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| Bull unveils NovaScale blade servers boosted by the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 processor |
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Bull unveils the new NovaScale B260 and B280 blade servers based on the Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 - previously codenamed Woodcrest. These new servers benefit from lower thermal design power, using Intel Demand-based switching (DBS) with Enhanced Speedstep technology.
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| Cray's Third Annual Technical Workshop in Europe to focus on new supercomputing advances and future products |
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The Cray Technical Workshop Europe 2006 will be held October 10-12 at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Hosted by AWE in the U.K., the third annual Cray Technical Workshop in Europe will provide a forum where users of Cray supercomputers can exchange information about the latest advances in high performance computing and related scientific and engineering applications. Cray representatives will also give participants a preview of future enhancements to Cray systems and discuss products currently under development.
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| NSF awards Texas Advanced Computing Center $59 million for high-performance computing |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $59 million award to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and its partners at Arizona State University and Cornell University to acquire, operate and support a high-performance computing system that will provide unprecedented computational power to the United States' scientists and engineers.
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| ATI pioneers new Stream Computing technology |
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ATI is pioneering a new technology known as Stream Computing, that has the potential to dramatically impact almost every sector of the market. Along with leading companies and academic institutions worldwide, ATI is working to build a stream computing ecosystem, one that delivers the performance, applications, software and tools necessary to turn ATI's vision into reality.
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| ATI launches enterprise stream computing initiatives |
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Recognizing the tremendous value that accelerated processing holds for businesses around the world, ATI Technologies Inc. has launched initiatives around enterprise stream computing, dedicated to driving commercial adoption of stream computing, initially targeting the US$9 billion high performance computing market. Along with software platform provider PeakStream Inc., ATI is working to address the technical computing demands of energy, financial, defense and research organizations around the world, to give them the ability to arrive at detailed answers in significantly less time in order to make faster, better informed business decisions. ATI is also working with AMD to develop a co-processing platform based on AMD's Torrenza initiative.
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| Mitrionics and SGI demonstrate latest FPGA supercomputing advancements at MAPLD Conference |
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Mitrionics Inc., developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, exhibited its industry-leading supercomputing application acceleration platform at the MAPLD conference September 26-28, 2006 in Washington, DC. Mitrionics demonstrated the Mitrion Platform and Mitrion Virtual Processor on the SGI RASC RC100 computation blade in the SGI Altix family of servers. As the two companies in FPGA Supercomputing and close partners, Mitrionics and SGI work together on a number of activities including mutual customer development/support, joint sales and marketing events, customer application development, and product integration.
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| NetEffect and Ciara Technologies announce collaborative efforts |
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NetEffect, specialized in next generation Ethernet connectivity solutions, is collaborating with Ciara Technologies, a provider of high-density rack-mounted servers and clusters. This collaboration demonstrates the power of Ciara's Intel-based VXRACK product combined with the high-bandwidth, low-latency of NetEffect's 10Gb iWARP Ethernet channel adapter (ECA). Ciara's VXRACK family of high-density, rack-mounted servers features the latest Intel processors for faster, energy efficient processing. Through this joint effort, Ciara is able to demonstrate the way in which its customers can achieve 10Gb per second performance while leveraging the benefits of the ubiquitous Ethernet standard.
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| VXTECH announces FUSION 1200 SMP system based on Intel Xeon processor technology |
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VXTECH, a division of Ciara Technologies, a global system integrator and servers manufacturer, has launched FUSION 1200 Server Series, a high performance, shared-memory SMP system, based on Intel Xeon 5100/5300 processors sequence and ScaleMP versatile SMP (vSMP) architecture. Designed to provide a cost-effective alternative to traditional SMP servers, VXTECH's FUSION 1200 is designed to achieve optimal performance for High Performance Technical Computing applications, while providing unparalleled ease of deployment, management and maintenance.
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| ORNL's Jaguar fastest for fusion turbulence simulations |
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Cray XT3 supercomputer, known as Jaguar, has become the fastest system in the world for running the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL's) flagship code for studying plasma microturbulence in fusion reactors.
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| QLogic to acquire Silverstorm Technologies |
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QLogic Corporation, specialized in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SilverStorm Technologies Inc. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, the company will pay approximately $60 million in cash. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is expected to close following the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Based on current projections, the company anticipates that the acquisition of SilverStorm will be neutral to its non-GAAP earnings per share for fiscal year 2007. The company will provide additional details regarding the acquisition during its second quarter fiscal 2007 earnings conference scheduled for October 24, 2006.
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| SC06 Conference advance registration deadline is Sunday, October 15 |
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With the SC2006 conference less than two months away, there are two compelling reasons to register now for the Technical Programme and Tutorials, and to reserve a hotel room. SC06 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, data storage and analysis. Under the theme "Powerful Beyond Imagination", SC06 will be held November 11-17, 2006, in Tampa, Florida.
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| SGI Altix XE Cluster solution offers simplicity, advanced software environment at no extra cost to users |
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Responding to demand for Linux cluster computing solutions that are easy to manage but still offer industry-leading scalability and performance, SGI has launched sweeping enhancements to its recently debuted SGI Altix XE cluster offering. With the SGI Altix XE 1200 Cluster Solution, SGI makes it easier than ever to select, deploy and manage Linux clusters. The customizable, factory-integrated solutions, which offer a selection of interconnect choices including Gigabit Ethernet and Voltaire InfiniBand, feature a newly enhanced cluster software environment that offers distinct cost and convenience advantages over traditional piece-built commodity clusters.
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| IBM DB2 9 data server wins new customers and sets benchmark record |
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Just two months after its launch, the DB2 9 data server is rapidly gaining new customers and setting industry benchmark performance records. DB2 9 - code named "Viper" - is IBM's new data server that incorporates the most significant database technology enhancements introduced to the industry in more than two decades.
