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| IBM to build world's first Cell Broadband Engine based supercomputer |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected IBM to design and build the world's first supercomputer based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell B.E.) processor aiming to produce a machine capable of a sustained speed of up to 1 Pflop/s.
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| Mercury Computer Systems announces the highest performing conduction-cooled COTS computer system |
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Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has introduced the breakthrough PowerStream 6600 multicomputer, with 716 PowerPC GFLOPS of compute performance in a conduction-cooled enclosure, to enable powerful sensor computing on the move.
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| ClearSpeed breaks Gflop/s per Watt performance barrier for supercomputing |
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ClearSpeed Technology, specialized in double precision coprocessor acceleration technology, has issued Linpack benchmark results that set new standards for energy efficient computation for high performance computing (HPC) clusters. ClearSpeed Advance accelerator boards rated at only 25 Watts power consumption per board added 28.5 Gflop/s each to a cluster of Hewlett Packard Proliant DL380 G5 servers running the high performance Linpack benchmark.
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| McGuinty Government supporting research Supercomputers |
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The Candadian Ministry of Research and Innovation is investing $10.9 million in the University of Western Ontario's Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) to support 1200 researchers across the province,
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| Rackable Systems to acquire Terrascale Technologies |
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Rackable has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Terrascale Technologies Inc., a provider of a clustered file system solution enabling high performance I/O connectivity between servers and commodity-based storage subsystems.
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| NCSA and SDSC collaborate on benchmarking project |
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Staffers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have collaborated through the Cyberinfrastructure Partnership to test applications and kernels on the production compute systems at the two centres. This extensive benchmarking project was intended to serve as a reference for users when assessing the relative performance of new systems or deciding where to run a particular application in order to get optimal performance.
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| NSF funds LSU $1 million for PetaShare development |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently funded Louisiana State University (LSU) $1 million for the development of PetaShare, which is seen as "a system that might become an important testbed for future Grids, and a leading site in next-generation petascale research". The unbounded increase in the size of data generated by scientific applications necessitates collaboration and sharing among the nation's education and research institutions.
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| IBM opens Latin America's first specialized, high performance software and services lab in Brazil |
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IBM has opened a multi-million dollar, high performance software and services laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The first of its kind on the continent, the High Performance On Demand Solutions Lab (HiPODS) is designed to support the growth of business across the emerging markets of Latin America by finding answers to the most vexing business and technology questions. The Brazil lab joins a global grid of six specialized IBM facilities to deliver a growing range of software lab services, including the recently opened HiPODS labs in China and India, as well as Japan, the UK and the United States.
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| DMTF Technology spotlight the ROI Benefits of the DMTF’s CIM, WBEM and management standards in a Grid environment |
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The Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF), the industry organization for the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management initiatives and standards will showcase via demonstrations, speaking sesions and its exhibit in the "Grid Ecosystem Pavilion" on how the Common Information Model (CIM) can form the backbone of an end-to- end management strategy in today's distributed grid infrastructures.
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| Atipa adopts next-generation AMD Opteron processors in new line of Vision servers |
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Supercomputer vendor Atipa Technologies, will be adding Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors to the Atipa Vision server line.
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| IBM makes first Cell computer generally available |
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IBM is making its first computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) generally available on a global basis, with early adopters such as University of Manchester, RapidMind Inc. and Fraunhofer Institute deploying compute-intensive applications on early ship versions.
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| Etnus collaborates with Cisco Systems and Argonne National Laboratory on development of MPI2 debugging interface |
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Etnus s working with partners including Cisco Systems and Argonne National Laboratory to develop a debugging interface for MPI2. This interface builds upon the current MPI-1 TotalView process acquisition interface, which is currently used by almost all MPI vendors. The new interface will be supported in a future TotalView release.
