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| Linux Networx announces largest supercomputing order in the company's history |
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The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP), has placed the largest single order for Linux Supercomputers in the company's history. The DoD purchased five supercomputers from Linux Networx including three Advanced Technology Clusters (ATC's) and one LS-1 for the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), and an additional LS-1 for Dugway Proving Ground. The procurement increases ARL MSRC's computing capability to over 80 trillion floating-point operations (TFLOPS), making it one of the largest computing centres in the DoD. In addition, the procurement enhances ARL MSRC's visualization capabilities. Linux Networx was selected due to its recognized expertise in designing, building and delivering next generation Linux supercomputers that leverage the price/performance value of open software and hardware platforms.
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| Cray is back in Europe |
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Once Cray was the undisputed king of supercomputing in Europe. At one point, this declined to the level where people were wondering when the last Cray supercomputer would leave the TOP500 list. Instead, a large XT3 sale to CSCS in Switzerland, and a 40 Tlop/s peak system to AWE in the UK, as well as sales of the company's other products to well-known customers, show that Cray is regaining presence in the European market. EnterTheGrid - Primeur magazine talked to Ulla Thiel, vice president of Cray Europe, to understand what led to the recent large successes, and to ask about the Cray plans for Europe in the near future.
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| Are FPGAs ready for HPC? |
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For the 2nd year running the UK National HPC service at the University of Manchester in collaboration with the Ohio Supercomputer Centre (OSC), hosted a technical symposium, on re-configurable computing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The symposium, sponsored by SGI and Intel, provided a forum to exchange experiences and explore possibilities, of using re-configurable computing to accelerate software applications. Several of the speakers described their own experiences with FPGAs. The Symposium was preceded by a hands-on workshop on how to program FPGAs for HPC applications. It was supervised by Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, from SGI and Stefan Möhl, from Mitrionics. Symposium speakers and many of the attendees enthused about this new area of computing, claiming plenty of promise. In fact one participant of the workshop, without prior knowledge of FPGAs, developed a working design of a medical imaging algorithm and run it on an SGI system with FPGAs. Is that easy! (Chris Lazou)
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| Cray supercomputer excels in interconnect bandwidth |
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Cray Inc.'s "Red Storm" supercomputer installed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico is the first computer to surpass the 1 terabyte-per-second (1 TB/sec) performance mark on a widely used test that measures communications among processors in high-performance computing (HPC) systems and provides a key indication of the total communication capacity of the network.
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| TACC's top-ranked Terascale compute cluster gets significant upgrade |
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin has made a significant upgrade to its top-ranked terascale cluster, Lonestar. The upgrade, which will occur in two phases, will benefit researchers who rely on this powerful system to further research innovation in the areas of computational science, engineering and technology.
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| TotalView Memory Debugger now available on IBM Blue Gene/L |
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Etnus LLC, provider of TotalView, the debugger for complex code, has released version 7.1.1. This version supports memory debugging on the IBM Blue Gene/L platform. With TotalView, software programmers on Blue Gene/L and other supported platforms can perform interactive source code and memory debugging within the same session, making it easier to find and fix memory problems.
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| NEC SX-8 Multi-TeraFlop-System at HLRS |
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The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Stuttgart will organise a special 2-day course on NEC SX-8 usage details, vectorization, and parallel filesystem usage in the framework of an HLRS and hkz-bw workshop, March 20-21, 2006 at HLRS in Stuttgart.
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| IWOMP 2006 Workshop to take place in Reims, France |
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IWOMP 2006 will take place June 12-15, 2006 in Reims, France. The workshop will be a great opportunity for learning more about OpenMP, for practical experience and interaction between OpenMP users and developers.
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| PathScale releases highest performance OpenIB software stack |
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PathScale has released version 1.2 of its InfiniPath software for the PathScale InfiniPath InfiniBand interconnect. This latest InfiniPath software release, includes OpenIB support.
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| United Devices unveils HPC Collaboration Center |
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United Devices has unveiled a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Collaboration Center, or HPC³ - that provides the technology and expertise necessary for companies to validate the business benefits of a collaborative HPC solution in an environment that emulates their real-world operations.
