| PrimeurWeekly 07 July 2008 |
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| EuroFlash |
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| Making sure the internet delivers |
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European researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet. Internet applications across the globe are currently being re-engineered in anticipation of the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from version 4 over the next three to four years. But before companies can make their IPv6 products commercially available, they will have to thoroughly test performance, standards-compatibility and interoperability.
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| Members of PRACE supercomputing project adopt TotalView Debugger |
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The TotalView Debugger has been adopted by numerous members of the PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe - Consortium to accelerate development of software applications on supercomputing platforms. PRACE members currently using TotalView include CINECA - Italy, CSC - Finland, the Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany, SARA - The Netherlands, IDRIS - France, and LRZ - Germany.
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| European initiative on Grid computing, Biomedical Informatics and Nanoinformatics |
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From the 1st June 2008 a consortium of seven European and Latin American partners has launched ACTION-Grid, an initiative funded by the European Commission to analyse and link three areas: Biomedical Informatics, Grid technologies and Nanoinformatics.
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| Huygens supercomputer at SARA installed |
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SARA Computing and Networking Services, the Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF), and IBM announce the successful installation of the new supercomputer, Huygens POWER6 at SARA in Amsterdam. The new system, funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), is based on IBM POWER6 chip technology, the world's fastest microprocessor. Dr. Ronald Plasterk, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, will officially unveil SARA's new supercomputer on September 11, 2008.
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| Grid computing school shares teaching resources through digital library and behind-the-scenes blog |
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The sixth International Summer School on Grid Computing is scheduled for 6-18 July in Hungary. The school will train approximately 40 students from 20 countries in the ways of Grid computing.
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| Spain-based Repsol and Barcelona Supercomputing Center use IBM supercomputer |
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Repsol YPF and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have issued research results using IBM BladeCenter QS22 supercomputers powered by the Cell Broadband Engine as the standard for future hydrocarbon exploration.
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| IBM and ETH scientists advance supercomputing simulations to improve diagnosis of osteoporosis |
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Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors a "high definition" view of the strength and fragility of bones they never had before. This achievement could lead to better clinical tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, a widespread disease that affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50.
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| World's fastest Ethernet compute cluster relies on Woven Systems 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fabric |
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The ATLAS compute cluster at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany, achieved top ranking among the 285 Gigabit Ethernet clusters in the most recent TOP500 list of supercomputer sites. The ATLAS cluster successfully leverages the Dynamic Congestion Avoidance feature in Woven Systems' 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Fabric to reach a performance level of 32.8 Teraflops, making it the fastest Ethernet cluster in the world today. Woven Systems Inc. is an innovator of Ethernet Fabric switching solutions based on its patented vSCALE technology for data centres and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
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| Armed with 13-fold increase in compute power, HLRN inaugurates new SGI supercomputer |
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Ushering in a new future for Germany's scientific community, German officials have inaugurated a powerful new supercomputer equipped with systems from SGI. The North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) maintains the new system in two separate cities, Berlin and Hanover. Both sites have installed identical SGI supercomputers, and although they are located 155 miles apart, they can be combined to attack large-scale problems via a high-speed network.
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| New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation |
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European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach heralds the next era of faster, smaller and more efficient electronics.
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| e-IRG meeting in Lugano: Discussion on active e-Infrastructures Education and Training |
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The 14th e-IRG meeting was held in Lugano on 26th and 27th of June, 2008. The e-IRG is an inter-governmental policy body comprising national delegates from more than 30 European countries. The e-IRG members meet on a regular basis to reach consensus on policies in order to provide relevant recommendations on the shared use of electronic resources in Europe. The highlight of the meeting was the Education and Training Task Force (ETTF) report that proposes strategic actions to establish, promote and resource the Grid and e-Science curricula in Europe. The ETTF report has been a major European effort and has already been noted on the international level, e.g. in the Open Grid Forum (OGF).
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| Fourth Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop calls for participation |
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A workshop on volunteer computing, distributed thinking, and BOINC will be held 11-12 September 2008 in Grenoble, France. It is being hosted by the MESCAL team of INRIA, and supported by IBM. The general organizers are Derrick Kondo (INRIA) and David Anderson (UCB). The local organizers are Carlos Barrios-Hernández (LIG), Daniele Herzog (INRIA), and Arnaud Legrand (CNRS).
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| Grid Computing Now! launches environmental competition "Grid computing for a greener planet" |
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Grid Computing Now!, a government funded knowledge transfer network, has launched the competition "Grid computing for a greener planet". The competition, which is open to UK residents, will invite participants to harness the power of Grid to help minimise the environmental impact of human activity.
