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| A glimpse of Exascale supercomputing while Petascale preparing for main-stream |
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Do not know what has happened in HPC during the past year? Thomas Sterling does. And, as each year, he is telling is a the supercomputer conference in Dresden what that is. This year's theme is - no surprise - Petaflop/s. IBM and LANL did make it happen with Roadrunner. Another hot topic is power consumption. It is both a driver of development and a limiting factor. Another amjor area is programming of multi-core processors. And on the basi technology side, one is gearing up for 45nm wafers. The large systems are becoming so expensive, that it is getting custom to get them a "mid-life kicker" and upgrade with new chips. And, of course, the real, real supercomputing peopel are setting the cross-hairs for Exaflop/s.
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| Tera@tec to build supercomputer centre |
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The Tera@tec centre France, aimed at bundling all simulation activities in the Paris region, plans to build a supercomputer centre called TGCC (Très Grand Centre de Calcul) to be delivered beginning of 2010. In Tera@tec over 50 companies and academic institutions are working together. Indsutrial partners include Airbus, EDF, Dassault and Alcatel, to name a few. IT companies include the major IT companies, Bull, ESI, CS. Universties and research labs include INRIA, and CNRS.
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| Roadrunner smashes the petaflop barrier |
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In 2006, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration selected Los Alamos National Laboratory as the development site for Roadrunner and IBM as the computer's designer and builder. Roadrunner, named after the New Mexico state bird, cost about $100 million, and was a three-phase project to deliver the world's first "hybrid" supercomputer - one powerful enough to operate at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second). That's twice as fast as the current no.1 rated IBM Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab - itself nearly three times faster than the leading contenders on the current TOP 500 list of worldwide supercomputers.
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| Prospect - Europe's hidden HPC industry |
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At SC2008 in Dresden, Thomas Lippert reported on a European initiative called Prospect. According to Lippert this is an organisation involved in advancing the European HPC industry. Prospect is a member organisation with academic members and industry members. The initiative started early 2007. Founders are BSC, JSC, and LRZ. Current partners include the Universities of Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Regensburg and Cambridge; companies like IBM, Intel, ParTec, Quadrics, T-Systems/SfR; and end-use companies like Alenia Aeronautica, DWD, ENEA. According to Lippert, there are a lot of industry partners pending. It is a bit confusing, because there is also another industrial supercomputer initiative called TALOS with an overlapping membership.
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| International Supercomputing Conference to host first panel discussion on breaking the petaflop/s barrier |
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With the June 9 announcement that the IBM supercomputer "RoadRunner" is the first system to reach the 1 petaflop/s level, the HPC community is entering a realm of unprecedented computing power. And while the news about RoadRunner has caused quite a stir in the community, the implications of this new reality have not yet set in. At ISC'08 to be held June 17–20 in Dresden, a special panel discussion on "RoadRunner - the First Petaflop/s System in the World and Its Impact on Supercomputing" has been added to the conference programme. The panel will include HPC experts from around the world and is open to all attendees including visitor pass holders.
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| International Supercomouting Conference in Dresden to present exhibition highlights and Exhibitor Forum |
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This year the range of HPC systems featured in the ISC Exhibition is huge. Exhibitors are offering HPC systems of every size for small, medium-sized and enterprise applications. While the systems may differ, they all aim to provide what matters most to customers: the shortest time to solution. Commodity HPC systems with reasonable performance at lower costs are on the forefront of the HPC exhibitors. Clusters may be predominant, but also new HPC-architectures with heterogeneous technology or so-called hybrid systems will be shown. The performance gain of these systems is the result of combining two different - in terms of chip design - processor sets working closely together.
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| BOXX Technologies introduces essential building block for advanced visualization and computing solutions |
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BOXX Technologies Inc., an innovator in high-performance visualization and computing platforms, has released vizBOXX, the first BOXX product specifically designed to power virtual reality (VR) systems, very large displays, and take advantage of the expanding possibilities of GP-GPU massively parallel computing.
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| NEC to reduce LSI power consumption by 50% with new technology demonstrated in the SX-9 supercomputer |
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NEC Corporation has developed an important new technology that is able to "visualize" the thermal distribution and reduce the power consumption of LSI, which has become an increasingly serious challenge as the miniaturization of LSI continues to advance. These latest developments have been demonstrated through NEC's SX-9 supercomputer.