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| A supercomputer for Iowa State University |
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Finally, Iowa State University researchers can talk about trillions of calculations per second. That's because a $1.25 million IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer is now on campus. The National Science Foundation awarded a research team led by Srinivas Aluru, an Iowa State professor of electrical and computer engineering, $600,000 to purchase the supercomputer. Iowa State paid the remaining $650,000 with allocations from the President's Office, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Information Technology Services and the Plant Sciences Institute.
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| Korea Meteorological Administration's new Cray X1e supercomputer is world's fastest weather prediction system |
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The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has put into production the fastest operational numerical weather prediction system in the world. KMA takes advantage of the processing speed of its new Cray X1E supercomputer to facilitate development and operational services for long-range weather prediction and climate study, resulting in more accurate and timely weather, seasonal climate and ocean wave forecasts.
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| Sun HPC Workshop and Consortium Meeting to take place March 13-17 in Aachen, Germany |
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Together with the Sun HPC Consortium, the RWTH Aachen University Center for Computing and Communication organises the combined Sun HPC Workshop and Consortium Meeting from March 13 till 17, 2006.
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| Blade.org bladeserver community organised by large number of IT companies |
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More than 40 technology experts including IBM and Intel have officially formed Blade.org, an open community that will develop and advance next-generation technologies for blades. The Blade.org community will initially focus on solution design guidance, compliance and interoperability testing, industry events and marketplace education.
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| IBM unveils Cell Broadband Engine computer |
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IBM has introduced a blade computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE). The IBM branded Cell BE-based system is designed for businesses that need the dense computing power and unique capabilities of the Cell BE processor to tackle tasks involving graphic-intensive, numeric applications.
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| Georgia Institute of Technology accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster |
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One of the world's most powerful supercomputing clusters will anchor Georgia Tech's new Center for the Study of Systems Biology. The Center will use IBM technologies to advance research into new drugs for the treatment of some of today's most life-threatening diseases, including cancer. The Center's research will be headed by one of the world's leading systems biologists, Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology.
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| NSF names Daniel Atkins to head new Office of Cyberinfrastructure |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA has named distinguished computer scientist Dr. Daniel E. Atkins to head its newly created Office of Cyberinfrastructure. Dr. Atkins, a professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has made major contributions to high-performance computer architecture, and led or participated in the design and construction of seven experimental machines including some of the earliest parallel computers.
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| Mitrionics enhances FPGA supercomputing platform with diagnostics and optimization features |
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Mitrionics, an expert in programming FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) for supercomputing software acceleration, has introduced new diagnostics and optimization features for its Mitrion Software Development Kit to facilitate even faster development times by troubleshooting, debugging and optimizing Mitrion Processor designs before FPGA synthesis.
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| IBM introduces new high performance POWER5+ server |
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IBM has introduced eight new System p5 servers, including several based on the fastest POWER 5+ processors available, including the breakthrough Quad-Core Module technology.
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| Linux Networx announces record orders and growth in 2005 |
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Linux Networx has performed record orders and growth in 2005. The company achieved three consecutive quarters of record growth in orders in Q2, Q3 and Q4 and finished the year with a bookings backlog that increased 300% over 2004. During 2005, one of every three Linux Networx supercomputing systems was sold to a new customer, expanding the company’s customer base to over 165 supercomputing customers. New customers during 2005 included Audi, BMW, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, EADS Eurocopter, Glaxo SmithKline, Harley-Davidson, Magna Intier and Magna Seating, Motorola, and Thomson Industries.
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| Terra Soft offers Xserve bioinformatics cluster |
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Terra Soft Solutions, a developer of integrated Power Architecture Linux solutions, has released a mobile, pre-configured 8-node Xserve bioinformatics cluster.
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| ClusterVision reports another record year |
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ClusterVision, specialist in Linux supercomputer clusters, has had another record year as a supplier of Linux supercomputer clusters in Europe. The number of clusters installed in 2005 was more than double that in 2004. ClusterVision also built upon market share with new customer wins in addition to considerable repeat business from existing customers.
