| PrimeurWeekly 25 January 2010 |
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| EuroFlash |
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| Bull signs major pan-European outsourcing contract with PaperlinX |
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Bull has signed a pan-European outsourcing contract with PaperlinX Europe, one of the largest distributors of paper, sign & display products and packaging materials in Europe. PaperlinX was looking for a partner that could standardize and centralize its complete IT infrastructure. By outsourcing its IT, PaperlinX is able to reduce costs, raise its service levels and focus on its core activities. Within the contract, Bull is responsible for the data centre operations of PaperlinX, as well as the desktop management and helpdesk activities for 4500 users. PaperlinX Europe has 22 branch offices in 16 countries, that, until now, all had their own IT strategy, data centre and IT staff.
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| Fujitsu debuts new PRIMERGY mono-socket servers |
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Fujitsu's new generation mono-socket PRIMERGY rack and tower servers represent a leap in technical innovation, delivering excellent customer value and versatility, and unlocking advanced performance capabilities at keenly competitive prices. The next-generation PRIMERGY TX150 S7 tower and RX100 S6 rack servers are available worldwide immediately.
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| HPC Advisory Council announces Switzerland InfiniBand workshop |
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The HPC Advisory Council, an organisation for high-performance computing research, outreach and education and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 15-17, 2010. The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications.
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| European Commission unconditionally approves Oracle's acquisition of Sun |
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Oracle Corporation has received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. Oracle expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to close the transaction shortly.
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| EUMEDGRID-Support kicks off at launch event |
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With the rapid advancement of technology world-wide, world-class researchers are calling for an increasing demand of computing power to address global challenges to bring real world benefits.
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| Data at the end of the tunnel |
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Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the French research facility CNRS, south of Paris, are using electric fields to manipulate the property of electrons known as "spin" to store data permanently. This principle could not only improve random access memory in computers, it could also revolutionize the next generation of electronic devices.
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| European collaboration makes breakthrough in developing super-material graphene |
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A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, such as micro-chips and touchscreen technology.
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| IBM Research sets new record in magnetic tape data density |
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IBM researchers have demonstrated a world record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape - a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage technologies.
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| IT Survey finds executives planning converged network strategy: using both InfiniBand and Ethernet |
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A new survey by Voltaire reveals that IT executives plan to use InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies together as they refresh or build new data centres. They're choosing a converged network strategy to improve fabric performance which in turn furthers their infrastructure consolidation and efficiency objectives.
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| SGI launches global Channel Network Programme |
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SGI has launched its global SGI Channel Network Programme. SGI's channel strategy will drive profitable business growth for resellers by maintaining a limited set of specialized partners, bringing differentiated solutions to market, and delivering a comprehensive program designed to protect partner investment.
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| Voltaire scale-out InfiniBand fabric accelerates South Africa's largest supercomputer powered by Sun Microsystems |
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The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa has selected a Voltaire 40 Gb/s QDR InfiniBand director switch as part of its new Sun Microsystems supercomputer. The CHPC is a division of the South African Counsel for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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| Platform Computing integrates Symphony with Calypso Technology's Galapagos product |
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Calypso Technology, a global provider of integrated trading applications to the capital markets industry, has licensed Platform Symphony to boost the performance of its Galapagos financial optimization software. Platform Symphony is the market leading software solution for improving application performance in financial services organisations, allowing them to respond faster to industry demands and market volatility.
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| Research team 'virtualizes' supercomputer |
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Supercomputers have sprung up across the world landscape like the statues on Easter Island - separate, huge, and impenetrable to the average person. They perform hundreds of trillion calculations per second, a figure almost ungraspable by a species that may have entered mathematics by first counting on its fingers. A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University, Sandia National Labs and the University of New Mexico (UNM) has resulted in the largest-scale study ever done on what many consider an important part of the future of computing - the virtualization of parallel supercomputing systems.
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| Fujitsu and A*STAR's IHPC enter collaborative R&D partnership to usher in era of petascale computing In Singapore |
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Fujitsu and the Agency for Science Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) have signed an R&D partnership to jointly develop advanced applications technologies for the next generation of scientific computing known as petascale computing.
