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| Unicore 6.0 beta released |
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UNICORE 6 beta has been released. UNICORE offers a ready-to-run Grid system including client and server Grid middleware software.
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| the 10th anniversary of the DAS supercomputer systems and inauguration of DAS3 |
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On the occasion of the installation of the third generation of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS3), the ASCI research school organizes a symposium at Delft University of Technology on June 1, 2007. The program of the symposium includes scientific presentations and demonstrations of work performed with the current and previous generations of the DAS, of two keynote presentations on wide-area computing, and of the official inauguration of the DAS3: a 554 CPU, 3.9 Tflop/s system.
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| ORAP calls for participation to its 21st Forum |
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The 21st ORAP Forum will be held at the Universitary Center Orsay at the Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire, Auditorium Pierre Lehmann in Orsay, France. The Forum will address hybrid machines and petaflop projects.
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| International Supercomputing Conference 2007 to announe ISC Award winners |
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The ISC 2007 Conference organizers have announced the ISC Award winners. The winning papers will be presented at the ISC'07 Scientific Day on Tuesday, June 26. The Awarding of the two ISC Award Winners will take place during the ISC'07 Conference Opening Session on Wednesday morning, June 27. ISC 2007 will be held in Dresden, June 26-29, 2007.
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| Microsoft hires another Grid expert |
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Steven Newhouse, will leave as director of OMII-UK and join Microsoft. OMII did start search for a new director. Steven joins serval other Grid experts that already went to Microsoft sometime ago, including Fabrizio Gagliardi, former EGEE manager, and Tony Hey, former UK eScience head. Meanwhile it remains unclear whether Microsoft will develop a Grid computing strategy or offering.
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| FPGA programming paltform producer Mitrionics secures $6M in VC funding |
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Mitrionics AB, developer of the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform, today announced it has closed $6 million of venture capital funding from three investment firms: Grande Ventures, LLC, is a United States-based firm and lead investor in this round, and Creandum and Teknoinvest, are Scandinavian-based firms and share holders in Mitrionics based on previous investments.
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| Surrey scales-up and speeds-up research with supercomputer |
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The Department of Computing at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, will use a High Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC) to advance research in areas such as multimedia security; complex, intelligent and adaptive systems and applications for the financial services industry.
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| Minnesota Supercomputing Institute targets more interactive research with new SGI Cluster |
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On any given day, hundreds of researchers may vie for access to the computing systems housed at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation. Even with some 2,000 processors at its disposal, the institute has sometimes struggled to keep up with growing demand.
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| CPU Tech launches SystemLab PS product line |
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The Test and Measurement Business Unit of CPU Technology Inc. (CPU Tech), a supplier of high performance, System-on-a-Chip based computing solutions, has launched a new line of real time platform simulators. For the first time, developers of complex systems such as vehicles, airplanes, ships, satellites and robots, can model entire platforms and execute actual software at real time speeds before physical implementation.
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| Locuz adds HPTC and related storage infrastructure management to its remote managed operations business |
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Locuz has been a major technology infrastructure and remote managed operations company and now has complimented its existing systems integration skills of HPC. Locuz has over half dozen customers for whom they manage critical HPC and related storage infra remotely from its NOC/SOC in Hyderabad.
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| San Diego Supercomputer eyes new discoveries with comprehensive SAN solutions and support from Brocade |
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San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a research centre that enables engineering discoveries using high-performance computing resources, is optimizing access to one of the world's largest data storage infrastructures using a comprehensive Storage Area Network (SAN) solution and support program from Brocade.
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| Stanford University wins Computerworld's "Best Practices In Storage" Award with Panasas' Parallel Clustered Storage solutions |
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Stanford University has been awarded with Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Award, in the Systems Implementation category, for their successful design, implementation and management of a high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure using Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters. The award was determined by an advisory group and alumni panel of recognized industry experts, contributors, and editors of IDG'sComputerworld Magazine.
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| IBM brings nature to computer chip manufacturing |
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IBM has introduced the first-ever application of a breakthrough self-assembling nanotechnology to conventional chip manufacturing, borrowing a process from nature to build the next generation computer chips. The natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth has been harnessed by IBM to form trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside each computer chip.
