Conference 2008 taking place in Dresden, Germany, June 17-20, 2008 will organize a Cluster Session Overview June 17 between 12h00 en 6h00 PM. Participants can also join ISC's unique after-hours social events at the ISC's Exhibition Opening Party on Tuesday evening, June 17, at the Microsoft HPC++ Get Together Party on Wednesday night, June 18 or at various Vendor Parties on Thursday evening, June 19. These events provide unique opportunities to catch up with other attendees. Advance registration for ISC'08 closes May 19, 2008.
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| EchoGRID Researcher Exchange Programme now open to Software & Services unit projects |
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EchoGRID has launched the new EchoGRID Researcher Exchange Programme. The consortium has implemented a specific mobility programme which is aimed at encouraging researchers (staff) to visit, for a given period, research teams between Europe and China. The exchange of researchers between the EchoGRID organisations is certainly one of the most effective ways to achieve long term co-operation.
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| IBM Power 6 Supercomputer to boost research at Max Planck Society |
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The German Max Planck Society (MPG) has received an IBM supercomputer powered by the world's fastest microprocessor - IBM's Power 6. The new Power 575 system, with more than 6600 Power 6 processors and a theoretical peak performance of over 125 Teraflop/s, completes a major upgrade of the Society's supercomputer resources at Garching Computing Centre (RZG) - the HMPG-3 complex. In September 2007, the Max Planck Society began installing the first IBM Blue Gene/P system, with 40 teraflops peak performance.
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| GBP 900,000 helps Queen's lead the way in next generation computing |
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The Belfast e-Science Centre (BeSC) at Queen's has been awarded a grant of over GBP 900,000 to continue its role in developing the Grid.
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| GridTalk upgrades European Grid computing communications |
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On 1 May 2008 GridTalk, a European Union project was launched. GridTalk will contribute Grid articles and revamp the GridCafé, website.
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| Voltaire to deliver InfiniBand support to Novell customers |
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Voltaire Ltd. will provide Level 3 InfiniBand customer support for Novell customers. This agreement makes Novell the first major operating systems vendor to team with a leading fabric technology company to provide comprehensive support for its customers who use InfiniBand.
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| Voltaire announces availability of customer support for OFED on any InfiniBand fabric |
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Voltaire, a provider of Grid backbone solutions for data centres, has launched a new customer support model whereby the company will provide support services to customers using Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) regardless of the brand of InfiniBand hardware used by the customer.
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| NCAR installs 76-teraflop supercomputer for critical research on climate change and severe weather |
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, is the first in a highly energy-efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the world.
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| Berkeley Lab researchers propose new breed of supercomputers for improving global climate predictions |
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Three researchers from the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today's conventional supercomputers.
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| SGI to supply NASA's next major supercomputer |
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NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI have signed an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity. Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA will work closely with Intel and SGI to increase computational capabilities for modelling and simulation at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
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| AvarSYS expands high performance computing capabilities with key hires |
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Avarsys Inc. has secured additional sales and technical expertise for the company's High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. The company added new staff to focus on solution sales, services and implementation for its cluster computing, Grid computing and visualization solutions. These hires greatly expand the company's reach into key markets, including Petroleum, Scientific and Engineering, Pharmaceutical, Finance and Government sectors.
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| Platform Computing establishes Financial Services Business Unit |
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Platform Computing has formed a Financial Services Business Unit and promoted Jim Mancuso as its General Manager. The global expert in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software has just completed a year of record revenue and saw strong growth in Financial Services, where revenues doubled year over year.
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| HP introduces "extreme" storage for on-line and digital media businesses |
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HP has launched a highly scalable storage system designed to simplify the management of multiple petabytes of data at an affordable cost, making it ideal for on-line and digital media businesses. New business services offered by Web 2.0 and digital media firms - such as photo sharing, streaming media, video-on-demand and social networking - generate massive amounts of file-based data that needs to be stored, managed and retrieved in an instant. Large enterprises in sectors such as oil and gas, security and surveillance, and genetic research have similar demands.
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| Dell unveils virtualization blockbuster - from servers and storage to software and services |
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Dell has introduced its broadest line-up of dedicated virtualization solutions ever. More than a dozen new servers, tools, and services simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in Enterprises of any size.
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| Vietnam's new collaboration portal goes live on IBM Cloud, accelerating universities' adoption of service science |
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The Vietnam Information for Science and Technology Advance Innovation Portal goes live on an IBM cloud computing infrastructure. The interactive on-line portal will be used by Vietnamese government institutions and universities to develop education programmes for Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), an emerging academic discipline and research area that integrates aspects of computer science, engineering, management science, business strategy, and social science.
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| Platform Computing's strategy pays off with strong growth |
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Platform Computing has achieved record revenue for its fiscal year ending March 2008. The self-funded software company builds on 15 years of continuous profitable growth.
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| HP Labs opens research opportunities to academia |
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HP has made it possible for colleges, universities and research institutions worldwide to participate in joint research with HP Labs, the company's central research facility, through an open and competitive process. The new HP Labs Innovation Research Programme invites the worldwide academic community to submit proposals related to current research in the areas of information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.
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| Verari Systems completes milestone shipment of newest blade-based hybrid storage and server solution |
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Verari Systems has completed a milestone shipment of its platform-independent blade-based storage and computing solutions to a global innovative technology provider. The undisclosed provider hosts data and enterprise applications based on Web 2.0 infrastructures. The installation contained over 500 of Verari's newest product, the SB5550 DataServer, which consisted of over 4.6 petabytes of storage. The SB5550 DataServer is Verari's latest blade-based storage and server hybrid solution in its newly introduced BladeRack 2 XL platform.
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| US Hydrologic information system initiative |
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Researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management process by creating a universally accepted cyberinfrastructure to study our most valuable natural resource - water.
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| Univa UD receives Series B financing |
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Univa UD has closed a second round of funding to finance its continued growth. Investors include River Cities Capital Funds, a new investor for the company, as well as several investors that participated in the company's first funding round, including ARCH Venture Partners, New World Ventures, Appian Ventures and OCA Ventures.
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| Oracle debuts enhanced preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g |
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Building on its November 2007 preview, Oracle has previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Based on feedback resulting from close co-operation with customers testing in real-world environments, the latest preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g includes planned features intended to provide Java developers with a unified design and development experience based on new open standards for Java, SOA, AJAX, Web 2.0 and Security and to help reduce the time, effort and cost of developing Rich Enterprise, Web and mobile applications.
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| Siemens Shared Services banks on Oracle Real Application Clusters to serve over 70,000 employees across the nation |
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Siemens Shared Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Corporation, has deployed a clustered database environment to support services to more than 70,000 Siemens employees across the United States. Siemens Shared Services provide services to Siemens operating companies in the United States, including payroll, import/export to human resources solutions, travel management and accounting.
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| Dell and VMware simplify disaster recovery with integrated virtual data centre solution |
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Dell announced the seamless integration of Dell EqualLogic storage arrays with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), which automates disaster recovery (DR) management in virtual infrastructures.
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