| PrimeurWeekly 16 March 2009 |
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| In-depth sessions to give a detailed view on HPC in global climate change and aeronautics at ISC'09 |
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ISC'09, held in Hamburg 23-26 June 2009, is organizing two special in-depth sessions which will provide attendees with the latest information from HPC experts. Both sessions will be held Tuesday, June 23, with each session featuring four hours of detailed presentations and discussions. The first one is about global climate change, one of the most pressing issues for our planet and accurately modelling climate change is one of the biggest challenges for HPC, as evidenced by an increasing amount of research resources addressing this problem. The second one is about aeronautics. In the arena of industrial HPC, one of the main applications area is aeronautics as aircraft designers strive to design systems that are quieter, more fuel efficient and take less time to move from design to deployment.
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| ACTION-Grid project invites research groups to participate in a survey |
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The European Commission funded ACTION-Grid project invites research groups to participate in a survey. The survey aims to characterize research groups that work in eHealth, Medical Informatics, Bioinformatics, High Performance and Grid computing and Nanoinformatics included in the following geographical areas: European Union, Latin America, Western Balkans and North Africa.
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| Continuation funding for the UK National Grid Service |
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The UK National Grid Service (NGS) has recently been awarded continuation funding of GBP 3 million for the next 2 years. Funded by the EPSRC and JISC, the NGS is the leading UK initiative for academic researchers, regardless of research area, in providing access to distributed computational and database resources.
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| Aston University, UK to connect to 350 km fibre optic research network |
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Aston University in the United Kingdom will be increasing its research into reliable, high speed internet networks for the future, with a GBP 2.7 million government grant connecting the Institution to one of the largest fibre-optic research test beds in Europe. The Birmingham-based University is set to link to the Janet Aurora network, a 350 km dedicated fibre system, which interconnects Aston's Photonics team with research groups at the Universities of Cambridge, Essex, University of Central London and Southampton.
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| Launch of world-class Institute for Complex Systems Simulation |
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A new institute that will generate a community of researchers prepared for some of the most pressing scientific and engineering challenges of the 21st century will be launched this month at the University of Southampton. The Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS) will launch on Wednesday 18 March 2009 at an event that will attract academics, industrialists and students. The Institute, which spans a range of science and engineering Schools within the University and involves over 20 industrial and governmental partners, will enroll its first 20 PhD researchers in October this year.
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| Tesco cuts data centre costs with Citrix XenServer and HP BladeSystem servers |
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Tesco, Britain's leading supermarket chain, has launched pioneering updates to its mission-critical Real Time Sales (RTS) systems, virtualizing key business applications with Citrix XenServer running on HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade servers. With infrastructure from Citrix and HP in place, Tesco has increased its RTS capacity by 75 percent, handling 1500 sales-related messages per second - catering to the critical nature of the RTS systems and creating room for growth. This is a major milestone in Tesco's plans to virtualize its entire server infrastructure.
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| IBM and Dassault Systèmes help European automaker create digital design infrastructure to speed up delivery of fuel efficient cars |
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IBM and Dassault Systèmes (DS) will support BMW's use of a single digital software environment for the design of all BMW engines across its fuel and diesel-powered cars, motorcycles, and its newest line of eco-friendly, hybrid cars including the industry's first hydrogen-powered vehicle.
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| IBM named a leader for data centre outsourcing services in Western Europe |
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Analyst firm, Gartner, has named IBM a leader in its February 2009 report, "Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing Services, Western Europe".
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| Quantum doughnuts slow and freeze light at will: 'Fast computing and slow glass' |
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Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnuts shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based computing to the possibility of "slow glass".
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| 1 stop-shop for seamount managers and researchers: Launch of new SeamountsOnline portal |
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A free on-line portal is providing deep-sea researchers and managers with new tools for finding and accessing information on the biological communities that live on seamounts - undersea mountains, facilitating improved management of seamount resources, and conservation of seamount habitat.
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| Appistry gives Cloud a kick in the Apps |
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Appistry, a pioneer in enterprise Cloud computing, has introduced a new product that gives companies the power to deliver and manage Cloud computing services more quickly and easily than ever before. The new product, Appistry CloudIQ Manager, represents a smarter approach to Cloud computing. As companies migrate their heterogeneous applications to Cloud-based environments, Appistry CloudIQ Manager provides a single point of application management across the enterprise.