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| International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden to put vendors on the hot seat |
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One of the hallmarks of the ISC conference, taking place June 17-20, 2008 in Dresden, Germany is the 'Hot Seat Session' with 18 short, to-the-point presentations by experts from providers of hardware, software, interconnects and solutions. Speakers have just 10 minutes each to present their latest developments, new products and strategies.
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| ClusterVision to deliver 17 TeraFLOPs supercomputer to CASPUR in Rome |
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ClusterVision, specialist in high performance compute, storage and database clusters, has been selected by CASPUR - Inter-University Super-Computing Consortium in Rome - as supplier of its new supercomputer. The supercomputer will dramatically increase compute power available to CASPUR's users for research in areas such as Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Finance, Fluid-Dynamics, NanoScience and Physics.
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| Panasas parallel storage boosts performance and productivity for the University of Cambridge |
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The University of Cambridge's High Performance Computing Service (HPCS) is experiencing a significant reduction in the time it takes to complete jobs, as well as increased system uptime. They attribute this boost in performance and productivity to deployment of a Panasas parallel storage system which will allow researchers to complete their projects in less time and will contribute to Cambridge University's sustained world leadership position as a pre-eminent research and educational institution.
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| Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale |
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Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes. Welcome to the new frontier of research at Los Alamos: science at the petascale.
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| New technique to optimize computer speed |
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To design computers of the future that onsume less and less, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain in the processors. Until now, this strain remained difficult to observe. Now, thanks to a new electron holography technique invented by researchers at the Centre d’élaboration de matériaux et d’études structurales (CEMES-CNRS), it is possible to map deformation in a crystal lattice with a precision and resolution never previously attained.
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| Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips |
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Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which can damage today's silicon-based chips when transistors are packed together tightly.
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| IBM unveils new x86 servers with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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IBM has launched three IBM System x servers featuring the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor. All of the new servers provide the IT efficiency needed in a new enterprise data centre, with the System x3755 delivering 15 percent better performance than its predecessor.
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| T2K open supercomputer systems with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors now in operation |
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AMD Japan has launched the official start of operation of the T2K supercomputer systems featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and with specifications developed jointly by the University of Tsukuba, the University of Tokyo, and Kyoto University. These T2K systems were delivered to the University of Tsukuba by Cray Japan Inc. and Sumisho Computer Systems, to the University of Tokyo by Hitachi Ltd., and to Kyoto University by Fujitsu Ltd.
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| Arno Ziebart joins ClusterVision as Manager Germany |
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Arno Ziebart has joined ClusterVision's European sales force as Manager Germany. Arno Ziebart brings to ClusterVision over 20 years of experience in the German computer industry in general and the HPC industry in particular. Arno Ziebart will be supported by Jan Heichler, HPC System Architect for the German market, who joined the German team earlier this year.
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| IBM cools 3D chips with H2O |
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In IBM’s labs, tiny rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to advance Moore's Law in the next decade and significantly reduce energy consumed by data centres. IBM researchers, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, demonstrated a prototype that integrates the cooling system into the 3D chips by piping water directly between each layer in the stack.
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| Leading Canadian research lab turns to Sun Microsystems for new compute cluster focused on multi-core and multi-threaded workloads |
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High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) in Canada has selected Sun to power Victoria Falls, its new compute cluster based on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). HPCVL selected the Sun platform for its reliable, secure computing environment as well as its capability to scale dynamically, with little difficulty and with lower total cost of ownership. At full capacity, the Sun-powered Victoria Falls HPC cluster is designed to process nearly 10,000 threads simultaneously.
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| IBM and Umea University announce energy efficient supercomputer for research |
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IBM and Umea University are installing the most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe at the supercomputer centre known as HPC2N. Scientists at HPC2N will use the powerful system - running on a beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008 - for basic as well as applied research.
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| World's first two-in-one server blade joins HP portfolio for powering "scale-out" computing environments |
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HP has launched the world's first two-in-one server blade, which offers customers with scale-out environments improved data centre performance, reduced floor space and lower power usage. Businesses with cloud computing, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing (HPC) deployments have data centres with hundreds to thousands of servers, multi-petabyte levels of storage capacity and massive performance needs. These "scale-out" environments require increased performance, lower energy consumption, improved cooling techniques and a need to maximize existing data centre floor space.
