| News digest November 2005 |
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers presents its new FibreCAT TX10 PacketLoader |
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The FibreCAT TX10 PacketLoader from Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a compact, extremely reliable and powerful solution for automated data back-up and restore. The device is based on the new VXA-320 tape drive and offers twice the capacity and transmission speed of its predecessor, the VXA-2 PacketLoader. As a rack product with a single height unit and 10 cartridge slots, the FibreCAT TX10 PacketLoader saves a great deal of space and offers small and medium-sized enterprises or branches a high degree of reliability coupled with maximum performance.
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| SC|05 presents special video on impact of supercomputing to society |
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SC|05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, will make public a special video that explores the vital influence of supercomputing in solving the grand challenges of social and commercial problems affecting the quality of life for people throughout the world.
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| !8th ORAP Forum to take place on November 8, 2005 |
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The 18th ORAP Forum will be held on November 8, 2005 in Clamart, France at the site of EDF and will address European high performance developments, Grid applications, open source initiatives, and engineering architectures. Participation is free of charge but registration is obligatory.
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| Cray and Impulse collaborate on C-based performance accelerator tools for the Cray XD1 supercomputer |
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Cray Inc. is partnering with Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc. to help programmers speed up applications running on the Cray XD1 supercomputer. Impulse has added a platform support package to its CoDeveloper C-language development system that makes it easier for software developers to program the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices that significantly boost processing performance on the Cray XD1 system.
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| Supercomputing industry leaders choose Mitrionics platform for FPGA-based HPC acceleration & application development |
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Mitrionics Inc., the technology expert in programming FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) for supercomputing software acceleration, has made available its revolutionary new Mitrion Platform that makes supercomputing performance (10-to-30 times faster than traditional processors) accessible to a broader market of scientists, researchers, and software developers. Already tested and selected by numerous supercomputing industry leaders, the Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit allow supercomputing software to be written to run on FPGAs faster, easier, and more affordably than any other development solution. Before Mitrionics, FPGAs had the ability to run supercomputing applications, but it was prohibitively difficult and complex to program them using the traditional existing hardware design tools.
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| New Citrix Presentation Server x64 supports up to 3x more users, reduces total cost of ownership for client/server applications |
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At its 8th annual business and technology conference, Citrix iForum Global 2005, Citrix Systems has launched its first 64-bit solution for application virtualization: Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers joins Itanium Solutions Alliance |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has become member of the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA). Founded to boost the availability of Itanium solutions, ISA will facilitate the delivery of a suite of enabling programmes targeted at enterprise and technical computing developers. For customers, this will mean faster time-to-implementation of the applications most critical to their new business needs. Now customers can reap the benefits of industry standard technology providing lower cost, higher levels of system performance and application integration as well as a broader choice of hardware and software vendors committed to the Itanium architecture.
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| "SC Desktop" Programme to bring SC|05 Conference technical sessions to desktops around the world |
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SC|05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, will convene November 12-18, 2005 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Under the theme, "Gateway to Discovery", SC|05 will showcase how high performance computing, networking, storage and analytics lead to advances in research, education and commerce. More than 8000 people are expected to attend SC|05.
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| Hoff and Associates will offer Cray XD1 supercomputers to clients engaged in compute-intensive engineering |
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Engineering solutions consultancy Hoff and Associates will offer Cray XD1 supercomputers to its computer-aided engineering (CAE) clients as part of the company's comprehensive solutions portfolio. The Cray XD1 architecture is designed to accelerate engineering and other high-performance computing (HPC) applications that require peak performance to quickly solve complex problems.
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| Madison Research powers U.S. Army Space and Missile Command Simulation Center with SGI Altix supercomputer |
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Madison Research Corporation (MRC) installed a 128-processor SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer at the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC)/US Army Forces Strategic Command (ARSTRAT) Simulation Center which supports research and development of defensive missile systems. Shipped in June, the new Altix system will support research conducted at the Simulation Center that will ultimately help to defend the United States, its deployed military forces, and allies from long-range missile attacks. MRC is the prime contractor that operates the Simulation Center on behalf of SMDC/ARSTRAT.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers announces the PRIMERGY X630 blade server based on the AMD Opteron processor |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced a major enhancement to the Dynamic Data Center: the PRIMERGY Advanced Blade Ecosystem. This industry-leading server architecture, based on the PRIMERGY BX630 with AMD Opteron processors, enables two-way blade servers to connect to become a physical four-way blade server.
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| Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new Cray X1E supercomputer already providing breakthrough speed on |
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After recently passing Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) acceptance tests in record time for a large supercomputer, the lab's new Cray X1E system, nicknamed Phoenix, is already delivering unprecedented performance on some of the nation's most daunting "grand challenge" science problems.