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| New Maui patch improves integration & compatibility |
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Cluster Resources has released Maui 3.4.6p14, the advanced open source cluster scheduler. Maui is a highly configurable tool capable of supporting an array of scheduling policies, dynamic priorities, extensive reservations and fairshare capabilities. The new patch includes several contributions made by the user community.
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| 18 million hours of supercomputing time awarded to 15 teams for large-scale scientific computing |
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US DOE's Office of Science has awarded a total of 18.2 million hours of computing time on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers to help researchers in government labs, universities, and industry working on projects ranging from designing more efficient engines to better understanding Parkinson's disease.
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| New IBM Blade computers |
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IBM has introduced new blade computing systems that enable data to travel up to 10 times faster than previously possible across corporate networks. The new high-performance systems, called IBM BladeCenter H, increase the bandwidth of tiny blade computers, providing businesses up to 10 times the capacity to move data across their networks. The processing breakthrough, made possible by IBM Research, increases the internal capability of the new system by delivering more than 40 Gigabits (Gb) of I/O bandwidth to every blade server.
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| Bioinformatics Consortium at the University of Missouri adds SGI technology for large-scale computational life sciences research |
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The Bioinformatics Consortium at the University of Missouri recently purchased high-performance computing technology from Silicon Graphics and an SGI InfiniteStorage storage area network (SAN) with 8TB of capacity.
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| Biodesign and TGen form joint Center for Systems and Computational Biology |
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To help usher in a new era of molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, Arizona State University's (ASU) Biodesign Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have teamed up to establish the Center for Systems and Computational Biology. One of the first of its kind in the USA, the new centre will accelerate the pace of biomedical research, directly impact patient care and provide new funding opportunities for both TGen and ASU.
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| Altair Engineering announces establishment of Trans-National European and Asia/Pacific operations |
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Altair Engineering opened tow new trans-national support and marketing organisations - one based in Boeblingen, Germany, and another in Bangalore, India - will be responsible for Altair operations in Europe and Asia/Pacific, respectively.
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| Dr. Iwao Toda to join Liquid Computing as Asia-Pacific Strategic Advisor |
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Liquid Computing Corp., a developer of a new class of scalable server for high performance computing, has appointed Dr. Iwao Toda as Asia-Pacific Strategic Advisor. With over three decades of product development and executive management experience, Dr. Toda will help Liquid Computing expand its global presence.
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| Dennis McKenna to succeed Bob Bishop as Chairman and CEO at SGI |
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Dennis McKenna has been named chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president, effective immediately. Dennis McKenna succeeds Robert Bishop, who will remain on the board of directors and serve as vice chairman.
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| February 28 deadline for submitting Birds-of-a-Feather proposals for ISC2006 |
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Tuesday, February 28, is the deadline for submitting Birds-of-a-Feather proposals for the 2006 International Supercomputer Conference to be held June 27-30 in Dresden. Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are informal discussion forums where a number of participants gather to talk about a specific HPC topic of mutual interest. This is the first year BoFs are being planned as part of the ISC2006 programme and the sessions are open to all conference attendees, including exhibitors.
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| Sun spotlights growing momentum with world-record setting performance for new Sun Fire server line running UltraSPARC IV+ processors |
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Sun Microsystems has achieved strong market momentum for the UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire server family: five new record-breaking performance benchmarks and rapid customer adoption. Customers are upgraing quickly to the recently-announced server line, which offers an up to five times performance increase over UltraSPARC III servers and double the performance over previous UltraSPARC generations at the same power consumption in the same footprint and for the same price.
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| ProCurve Networking by HP expands functionality at Network Edge with new intelligent switches |
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ProCurve Networking by HP has introduced a set of Layer 3/4 LAN switches that feature wirespeed performance and integrated Gigabit Power over Ethernet (PoE). Both switch series further sharpen ProCurve's Adaptive EDGE Architecture by delivering advanced functionality to the network edge to meet the evolving needs of security, mobility and convergence applications.
