| Primeur Weekly 13 February 2006 |
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| EuroFlash |
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| UK e-Science Programme moves on with new ambassador |
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The UK e-Science Programme is entering a new phase with the appointment of its first envoy and the award of continued funding to eight e Science centres. e-Science refers to the science that is made possible when the resources held on computers at widely-dispersed locations are pooled via high speed networks. After five years, the UK e-Science Programme, one of the first co-ordinated national e-Science programmes in the world, is entering a new phase during which a national e-Infrastructure for research and innovation will be established.
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| EGA and GGF to sign non-binding Letter of Intent to merge |
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On February 6, the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) and the Global Grid Forum (GGF) have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge, bringing together two leading Grid organisations with a shared mission and common values.
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| EELA takes off |
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By means of the action of a group of very skilled and highly motivated people in Europe and Latin America, the EELA Project will create a human network dedicated to work on Grids, e-Infrastructures, and e-Science. EELA started on the 1st of January 2006 and was officially launched during its Kick-off Meeting (KoM), held at CIEMAT in Madrid and Trujillo, Spain between January, 30 and February, 2, 2006.
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| Official kick-off meeting of the EUMEDGRID Project: empowering e-Science across the Mediterranean |
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Funded by European Commission, the EUMEDGRID project starts officially with a meeting located, both symbolically and geographically, at the heart of the Mediterranean. During the next two years, a group of highly-motivated experts will collaborate to develop a Grid e-Infrastructure for e-Science across the Mediterranean: a concrete initiative aiming at bridging the Digital Divide and fostering collaboration between Europe and its Mediterranean Neighbours.
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| The UK e-Science Institute wins continued funding |
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The decision by Research Councils UK that they will continue to fund the e-Science Institute through an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant for a further five years post July 2006 marks a significant investment in the continuation of the UK e Science Programme which commenced in 2001. Over GBP2.7 Million has been awarded to the Institute at the University of Edinburgh, to continue its programme of support for the UK e-Science community by providing a focus and meeting place for researchers.
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| Innovative VR simulation framework cuts time-to-market |
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Using computer platforms for design and engineering is now standard throughout industry. But since many existing tools do not integrate well with each other, extended timescales result. A new system bridging both areas using virtual reality offers hope. The IST project Visicade aimed to overcome such handicaps, by developing an innovative simulation framework based on Virtual Reality (VR) technology that would incorporate many CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) tasks into the VR platform. The intention was to reduce the time required for modelling and evaluation procedures.
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| International Summer School on Grid Computing 2006 to be held in Ischia, Italy |
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The International Summer School on Grid Computing 2006 will be held in Ischia, Italy (near Naples) from Sunday 9th to Friday 21st July 2006. The School will consist of lectures and discussion with leading authorities in advanced Grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. These will be complemented by laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work. The School will boost students' capabilities for research and innovation.
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| Altair Engineering announces establishment of Trans-National European and Asia/Pacific operations |
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Altair Engineering opened tow new trans-national support and marketing organisations - one based in Boeblingen, Germany, and another in Bangalore, India - will be responsible for Altair operations in Europe and Asia/Pacific, respectively.
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| February 28 deadline for submitting Birds-of-a-Feather proposals for ISC2006 |
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Tuesday, February 28, is the deadline for submitting Birds-of-a-Feather proposals for the 2006 International Supercomputer Conference to be held June 27-30 in Dresden. Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are informal discussion forums where a number of participants gather to talk about a specific HPC topic of mutual interest. This is the first year BoFs are being planned as part of the ISC2006 programme and the sessions are open to all conference attendees, including exhibitors.
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| Blade.org bladeserver community organised by large number of IT companies |
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More than 40 technology experts including IBM and Intel have officially formed Blade.org, an open community that will develop and advance next-generation technologies for blades. The Blade.org community will initially focus on solution design guidance, compliance and interoperability testing, industry events and marketplace education.
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| IBM unveils Cell Broadband Engine computer |
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IBM has introduced a blade computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE). The IBM branded Cell BE-based system is designed for businesses that need the dense computing power and unique capabilities of the Cell BE processor to tackle tasks involving graphic-intensive, numeric applications.
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| Georgia Institute of Technology accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster |
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One of the world's most powerful supercomputing clusters will anchor Georgia Tech's new Center for the Study of Systems Biology. The Center will use IBM technologies to advance research into new drugs for the treatment of some of today's most life-threatening diseases, including cancer. The Center's research will be headed by one of the world's leading systems biologists, Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology.