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| SilverStorm Technologies' InfiniBand DDR shipments reach 10,000 port milestone |
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SilverStorm Technologies, specialized in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, has shipped over 10,000 ports of 20Gb/s InfiniBand DDR in its award winning portfolio of interconnect products since reaching general availability in June of this year. DDR shipments have been made to over 25 different customers including Chevron, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, and the US Department of Defense in support of a variety of supercomputing applications, including the setting of a new world record visualization rendering rate of 1.5 billion polygons per second by a Linux Networx system currently being delivered to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
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| DOE SC provides 800,000 hours of supercomputing time to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve Gulf Coast hurricane defenses |
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In 2006, the Department of Engergy's Office of Science made two separate allocations of 400,000 processor hours of supercomputing time at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for studying ways to improve hurricane defenses along the Gulf Coast. The research is being done in co-operation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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| HP enhances server portfolio with latest Intel dual-core technology |
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HP has made new additions to its x86 server line-up that are powered by the latest Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 series processors.
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| Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) installs one of world's largest supercomputers with 4.1- Tbyte SGI Altix 4700 system |
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The Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) recently installed a massive computing component to its already world-leading SGI-powered visualization capabilities with the purchase of a 160-processor SGI Altix 4700 supercomputer with 4.1 Tbytes of memory.
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| Virginia Tech adds SGI Altix 4700 for large-scale chemistry applications |
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To primarily run Gaussian for chemistry research and development, among other code, Virginia Tech selected technology from SGI. After using the shared memory architecture of an SGI Altix system for a year, the university purchased a new SGI Altix 4700 and upgraded their existing system by doubling the amount of processors. Approximately 80 percent of the CPU cycles on the new SGI Altix system will run Gaussian calculations.
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| Bull appoints Philippe Miltin Vice-President of the Products and Systems Division |
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Philippe Miltin has been appointed Vice-President of Bull's Products and Systems Division. Having started his career in 1988 in sales with Rank Xerox, Philippe Miltin joined Altos in 1990 where he spent three years developing the sales network.
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| IBM launches Blade Migration Center |
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IBM has developed a Blade Migration Center aimed at helping clients escape the complexity of multiple incompatible architectures by migrating to a smarter IT platform, IBM BladeCenter. The programme is backed by a global team of more than 300 consultants and technologists to help make it easy for clients to consolidate workloads onto the slim IT footprint of the blade server platform. IBM will also offer existing HP blade clients a US$1000 incentive to make the switch.
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| HP helps Philippine National Bank retool for global banking |
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The Philippine National Bank (PNB) is leveraging HP's Core Banking Hardware infrastructure and systems management as it transforms its global IT banking environment over the next three years. To service all of PNB's branches worldwide, HP will supply a complete hardware platform for the bank's transition from a combined mainframe and minicomputer (AS/400) environment.
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| Registration opens for SC06 Conference |
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Registration opens for SC06, the annual conference of high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. This year's meeting, with the theme "Powerful Beyond Imagination", will convene November 11-17 at the Tampa Convention Center in Florida.
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| NetApp certifies CentricStor for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) back-up |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance has been certified by close partner Network Appliance for NDMP-back-up of its unified storage solutions. With the interoperability of CentricStor and NetApp solutions already laboratory-tested by Fujitsu Siemens Computers and widely used, this completes two-way ratification.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers' CentricStor extends integration |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' CentricStor virtual tape solution has achieved "Ready for IBM Tivoli software" and "IBM System Storage Proven". CentricStor - the flagship of storage solutions from Fujitsu Siemens Computers - can be seamlessly integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Compatibility of the virtual tape appliance with the IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library in combination with the IBM System Storage TS1120 tape drive was also confirmed.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers, McDATA and Decru launch joint solution for secure, distributed data protection |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers, McDATA Corporation, and Decru, a NetApp company, have released a joint wide-area replication solution designed to simplify the back-up process and improve security for tape vaulting. The companies have worked together to integrate Fujitsu Siemens Computers' market-leading CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance with McDATA's high performance Edge3000 Storage Routers and Decru DataFort storage security appliances to help enterprise customers with backup and disaster recovery operations that frequently span hundreds or thousands of kilometers.
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| World's first OpenSolaris Center of Excellence opens in Italy |
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Sun Microsystems Italy and the Department of Physics at the University of Pisa have reached an agreement to create the world's first Center of Excellence for the OpenSolaris technology platform. The goal of the centre is to provide technological expertise and support to academic institutions, businesses and developers.
