| News digest August 2006 |
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| EU Grid Technology Days |
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EGTD 2006 in Septembet in Brussels will consist of one public day on the 19th and two days for European projects only.
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| US Energy Department providing additional supercomputing resources to study hurricane effects on Gulf Coast |
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that the Office of Science has provided an additional 400,000 supercomputing processor-hours to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to simulate Gulf Coast hurricanes. The allocation brings the amount of computational time provided by DOE on supercomputers at its National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in California to 800,000 processor-hours.
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| A personal view of Cray's message at ISC2006 |
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...There was something endearing and personal about Johnny Von Neumann. He was the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception. And he was a genius, in the sense that a genius is a person who has two great ideas... J. Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man", pp.433, BBC 1973.
Dresden 27-30 June 2006: First the conference preliminaries. Over 800 participants from 33 countries attended the 21st International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) and 74 exhibitors took part in the associated exhibition in its new venue, the city of Dresden. This ISC annual event enables many Europeans to assess the new technology from Japanese and USA vendors and to also be updated by our U.S.A. colleagues about where they are, in addressing the issue of leadership, in large scale scientific technical computing. The presentations at the conference were broad based and some at the cutting edge of developments. (Chris Lazou)
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| Next-generation Cray supercomputer will deliver leading-edge vector processing and integrated scalar capability |
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Cray's next-generation vector high-performance computing system is scheduled for general availability in the second half of 2007. Code-named "BlackWidow", the new system is part of an evolving heterogeneous processing capability that is the centerpiece of Cray's Adaptive Supercomputing vision.
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| LLNL awards the Peloton Project to Appro's supercomputing scalable units based on Quad socket, dual-core AMD Opteron processors |
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Appro has been awarded the Peloton supercomputing project from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The deployment will consist of three Appro 1U Quad XtremeServer Clusters with a total of 16,128 cores based on the latest Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors.
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| Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster accelerates research productivity at Arizona State University's supercomputer facility |
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Arizona State University's (ASU) Fulton High-Performance Computing (HPC) Initiative Center provides researchers faster access to collaborative research information vital to solving complex scientific and engineering problems due to their adoption of the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster. By deploying the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster, ASU has increased its Linux cluster performance by 10X while eliminating the need for costly NFS servers.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers announces Version 7.0 of its BS2000/OSD mainframe operating system |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers now is launching its BS2000/OSD V7.0, a new version of its mainframe operating system. Customers will profit from system and performance optimization, storage on demand, improved SAN integration and self-governing functions for the simple, economical operation of the BS2000. The new functions and technologies include on-line storage provisioning, which means that different systems and subsystems use a common pool that automatically provides the disk space currently required, thus increasing the utilization of the resources as well as their availability.
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| Broadcom's NetXtreme II converged network interface controllers support Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 |
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Broadcom Corporation's NetXtreme II converged network interface controllers (C-NICs) support Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
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| Mitrion Platform selected by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory for world's largest FPGA supercomputer system |
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has purchased 36 Mitrion Virtual Processor licenses as part of the Mitrion Platform to accelerate supercomputing applications on a Cray XD1 supercomputer purchased in 2005. NRL also has the option to purchase an additional 114 Mitrion Virtual Processors to further increase the capacity and processing performance of the Cray XD1 system.
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| Raytheon selects Dual-Core SGI Altix 4700 systems for NOAA contract |
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Silicon Graphics announced that Raytheon Company has selected a range of large-scale SGI Altix 4700 systems as computational resources to run mathematical models and computer simulations to help better understand global climate change. The new SGI systems are powered by a total of 1,280 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series CPUs (formerly codenamed Montecito) and 5.1TB of globally shared memory.
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| SilverStorm Technologies to distribute and support OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software |
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SilverStorm Technologies will be distributing and supporting a new software bundled offering that includes the recently announced OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Release 1.0 software stack. The new software bundle, called QuickSilver OFED, will be offered through both SilverStorm direct and indirect channels and will carry full warranty and support as part of SilverStorm's award winning family of InfiniBand-based product solutions.
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| Verari Systems continues HPC thermal efficiency leadership through collaboration with Intel |
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Verari Systems will introduce new server platforms based on the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 (formerly codenamed "Woodcrest") featuring advanced FBD memory, PCI Express I/O, hardware-assisted virtualization and more reliability features which give customers the power to do more with every server.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers extends datacentre virtualization architecture |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has introduced PAN Manager 5.0, the fifth-generation software release for the PRIMERGY BladeFrame system powered by Egenera. Whereas the former version was designed to manage the resources within one PRIMERGY BladeFrame system - up to 24 Processing Blade modules - PAN Manager 5.0 now enables multiple PRIMERGY BladeFrame systems to be managed as a single pool of assets in order to further enhance operational simplicity, extend failover to a broader set of computing resources, and lower total cost of ownership. PAN Manager software release 5.0 is available immediately and will ship with new PRIMERGY BladeFrame EX systems.
