| News digest February 2006 |
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| PSC - 20 Years of Supercomputing in Pittsburgh |
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Twenty years ago, January 17, 1986, the US National Science Board approved funding for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. As the fifth supercomputing centre to be approved through a National Science Foundation initiative, PSC came into the supercomputing world running to catch up. Twenty years later, the original five are three, and PSC is solidly established as one of the world's leading centres in implementing new high-performance computing technologies as productive tools for science and engineering research.
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| Cray selected by UK's AWE to provide one of world's largest supercomputers |
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Cray has won the competition to provide the United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) plc with one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a Cray XT3 system with peak performance of over 40 Tflop/s.
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| New IBM cluster entered in production January 9 |
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NERSC did open its newest high performance computing system, an IBM cluster with 888 processors for parallel computing, for production use on Monday, January 9, 2006. During the acceptance testing, users reported that codes ran from 3 to 10 times faster on the new cluster, Bassi, than on NERSC's other IBM supercomputer, Seaborg, leading one tester to call the system the "best machine I have seen".
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| Scali addresses growing demand for cluster lifecycle management in the datacentre |
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Scali has introduced an updated version of its Scali Manage product. Scali Manage 5 is focused on providing the optimized functionality needed to efficiently provision and manage pools of clusters and servers in demanding enterprise computing environments.
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| DNA self-assembly used to mass-produce patterned nanostructures |
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Duke University scientists have used the self-assembling properties of DNA to mass-produce nanometer-scale structures in the shape of a 4x4 grids, on which patterns of molecules can be specified. They said the achievement represents a step toward mass-producing electronic or optical circuits at a scale 10 times smaller than the smallest circuits now being manufactured.
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| HP and Hitachi to collaborate on security and privacy research |
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Researchers from HP Labs Bristol, United Kingdom, and Princeton, New Jersey, and the Hitachi Systems Development Laboratory will conduct joint work on key security and privacy issues. The HP and Hitachi research collaboration will focus on two primary themes: authenticating users and devices to improve security inside networks and the use of digital signatures to guarantee the authenticity of document content.
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| Supercomputing time offered for US Gulf Coast levee restoration |
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US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman announced three Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives to help the people in the Gulf coast region recover from the hurricanes in 2005, as well as prevent loss of life and damage in the future. During his speech to the Energy Leadership Forum, Bodman announced that DOE will donate 400,000 hours of supercomputing time at its National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NRESC) to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assist with the rebuilding of levees.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers strengthens portfolio with SBS Product Related Services |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV has reached an agreement with shareholders Siemens AG and Fujitsu Limited to acquire the international Product Related Services Division of Siemens Business Services as of April 1, 2006.
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| Mission critical computing customers deploy Itanium solutions |
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Large enterprise and technical computing users including Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, Hitachi, HP, Intel, NEC, SGI and Unisys, have invested in Itanium solutions to meet their most demanding mission critical computing needs. With 70 of the Fortune 100 corporations utilizing or planning Itanium solutions deployments and Itanium solutions gaining market segment share from IBM Power and Sun Sparc solutions, leading technology users are making strategic investments in open, industry standard Itanium solutions over proprietary alternatives.
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| NERSC supercomputers to analyse hurricane coastal surges and help plan rebuilding in Louisiana and Gulf Coast |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science has allocated 400,000 processor hours of supercomputing time at its National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District to run a series of simulations of hurricane protection projects within coastal Louisiana.
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| IBM supercomputer "Champions” research at UT Austin's Texas Advanced Computer Center |
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The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin will add a powerful new IBM supercomputer, named "Champion", to its recently expanded machine room for research into a diverse range of scientific disciplines from biomedicine to climatology.
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| World Record for Fujitsu Siemens Computers' PRIMEQUEST |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' high-end model of the PRIMEQUEST server line, PRIMEQUEST 480, has achieved a new world record for servers up to 32 cores in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Java Business Benchmark 2005 (SPECjbb2005), with performance of 322,719 business operations per second.