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| IBM previews IDS "Cheetah" data server |
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IBM has unveiled details of the next-generation Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) data server - code-named "Cheetah". IDS, a key element of IBM's Information Management portfolio, is a relational data server that delivers exceptionally fast OLTP performance, high reliability and near hands-free administration.
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| DARPA awards grant to improve chip-making process |
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Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded a six-year, $4.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create a new type of reconfigurable integrated circuit for chip manufacturers.
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| NEC to launch new SX series model, SX-8R, the world's fastest vector supercomputer |
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NEC Corporation has launched a new supercomputer in the SX series, model SX-8R - an enhanced version of SX-8, the world's most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak vector performance of 144 Tflop/s.
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| European HPC in need of Pepping-up |
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The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), UK, hosted an excellent HPC Europe Workshop at St Catherine's college, Oxford. This interactive workshop discussed issues of concern to Europeans working in the HPC area. It brought together top experts in HPC - restricted to less than 10 from each European country - to share intelligence and develop common strategies, hoping to collectively leverage future directions of European HPC. Invitations to speak or attend were made by a country representative who also advised on the agenda. This year, about 80 delegates attended from within both the customer and supplier segments. Non-European vendors were present only for the last sessions. (Chris Lazou)
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| University of Florida and Honeywell engineers building first space supercomputer |
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Engineering researchers at the University of Florida (UF) and Honeywell Aerospace are designing and building the computer projected to operate as much as 100 times faster than any computer in space today. Expected to be launched aboard a NASA rocket on a test mission in 2009, the computer is needed to process rapidly increasing amounts of data gathered by advanced scientific satellites. It is also needed to help space probes make more rapid decisions by themselves, independently of their Earth-bound minders.
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| A new supercomputer enables new kinds of research |
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CSC, the Finnish IT centre for science, acquires a new supercomputer system, which means a significant leap in performance of computer resources available for Finnish researchers. The new system enables new kinds of research and increases accuracy of current simulation models. At the same time CSC extends its super-cluster system as well. The purchase is totally funded by the Ministry of Education and the equipment will remain the property of the Finnish state under the possession of the Ministry of Education.
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| Sun Microsystems revamps "Galaxy" line of Sun Fire servers |
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Sun announced its "Galaxy" line of Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the most advanced operating system on the planet. The Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4200 M2 and Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers with on-chip virtualization support set new standards for reliability and energy efficiency. Sun was the first vendor to ship systems powered by the latest AMD Opteron processors with the release of the Sun Fire X2100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers in August.
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| DataDirect Networks powers Department of Defense Technology Initiative at US Army Research Laboratory |
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DataDirect Networks has shipped 4 of its latest 7th generation S2A9500 Series high performance storage cluster solutions, totaling 260 TB, to the US Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC) as part of the US Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP) Technology Insertion 2006 (TI-06) initiative.
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| Twenty-two projects keep supercomputer super busy |
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With 54 teraflops of computing power, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT3 is helping solve scientific grand challenges, but scheduling the many research projects and keeping the massive machine operating at peak capacity are challenges of their own. The Cray, known as Jaguar, requires a complex infrastructure that can cool more than 5000 dual-core processors; ensure reliable power; maintain optimum operation; and accommodate future expansion.
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| Top research labs tap Star-P to boost scientific and engineering productivity |
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Since the launch of high-tech start-up Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) nearly a year ago, more than two dozen organisations have already adopted the company's Star-P software for solving some of the world's greatest scientific and engineering challenges. Star-P is an interactive parallel computing platform that enables users to code algorithms and models on their desktops using familiar mathematical software packages such as MathWorks' MATLAB and run them instantly and interactively on parallel high performance computers (HPCs).
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| Tyan Computer presents the Tyan PSC Typhoon for high performance computing |
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Tyan Computer Corporation had developed a new cluster-base HPC product line that provides supercomputing performance in constrained and other non-traditional environments. Tyan is building on its excellent reputation as an HPC motherboard provider by launching a new business unit called TyanPSC to market and sell the TyanPSC Typhoon series of Personal Supercomputers.
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| Speed is the name of the game for researchers |
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Cutting-edge computer technology designed for use in game consoles like the PlayStation 3 will power complex research software at the University of Manchester. Academics in several scientific and engineering fields will use IBM's latest powerful hardware to run a range of scientific and engineering programmes.
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| Critical to support NetEffect's iWARP Ethernet channel adapters in their popular WMPI II Message Passing library |
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Critical Software and NetEffect have signed a partnership whereby Critical will support NetEffect's iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters in their popular WMPI II Message Passing library. This will enable the High Performance Cluster (HPC) community to run compute intensive applications that use MPI for parallel processing over a cluster of Windows or Linux servers, connected by NetEffect cards.
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| Northrop Grumman delivers high performance computing solution for improved hurricane forecasting |
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Northrop Grumman, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Intel and Silicon Graphics, , has delivered a unique high performance computing solution to NASA to improve hurricane forecasts. NASA will use the solution for its African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign.
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| SGI unveils Scientific Workflow Solution designed to let researchers focus on science, not computing |
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At the J. Craig Venter Genomes, Medicine and the Environment Conference, SGI unveiled the SGI Scientific Workflow Solution. Comprised of some of the world's most powerful, scalable and flexible technologies, the new solution is aimed at simplifying the complex task of conducting breakthrough scientific research by accommodating the various ways in which scientists work.
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| SilverStorm selects NetXen 10-Gigabit Ethernet technology for world's highest-capacity InfiniBand cluster interconnect system |
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SilverStorm is using NetXen NX2031 silicon devices to implement high-performance 10GbE interfaces for its SilverStorm 9000 series of Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors. These systems deliver a total switching capacity of 11.52 Tb/s, making them the industry's highest-capacity single-chassis cluster interconnect system. The flexible 9000 series platform provides multi-protocol support using switch modules for InfiniBand SDR, InfiniBand DDR and Virtual I/O Controller modules for Fibre Channel and 10GbE. The new Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller (VIC) modules will use NetXen NX2031 Intelligent NIC devices.
