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| Belarus and Russia to use supercomputers in mineral prospecting |
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Belarus and Russia will use supercomputers for prospecting new deposits of mineral resources and for improving extraction technologies, as the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Mikhail Myasnikovich said to the Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA).
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| Graz University of Technology researchers co-ordinate "Brain-i-Nets" EU project |
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Intelligent machines that not only think for themselves but also actively learn are the vision of researchers of the Institute for Theoretical Science (IGI) at Graz University of Technology. They have been co-ordinating the European Union research project "Brain-i-Nets" - Novel Brain Inspired Learning Paradigms for Large-Scale Neuronal Networks - for three years, and have launched a three-day meeting of the participating researchers in Graz. The scientists want to design a new generation of neuro-computers based on the principles of calculation and learning mechanisms found in the brain, and at the same time gain new knowledge about the brain's learning mechanisms.
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| Governor Bill Richardson launches statewide access to New Mexico's supercomputer |
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Governor Bill Richardson has helped launch eight "gateway" sites, which will link communities across the state to New Mexico's supercomputer, Encanto, and announced another 25 sites will come on-line soon. Encanto claims to be the fastest public supercomputer in the world.
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| ISC'10 to celebrate twenty five years of ISC in Hamburg, May 30-June 3, 2010 |
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This year, ISC has invited over 200 expert speakers to tackle manifold themes and issues, ranging from an in-depth session on "High Performance Computational Life Sciences - The Challenge for HPC Systems" to "Supercomputers for Modeling Energy Consumption & Alternative Energy Projects".
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| Bull strengthens storage professional services capability with Europe-wide NetApp ASP/APSP accreditation |
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Bull is building on its worldwide STAR distribution agreements signed with NetApp in 2005 to address the growing market demand for high-level architecture and implementation services. Through an extensive certification programme launched in 2008 and covering over 200 Bull sales and services personnel throughout EMEA, a first wave of countries have obtained NetApp Authorised Support Partner (ASP) and Authorised Professional Services Provider (APSP) status, enabling them to deliver a wide range of accredited support and implementation services across the entire range of NetApp products.
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| Rogue Wave Software acquires TotalView Technologies |
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Rogue Wave Software Inc., a Battery Ventures portfolio company, has acquired TotalView Technologies Inc., a provider of debugging tools for serial and parallel codes. The acquisition further extends Rogue Wave's reach into the market for High Performance Computing tools. In conjunction with Rogue Wave's April 2009 acquisition of Visual Numerics, the addition of TotalView creates the largest independent commercial vendor of cross-platform HPC tools and libraries.
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| An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers |
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For the first time, CNRS and CEA researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse. This organic transistor, based on pentacene and gold nanoparticles and known as a NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organic Memory Field-Effect Transistor), has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired computers, capable of responding in a manner similar to the nervous system. The study is published in the 22 January 2010 issue of the journalAdvanced Functional Materials.
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| Supercomputing time awarded to design transformational lithium air battery |
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24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories have been awarded to investigate materials for developing lithium air batteries, capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge. Through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) programme, a research team including scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory and IBM will use two of the world's most powerful supercomputers to design new materials required for a lithium air battery. Lithium-ion batteries, used in today's emerging plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, currently have a range of approximately 40 to 100 miles.
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| IDC leads consortium awarded contract to help develop supercomputing strategy for the European Union |
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IDC, working with supercomputing experts from Teratec, France; Daresbury Laboratory, UK; Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany; and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, has been awarded a contract by the European Commission to develop a strategic agenda for high performance computing (HPC) in Europe.
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| Using supercomputers to explore nuclear energy |
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Ever wanted to see a nuclear reactor core in action? A new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory allows scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before. A team of nuclear engineers and computer scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are developing the neutron transport code UNIC, which enables researchers for the first time to obtain a highly detailed description of a nuclear reactor core.
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| Cray adds new customers in Japan, Europe and the United States for its midrange supercomputing systems |
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Cray announced new customers in Japan, Europe and the United States for its midrange supercomputing systems. With the same scalable design and petascale architecture included in the world's fastest supercomputer, but configured and offered at lower price points, the Cray XT5m and Cray XT6m systems are generating new business wins for Cray in the university, weather, life sciences, and government research and development communities.
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| 26th ORAP Forum calls for participation |
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The 26th ORAP Forum will take place at the CNRS headquarters in Auditorium "Marie-Curie" - Campus Michel-Ange in Paris, France on March 31, 2010.
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| With its new-generation of high performance, eco-efficient Escala servers, Bull affirms its commitment to sustainable development |
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Bull has launched its new generation of Escala servers, designed specifically to run organisation departmental and business-critical applications. The three new models in the range actively enhance Bull's Bio Data Center approach by delivering four times as much power for the same energy consumption. They also demonstrate Bull's commitment to make available technologies that improve the energy efficiency of Data Centers, allowing them to reduce their carbon footprint while at the same time optimizing performance. The new generation of servers consists of an entry-level Escala server and two mid-range servers, all based on POWER7 technology. The mid-range servers also benefit from power-on-demand functionality for the processors and memory, enabling large-scale data centres to significantly optimize their costs. As with all the servers in the Escala family, the new models feature powerful virtualization functions.