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| Oracle sets world record in performance on Bull NovaScale server for a 32 CPU system with TPC-H One Terabyte benchmark |
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Bull and Oracle have achieved a new record-setting TPC-H One Terabyte (TB) benchmark for a 32 processor system running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux and using the Xyratex RS-1600-FC2 storage enclosures. Running on a Bull NovaScale 6320, with 32 Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz 6 MB L3 Cache processors on Linux, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieved record performance and price-performance for a 32 CPU system of 34,987.50 QphH@1000GB, $38.41/QphH@1000GB.
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| Dell delivers advanced Blade server connectivity |
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Dell has made enhancements to its blade server offerings with the introduction of the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3030 for the Dell PowerEdge Blade Server Enclosure.
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| Sun plans to put the UltraSPARC T1 processor in the upcoming Netra AdvancedTCA Blades |
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Sun Microsystems wiil put the UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology to network equipment providers (NEPs) and carriers in its upcoming Netra Advanced Telecom Computer Architecture (ATCA) blade and carrier-grade rack servers later this year.
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| Sony DADC streamlines disc production with SGI storage technology |
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Sony DADC, a producer of optical disc media, has purchased a SGI InfiniteStorage SAN solution to increase throughput, ensure scalability, and improve data management in the automated mastering facility at its Terre Haute, Indiana plant. The plant, which is the flagship Sony disc production facility for the U.S., produces 2.4 million music CDs, DVDs, and UMD game discs in a typical day and provides services that range from postproduction to distribution.
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| Dot Hill introduces Green Storage system for the enterprise |
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Dot Hill, a provider of flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators, has launched its new SANnet II FC-G (Green) storage array. SANnet II FC-G is an upgrade to its current SANnet II Fibre Channel (FC) technology with support for new environmental standards.
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| HP outships all other server vendors worldwide for 15th consecutive quarter |
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For the 15th consecutive quarter, HP has outshipped all other major vendors in the worldwide server market while taking share in total server revenue, according to fourth quarter 2005 figures released today by IDC.
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| HP enhances storage portfolio to further customer IT consolidation |
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HP has introduced hardware, software and services enhancements to its HP StorageWorks portfolio that help customers consolidate their storage environments.
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| Lustre users worldwide confirm exceptional file system stability |
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Cluster File Systems is celebrating the third year of general availability of its open-source Lustre technology by reporting widespread file system stability and robust customer implementations on five continents.
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| 4th Story integrates Digipede Grid processing technology |
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Digipede Technologies, a provider of distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform, and 4th Story, a developer of software for trading analytics, have integrated 4th Story's trading strategy analytics with the Digipede Network for greatly increased scalability and performance.
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| SOA is the past, SOKU is the future for Grid computing |
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The European Commission has published a report: "Future for European Grids: Grids and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities - Vision and Research Directions 2010 and Beyond". The report has been written by the Next Generation Grids Expert Group, and is the third report of the group. The report introduces the Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities (SOKU) vision and recommends a structured and coherent approach to future research in Grid technologies, Service Oriented Architectures and Utility Services aiming at realising that vision. The report defines the approach in the relation to the most recent advances in adjacent areas such as distributed operating systems, software and services engineering, agents, peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, knowledge and security technologies, and building on cross-disciplinary synergies and emerging European strengths.
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| VIROLAB: GridwiseTech joins the fight against HIV |
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Virolab is one of the most revolutionary projects GridwiseTech, the international consulting and development company specializing in Grid computing, have undertaken to work on this year. Virolab is a Grid-based Virtual Laboratory for Decision Support in Viral Disease Treatment that benefits medical knowledge discovery and decision support for, e.g., HIV resistance.
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| Decentralised search finds results |
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A prototype search and categorisation engine that couples the power of powerful natural-language processing methods with Grid computing offers hope to those sifting through the mass of unstructured data distributed across a company’s networks. The prototype is developed in the European funded GRACE project.
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| Fujitsu provides scalable computing capacity for the European Commission IST Integrated project Pico-Inside |
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Calculations for the Pico-Inside project have now started in earnest using the Application Service Provider (ASP) computing facility managed by Fujitsu Systems Europe. The Pico-Inside consortium from the future and emerging technology (FET) part of the EC IST programme, brings together 13 academic institutes and industrial organisations across Europe that are leaders in nano-science. Over the next three years this project will explore atomic-scale technology that could lead to mathematical calculations being performed within a single molecule.