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| SC06 announces HPC Analytics Challenge Finalists |
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At the SC06 international conference on high performance computing, networking, data storage and analysis, three teams will compete in the HPC Analytics Challenge to demonstrate their capabilities in using advanced data analysis techniques to solve complex, real-world problems.
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| Terra Soft and Sony to build world's first Cell cluster |
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Terra Soft will construct the world's first Cell-based supercomputing cluster. In the fall of '05, Terra Soft was contacted by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) to develop and manage a supercomputing cluster built upon the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux OS. This spring, Terra Soft was contracted by Sony and in August completed the construction of a 3000 sq-ft supercomputing facility capable of housing 2400 1U systems. In this remodeled extension to the Loveland, Colorado headquarters, Terra Soft will construct a test cluster and a substantially larger production cluster.
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| University Of Colorado scientists gain insights into earth's atmosphere with help from SGI systems |
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With a swelling influx of information captured by data-gathering spacecraft, scientists with the University of Colorado (CU) are using some of the world's most powerful Linux systems from SGI to learn all they can about the ever-changing layer between the earth's lower and upper atmospheres.
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| SGI launches new NAS storage solutions for enterprise and 'traditional' markets |
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SGI has introduced two network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, the SGI InfiniteStorage NAS 4550 and the SGI InfiniteStorage NAS 4050 system. Unlike previous NAS solutions from SGI, the SGI InfiniteStorage NAS 4550 and NAS 4050 are true appliances customers can put into production in a matter of minutes, as opposed to hours, without sacrificing high-performance capabilities.
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| "Cool" micro-technologies make hot chips chill |
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At the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit, IBM researchers presented an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat released by today's more powerful processors and the additional energy required for removing that heat. The technique, called "high thermal conductivity interface technology", allows a twofold improvement in heat removal over current methods. This paves the way for continued development of creative electronic products through the use of more powerful chips without complex and costly systems simply to cool them.
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| IBM unveils dynamic data warehouse powered by DB2 9 |
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IBM has launched a new dynamic data warehousing platform, built upon the industry-leading DB2 9 "Viper" data server, that is designed to help customers quickly and easily gain greater insight into their business information.
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| Internet Systems Consortium turns to Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Fire x64 servers to power the Internet |
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The Internet Systems Consortium Inc. (ISC), a provider of public infrastructure for the global Domain Name System (DNS), has chosen the free and open source Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the most advanced operating system on the planet, and Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers, powered by AMD Opteron processors, as an F-root server, one of the 13 root DNS servers that are the foundation of the Internet.
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| Sun builds advanced Solaris-based Digital Archive Storage system for Rhythm & Hues studios |
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A new digital archive storage system from Sun Microsystems, the creator of the Solaris Operating System, is helping computer generated imagery (CGI) leader Rhythm & Hues protect Superman's secret lair and the studio's 20 years worth of groundbreaking CGI work. Sun's solution has helped Rhythm & Hues achieve dramatic five-fold performance gains, improve ease of archive management, and reduce its hardware footprint, and prepare for continuing data growth.
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| Award to help Michigan State University math professor add up really big solutions |
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Andrew Christlieb is all about making things simple - breaking problems into manageable chunks. Except his problems start out large: mathematical problems so large that "there does not exist a large enough supercomputer in the world to solve them in my lifetime", stated Andrew Christlieb, a Michigan State University assistant professor of mathematics. "Even with all the horsepower of all the computers in the world, there's not enough power to solve them."
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| IBM strengthens Power Architecture with new low-power processors |
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IBM has introduced new, low-power additions to its Power Architecture line of microprocessors and new processor cores that address the growing demand for high-performance processors that conserve energy. In addition, the company expanded a university programme designed to encourage development of broadband applications based on Power Architecture, which now accounts for a significant amount of all chip technology found in today's automobiles, supercomputers, network and communications equipment, printers and gaming consoles.
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| Pennsylvania House of Representatives recognizes PSC's 20th anniversary |
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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has adopted a resolution congratulating the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) on 20 years as a research organisation that has advanced computational science and helped to boost the economy of the Commonwealth.
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| Parasoft presents automation of best practices to streamline software development and strategies for embedded testing |
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Parasoft Corporation, a provider of Automated Error Prevention solutions for software development, today announced its participation in the upcoming Trolltech Developer Days in Munich, Germany, October 11-12, 2006. The event will be held at the Hilton Munich Park hotel.
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| Dot Hill and Sun Microsystems celebrate shipment of 100,000th Sun StorageTek 3000 family system |
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Dot Hill Systems has reached a major milestone in its relationship with Sun Microsystems with the shipment of the 100,000th unit of the Sun StorageTek 3000 family of workgroup storage systems.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers to approach challenging market with successful integration |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced its results for the first half of Fiscal Year 2006 (1HY06). From April to September the company achieved 3.1 billion euro in revenue, for the first time breaking through the three billion euro revenue mark.
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| Worldspan selects advanced IBM mainframes to power core global travel distribution system |
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Worldspan L.P., a global travel technology expert and a supplier of Internet-based travel offerings, has selected six new System z9 Enterprise Class (EC) mainframe servers to provide electronic data services that link approximately 700 travel suppliers around the world to millions of travelers. Worldspan's selection comes after the completion of an exhaustive review of all available options for their future capacity needs. The decision marks their continued commitment to the mainframe platform for core transaction processing that is seamlessly integrated with IBM System x Intel server technology for shopping functions such as Worldspan's industry leading e-Pricing low-fare shopping technology.
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| Survey says parallel programming woes stymie scientific discovery |
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While supercomputers are thought to help accelerate engineering and scientific discovery, difficulties in programming the code they run on is increasingly becoming one of researchers' biggest productivity killers, according to a new study sponsored by Interactive Supercomputing Inc.