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| New German-Japonese research consortium investigates quantum computing in isotopically engineered diamond |
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English - and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) are launching the research project "Quantum Computing in isotopically Engineered Diamond" aiming to novel logic devices potentially enabling faster computing and unconditionally secure communications.
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| Princeton announces plans for new computing research center at Forrestal |
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Princeton University plans to build a facility to house its high-performance computing research systems on the Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro about three miles north of the main campus. The High-Performance Computing Research Center would be located on the University's property just north of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. It would serve as home of TIGRESS - the Terascale Infrastructure for Groundbreaking Research in Engineering and Science Center. It also would support a much smaller component of the University's administrative computing capacity.
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| Galicia and Extremadura renew supercomputing partnership |
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The Supercomputing Center of Galicia (El Centro Supercomputación de Galicia - CESGA) and the Foundation of Computing and Advanced Technologies of Extremadura (la Fundación Computación y Tecnologías Avanzadas de Extremadura - COMPUTAEX) have signed a supercomputing collaboration agreement, building on existing agreements between the two organisations to establish a management framework and to develop joint activities in the field of research.
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| Cray Inc. reports fourth quarter and full year 2009 results |
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Cray Inc. has issued 2009 financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $88.2 million compared to $155.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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| Google awards $1 million for research effort to slash energy consumption in Internet data centres |
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Google Inc. has awarded a two-year, $1 million research grant aimed at slashing energy usage in large Internet data centres to a team of computer scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), Rutgers University, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia. The company may also award an additional $500,000 for a third year subject to programme review.
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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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| Ames Laboratory researchers to use supercomputer and chemistry to solve global problems |
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Depending on how they form and their chemical composition, clouds reflect and absorb varying amounts of the sun's energy. That makes them key players in global climate change. Yet the complex molecular processes underlying cloud formation are little understood. Now, a team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has been awarded the opportunity to study the problem, using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, located at another DOE facility, Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois.
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| Digging deep into diamonds, applied physicists advance quantum science and technology |
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By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible. The new device offers a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature, an essential element in making fast and secure computing with light practical. The finding could lead to a new class of nanostructured diamond devices suitable for quantum communication and computing, as well as advance areas ranging from biological and chemical sensing to scientific imaging.
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| Photons led astray |
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Life would sometimes be so much easier if we were quantum particles. For example, if we were trying to find our way out of a strange town allowing chance telling us which way to go at every intersection. As objects of classical physics, this would mean becoming more and more lost in the centre of the road network. If we were particles that obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics, we would sooner or later find our way to the edge of town on the randomly-chosen route. An international team headed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light has now proven this experimentally. They have used polarized light - light waves which oscillate in a particular plane - to design a simple model for a quantum physical random walk. Their experiments could provide new insights into statistical processes such as photosynthesis, and help to accelerate search algorithms. (Physical Review Letters, on-line publication, February 5, 2010)
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| FilmLight wins four Academy Awards using Supermicro technology |
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Super Micro Computer Inc.'s hardware engineering helped FilmLight, a UK motion picture entertainment company, earn four Academy Achievement Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.
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| More than 200 additional customers switch to IBM systems and storage from Sun, HP in fourth quarter |
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More than 200 customers moved critical business workloads to IBM systems and storage from Sun and HP systems in the fourth quarter of 2009. IBM also unveiled new software that helps customers accelerate and automate their migration projects.
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| DOE awards over a billion supercomputing hours to address scientific challenges |
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded approximately 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours to 69 cutting-edge research projects through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) programme. The INCITE programme provides powerful resources to enable scientists and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research in just weeks or months rather than the years or decades needed previously. This facilitates scientific breakthroughs in areas such as climate change, alternative energy, life sciences, and materials science.
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| Breakthrough for the super material graphene |
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The hyper-quick electronics of the future will require new materials and the hottest around is graphene - a single layer of carbon atoms. Graphene produced using a method developed at Linköping University is now being used as part of a study at Chalmers University of Technology, where it has been shown that graphene maintains the same high quality as silicon, thus paving the way for large-scale production.
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| TACC's Ranger supercomputer celebrates two years of groundbreaking computational science |
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The Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) celebrates two years of enabling groundbreaking computational science as a leading system for researchers in Texas and across the United States via the National Science Foundation's (NSF) TeraGrid initiative.
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| BLADE Network Technologies unveils its Unified FabricArchitecture to address rapidly growing data centre requirements |
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BLADE Network Technologies has introduced its Unified FabricArchitecture (UFA), the industry's fastest, smartest, most integrable and most proven fabric that will eliminate cost and complexity of deploying physical and virtual data centre infrastructure. BLADE posted record results in 2009 and expects even stronger performance in 2010 as enterprises look to upgrade existing data centre infrastructure and add new capacity.
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| Argonne scientists awarded supercomputing time to accelerate discoveries |
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Five researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 80 million hours of computing time on Argonne's energy-efficient Blue Gene/P. Using the computer allotments, the researchers will conduct advanced simulation and analysis and will develop scalable system software needed to fully utilize the power of leadership-class computing facilities.
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| DOE awards supercomputing time to UC San Diego and SDSC researchers |
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Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and other parts of the University of California, San Diego - conducting research in computer science, climate, biology, physics, engineering, and earthquake sciences - were awarded supercomputing processor time by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) as part of its 2010 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) programme.