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| US National Lambda rail completes nation wide hig-performance network infrastucture |
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AE-PR-03-06-91 National LambdaRail (NLR), a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies, today announced that it has completed deployment of a nationwide advanced optical, Ethernet and IP networking infrastructure on more than 10,000 miles of fiber optic cable across the United States.
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| Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to promote Virtual University Grid at the University of the Philippines |
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India and the Philippines may consider creating a Virtual University Grid by networking Universities from the Philippines and India, according to President Kalam in his speech at the University of the Philippines. Specific areas of Research and Development are meeting the national mission requirements of both countries and also for capacity building in each country.
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| European Commission to organise IST - Call 6 Information Day on International Cooperation in Shanghai |
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An IST - Call 6 Information Day on International Cooperation for Grid Technologies and for digital broadcasting and mobile convergence with target country China on both occasions will be hosted on 22 February 2006 at Xuhui campus (downtown of Shanghai) of Jiao Tong University, Rm102, Haoran High-Tech Building, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200030, China.
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| UK e-Science Programme moves on with new ambassador |
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The UK e-Science Programme is entering a new phase with the appointment of its first envoy and the award of continued funding to eight e Science centres. e-Science refers to the science that is made possible when the resources held on computers at widely-dispersed locations are pooled via high speed networks. After five years, the UK e-Science Programme, one of the first co-ordinated national e-Science programmes in the world, is entering a new phase during which a national e-Infrastructure for research and innovation will be established.
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| Enter the Semantic Grid |
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To allow business and people to rapidly, and easily, establish virtual organisations to share information, services and computing resources a team of European researchers are laying the technological foundations that will open the door to the era of the Semantic Grid. Working under the IST programme-funded OntoGrid project, they are catalysing the evolution of the Grid from a distributed network of computers in which the meaning of information is implicit and hidden into a medium that will allow computers as well as humans to interpret and share semantically-enriched data.
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| EGA and GGF to sign non-binding Letter of Intent to merge |
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On February 6, the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) and the Global Grid Forum (GGF) have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge, bringing together two leading Grid organisations with a shared mission and common values.
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| EELA takes off |
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By means of the action of a group of very skilled and highly motivated people in Europe and Latin America, the EELA Project will create a human network dedicated to work on Grids, e-Infrastructures, and e-Science. EELA started on the 1st of January 2006 and was officially launched during its Kick-off Meeting (KoM), held at CIEMAT in Madrid and Trujillo, Spain between January, 30 and February, 2, 2006.
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| Official kick-off meeting of the EUMEDGRID Project: empowering e-Science across the Mediterranean |
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Funded by European Commission, the EUMEDGRID project starts officially with a meeting located, both symbolically and geographically, at the heart of the Mediterranean. During the next two years, a group of highly-motivated experts will collaborate to develop a Grid e-Infrastructure for e-Science across the Mediterranean: a concrete initiative aiming at bridging the Digital Divide and fostering collaboration between Europe and its Mediterranean Neighbours.
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| Global Grid service for LHC computing succeeds in gigabyte-per-second challenge |
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At the international Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 conference (CHEP’06) in Mumbai, India, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid collaboration (WLCG) officially announced the successful completion of a service challenge. This challenge involved sustaining a continuous flow of physics data on a worldwide Grid infrastructure at up to 1 gigabyte per second. The maximum sustained data rates achieved correspond to transferring a DVD worth of scientific data from CERN every five seconds.
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| EGEE holds first User Forum event at CERN in Geneva |
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The Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE) project will hold the first User Forum event at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, 1-3 March 2006. This will bring together the established EGEE user community as well as new users from academia and industry to share their experiences and set new targets for the future. The event coincides with a significant milestone for the EGEE project, as the total processing power achieved by this Grid infrastructure now exceeds 20,000 CPUs on average. Discussions at the Forum will focus on the evolution of existing scientific applications which have been 'gridified' to work on this infrastructure, as well as development and deployment of new Grid middleware and new applications, in fields such as Life Sciences, Earth Observations, Computational Chemistry, Astroparticle and Particle Physics, Fusion and others.