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| Dalhousie University and Liquid Computing partner on advanced data warehousing research |
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Liquid Computing Inc., a developer of a new class of scalable computing system, announced today that it has partnered with Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science to advance parallel On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) on Very Large Databases (VLDB). The partnership project, which began in January of this year, has already demonstrated the dramatic performance advantages of applying new computing architectures to data warehousing problems.
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| Scali delivers record LS-DYNA results |
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Scali MPI Connect has delivered record performance on LS-DYNA, the widely used impact simulation and analysis software from LSTC. In a full range of benchmarks, Scali, partnering with Linux Networx, consistently delivered the fastest results on standard hardware solutions.
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| MNB Technologies to develop FPGA based systems for U.S. Navy |
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MNB Technologies announces the receipt of a U.S. Navy research contract to develop a new class of field-portable "supercomputer" based on conventional notebook computers equipped with plug-in reconfigurable accelerators and a revolutionary new use model.
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| Burton J. Smith on Reinventing Computing: a preview of his ISC ’07 keynote address |
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Burton J. Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow, former chief scientist at Cray/Tera Computer, and a world- renowned expert in high performance computer architectures and programming languages for parallel computers, will present the opening keynote address at the 2007 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC ’07) on June 27. His talk, “Reinventing Computing,” will look at the ubiquitous deployment of parallel processors and what it could mean for HPC and the larger computing and IT industries. Recently, Smith took some time to answer questions related to his upcoming talk and the computing world of the future.
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| Bull announces breakthrough computing density and energy efficiency with its new HPC-designed NovaScale server |
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Bull has announced a new addition to its NovaScale Universal range. This new server combines an outstanding computing density and space efficiency, an eco-friendly energy efficiency and an efficient cluster administration.
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| SAP Certification for Solaris 10 OS for x64 systems gives Fujitsu Siemens Computers a worldwide first |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers' PRIMERGY BladeFrame powered by Egenera has been fully certified to run SAP applications on SUN Solaris 10 Operating System for x64. PRIMERGY BladeFrame is the first server platform to achieve full SAP on Solaris certification for both Intel and AMD servers.
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| Liquid Computing throws down the gauntlet with HPC challenge results |
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Liquid Computing Inc., a developer of a new class of scalable computing system, has achieved dramatic results for the HPC Challenge (HPCC) benchmark set. Liquid Computing has optimized its LiquidIQ system to deliver sustained performance in scale-out, parallel operations.
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| Auto Immune Systems: computers help computers in real time |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers extends its service offering for high-availability IT operations and introduces the second generation of Auto Immune Systems. The innovative solution architecture automatically protects companies against system failure and is now extended to include the new Service Engine. This component makes corrections to the IT infrastructure before downtimes reduce system availability. Even the users are unaware of the fault elimination. The new Service Engine has a knowledge database and is constantly learning during ongoing operations. As soon as a fault has been successfully eliminated and stored, all other infrastructures - regardless of whether they are in client or server environments - can be supplied with the successful solution.
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| Dot Hill Systems expands agreement with Promark Technology Inc. |
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Dot Hill Systems and Promark Technology have expanded their partnership to bring cost-effective, high-performance storage solutions to the budget-conscious commercial and government sectors.
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| Dot Hill reports first quarter 2007 results |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. has announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007. For the first quarter of 2007, net revenue was $53.4 million, compared to $58.7 million for the first quarter of 2006 and $59.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2006. Net loss for the first quarter of 2007 was $6.0 million, or $0.13 per fully diluted share.
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| Sun Microelectronics hits key milestone in high-end UltraSPARC development |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has successfully booted the Solaris 10 operating system (OS) on its high-end "ROCK" SPARC processor for the first time. This important milestone comes ahead of schedule and within six weeks of Sun receiving its first shipment of prototype ROCK processors.
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| StoneFly partners with emBoot Inc. to deliver software-based boot from SAN capability for Windows and Linux platforms |
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StoneFly Inc., a supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems and a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory Inc. (DNF), has signed a technology partnership with emBoot Inc. that delivers software-based boot from SAN capabilities to reduce the total cost of IP SAN ownership through improved IT resource consolidation for StoneFly customers worldwide.