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| New ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager provides fast-track to virtualization |
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Setting up and managing Blade Servers in complex network environments is dramatically streamlined and simplified thanks to the introduction of ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager from Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
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| QLogic announces support for IBM iDataPlex system |
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QLogic SilverStorm 9000 Series InfiniBand directors and switches are now qualified with IBM iDataPlex and System Cluster 1350 systems for HPC environments. IBM iDataPlex is a new category of server that dramatically increases compute density while significantly decreasing energy consumption and associated data centre costs for Internet-scale computing.
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| IBM supercomputer in Canada bolsters cancer research |
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IBM has deployed Canada's fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments. The Ontario Cancer Institute's new supercomputer will allow data to get on the Grid for complex analysis, and enable faster and more detailed analysis of results from the Grid computation. It is ranked in 395 position in the recently announced TOP500 List of global supercomputers.
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| SensorWeb 2.0 software released |
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The GRIDS Lab at the University of Melbourne and NICTA - National ICT Australia - have released SensorWeb 2.0 software, which supports unification of Sensor Networks and Grid Computing with the World-Wide Web. In simple terms, it allows clients to access sensors using Web services.
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| QLogic achieves near-native Fibre Channel I/O performance on Windows server 2008 Hyper-V |
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QLogic and Microsoft achieved industry leading performance results that demonstrate near-native transaction performance for a virtualized computing environment. The companies tested storage area network (SAN)-attached, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines and achieved I/O performance that closely matches the 200,000 IOs per second performance native with QLogic 8Gb adapters and Windows Server 2008.
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| QLogic unveils 8Gb fibre channel for SANbox 9000 switch |
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QLogic Corp., an expert in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), has launched the 9008V 8Gb Fibre Channel I/O blade for the QLogic SANbox 9000 modular chassis switch, along with a road map that includes support for 16Gb Fibre Channel.
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| QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Switches and HBAs receive Tolly 'First and Foremost' Certification as part of HP solution |
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The Tolly Group, a global provider of third-party validation services for IT vendors, awarded its First and Foremost and Up to Spec certifications to HP StorageWorks 81Q 8Gb PCI-e Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and HP StorageWorks 8/20q Fibre Channel switches as part of the HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit.
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| Oracle unveils BEA's role in product strategy for next-generation middleware |
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In a live webcast attended by partners and customers from around the world, Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Fusion Middleware Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian outlined Oracle's middleware strategy, which combines the best products from BEA and Oracle Fusion Middleware and provides continuity and investment protection for both customer bases.
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| Sun and Intel break million-messages-per-second barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has issued new benchmark performance results for Thomson Reuters market data platform. The new benchmark demonstrates that running the platform, known as Reuters Market Data System 6.0.3 (RMDS), on Sun technology shows throughput performance breaking the million-messages-per-second barrier.
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| Univa UD unveils new data centre automation strategy and leadership team |
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Univa UD has named industry veterans Alex Brown and Kent Purdy to lead its data centre automation business division and retool its product suite. The announcement comes as Univa UD officially launches Reliance as its cornerstone product for service-based management of application delivery environments.
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| ISO to provide insurers better analytic solutions with SAS |
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To help build more accurate analytic models for the property/casualty insurance industry, ISO has selected software from SAS, the leader in business intelligence. Since 1971, ISO has been a leading source of information about risk. The company provides data, analytics, and decision-support solutions for insurers to operate more efficiently and increase competitive advantage.
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| UC San Diego researchers identify potential new drug candidates to combat 'bird flu' |
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A team of University of California (UC) San Diego scientists - with the help of resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), also at UC San Diego - have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new "designer drugs" might be developed to combat the bird flu disease. In some cases, the compounds appeared to be equal or stronger inhibitors than currently available anti-flu remedies.
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| Researchers use supercomputer to track pathways in myoglobin |
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Some 50 years ago, after decades of effort, John Kendrew determined the structure of the small globular protein, myoglobin, which is responsible for oxygen storage in cells. For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Max Perutz, who did similar work on hemoglobin. But a mystery remained: Exactly what paths does oxygen follow as it moves in and out of myoglobin? An interdisciplinary team led by researchers at Virginia Tech has provided a computational solution to the decades-old puzzle.
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| Alert Logic launches new version of Log Manager |
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Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, has released version 1.1 of its flagship log management product, Alert Logic Log Manager. Log Manager fully leverages the power of Grid computing and virtualization technologies.
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| Dell FlexAddress simplifies blade deployment and management |
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Dell introduced FlexAddress, a patent pending tool for blade chassis virtualization and persistent identity. Dell FlexAddress is a simple, low-cost way for customers to deploy and manage blade infrastructures while reducing data centre downtime.
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