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| Open Science Grid elects Management Team |
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Members of the US Open Science Grid Council has elected the first OSG Executive Director and Council Chair, and the appointment of the first Executive Board, which will lead the operation and expansion of the Open Science Grid. The OSG is a nationwide community Grid built by research groups from United States universities and national laboratories that enables collaborative research through distributed computing technologies.
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| Voltaire releases industry’s first commercial InfiniBand Linux stack based on OpenIB |
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Voltaire, a worldwide provider of Grid backbone solutions, has made available a new Voltaire InfiniBand Linux software stack based on OpenIB. This is the industry’s first commercial software stack based on Open IB’s current open source technology.
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| Wilfrid Laurier University selects SGI technology for computational sciences |
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Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), one of 14 Ontario universities and colleges on the growing Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) Grid in Canada installed in October, an SGI Altix system that is shared with other SHARCNET members throughout southwestern Ontario. The University purchased the SGI Altix computer, with 256 GByte memory and 128 Intel Itanium 2 processors-one of the fastest computers in Canada through grants from Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund.
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| Nascentric to use United Devices' Grid MP for simulation and verification clusters |
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Nascentric has selected United Devices' Grid MP software platform for use with Nascim, Nascentric's next-generation Fast-SPICE chip-level simulation and verification tool. Grid MP enables Nascentric to provide a broadly Grid-enabled Nascim product, while simultaneously building Grid expertise within Nascentric to be able to better advise customers on leading-edge distributed computing technologies.
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| The UK e-Science Institute wins continued funding |
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The decision by Research Councils UK that they will continue to fund the e-Science Institute through an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant for a further five years post July 2006 marks a significant investment in the continuation of the UK e Science Programme which commenced in 2001. Over GBP2.7 Million has been awarded to the Institute at the University of Edinburgh, to continue its programme of support for the UK e-Science community by providing a focus and meeting place for researchers.
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| International Summer School on Grid Computing 2006 to be held in Ischia, Italy |
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The International Summer School on Grid Computing 2006 will be held in Ischia, Italy (near Naples) from Sunday 9th to Friday 21st July 2006. The School will consist of lectures and discussion with leading authorities in advanced Grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. These will be complemented by laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work. The School will boost students' capabilities for research and innovation.
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| UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) chooses Sun to help improve the study of healthy and diseased human brains |
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UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) selected Sun to create an affordable high performance computing (HPC) Grid to help improve the study of the brain. Based on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Sun N1 Grid Engine, 306 Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun StorEdge L8500, the Grid will run complex and data-intensive algorithms to assist LONI in researching causes, cures and treatments for ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and analysing brain development.
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| New ECS Professor to develop ubiquitous computing |
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A new Professor in the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is working towards making global computing a dependable reality. Professor Vladimiro Sassone, previously Head of the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, has joined ECS to help raise the School's profile and promote its external visibility in theoretical computer science.
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| Cassatt delivers automation and virtualization for enterprise applications on the Solaris 10 |
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Cassatt Corporation is delivering its combination of automation and virtualization for enterprise applications running on the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).
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| Tangosol announces the immediate availability of Coherence 3.1 |
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Tangosol, a provider of Data Grid solutions announced Coherence 3.1. for use by in-memory distributed data management, clustered caching, and data-intensive Grid computing for mission critical enterprise Java applications.
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| Aspeed Software ships ACCELLERANT 3.5 |
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Aspeed Software Corporation has made available ACCELLERANT 3.5 its advanced for parallelizing and distributing computationally intense applications delivers - now to service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments.
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| Egenera Inc. and Pernec Corporation announce distributor agreement |
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Egenera Inc., specialized in utility computing, has selected Pernec Corporation as a newly signed distributor to sell the Egenera BladeFrame product line throughout Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Pernec Corporation is a Malaysian J/V company between Amanah Raya Berhad (ARB), NEC Corporation Japan (NEC) and Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB).