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| RENCI partners on two DOE SciDAC Awards |
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The Renaissance Computing Institute will play a key role in two national research projects that are among 30 computational science projects being supported by the Department of Energy's Scientific Discovery (SciDAC) programme. The SciDAC awards were announced September 7. RENCI will receive more than $1.6 million over the next five years for SciDAC-funded research designed to improve the performance of very large-scale computing systems and the scientific codes that run on them.
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| Altair Engineering's PBS Professional enhances efficiency and ease-of-use at LITE, host of one of the world's largest shared-memory supercomputers |
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Altair Engineering Inc.'s PBS Professional software is the workload management solution driving the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) system, one of the world's largest shared-memory supercomputers available to private sector and commercial users. In managing the HPC capabilities of the 4.1 terabyte (TB) system from SGI , PBS Professional facilitates the ability to apply the entire system to one complex problem or multiple projects at the same time.
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| AMD announces socket compatibility plans to drive industry collaboration |
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AMD's Torrenza Initiative is serving as a collaborative force toward achieving future processor socket compatibility in the server industry. By leveraging the advantages of AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport technology, OEMs will be able to standardize on a Torrenza Innovation Socket for many of their current and future server platforms.
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| Sun Grid Compute Utility Infrastructure delivers cost savings and flexibility for electronic design automation |
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AMD selected the Sun Grid Compute Utility for processor design and simulation to decrease time-to-market for new products, avoid costly infrastructure additions and gain more flexibility in scheduling testing during peak production cycles. The Sun Grid Compute Utility delivers affordable, easy and secure access to high-performance computing resources on a pay-for-use basis for $1/CPU-hour. Leveraging the Sun Grid Compute Utility for electronic design provides AMD with an additional tool for making efficient use of compute resources and continuing to deliver reliable products on time.
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| Digipede Technologies adds new power to Grid computing software |
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Digipede Technologies, a provider of distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform, has introduced the Digipede Network version 1.3, featuring seamless integration with Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server; an expanded API for independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise developers, finer control of IT resources, and other new features.
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| Second wave of EU-funded Grid technology projects officially launched |
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During the European Grid Technology Days in Brussels last week, the second wave of Grid technology projects have been launched publicly at the Grid Concertation Meeting. Next week, Primeur/EntertheGrid will devote a special to the newly launched Grid projects. So please, do not miss that issue and watch this space.
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| e-Infrastructures to support eScience in Europe with Grid and HPC is taking shape |
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Science is an international business. To support scientific cross-border collaboration, national research networks in Europe have collaborated since many years, aided by the European Commission, to set up fast pan-European connections. During the recent years, Grid infrastructures have been explored too, and even more recently, discussions about collaboration on supercomputers Europe wide have also been started. However, in international European collaborations, it are not so much the technical problems that have to be solved, but one has to agree on the funding, sharing of resources, policy and legal issues. In the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group representatives from national science foundations of most European countries participate to develop a strategy for e-Infrastructures. The Group recently published an "e-Infrastructures Roadmap" and a version of its regularly updated whitepaper.
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| Lofar sensor Grid expanded with first weather station |
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On September 6, Dr. Eugene de Geus, manager of the LOFAR sensor Grid project at Astron in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, has handed over a first Grid attached weather station to the president of the board of directors at the Regional Community of Schools Wolfsbos, Nel Frederix, on the roof of the location Groene Driehoek.
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| Desktop Grid Experience Workshop organisers call for participation |
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At the occasion of the offical opening of AlmereGrid, a workshop/mini-symposium will be organised on September 28, 2006 in Almere, The Netherlands. The workshop will discuss the technical possibilities and problems of Desktop Grids. In the morning, the experiences with AlmereGrid will be discussed. In the afternoon a number of other Desktop Grid projects, especially in the Netherlands will be presented.
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| Open Science Grid receives $30 Million from NSF and DOE Office of Science |
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A five-year, $30 million award to the US Open Science Grid Consortium, announced by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy‚s Office of Science, will operate and expand the Open Science Grid, a computing environment used by scientists to harness computing resources and scientific data from around the world.
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| Helping computers identify real meaning |
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The lightning rise of the internet and the development of advanced search technologies have created the greatest storehouse of information ever seen. Yet the very speed of this growth has brought its own problems. Which content is the wheat, and which the chaff? The METOKIS project aimed to help. A major obstacle stands astride the road to advanced internet search and services. To a computer, words or pictures on a page are just the 1s and 0s of binary language. The meaning, context, purpose and authority of the words are completely lost in the binary field. Computers cannot thresh the semantic, or meaningful, wheat from all the binary chaff.