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| ExaGrid Disk Back-up with Deduplication System named Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware "Product of the Year" by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com |
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ExaGrid Systems Inc.'s EX10000E Disk Backup with Deduplication System has been named the Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware "2009 Product of the Year" by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com.
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| LSU-led research team receives Department of Energy Award for Supercomputing Research |
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A research team led by Mark Jarrell, Ph.D., Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Physics & Astronomy and LSU's Center for Computation & Technology, was among the recipients for the 2010 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, programme awards. The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science supports these awards to promote advanced scientific research conducted on machines at the nation's leadership computing facilities, Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories. The supercomputers at these laboratories are the largest and fastest in the United States dedicated primarily to academic research.
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| Mismatched alloys are a good match for thermoelectrics |
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Employing some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that mismatched alloys are a good match for the future development of high performance thermo-electric devices. Thermo-electrics hold enormous potential for green energy production because of their ability to convert heat into electricity.
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| DataDirect Networks announces multi-million dollar investment plans into the Middle East region and deploys more than 5 petabytes |
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DataDirect Networks (DDN) has plans for a significant expansion into the Middle East. Beginning in 2010, DDN is making a multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment in the region by establishing local offices, a state-of-the-art performance and compatibility test lab, and partnerships with technology organisations.
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| HP helps customers prepare for advances in mission-critical computing |
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HP Integrity customers will gain the advantages of Intel's latest quad-core processor, enabling them to enhance business results and maximize their technology infrastructure investments for the future. The Intel Itanium 9300 processor, formerly known as Tukwila, brings significantly increased performance along with a range of new reliability, scalability and virtualization features. By incorporating this processor into the next generation of HP Integrity servers, HP is positioned to deliver innovations in resiliency, flexibility and automation through a Converged Infrastructure.
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| Nanyang Technological University launches one of the world's greenest supercomputers |
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has opened its much-anticipated High Performance Computing (HPC) Centre to support the university's growing international research profile and capacity, especially in the area of sustainability. The HPC Centre, which is based on the first IBM System x iDataplex cluster in ASEAN and powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, reduces electricity consumption as it can automatically adjust to specified energy usage levels and specified transaction speeds. NTU's supercomputer is ranked the 6th most energy-efficient in the world based on x86 architecture - the universal platform found in computers today, and the 29th most energy-efficient system on the Green500 list at 274.64 Mflops (millions of floating point operations per second) per watt.
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| IBM to collaborate with Australian institutions to push the boundaries of medical research |
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IBM has set up a research collaboratory in Melbourne, Australia, where scientists from the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne and the IBM Research Computational Biology Center will use high performance computing - including IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer – to study human disease.
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| SDSC announces first round of Triton Research Opportunity (TRO) grants |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has launched the first round of computer allocations under the Triton Research Opportunities (TRO) programme associated with the centre's new Triton Resource, a data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support University of California (UC) San Diego and UC researchers.
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| IBM Research and European Union aim to greatly improve chip design time, cost and reliability |
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IBM Research has launched its collaboration with industry experts and universities in the European Union to improve the productivity and reliability of semiconductor and electronic systems design. By providing a systematic methodology and an integrated environment for the diagnosis and correction of errors, the European Union-funded Diamond consortium expects to slash design time and enable significant savings per chip.
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| Raid Inc. announces upgrade to Xanadu series with 130 solution |
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RAID Incorporated, an end-to-end high-performance solutions provider specializing in leading-edge storage technologies, has performed major upgrades in their Xanadu series with the Xanadu 130 storage solution, a new addition to the series which provides at least a 30% performance boost over the previous generation Xanadu 110 solution.
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| IBM unveils new POWER7 systems to manage increasingly data-intensive services |
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IBM has launched new POWER7 systems designed to manage the most demanding emerging applications, ranging from smart electrical grids to real-time analytics for financial markets. The new systems incorporate a number of industry-unique technologies for the specialized demands of new applications and services that rely on processing an enormous number of concurrent transactions and data while analyzing that information in real time.
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| Criterion HPS introduces high performance solutions platform proven to reduce the total cost of enterprise computing |
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Criterion HPS Inc. has released the Phantom, a computationally dense smart computing platform with a 64-bit, highly-parallel architecture that allows enterprises to overcome the power, space and cooling challenges. With the delivery of the Phantom, the company is responding to industry demands for a green technology that supports computationally intensive workloads without growing the data centre footprint.
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| Planet 51 designed by Ilion Animation Studios on a Bull supercomputer |
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Ilion Animation Studios, which has designed the 3D animation feature Planet 51, currently enjoying global success, has selected Bull to design and upgrade its server farm dedicated to graphics rendering. Thanks to these servers, designers and developers at Ilion Animation Studios worked all together to create every single image in the movie through a high speed network connection enabling them to exchange information.
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| The Institute of Cancer Research selects SGI Altix UV as dedicated system for cancer research |
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The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has selected SGI Altix UV, based on Intel Xeon processors (codenamed Nehalem-EX), to support its future life-saving research. The ICR joins the growing list of globally significant high performance computing (HPC) facilities embracing Altix UV as the future of open, high performance, big-memory supercomputing. Altix UV will provide the ICR with a massively scalable shared memory system to process its growing data requirements, including hundreds of terabytes of data for biological networks, MRI imaging, mass-spectrometry, phenotyping, genetics and deep-sequencing information across thousands of CPUs.