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| IBM accelerates Cloud computing with LotusLive |
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IBM has introduced the technology and business expansion of its LotusLive Cloud collaboration platform through a new R&D pipeline from IBM Research and plans to open the LotusLive suite to new partners. LotusLive Cloud services provide integrated e-mail, Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration with IBM's focus on security, reliability and enterprise integration.
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| Original founder leads Investment Group in purchase of Verari Systems' assets |
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David Driggers, the original founder of Verari Systems Inc., a premier developer of independent blade-based computing and storage platforms for conventional and modular data centres, has announced the successful acquisition of substantially all of Verari Systems' corporate and intellectual property assets by an Investment Group led by David Driggers.
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| Raritan's dcTrack wins a SearchDataCenter.com 'Product of the Year' Award in Data Center Infrastructure Category |
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Raritan's dcTrack 2.2 software won a TechTarget SearchDataCenter.com 2009 "Product of the Year" award. A panel of judges selected dcTrack 2.2 from a number of products submitted for consideration in the Data Center Infrastructure award category, which encompasses back-up power, data centre cooling and infrastructure support products. The awards were judged by the SearchDataCenter.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants.
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| IBM Client for Smart Work available through business partners in India |
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IBM has made available IBM Client for Smart Work in India through business partners. The IBM Client for Smart Work, IBM and Canonical's popular Cloud- and Linux-based desktop package, is designed to help companies do more with less and lower desktop computing costs by up to 50 percent.
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| Xoreax to release IncrediBuild v3.50 |
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Xoreax has released IncrediBuild v3.50. This release is considered stable and contains many performance improvements, new features and bug fixes.
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| HP opens fully-owned subsidiary in Jordan |
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HP has opened a fully-owned subsidiary in Jordan and the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Jordan for future job creation. Hewlett-Packard Jordan will offer sales, services and support capabilities to better serve the local market. In addition, HP signed a MoU with the Government of Jordan regarding the creation of a regional Competency Centre in Jordan that will service the wider Middle East, Mediterranean & Africa (MEMA) region.
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| Carnegie Mellon and Intel collaborate to improve energy costs in chip-making |
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Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Corporation will unveil a new class of materials called solder magnetic nanocomposites that could help streamline the process of computer electronic packaging. The milestone research is being discussed at the 11th annual Magnetism and Magnetics Materials Conference January 18-22 at the Marriott Washington Wardman Park in Washington, D.C.
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| Animals populated Madagascar by rafting there |
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How did the lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses get to the large, isolated island of Madagascar sometime after 65 million years ago? A pair of scientists say their research confirms the longstanding idea that the animals hitched rides on natural rafts blown out to sea.
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| Turning down the noise in quantum data storage |
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Researchers who hope to create quantum computers are currently investigating various methods to store data. Nitrogen atoms embedded in diamond show promise for encoding quantum bits (qubits), but the process of reading the information results in an extremely weak signal. Now physicists have demonstrated a roundabout approach for generating a significantly stronger signal from these sorts of qubits. Their experiment is reported in the current issue ofPhysical Review Band highlighted with a Viewpoint in the January 19 issue ofPhysics.
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| AMD reports Fourth Quarter results |
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AMD has reported revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009 of $1.646 billion, an increase of 18 percent compared to the previous quarter and 42 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. In the fourth quarter of 2009, AMD reported net income attributable to AMD common stockholders of $1.178 billion, or $1.52 per share, which includes a net favourable impact of $1.238 billion, or $1.57 per share. AMD reported operating income of $1.288 billion in the quarter, including a net favorable impact of $1.224 billion. The net favorable impacts were primarily from a legal settlement with Intel Corporation.
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| SGI names Vincent Scarpulla to run Americas commercial sales |
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SGI, a global expert in HPC and data centre solutions, has added Vincent J. Scarpulla as vice president of Americas commercial sales. With a background spanning more than 30 years of sales, service and management roles across hardware, software and services product portfolios, Vincent J. Scarpulla will drive SGI's U.S. commercial sales strategy, and will have primary responsibility for all sales and relationship activities for vertical markets, including: Internet, financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, and manufacturing. In addition, Vincent J. Scarpulla will lead the company's overall sales efforts in Canada and Latin America.
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