| PrimeurWeekly 15 June 2009 |
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| Registration still open for "Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science and Industry" Forum |
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You can still register free of charge for the Third EDGeS User and Industry Forum at ISC'09 in Hamburg, Germany on Friday 26 June, 2009. The forum will address the topic "Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science and Industry". Among the speakers are Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA; Damien Hubaux, CETIC & BEinGRID; Mark McAndrew, The Charity Engine; Bernard Schott, Platform Computing; Mike Pidgeon, Datasynapse; Steve Armentrout, Parabon.
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| EDGeS team calls for participation to joint EDGeS and EGEE Summer School on Grid Application Support |
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The Joint EDGeS and EGEE Summer School on Grid Application Support will be held in Budapest, Hungary June 29 to July 4, 2009. Registration is still possible till June 18, 2009.
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| Bull SAS and Foster Findlay Associates Ltd have entered into a partnership agreement |
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Bull SAS and Foster Findlay Associates Ltd (ffA) have entered into a partnership agreement to deliver ffA GPU-enabled 3D seismic analysis software to the oil and gas community on Bull High Performance Computing systems.
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| Current and future HPDC developments at the International Symposium High Performance Distributed Computing |
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170 scientists from more than 20 countries participated in the International ACM Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2009) at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Science in Garching near Munich during 11-13 June 2009. The current scientific developments in parallel and distributed computing, high-speed networks and related software solutions have been discussed by renowned international experts.
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| Special session on "Cloud Computing & HPC - Synergy or Competition" at ISC'09 |
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On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, the International Supercomputing Conference'09 (ISC09) in Hamburg, Germany will feature a special session on "Cloud Computing & HPC - Synergy or Competition", chaired by Dr. Martin Anthony Walker and Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller from the Department of Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). The session features a series of talks by experts from different Cloud providers, e.g. HP, IBM, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, ..., and a panel discussion.
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| Birth of a star predicted |
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The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless cloud Barnard 68" is to collapse and give rise to a new star, according to an article which has been published recently inThe Astrophysical Journal. Barnard 68 (B68) is a dark nebula located in the constellation of Ofiuco, around 400 light years away. Nebulae are interstellar clouds of dust and gas located within the Milky Way, and some of these are the so-called 'dark' nebulae, the silhouettes of which block out the light of the stars and other objects behind them.
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| Bull equips several French Ministries with globull, the leading mobile security platform |
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The French Defense Ministry's Inter-Forces Infrastructure, Networks and Information Systems Department (DIRISI) has signed a four-year framework agreement with Bull to supply several government ministries and other public sector bodies.
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| Computing in the quantum dimension |
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A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum computer.
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| The dawn of quantum applications |
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Technologies that exploit the unique weirdness of quantum mechanics could debut in the very near future, thanks to the groundbreaking work of a huge European research consortium. Unbreakable cryptography, unimaginable simulations of profoundly complex problems and super-fast networks are just some of the promise held out by quantum computing. And now European scientists are poised to deliver on that promise, thanks to the work of the Qubit Applications (QAP) project.
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| Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies |
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A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements. The Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics has demonstrated precise control of four photons using a microscopic metal electrode lithographically patterned onto a silicon chip.
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| CNRS 2009 Gold Medal: Serge Haroche, physicist and explorer of the quantum world |
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The CNRS 2009 Gold Medal has been awarded to the physicist Serge Haroche. The distinction rewards a scientific personality whose work has made an exceptional contribution to the vitality and influence of French research. Serge Haroche is a specialist in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is one of the founders of cavity quantum electrodynamics, a field which uses conceptually simple experiments to shed light on the fundamentals of quantum theory and develop prototype quantum information processing systems. Serge Haroche, who has been a Professor at the Collège de France since 2001, leads the Electrodynamics of Simple Systems group at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (École normale supérieure/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS).
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| Yahoo! raises commitment to Cloud computing with the availability of Yahoo! distribution of Hadoop |
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Yahoo! has made available the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop at the Second Annual Hadoop Summit. The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop is based on code available from the Apache Hadoop project, an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase the pace of innovation around open and collaborative research and development. The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been tested and deployed at Yahoo! on the largest Hadoop clusters in the world.
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| Tech-X selects Terascala RTS 1000 Storage Appliance |
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Tech-X Corporation has chosen the Terascala RTS 1000 Storage Appliance to speed code development and to enable large simulations. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Tech-X develops software solutions for research, engineering and education to aid with specific scientific challenges. Tech-X Corporation offers commercial products as well as collaborates with government and private institutions on research projects. Products and services from Tech-X help solve difficult technical problems, increasing design and development productivity and accelerating project deployment for scientists and engineers.
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| Visualizing the future of scientific discovery |
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As computational scientists are confronted with increasingly massive datasets from supercomputing simulations and experiments, one of the biggest challenges is having the right tools to gain scientific insight from the data. A team of Department of Energy (DOE) researchers recently ran a series of experiments to determine whether VisIt, a leading scientific visualization application, is up to the challenge. Running on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, VisIt achieved unprecedented levels of performance in these highly parallel environments, tackling data sets far larger than scientists are currently producing.
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| Korea Meteorological Administration selects Cray to negotiate multi-year supercomputer contract |
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The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has selected Cray as the preferred bidder for a multi-year contract to provide KMA with a next-generation supercomputer.
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| Defense Department High-Performance Computing Centers extend their contract with Altair for a third year |
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The U.S. Department of Defense has exercised its option to continue using Altair's PBS Professional software as the standard workload management solution for its High-Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP).
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| Biomedical Research Institute deploys Force10 Networks to deliver high bandwidth network services |
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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) has deployed the Force10 C-Series family of resilient switches and the S-Series family of access switches to serve as the backbone of its campus and data centre networks. With Force10, FMI is interconnecting researchers throughout the facility with a high-performance network supporting instruments that generate as much as one terabyte of data per day.
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| RedPeak Solutions to partner with 3Tera to provide Cloud computing services for enterprise customers |
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RedPeak Solutions, a Cloud computing consulting expert and managed services provider, has signed a strategic partnership with 3Tera Inc., an innovator of Cloud computing technology and utility computing services, to provide consulting, implementation and deployment services enabling companies to accelerate time to market by combining the right type of Cloud solution - internal, public or hybrid - to fit their business needs. Target customers include enterprises, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, Web 2.0 companies and software development and quality assurance organisations that are moving to Cloud environments using 3Tera's award-winning AppLogic Cloud computing platform.
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| HP advances scale-out computing with breakthrough data centre solution |
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HP has launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio designed to deliver a new magnitude of cost and resource savings for businesses involved in Web 2.0, Cloud and high-performance computing.
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| DreamWorks Animation gets "Extreme" with HP scale-out storage |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG, the computer-generated animation company that introduced the world to "Shrek", has selected HP scale-out storage technology to more cost-effectively store and easily access the data behind its cutting-edge visual productions.
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