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| Intel Itanium 9300 processor raises bar for scalable, resilient mission-critical computing |
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Intel Corporation has introduced the Itanium processor 9300 series, previously codenamed "Tukwila", which delivers more than double the performance of its predecessor, boosts scalability and adds reliability features to the Itanium platform that is already running mission-critical applications for 80 percent of the Global 100 corporations.
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 beta released |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been in broad use by enterprise customers since it was released in March 2007. The industry, however, doesn't stand still. Even as Red Hat remains committed to a long, stable lifecycle, which its customers count upon, the company continues to add enhancements to the Enterprise Linux 5 platform. Red Hat has made available the beta version of the fifth update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.
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| Princeton scientist makes a leap in quantum computing |
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A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits". Princeton University's Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that - demonstrating a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings. The feat is essential to the development of future varieties of superfast computers with near-limitless capacities for data.
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| Weta Digital and NetApp bring Avatar to life |
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Weta Digital, a world expert in digital effects and animation, relied on NetApp storage for the production of the record-breaking film Avatar.
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| PRACE benchmark suite finalised |
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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, selected 22 applications for the final PRACE application benchmark suite. The benchmark suite covers application areas from the PRACE Research Infrastructure's future user base, ranging from particle physics through computational chemistry and fluid dynamics to earth sciences and astronomy. The selected applications have enough scalability potential to run on petascale systems and beyond.
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| Voltaire powers China's top high-performance computers |
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Voltaire Ltd.'s InfiniBand switches are powering 24 of China's TOP100 high performance computers, including the top three - at the Tianjin Supercomputing Center, the Shanghai Supercomputer Center and the Computer Network Information Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The switches are being used in 65 percent of the total InfiniBand deployments noted on the list, more than any other InfiniBand systems vendor.
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| Florida State University selects 3Leaf Systems Dynamic Data Centre Server to support scientific research and engineering programmes |
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Florida State University's (FSU) Department of Scientific Computing has selected the company's Dynamic Data Center solutions to provide high-performance computing resources in support of the University's multi-disciplinary research. The 3Leaf Systems Dynamic Data Center Server (DDC-Server), featuring AMD Opteron processors, provides FSU with an agile and flexible x86-based shared memory system capable of scaling to meet the on-demand resource requirements of FSU's diverse user community.
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| The Future of Cloud computing |
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The European Commission has published an expert group report "The Future of Cloud computing - Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010" in Brussels at a symposium last week. The report sees opportunities for Europe and recommends that the European Commission (EC) should stimulate research and technological development in the area of Cloud Computing. The EC together with Member States should also set up the right regulatory framework to facilitate the uptake of Cloud computing.
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| Call for papers - 3rd Grid Experience workshop - Desktop Grid Applications for eScience and eBusiness |
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The scientific part of the AlmereGrid Desktop Grid Experience workshop is soliciting papers for this year's topic: "Desktop Grid Applications for eScience and eBusiness" on March 30, 2010. The papers are peer reviewed. Accepted papers will either be given a presentation slot or a poster session slot. Deadline for paper abstract submission is March 1. The Workshop will be held at the ALCA buildings, Manuscriptstraat 32, in Almere, The Netherlands.
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| NASA selects Parabon Computation to develop industry's first "Modelling and Simulation as a Service" solution |
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Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale Grid computing software and solutions, has won a two-year, $600,000 contract from NASA. As part of the space agency's highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award programme, Parabon will deliver a first-of-its-kind software service that enables scientists and engineers to interactively develop, execute and collaborate on modelling and simulation (M&S) applications from any standard web browser.
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| ScotGrid and Lumerical team up to boost UK nanophotonics research |
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UK academic researchers working in the area of photonics have been given a boost today with the announcement that Vancouver-based Lumerical Solutions Inc. has donated ten FDTD Solutions Engine licenses to ScotGrid. Scientists are now able to perform large-scale design of devices across a diverse range of applications in biophotonics, display technologies, solar energy, and optical communications, sensing and imaging on one of the largest Grid computing facilities in the United Kingdom. The donated Engine licenses allow researchers in the UK using FDTD Solutions to run, at no additional cost, their simulations efficiently on any of ScotGrid's 1,900 processing cores.
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| Microsoft and the National Science Foundation enable research in the Cloud |
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Microsoft Corporation and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have signed an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF's merit review process free access to advanced Cloud computing resources. By extending the capabilities of powerful, easy-to-use PC applications via Microsoft Cloud services, the programme is designed to help broaden researcher capabilities, foster collaborative research communities, and accelerate scientific discovery. Projects will be awarded and managed by NSF.
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| Parabon's Frontier Grid Platform software now available on Carahsoft's GSA schedule |
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Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, has signed a partnership with Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale Grid computing software and services. Carahsoft is placing Parabon on its General Services Administration (GSA) schedule and will also provide proactive sales and marketing of Parabon's flagship product, the Frontier Grid Platform.
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| VMware expands VMware vCloud Developer Ecosystem with open-source Java and Python SDKs for VMware vCloud API |
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VMware has made available both Java and Python open-source software development kits (SDKs) for the VMware vCloud API, making it easier for developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to jumpstart their projects by flexibly leveraging private and public Cloud services. The new Python and Java SDKs for the VMware vCloud API will further simplify and accelerate developers’ ability to leverage VMware vCloud services. VMware partners Cloudera and WebAppVM also announced new solutions for VMware vCloud Express developed with the VMware vCloud API and the SDKs.