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| DOE announces $60 million in projects to accelerate scientific discovery through advanced computing |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has granted approximately $60 million in new awards annually for 30 computational science projects over the next three to five years. The projects are aimed at accelerating research in designing new materials, developing future energy sources, studying global climate change, improving environmental clean-up methods and understanding physics from the tiniest particles to the massive explosions of supernovae.
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| Researchers tackle problem of data storage for next-generation supercomputers |
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $11 million grant to researchers at three universities and five national laboratories to find new ways of managing the torrent of data that will be produced by the coming generation of supercomputers.
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| BIG GRID funding of 28.8 million euro officially approved by Dutch Science Foundation |
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After the project had been submitted more than six months ago on December 7, 2005, the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has officially granted the funding for the BIG GRID project. The three submitting organisations including the National Dutch Computing Facilities (NCF), the Netherlands Bioinfomatics Centre (NBIC), and the Dutch National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF) will receive 28,8 million euro to set up a national Grid infrastructure for scientific research in The Netherlands.
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| World's largest scientific Grid sustains a million jobs per month |
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A milestone for scientific Grid computing was announced at the launch of EGEE'06, a major conference on scientific Grids hosted by CERN and held in Geneva this week. The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project maintains a global Grid infrastructure that has been able to sustain more than 30000 jobs a day - over a million per month - for a period of six months this year. These computing tasks were submitted by scientists from diverse fields of research, and range from simulations of molecular drug docking for neglected diseases to geophysical analysis of oil and gas fields. Clusters of hundreds and even thousands of PCs, in institutes and universities around the world, have been executing these calculations - in total over 25000 central processor units (CPUs) are involved. Several million gigabytes of data storage in disk and tape facilities also contribute to make EGEE the world's largest scientific Grid infrastructure.
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| University of Ulster Science Info-Sharing Project may help curb animal tests |
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Researchers at the University of Ulster (UU) are taking part in a Europe-wide scientific partnership aimed at reducing the extent of scientific testing using animals. The university's Systems Biology Research Group is partnering eight other universities, institutes and companies in a 2.8 million euro European Commission initiative to build a data bank of information about a key aspect of research which is usually gleaned from animal tests.
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| Parasoft Jtest 8 extends Java EE and SOA functional testing, delivers breakthrough bug finding technologies |
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Parasoft Corporation, a provider of Automated Error Prevention solutions for software development, announced today the availability of a new release of Parasoft Jtest, a Java code analysis and unit-testing solution. Jtest 8.0 features several industry-first testing technologies that help teams automatically verify the functionality of complex, constantly changing enterprise systems (Java EE, SOA/Web Services), delivering increased customer satisfaction by reducing risks of system downtime and security vulnerabilities.
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| Second BalticGrid All-Hands Meeting organisation committee calls for participation |
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The Second BalticGrid All-Hands Meeting will take place from 4 to 6 October, 2006 and will be organized in Riga, Latvia. The goal of the BalticGrid project is to extend the European Grid by integrating new partners from the Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - in the European Grid research community and to foster the development of Grid infrastructure in these countries.
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| Paremus becomes supporter of Open SOA Collaboration |
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Paremus, developer of SOA-based Infiniflow distributed services platform products, today announced that it has become a founder member of the new Supporters Community of the Open Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Collaboration. The Open SOA Collaboration represents an informal alliance of industry leaders that share a common interest in defining a language-neutral programming model that meets the needs of enterprise developers who are developing software that exploits the characteristics and benefits of service oriented architectures.
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| GRIDs@work calls for participation |
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GRIDs@work will be held from November 27 to December 1, 2006 in Sophia Antipolis, France. The goals of the event are to bring together Grid researchers and Grid users; learn through the Grid users experience about the future features needed for the Grid platform; learn how to best program Grid aware applications; and get important feedback on the deployment and interoperability of Grid applications on various Grid.