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| Sun Java Enterprise System powers NOC to monitor critical voice, video and data for FAA's new nationwide communications network |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has signed an alliance with Harris Corporation which has enabled the successful deployment of a Sun-based IT system for the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) Network Operations Center (NOC).
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| Cray announces selected preliminary 2005 results and updates 2006 outlook |
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Cray Inc. has announced selected preliminary results for the year 2005 and provided additional information about 2006. Earlier on, the company indicated that total estimated 2005 revenue would be in the range of $195 million. Based on preliminary results, total revenue is now expected to be about $199 million.
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| TACC's ACES Visualization Laboratory gains high-end Dell workstations |
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin has two new Delle high-end visualization workstations at the centre's ACES Visualization Laboratory that will help the lab become a multi-user, multi-purpose environment. The lab in the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences (ACES) building on the university’s main campus is a world-class facility that provides access to very high-end resources, particularly large-scale display systems. The facility is used by researchers from every major scientific discipline represented at the University of Texas at Austin.
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| NEC Itanium2 based Express5800 server achieves world's best 8-processor Intel TPC-C benchmark performance |
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NEC Corporation's Intel Itanium2 processor-based server, Express5800/1160Xe, has achieved the world's best TPC-C benchmark performance on an 8-processor IA server platform. The 254,471 transactions per minute (tpmC) was accomplished by using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 for Itanium Processors Family, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition and BEA Tuxedo 8.1. This also represents the best TPC-C benchmark performance on an 8-processor Linux server platform.
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| Interactive Supercomputing secures VC funding |
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Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) has secured a $4.5 million Series-A investment. Flagship Ventures led the round, joined by Rock Maple Ventures and CommonAngels, a network of private investors and limited partners.
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| DataDirect qualifies S2A product line with ONStor Bobcat NAS gateways for scalable, high-performance enterprise storage |
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DataDirect Networks Inc.'s Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) products have been certified for use with ONStor's 2280 NAS gateways, providing customers with a best-of-breed scalable storage solution to meet the most demanding enterprise storage requirements.
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| Alberta and HP collaboarate on information and communications technology |
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A memorandum of understanding signed between the Alberta government in Canada and HP set the stage for the development of joint research projects on advanced computing and data centre management, nanotechnology and advanced videoconferencing technology. The proposed projects include the establishment of a new facility at the University of Calgary for work on advanced data centre operation, joint research with the National Institute for Nanotechnology to develop tiny sensors to improve medical and environmental diagnostics, and work with the University of Alberta to advance videoconferencing technology.
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| HP teams with Symas to deliver open source directory across HP server platforms |
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HP has signed an agreement with Symas Corporation to expand its certification and services for an open source directory across all HP industry-standard platforms.
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| ADNOC acquires latest high-performance computer from SGI for oil reservoir studies |
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has acquired an SGI Altix BX2 system high-performance computing (HPC) system for oil reservoir studies. The machine, based on SGI's global shared-memory system architecture, offers up to four times greater performance compared to the existing system at ADNOC and was installed in September.
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| Intransa capitalizes on 2005 momentum in expanding IP SAN market |
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Intransa, a global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions, has achieved strong, accelerated adoption of Intransa IP systems and terabytes shipped in 2005. Intransa's 2005 net revenues grew 100 percent year-over-year from 2004, with more than 1.2 petabytes shipped to customers worldwide.
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| "Most Innovative Server" awarded to the Sun Fire T2000 server |
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The Sun Fire T2000 server has won the "Most Innovative Server" award in the Systems category in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year honours. The Sun Fire T2000 with unique CoolThreads technology is the industry's first eight core, 32-thread processor that packs the performance of a rack of servers onto a single chip.
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| IBM expands BladeCenter solutions for retail industry |
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IBM has launched new solutions based on IBM's BladeCenter platform to help retail customers manage remote store environments more economically and efficiently. IBM's Systems Solutions for Retail Stores helps optimize technology infrastructure by consolidating all in-store servers, storage, networking and applications in a single physical package with a common management infrastructure.
