| PrimeurWeekly 19 October 2009 |
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| BEgrid Seminar issues Call for Participation |
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The yearly BEgrid Seminar takes place on 22 October 2009 at The International Auditorium, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5, 1210 Brussels, Belgium. The BEgrid Seminar is free, but registration is mandatory. The presentations will be available after the Seminar.
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| Platform Computing advances lead with launch of Platform Symphony 5 |
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Platform Computing has launched Platform Symphony 5, a new version of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) Grid solution for high performance computing (HPC) environments. Representing a leap forward in performance over previous versions, Platform Symphony 5 helps financial services organisations eliminate data access bottlenecks while squeezing even more performance out of their existing infrastructure. Beating the benchmark set earlier this year with version 4.1, Platform has furthered its performance lead over the competition at a time when financial markets demand faster results from risk and pricing applications.
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| Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications |
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A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously. The pioneering devices, which are expected to lead to commercial applications within the next decade, make use of electron plasma oscillation to transmit optical and electronic signals along the same metal circuitry via waves of surface plasmon polaritons. In contrast, signals in electronic circuits are transmitted by electrons, while photons are used to carry data in optical systems.
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| The Server Labs takes the European Space Agency (ESA) to the Cloud |
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After the remarkable results of an initial feasibility study, The Server Labs (TSL) and ESA are now launching a 20 times larger follow-up project to further expand on the positive outcome of the first study. Starting with its Gaia project the European Space Agency (ESA) is considering relocating its data processing for future projects and test environments to the Cloud. Moving part of Gaia's data processing to the Cloud has the potential to provide ESA with savings of up to 50% translating into hundreds of thousands of euros.
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| Oversi introduces portfolio enhancements as part of network evolution strategy |
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Oversi, a global expert in high-performance Internet video and P2P caching solutions, has added enhancements to OverCache multi-service platform (MSP) with support for popular file hosting, delivery and sharing sites. OverCache delivers faster user downloads, while strengthening the sites' business models with quality of experience (QoE) guarantees for premium packages.
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| Businesses worldwide choose Voltaire InfiniBand to enhance performance and scalability of Oracle Real Application Clusters |
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Voltaire Ltd.'s InfiniBand switches and software are helping customers in a broad array of industries worldwide to enhance the performance and scalability of Oracle Real Application Clusters. Voltaire's InfiniBand products are also supported by the newly available Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters. Voltaire solutions bring accelerated network performance and scalability to Oracle Database clusters and enable distributed workloads over shared servers to lower overall computing costs.
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| Scale out your Oracle with GridwiseTech |
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There is much data ... and there will be more. The system is hardly dealing with the processing. This problem is well known to most of IT systems administrators. Only one solution appears: buy more expensive and powerful hardware. What if there is another way out? GridwiseTech and Oracle will discuss that in Krakow, October 29th.
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| Business and science to profit from European Grids |
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Researchers in the EGEE-III - 'Enabling Grids for e-Science' - project are on the fast track for improved Grid standards and are guaranteeing their commercial uptake. Funded under the 'e-Infrastructures' Activity of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), EGEE-III is the extension of the EGEE and EGEE-II projects, which enabled researchers across regions to co-operate and advance European IT science. Due to be completed in 2010, EGEE-III has received 32 million euro in financial support.
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| Oracle Database 11g customer adoption continues |
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The world's leading organisations, across multiple industries, continue to turn to Oracle Database 11g including Agenor Technology Limited, Athens International Airport, Grupo Elektra, the i-engineers, Ministry of Justice (U.K.), among many others.
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| Oracle announces latest release of Oracle VM server virtualization software |
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Oracle VM 2.2, the latest release of Oracle's server virtualization software, is now available, enabling customers to accelerate deployment of and simplify management of enterprise applications; and to run their data centres in the most environmentally-sustainable and efficient manner, while lowering costs. Oracle VM 2.2 features the latest Xen-based, industry-standard hypervisor, Xen 3.4, and provides substantial performance enhancements for customers running Intel Xeon processor 5500 series based on Intel micro-architecture, codenamed Nehalem, as well as Six-Core AMD Opteron processors.
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| DOE to explore scientific Cloud computing at Argonne and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories |
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Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the United States' scientific community? A new programme funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine Cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.
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| SNIA announces Cloud Storage Initiative |
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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) at Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2009, has formed the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), which will serve to foster the growth and success of the emerging Cloud storage market for both commercial and consumer environments.
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| Number Field Sieve factorization at home: NFS@home |
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NFS@home is a new project from California State University Fullerton. NFS@Home uses volunteer computing to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers.
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| Sandia's Z machine meets 2009 goal |
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The Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories met its goal for the fiscal year by conducting 51 test shots in the last three months, more than doubling the number of shots for the same period last year. This re-establishes the Z machine shot rate capability after its refurbishment in 2007.
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| Wolfram|Alpha announces the release of the Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API |
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Wolfram Alpha LLC has made available the Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API. This API allows web, mobile, desktop, and enterprise applications to seamlessly access the extraordinary capability of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine, powered by a supercomputer-class Cloud infrastructure.
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| Clustercorp creates Rocks+Hybrid to simplify dual-boot clusters with Linux and Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 |
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Clustercorp has made available Rocks+Hybrid, a combination of the commercial version of the Rocks Cluster Distribution for Linux and Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008. The solution is a simple-to-use product for deploying dual-boot HPC systems that run Linux and Windows natively in a single cluster.
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| UT Knoxville wins $10 million grant for powerful new supercomputer |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, $10 million to develop a computer system that will interpret the massive amounts of data created by the current generation of high-performance computers in the agency's national computer Grid.