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| IBM software enables virtualized computing across PCs, wireless devices and servers |
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IBM has launched new virtualization software that enables companies to deploy and install software on tens of thousands of laptops, desktop PCs, wireless devices and servers. The new technology, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, helps clients reduce the time it takes to manage and upgrade systems by hours or days, depending on the size of the infrastructure.
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| Omneon extends media and system management with enhanced tools for viewing, controlling, and managing material |
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Omneon Video Networks has launched new versions for three applications in the Omneon MediaTools suite designed to streamline file-based work flows and deliver enhanced media management and processing functionality. The enhancements all address work flow requirements for customers increasingly working with file-based media on Omneon Spectrum media servers and MediaGrid active storage systems and make it easier to manage large repositories of content.
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| United Devices establishes London office |
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United Devices (UD) has established an office in London to serve the company's expanding business in the United Kingdom and Europe. The new office will allow UD to address increasing demand from existing and potential customers, especially businesses adopting Grid solutions to consolidate large-scale data centres and manage clusters and other high-performance systems. In addition, because London is a global oil and gas hub, the new office is a requirement for a company like United Devices serving Global 2000 companies in the energy sector and complements its Houston presence.
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| ORNL researchers winners of five DOE SciDAC awards |
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory has the lead on five projects funded through the Department of Energy's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing programme and has supporting roles in seven other projects. SciDAC, begun in 2001, is an integrated programme that will help create a new generation of scientific simulation computer programmes. The programmes will take full advantage of the extraordinary computing capabilities of computers capable of performing trillions of calculations per second to address increasingly complex problems.
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| IU-Jackson State University report: Technology promises bright future for minority- and rural-serving institutions |
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Researchers from the Community Grids Lab, part of Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University (IU), along with partners at Jackson State University (JSU) have released a report showing the positive results of a multi-year collaborative project using Collaboration Grid Technologies to deliver distance-education courses to JSU undergraduate and graduate students. JSU student surveys indicate the classes were highly successful and helped to expose students to professors and topics to which they may not have otherwise had access.
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| Univa network delivers enterprise support resource for Grid 2.0 |
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Univa Corporation announced the Univa Network, a comprehensive, subscription-based service to support enterprises deploying Grid 2.0 solutions with Univa products and the open source Globus Toolkit.
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| OGF announces organisation, mission, leadership and priorities |
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The Open Grid Forum (OGF), formed from the merger of the Global Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), has officially launched the new organisation including announcing the Board-of-Directors, Operational leadership team, mission and strategic priorities.
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| Companies in the energy sector are turning to Grid computing to run their risk management applications, according to the 451 Group |
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The 451 Group has found that companies that extract, make a market in and retail natural resources are increasingly disposed to running risk management applications using Grid computing to balance their supply and demand ratios. Understanding risk and asset positions and being able to respond more quickly to price fluctuations, especially in today's volatile oil market, are executive-level requirements that demand robust computing resources. These findings appear in a report released by The 451 Group, a New York-based technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation.
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| TotsTV Interactive Digital Media Channel to benefit U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation |
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The Grid Institute, in co-operation with Sun Microsystems and Media Machines, has launched the on-line interactive "TotsTV" channel for children and young adults.
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| TORQUE reaches milestone - 50,000 downloads in one year |
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Cluster Resources' TORQUE Resource Manager passed a new milestone in its continued success, reaching 50,000 downloads since August 2005. TORQUE Resource Manager includes software developed by NASA Ames Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Veridian Information Solutions.
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| Grids that learn - Improving application efficiency with Moab |
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Cluster Resource Inc., a provider of cluster, Grid and Utility computing software, has included Grid Learning in Moab Grid Suite - a new feature designed to help maximize usage of Grid resources.
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| EGEE'06 Conference calls for participation |
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The EGEE'06 conference, to be held 25-29 September 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, is the place where more than 500 participants from scientific and business Grid user communities, decision makers, resource providers and developers will discuss how to capitalise on past investments and plan a sustainable future for global Grid computing infrastructures.
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| Grid Technologies for Knowledge-based Industries and Businesses to launch Call for Abstracts |
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An open, cross-thematic Workshop on "Grid Technologies for Knowledge-based Industries and Businesses" will be organised at IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, November 21-23, 2006. Deadline for paper abstract submission is October 1, 2006.