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| Oracle sets new world record with SAP Business Information Warehouse Standard Application two-tier benchmark on Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMEPOWER |
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Oracle has achieved a world record SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) Standard Application Two-tier Benchmark result, surpassing IBM DB2’s best result and underscoring the superior query processing power of Oracle Database 10g running a variety of enterprise applications.
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| Asigra delivers remote data back-up to drilling company based throughout Europe and Atlantic Ocean |
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SecurStore, an Icelandic storage services provider, is providing Jardboranir HF (Iceland Drilling Company Ltd), a global drilling company, with Asigra's agentless distributed back-up and recovery software, Televaulting. Iceland Drilling Company uses SecurStore IP Backup, SecurStore's managed back-up and recovery service, which deploys Asigra's Televaulting software across its three main rigs located in the Azores and Iceland and also the headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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| emgs deploys IBRIX Fusion Parallel File System to accelerate oil and gas exploration services |
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Electromagnetic Geoservices AS (emgs), the Seabed Logging Company, has implemented the IBRIX Fusion Parallel File System, an enterprise-class fully-integrated single namespace software suite, for generating more sophisticated oil and gas analyses and surveys and accelerating its delivery to oil and gas customers worldwide.
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| Mercury Computer Systems introduces the first rugged Cell BE processor-based computer - the PowerBlock 200 |
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Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has introduced the PowerBlock 200 - the third member of its Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor-based family of hardware products, and the first rugged device designed with the Cell BE processor.
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| Java CoG Kit documentation now entirely maintained |
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The Java CoG Kit documentation is now entirely maintained on the Java CoG Kit Team's Wiki.
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| HP boosts Open Source Alliance with JBoss on Linux and HP-UX 11i platforms |
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HP has extended its agreement with JBoss to offer an expanded portfolio of open source solutions and services that customers can deploy within their existing data centres.
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| Devon IT announces availability of thin client terminals with NoMachine NX client |
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Devon IT, a provider of server-centric computing products and services, has made available NoMachine NX Client on NTA Thin Client terminals. This new offering, the latest addition to its line of thin client terminals, maximizes the capabilities of customers using NoMachine remote access solutions.
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| IBRIX Fusion parallel file system helps maximize performance of Alexa web wearch platform |
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IBRIX announced that Alexa Internet, a subsidiary of Amazon.com has implemented the IBRIX Fusion Parallel File System, an enterprise-class, software-based scalable file serving solution for its Alexa Web Search Platform.
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| European ITtechnology rolls into North American market |
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EMC Corporation, specialized in information management and storage, is now offering the Fujitsu Siemens Computers' CentricStor virtual tape appliance in the USA and Canada as part of the EMC Select Programme. This leading virtual tape technology, formerly only distributed in EMEA, will now be available in North America - directly through EMC and its sales partners.
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| SGI offers Interactive Parallel Computing Platform |
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Silicon Graphics has signed a reseller agreement with Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) to resell and support the company's Star-P technical computing software under the SGI label.
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| Handling complexity - Peter Sloot introduces dr. hc. Carl Kesselman |
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Prof. Peter Sloot was honory promoter of Carl Kesselman on January 9, in Amsterdam. In presenting the new "dr.", Peter Sloot gave an overview of the importance of the work of Carl Kesselman, and how it fits in today's efforts to tackle complexity.
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| Building a Virtual Organisation with Grid technology takes a lot of telephone calls |
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At Janury 9th, Carl Kesselman became honory doctor at the University of Amsterdam, because of his achievements in Grid computing. Within the aula, one of the oldest buildings of the University of Amsterdam, Kesselman's inauguration was part of the 374th Dies Natalis (birth day) of the university, a traditional festivity, with musicians of the renowed Concertgebouw Orkest, a presentation from the Dean, with a lot of references to the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, and professors dressed up in toga. Prof. Peter Sloot had the honour to pronounce the formula with which Carl Kesselman became doctor, hand him his "Bull" and decorate him with the traditional kappa. Next day, Carl Kesselman was back to work again, giving a Grid masterclass for the Dutch Gridforum society and giving an interview to EnterTheGrid - Primeur magazine. We talked to him about his theoretical work on Grid computing, especially Virtual Organisations, the implementation in Globus, standards and his connection to The Netherlands.