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| Sun previews plans for open systems tape virtualization and inks strategic deal with FalconStor Software |
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At the Sun Forum 2006 conference, Sun Microsystems Storage EVP David Yen unveiled the company's plans to deliver a virtual tape solution with enhanced functionality to meet the data protection needs of large enterprise customers. Sun also announced a joint development agreement with FalconStor Software which will provide Sun with exclusive features for its enterprise virtual tape library (VTL). The two companies are expanding their strategic relationship to fully address the enterprise with a complete family of Sun StorageTek virtual tape solutions.
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| Purdue University expands advanced computing resources with SGI technology |
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Purdue University has purchased aGI Altix 4700 system with a 30TB SGI InfiniteStorage array. Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will test genomics and other codes and explore cost-saving computing strategies using the SGI Altix 450 system configured with groundbreaking SGI RASC (Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing) RC100 Blades for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The SGI 4700 system will be used for climatology, weather modelling, nanotechnology and quantum chemistry calculations. RCAC, on the West Lafayette, Indiana campus, is the research computing activity of the university, providing advanced computing resources and services to support the computationally intensive research of Purdue faculty and staff.
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| French President visits CEA DAM-Ile de France Centre |
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On September 7, 2006, President Chirac, together with Michèle Alliot-Marie, Minister of Defense, General Bentégeat, Head of the French Army Staff and General Georgelin, first responsable Army Staff representant to the president, have visited the CEA DAM-Ile de France Centre with the TERA-10 supercomputer.
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| Dell unveils four- and two-socket servers |
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Dell has launched two PowerEdge servers featuring AMD Opteron processors as part of Dell's commitment to leadership in price-performance, performance per watt and reducing complexity in customers' server environments. The company unveiled the PowerEdge 6950 and PowerEdge SC1435 along with the integration of Dell OpenManage and Oracle Enterprise Manager at Oracle Open World.
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| Collaboration highlighted at end of EGEE'06 |
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The closing session of the EGEE'06 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, highlighted the interactive and fruitful discussions that brought together more than 700 representatives from many Grid projects including the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project itself, as well as users and major players in the business sector. This turnout made it the biggest Grid conference in Europe since the GGF5 meeting in Edinburgh 2002.
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| First cityGrid in the world inaugurated in Almere |
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Today, Martine Visser, from the City Council of Almere, officially inaugurated AlmereGrid, the first cityGrid in the world. AlmereGrid allows citizens, companies and other organisations to donate otherwise unused computing time to science. Researcher Danielle Posthuma from the Free University of Amsterdam, showed how all this computer power could be used for analysing data on a large number of twins. This research could help us to gain better understanding of human behaviour. If Almere would donate computing time at a very large scale, also other research, for instance medical research, could benefit. AlmereGrid focuses on making it easy for everyone to participate, not only the computer literate.
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| Platform Computing introduces Platform Open Cluster Stack to accelerate Linux Cluster adoption |
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Addressing the rapid migration to Linux clusters, Platform Computing is introducing Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS), a modular and hybrid stack that transparently integrates open source and commercial software into a single consistent cluster operating environment. Platform OCS is a pre-integrated, vendor certified software stack that assures the consistent delivery of scale-out application clusters. This enhanced software stack eliminates the higher costs of development, sales and support caused by inconsistent software development and certification in Linux clusters.
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| Shining examples of Grid applications |
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Users in more than 150 Virtual Organisations from fields as diverse as Biomedicine, Earth Sciences and High-Energy Physics are now using the distributed computing infrastructure of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project, which shows the wide adoption and versatility of this new technology.
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| Appro demonstrates breakthrough performance with HyperServers based on Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors |
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Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems has been showcasing cluster technology demonstrations at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, California, September 26-28, at the Interconnect Community. Appro showcased the first of its kind demonstration featuring two 1U-dual socket Hyperservers cluster nodes based on Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors 5300 series (code name "Clovertown") using Intel 5000P chipset with dual independent system bus connections running at speeds up to 1333MHz. This Xen Virtualization Cluster Demo provides a total of 16 cores connected with two 10 Gbps dual-port Mellanox PCIe InfiniBand Adapters running NAS Parallel Benchmark Application.
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| Stanford University's Folding@home uses ATI stream computing to squeeze three years worth of disease research into just one month |
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Stanford University has released software to utilize ATI processors for the Stanford's Folding@home distributed computing project, yielding an enormous increase in the speed of disease research. By enabling Folding@home participants to make use of the powerful processing architectures found in ATI Radeon X1900 and Radeon X1950 graphics cards, Stanford expects to gain new capabilities that have never been possible before, allowing researchers to address questions that were previously considered impossible to tackle computationally. With this new processing power now tapped, researchers expect to discover even more about the science of protein folding and folding-related diseases, with potentially dramatic effect for studies into Alzheimer's, cancer, Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases among others.
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| EGEE gets down to business |
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Working with Industry is highlighted at the EGEE'06 conference with a dedicated business track and the announcement that three companies have signed up as the first EGEE Business Associates (EBAs) to work with the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project to make the distributed computing infrastructure of the Grid more user-friendly, effective and secure in an industrial context.
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| gLite sets the standard |
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Today the EGEE'06 conference opened with presentations on the theme of Grid middleware, the intermediary software between the users and the underlying computing resources. The gLite middleware distribution developed by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project was first released for production usage in May 2006 and is now deployed by about 80% of the sites connected to the EGEE infrastructure, making it the main middleware distribution used in production.
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| GridPP's Real Time Monitor steps into the 3rd dimension |
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The Real Time Monitor has been given a makeover, with a 3D upgrade developed by GridPP's Gidon Moont, based at Imperial College London. The new monitor was launched at last week's All Hands Meeting in Nottingham, and this week at EGEE'06 in Geneva.
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| IBM and Avokia set record for long-range database clustering |
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IBM and Avokia Inc. have developed a long-range database clustering technology, which is the first of its kind to link active data servers located thousands of miles apart. The technology, called "active-active" database clustering, describes a process by which all of an organisation's information management systems are kept on-line, regardless of their physical location, ensuring continuous availability of critical business information. This solution allows companies to take idle systems traditionally used for back-up and devote them to production tasks.
