| Primeur Weekly 29 August 2005 |
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers tailored CentricStor solution packages |
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With a variety of CentricStor models Fujitsu Siemens Computers is now opening the way for small companies, branch offices, and also low-end mainframe customers to enjoy the advantages of the leading virtual tape technology from which customers with large data centres are already benefiting.
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| CDO2 unlocks the power of Sun Grid for faster financial risk simulation |
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CDO2, a provider of innovative pricing and risk technology for organisations trading structured credit products, has successfully completed a trial deployment of its financial services software on the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Sun Grid helps customers and partners derive immediate benefits from an open, Grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT. When powered by Sun Grid, the time required for complex financial risk simulations using CDO2 technology is reduced from days to under an hour, allowing CDO2 to reach an expanded set of customers for whom such simulations were previously too time-intensive and costly.
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| More details on the new SGI HPC environment for data-intensive computing at Dresden Technical University |
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As reported erliers, Dresden University of Technology (TUD) has signed a contract with Silicon Graphics to provide a high-performance computing environment representing an investment of over $18 million, which will give TUD a distinction as Center for Scientific Computing. Some more detais.
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| University of Queensland leads Australia in innovative e-research |
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The University of Queensland (UQ) has topped the nation in Australian Research Council (ARC) E-Research Support grants having acquired the highest number of grants of any university in Australia with eight successful projects worth almost AU$640,000, including one project which hopes to use artificial intelligence to help better detect breast cancer from magnetic resonance (MR) images.
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| SRC Computers launches its next-generation reconfigurable high performance computing system |
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SRC Computers an expert in reconfigurable computing systems, has made available its SRC-7 general purpose system featuring the first reconfigurable processor with IEEE compliant floating point blocks and accompanying high bandwidth interconnect. The lack of dedicated low latency floating point capability with enough memory bandwidth to prevent stalling has historically been viewed as the last technical barrier to widespread adoption of general purpose reconfigurable computing. ance system on the market.
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| SPEC seeks MPI applications for benchmark suite under development |
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The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s High-Performance Group (SPEC/HPG) is seeking Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications for a new computer benchmarking suite scheduled for release in 2006.
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| Mellanox showcases Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition over InfiniBand |
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Mellanox Technologies announced InfiniBand is the only industry-standard, low-latency 20 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) fabric supported by Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, scheduled to be available in the first half of 2006. InfiniBand's proven scalability and leading price/performance combined with Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition is designed to drive supercomputing into mainstream commercial applications including financial, clustered databases, engineering, life sciences and geosciences.
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| NSF awards $52 million for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for TeraGrid |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $52 million over the next five years to support operations of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) as a leading partner in the TeraGrid, NSF's programme to provide national cyberinfrastructure for education and research.
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| IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., and Toshiba unveil details of the Cell Microprocessor |
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IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. - Sony and SCE together referred to as "Sony Group" - and Toshiba have announced the release of key documents that describe technical details of the revolutionary Cell Broadband Engine architecture. Toshiba will release the documents once it completes its customer support structure.
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| ASPEED Software ships ACCELLERANT 3.3 |
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ASPEED Software Corporation has made available ACCELLERANT 3.3, the first application software solution to quickly enable existing high-performance computing applications to leverage the benefits of distributed parallel computing without having to re-engineer the application. The software provides a cost-effective path to significantly improve the time-to-decisions, handling exponentially higher volumes and providing more precise results by enabling more fine-grained analysis.
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| Fleet Science Center joins World Community Grid |
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The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, one of San Diego's most popular attractions with more than 550,000 annual visitors, has become the first cultural institution to participate in IBM's World Community Grid.
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| Oracle and Sun target resellers with validated infrastructure solutions |
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Sun Microsystems and Oracle have introduced Database Packs from Sun and Oracle; new infrastructure solutions incorporating Oracle Database 10g with Sun StorEdge 3310 arrays and Sun Fire x64 servers (x86, 64-bit) powered by the AMD Opteron processor and running either the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) or standard Linux distribution operating systems.
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| CEI uses commodity clusters at LLNL to shatter world graphics rendering record |
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CEI, a provider of engineering and scientific graphics software, shattered the previous record for graphics rendering speed during tests last week at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). CEI engineers and Dale Southard of LLNL conducted the tests on a Linux visualization cluster used to support National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) missions.
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| Gridapp Database Infrastructure Management helps ReserveAmerica Service Happy Campers |
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ReserveAmerica, an on-line camping reservations site, has deployed GridApp's Clarity software to simplify and streamline its database operations. GridApp virtualization and Grid computing solution automates the management of ReserveAmerica's database infrastructure and on-line reservation system to help ensure consistent levels of availability and sub-zero response times. The GridApp solution also supports disaster recovery by enabling ReserveAmerica to replicate data in real time between production, standby, and recovery databases across multiple locations.
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| SAS raises bar on data mining and text mining |
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Enhancements to SAS' data mining and text mining software will ship this fall. SAS' integrated data mining and text mining capabilities uncover insights quickly from information contained in structured data as well as unstructured data in large document collections.
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| IBM debuts dual-core Intel-based workstation with server design |
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IBM has launched the IntelliStation M Pro 6218, a workstation utilizing a dual-core Intel processor built from the ground up with server design teams and rigorous xSeries Server Proven testing. IBM customers typically use IntelliStation workstations for critical business operations to facilitate tasks such as mechanical design, electronic design, drug discovery and digital content creation.
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| IBM X3 Architecture proven top platform for virtualization |
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IBM's line of X3 Architecture-based servers offers superior virtualization performance over HP's AMD Opteron-based ProLiant servers. In a real-world benchmark from VeriTest, the X3 Architecture-based IBM xSeries 366 outperformed a similarly configured and priced HP AMD Opteron-based ProLiant server, delivering response times that were up to 41 percent faster.
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| IBM announces new high performance server based on X3 Architecture |
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IBM is extending its X3 Architecture-based family of servers with the introduction of the IBM xSeries 260, a high performance four-processor server designed for remote office locations or storage-intensive applications.
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| HP server revenue growth outpaces worldwide server market and next two largest competitors |
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HP demonstrated strong server revenue growth and was the no. 1 vendor in worldwide server shipments for the 13th consecutive quarter, according to second quarter 2005 figures released by IDC.
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| Virginia Tech speeds scientific discovery with SGI technology |
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To safely develop new drugs from organic compounds and to develop more stable aircraft and satellites by harnessing the compute power of shared-memory architecture from Silicon Graphics, the US Office of Information Technology and the Office of Research as well as the College of Science and the Mathematics Department at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, recently selected SGI compute and visualization technology.
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