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| Book review - Grid computing, The savvy manager's guide |
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Writing a book about a new technology for managers is not easy. You have to be enthousiastic about the technology, but not too enthousiastic, otherwise they do not believe you. You have to explain the technology, but not use too technical terms. You have to indicate the possible business opportunities, but not raise unrealistic expectations. Most early books on Grid technology failed one way or the other. That's why I was pleased to read the book "Grid computing, The savvy manager's guide". Pawel Plasczak and Richard Weller present a nice overview of the state-of-the-art in Grid computing in relation to business. With one author from Poland, and the other from the United States, they also succeed in getting a balance between US and European developments and contributions to Grid computing.
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| Networking computers to help combat disease |
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Subtropical diseases lay waste to millions of people each year. In the quest to find a cure scientists are using Grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative large-scale science, to discover new drugs and better understand the diseases. Currently drug discovery seeks compounds that can inhibit or kill invading parasites and infections, but there are potentially millions of candidate compounds. It can take 10 years to discover a drug and another 10 to get it approved. Grid technology, where the resources of many computers in a network are applied to a single problem at the same time, however, can reduce candidate compounds from millions to thousands or even hundreds, isolating the most promising candidates and speeding up the discovery process.
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| Mining biotech's data mother lode |
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A EU-sponsored project has developed a suite of tools that will enable biotech companies to mine through vast quantities of data created by modern life-science labs to find the nuggets of genetic gold that lie within. The BioGrid project brought together six partners from the UK, Germany, Cyprus and The Netherlands to address one of the key problems facing the life sciences today.
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| SDSC and NCSA provide combined TeraGrid resources |
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Starting in 2006, users requesting high-performance computing resources from the US National Science Foundation will have seamless access to all computational resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) within the TeraGrid environment.
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| Alchemi 1.0: A .NET-based Enterprise Grid Framework released |
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Alchemi is an "open source" software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (computational grid) and to develop applications to run on enterprise grids. It has been developed at the GRIDS Laboratory within the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, as part of the Gridbus project.
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| SARA doubles capacity of Dutch National Compute Cluster |
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SARA - in collaboration with Dell is extending of the National Compute Cluster in the SARA data center in Almere. This extension is expected to be operational by the end of March 2006. With the extension, the total computing capacity of the cluster will increase to a theoretical peak performance of more than 8.5 Tflop/s. The National Compute Cluster is an important addition to the nationally available supercomputing capacity. SARA is responsible for the housing and system management of the cluster, and gives support to the users of the system.
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| Problem solving made simpler |
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Complex problem solving calls for complex computing. One solution has been to make use of distributed yet connected computers in a Grid environment. And to make best use of this environment researchers are simplifying ways for users to build workflow applications. The Grid makes use of the unused processor cycles available in research networks worldwide, tapping the resources of distributed computing and data storage to provide users with seamless access to vast IT capabilities. However, the Grid itself is composed of partially cooperating and partially competing systems, and its applications grow ever more complex.
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| Where now for agent-based computing? |
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What is the future direction for agent-based systems, one of the most important software R&D areas in recent years? Drawing from a body of some 200 industry and academic organisations, a European project has released a strategic roadmap that hopes to guide evolution of the field over the next decade. AgentLink III, as its name suggests, was the third project in the series and author of the roadmap. Funded by the IST programme, it addressed the current state-of-the-art and postulated likely future directions for agent-based technologies, an activity seen as essential to help industry target its investment and to inform policy-makers on areas of particular importance.
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| ETICS to improve Grid quality |
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The kick-off meeting for a new project called ETICS (eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software) is being held at CERN. The goal of this project, which is co-ordinated by CERN and funded partially by the European Commission, is to improve the quality of Grid and distributed software by offering a practical quality assurance process to software projects, based on a build and test service. This is a first of its kind in Grid computing.
