| PrimeurWeekly 10 August 2009 |
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| No crisis for Cray - Interview with Steve Scott at ISC09 |
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At ISC09 in Hamburg, Primeur magazine talked to Cray's Chief Technology Officer Steve Scott. Scott explained in this interview that Cray is steady growing, with not much negative effects of the economical crisis. Plans for a major network upgrade to the flagship product XT5 are still on schedule for next year. The Desktop Entry supercomputer CX1 is doing well, and he even did not seem to bother the Cray Jaguar system did make it to the second place in the top500 and not to the first.
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| EuroFlash |
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| Medvedev calls for more Russian supercomputers and Grids |
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At an opening address to the Security Council Meeting on Supercomputers, Russian president Medvedev, called for more supercomputers and Grids in Russia. Medvedev wants that more supercomputers are created and that they are connected by a Grid infrastructure. Goal is to support with HPC the development of advanced and complex types of products and thus increase the quality of industrial products, and streamline business processes.
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| ASTRON's new LOFAR telescope shows first fringes |
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A team of astronomers and engineers at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, has successfully detected correlated interferometric radio signals, so-called "fringes", from the sky with the first three, recently completed, full-scale LOFAR stations.
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| Semantics-based software boosts company performance |
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New semantics-based software tools that accelerate the speed companies can develop or adjust their processes - while slashing costs - have resulted from a major European research project. Tools developed by SUPER, a European research project, greatly enhance the business usefulness of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to software development. The new tools raise business process management (BPM) to the business level where it belongs, from the IT level where it mostly resides now.
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| T-Platforms and Finnish CSC - IT Center for Science sign Letter of Interest |
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T-Platforms, the Russian supercomputer holding, and the Finnish company CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. (CSC) have signed a letter of interest. The document reflects the companies' interest in mutual promotion of their products on the Russian and international markets and CSC software use on T-Platforms petascale HPC systems.
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| Russian supercomputers reach South Africa |
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T-Platforms, the Russian supercomputer holding, and the Centre for High Performance Computing of South Africa (CHPC) have signed a letter of intent. The document reflects the parties' mutual interest in use of T-Platforms supercomputer systems in CHPC projects. Notably, it is T-Platforms' 2nd letter signed with foreign partners - recently the company has signed a letter of interest with the largest Finnish supercomputer centre CSC - IT Center for Science.
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| ORAP Forum calls for participation |
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The 25th ORAP Forum will take place in the buildings of EDF R&D in Clamart, France on 13 and 14 October 2009. Participation is free of charge but registration is required.
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| Europe's Digital Competitiveness Report and Post-i2010 public consultation open |
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The European Commission's new Digital Competitiveness Report shows that Europe's digital sector has made strong progress since 2005. The Commission has also opened a public consultation on what future strategy the EU should adopt to make the digital economy run at full speed.
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| Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch module available for IBM BladeCenter |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out data centre fabrics, has made available the Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch module for IBM BladeCenter. Custom designed by Voltaire for IBM, the new switch delivers 100 percent faster InfiniBand connectivity to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter in both the high performance computing (HPC) and enterprise data centre markets.
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| Revenue Management Solutions and Online Resources named Itanium Innovation Award finalists for outstanding use of NEC premier servers |
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The Itanium Solutions Alliance has selected Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) and Online Resources Corporation as finalists for its Itanium Innovation Awards, recognizing both organisations' innovative use of NEC's dynamic server solutions to improve business functions.
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| NEC Enterprise Server breaks virtualization performance record |
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NEC Corporation and NEC Corporation of America's newest enterprise server, the NEC Express5800/A1160, has established a world record in overall VMmark performance benchmark results.
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| RIKEN's new supercomputer up and running |
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Fujitsu has recently completed the deployment of a new supercomputer for Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN. The system began operations in August. The new supercomputer system achieved a LINPACK benchmark performance of 97.94 teraflops. In comparison to the PC cluster systems included in the June 2009 world TOP500 list, the system's performance ranks first in Japan.
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| Intel helps convert unused PC processor power into an instrument to fight disease and study climate change |
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Intel, in partnership with GridRepublic and BOINC, has launched Progress Thru Processors, a Facebook application that makes participating in BOINC simpler and more sociable.
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| Cluster Resources becomes Adaptive Computing |
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Cluster Resources, the company behind the Moab unified intelligent automation technology, has made a strategic move into the commercial data centre market with a new name and brand identity, Adaptive Computing, and an upgraded software suite focused on extending the value of Moab to the data centre and private and public Cloud environments. The company's robust Moab Adaptive Computing Suite platform for data centres and private Clouds now allows a wider range of organisations to leverage Moab's proven management and automation capabilities in order to create dynamic, intelligent IT environments.
