| PrimeurWeekly 20 November 2006 |
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| Dr. Tadashi Watanabe awarded the Seymour Cray IEEE Prize |
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Dr. Tadashi Watanabe, project manager of the Japanese petaflop/s Initiative, at the RIKEN research institute and a former Vice President of NEC, is the first Japanese citizen to be awarded the distinguished Seymour Cray prize for computer technology by the IEEE. This prestigious honour is for his life's work in High Performance Computer developments. (Chris Lazou)
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| Fifth EGEE Industry Day on Biomedical Challenges in Grid Adoption calls for participation |
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The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project team invites interested parties to the 5th EGEE Industry Day, the first on Biomedical Challenges in Grid Adoption between Research and Industry, which will focus on how the EGEE framework enables companies and research organisations to confidently move forward with the adoption of its Grid technologies. The Industry Day will take place on 24 November 2006 at CSC, the Finnish IT centre for science, Keilaranta 14, Keilaniemi, Espoo, Helsinki, Finland.
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| SimCity for real |
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Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play 'SimCity' for real using Grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies on a real, but anonymous, model of the UK population. Dr. Mark Birkin and colleagues, who are developing the model at the University of Leeds, have been demonstrating its potential at the UK e-Science stand at SC06.
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| Quadrics to expand its line of 10-Gigabit Ethernet interconnects for massively parallel computing |
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Quadrics has launched its latest member of the QsTenG family designed for smaller networks. Quadrics is offering the 24-port QsTenG-TG2 1U, a one rack-unit solution also based on the FM2224, which comes in CX-4 copper and XFP optics versions. Quadrics QsTenG is a chassis-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet solution that can scale from 24 ports to 96 ports. The switch will use the company's own switch federation software to build hierarchical "fat tree" interconnect networks of up to 3456 ports.
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| OMII 3.2.0 released |
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The latest versions of the OMII-UK Server & Client software releases are now available for download. These releases install on a variety of modern Linux distributions, Windows XP SP2 (client only) and Apple OSX. They will run in a variety of Java JDK environments. This release is a fully functional production release.
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| IBM opens new Centre of Excellence for Oil and Gas in Norway |
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IBM has opened a Centre of Excellence for Oil and Gas in Norway with the aim of providing world class solutions and innovation for the oil and gas industry. The centre highlights IBM's commitment to Norway's biggest industry, and will be the hub for IBM's oil and gas-related activities in Northeast Europe and Russia, the Middle East and South Africa, serving local and international clients.
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| Cambridge University Supercomputer ranks 20th in the world |
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ClusterVision, specialist in Linux supercomputer clusters, has completed one of the world's fastest supercomputers for the High Performance Computing Facility of the University of Cambridge. Built using Dell's 9th generation servers and storage units and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, the supercomputer will provide a central compute and storage facility to all scientists of the University of Cambridge.
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| Voltaire delivers peak performance for High Performance Clusters and Grids with scalable fabric management software |
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Voltaire has introduced new highly scalable fabric management software that delivers peak performance for high performance clusters and Grids. GridVision Enhanced is a server-based version of Voltaire's field-proven InfiniBand fabric management software that delivers high performance and speeds deployment of large InfiniBand fabrics consisting of hundreds or thousands of servers. Using GridVision Enhanced, users can bring up a multi-thousand node cluster in less than one minute.
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| Liquid Computing raises US $27.7 million in Series B financing |
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Liquid Computing has completed its Series B financing in the amount of US $27.7 million. The funding comes after the recent launch of Liquid Computing's Interconnect Driven Server, LiquidIQ. The financing will support Liquid Computing's commercial expansion in the North American and European Enterprise High Performance Computing and Service Provider (xSP) markets. The funding was led by Newbury Ventures, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| New energy-efficient HP servers and workstations power up performance |
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HP has introduced new server and workstation systems designed to maintain power efficiency while meeting the needs of high-throughput, data-intensive applications. The new platforms, based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series processors, include HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem server blades and HP Workstations and can improve certain enterprise application performance by 48 percent.
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| Cluster Resources' Moab - most selected on Top500 supercomputers |
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With the new Top500 supercomputers list released November 14, Cluster Resources Inc.'s Moab has been selected to run on 50 percent of the top ten systems and now more than 48 percent of the top 100 systems' total CPU count. Leading sites that have selected Moab include the numbers 1,2,4,6 and 10 systems. Cluster Resources has experienced consistent year-over-year growth in Top500 adoption over the previous five years.
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| Sandia and Cray boost Sandia's "Red Storm" supercomputer performance to 125 Tflop/s |
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Sandia National Laboratories has upgraded its "Red Storm" supercomputer by boosting performance from 40 Tflop/s to 125 Tflop/s , further establishing Cray's Red Storm as one of the highest performing supercomputers in the world.