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| IBM CoolBlue technology helps Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Ltd. dissipate heat emissions in the datacentre |
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Boehringer Ingelheim's installation of an IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputing system supported by IBM CoolBlue technology has enabled the pharmaceutical company to significantly enhance computational performance in bioresearch while cooling dissipated heat emissions in its datacentre by up to 55 percent.
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| Grid from research to industry, the European way |
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In the last round of Grid computing projects funded under the FP6 programme, 23 projects got a total of euro 78 million. In total this brings the investment of the European Commission in FP6 around 250 million euro. At the Grid Technology days, the projects presented themselves. Also some hints on the future of Grid projects in the next framework programme, FP7 were given. A summary.
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| BEinGRID Project launched to implement and deploy Grid solutions across the European industry |
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BEinGRID, Business Experiments in Grid, is the European Union's largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research, part of the EU's sixth research Framework Programme (FP6). BEinGRID runs eighteen business experiments designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in industrial key sectors. Complementing this work, a knowledge and toolset repository will be developed consisting of Grid service components and best practices to support European businesses with the take-up of Grid.
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| EU-Funded Semantic Grid computing project ARGUGRID adopts InforSense Integrative Analytics Technology |
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InforSense, a provider of enterprise real-time analytics, today announced that the company has been selected as a technology partner in the EUR 2M European Union (EU) funded ARGUGRID project. The project is a collaborative effort between eight partners from five countries and is funded by the IST Grid technologies programme. The goal of ARGUGRID is to develop the next generation service-oriented computing platform for scientific and business applications. Based on semantic web and agent-based technologies, the project is developing novel techniques for supporting dynamic service selection, composition and optimization by applying advanced logical reasoning over service semantics. The development of such technology is key to the success of large-scale B2B collaborations within a service-oriented computing framework.
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| Improved FlexFrame for Oracle now a stronger gateway to SOA |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has unveiled a new version of FlexFrame for Oracle, a dynamic infrastructure platform that serves as a gateway to service oriented architecture (SOA). Designed exclusively for use with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC), FlexFrame for Oracle V1.0B provides connectivity to storage area networks (SANs) via an EMC Celerra gateway. Because most database environments run on SANs, FlexFrame for Oracle V1.0B provides the ideal environment for database consolidation projects.
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| EGEE now has more than 200 sites, about 30.000 CPU's |
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The EGEE Grid this week reached 200 sites, spread across nearly 50 countries. According to the gstat monitoring tool 202 sites are now certified on the production Grid - 21 of which are in the UK. Overall, EGEE currently has around 30,000 CPUs at its certified sites. Sites come and go on the Grid, so the 200th site can't be definitively identified.
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| Swiss researchers join forces to capitalise on Grids |
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The Swiss Grid Initiative was officially launched last week during the EGEE'06 conference. This initiative aims to bring together the various academic and research institutions involved in distributed computing projects in Switzerland. This will gather all the expertise to support the Swiss research community in making use of Grid technology for applications in need of high throughput and ubiquitous computing. The aim of the initiative is to provide a central hub for collaboration and knowledge dissemination, and to represent the interests of the national research community towards funding bodies, international projects, standardisation bodies and industry.
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| The UK Grid Computing Now project has announced Grid computing awards |
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The UK Grid Computing Now project has announced Grid computing awards. The awards were done together with the British Computer Society (BCS). According to Grid ComputingNow, the competition was won by Gopok Goteng from Cranfield University, with his entry "Combating global terrorism with the world wide grid"
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| Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences implements largest IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in U.S. academia |
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IBM, in conjunction with Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), has implemented CrimsonGridBGL, the largest IBM System Blue Gene Solution in United States academia. The system would currently rank among the top 50 fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the latest statistics gathered from the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list.
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| Liquid Computing solves the challenges of scalable computing |
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Liquid Computing Corp., a developer of a new class of scalable computing system, has made available the world's first Interconnect Driven Server, LiquidIQ. LiquidIQ converges computing, networking and broadband to deliver unprecedented performance scalability and system control that is not available from today's server and network equipment providers.
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| SilverStorm Technologies announces availability of Oracle 10g RAC Cluster solution powered by InfiniBand and RDS |
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SilverStorm Technologies is providing Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC) certified solutions validated through Intel's Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (ESAA) programme and powered by SilverStorm's high performance InfiniBand and RAC-optimized Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol for selected Intel server platform and motherboard products. For the first time, server vendors from around the world which participate in the Intel ESAA programme will have the opportunity to adopt and market SilverStorm's advanced interconnect offering for Oracle 10g, enabling the deployment of large scale, high performance, high availability Oracle database clusters.
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| Altair Engineering collaborates with The MathWorks to integrate MATLAB distributed computing tools with PBS Professional Workload Management Solution |
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Altair Engineering Inc., a global provider of technology and services that strengthen client innovation and decision-making, has collaborated with The MathWorks, a developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists, to integrate The MathWorks Distributed Computing Toolbox with Altair's PBS Professional.
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| University of Florida and Honeywell engineers are building first space supercomputer |
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Engineering researchers at the University of Florida (UF) and Honeywell Aerospace are designing and building the computer projected to operate as much as 100 times faster than any computer in space today. Expected to be launched aboard a NASA rocket on a test mission in 2009, the computer is needed to process rapidly increasing amounts of data gathered by advanced scientific satellites. It is also needed to help space probes make more rapid decisions by themselves, independently of their Earth-bound minders.
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| NCSA and partners win $5 million NSF grant to enhance chemistry education |
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to a five-year project designed to improve chemistry education in rural schools throughout Illinois. Partnering on the project are the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the College of Medicine and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, A-C Central Community Unit School District 262 in Chandlerville, and the Regional Office of Education in Lincoln, Illinois. NCSA brings its strengths in computational chemistry, visualization, advanced technology, and education and training to the endeavour.