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| Nascentric to use United Devices' Grid MP for simulation and verification clusters |
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Nascentric has selected United Devices' Grid MP software platform for use with Nascim, Nascentric's next-generation Fast-SPICE chip-level simulation and verification tool. Grid MP enables Nascentric to provide a broadly Grid-enabled Nascim product, while simultaneously building Grid expertise within Nascentric to be able to better advise customers on leading-edge distributed computing technologies.
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| NSF names Daniel Atkins to head new Office of Cyberinfrastructure |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA has named distinguished computer scientist Dr. Daniel E. Atkins to head its newly created Office of Cyberinfrastructure. Dr. Atkins, a professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has made major contributions to high-performance computer architecture, and led or participated in the design and construction of seven experimental machines including some of the earliest parallel computers.
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| UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) chooses Sun to help improve the study of healthy and diseased human brains |
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UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) selected Sun to create an affordable high performance computing (HPC) Grid to help improve the study of the brain. Based on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Sun N1 Grid Engine, 306 Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun StorEdge L8500, the Grid will run complex and data-intensive algorithms to assist LONI in researching causes, cures and treatments for ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and analysing brain development.
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| New IBM Blade computers |
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IBM has introduced new blade computing systems that enable data to travel up to 10 times faster than previously possible across corporate networks. The new high-performance systems, called IBM BladeCenter H, increase the bandwidth of tiny blade computers, providing businesses up to 10 times the capacity to move data across their networks. The processing breakthrough, made possible by IBM Research, increases the internal capability of the new system by delivering more than 40 Gigabits (Gb) of I/O bandwidth to every blade server.
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| Bioinformatics Consortium at the University of Missouri adds SGI technology for large-scale computational life sciences research |
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The Bioinformatics Consortium at the University of Missouri recently purchased high-performance computing technology from Silicon Graphics and an SGI InfiniteStorage storage area network (SAN) with 8TB of capacity.
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| Biodesign and TGen form joint Center for Systems and Computational Biology |
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To help usher in a new era of molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, Arizona State University's (ASU) Biodesign Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have teamed up to establish the Center for Systems and Computational Biology. One of the first of its kind in the USA, the new centre will accelerate the pace of biomedical research, directly impact patient care and provide new funding opportunities for both TGen and ASU.
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| Three Pitt 'teacher-scholars' honoured By NSF with Career Awards |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA has awarded three University of Pittsburgh professors the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, its most prestigious honour for junior faculty members. The award supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organisation.
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| Enron e-mail database proves easy pickings for LBNL's FastBit Search technology |
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As the trial of former Enron executives gets under way, the extensive e-mail trails left by employees of the Houston energy firm are expected to provide both compelling evidence and entertaining insight. In 2003, as part of an investigation into Enron's business dealings in California, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made public a database containing more than 500,000 e-mails sent by 151 Enron employees. Subjects ranged from corporate decisions to jokes to personal matters. While the subject matter makes for intriguing reading, the entire database also proved an interesting subject for a number of researchers around the USA, including members of the Scientific Data Management Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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| Sun spotlights growing momentum with world-record setting performance for new Sun Fire server line running UltraSPARC IV+ processors |
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Sun Microsystems has achieved strong market momentum for the UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire server family: five new record-breaking performance benchmarks and rapid customer adoption. Customers are upgraing quickly to the recently-announced server line, which offers an up to five times performance increase over UltraSPARC III servers and double the performance over previous UltraSPARC generations at the same power consumption in the same footprint and for the same price.
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| Force10 Networks TeraScale E-Series to anchor Sun Grid Compute Utility |
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Sun Microsystems has selected the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers as the foundation for its Sun Grid Compute Utility network architecture. Leveraging the high density and resiliency of the Force10 TeraScale E1200, Sun Grid is significantly reducing management costs by simplifying its utility computing architecture. Sun Grid helps customers and partners derive immediate benefits from an open, Grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT.
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| ProCurve Networking by HP expands functionality at Network Edge with new intelligent switches |
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ProCurve Networking by HP has introduced a set of Layer 3/4 LAN switches that feature wirespeed performance and integrated Gigabit Power over Ethernet (PoE). Both switch series further sharpen ProCurve's Adaptive EDGE Architecture by delivering advanced functionality to the network edge to meet the evolving needs of security, mobility and convergence applications.
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| Vodacom calls on Callidus Software TrueComp solution for Enterprise Incentive Management |
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Vodacom, a cellular network operator in South Africa and one of the fastest-growing GSM networks in the world, selected the TrueComp solution by Callidus Software to manage incentive compensation programmes for its direct sales force and indirect sales channels. Under the terms of the agreement, Vodacom will be able to use the Callidus products TrueComp Manager, TrueInformation and TrueResolution for its representatives in internal sales and retail sales as well as for third party dealerships in South Africa.
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