| Primeur Weekly 07 August 2006 |
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| "The THIRD-BRAIN: The Next Generation of Supercomputer Design Beyond PetaFlop/s" - an interview with Steve Chen |
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One of the prominent speakers in Dresden at the ISC2006 Supercomputer Conference was Dr. Steve Chen. Steve Chen designed some of the very successful early Cray Supercomputers in the US. In the recent years, he designed the SuperBlade systems for the Chinese company, Galactic Computing. But it does not stop there. While everybody else is looking ahead to the first Petaflop/s systems, perhaps next year, Steve Chen is already one step further. His new design, called theTHIRD-BRAINis an architecture far beyond the Petaflop/s system. Emulating and augmenting the real Human Brain, the design draws from a number of disciplines and incorporates this in an innovative approach. In parallel to designing Supercomputers, Steve Chen is also very active in developing leading-edge applications in China. He is working on a project of putting many HPC systems in the different Chinese states and linking them together as a large and highly efficientIntegral Utility Supercomputing Grid (IUGS) or Integral Grid. The Grid Supercomputers will be made available as a commercial service on the Internet, allowing highly productive, real-time, interactive and collaborative enterprise or personal applications in science, engineering, commerce, telecommunication, healthcare, education, media, financial and logistics. The pervasive use of Grid Supercomputers could bring China to the forefront of Supercomputer applications in five years from now. Currently, Steve Chen is also leading twoIntegral Gridtrial projects delivering services in "digital hospital and healthcare” and "Third-Brain driven learning engine" to underdeveloped rural and farming areas in China.
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| EuroFlash |
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| Solving the security challenge of dynamic networks |
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Europe is hurtling towards an information society capable of offering communication services anywhere in the world; a society where data and communication devices spontaneously form networks using any medium with any protocol to access any service. So far, such a proposition is not too secure. But researchers are on the case.
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| EUMed-Grid 1st Conference Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean |
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The EUMEDGRID 1st Conference will present the vision of cross-national eInfrastructures as a driving force towards widening the European Research Area and bridging the digital divide between Europe and the neighboring Mediterranean Countries.
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| Solving the security challenge of dynamic networks |
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Europe is hurtling towards an information society capable of offering communication services anywhere in the world; a society where data and communication devices spontaneously form networks using any medium with any protocol to access any service. So far, such a proposition is not too secure. But researchers are on the case. As networks undergo profound changes in their very nature, expanding at dizzying speed, potential security risks are increasing at an equal or even greater rate. Yet there is one promising approach to solving the security problems posed by such fast expanding networks - that of evolutionary and adaptive security. Three IST projects are tackling the problem on this basis.
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| UK to launch online research archive to further biomedical discovery |
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Scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research at the touch of a button thanks to a major new initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas in a bid to speed up scientific discovery. Based on a model currently used in the United States, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) will provide free access to an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences.
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| GridKa Grid School 2006 |
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Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe will its annual GridKa School in 2006, from September 11. - 15
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| Pointing the direction of future EU quantum information research |
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Although presently a very young field, Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) could well have a vital role to play in future information and communication technologies. Quantum computing and communication techniques have the potential to transform the way we think about computing power.
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| Greater bandwidth from alternative semiconductor structures |
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With demand for greater bandwidth in communication networks steadily increasing, existing optical transmission and amplification technologies are fast reaching their limits. However simulations of a new type of semiconductor technology show promise in overcoming current bandwidth restrictions, and doing so more cheaply.
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| Farms harvest hi-tech |
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Farmers could harvest the benefits of a high-tech approach to agriculture and business thanks to an EU project developing policy proposals for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research in the agri-business. The Ambient Intelligence@netfood (AmI@netfood) started in April 2005 and examined the potential role of ICT to improve farming efficiency and management. Due to finish in July, the project is using an extension to develop some pilot research programmes in some vital areas of research.