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| HP opens three experience centres as part of $500 million investment in service-oriented architecture |
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HP has unveiled three facilities in Cupertino, California, Singapore and Bangalore, India, as part of a $500 million investment to deliver world-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enterprise customers. Introduced at the HP Technology Forum, the three HP SOA Competency Centers are comprehensive experience centres enabling HP, its customers and its partners to pilot and evaluate SOA technologies, solutions and implementations. The centres will also showcase HP's capabilities in IT architecture, management, security and governance.
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| IBM launches new virtualization engine for tape with Grid computing capabilities |
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IBM has introduced the next generation of tape virtualization solutions, with the introduction of the IBM System Storage TS7700 Virtualization Engine, a mainframe virtual-tape offering designed to improve tape processing while also supporting business continuity through Grid connectivity and automated replication.
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| 3Tera announces AppLogic, the industry's first Grid operating system for Utility computing |
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3Tera Inc. has released AppLogic 1.2, the industry's first Grid operating system designed to enable utility computing for transactional Web applications. AppLogic allows hosting providers to offer the first true utility computing services by converting commodity servers into fully scalable shared Grids that are easy to manage.
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| Inventor Ray Kurzweil to be keynote speaker at SC06 Conference |
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Ray Kurzweil, described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes, will be the keynote speaker at SC06, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, date storage and analysis. Under the theme "Powerful Beyond Imagination," SC06 will be held November 11-17, 2006, in Tampa, Florida
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| Overcoming the interoperability challenge in eGovernment services |
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There are obstacles along the road to creating on-line government services, and interoperability is one of the greatest. The TERREGOV project aimed to overcome this challenge with software that enables local and regional governments to deliver a wide variety of services on-line, without disposing of their familiar legacy systems.
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| Tangosol extends data Grid access throughout enterprise |
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Tangosol Inc., a provider of reliable data Grid solutions, has introduced the Coherence Data Grid Solution Set, which cost effectively extends enterprise access to the data Grid with three new client connectivity options, each addressing unique business needs.
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| Digital Dimension selects Digipede to power content creation Grid |
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Grid software provider Digipede Technologies will provide an integrated software solution necessary to power Digital Dimension's digital content creation Grid. Digital Dimension has licensed the Digipede Network, the distributed computing solution for the Microsoft Windows platform, to manage a wide array of applications used in the studio's 3D animation, motion graphics, and visual effects work for film, television, and gaming.
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| Thailand and IBM to create nationwide SOA Center of Excellence |
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Thailand's Office of Computer Clustering Promotion (CCP), under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), will create an SOA Excellence Center with IBM. The SOA Excellence Center will train and develop Thailand's IT resources around service oriented architecture (SOA), a way of reusing a company's existing technology to more closely align with business goals helping to result in greater efficiencies, cost savings and productivity.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Oracle and NetApp help IT managers to simplify the complex |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Oracle and NetApp will partner together to host SOA Symposium 2006: Dynamic Infrastructure for Oracle, a road-show comprised of 20 events in 13 countries across EMEA to be held between September and December. The SOA Symposium will provide IT decision maker attendees from enterprise and midsized organisations with a timely, detailed look at the business benefits of service oriented architecture (SOA) as well as implementation strategies and solutions.
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| Sun and Accenture team to develop capabilities for Identity-enabled Service-oriented Architecture and composite applications |
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Accenture and Sun Microsystems Inc. have agreed to jointly develop Identity-enabled Service-Oriented Architecture and composite applications to meet growing client demands. The expanded relationship involves a series of initiatives, which initially, includes the creation of the Accenture Innovation Center for Sun Solutions.
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| Louisiana and Dell team on one of the most powerful supercomputing Grids |
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Dell is working with the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) to help create one of the United States' most powerful supercomputing Grids. It will include six Dell server clusters packing 30 teraflops of computing power, or the capability to perform 30 trillion operations per second.
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| Voltaire creates an efficiency edge for IT executives and datacentre managers with new GridVision enterprise software |
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Voltaire has launched a solution for the management and automation of dynamic Grid computing environments in the datacentre. The software enables true automation of repetitive IT tasks associated with network, server and storage provisioning to deliver unprecedented efficiency. Provisioning tasks that used to take days and involve multiple groups within IT can now be reduced to seconds.