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| Cray receives contract to upgrade "Jaguar" supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Cray Inc. has received a contract from the Department of Energy to upgrade the Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The upgrade to Six-Core AMD Opteron processors, code-named "Istanbul", will increase Jaguar's peak performance to more than two petaflops (quadrillion mathematical calculations per second) of compute power, solidifying its position as the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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| Parabon NanoLabs founding scientist awarded White House honour |
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Dr. Christopher Dwyer, Parabon Nanolabs' Co-Founder and Senior Research Scientist, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Announced by the White House, PECASE is the highest honour given to scientists beginning their careers by the Federal Government. Dr. Dwyer received a five-year, $1 million research grant to further his studies to aid critical government projects.
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| High Performance Computing users cite "need for more speed" in recent Panasas survey |
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Panasas Inc., a provider of storage for the world's most performance-intensive applications, has announced the results of a recent survey of 114 professionals from aerospace, energy, automotive, higher education, government, and other industries regarding their high performance computing environments. The objective of the survey was to better understand the business benefits of greater performance, as well as the current and future needs of high performance computing users.
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| Cray Inc. reports second quarter 2009 financial results |
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Cray Inc. has announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. Revenue for the quarter was $62.7 million compared to $46.7 million in the prior year period, an increase of 34 percent. The company reported net income for the quarter of $3.4 million or $0.10 per share compared to a net loss of ($6.4 million) or ($0.20) per share in the second quarter of 2008.
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| Darkstrand and National Center for Supercomputing Applications join forces to speed corporate innovation |
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Darkstrand, a pioneer in corporate high-speed connectivity bridging research and commercialization, has signed a collaborative alliance with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an expert in deploying robust high-performance computing (HPC) resources and developing new computing and software technologies.
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| DNA computation gets logical at the Weizmann Institute of Science |
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Biomolecular computers, made of DNA and other biological molecules, only exist today in a few specialized labs, remote from the regular computer user. Nonetheless, Tom Ran and Shai Kaplan, research students in the lab of Prof. Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry, and Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Departments have found a way to make these microscopic computing devices 'user friendly', even while performing complex computations and answering complicated queries.
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| HP names Linda Dillman senior vice president of Global Information Technology |
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HP has named Linda Dillman a senior vice president of Global Information Technology, effective immediately. Linda Dillman will report to Randy Mott, executive vice president and chief information officer at HP. She will lead the IT teams responsible for the company's outsourcing services business and a newly created group supporting global functions such as corporate administration and shared services, finance, global real estate and human resources. HP and EDS data centres operating client environments will remain under the supervision of the EDS outsourcing business.
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| JVC Kenwood Holdings selects IBM for infrastructure and Cloud services |
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JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc., the joint holding company of Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC), and Kenwood Corporation (Kenwood), has signed a 2.6 billion yen, six-year strategic outsourcing contract with IBM Japan for the management of its information technology (IT) systems and shared hosting services.
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| Power Catalyst re-energizes with virtualization, disaster recovery and non-disruptive scalability via NEC dynamic IT infrastructure |
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Power Catalyst has reduced costs, improved customer service levels, and achieved a 50 percent reduction in power consumption by deploying a scalable, virtual solution on NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure products. Power Catalyst manages wholesale energy data in competitive power markets. The company brings enterprise-level data management and business intelligence solutions to companies in the energy industry that make each of them more innovative, agile, and efficient than their vertically integrated predecessors. Power Catalyst's customers rely on the company to use first-class IT solutions to deliver leading-edge services.
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| San Diego Supercomputer Center launches 'Triton Resource' |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support University of California (UC) San Diego and UC researchers.
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| SGI announces the scalable workgroup cluster |
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SGI has made available CloudRack X2, a new generation of scalable workgroup clusters for HPC, graphics and Internet applications. The newest addition to the CloudRack product family, CloudRack X2 delivers extreme density and 99 percent power distribution efficiency with Power XE in a small, 5-square-foot form factor.
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| SGI announces second quarter fiscal 2009 preliminary financial results and fiscal 2010 internal plan |
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Silicon Graphics International Corp. has announced preliminary financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 and reaffirmed fiscal year 2010 internal plan. SGI is in the process of completing its FY2009 fiscal year-end audit, which will be impacted by purchase price accounting. The company expects to file its Q2 FY 2009 and FY 2009 annual results on a Form 10-Q, due on August 10, 2009.
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| Major Cloud services provider with worldwide operations selects Verari Systems' award-winning energy efficient FOREST Container solution |
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A major Cloud services provider - with worldwide operations - has deployed a second-generation Verari FOREST Container to support its popular Cloud services platform. Selected for its alignment with the Cloud services provider's commitment to environmental sustainability, Verari's award-winning FOREST Container maximizes flexibility while cutting energy costs exponentially and boosting computing performance to new levels.
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