| PrimeurWeekly 21 June 2010 |
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| It takes three to tango in exascale computing: memory, photonic interconnects and embedded processors |
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Free moments for speakers, session chairs and participants were rare at ISC'10 in Hamburg. EnterTheGrid/Primeur Magazine managed to catch John Shalf for a short interview during lunchtime on June 1, 2010. John Shalf, who has a background in electrical and computer engineering, is currently working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) in California, leading the Advanced Technologies Group at NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. His research may be very promising for the future of supercomputing since he and his colleagues are making large efforts to achieve one of the breakthroughs required to get to exascale computing: developing energy-efficient and easier to program processors. Their approach uses embedded processors, which are now used in mobile devices, and reorganizes them to be effective "many-core" computing components for supercomputers. The Berkeley research is being performed in the Green Flash project.
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| T-Platforms is cruise-speeding on a European HPC-mission |
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T-Platforms is already active in supercomputing in Europe for many years. See for instance our Primeur Live! coverage from 5 years ago. In Hamburg they made their splash! entrance into Western Europe, and were the talk-of-the-town, literally, as the centre of the city in the evening was taken over by ISC'10 attendees. Of course, EnterTheGrid/Primeur Magazine had a Live! interview with T-Platforms.
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| PRACE calls for one year project grants on Europe's fastest computer |
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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, enables researchers from across Europe to apply for time on the PRACE resources via a peer review process. This call marks the first regular call for the PRACE resources with the standard allocation time of one year. The call is aimed at projects to use the HPC system available to researchers through PRACE: the IBM BlueGene/P - JUGENE - hosted by the Gauss-Centre member site in Jülich, Germany. Allocation will be for one year starting from November 1st, 2010.
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| Nanospheres stretch limits of hard disk storage |
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A new magnetic recording medium made up of tiny nanospheres has been devised by European researchers. The technology may lead to hard disks able to store more than a thousand billion bits of information in a square inch. With consumer PCs now being sold with hard disks of a terabyte or more storage capacity seems to be expanding without limit. But the limits are there and industry insiders know that they are approaching fast.
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| Scientists focus on revealing hidden mysteries of the Universe |
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Secrets of the Universe are to be revealed as a new telescope equipped with the world's most powerful digital camera begins its observations of the night sky. The Pan-STARRS sky survey telescope - known as PS1 - will enable scientists to better understand the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, the material that is thought to account for much of the mass of the universe but has never been proven to exist.
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| ARCS Compute Cloud released nationally |
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The Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS), the national provider of interoperable and collaborative eResearch services, has released at a national level the ARCS Compute Cloud. The Compute Cloud greatly reduces the complexity of using the Australian Grid, which is managed by ARCS and networks many of the country's high performance computers (HPC).
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| Over two billion hours served using Argonne's supercomputer to drive discovery and innovation |
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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has run over two billion processor-hours of computations at a mind-boggling speed of over 557 trillion calculations a second as it enables scientists and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research in just weeks or months rather than years.
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| RAID Inc. announces OEM partnership with LSI Corporation |
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RAID Incorporated, an end-to-end high-performance solutions provider specializing in leading-edge storage technologies, has signed an OEM partnership agreement with LSI Corporation, a storage manufacturer, in order to further develop their capabilities in the high-performance computing storage market.
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| Campus Party Colombia plans a promotion of Rosetta@home |
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Campus Party and the Rosetta@Home project will work together to turn the Campus Party Colombia technology and science event into the world's largest network. With the help of the campus users and the Internet connection from Telefónica Telecom, the team will consolidate the country's largest network of collaborators.
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| Surplus PC power yields faster cancer research |
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Scientists have devised a way to automate and accelerate a manual, complex process that enables researchers to more easily discover the structure of cancer-related proteins, and, eventually, formulate cancer cures. This new, automated approach may also help the exploration of other diseases and food-related research. The breakthrough was made by the Help Conquer Cancer project in conjunction with IBM and World Community Grid, a system of linked personal computers from volunteers who donate spare processing power for humanitarian projects. World Community Grid, sponsored by IBM, provides researchers around the world with the equivalent of millions of dollars of free computational power to enable medical, nutrition, energy and environmental research.
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| Lawrence Livermore teams with Fusion-io to re-define performance density |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has created the world's highest performance storage array, standardized on Fusion-io. This array, the Hyperion Data Intensive Testbed, implements over one hundred terabytes of Fusion-io's dual 320GB enterprise MLC ioMemory modules deployed in ioSAN carrier cards that connect ioMemory over Infiniband.
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| Construction to begin on NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center |
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A ceremonial ceremony has signaled the start of construction for the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) new supercomputing centre in the North Range Business Park in Cheyenne. The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will provide advanced computing services to scientists across the US in a broad range of disciplines, including weather, climate, oceanography, air pollution, space weather, computational science, energy production and carbon sequestration. It will also house a premier data storage and archival facility that will hold, among other scientific data, unique historical climate records.
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| State of Florida leverages Microsoft Cloud solution for Census Count |
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The Florida House of Representatives is making one final push over the next month for its state residents to be counted in the 2010 Census, through its MyFloridaCensus website and Web-based application. MyFloridaCensus is an innovative component in Florida's overall effort to ensure a complete count of residents during the ongoing 2010 Census, supplementing door-to-door canvassing, which ends nationwide July 10.
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| HP accelerates client adoption of hybrid delivery models to improve application outcomes |
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HP has introduced new management solutions to help clients embrace hybrid delivery models, spanning on-premise, off-premise, physical and virtual environments, enabling faster time to market and increased agility from application investments.