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| Andy Mendelsohn outlines how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 can help customers lower IT costs |
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During an Oracle OpenWorld 2009 general presentation, Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle, focused on how customers can lower their IT costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. With Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters, organisations can help reduce server costs up to 5x by virtualizing low cost servers into a shared resource. Oracle Real Application Clusters now features server pooling and Grid plug-and-play capabilities that enable customers to lower their server costs by simplifying the management and provisioning of consolidated database Grids.
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| Quantum computing may actually be useful |
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In recent years, quantum computers have lost some of their luster. In the early 1990s, it seemed that they might be able to solve a class of difficult but common problems - the so-called NP-complete problems - exponentially faster than classical computers. Now, it seems that they probably can't. In fact, the only common calculation where quantum computation promised exponential gains was the factoring of large numbers, which isn't that useful outside cryptography. In a paper appeared inPhysical Review Letters, however, MIT researchers present a new algorithm that could bring the same type of efficiency to systems of linear equations - whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modelling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications.
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| Oracle showcases Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g |
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During a general session presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco, Hasan Rizvi, Oracle Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Development demonstrated how Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g uniquely provides customers with an integrated foundation for innovation. The presentation showcased Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, customer case studies, product demonstrations, and outlined new feature plans for Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Business Process Management, and Oracle Data Integration.
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| Oracle raises the bar on performance and scalability with latest benchmark result |
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Oracle has achieved a world-record result on the SAP Business Intelligence-Data Mart (BI-D) Standard Application Benchmark. This result surpasses the best IBM DB2 result on this benchmark with more than triple the performance. On a system comprised of a two-node Fujitsu RX300 cluster, each equipped with a two-socket, quad-core Intel Xeon x5570 2.93 GHZ processor, Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux delivered world record 609,349 query navigation steps per hour.
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| Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu boost SPARC enterprise servers with new SPARC64 processors |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu have launched new quad-core SPARC64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the SPARC Enterprise server line. The faster SPARC64 VII processors deliver up to 25 percent better performance than the previous generation and with new memory access enhancements, the updated SPARC Enterprise systems have delivered outstanding performance on key enterprise benchmarks.
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| Oracle delivers near-linear scalability with latest benchmark result |
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Oracle has achieved an eight processor world-record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode).
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| A10 Networks expands AX series family with new high performance 64-bit appliances |
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A10 Networks, a technology expert in Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), has launched five new 64-bit models in its AX Series family, designed to provide Application Delivery and Server Load Balancing functionality for medium to large enterprises, web sites and ISPs/carriers. Running on A10's new 64-bit Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture, the new models extend the AX Series family with increased scalability, delivering high performance ranging from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps throughput in the most compact, energy efficient platforms.
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| A10 Networks launches industry's first 64-bit operating system for application delivery |
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A10 Networks' 64-bit Advanced Core Operation System (ACOS), the industry's first Application Delivery OS based on native 64-bit code, is now shipping. The combination of the 64-bit ACOS running on A10's new 64-bit AX Series hardware platforms demonstrates A10's continued ability to innovate, being the first to market with a full line of high-performance 64-bit Advanced ADCs. Customers can now select between the existing 32-bit and the new 64-bit ACOS architectures, according to their specific Application Delivery and Load Balancing requirements.
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| Oracle announces Oracle VM Storage Connect Programme |
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Oracle has launched the Oracle VM Storage Connect Programme and a preview of the planned Oracle VM Storage Connect framework. The Oracle VM Storage Connect framework provides a storage discovery and provisioning Application Programming Interface (API) that is intended to greatly enhance the ease with which storage can be managed and provisioned in an Oracle VM environment. Storage vendors participating in the Oracle VM Storage Connect Programme are working closely with Oracle to provide seamless interoperability with their storage platform through the planned integration with the Oracle VM Storage Connect framework.
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| IBM offers industry's first integrated Solid State Drive support for storage virtualization |
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The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), is now faster, more scalable, and delivers the industry's first integrated Solid State Drive support. SVC is a storage virtualization system that complements server virtualization technologies and enables a single point of control for storage resources (both IBM and non-IBM arrays) to support improved business application availability, better IT infrastructure flexibility, and greater resource utilization.
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| Oracle Development Head showcases the company's complete, open and integrated software portfolio |
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During a keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Product Development, showcased Oracle customer case studies and product demonstrations and outlined the value customers can expect to receive from the tight integration of the company's Applications, Middleware, Database, and Infrastructure & Management software.
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| Oracle announces 2009 Oracle Innovation Awards |
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The recipients of the 2009 Oracle Innovation Award were announced at Oracle OpenWorld. The Oracle Innovation Award recognizes organisations for innovative deployments of Oracle Application Grid, Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System; components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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| UAB International Conference focuses on preventing high-capacity computer data theft |
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Leading high-performance computing engineers and researchers attending a three-day international conference at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have called for renewed vigilance in field-related data security. The group said growing world-wide computer use puts more and more applied modelling, design and other supercomputer-processed projects that are stored digitally at risk for theft by hackers and other cyber criminals.
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| Sun Microsystems adds high-performance storage array to industry-leading disk portfolio |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has expanded its industry-leading disk storage portfolio to include the new Sun Storage 6180 Array built upon multiple generations of Sun modular storage technology. This latest addition to Sun's storage portfolio has demonstrated best-in-class price/performance: the Sun Storage 6180 delivers 50% more performance than Sun's previous generation, and over 70% better price/performance than the IBM DS5020.
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| Recovery Act gives boost to university research |
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Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law in February, it has given a significant boost to scientific and medical research at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Recovery Act committed $787 billion in federal funds to help stimulate the national economy. From this, 2.5 percent was earmarked for support of scientific and medical research.
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