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| Force10 Networks TeraScale E-Series to anchor Sun Grid Compute Utility |
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Sun Microsystems has selected the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers as the foundation for its Sun Grid Compute Utility network architecture. Leveraging the high density and resiliency of the Force10 TeraScale E1200, Sun Grid is significantly reducing management costs by simplifying its utility computing architecture. 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.
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| Vodacom calls on Callidus Software TrueComp solution for Enterprise Incentive Management |
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Vodacom, a cellular network operator in South Africa and one of the fastest-growing GSM networks in the world, selected the TrueComp solution by Callidus Software to manage incentive compensation programmes for its direct sales force and indirect sales channels. Under the terms of the agreement, Vodacom will be able to use the Callidus products TrueComp Manager, TrueInformation and TrueResolution for its representatives in internal sales and retail sales as well as for third party dealerships in South Africa.
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| Supercomputing on your desktop by NetAlter |
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NetAlter which is based on a patent pending "Information, Communication and Computational" (ICC) technology will provide users with the option to share their local resources on the NetAlter Grid and in return receive a proportionate amount of supercomputing power from the Grid to run their NetAlter based applications. NetAlter aims to turn your wish into reality by implementing a democratic supercomputing Grid model for personal use.
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| Sun to acquire Aduva |
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Sun Microsystems and Aduva have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire Aduva. Aduva technology allows enterprises to automate the processes associated with patch and dependency management providing a solution that scales from individual servers, up to large scale data centres with tens of thousands of machines in complex networks.
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| Forum Systems partners with SOA Software to deliver accelerated SOA management and security solutions |
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SOA Software, a provider of comprehensive SOA and Web services management and governance solutions, and Forum Systems, specialized in Web services and SOA security and XML acceleration, are partnering to provide customers with a consolidated and standards-based infrastructure that centralizes the management and security of high-performance XML and Web services.
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| Grand challenges, US national lab-style |
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The W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a Department of Energy-sponsored national scientific user facility, is seeing early promise from its two scientific "grand challenges” that have been investigating enigmas in microbiology and biogeochemistry. The grand challenges are innovative, multi-disciplinary projects on which scientists from more than 20 institutions collaborate. The projects are anchored by EMSL, based at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.
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| Innovative VR simulation framework cuts time-to-market |
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Using computer platforms for design and engineering is now standard throughout industry. But since many existing tools do not integrate well with each other, extended timescales result. A new system bridging both areas using virtual reality offers hope. The IST project Visicade aimed to overcome such handicaps, by developing an innovative simulation framework based on Virtual Reality (VR) technology that would incorporate many CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) tasks into the VR platform. The intention was to reduce the time required for modelling and evaluation procedures.
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| Robarts Research Institute chooses SGI technology to enable advanced medical simulation for minimally invasive surgery |
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To further its mission to minimize invasive surgery Robarts Research Institute, Canada's only independent centre for medical research, recently installed high-performance visualization technology from Silicon Graphics as well as SGI InfiniteStorage and Visual Area Networking systems. For minimally invasive surgery simulation and modelling Robarts focuses on brain, prostate, breast and heart surgery.
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| IBM and Scripps Research Institute to collaborate on pandemic research |
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IBM and The Scripps Research Institute will set up a collaborative initiative to conduct advanced research on pandemic viruses, such as bird-flue.
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| Supercomputer study of water |
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Familiar as it is, there's a lot we don't know about water - such as the structure taken up by liquid water molecules. With a grant of time on one of the fastest computers in the U.S., researchers at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Berkeley hope to plunge into the problem and come up with some answers.
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| CSIRO increases investment in ICT R&D |
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In announcing its research priorities for 2006/7 and beyond this week, CSIRO in Australia has signalled a substantial increase in its investment in research and development in information and communication technologies (ICT). Deputy Chief Executive Ron Sandland said that the increased resources will strengthen CSIRO’s capabilities in several critical research areas.
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| HP awarded more than US$700 million in IT business from GM |
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General Motors Corp. has awarded HP more than $700 million in information technology services contracts over a five-year period. The agreement spans global product development, manufacturing and quality, GMAC customer and dealer information systems, and global SAP enterprise architecture management support.