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| Researchers untangle quantum quirk |
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Quantum computing has been hailed as the next leap forward for computers, promising to catapult memory capacity and processing speeds well beyond current limits. Several challenging problems need to be cracked, however, before the dream can be fully realized. Two Arizona State University researchers, Richard Akis and Regent's Professor David Ferry, both of the electrical engineering department's Nanostructures Research Group, have proposed a solution to one of the most controversial of these conundrums and, in the process, may have taken a significant step toward realizing a quantum computing future. Their solution appeared in a special April 2008 issue of theJournal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
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| Virtualization helps Stoneridge reduce data centre costs |
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Stoneridge is simplifying its IT operations with Dell PowerEdge servers supported by Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs).
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| Fujitsu opens GBP 44 million data centre |
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Fujitsu Services will open its newest secure data centre. The GBP 44 million data centre has proven environmental and sustainability credentials at its core - not only is it the first in Europe to be independently certified to the Uptime Institute's international Tier III standard, but it will nearly halve the energy used by previous data centres.
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| HP introduces 1-to-4-terabyte offering for Oracle Optimized Warehouse |
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HP has introduced the industry's highest-performance, most energy-efficient blade offering for the 1-to-4-terabyte market segment within the Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative.
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| IBM opens Africa's first "cloud computing" centre and second cloud centre in China |
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IBM has opened new "cloud computing" centres in South Africa and China.
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| Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computers |
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Physicists at the University of California (UC) Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored. Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ultrahigh-speed computers.
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| Dot Hill makes R/Evolution storage solutions available to Canadian customers |
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Dot Hill Systems has signed an agreement with Markham, Ontario-based NetStor Technology Group Inc. to represent Dot Hill storage solutions to the Canadian marketplace.
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| Dot Hill introduces support for DC Power |
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Dot Hill Systems has made available its 5730 Fibre Channel storage arrays with Direct Current (DC) power supplies. The DC power supply option enables users to leverage DC power for improved energy efficiencies and cost savings in the data centre and remote/mobile environments.
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| GENCI elevates French national HPC resources with new 147 Teraflop SGI system at CINES |
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GENCI - Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, the French national high-performance computing (HPC) organisation, is expanding France's computing and storage capabilities with solutions from SGI.
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| SGI unveils new data warehouse solution for Oracle users |
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A new SGI solution optimized for Oracle data warehouses addresses the needs of this emerging class of enterprise customer. Built specifically for Complex Decision Support environments, the new data warehouse solution was launched by SGI.
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| IBM and ETH Zurich form strategic partnership in nanoscience |
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IBM and ETH Zurich have a long-standing tradition of scientific co-operation, and now make an important step to deepen this collaboration further by forming a strategic partnership in the field of nanotechnology. As part of a new collaboration project , a new building with cutting-edge research facilities will be constructed on the campus of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon (CH), with the laying of the founda-tion stone scheduled in spring 2009, and the start of research activities in 2011.
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| The Wharton School simplifies new data centre with Dell |
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The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is using Dell technology, including PowerEdge M600 blade servers and Dell EqualLogic PS5000X storage arrays, as the foundation of a new data centre designed to support students, faculty and academic research.
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| HP transforms data protection with new data deduplication solutions |
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HP has introduced new disk-based back-up systems with data deduplication technology that increases disk utilization by up to 50 times to deliver scalable solutions that reduce storage costs and protect business critical data.
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| PRIMERGY server takes industry's Best Value crown in independent tests |
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Setting a new world record, the PRIMERGY TX300 server from Fujitsu Siemens Computers has shaved a 25 percent off the industry standard benchmark for On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) in the efficiency bracket. The TPC Benchmark E (TPC-E) is a new OLTP workload developed by the Transaction Performance Council (TPC), a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks.
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| World record for web server performance set by PRIMERGY |
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A new world record for web server performance has been established by a PRIMERGY server from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Results published at the independent standards body SPEC, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, confirm that the PRIMERGY RX600 S4 scored a new all-time best result in the SPECweb2005 test, which simulates three different workloads for a busy web server.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers announces BS2000/OSD mainframe featuring high-end x86 technology from Intel |
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In future, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will be fitting high-end x86 technology from Intel in its entry-level and mid-range BS2000/OSD mainframes. The first SQ Business Servers are due to be shipped at year-end.
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| The fight for the best quantum bit |
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Post Doc Henrik Ingerslev Jørgensen from the Nano-Science Center, located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has come an important step closer to the quantum computer. The journalNature Physicshas just published the researcher's groundbreaking discovery.
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| Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule |
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The odd behaviour of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors. In aNature Physicsjournal paper currently on-line, the researchers describe how they have created a new, hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated - a required step in the building of quantum computers.