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| As Grid problem solving flows smoothly |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics, a technique that can be used to measure the flow of water around a ship's hull or the exhaust flow of a car engine, requires complex, processing-intensive software. It is therefore a key candidate to benefit from Grid computing, as the FlowGrid project proved.
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| In Grids we trust - the EU Provenance project |
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An object's history and how it arose, in other words its provenance, grant it status. Translating this to computing will allow the information generated and managed within distributed networks to be proven and trusted. Laying the foundations for this translation is a team of European researchers. The importance of understanding the process by which a result was generated is fundamental to many real-life applications in science, engineering, medical domain, supply management, etc. Without such information, users cannot reproduce, analyse or validate processes or experiments. Provenance is therefore important to enable users, scientists and engineers to trace how a particular result came about.
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| DataSynapse interfaces GridServer technology to Informatica platform |
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DataSynapse has signed a partnership agreement with Informatica Corporation, a provider of enterprise data integration software. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate to interface DataSynapse's award-winning GridServer technology with Informatica's PowerCenter data integration platform for the seamless deployment of a shared computing infrastructure.
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| EMC acquires information Grid software from Acxiom |
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EMC Corporation and Acxiom Corporation announced a technology and distribution partnership combining Acxiom's grid technology with EMC's portfolio of industry-leading storage, information management and resource management solutions to help customers take advantage of a more scaleable, flexible grid-based information infrastructure. EMC has also acquired Acxiom's information grid software for an aggregate $30 million, which was initially developed to meet the information management and time-to-market needs of Acxiom and its clients.
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| Altair Engineering releases PBS Professional 7.0SP1 with enhanced ease of use for heterogenous environments |
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Altair Engineering has released PBS Professional 7.0SP1, the next generation of the company’s PBS Professional technology. PBS Professional technology optimizes the utilization of enterprise computing resources by aggregating hardware and software assets and intelligently scheduling computational workloads based on business policies.
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| DataSynapse reinforces leadership position as virtualization technology hits the mainstream |
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For the fifth consecutive year, DataSynapse Inc., a global provider of virtual application infrastructure software, has more than doubled its annual revenues, finishing the year with more than $25 million in sales.
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| UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will build a state-of-the-art computational resource and develop software tools to decipher the genetic code of communities of microbial life in the world's oceans. The new resource will help scientists understand how microbes function in their natural ecosystems, enable studies on the effect humans are having on the environment, as well as permit insight into the evolution of life on Earth. T
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| A semantic solution to finding information among peers |
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Peer-to-peer systems have advantages over centralised server-reliant networks, but finding information among multiple distributed databases can prove difficult. European researchers solved the problem by adding Semantic Web technology to P2P networks.
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| Eurotech promotes the development of ETH lab, the Ggroup's research centre |
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Eurotech S.p.A announced, at a press conference organized by the Autonomous Province of Trento, the start of a plan for the development of the Group's research centre ETH Lab in the Trento area. In accordance with this plan, Eurotech signed a collaboration agreement with the University of Trento and with ITC-IRST for joint research in the field of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The agreement focuses on micro- and nano-electronics applied to the realization of advanced sensors and sensor networks. It also concerns informatics applied to environmental data analysis, data transmission and dynamic management of mobile device networks - with a Grid-oriented approach.
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| Biologists and computer scientists join forces to lead biology revolution |
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Just as computers assist detectives in finding people by comparing fingerprints from crime scenes with millions in databases, Argonne scientists are using computers to mine genetic information from pathogens, people and plants. This information is essential to progress in medical science and biotechnology.
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| Univa ships beta release of enterprise Globus software release 4 |
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Univa Corporation announced the beta release of Univa Globus Enterprise (UGE) Release 4.0, the first shipment of its enterprise-ready, commercially supported software based on the Globus Toolkit, the industry's most widely deployed open source grid infrastructure software. UGE includes new, simplified installers and security configurations that facilitate rapid deployment of enterprise grids. General availability of UGE is expected in early 2006.