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| Grid computing for the masses |
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Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, Grid computing could soon be put to more mundane uses by your home or office computer.
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| Applications due for grid application porting school issues Call for Participation |
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The School for Grid Application Porting is now accepting applications from students with experience in shell programming. The event, which is sponsored by the South African National Grid, EGEE II, and GILDA, will take place 15-26 March 2010 in Johannesburg. It will be hosted by University of Johannesburg and University of Witwatersrand. Deadline for candidate application submission is February 19, 2010.
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| IBM launches academic Cloud to speed delivery of technology skills to college students |
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IBM will make key parts of its software portfolio available in a Cloud computing environment to more easily allow professors around the world to incorporate technology into their curricula. IBM brought together more than 200 academic and industry leaders at a conference in New York to explore how best to integrate technology into all aspects of a college education so the next generation of global entrepreneurs will be differentiated by an education that applies technology to areas such as information management and business analytics, digitized patient records, and clean technologies.
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| Agarik announces Cloud Maker, its high-performance, enterprise Cloud solution services offering |
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Through its subsidiary Agarik - which specializes in high added-value professional hosting services - Bull is launching a new Cloud computing, with a strong commitment to high levels of service delivery. The move is a clear and concrete illustration of Agarik's plans for growth in Cloud computing, with the development of a solution aimed at the widest possible cross-section of the marketplace.
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| PCs around the world unite in MilkyWay@Home to map the Milky Way |
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At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our galaxy. Enthusiastic and inquisitive volunteers from Africa to Australia are donating the computing power of everything from decade-old desktops to sleek new netbooks to help computer scientists and astronomers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute map the shape of our Milky Way galaxy. Now, just this month, the collected computing power of these humble home computers has surpassed one petaflop, a computing speed that surpasses the world's second fastest supercomputer.
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| Univa Cloud management products now support Amazon EC2 Spot Instances |
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Univa UD's UniCloud and Grid MP products now support Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, enabling users to greatly reduce public Cloud computing costs by essentially setting their own price for the resources they wish to consume.
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| BlueLock introduces a comprehensive set of Cloud computing solutions |
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BlueLock, an experienced provider of Cloud computing and managed IT services, has launched the BlueLock CloudSuite, a comprehensive set of Cloud computing solutions, offering a tailored selection of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments to best fit the specific needs of individual applications. BlueLock CloudSuite is an array of public and private Cloud computing solutions.
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| Platform Computing and Instrumental extend strategic partnership to advance high performance Cloud computing for government sector |
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Platform Computing has signed a strategic partnership with Instrumental Inc., a provider of architecture, design and integration services for high performance computing (HPC) and data storage in the government and commercial sectors. The partnership enhances Platform's global service capabilities and gives users an end-to-end, full service solution that maximizes the value of Platform's private Cloud management and HPC Cloud-enabling software solutions, Platform ISF and Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster.
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| NEC selected by Telefonica as a strategic partner to promote Cloud computing |
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Telefonica has selected NEC as a strategic partner to promote Cloud computing in Latin America. The deal will enhance NEC's position as a partner of Telefonica in the major service areas of applications. These include software as a service (SaaS), Desktop/Virtual PC as a service (access to PC over a network) and other on-demand services and applications ("everything as a service" or XaaS).
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| CA, Inc. joins Cloud Security Alliance |
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CA Inc. has joined the Cloud Security Alliance as a corporate member to help establish and promote best practices for security in Cloud computing. CA will support the Cloud Security Alliance's initiatives and working groups with identity and access management knowledge and expertise, and provide input into the next release of the group's "Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing".
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| CA and NetApp build solutions for enhanced management of public and private Cloud infrastructures |
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CA Inc. and NetApp have extended their multi-year solutions partnership to develop management solutions for public and private Cloud environments. As a result, the companies are integrating CA's virtualization, automation and service assurance offerings with NetApp's storage management solutions. The unified solutions will further help customers drive operational efficiencies through improved business agility, productivity and service quality, while also helping to lower costs and reduce risks that are associated with virtualization and Cloud-based infrastructures.
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| NEC announces its "Cloud Platform Suite" for carriers |
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NEC Corporation has launched its IT and network integration package, the "Cloud Platform Suite", in support of Cloud computing services for telecommunications carriers. The new package provides an infrastructure for carrier Cloud computing which includes virtualized servers, data storage, networking equipment, software and solutions with integrated operation management systems. Shipments of the Cloud Platform Suite are scheduled to begin in late February 2010.
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| Explorys launches its first data centre |
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Explorys has completed the first stage of its enterprise scale data centre in Northeast Ohio. The company recently signed a multiyear agreement with Expedient to leverage their national network of high capacity, secure, and SAS70 compliant data centres for the Explorys network.
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| Carahsoft adds BasicGov's government permitting, code enforcement, and licensing solutions in the Cloud to its GSA schedule |
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Carahsoft Technology has partnered with BasicGov Systems Inc. to market and sell BasicGov's suite of software to federal, state, and local government agencies in the USthrough Carahsoft's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. The web-based software suite improves government productivity, response, and service to citizens by automating common activities for permits and inspections, business licensing, and code enforcement.