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| Dell PowerEdge 2900 III server the new price/performance top gun on TPC-C Benchmark |
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Dell's PowerEdge 2900 III server now tops all competitors with a new number one ranking for price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark. The leading price-per-transaction (price/tpmC) TPC-C result achieved 97,083 transactions per minute with a price/performance of $.68/tpmC.
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| HP contributes source code to Open Source Community to advance adoption of Linux |
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HP has contributed its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.
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| Microsoft deploys IBM iDataPlex in High Performance Computing Labs |
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Microsoft is among the first clients to implement IBM's iDataPlex system - a new category of server developed by IBM for Internet-scale computing. IBM also introduced a new high performance computing (HPC) option for iDataPlex, to bring supercomputing power to Cloud environments.
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| Dell Number One in open systems storage worldwide |
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In the first quarter of calendar year 2008, Dell for the first time captured a leading 20.4 percent of the open systems (Windows/Linux) external worldwide disk array storage market with $422 million in revenue.
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| NEC launches the "Eco Center" energy-saving server |
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NEC Corporation has concluded development on the "Eco Center", a specialized space and energy-saving server whose marketing activities are scheduled to commence immediately. The Eco Center consumes up to 55% less power, occupies 50% less space and is approximately 58% lighter than conventional servers due to the leveraging of cutting edge NEC technologies, such as highly efficient batteries, the optimum cooling functions of high-density packaging, and the adoption of advanced low power CPUs, chipsets and memory.
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| Opalis announces IT process automation solution for CA eHealth |
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Opalis Software Inc., a market expert in IT process automation software, has made available Opalis Integration Server's integration with CA eHealth, a network performance management product. The new integration pack enables customers to create unified, enterprise-wide, cross-platform monitoring services that deliver IT services faster, with fewer errors, throughout the data centre.
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| Cardiff's new High Performance Computer is making the impossible possible |
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Can we work out how the stars formed? How the earth's crust moves? How to improve treatment for cancer patients? How to date an ancient burial site to within a decade? Cardiff University's new High Performance Computer will do all of this - and more. Supplied by leading international IT firm Bull, the new computer will be one of the most advanced in the UK academic sector, giving a whole new dimension to Cardiff University research. Initial test runs suggest it will be among the top three most powerful computers in British universities, enabling new research projects which previously were either impossible or would have taken too long to run.
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| Clemson selects Dell high-performance computing cluster to power wide-ranging research |
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Clemson University is using a next-generation high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from Dell to enable a wide range of academic research, from how family migration patterns impact schools and children's development to the design of wireless communication networks.
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| AMD launches new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors for one-socket servers and workstations |
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Addressing customer demand for higher performing, uni-processor x86 solutions, AMD has introduced three new Quad-Core AMD Opteron 1300 Series processors for one-socket servers and workstations. Global tier-one OEMs including HP and Dell plan to incorporate the new processors into upcoming platforms, and global supercomputer expert Cray is now shipping Quad-Core AMD Opteron 1300 Series processor-based Cray XT4 systems and upgrading some of the world's fastest supercomputers to incorporate Quad-Core AMD Opteron 1300 Series processors.
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| IBM adds extreme speed to data management software portfolio |
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IBM has made available IBM solidDB, in-memory relational database software to deliver performance-critical data at extreme speeds - up to 10 times faster than conventional database software.
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| Themis builds blade server based on Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T2 processor |
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Themis will make and sell blade servers based on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 CMT (chip multithreading) processor running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Called the T2BC, the blade further extends the proliferation of Sun's core technologies while helping to reach customers outside Sun's traditional enterprise data centre. According to the Q108 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Sun's blade server business achieved triple-digit factory revenue and shipment growth year-over-year; Themis helps supplement that growth by addressing alternative form-factors. The T2BC blade is the first of several products that Themis is developing based on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 processor.
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| Canada's largest green data centre being built by gigaCENTER with help of IBM |
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IBM has signed an agreement to help build a $ CDN 75 million, 150,000 square foot "green" data centre in the heart of British Columbia with gigaCENTER Services Corporation, in partnership with RackForce Networks. The new facility called gigaCENTER Services Corp will be among the most efficient and "greenest" large-scale data centres in Canada. It is being developed using IBM's modular approach and will include power and cooling capabilities to support a variety of technologies from high-density blade servers to mainframes.