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| IBM, ARM, Samsung, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Synopsys announce delivery of new chip platform |
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ARM, IBM, Samsung Electronics Co.Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Synopsys Inc. have delivered the industry's first complete vertically optimized 32/28 nanometer (nm) design platform. Demonstrating the strength of the collaboration established and announced at DAC a year ago, the companies are collectively providing a technology enablement solution for the design and manufacturing of advanced mobile and embedded devices.
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| Oracle achieves world record result with SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark |
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Oracle WebLogic Server 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, together with Oracle Database 11g running on Oracle Solaris and Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with Sun FlashFire technology, achieved a world record multi-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark.
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| IBM advances analytics with acquisition of Coremetrics |
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IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Coremetrics, an expert in web analytics software. Coremetrics, a privately held company based in San Mateo, California, will expand IBM's business analytics capabilities by enabling organisations to use a Cloud-based delivery model to gain real-time insight into consumer interactions internally and through social media networks to develop faster, more targeted marketing campaigns. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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| IBM opens its largest Software Development Lab in North America and enhances investment in Massachusetts high tech talent |
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IBM has opened the doors of the IBM Mass Lab - IBM's largest Software Development Lab in North America. The IBM Mass Lab, a campus comprised of sites in Littleton and Westford, Massachusetts, brings together 3400 of IBM's experts to design and develop first-of-a-kind solutions to respond to customers' computing challenges.
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| Oracle announces Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g |
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Oracle has launched Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
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| Mississippi State University among 20 fastest US academic supercomputing sites |
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Mississippi State's standing as a supercomputing leader has a new rank. The latest list of Top500 Supercomputer Sites rates a system at the university as the 18th fastest at any U.S. academic location, as well as the 331st most powerful computer in the world.
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| SeaMicro enters the Japanese market |
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SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley pioneer of low power server technology, has signed a distribution agreement with Japan's premier system integrator, Net One Systems. SeaMicro recently dazzled the industry by unveiling the SM10000 low-power, small form-factor server, which replaces 40 standard servers but uses one-quarter of the power and takes one quarter of the space.
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| SeaMicro unveils new x86 server |
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SeaMicro has emerged from stealth mode to launch a new Internet-optimized x86-server that reduces by 75 percent the power and space used by servers. In development for three years, the SM10000 is the ultimate re-think of the volume server.
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| VLife and CRL join hands to combine the power of accurate and smart docking technology with high performance Cloud computing |
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VLife Sciences Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (VLife), a provider of technologies for computer-aided drug and molecular discovery based in Pune, India and Computational Research Laboratories Limited (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons and developer of the fast commercial supercomputing facility 'eka', based in Pune, India have reached an understanding to offer VLife's GRIP docking technology on CRL's high performance computing platform.
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| AFOSR-funded initiative creates more secure environment for Cloud computing |
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Scientists at the University of Texas in Dallas (UTD), with funding from AFOSR's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, are seeking solutions for maintaining privacy in a Cloud, or an Internet-based computing environment where all resources are offered on demand. Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham has put together a team of researchers from the UTD School of Management and its School of Economics, Policy and Political Sciences to investigate information sharing with consideration to confidentiality and privacy in Cloud computing.
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| SGI releases InfiniteStorage 5000 SAS external storage system |
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SGI has released SGI InfiniteStorage 5000, a RAID storage system that combines leading-edge hardware with a choice of host interfaces and drive technologies in a new external storage platform. This system provides advanced features and configuration flexibility to accommodate a broad selection of data store requirements with compelling mid-range performance at entry-level affordability. SGI InfiniteStorage 5000 is SGI's first storage system to employ 6 Gb/s SAS technology.
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| SGI helps Queensland Government accelerate climate science in Australia |
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The Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) has installed a high performance computing (HPC) and large-scale storage solution based on SGI Altix ICE 8200 and InfiniteStorage in its Brisbane facility for the processing of computationally intensive environmental modelling applications.
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| Platform Computing and Sybase to demonstrate high performance scalable analytics infrastructure solution for trading at SIFMA Financial Services Technology Expo |
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Platform Computing has developed a highly scalable, high performance analytics infrastructure solution with Sybase Inc. The solution consists of an integration of Platform's distributed Grid solution, Platform Symphony, with Sybase RAP - The Trading Edition.
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| Voltaire expands 10 GbE portfolio with new low-latency layer 2/3 switch for next generation data centres and Cloud computing |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out data centre fabrics, has made available the Voltaire Vantage 6024, a low-latency, high-performance Layer 2/3 top-of-rack switch optimized for next generation and virtualized data centres and Cloud computing environments. The switch provides the industry's most power-efficient and lowest latency capabilities on 10 Gigabit Ethernet, enabling new levels of efficiency, scalability and real-time application performance. The switch also supports converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) capabilities enabling the consolidation of multiple network tiers and fabrics to significantly reduce infrastructure expenses.
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| Voltaire collaborates with NASDAQ OMX and HP to deliver next generation high-speed trading platform to Singapore Exchange |
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Voltaire Ltd. is collaborating with NASDAQ OMX and HP to deliver an ultra-fast, next-generation equities trading platform to Singapore Exchange (SGX). The new trading engine - SGX Reach - is delivered through NASDAQ OMX's Genium INET technology, Voltaire InfiniBand switches and Voltaire Messaging Accelerator (VMA) software and HP ProLiant server blades. On May 7, 2010, SGX conducted a benchmark test with its partners at the HP Capacity Planning Centre in Singapore and achieved a record-breaking, average order response time of less than 90 microseconds door-to-door.
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| Force10 Networks commends the IEEE for ratifying its P802.3ba 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet Standard |
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Force10 Networks Inc. congratulated the IEEE and its Task Force for ratifying its P802.3ba standard for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). The ratification sets a needed standard as dynamic data centre conditions necessitate aggregating more traffic at 40 GbE and 100 GbE speeds.
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