| Primeur Weekly 22 August 2005 |
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| US$150 million TeraGrid award heralds new era for scientific computing |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $150 million award to operate and enhance the Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF), also called "TeraGrid". Researchers and educators around the country can now access a range of computing resources that will accelerate advances in science and engineering.
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| Indiana University gets $4.4 million from NSF for national Internet-based science tool |
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Indiana University (IU) will receive a $4.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help improve TeraGrid, a network of advanced computing, storage, visualization systems and instruments connected by high speed conduits. The Grid allows scientists across the nation to share data, collaborate and accomplish difficult computing tasks.
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| TACC receives $10 million NSF award to make the TeraGrid more powerful, capable |
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The US National Science Foundation has awarded $10 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin over the next five years to expand the TeraGrid, a national-scale initiative and system of interconnected, leadership-class computers that scientists and engineers use to solve some of their most challenging problems.
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| e-Science methods reveal new insights into antibiotic resistance |
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Large-scale computer simulations have pinpointed a tiny change in molecular structure that could account for drug resistance in Streptomices pneumoniae, the organism that causes childhood pneumonia and claims 3.5 million lives a year, mainly in developing countries. Such knowledge could be invaluable in designing new drugs that are effective against the drug resistant strain.
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| Altair Engineering and Scali partner to deliver infrastructure and workload management tool |
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Altair Engineering and Scali have reached an agreement to integrate PBS Professional with the Scali Manage solution. The integrated solution allows customers in high performance computing environments to manage their Linux based datacenter infrastructure and server workloads from a single management platform. The agreement also provides co-marketing of the combined product solution.
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| Nottingham research sheds new light on how chemical reactions work |
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Research from the University of Nottingham's School of Chemistry has contributed to a breakthrough in the complex world of understanding how the quantum mechanics of chemical reactions work. By understanding chemical processes better chemists will be able to conduct experiments more quickly and accurately, and make new chemicals more cheaply and efficiently.
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| Gathering of 53 SOA experts predicts huge uptake in service oriented architectures by end of decade |
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The SOA Leaders Council, an industry body made up of experts on service oriented architectures (SOAs) predicts a bright future for the technology with IT infrastructures increasingly becoming SOA-enabled. However, it warns that skills shortages could act as a brake to its rapid rise and stresses that the IT industry needs to share knowledge in order for companies to learn from each other's successes and failures.
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| Nallatech adds Third Wave Solutions to Channel Partner Programme |
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Nallatech, a supplier of FPGA high-performance computing solutions, has added Third Wave Solutions to its Channel Partner Programme, representing the Mid-Atlantic region including Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and eastern West Virginia. Third Wave will sell Nallatech's FPGA solutions in these areas, concentrating on the military, government and communications industries.
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| Mercury Computer Systems forms alliance with inTrace GmbH |
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Mercury Computer Systems has signed an alliance with inTrace GmbH to bring a highly advanced, real-time, comprehensive ray tracing solution to the manufacturing and industrial markets. The companies signed a worldwide (excluding Japan) distribution agreement for the flagship OpenRT ray tracing software package developed by inTrace in conjunction with the University of Saarbrucken.
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| Scali helps smooth management and installation of Lustre File System |
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Steffen Persvold, Technical Director at Scali, Americas presented at the Lustre User's Group Summer 2005 meeting on August 16, 2005 in Springfield, Ohio. Steffen Persvold discussed how data centre managers can simply the installation, verification and ongoing management of a Lustre File System environment using Scali Manage/Storage.
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| Argonne taps IBM Blue Gene for DOE INCITE programme |
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A new collaboration between IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will provide significant enhancements to computer capabilities available to scientific researchers around the world. IBM and Argonne have agreed to augment Argonne's INCITE computer capacity with compute cycles on IBM's Blue Gene system at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
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| NERSC launches Linux Networx supercomputer into production |
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Linux Networx and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science announced today that DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has accepted a 722-processor Linux Networx Evolocity cluster system for full production use by researchers across the nation.
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| Server Virtualization popular Storage Virtualization not according to TheInfoPro report |
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TheInfoPro (TIP) has released Wave 1 of its Server Study. According to in-depth interviews with leading-edge Server professionals conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP), the top priority among Fortune 1000 companies is to cut Server costs while creating operational efficiencies. Server Virtualization was cited as the means to accomplish this, with Server Virtualization Software receiving the highest scores on TIP's patent-pending Technology Heat Index.
