| PrimeurWeekly 08 September 2008 |
|
|
 |
| |
| Special |
|
|
| First PRACE Industry Seminar redefines century-old 'mercator sapiens' tradition |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| PRACE HPC infrastructure aims to foster competitiveness in Europe |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Need for faster, larger simulations is stretching the supercomputer realm |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Don't worry too much about technology, mind the legal issues |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| EDF in search of petaflop performance for problems concerning us all |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Kaleidoscopic seismic imaging "down from Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico" |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
| |
| EuroFlash |
|
|
| Ancient musical instruments play again through ASTRA project |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| DNS Europe to offer Grid/Utility computing services using 3Tera |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| OptimaNumerics partners with NVIDIA to support NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform |
|
OptimaNumerics, a provider of high performance numerical software, will support the NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop issues Call for Participation |
|
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).
Read further... |
|
|
|
| CoreGRID - Sustainable European project in the international Grid research arena |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
| |
| USFlash |
|
|
| SDSC and Interactive Supercomputing Inc. to host advanced Star-P parallel programming workshop on October 6 |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Pioneer of volunteer computing urges its adoption at University of Delaware |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| 3Tera takes cloud computing global |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Grid MP saves millions, independent report reveals |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Kotura awarded $14M silicon photonics contract with Sun Microsystems and DARPA |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Multi-core chip research to lead to performance gains and power reduction for high- and low-end |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Dot Hill in negotiations with Ciprico Inc. to acquire certain intellectual property assets |
|
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").
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Telx launches 10 Gigabit Ethernet peering services powered by Force10 Networks |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| HP encourages CIOs to rethink virtualization in business terms |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| IBM introduces first blade server to reduce security threats and optimize network traffic |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| MIT probe could aid quantum computing |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Sun unveils xVM VirtualBox 2.0 and new enterprise support subscription |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| Oracle buys ClearApp |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
|
| SGI and Verari Systems sign Service Provider agreement |
|
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.
Read further... |
|
|