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| Graphics Pioneer Tony Parisi appointed Grid Institute fellowship to advance Media Grid standards |
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The Grid Institute has appointed Tony Parisi, co-inventor of 3D for the World Wide Web (Web3D), a fellowship to participate in the development of a new generation of interactive and immersive 3D graphics standards for the Media Grid.
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| Cornell Theory Center Experts help Northrop Grumman on homeland security cyberinfrastr |
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The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), an interdisciplinary research center at Cornell University focused on providing cyberinfrastructure resources for research and education, has collaborated with Northrop Grumman Information Technology to develop an advanced security enterprise infrastructure for the national intelligence community and America’s armed forces.
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| Cordys integrates processes and systems at ABN AMRO Insurance |
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ABN AMRO Insurance, a joint venture between the Delta Lloyd Group and ABN AMRO, has selected Cordys, a provider of industry-leading SOA solutions, as its core integration and IT development platform. Led by Cordys partner, Capgemini, the implementation of Cordys will simplify existing systems and business processes, while providing ABN AMRO Insurance with a technology platform that improves its ability to respond to regulatory demands and changing business needs.
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| The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) migrates from HP to Sun to conduct complex molecular research |
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The US Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) selected Sun Microsystems to replace 15 HP Alpha servers and consolidate IT operations onto three Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers to power its complex genomic assembler for molecular research.
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| Electric Cloud and Platform Computing team to deliver industry's first Grid-enabled software build accelerator |
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Electric Cloud, a provider of software build solutions, and Platform Computing have developed an integration between Electric Cloud's software build acceleration product, ElectricAccelerator, with Platform Computing's LSF family of products.
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| Sun expands efforts to help ISVs offer applications to Solaris 10-powered Sun Grid Compute Utility |
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Sun Microsystems plans to provide ISVs and developers new tools to use the Sun Grid Compute Utility,. Sun is creating new connection points for ISVs to offer applications and reach customers who need access to compute resources without having to make capital investments in IT infrastructure. Sun is also further enabling developers to build applications for utility computing environments.
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| 3Tera to enable Utility computing for Web applications |
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Grid computing company 3Tera has launched the company's vision to enable Utility computing for Web applications. Comprised of seasoned industry innovators with a history of developing breakthrough technologies, 3Tera leverages Grid architecture to free on-line applications from the hardware infrastructure required to deliver them.
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| New global Grid computing and communications technology demonstrated by researchers in U.S. and Japan |
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Researchers in the United States and Japan have demonstrated "automated” interoperability between network and computing resources in two national Grid computing research testbeds - the first such demonstration of this scale between two countries of new, integrated computing and communication technology that can be used to exponentially enhance next-generation Internet performance.
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| IBM named strong performer in North American service oriented architecture integration |
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A new, independent research report named IBM as a strong performer in service oriented architecture (SOA). The Forrester Wave: North American SOA Integration, Q3 2006, September 2006 examined IBM Global Services' current SOA offerings, SOA strategy and market presence.
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| R.L. Polk & Co. shifts multi-terabyte data warehouse to Oracle Grid computing solution |
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To better support the demands of its business and its customers moving forward, R.L. Polk & Co., a worldwide provider of automotive industry intelligence and marketing solutions, has deployed an enterprise Grid computing infrastructure built using Oracle 10g software to power its core data warehouse.
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| ClusterBuilder.org expands and introduces Clustering Encyclopedia |
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Cluster Resources Inc. and LinuxHPC.org have released ClusterBuilder.org version 1.3, featuring the new Clustering Encyclopedia - a specialized reference source of high-performance computing (HPC) technologies and products.
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| Thrivent Financial selects Callidus TrueComp Enterprise to streamline compensation systems |
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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a fraternal benefit society with nearly 3 million members, has selected Callidus' TrueComp Manager and TrueInformation software modules to automate the organisation's administration, reporting and analysis of incentive compensation.
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| Emory University chooses Egenera system for Oracle 10g RAC |
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Emory University has migrated Oracle9i Database running on proprietary RISC/UNIX servers to Oracle 10g RAC running on the Egenera BladeFrame system. The project, which would have taken three to six months if done in-house, was completed in just 10 days by a joint team of Oracle and Egenera integration experts through the Oracle-on-Egenera 10g Accelerator Service.