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| IBM system triples performance of HP in critical benchmark |
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An IBM Power Systems' server shattered another milestone, demonstrating nearly three times the performance per processor core of HP Superdome at a lower cost. According to a Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC-C) benchmark result, the IBM UNIX system is the first and only server to achieve more than six million transactions per minute.
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| Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Siemens Computers power PRIMERGY servers with Solaris operating system |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has signed a multi-year OEM agreement with Fujitsu Siemens Computers to distribute the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions with selected Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY servers.
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| Total Exploration Production makes a 120 Tflops step with SGI to accelerate exploration decisions |
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In a global effort to extract the greatest value from subsurface oil and gas reservoirs, the Exploration and Production Branch at French oil and gas leader Total recently expanded its already extensive computing and storage capabilities with SGI technology. The move is expected to allow Total to maximize its return on exploration investments throughout the world.
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| Customers and partners tun top supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing |
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Supercomputers around the world are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today. Of the top 50 supercomputers worldwide, 40 percent are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, including the top three - IBM eServer Blue Gene at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM eServer BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at the Juelich Research Center and SGI Altix 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.
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| Appro first to demonstrate 40Gb/s InfiniBand supercomputing clusters |
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Appro, a provider of high-performance computing systems will showcase a 40Gb/s InfiniBand Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors utilizing high density computing, new industry-leading Mellanox ConnectX 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and InfiniScale IV-based 40Gb/s InfiniBand switch running an ANSYS-Fluent airplane structure application. This demonstration features a powerful and balanced open supercomputer architecture managed by Appro Cluster Engine software that combines high performance capacity computing with superior fault-tolerant capability. The Appro live supercomputing demonstrations will take place at the International Supercomputing Conference, ISC/08 in Dresden, Germany, June 17-19, 2008.
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| Arizona State University selects Terascala RTS 1000 to deliver high throughput, high capacity storage |
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Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering (ASU) has chosen the Terascala RTS 1000 storage appliance for use within its Fulton High Performance Computing Initiative. ASU researchers use the Terascala RTS 1000 for storage of very large datasets generated during and after large scale simulations. These simulations cover a wide range of research projects, from atmospheric physics to weather prediction to astronomy research to computational fluid dynamics.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers presents new storage system for data centre file services consolidation |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has introduced the CentricStor FS (File Services) system, developed specifically for organisations facing the need to store increasing amounts of unstructured data.
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| Victorian Premier Brumby announces plans to build world's largest life sciences supercomputer facility during visit to SDSC |
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Australia's Victorian Premier John Brumby announced a $100 million (AUD) initiative to build the world's largest life sciences supercomputer facility to assist in discovering cures and therapies for such life-threatening diseases such as cancer, brain disorders and flu pandemics. In making the announcement at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California (UC) San Diego, Premier Brumby said the Victorian government is investing $50 million in the supercomputer facility, complementing the University of Melbourne and other funding of an additional $50 million to establish the Victorian Life Sciences Computation initiative at the University's Parkville Precinct.
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| Sun supercomputer created for 'flight and flow' simulation in Germany |
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Sun Microsystems has won the first contract in Germany for the installation of a high performance computing (HPC) cluster for commercial applications based on Sun's Petascale architecture. The Petascale architecture was developed in-house at Sun under the name "Sun Constellation System", and was presented to the public for the first time at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany last year. The Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering (C²A²S²E), supported by Airbus, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the state of Lower Saxony, is investing 5.2 million euro in the new supercomputer that has a compute capacity of 46.6 TFlops.
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| HP introduces world's first blade server for 24/7 mission-critical computing |
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HP has introduced a high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server: HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem.
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| Acceleware announces acceleration of matrix methods up to 20X faster |
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Acceleware Corp., a developer of high performance computing solutions, has accelerated matrix equation solvers found in simulation and data processing software commonly used for scientific and industrial applications.
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| Acceleware and Vector Fields partner to accelerate microwave design |
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Acceleware Corp., a developer of high performance computing applications, and Vector Fields, a world expert in electromagnetic modelling software, have signed a partnership to accelerate microwave design by combining Vector Fields' Concerto automation software package with Acceleware's FDTD Accelerator solution.
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| New NVIDIA Tesla doubles the performance for thousands of CUDA developers worldwide |
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With over 60,000 downloads of the C-compiler to date, the combination of NVIDIA CUDA and Tesla technologies have been the foundation for industry changing applications, making it the most rapidly adopted GPU computing technology platform in the HPC community.