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| HealthGrid 2007 Conference Organisation issues Call for Papers |
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The fifth HealthGrid Conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from 24th to 27th of April, 2007 within the University Hospital of Geneva. HealthGrid 2007 is the fifth annual conference dedicated to Grids for life science and health care. The goal of the conference is to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to review the status of the Grid technology and to evaluate the progress made in the development and deployment of Grid applications for life sciences, medical research and health care. Deadline for paper submission is December 23, 2006.
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| DILIGENT Grid Infrastructure joins EGEE Pre-Production Service |
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A Diligent Library Infrastructure on Grid-Enabled Techology (DILIGENT) has recently deployed a new gLite infrastructure in addition to the two private Grid infrastructures already running for development and testing of the prototype DL distributed system. The aim of this new infrastructure is to provide a Grid environment to run the next stable release of the system to be used by the DILIGENT user communities for validating the ongoing DILIGENT developments.
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| ESPN STAR Sports selects Omneon MediaGrid and Spectrum |
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Omneon Video Networks announced that ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia’s leading sports broadcaster, has purchased a MediaGrid active storage system and Omneon Spectrum media server systems to serve as the core of a new production system capable of handling 2,000 hours of media at 50 MB/s. The storage and server implementation, which is being designed and supplied by U.K.-based systems integrator TSL, will support a new file-based environment and a much more flexible and collaborative production workflow for the network’s live sports and sports news coverage.
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| TSUBAME cluster at 47.38 Tflop/s thanks to Clearspeed |
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ClearSpeed Technology provider of floating point coprocessor acceleration technology for high performance and technical computing (HPTC), today announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology's TSUBAME Supercomputer achieved a ClearSpeed accelerated 47.38 Tflop/s Linpack Top500 performance result t.
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| ltair Engineering's PBS Professional bundled with new SGI Altix XE Cluste |
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Altair Engineering announced that SGI will integrate Altair's PBS Professional on its new family of Linux OS-based SGI Altix XE clusters powered by Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor 5100. Integrating PBS Professional at the factory will maximize the performance of SGI's hardware in addressing the capacity needs of a variety of key vertical markets and provide increased value to SGI's customers.
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| International News Media announces first Internet marketing services platform to leverage 3Tera's new Grid operating system |
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International News Media (INM), an Internet marketing and media content delivery services company, and Grid and utility computing company 3Tera are leveraging 3Tera's new AppLogic Grid operating system to easily and cost-effectively deliver, manage, and scale INM's existing media services.
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| PRAGMA pledges stepped-up emphasis on Grid infrastructure and culture of collaboration among Pacific Rim scientists |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed its support for a grassroots effort by U.S. and Pacific Rim engineers who develop Grid infrastructure and software tools in tandem with application scientists who use those Grids to advance 'collaborative science' research projects.
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| Intelligent sensors gear up for real-time flood monitoring |
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An intelligent flood monitoring system that could give advance warning of the type of rapid flood that engulfed the UK Cornish village of Boscastle in 2004, is under test in the Yorkshire Dales. Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood and colleagues from Lancaster University won an award for their paper describing the system at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham last month.
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| University of Tennessee selects Ciena for Optical Control Plane Research Partnership |
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Ciena Corporation will set up a research collaboration with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to automate configuration and provisioning of lightpaths in support of Grid computing applications.
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| Satyam Computer Services and United Devices announce a solution to Grid-enable SAP instances |
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United Devices (UD) and Satyam Computer Services, a global consulting and IT services provider, have made available a breakthrough Grid-enabled SAP solution which the companies developed collaboratively and will jointly market.
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| Semantic-web technologies for enhanced knowledge management |
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Effective knowledge management is key to navigating the sea of information being made available using internet technologies. And participants in the IST project SEKT aim to lay the foundations for that greater effectiveness, by developing three core technologies for the semantic web.
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| Heineken, IBM, Safmarine and Free University of Amsterdam launch wireless "Beer Living Lab" |
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IBM has launched a new intelligent wireless project with Heineken, international shipping company, Safmarine, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in conjunction with Dutch Customs, UK Customs and US Customs and Border Protection. The new project, called the "Beer Living Lab", will track cargo container shipments of Heineken beer from Europe to the United States using satellite and cellular technology. The goal is to create paperless documentation through better system interoperability, resulting in faster deliveries and reduced costs for international trade.
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| Louisiana State University among first to gain access to improved SURAgrid |
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Thanks to a recent agreement between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association, or SURA, member universities will soon have access to a vastly improved regional network of high performance computing resources through the SURAgrid Programme. Louisiana State University (LSU) will be among the first to use this advanced system. There are currently two high performance IBM computers being installed on campus, both of which will soon be added to the SURAgrid pool.
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| The AEgis Technologies Group Announces the Release of acslXtreme |
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The AEgis Technologies Group announced the release of version 2.3 of the acslXtreme environment for modeling and simulation of continuous dynamic systems and processes. This latest version introduces an array of new features including out-of-the-box support for parallel cluster/grid computing, advanced parameter estimation capabilities such as Markov Chain Monte-Carlo analysis, database connectivity support, and an assortment of utilities for model documentation and data post-processing.
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| IBM awards Rice $700K for shared university research project |
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Rice University and IBM today announced they will collaborate on the development of an open-standards-based, service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help higher education institutions tie together their increasingly diverse academic software applications.
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| UK e-Science All Hands Meeting hits records |
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Six hundred and thirty delegates attended the 5th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham last month. Submission of papers and ideas for workshops and sessions were at record levels. 84 papers were accepted out of 128 submitted, 10 out of 25 workshop proposals were accepted and 5 out of 13 session proposals.
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| Singapore’s Institute of High Performance Computing joins MediaGrid.org to advance international media Grid standards |
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Singapore's Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) has joined MediaGrid.org to participate in the development of international standards for storing, delivering, and processing digital media in Grid computing environments.