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| New computer model concept could solve big, real-world problems on a small, porous scale |
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The US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) today was awarded a Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, or SciDAC, grant to develop a computer model that can simulate biogeochemical processes on multiple scales. This computational advancement would enable researchers to make more accurate predictions of the movement and fate of contaminants in groundwater so that appropriate cleanup and human safety measures can be applied to the problem.
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| Predicting an answer to the threat of flooding |
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The latest advances in computer flood modelling and animation that could help to improve the way we protect the UK's towns and cities from flooding will be highlighted at this year's British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) Festival of Science in Norwich. By improving the prediction and visualisation of the speed, direction and extent of water flow during potential flooding events, this research will help inform investment in flood defence and drainage infrastructure, where new developments should be sited and, where necessary, evacuation planning.
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| University of Georgia and IBM launch study of innovation |
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IBM and the University of Georgia have launched a research initiative to find the answer to the question of what is key to innovation - great inventions, business models, technology and profit. The collaboration is part of IBM’s Shared University Research award programme, created to exemplify the deep partnership between academia and the industry to explore research in areas essential to fuel innovation. IBM has donated $80,000 in systems and software to the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business where students will work together with IBM Research and Market Intelligence to delve into the topic of innovation.
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| Precision climate modelling forecast by ORNL researchers |
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Climate modelling of tomorrow will feature precision and scale only imagined just a few years ago, according to researchers David Erickson and John Drake of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Tremendous computational capabilities at ORNL's Leadership Computing Facility combined with other software tools now make it possible for researchers to create models that take into account the complete carbon cycle, terrestrial biology, El Ninos and hundreds of other factors. The goal is to provide what scientists call a fully integrated Earth system model that can be simulated every 15 minutes for centuries.
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| IBM & Genome Institute of Singapore collaboration may lead to better understanding of cell process regulation |
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IBM, in collaboration with the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), has revealed results from a joint research study that could potentially alter our views of how cell processes are regulated. The two teams have discovered that microRNAs, small molecules that are an important regulatory component in the machinery of living cells, likely exert their influence much more widely than previously thought.
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| Altair Engineering completes the acquisition of the Mecalog Group and RADIOSS Technology |
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Altair Engineering has finalized the acquisition of the Mecalog Group and its RADIOSS product family of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software technology. Mecalog, based in Antony, France, is a global developer of transient, nonlinear CAE technology to simulate safety-related performance as well as other impact events.
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| NASA scientific balloon researchers receive international prize in astrophysics |
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Two researchers that led a NASA and National Science Foundation funded scientific balloon mission in Antarctica have been awarded the 2006 Balzan Prize in Astrophysics. Andrew Lange, from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and Paolo de Bernardis, from the Universita di Roma La Sapienza in Rome, received the award from the International Balzan Foundation "for their contributions to cosmology, in particular the BOOMERANG Antarctic balloon experiment".
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| North Carolina Research and Education Network links with National LambdaRail and StarLight |
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North Carolina universities and other institutions now have new opportunities to advance research and collaborate with other researchers worldwide through National LambdaRail, a national network infrastructure connecting North Carolina's Research and Education Network (NCREN) to an international network research hub in Chicago called StarLight.
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| CSIRO builds smart farm |
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CSIRO is working towards the 'smart farm' of the future with research focusing on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and their potential to transform the Australian agriculture industry.
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| ESnet and Internet2 partner to deploy next generation network for scientific research and discovery |
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The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 - two of the United States' leading networking organisations dedicated to research - have signed a partnership to deploy a highly reliable, high capacity nationwide network that will greatly enhance the capabilities of researchers across the country who participate in the DOE's scientific research efforts. The partnership brings together two advanced networks which have a combined 30 years of experience in providing network support to thousands of researchers around the world.
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| A*STAR and HP to collaborate on multimedia streaming |
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A*STAR, the Singapore government's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and HP will collaborate on technologies to provide secure, seamless transmission of video, audio and multimedia content over future high-speed broadband and wireless networks. The agreement is the second between HP Labs, HP's central research organisation, and A*STAR. In June, HP Labs and A*STAR's Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) set up a joint research project in Singapore to work on advanced technologies for next-generation data centres.
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