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| RENCI teams with Carolina medical researchers to develop better bioinformatics tools |
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Scientists studying the genetic changes in skin tissue linked to a life-threatening skin cancer, or melanoma, will soon have new analysis tools and more research data at their fingertips thanks to a collaboration with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a multi-disciplinary institute affiliated with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Duke and North Carolina State universities.
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| IBM acquires CIMS Lab |
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IBM has acquired CIMS Lab Inc., a privately held software company based in Roseville, California. CIMS Lab is a provider of software that helps businesses track the usage of computing resources across virtualized technology environments - such as servers, storage, e-mail, networks, databases, applications and operating systems. The software gathers raw data about information technology (IT) resource usage and converts it into organized financial information that can help companies more easily understand how their technology resources are being consumed across a virtualized infrastructure consisting of many platforms and systems.
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| Moab Technology helps Alexa launch innovative new Web Search Platform |
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Alexa Internet, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has implemented Cluster Resources' Moab Utility/Hosting Suite for its Alexa Web Search Platform. This platform opens a new chapter in the next generation of the Internet where complete utility computing services can be offered and delivered over the Web.
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| New release of GSI-OpenSSH includes high-performance networking patches |
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have collaborated to release a new version of GSI-OpenSSH that provides a substantial speed-up in performance. GSI-OpenSSH is a patch to OpenSSH maintained by NCSA; the patch adds support for Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) authentication to SSH, the much-used security-enhanced protocol for network communications.
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| ClearCube and DataSynapse partner to create the first Grid-enabled PC Blade solution for the financial services industry |
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ClearCube Technology has signed a partnership with DataSynapse to deliver a Grid-enabled PC Blade platform. This hardware and software combination is the first of its kind for the financial services and insurance industry.
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| Murex integrates Platform Symphony Grid computing solution |
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Platform Computing and Murex have signed a technology partnership. Through the integration of Platform Symphony, Murex will be able to offer customers broad compatibility for Grid environments, lowering latency and overhead, while increasing overall efficiency in pricing calculation restitution for the financial services market.
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| NCSA spin-off company earns state grant |
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RiverGlass Inc., a start-up company that is commercializing data-mining technology developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has earned a grant of $150,000 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's Homeland Security Market Development bureau.
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| DataSynapse and Murex partner to offer integrated Grid technology |
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DataSynapse has entered into a collaboration agreement with Murex, a provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and processing solutions, to accelerate the deployment of advanced Grid infrastructure to Murex's customer base.
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| Digipede recognized for Windows Grid computing product excellence |
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Digipede Technologies, a provider of distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform, has received a 4-star rating fromSoftware Developmentmagazine for its Digipede Network, a distributed computing solution built entirely on Microsoft .NET.
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| CERN chooses ProCurve Networking by HP to connect world's largest and most powerful particle physics laboratory |
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ProCurve Networking by HP has announced a significant enhancement of its business relationship with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world's leading laboratories for particle physics. ProCurve will provide a large number of networking products and solutions to the Geneva-based organisation, where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest scientific instrument, is under construction.
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| A quick start to understanding the benefits and drawbacks of Utility and Grid computing |
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of On-Demand: Customer Requirements For Utility Computing to their offering. This primary research describes technical and business requirements for companies that use the emerging technologies of Utility and Grid Computing. Requirements were derived from 30 in-depth interviews with enterprise IT executives, IT architects and data centre managers; 26 of the companies had more than US $1 billion in annual revenues.
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| NASA taps Northrop Grumman for software development |
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Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration Millennia task order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for scientific software services that will enable more efficient use of NASA supercomputing resources. Under the terms of the contract valued at $30 million over five years, Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) sector will provide applications support to scientists using NASA high-performance computing resources for the Software Integration and Visualization Office (SIVO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The company will also provide software development, analysis and scientific visualization services for NASA's modelling, analysis and prediction programme.