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| MetraTech announces breakthrough results in billing performance benchmark |
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MetraTech Corp., an innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider, has issued the results of a performance benchmark of MetraTech's MetraNet software running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 and deployed on HP ProLiant servers. The benchmark simulated 60 million active corporate subscribers, with 5 accounts each, consuming granular, high-volume service offerings.
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| ADVA to issue latest release of FSP 3000 targets Cloud computing applications |
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To enable highest-capacity, universal data centre connectivity, ADVA Optical Networking has launched the latest version of its flagship FSP 3000 product. Optimized for Cloud computing applications, the FSP 3000 drives the scalable, high-speed connectivity required to address the fast-growing bandwidth demand of today's Cloud-based data centre interconnect environment.
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| Georgian College runs Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise on Oracle Database 11g Grid |
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In an effort to improve the high availability, performance and scalability of its Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications, Georgian College of Ontario, Canada, has implemented Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Clusterware. In February 2009, Georgian College went into production with a four-node Oracle Database cluster running industry-standard servers and Linux powering enterprise applications used by students, faculty and administration.
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| Kaviza global expansion gains momentum with two new partners |
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Kaviza continues to extend its global reach with a newly signed distribution agreement in Australia with TrackitOnline Software, and a reseller relationship in the UK with EssentialNET. To keep pace with growing demand, Kaviza will be releasing Version 2.2 of VDI-in-a-box, the industry's first and only affordable turnkey virtual desktop solution designed specifically for desktop budgets, desktop IT, and desktop user needs.
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| Cisco, NetApp and VMware collaborate to deliver new capabilities for the dynamic data centre |
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Cisco, NetApp and VMware introduced an end-to-end Secure Multi-tenancy Design Architecture that provides enhanced security in Cloud environments by isolating the information technology (IT) resources and applications of different clients, business units or departments that share a common IT infrastructure. As part of their collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware will also offer a co-operative support model for these pretested and validated design architectures to help customers quickly build a unified, virtualized infrastructure.
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| Omneon to provide Media storage, processing, and distribution platform for NBC's coverage of upcoming Winter Games in Vancouver |
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Omneon Inc. has been selected to provide storage, processing, and a high-speed content distribution platform to support NBC's live HD production workflow and to streamline delivery of all Internet and VOD content during the network's coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, February 12-28, 2010. The announcement was made by David Mazza, senior vice president, engineering, NBC Olympics and Geoff Stedman, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Omneon.
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| Amway Corp. deploys Oracle Applications, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack to support growth strategy |
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Amway Corporation, a part of the Alticor group of companies, has selected and deployed Oracle Applications, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack for a global technology initiative to promote and support 100 percent growth of its business by 2012.
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| Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.5 meets extreme performance, efficiency & service level demands of next-generation transaction processing systems |
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Sybase has made available Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.5, the newest version of its high-performance, mission-critical enterprise database management system. Sybase ASE 15.5 features the addition of two new options: ASE In-memory Databases (IMDB) and Advanced Backup Services. With these enhancements, ASE 15.5 continues to deliver unparalleled performance and manageability for data intensive environments that require very low response times and high throughput.
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| The Green Grid debuts new tools for data centre efficiency at Third Annual Global Technical Forum |
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The Green Grid has introduced new tools and signed new industry alliances at its Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members' Meeting.
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| Release 3 of EnduraData Cross Platform Wide Area Data Distribution Software available |
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The new release includes support for cross-platform data distribution (Windows, Linux, Mac, Open Solaris, etc.). EnduraData Wide Area Data Distribution Suite (EDWADDS) allows customers to replicate and distribute content from one to many sites and from many sites to one or more additional remote sites.
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| Pano Logic triples its sales in 2009 as migration from PCs to zero client desktop virtualization accelerates |
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Pano Logic, an expert in zero client desktop virtualization (VDI), forsees a dramatic surge in sales of its award-winning, all-in-one zero client computing platform in 2009, with customers rewarded with as much as 67% savings in computing total cost of ownership. Pano Logic sales tripled last year, with strong momentum in sales among both existing and new customers for 2010. New and existing resellers realized significant financial rewards of increasing demand for Pano Logic's innovative approach and the widespread adoption among organisations looking to reap the benefits of virtualization at the desktop that only Pano Logic can provide.
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| New IBM data centre in North Carolina engineered to support Cloud computing |
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IBM has opened a new data centre designed to support new compute models like Cloud computing, in order to help clients from around the world operate smarter businesses, organisations and cities.
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| U.S. Air Force selects IBM to design and demonstrate mission-oriented Cloud architecture for cyber security |
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded IBM a contract to design and demonstrate a secure Cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting defense and intelligence networks. The ten-month project will introduce advanced cyber security and analytics technologies developed by IBM Research into the Cloud architecture.
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| Latest Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g Release now available |
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Demonstrating its commitment to the developer and open source communities, Oracle has launched the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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| Microsoft brings Cloud interoperability down to earth |
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Governments and businesses alike are looking at Cloud services as a way to consolidate IT infrastructure, scale their IT systems for the future, and enable innovative services and activities that were not possible before. To help organisations realize the benefits of Cloud services, technology vendors are investing in the hard work of identifying and solving the challenges presented by operating in mixed IT environments, and are collaborating to ensure that their products work well together.