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| Datamail fast tracks major project by harnessing New Zealand Supercomputing Centre |
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Datamail, one of the largest business process outsourcing specialists in Australasia, has successfully completed its first joint project with the New Zealand Supercomputing Centre (NZSC), the largest commercially available supercomputing cluster in the Southern Hemisphere. With computing power roughly 9,000 times more powerful than the average PC, supercomputers like the NZSC are often used by the scientific and research community as well as for high-end film rendering projects. However the Datamail contract, which fast tracked a major client project by an unprecedented seven weeks, was one of the first mainstream business applications to harness the enormous processing power of the NZCS.
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| New Rice research system will feature a Cray XD1 supercomputer with 672 AMD Opteron cores |
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Rice University in Houston, Texas, has chosen the Cray XD1 supercomputer to power its new research computing system. The 28-chassis machine is the largest Cray XD1 system purchased to date. Equipped with 336 Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors (672 cores), the supercomputer will be used by Rice researchers for studies that include computer science, biophysics, computational mathematics, earth sciences and cognitive neuroscience.
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| GeneGo is awarded Phase II NIH grant for in silico assessment of drug metabolism and toxicity |
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GeneGo a provider of databases, software and services in systems biology, has received a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institute of General Medical Science. The grant enables the further development of a computational tool MetaDrug to improve the prediction of ADME and Toxicology properties of novel small molecule compounds.
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| Univa closes US$8 million Series-A investment round |
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Univa Corporation, seller of the Globus software, has closed an $8 million Series-A round of investment led by ARCH Venture Partners and New World Ventures. Appian Ventures and OCA Ventures also participated. Univa delivers an enterprise-hardened Grid infrastructure software based on the Globus Toolkit, the open source Grid software. The market estimated to exceed $5 billion by 2008, according to Insight Research Corporation.
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| Purdue University creates new Cyber Center |
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Purdue University in the USA has formed a new cyberinfrastructure center to unite computer resources at all of its campuses, enhancing research and education, setting the stage for more federal funding and ultimately boosting Indiana's economy. The Cyber Center will receive a portion of a $10 million Lilly Endowment grant that is also being used for three other centres focusing on the environment, cancer research and other areas.
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| ModViz announces Virtual Graphics Platform 1.3 with superscaling performance benefits |
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ModViz Inc. has introduced Virtual Graphics Platform (VGP) 1.3 with a new Graphics Resource Manager, improved Distribution Engine and local state tracking which combine to deliver superscaling performance for rendering large volumetric and geometric datasets on clusters of commodity-based graphics computing nodes.
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| New York University taps IBM supercomputer to help solve the mysteries of the sea |
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New York University (NYU) has installed and begun to make use of a new IBM eServer BladeCenter-based computing system capable of peak performance of 4.5 Tflop/s. According to the TOP500 List, NYU's supercomputer is the fastest in New York City and the 117th fastest supercomputer in the world.
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| Fluent releases FloWizard V2 |
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Fluent did release FloWizard V2 for rapid flow modeling: a flexible approach to CFD simulation that allows for accurate and quick engineering design validation much earlier in the product development cycle. FloWizard V2 builds on the success of the product's 2004 debut, which already gained a strong following in the design engineering community worldwide.
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| NERSC deploys the PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite with new Linux Networx supercomputer cluster |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has deployed the PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite for use by 2500 scientists throughout the US and internationally.
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| Imaging Solutions receives Technology Fast 50 Award for sustained high revenue growth over past five years |
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Image Solutions Inc. (ISI), a global technology company and expert in providing software solutions and services for electronic regulatory submissions and clinical trials management, has been awarded Deloitte & Touche LLP’s New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Award for 2005.
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| Imaging Solutions complets 100th eCTD submission |
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Image Solutions Inc. (ISI) has filed a milestone 100th eCTD (electronic Common Technical Document) submission on behalf of their pharmaceutical clients. ISI's clients remain the foremost Life Science organisations representing 47 of the top 50 Pharmaceutical and Biotech organisations worldwide. The eCTD is a globally accepted electronic submission structure emerging as the standard for the United States, the European Union, and Japan for new drug submissions.
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| GigaSpaces receives funding from Intel Capital, bringing the total investment to $6 million |
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GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of Grid-based application servers for transaction intensive, business-critical applications, has announced that Intel Capital will join the recent financing round which was led by BRM Capital. Intel's investment will bring the total funds raised to $6 million.
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| CodeMesh announces beta version of JunC++Ion for Linux |
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CodeMesh Inc., a provider of solutions for integrating programming languages, has made available the beta version of JunC++ion for Linux. By utilizing its patented in-process technology for creating integration solutions, CodeMesh now helps Linux users significantly shorten development time, reduce maintenance costs and enable the efficient use of existing application investments.
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