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| Altair Engineering's PBS Professional 8.0 released for IBM Blue Gene architecture |
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Altair Engineering Inc.'s PBS Professional 8.0 is now generally available for the IBM System Blue Gene Solution. PBS Professional 8.0 adds support for massive IBM Blue Gene systems through new virtual node functionality. Blue Gene customers can now have one common workload management solution across their entire high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.
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| Appro announces support for dual-core/quad-core Intel Xeon processor 3000, 5100 and 5300 series |
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Appro, a provider of high-performance enterprise computing systems, has launched support for Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 3000 and 5100 series and the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series.
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| Intel introduces quad-core |
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Intel Corporation has introduced the Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 and Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processor families. These products deliver immense speed and responsiveness for general purpose servers and workstations and for digital media creation, high-end gaming and other market segments that crave absolute performance.
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| Tyan Comouter Corp. launches new OEM division, TyanPSC, at SC 2006 |
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Tyan Computer Corporation has launched its new OEM business division, TyanPSC. TyanPSC exists to design and deliver personal supercomputers for Tyan Computer Corporation's customer base of more than 2.5 million users. TyanPSC offers branded Typhoon series "personal supercomputers". TyanPSC's next generation personal supercomputer, the Typhoon 600 series, announced and launched in co-ordination with the TyanPSC OEM business unit, is a turnkey five node cluster system that runs Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, delivering 256 Gflop/s using Intel Xeon 5300 series "Clovertown" processors.
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| NASA ensures Columbia Supercomputer will continue to fuel new science with latest SGI technology infusion |
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In the past two years, NASA's history-making Columbia supercomputer has delivered 100 million processor hours of productive use. Because Columbia dramatically shortens the time required to solve even complex problems, the system has saved millions of hours of valuable research time for scientists and engineers. Now, a new technology infusion from SGI will ensure the agency's history-making Columbia supercomputer will continue to enable scientific breakthroughs for years to come.
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| Sun announces new HPC Solutions and Services |
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At Supercomputing 2006, Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched a portfolio of new service packages and high performance computing (HPC) technologies that will help customers accelerate time to productivity, fast deployment and production-ready HPC. The new solutions and services build out Sun's HPC portfolio with innovative technologies, in addition to introducing new services that go beyond the traditional HPC approach to help customers address key challenges in their datacentres.
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| Mississippi State University selects Sun Fire servers for High Performance Computing Collaboratory |
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The Mississippi State University (MSU) High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2) is deploying a high performance computing (HPC) cluster based on the newest Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the most advanced operating system on the planet - representing Sun's largest Solaris 10 HPC win to-date. The implementation was built, delivered and installed through the Sun Customer Ready Systems (CRS) programme, and includes more than 500 Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors.
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| Sun technology powers world's top performing supercomputers |
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Sun technology is powering ten of the world's highest-performing supercomputers, as determined by the TOP500 Organisation. Sun doubled its presence on the ranking, as compared to the TOP500 list released at Supercomputing 2005, with five new entries including the Mississippi State University (MSU) High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2), Sun Solution Center for HPC (high performance computing) and Sun Grid Compute Utility. Today, the MSU HPC2 installation represents Sun's largest HPC cluster based on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the most advanced OS on the planet.
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| Oracle On Demand surpasses 1.7 million user milestone |
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Oracle On Demand has surpassed a milestone of more than 1.7 million users, representing more than 2200 customers. During Q1 FY07, Oracle On Demand revenue grew by nearly 50 percent. This momentum is being driven by a significantly expanded portfolio of On Demand services across Oracle's software products, including subscription-based solutions, managed applications, and software management services.
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| Sun releases three new open source modules to the Grid Engine project |
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Sun is making a key contribution to advancing open source technologies by releasing three modules to the Grid Engine project: The new Grid Engine Service Domain Management module and two modules with an existing Sun IP taken from the N1 Grid Engine Product. These are the Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting Console and the Grid Engine Microsoft Windows submit and execution host support. Grid Engine is an ideal solution running on Solaris 10 leveraging Solaris' Dtrace monitors, eliminating bottlenecks for unmatched Grid performance.
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| The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) joins MediaGrid.org to advance International Media Grid Standards |
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The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) 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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| NYSGrid: A Cyberinfrastructure Initiative for the 21st century |
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Nineteen New York institutions have joined to create NYSGrid, a 21st century cyberinfrastructure initiative that will provide its constituency with unprecedented resources for research, education, and community outreach. NYSGrid resources will aggregate high-end computing, networking, data storage, visualization, and most importantly, intellectual capital from sites across the State.
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| SiCortex introduces ultra low power computers for Teraflops-scale Linux applications |
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SiCortex, the first company to engineer a cluster computer from the silicon up, has introduced its family of ultra low power high performance Linux systems. SiCortex's new design represents a sea change in cluster computing, enabling the proliferation of multi-teraflop computing to a wider range of users.
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