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| Michigan Tech scientist models molecular switch |
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Michigan Technological University physicist Ranjit Pati and his team have developed a model to explain the mechanism behind computing's elusive Holy Grail, the single molecular switch. If born out experimentally, his work could help explode Moore's Law and could revolutionize computing technology.
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| TotalView Technologies adds Cell Broadband Engine Platform support to TotalView |
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TotalView Technologies has introduced the latest version of its source code debugger, TotalView 8.5. The new
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| TotalView Technologies advances parallel programming initiatives in universities worldwide |
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Universities currently using TotalView Debugger include Stanford University, Dartmouth, Texas Tech, Australian National University, Yale University, Princeton University, New York University, Louisiana State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rice University, Purdue University, University of Duesseldorf and Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, among others.
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| Donostia International Physics Center adds SGI technology for material science research |
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The Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) recently purchased four new SGI Altix 4700 systems and an SGI InfiniteStorage - in addition to the SGI Altix 4700 system purchased a little over a year ago.
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| IBM survey names SOA as a top business priority in 2008 |
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IBM has issued the results of a client survey that concludes that businesses around the world are quickly moving from the adoption phase of a service oriented architecture (SOA) strategy to the actual deployment of SOA technologies and services. According to the survey, the rate of SOA deployments is on the rise, an indication that business leaders are seeking the benefits of SOA for today's challenging business environments.
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| QLogic ships industry's first combined Ethernet/Fibre Channel ExpressModule for Sun Blade systems |
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QLogic Corp.'s industry's first combination 4Gb Fibre Channel/1Gb Ethernet ExpressModule is now shipping for Sun Blade 6000 and 8000 systems.
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| Southern Utah University brings supercomputing into the classroom with Star-P |
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Southern Utah University (SUU) believes high performance computing (HPC) should move beyond the realm of just a school's elite research labs and become a common classroom resource for a variety of undergraduate studies. To this end, SUU is teaming with Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) to make HPC easy and accessible for students and faculty of all levels. It is part of a programme developed by SUU's College of Computing, Integrated Engineering, and Technology (CCIET) to foster an integrated, interdisciplinary curriculum combining math, engineering and computer science departments.
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| HP introduces new software to automate business service changes and problem resolution |
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HP has launched new Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software and Software-as-a-Service offerings to help IT organisations manage change and resolve problems across business services and applications, dramatically reducing the risk of potential business downtime.The BTO software offerings enable customers to fully automate the entire change life cycle by bringing together the process and execution of changes such as application upgrades and infrastructure modifications. Depending on the size of a business, the number of technology changes occurring can range anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands per week.
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| ClusterVision delivers first server farms for Dutch BiG Grid |
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ClusterVision, specialist in high performance compute, storage and database clusters, has been selected as one of the preferred suppliers for the BiG Grid project - the Dutch eScience Grid - and signed a framework contract that allows it to participate in mini-tenders for compute power with a total potential value of 5 million euro. The first two mini-tenders have already been won by ClusterVision and server farms with more than 1500 cores in total have been installed at BiG Grid partners Nikhef and SARA.
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| EDGeS bridge between major European Grids |
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At the first EDGeS User and Industry Forum at the IN2P3/INRIA Institutes in Orsay, near Paris, the EDGeS project presented its plans to build a bridge between Desktop Grids based on BOINC and XtremWeb middleware, and Service Grids such as the gLite based EGEE. In Orsay, academic and industrial organisations presented their applications, ranging from interpreting surveillance and medical imaging to simulation of materials. These will be ported to the combined Desktop Grid/Service Grid infrastructure that EDGeS will create using the EDGeS Application Development Methodology (EADM), a method to easily port applications to the Grid.
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| Global scaling through a web-based interface combining NICE EnginFrame and Fujitsu SynfiniWay |
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Fujitsu Systems Europe and NICE srl, Italy have launched a joint technology solution for distributed computing and data environments that combines Fujitsu's SynfiniWay, an innovative service-oriented IT framework, with the EnginFrame Grid portal from NICE, a leading-edge lightweight client web interface for HPC and compute intensive applications. This solution allows users to scale their activities across a global infrastructure, working through a customer-oriented browser interface on their desktop.
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| UK scientific research gets a turbo-charge |
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An upgrade of University of Westminster's previous 32 node High Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC) with a new 96 node HPCC, is providing a significant threefold increase in its contribution to the United Kingdom's Grid computing facility for re | | |