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| Virtual server pool solution in productive use at T-Systems |
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T-Systems is now operating its e-service area platform on a PRIMERGY BladeFrame powered by Egenera system. T-Systems customers utilize this platform for their e-mail systems, e-shops, Internet portals and data warehouse applications. PRIMERGY BladeFrame supports the B2B services platform with flexible IT resources which adapt themselves dynamically to changing requirements. T-Systems customers profit from the installation in the T-Systems data centres, which are linked via fast, flexible networks. As a result, T-Systems can provide its customers with the fast, flexible, reliable and affordable services operated on Internet and intranet servers as well as corresponding server-based applications. In addition, T-Systems customers can now take advantage of on-demand services in their intranets.
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| Sun unveils Blade 8000 platform |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has introduced the Sun Blade 8000 modular system, the only modular system designed specifically for high-end x86 computing that delivers the performance, price and flexibility of top-of-the-line rackmount servers together with the serviceability and efficiency of blade servers.
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| Sun Microsystems breaks new ground for streaming applications with Sun Fire X4500 |
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Sun Microsystems has launched the Sun Fire X4500 server, a hybrid data server combining a 4-way server powered by AMD Opteron processors, high storage density, and high data throughput.
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| IBM introduces new p5 power servers |
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IBM, which according to IDC, is the number one vendor of UNIX systems based on revenue share, has introduced a pair of ultra-powerful high-end machines, including the world's most powerful server, the IBM System p5 595 - a 64-core speed demon capable of a record-shattering four million transactions per minute. IBM attributed the huge leap in performance over industry competitors to the company's revolutionary new Dual Stress processor technology, pioneered for ultrafast videogames and making its first appearance in System p5 machines.
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| New IBM server achieves good benchmark results |
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The IBM System p5 595 server has seized the number one spot in five key industry benchmarks, demonstrating unmatched strength in both commercial and technical workloads. The dazzling performance underpins the flexibility of IBM's Power Architecture technology, which serves as the foundation of systems ranging from video games to transaction processing machines to the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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| Cedars-Sinai supercomputer ranked among world's most powerful |
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, one of the largest academic medical centres in the Western United States, has been recognized for having one of the 500 most powerful computers in the world. Cedars-Sinai's supercomputer is designed to analyse blood proteins from cancer cells and provide information that will allow researchers to more accurately predict how cancer patients will respond to specific treatments.
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| Sun and Greenplum launch commercial open source data warehouse appliance for business intelligence |
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Sun and Greenplum have unveiled a data warehouse appliance built from open source software and general purpose systems. The solution combines Sun's new "Thumper" Sun Fire X4500 data server powered by Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors with Greenplum's massively parallel distribution of PostgreSQL, Bizgres MPP, in a single turnkey appliance capable of analysing hundreds of terabytes of business data.
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| Sun Microsystems customers shape Web 2.0 |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has introduced new customer adoption of its breakthrough Sun Fire server family with CoolThreads technology. DigiTar, Joyent and Fotolog represent a new crop of Web 2.0 customers that have recently moved to the UltraSPARC T1 processor-based Sun Fire server line running the Solaris 10 Operating System(OS), the most advanced OS on the planet, to both support their growing on-line operations and to lower power, cooling and space costs significantly in their datacentres.
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| Highest performing Dell Poweredge servers now available |
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Dell is will be shipping its ninth-generation PowerEdge servers, Dell Precision workstations and Dell PowerEdge Storage Servers equipped with the highest performing Intel Xeon processor 5100 series (formerly codenamed Woodcrest).
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| Dot Hill awarded patent for direct memory access controller architecture |
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Dot Hill U.S. patent 7,062,591, entitled "Controller Data Sharing Using a Modular DMA Architecture".
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| Dot Hill announces strategic partnership with Japanese storage provider |
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Dot Hill has entered into a strategic technology partnership with Newtech Co. Ltd., a provider of small to midrange enterprise storage products and solutions in Japan.
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| Fujitsu Siemens' PRIMERGY goes Woodcrest |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has completed PRIMERGY dual-socket generation servers: after having introduced a series of new PRIMERGY S3 models deploying the latest Intel Bensley platform in May, the company now is unveiling the availability of the PRIMERGY TX300 S3 tower server and PRIMERGY BladeFrame running the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5160 sequence processors which are introduced by Intel. These stand for improved performance and workload in combination with significantly lower power consumption.