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| IBM opens electronics innovation center at Tokyo Research Lab |
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IBM has opened a new innovation centre as an extension of the company's Tokyo Research Lab. The new IBM Electronics Innovation Center will bring together real-world marketplace experience with IBM Research's electronics industry expertise to deliver differentiating innovation in the turbulent electronics industry.
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| Three Pitt 'teacher-scholars' honoured By NSF with Career Awards |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA has awarded three University of Pittsburgh professors the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, its most prestigious honour for junior faculty members. The award supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organisation.
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| Enron e-mail database proves easy pickings for LBNL's FastBit Search technology |
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As the trial of former Enron executives gets under way, the extensive e-mail trails left by employees of the Houston energy firm are expected to provide both compelling evidence and entertaining insight. In 2003, as part of an investigation into Enron's business dealings in California, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made public a database containing more than 500,000 e-mails sent by 151 Enron employees. Subjects ranged from corporate decisions to jokes to personal matters. While the subject matter makes for intriguing reading, the entire database also proved an interesting subject for a number of researchers around the USA, including members of the Scientific Data Management Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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| XCOR Aerospace teams with SGI and Metacomp for next-generation space vehicle design |
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Silicon Graphics has provided an SGI Altix 3000 server for aerodynamic analysis and preliminary design of XCOR Aerospace Inc.'s Xerus suborbital vehicle. XCOR is developing the Xerus to take passengers and payloads to the edge of space.
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| Ascent Media Group selects SGI to enable secure film and TV post-production facilities |
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Ascent Media Group (AMG), an expert in content creation, post-production and distribution of film and television, selected SGI server, storage and networking technology as the heart of a new state-of-the-art facility in Burbank, California.
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| University of Nebraska Advanced Training and Research Centre for IBM on demand systems |
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IBM and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced plans to foster new collaboration and innovation among the academic community, IBM and its partners and customers. The University will serve as a worldwide hub for advanced teaching and remote access by other universities on IBM's premier "all-in-one" business computing system, the System i5.
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| Western North Carolina Health Network to link 16 area hospitals to electronically share critical patient information |
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Western North Carolina Health Network (WNCHN) will link 16 area hospitals together to electronically share critical patient information. The innovative solution, which was implemented by IBM Global Services and AccessPt., is the first regional health information organisation in North Carolina and one of the largest in North America. Four WNCHN hospitals, Angel Medical Center, Haywood Regional Medical Center, Rutherford Hospital and Transylvania Community Hospital, are currently connected, with a total of 16 hospitals scheduled to be linked to the system in the coming months.
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| NC Statewide Research and Education Network boosts bandwidth, provides foundation for innovation |
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A four-year, $15 million project to enhance North Carolina's statewide Research and Education Network (NCREN) has been completed, providing faster and more reliable services to all of the University of North Carolina's 16 universities, many private universities and colleges, state government, and other non-profit institutions throughout North Carolina. The project, called NCREN 3, builds upon North Carolina's nationally renowned advanced network collaboration. NCREN is a collaborative effort among universities, the UNC General Administration, the state of North Carolina, and MCNC, and is operated by MCNC.
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| AARNet selects Cisco to extend and enhance Australia's Higher Education and Research Infrastructure |
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Australia's ability to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of e-Research and to deliver a broader range of network services to the tertiary education sector has been given a boost after successful testing of the Sydney to Brisbane leg of the new AARNet national fibre network. The testing comes after AARNet Pty. Ltd (APL) selected Cisco Systems optical networking technology to deliver innovation to its regional customers.
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| Sun network-based desktop computing system connects high-tech city in The Netherlands |
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The Groningen Province in the Netherlands is using Sun technologies, including Sun Ray ultra-thin client technology, Sun Secure Global Desktop Software and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) in its innovative OneRegion Project. Through the OneRegion Project, organisations at the non-profit sector in the region of the three Northern Provinces of Holland will ultimately be connected securely to their Internet Exchange via fiber, ADSL or highs peed wireless internet and retrieve their data using Sun Ray clients.
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