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| Oracle sets world record TPC-H one Terabyte clustered benchmark result on PANTA systems PANTAmatrix with SilverStorm RDS |
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Oracle has achieved a new record-setting TPC-H One Terabyte (TB) benchmark running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with Linux, on PANTA Systems' PANTAmatrix platform using SilverStorm's Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). This is the fastest TPC-H One TB performance result for clustered environments, outperforming the best TPC-H One TB results from IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in both performance and price.
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| HP, Intel and Oracle to modernize applications for legacy mainframe customers |
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HP, Intel Corp. and Oracle have launched a joint initiative to help customers increase business agility and performance, reduce operational cost, and mitigate risk when moving applications from mainframe systems to open standards-based server environments.
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| IBM helps Rudolf Wöhrl improve supply-chain processes with services oriented architecture |
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Implementing a services oriented architecture (SOA), based on IBM software and mainframe technologies, enabled Rudolf Wöhrl AG to re-engineer its supply-chain processes. Designed by IBM Premium Business Partner FRITZ & MACZIOL, the architecture enhances the efficiency and transparency of the clothing company's supply chain and was the key to rapid implementation of its new business processes.
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| Leading system integrators and independent software vendors support Oracle Fusion Middleware |
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9000 market leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Value Added Resellers (VARs) and System Integrators (SIs) are supporting Oracle Fusion Middleware. Partner support has played a significant role in the rapidly growing worldwide adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware and represented 41 percent of Oracle Fusion Middleware's overall annual revenue in fiscal year 2006.
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| Oracle and i-flex solutions certify Oracle Fusion Middleware with i-flex applications |
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Oracle and i-flex solutions have certified i-flex applications with Oracle Application Server 10g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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| IBM subsidiary launched in Ukraine - helping local businesses to transform |
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IBM has opened a subsidiary office in Ukraine and gave details of some key local customer engagements. "IBM is very excited about Ukraine.
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| New IBM software and services accelerate business use of Service Oriented Architectures |
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IBM has introduced new software and services for building and expanding a service oriented architecture (SOA). The new offerings, based on IBM's experience with nearly 3000 SOA customer engagements and 2500 business partners, will help clients efficiently and quickly deploy SOAs.
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| University of Florida gets USD 425.000 for Grid |
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The US federal government has awarded a $30 million grant to continue research and development on a powerful, new international computing tool, including $425,000 for work on the project at the University of Florida.
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| Pillar Data Systems and Oracle unleash the power of high performing storage |
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Pillar Data Systems, a provider of enterprise network storage systems, and Oracle, have made available the Pillar Axiom storage system and Oracle Database 10g Accelerator to deliver a storage Grid that simplifies administration headaches and helps eliminate complex personnel requirements for Oracle DBAs to better administer their storage requirements.
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| Tillinghast releases new TAS-MoSes software application |
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The Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin recently released a new actuarial software application, TAS-MoSes, to help insurers and financial services companies gain competitive advantage and satisfy forthcoming regulatory requirements. The unmatched comprehensive functionality in TAS-MoSes helps these companies save time and money in arriving at a complete solution. Because it is developed and supported by Tillinghast, the world's largest actuarial practice focused on insurance, TAS-MoSes gives insurers confidence in its trustworthy methodology.
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| Oracle Fusion Middleware momentum attracts ISVs |
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Increasing demand for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform is the driver behind the opening of two Independent Software Vendor (ISV) migration centres in Europe this year, with the result that more ISVs are joining the Oracle fold, according to Stein Surlien, Vice President, Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels.
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| LG Electronics selects Oracle Fusion Middleware to integrate global IT infrastructure and maximize business efficiency |
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LG Electronics, a global technology innovator in consumer electronics and mobile communications, has chosen to implement Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to integrate its global IT infrastructure into a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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| Oracle buys Sunopsis |
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Oracle plans to enhance its Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings through the acquisition of Sunopsis, a provider of heterogeneous data integration products. This acquisition further strengthens Oracle's hot-pluggable commitment to support IT environments by providing broad support for both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and targets. Sunopsis offers best-of-breed products for data integration through its high performance "Extract Load Transform" (ELT) architecture and its support for a broad range of data sources and target systems.
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| IBM, Oracle and i-flex to collaborate on banking solutions |
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IBM, Oracle and i-flex will collaborate to provide joint banking customers with infrastructure, services, and support for enterprise applications, core banking, and risk management. The banking collaboration will combine the business and IT architectural leadership of IBM in banks, banking-specific application solutions from Oracle, and core banking and risk solutions from i-flex. This combination can help banks today, using proven, market-leading solutions in CRM, Core Transaction Processing, Risk, Analytics and Corporate Operations to translate a bank's business strategies into execution in a timely and effective manner.
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| HP wins utility computing contracts from Federal Government |
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HP has been awarded two multiyear contracts by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to deliver a reliable, responsive and cost-effective computing infrastructure in 17 locations worldwide. The two contracts are indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) awards. Exclusive to HP, these two contracts have a ceiling of $440 million over an eight-year period. If they realize their full potential, these contracts could be the largest utility computing contracts won by HP to date.
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| Sun unveils the future of virtualized datacentres in Project Blackbox |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has unveiled Project Blackbox, a systems' innovation designed to reset datacentre economics. Project Blackbox provides a simple, "instant-on" modular datacentre targeting companies seeking rapid and highly efficient deployment of lights-out infrastructure. Project Blackbox packages compute, storage and network infrastructure, along with high-efficiency power and cooling into modular units based on standard shipping containers. The Project Blackbox prototype is designed to be rapidly and flexibly deployed anytime, anywhere.
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| Oracle offers customers bundled NAVTEQ map data for business applications |
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Oracle has signed a multiyear, worldwide agreement with NAVTEQ, a global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, to incorporate its boundary mapping data into Oracle Database 10g and other Oracle products. Including the NAVTEQ data will enable customers to more easily location-enable their critical business applications to reduce costs and increase productivity and revenue opportunities.