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| CA approval extends certification of CentricStor virtual tape appliance by leading storage management software vendors |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has received CA certification for its CentricStor virtual tape appliance, demonstrating again its unique, industry-wide compatibility with leading back-up solutions. With CentricStor, enterprises planning a move to virtual tape are guaranteed the industry's widest connectivity and back-up software compatibility. The addition of certification by CA means that customers who depend on BrightStor ARCserve Backup to protect their data can now benefit from the powerful Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for tape capabilities offered by CentricStor from Fujitsu Siemens Computers, with the peace-of-mind that CentricStor has passed CA's stringent quality control tests.
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| FibreCAT WAFS appliance scoops global Microsoft award for best OEM Hardware Solution |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has won a prestigious award from Microsoft for breakthrough technology that turbo-charges branch office networks. The global annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards recognize the development and delivery of exceptional Microsoft-based solutions by Microsoft partners. The FibreCAT N20-WAFS Appliance was selected as a Microsoft Partner Awards Program winner in the category of Device Manufacturing, OEM Hardware Solutions. Fujitsu Siemens Computers received the award at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006 in Boston, United States.
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| IBM delivers small and medium businesses a complete Oracle ERP solution based on System i |
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IBM has launched a new, specially priced solution uniquely configured for small and medium business (SMB) customers adopting Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications. Designed specifically for customers with 100 users or less, the solution is based on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing platform and delivers a comparable acquisition cost to analogous Windows-based solutions.
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| HP enhances virtualization capabilities for HP Integrity servers |
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HP has added capabilities to its Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity servers to better enable customers to automatically adjust resources within a pooled server environment. The new HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Reference Architecture for Oracle Real Application Clusters for HP-UX 11i dynamically scales the Integrity server infrastructure when mission-critical Oracle database workloads fluctuate. For example, customers can use the capability to automatically allocate additional server capacity to financial applications during the month-end close.
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| London Stock Exchange becomes world's fastest with HP and Microsoft technology |
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HP has become the hardware technology partner for the London Stock Exchange's Infolect data delivery application, acknowledged to be the fastest in the world. With a data latency of only two milliseconds, the exchange's system broadcasts 20 million messages a day to more than 100,000 terminals in more than 100 countries.
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| IBM selected by U.S. DoD to deliver Net-Centric collaboration services |
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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has selected IBM Global Services to provide net-centric collaboration services. The contract is valued at $17 million. The work is a key part of DISA's Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) project to provide one consistent service for collaboration that can be used by personnel across the DoD. These services will enable real time information sharing through the use of an on-demand IT services structure, based on open standards and a secure hosted environment.
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| NEC develops MRAM cell technology suitable for embedding in next generation system LSIs |
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NEC Corporation has succeeded in developing new magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) cell technology suitable for high speed memory macro embedded in next generation system LSIs. The newly developed cell technology includes three key elements; a 2T1MTJ - two transistors and one magnetoresistive tunneling junction - cell structure to accelerate write mode cycle time, a 5T2MTJ cell structure to accelerate read mode cycle time and a write-line-inserted MTJ to reduce write current. The new cell technology realizes added-value, non-volatile MRAM macros that can be substituted for static random access memory (SRAM) macros embedded in system LSIs.
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| Aperi Storage Community to propose open source project to Eclipse |
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The Aperi community of storage vendors has proposed an open source project to the Eclipse Foundation, home to one of the industry's largest open source communities. This is the latest step in Aperi's efforts to give customers more choices for deploying open storage infrastructure software based on an industry-standard platform developed by the open source community.
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| New IBM software delivers real-time security across computer networks |
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IBM has launched new security software that helps corporate IT departments, telecom service providers and IT outsourcing companies keep their computer networks and systems up and running despite security attacks by malicious outsiders, employees or contractors. The software secures networks by automatically detecting and managing security threats as they happen, rather than after the damage is done.
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| IBM "Continuous Data Protection" PC software now available through major on-line retailers |
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IBM has signed an agreement with Digital River Inc., a global expert in e-commerce outsourcing. Through the agreement, Digital River is making IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files software available for on-line purchase and digital download through the Digital River oneNetwork marketplace, which includes leading on-line retailers, such as OfficeMax Incorporated, Staples Inc. and Circuit City Stores Inc., among others.
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| IBM is positioned in leaders quadrant for storage services |
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The analyst firm Gartner Inc. has positioned IBM in the "Leaders" quadrant in its Magic Quadrant evaluation of Storage Services vendors.
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| IBM unveils new system x and BladeCenter systems featuring energy efficient performance |
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IBM has introduced a new IBM BladeCenter blade and System x servers and workstations geared to help reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology. The new systems enable up to 90% percent better application performance, and up to 163% percent better performance per watt today. The systems are designed and optimized to support more advanced computing with future quad core CPU models.
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| Avnet Technology Solutions expands relationship with Sun to offer complete Sun StorageTek family |
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Avnet Technology and Sun have entered into an expanded relationship to offer the complete line of Sun StorageTek products to Avnet partners.
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| New Dual-Core SGI Altix systems |
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