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| Completion of a one-petaflops (1 Pflop/s) computer system for simulation of molecular dynamics at Riken |
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RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research; Ryoji NOYORI, President), Intel K.K., and SGI Japan, Ltd. announced recently that they have succeeded in building a high-speed computer system, named "MDGRAPE-3"*1, for carrying out molecular dynamics simulations at a theoretical speed of one petaflops*2 (one thousand trillion calculations per second). According to the TOP500 list, as of June 16, 2006 the world's fastest supercomputer is the IBM BlueGene/L, owned by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which has a theoretical peak performance of 360 teraflops (360 trillion calculations per second). The MDGRAPE-3 system cannot run the Linpack benchmark, which is the basis for the TOP500 ranking. However, its performance of one petaflops means that it is approximately three times faster than BlueGene/L.
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| HCL and University of Melbourne to collaborate on Grid |
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HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL), an IndianIT services company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with "The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems" (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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| PoochMPI Toolkit for Mathematica |
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Dauger Research, and Advanced Cluster Systems did announce the PoochMPI Toolkit for Mathematica, enabling Wolfram Research's Mathematica to be combined with the easy-to-use, supercomputer-compatible Pooch clustering technology of Dauger Research. This new technology, as Pooch as done before, will further enhance the power of clusters for its users.
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| SDSC's supercomputers cast light on cloudy puzzle of global weather |
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Record heat waves, exceptionally powerful hurricanes, destructive tsunamis, and melting icecaps have many discussing the weather, but can anybody do anything about it? The first step towards any solution is understanding the problem, and that's where the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) – in separate collaborations with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Colorado State University – applies its heavy-duty number-crunching expertise
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| HPCN helps controlloing wildfire |
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Early Sunday morning, July 23, an abandoned campfire in Cleveland National Forest erupted into a 7,000-acre wildfire that continues to spread. Now known as the Horse Fire, it threatens more than 1,500 homes and 100 commercial properties near San Diego, Calif. Within 24 hours, communications expert Hans-Werner Braun and his collaborators from the NSF-supported High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) were on the scene. Recruited by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF), HPWREN researchers set up hardware at key points to allow firefighters in remote locations to communicate by a wireless link from the Horse Fire incident command post to the Internet
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| NEC succeeds in development of multiprocessor virtualization technology |
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NEC Corporation developed a multiprocessor virtualization technology enabling the flexible and secure installation of a wide variety of application software on electronic devices in accordance with user needs, without causing any harm to the operation of the pre-installed application software for basic functions. This technology is aimed at making devices such as mobiles phones, digital electronics and automotive information systems more multi-functional.
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| IBM and AMD selected by Move to power datacenter |
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Move the world's largest moving community, will consolidate its existing infrastructure onto a virtualized IBM BladeCenter system based on the AMD Opteron processor to increase computing performance and datacenter power efficiency.
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| NASA Ames buys CEI EnSight for CAE visualization |
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NASA Ames Research Center has purchased multiple licenses of CEI's EnSight Gold software to provide consistent visualization quality for different types of analyses and to support collaboration among different NASA divisions, the US Department of Defense (DoD), and the US Department of Energy (DoE).
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| Barnyard movie uses Sun for computer-generated animation |
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Nickelodeon Movies' computer-animated movie "Barnyard," distributed by Paramount Pictures, which hits theaters nationwide today, features complex computer-generated animation run on Sun equipment.
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| IBM acquires Webify |
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IBM acquired Webify Solutions, an Austin, Texas-based, privately held provider of industry-specific software and services for building service oriented architectures (SOA).
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| Lockheed Martin selects SGI Altix 4700 server as host platform for F-35 Lightning II Training Devices |
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Lockheed Martin has selected the SGI Altix 4700 server to serve as the host computing platform for the F-35 "Lightning II" Training Devices. The F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, is a multi-role fighter which combines stealth supersonic performance and advanced sensor fusion. The SGI-powered F-35 Training Devices host computer will allow Lockheed Martin to provide pilots with a high-fidelity deterministic real time environment that realistically simulates the capabilities of this next-generation fighter aircraft, which will support the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, United Kingdom and seven other International Partner nations. F-35 Training Devices will be powered by the SGI Altix 4700 and will train pilots for the kind of uncompromised combat performance required in the 21st century.
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