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| Altair Engineering announces the release of Altair HyperWorks 8.0, the broadest enterprise simulation technology suite for PLM |
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Altair Engineering Inc., a global provider of technology and services that strengthen client innovation and decision-making, has released Altair HyperWorks 8.0, the Engineering Framework for Product Design. The integrated suite of advanced computer-aided engineering (CAE) software tools delivers advanced technology and functionality to increase efficiency and reduce cycle time in the development of innovative, robust products.
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| DNA computing targets West Nile Virus and other deadly diseases |
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Researchers say that they have developed a DNA-based computer that could lead to faster, more accurate tests for diagnosing West Nile Virus and bird flu. Representing the first "medium-scale integrated molecular circuit", it is the most powerful computing device of its type to date, they say.
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| NSF awards $76 million for 2006 Science and Technology Centers |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a total of $76 million over the next 5 years to fund multi-university collaborations to support four cross-disciplinary centres to address fundamental questions in the areas of next-generation polymers, climate modelling, microbial oceanography and coastal environments.
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| Mayo Clinic study performed with terascale supercomputer could lead to safer pesticides |
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In a new study in the October issue ofBioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, a Mayo Clinic researcher has published work that opens the door to the possibility of creating safer pesticides to control the greenbug and English grain aphid in crop farms. The key, according to the study's author, Yuan-Ping Pang, Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic's Computer-Aided Molecular Design Laboratory, was in identifying an insect-specific enzyme that could be used as a direct target for a new insecticide that would not affect humans and animals. The research was done with the support of a powerful terascale supercomputer Dr. Pang designed to develop a three-dimensional model of an enzyme taken from the two insects. Terascale refers to a computer so powerful it can perform one trillion operations per second.
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| Unmanned aircraft key to future operations, according to general |
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"Decision superiority" attained with the help of unmanned aircraft will play a key role in future air, space and cyberspace missions for the Air Force and NATO, the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe stated. Acting in his role as director of the multinational Joint Air Power Competence Center, Air Force General William T. Hobbins spoke at the annual JAPCC Air Power Conference. General Hobbins, whose other hats include commander of the Allied Air Component Command at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and commander of the U.S. European Command air component, addressed an audience of more than 200 academic, industry and military professionals.
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| Garner CAD Technic chooses Altair HyperWorks engineering framework to better serve aerospace customers |
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Garner CAD Technic GmbH (GCT) - a member of the GCT Group, which specializes in engineering services for the aerospace market - has chosen the Altair HyperWorks suite to offer its clients a broader set of services in finite-element modelling and structural optimization. Initially, GCT plans to use HyperMesh and OptiStruct for structural optimization of metal parts such as aircraft elevators and body elements, with plans to use the software on composite parts at customer request.
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| Monster jellyfish? Mapping the global internet |
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By developing novel methods to map and model the internet, even visualising it as a jellyfish, the EVERGROW project is challenging conventional thinking and offering new insights into how best to route future network traffic. Sooner than we think, networks will be providing us with access to all the world's knowledge. Not only that, but our entire society could be network-based, from industry and government to our private lives. The demand on future networks, especially the most open one of all, the internet, will be very high. Will they be able to cope?
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| Network Equipment Technologies announces initial orders for multi-service, high-speed switching platform |
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Telecommunications equipment maker Network Equipment Technologies Inc. has received initial advance orders for its NX5010 high-speed switching platform, to be shipped upon general availability of the product, which is expected shortly. Jointly developed by NET and Bay Microsystems, specialized in high performance packet processing solutions, the NX5010 is a compact, scalable, 10 gigabit per second multi-service aggregation and switching platform.
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| University of Houston and AboveNet flip the switch to enormous bandwidth |
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Houston has now become a key stop on the information superhighway thanks to a partnership between the University of Houston (UH) and fiber optic provider AboveNet Communications Inc. The two organisations worked together to establish the Research & Education Network of Houston (RENoH), a metropolitan fiber optic network that allows massive amounts of data to be transferred among UH, Rice University, the Texas Medical Center (TMC) and other research and educational institutions. Utilizing a $3.5 million dark fiber optical network provided by AboveNet to the UH Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2), the 22 route miles of fiber that make up RENoH in the Houston Metropolitan area have now been activated for day-to-day use with the ability to rapidly transfer from one trillion bytes (or terabytes) to one quadrillion bytes (or petabytes) of data.
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| Force10 Networks builds European sales team to deliver high performance networking solutions |
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Force10 Networks, a pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, is increasing its presence in Europe with several key additions to its sales team. To direct its overall sales strategy for the region, Force10 has appointed Marshall Bartoszek vice president of sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Force10 has also named Michael Frey sales director for central Europe to more effectively pursue opportunities with service providers and enterprises that require high performance networks.
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| German research network relies on Alcatel's transport service switch |
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Alcatel's transport service switch is an integral part of the Vertically Integrated Optical test bed for Large Applications (VIOLA) network in Germany. The VIOLA network, funded by the German Federal State secretary for Research and Education (BMBF), connects five high performance computer clusters with an aggregated performance of more than 1 Teraflops of computing power (one trillion operations per second) supporting different applications and increased multi-protocol networking requirements.
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| European Commission launches Best IST Project Website Award |
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The European Commission is announcing a contest for the Best IST Project Website Award, sponsored by Nokia. The winning project will receive 10,000 euro on 23rd November 2006 at the final session of the IST 2006 Event in Helsinki, 21-23rd November 2006. The objective is to enhance the content and visibility of these websites as well as publicising their activities. IST Projects can enroll their websites which will then be voted and ranked by the wider Internet community. A jury will select three finalists amongst the highest ranked sites.
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| 35 projects identified within the European Research Infrastructures |
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The ESFRI roadmap identifies 35 large-scale European I nfrastructure projects at various stages of development.
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