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| Allegro Development announces the addition of comprehensive petroleum blending functionality |
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Allegro, a provider of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) solutions, has released Petroleum Blending 8.1, a new component within the Allegro 8 platform that provides enhanced flexibility and reduces operational workload around the blending of petroleum liquids.
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| Oracle buys AmberPoint |
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Oracle has agreed to acquire AmberPoint, an expert in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management. AmberPoint's solutions help organisations diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together.
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| CCGrid 2010 issues Call for Research and Product Demos |
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The organizers of the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) that will be held May 17-20 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, are searching for research demonstrations from laboratories or research groups - academic, government, or industrial - to showcase new innovations and technologies in Cloud computing and HPC/scientific applications at the CCGrid 2010 conference. CCGrid is a highly successful and well-recognized International conference for presenting the latest breakthroughs in Cluster, Cloud and Grid technologies. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2010.
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| SGI announces Cyclone Cloud computing for technical applications |
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SGI has made available Cyclone, a large-scale, on-demand Cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications.
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| Survey reveals more than eighty percent of IT executives plan to keep Cloud initiatives within their own firewalls |
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Eighty-three percent of IT executives intend to keep their Cloud initiatives within their own firewall, according to a survey of delegates by Platform Computing at the Supercomputing Conference (SC'09) in November 2009. Platform Computing surveyed 95 IT executives across the research, manufacturing, government and education industries to determine why organisations are investing in Cloud solutions, their concerns about Cloud computing and plans for future initiatives.
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| Bull and Microsoft announce a strategic collaboration in the field of interoperability |
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On the occasion of the 2010 Microsoft Tech Days event, Microsoft and Bull have signed a new agreement: a strategic collaboration in the field of interoperability. Under this agreement, teams from Bull and Microsoft will work together in a number of different areas to further strengthen synergies and interoperability between Microsoft software environments and third-party solutions, most notably Open Source and Unix solutions, to which Bull is one of the main contributors and integrators in Europe.
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| ISC'10 to introduce Cloud computing and scientific applications |
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At ISC'10, being held in Hamburg May 31-June 3, 2010, various presentations and panel discussions will be organized to focus on scientific Cloud computing. Large scale scientific applications normally require the availability of huge HPC systems. The underlying HPC architecture is mostly based on a network of systems or a single system with cluster technology.
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| HP unveils service for design of scalable, flexible Cloud-based infrastructures |
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HP has extended its Cloud consulting services portfolio with a new design service that helps businesses and government agencies accelerate the adoption of Cloud-based infrastructures to improve technology and business flexibility.
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| Mental images introduces RealityServer AppLab for easy set-up and sharing of 3D content on the web |
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Mental images, a global expert in rendering software and visualization tools, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NVIDIA Corporation, has unveiled the RealityServer AppLab toolset at the Imagina conference in Monaco. RealityServer AppLab allows users to upload 3D content within seconds, and to visualize, share and interact with it on any Internet connected device.
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| No catastrophes please, it's software modelling |
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European researchers in the MODELPLEX project have created a development platform that will enable applications to tackle the enormous and increasing complexity of modern computer science. It promises better quality at a lower price. Software development is becoming so complex that a new development paradigm is required. Already standalone applications, like word processors and operating systems require hundreds or even thousands of engineers to develop.
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| Metal hydrides for high temperature superconductivity |
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An international research team, comprising scientists working in the Sweden, UK, USA and South Korea and led by Professor Rajeev Ahuja of Uppsala University now presents new findings for better understanding of superconducting high-pressure metal hydride systems. The study is published on-line in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
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| Virginia firm develops breakthrough technology to stop cyber attacks |
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At a time of increasing national concern over cyber attacks on government agencies and corporations, a small privately-funded Virginia engineering research firm has created a breakthrough technology for blocking cyber attacks that experts say is foolproof. The firm, InZero Systems of Herndon, has been successfully demonstrating its new computer-protection technology to the Pentagon and other federal agencies, as well as to major defense contractors.
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| First NMR signal of a copper site in Azurin obtained |
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Metalloproteins, such as the copper-containing azurin, play a major role in catalyzing electron transfer in cellular reactions. Understanding how their structure relates to function can give rise to advances in biotechnology and medicine. To accurately characterize the nature of the bonding - covalent vs. ionic vs. hybrid - around azurin's metal centre, a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln obtained the first high-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal of a copper site in a copper protein.
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| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Navistar work to increase semi-truck fuel efficiency |
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In a few years, semi-trucks on U.S. highways could save the nation more than $10 billion annually in diesel fuel costs. In support of the Department of Energy's mission to reduce the United States' dependency on fossil fuels, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has teamed with Navistar Inc., NASA's Ames Research Center, the U.S. Air Force and industry to develop and test devices for reducing the aerodynamic drag of semi-trucks.
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| Australian research organisation selects IBM technology to help develop smarter food crops |
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ABB, a power and automation technology group and IBM have signed a new agreement that will transform ABB's Information Systems (IS) infrastructure across 17 countries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. IBM will provide server and network management, as well as end user and help desk services for the majority of ABB's IS infrastructure operations.
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| IBM works with Walt Disney Imagineering to create a new smarter planet exhibit |
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IBM has unveiled a new experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet. The exhibit is powered by a new Smarter Data Center, providing a real-life demonstration of optimized computing that reduces energy costs by up to 25 percent.