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| Leading research firm outlines "Three Steps to Profitable Growth in Insurance" |
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Callidus Software Inc.'s solution was mentioned by Gartner Inc. in a October 2005 industry research report entitled "Three Steps to Profitable Growth in Insurance". The report outlines three key steps insurers should take to drive revenue growth and profitability. In the follow-up November report, "MarketScope for North American Insurance Incentive Compensation Management Applications, 2005", Gartner gave Callidus TrueComp Enterprise a "positive" rating.
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| Breakthrough year for Oracle Fusion Middleware |
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2005 represented a breakthrough year for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle's highly popular family of middleware software that simplifies the development, deployment, integration and management of applications , including: first to market with an integrated, standards-based Application Platform Suite (APS), first APS designed for Grid, first APS to support comprehensive Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-driven Architecture (EDA), and first APS to integrate Enterprise Security, Identity Management and Business Intelligence.
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| Continuent's open source Middleware aligns with Gartner's 2006 Top 10 strategic technologies |
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Continuent, a provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability, praised industry analyst firm Gartner's predictions that Grid computing and virtualization will be two major areas to watch for growth in 2006. Continuent is an expert in both categories; the company's database virtualization technology redefines high availability and scalability for enterprises of all sizes. Continuent's breakthrough Grid offering works with all major databases, delivering high availability in any enterprise environment, whether homogenous or heterogeneous, ensuring peace of mind that mission critical data is accessible at all times.
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| Stardust spacecraft collecting comet dust - Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors |
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Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains originating from stars millions of light years away. In a new project called Stardust@home, University of California (UC), Berkeley, researchers will invite Internet users to help them search for a few dozen submicroscopic grains of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft and due to return to Earth in January 2006.
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| Update to Pooch Software enhances the cluster experience |
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Dauger Research Inc., has launched version 1.6.5 of Pooch (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application) and Pooch Pro clustering software. Combining the best of cluster and Grid computing, Pooch is the only solution that merges a modern graphical user interface with supercomputer-compatible parallel computing.
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| Aspeed announces ACCELLERANT for NONMEM |
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Aspeed Software has made available ACCELLERANT for NONMEM, a solution that enables single-thread NONMEM applications to leverage the performance benefits of multiprocessor, multi-core, cluster, Grid and other parallel distributed computing environments.
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| Canadian communications specialist selects Callidus software solution |
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Bell Canada has selected Callidus' TrueComp, TrueResolution and TrueInformation solutions to automate the design, administration, reporting and analysis of incentive compensation.
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| Oracle details milestones for Oracle Fusion Architecture and Oracle Fusion Applications |
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At an event hosted by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in San Francisco's City Hall, Oracle provided a progress report and outlined the next level of detail for Oracle Fusion Architecture and Oracle Fusion Applications.
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| Callidus Software announces general availability of Callidus TrueAnalytics module |
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Callidus Software has made available Callidus TrueAnalytics, a new component of the TrueComp Enterprise Product Suite that offers sales, marketing and finance executives and analysts the strategic insight and ad hoc analysis capabilities they need to drive sales performance.
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| ObjectWeb Celtix Project achieves fourth key milestone |
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IONA Technologies, a world expert in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and ObjectWeb, a well established open source community with a focus on the development of industry-grade distributed middleware, announced that the Celtix open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) project has achieved its fourth key milestone.
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| Oracle Database 10g Release 2 secures new world record TPC-H Three TB Benchmark with Sun Fire E25K server |
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Oracle has achieved a new world record TPC-H Three Terabyte (TB) benchmark for Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
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| Sun delivers new workstations pre-installed with Solaris 10 |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched its new world-record setting Sun Ultra Workstations, including the fastest x64 (x86, 64-bit) workstation in the industry. The new Sun Ultra Workstations provide customers with more options for operating systems than any other vendor, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and standard distributions of Linux and Windows.
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| Building efficient global computing systems |
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Think global computing systems, think high-performance networks, wide-range distributed platforms, network-based applications, embedded services and mobile software. Engineering these components and their interaction is complex. To help, researchers developed a unifying scientific framework and a set of design rules that are already in use.