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| Belgian scientists to stay ahead of changing weather conditions with advanced SGI technology |
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As the world assesses a year that saw some of modern history's most catastrophic weather events, meteorologists in Belgium will be using advanced supercomputing and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics to quickly predict ever-changing weather conditions for the country's 10.3 million citizens.
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| Emte of Barcelona Spain to deploy Verano RTAP on HP Itanium servers |
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Verano's Real-Time Application Platform (RTAP) is now available on HP Integrity servers featuring the Intel Itanium 2 processor. Emte Sistemas recently evaluated a number of hardware and software combinations for automating and monitoring Barcelona Metro and determined Verano's RTAP software running on HP Integrity servers met its demands and is implementing this system to manage and integrate all electromechanical and communication systems (i.e., power, communications, platform doors, train variables, lifts and escalators) in the metro line.
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| New Moab Cluster software yields 10 to 30% more work out of hardware |
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Cluster Resources Inc. has released Moab Cluster Suite 4.2.2, a cluster workload management solution that integrates scheduling, monitoring and reporting for clusters, increasing organisations' return on high-performance computing hardware and software investments.
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| Cray and Korea Meteorological Administration launch supercomputer-powered Earth System Research Center |
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Several meteorological research projects and a workshop will launch the new Earth System Research Center (ESRC), a co-operative venture between Cray and the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). The ESRC is being established to advance the science of earth-system modelling over the East-Asia Pacific region, as well as to promote collaboration within the Korean academic community and leverage the collective knowledge of academia, government and industry. Combining KMA's expertise in operational weather prediction and research with Cray's high-performance computing (HPC) acumen, the research centre will contribute to KMA's mission of benefiting public welfare by improving weather and seasonal climate predictions.
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| IBM introduces breaking POWER5+ computing systems |
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IBM has launched new UNIX systems for small and medium sized businesses that use an enhanced version of the POWER5 chip to shatter fifteen world records in key benchmarks for entry level UNIX and Linux servers. The new IBM System p5 Express servers are equipped with POWER5+ microprocessor technology and are specifically designed for the processing requirements of small to mid-sized companies or branch locations running business-critical database applications in retail, wholesale, distribution and financial services.
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| Dot Hill to provide entry-level storage products through extended agreement with Sun Microsystems |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. has expanded and extended its multi-year product purchase and development agreement with Sun through January 2011. Under the terms of the agreement, Sun will continue to develop storage solutions for the Sun StorEdge family of entry/volume storage products, while utilizing key elements from Dot Hill including the newly acquired storage and management controller technologies from Chaparral Network Storage.
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| HP to acquire RLX Technologies, bolstering Linux management of HP BladeSystem portfolio |
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HP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RLX Technologies Inc., a pioneer of server blade management technologies. Headquartered in Spring, Texas, RLX has 36 employees and approximately 200 customers worldwide. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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| Webcom selected by Cray to automate the quotation and proposal generation process |
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Cray has selected the Webcom WebSource CPQ solution to simplify its sales quoting process. As a global expert in supercomputers, purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC), Cray Inc. provides innovative computing platforms that enable scientists and engineers in academia, government, and industry to meet both existing and future computational challenges. As high-performance computing needs have evolved, so have Cray's systems. The same real-world performance that defines Cray's leadership in high-end supercomputing is also available in smaller systems that meet the expanding market for performance and value.
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| HP to extend server portfolio with new, higher-performing dual-core processors |
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HP has made new additions to its x86 server line-up that are powered by Intel's latest dual-core technology - the Intel Xeon processor DP. Using the processors, the new HP ProLiant servers can boost certain enterprise application performance by as much as 44 percent.
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| George Mason University speeds research and collaboration with government labs using SGI technology |
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To run highly complex calculations in areas as diverse as bioagent dispersion, climate modelling and prediction, and haemodynamics (a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood), George Mason University's (GMU) School of Computational Sciences has selected scalable computing technology and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics as the foundation of a three-year initiative to build a high-performance computing centre.
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| Liquid Computing introduces industry's first Interconnect Driven Server |
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Liquid Computing Corporation, developer of a new class of scalable computing systems for high performance computing, has made available the Alpha version of its LiquidIQ server, the industry's first Interconnect Driven Server.
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| IBM announces Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure with VMware |
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IBM is teaming with VMware and Citrix to launch the first offering of the new IBM Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure that delivers full desktop functionality to any client from highly reliable and secure xSeries and BladeCenter servers. IBM is announcing a new pre-integrated hosted client solution that is based on VMware virtual infrastructure software and leverages Citrix client access technologies to host multiple users of fully functional desktop environments on IBM BladeCenter, while increasing efficiencies such as utilization of computing resources and quicker deployment of new users. With the new virtualized solution, customers could see total cost savings of up to 60 percent and return on investment in as short as six months.