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| Kuberre Systems introduces desktop supercomputer |
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Kuberre Systems has introduced HANSA, a new hardware design and rich software stack for use in the high performance computing market. HANSA delivers computing power equivalent to a 768 CPU server Grid or a 1536 core supercomputer. It does this at one third of the cost, with 2 percent of the energy requirements, and in 1 percent of the floor space.
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| Sun to deploy South Africa's largest supercomputer at The Centre For High Performance Computing |
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Sun Microsystems has initiated the roll-out of South Africa's largest high performance computing solution at the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, with local partners Eclipse Networks and Breakpoint Solutions.
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| AFCOM's Data Center Institute revisits five bold predictions for the data centre that reflect impact of today's energy and economic situations |
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This year's bi-annual AFCOM Data Center World 2009 at the Paris Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas brought together approximately 800 data centre professionals. During the conference, board members that sit on AFCOM's Data Center Institute (DCI), an industry think-tank, joined together with leading technology media and industry analysts to discuss some of the most critical issues facing the data centre industry today.
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| BOINC to introduce BOINCcalculator |
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A new add-on for Windows, BOINCcalculator, shows details such as trickles, credit, timesteps and checkpoints, of running CPDN jobs. And Cosmology@Home, a project from the University of Illinois whose goal is to search for the model that best describes our Universe, is now listed on BOINC's Choose Projects page.
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| Bimba Manufacturing and the City of Hartford find the path to storage efficiency with NetApp |
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Bimba Manufacturing and the City of Hartford, Connecticut, have both recently implemented NetApp virtualization and data deduplication solutions, realizing significant savings in storage requirements, overhead, and power consumption.
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| OpenFabrics Alliance unveils speaker line-up for International Sonoma Workshop |
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The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), an open-source organisation that develops, tests and distributes high-performance, low-latency network software for Linux and Windows, has unveiled the speaker line-up for the OFA's 5th Annual International Sonoma Workshop, which is scheduled for March 22-25 at The Lodge at Sonoma.
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| Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honours in science and engineering, for her pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages. Professor Liskov's achievements underpin virtually every modern computing-related convenience in people's daily lives.
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| Sun leads industry with new enterprise Flash-powered servers |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken the next step in its end-to-end enterprise Flash strategy with the availability of robust solid state drive (SSD) Flash technology in its x64, chip multi-threaded (CMT) Rack and Blade systems. Selected Sun x64 and CMT systems are available for free 60-day trials via Sun's Try and Buy programme.
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| SDSC to host two workshops bridging humanities and high performance computing |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host two 2-day workshops designed to promote ongoing collaboration between humanities scholars and high performance computing centres to capitalize on recent, significant advancements in digitally based information technologies.
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| HP expands Integrity NonStop server line, delivering unparalleled performance at low cost |
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HP has launched the new, entry-level HP Integrity NonStop NS2000 server family, which delivers high performance and fault-tolerance at the lowest cost available for a multi-core Integrity NonStop system.
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| Oracle delivers several world record Java Virtual Machine performances |
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Oracle JRockit, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), achieved a record performance for an x86-based system running Linux on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark, an industry-standard measurement of server side Java-based application performance.
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| Platform Computing sees strong growth in financial services business |
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Platform Computing continues to see strong revenue growth in its financial services (FS) industry business as organisations move aggressively to reduce costs through the adoption of Grid and Cloud technology.
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| Gridbus team to develop framework for simulation in Cloud computing environments |
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The Gridbus team at the University of Melbourne, Australia has recently developed a framework for modelling and simulation of Cloud computing environments to support performance evaluation of policies for resource provisioning, application scheduling and policies of federation of Clouds - in a repeatable and controllable manner.
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| Manifold sets new GIS record for supercomputing desktop |
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Manifold.net has achieved a new world record for the number of processors used in a personal computer for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) processing. At the company's 2009 European User Meeting in London, Manifold demonstrated an upcoming new software product that simultaneously utilized over 1440 processor cores to perform a remote sensing image computation at supercomputer speed with over 3.5 teraflops of performance. Manifold demonstrated the new software on a desktop 64-bit Windows PC equipped with three NVIDIA GTX 295 GPU cards costing less than $500 each.
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