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| Membrane research opens window to benefits for plants and humans |
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A wilting, water-starved houseplant and flood-covered crops have something in common. That knowledge, gleaned from spinach and researchers on two continents, potentially could open the gate to advances in both plant and human health. The research, which appeared online this month in advance of regular publication by the journalNature, involved a tandem of basic-science firsts that offer immediate real world applications, the scientists say.
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| The 451 Group launches new '451 M&A KnowledgeBase' service as technology industry M&A level hits new high of $339 billion |
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The 451 Group has made publicly available its 451 M&A KnowledgeBase service. As the first mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction database service specifically focused on the IT, communications and Internet sectors, the Web-based 451 M&A KnowledgeBase service combines the most granular and best categorized set of M&A data in the technology industry, with analytical insight from the well-recognized 451 analyst team. By blending M&A data and forward-looking analysis, this new service provides technology industry executives, bankers and investors with a single source of insider perspectives on deals, their rationales and their financial fundamentals.
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| St. Jude conducts first large-scale bird flu genome study |
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Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA, have completed the first large-scale study of bird flu virus genomes, thereby doubling the amount of genetic information available on the genes and proteins of these viruses. The results of the project could lead to major insights into the bird flu virus known as H5N1, the researchers said. H5N1 is the bird flu virus currently infecting humans in Asia and Eastern Europe, and flu experts fear it could mutate in a way that would allow it to cause a worldwide pandemic in humans.
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| Sandia researchers aim to keep points-of-entry safe through systems-level modelling of operations |
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National Laboratories' homeland security business unit recently worked on border security and is well on its way to providing an enormously valuable US national asset by providing federal agencies with a reliable and comprehensive simulation capability that lets officials "test drive" various security solutions prior to investing in them.
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| Scripps Networks selects Informatica data integration platform to extend market reach |
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Scripps Networks has selected Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition and Informatica PowerExchange data-access software as the data integration component of the company's new business intelligence initiative that will provide further visibility into the performance of its programme-affiliated Web sites.
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| Appro about its TOP500 supercomputers |
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Appro gives some details about its HyperBlade Clusters in the TOP500 in Los Alamos.
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| SilverStorm Technologies announces InfiniBand networking for Mac OS X Tiger Server |
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SilverStorm Technologies, an expert in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, has made available its robust family of InfiniBand products for Apple Mac OS X Server version 10.4 "Tiger". SilverStorm's Mac OS X Tiger Server offering delivers the full range of InfiniBand switching and Virtual I/O products to support high performance fabric configurations from two to thousands of nodes.
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| Major Chinese telecom and network operators turn to Cisco CRS-1 carrier routing system to migrate to new IP NGN |
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China Education and Research Network (CERNET), the world's largest education network, has successfully deployed the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System to provide increased bandwidth and improved performance to more than 20 million Internet users in China. Also, Shanghai Telecom has replaced numerous routers powering its "super" point of presence "POP", or high-speed core Internet Protocol (IP) network, with the Cisco CRS-1, and ChinaNet 163, China's largest IP network, has upgraded its supercore network nodes with the Cisco CRS-1.
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| Sun Microsystems announces its participation in the Ethernet Alliance |
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Sun Microsystems is a founding member of the Ethernet Alliance, an industry group dedicated to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology.
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| Cambodia Data Communication selects SOMA Networks to provide first nationwide broadband wireless infrastructure |
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Cambodia Data Communication Co. Ltd. (CDC), a joint venture between Anana Computers and MediaRing Ltd, and SOMA Networks Inc., a provider of last-mile broadband wireless access technology, have signed an agreement to deliver broadband services across Cambodia using SOMA Networks' last-mile wireless access system.
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| Network Equipment Technologies announces final results for Q3 fiscal 2006 |
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Telecommunications equipment maker Network Equipment Technologies Inc. has reported its final results for the third quarter of fiscal 2006. For the third quarter of fiscal 2006, total revenue was $16.4 million, down from $21.6 million in the prior quarter and $29.7 million in the same period of the prior year.
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