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| SDSC joins other UC San Diego Departments and LLNL in oncology collaboration |
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Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at University of California UC) San Diego have joined forces with the Department of Radiation Oncology in the university's School of Medicine, its Department of Mathematics, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in a three-year, $1.5 million project to pursue novel applications of high-performance computing (HPC) in radiotherapy.
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| New simulation tool could shorten manufacturing design process |
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Novel research on improving the simulation performance of hardware models created in a language called SystemC, often used to shorten manufacturing design cycles to improve the time it takes to bring a product to the marketplace, has garnered a best paper award at the 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) for a team led by Sandeep Shukla, Virginia Tech associate professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and three of his students.
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| Lincoln Interactive Students interview Los Alamos National Laboratory Staff |
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The National Network of Digital Schools (NNDS) convened the first meeting of the Cutting Edge Science Club, which is comprised of leading high school science students enrolled in Lincoln Interactive courses in schools across the country. The meeting was held on January 22nd at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center with students joining via videoconference to engage in dialogue with top researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
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| Researchers create drug to keep tumor growth switched off |
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A novel - and rapid - anti-cancer drug development strategy has resulted in a new drug that stops kidney and pancreatic tumours from growing in mice. Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have found a drug that binds to a molecular "switch" found in cancer cells and cancer-associated blood vessels to keep it in the "off" position. The new approach employs scaffold-based chemistry combined with supercomputer technology, allowing for rapid screening and development of drugs that are more selective for the tumour.
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| Madly mapping the universe |
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To map our home planet, Google Earth depends mostly on satellite imagery for land surfaces and sonar imagery for the sea floor. Maps of the Universe likewise depend on different kinds of detectors for different kinds of features. Maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), for example, depend on measuring minute differences in the temperature of the sky. When astrophysicist Julian Borrill joined the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1997, his first project was designing computational tools for future CMB experiments, a toolbox capable of handling an expected flood of cosmic data. He and his colleagues Radek Stompor and Andrew Jaffe devised the Microwave Anisotropy Dataset Computational Analysis Package, or MADCAP. An essential part of the kit was a module for making maps.
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| Researchers envision high-tech applications for 'multiferroic' crystals |
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Two of The Florida State University's scientists recently joined forces on a collaborative research project that has yielded groundbreaking results involving an unusual family of crystalline minerals. Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that can hold vast amounts of data and be strongly encrypted for security purposes.
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| ADVA Optical Networking introduces integrated fiber-plant analysis and monitoring |
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ADVA Optical Networking has introduced to its flagship FSP 3000 platform an integrated Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) capability for end-to-end analysis and monitoring of the fiber transport network. ADVA Optical Networking's OTDR functionality enables enterprises and network operators to more quickly provision new services by easily testing dark fiber for issues or, for the first time, to perform in-service OTDR monitoring and rapidly identify and isolate fiber issues without interruption of existing services.
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| Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology now available through HP |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has made available its leading, low-power, low-latency ConnectX-2 EN controller on the new HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE BLc Adapter directly from HP for the company's HP BladeSystem c-Class. With industry-leading performance, power efficiency, integration and feature-set, ConnectX-2-enabled adapters provide an optimized, low-latency solution for high-transaction databases, financial services, Cloud computing, and virtualized server and storage data centre environments.
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| Voltaire announces industry's first 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch with integrated Ethernet gateway for low-latency bridging |
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Voltaire Ltd. has launched the industry's first 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch with a built-in low latency Ethernet gateway for seamlessly bridging traffic to and from Ethernet-based networks. The Voltaire Grid Director 4036E's low latency capabilities increase competitive advantage for high frequency trading businesses, where eliminating microseconds can translate into millions of dollars in profits.
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| Telx optimizes network performance across 1200 facility installations and 28,000 connections with Emerson's data centre |
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Telx, one of the largest domestic interconnection and colocation data centre operators, has selected Aperture VISTA 600 software from Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global expert in enabling Business-Critical Continuity, to enhance the management of the physical infrastructure of its colocation: facilities and enterprise data centres. Using Aperture VISTA, Telx will be able to more accurately provide its colocation and data centre customers with the ability to forecast, plan and manage their critical network element requirements. The platform will also allow for highly efficient connectivity provisioning capabilities for Telx customers' growing demands for low-latency business solutions.
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| BLADE Network Technologies concludes its fiscal 2009 with record shipments, growth and market share |
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BLADE Network Technologies Inc. enters 2010 well positioned to sustain its record-setting growth and address demand for faster, virtual and proven enterprise data centre networks. In 2009, BLADE posted its highest shipments ($79 million), double digit growth and record market share gains since its establishment as an independent company in February 2006.
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| Bell Mircoproducts and Force10 Networks partner for networking solutions |
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Bell Microproducts Inc., a value-added distributor of storage and computing technology, has signed a distribution agreement with Force10 Networks, a networking solutions technology expert that serves the data centre, service provider and enterprise markets. Under the terms of the agreement, Bell Micro will distribute Force10's complete portfolio of networking products throughout North America.
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| Chelsio delivers end-to-end unified storage |
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Chelsio Communications Inc., a provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking and storage solutions, has completed an end-to-end unified storage system solution. With new releases of its Unified Storage Server software and Unified Storage Router appliance, and delivery of its Unified Manager software, Chelsio now has a cost-effective storage solution that centralizes and lowers cost of management of iSCSI storage networks.
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