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| International Rectifier XPhase scalable multiphase Control IC for high performance processors wins prestigious award in China |
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International Rectifier's IR3082 XPhase multiphase Control IC has won the "Top 10 DC-DC Award" from Electronic Products China (EPC) magazine. Readers' votes, an independent judging panel and editors of EPC honoured the control chip for the innovation it brings to a broad range of applications and substantial gains in performance.
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| Storage industry leaders to form Open Source community |
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Brocade Communication Systems, Cisco Systems Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Engenio Information Technologies, Fujitsu Limited, IBM Corporation, McDATA Corporation, Network Appliance Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. intend to form a new open source community, initially working under the project name Aperi, to give customers more choices for deploying open-standards-based storage infrastructure software. The organisation plans to develop a common storage software management platform that will give customers greater flexibility in the way they manage their storage environments.
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| Cray teams with DSPlogic to simplify high-performance reconfigurable computing |
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Cray and DSPlogic simplify the process of accelerating high-performance computing (HPC) applications using the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) capabilities of the Cray XD1 supercomputer. DSPlogic's Rapid Reconfigurable Development Kit includes a development environment that provides a fast and easy way for scientists and programmers to take advantage of the reconfigurable computing features of the Cray XD1 supercomputer without learning a new programming language or becoming experts in FPGA technology.
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| Dot Hill to demonstrate new product architecture and partner solutions at SNW Fall |
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Dot Hill will present a flash demonstration of its new Rapid Evolution (R/Evolution) Storage Architecture.
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| Cray and Swedisch Mitrionics cooperate on FPGA's |
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Cray said that it is working closely with Mitrionics of Lund, Sweden, to provide users of the Cray XD1 supercomputer with a fast and simple way to implement application-accelerating field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. Mitrionics' Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit make it possible for supercomputer users to program FPGAs integrated into the Cray XD1 system on a true software level, reducing the time and effort to take advantage of FPGA-based computation.
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| HP speeds data flow in storage area networks with new switch technology |
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HP has announced new 4-gigabit (4Gb) Fibre Channel switch technology that offers twice the performance at comparable costs of current Fibre Channel offerings to help IT administrators eliminate bottlenecks in storage area networks (SANs).
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| NASA Ames wins Government Computer News Award for Columbia supercomputer project |
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The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center has won aGovernment Computer Newsaward for the Columbia supercomputer project. The award was presented to NASA Ames at the GCN Awards Gala in Washington, DC.
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| SGI arms Sikorsky with Virtual Proving Ground for next-generation aircraft |
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Long before new military aircraft are built, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is saving time and taxpayers' money by virtually proving digital prototypes inside computer-generated wind tunnels and battle scenarios. To test how a new aircraft will perform, Sikorsky relies on server and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics.
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| IBM delivers new virtualization technologies from software to systems |
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IBM has launched new virtualization technology offerings and previewed upcoming technologies that extend the company's more than 30-year lead in the virtualization marketplace. The company also unveiled a new virtualization partner programme for software companies to write applications on IBM virtualization technology.
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| The Hershey Company continues to use Sun's SunTone Service Excellence Model to improve IT service delivery management |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has introduced the SunTone Service Delivery Specification, version 3.0, the newest version of Sun's widely-respected specification and certification programme for the delivery and management of highly reliable, scalable, and secure IT services. The Hershey Company has utilized and adopted the latest SunTone Service Excellence Model to achieve improved service delivery management and IT governance across its business critical systems.
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| New Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric 3.0 launched, the first environment for building reliable, stateful Web services on commodity infrastructure |
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Appistry, a pioneer and provider of application fabric software, has introduced Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric 3.0, the first software to create reliable, stateful environments for Web services running on commodity-grade infrastructure, while providing unparalleled application-level fault tolerance, scalability and infrastructure cost reductions.
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| STATS ChipPAC introduces extremely thin packaging solutions with sub 0.50mm profiles |
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STATS ChipPAC Ltd., an independent semiconductor test and advanced packaging service provider, has added a new family of extremely thin packaging solutions with profile heights of less than 0.50mm to its packaging portfolio.
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| Sun Microsystems moves Jini Network Technology forward with release of Jini Technology Starter Kit |
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Sun Microsystems Inc., the creator and advocate of Java and Jini technologies, has made available the Jini Technology Starter Kit v2.1. The starter kit is released under the Apache License version 2.0, built on standards developed in collaboration with the Jini Community.
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