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| Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides major support for unprecedented NOAA and University of Oklahoma storm-forecast experiment |
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Spring on the Great Plains brings one of nature's most awesome performances of fierce weather, as the May 5th weekend in Kansas tragically demonstrated. Many residents of Greensburg, Kansas credited the National Weather Service, which gave a half-hour advance warning, with preventing an even worse disaster. Nevertheless, tornados are notoriously hard to predict, and better warnings - hours in advance, instead of minutes, with greater reliability in the prediction - could save countless lives.
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| Dell Multipack Initiative to simplify developments with delivery of multiple servers in a single rack |
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A new server packaging option called Multipack introduced by Dell can save customers time and simplify server installations by eliminating up to half of the packaging materials and waste resulting during a typical customer installation of IT equipment.
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| Idaho National Labs reduces costs and increases productivity for nuclear energy and national security applications with SGI solutions |
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Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the U.S. Department of Energy's lead lab doubled its aggregate computing capability over the last year via the purchase of a strong complement of high-performance computing and data storage and management technologies systems, and the acquisition of a high-performance SGI Altix 4700 system from SGI was a key part of this advance.
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| SGI reports fiscal 2007 third quarter results |
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SGI has announced financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2007, ended March 30, 2007. On a GAAP basis, revenue for the quarter was $111 million and operating loss was $20 million.
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| HP lowers cost and risk of data storage for enterprise customers with new high-end array |
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HP has introduced a high-end, environmentally responsible disk array for enterprise computing environments that require 24x7 business continuity. The HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array integrates with HP's families of servers, storage networking products and services to provide a complete disaster-tolerant solution.
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| HP introduces on-site service to help customers optimize Blade technology |
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HP has set up a blade-specific service that pairs customers with on-site technical experts who work closely with IT departments to develop customized plans and recommendations for application and business needs. The HP Proactive BladeSystem Service also includes HP expertise and best practices for blade environments and data centre needs such as power and cooling, IT infrastructure library (ITIL) process improvements and security.
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| PG&E collaborates with IBM to reduce energy consumption in the utility's California data centres by 80 percent |
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IBM and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have launched a collaborative effort to optimize energy efficiency opportunities in PG&E's California IT operations through a server consolidation programme and by jointly developing a new way to measure and reduce heat in data centres. IBM also plans to participate in PG&E's Energy Efficiency Incentive Programme.
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| For scientists at East Carolina University, new SGI Altix system trims solution times from days to hours |
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Purchased with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a new SGI Altix 4700 system is helping East Carolina University (ECU) researchers analyse computational models that were growing too large and complex for the university's existing resources. The resulting performance gains also have convinced evolutionary biologists at ECU that the shared-memory Altix platform can be a superior engine for the Bayesian inference analyses, routinely run on distributed clusters.
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| IBM virtualization pays dividends for SAP customers |
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In a study entitled I2V Intelligent IT Virtualization for SAP System Landscapes, BearingPoint technology consultants have established that the IT virtualization of an IBM POWER5 architecture soon pays dividends. Compared with non-virtualized hardware, more than 30 percent of IT costs could be cut over a three-year period. In addition to the financial benefits, companies also gain an extremely flexible IT infrastructure that can be adapted as required - in other words, on demand - to current requirements as shown by IBM customer Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG.
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| IBM and Red Hat announce worldwide enterprise Linux-On-Mainframe Programme |
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IBM Corporation and Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, have launched an initiative to encourage the dramatic growth of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z mainframes. The comprehensive programme will further assist companies in the evaluation, deployment and support of this joint platform. It was created in response to the growing adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on mainframes by governments and companies worldwide, who are taking advantage of the security, scalability and low operating costs of the joint platform.
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| Cray reports first quarter 2007 financial results |
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Cray Inc. has issued financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007. Total revenue for the quarter was $47.1 million compared to $48.5 million in the prior year period. Net loss for the quarter improved to ($0.8 million) or ($0.03) per share compared to a net loss of ($5.3 million) or ($0.24) per share in the first quarter of 2006.
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| Federal University of Rio de Janeiro protects the Amazon with SGI compute and storage systems |
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For projects ranging from protecting the Amazon to international grid computing, the Center for Parallel Computing (NACAD) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ) has added to its existing SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) computational resources with the purchase of SGI® Altix 450 server, SGI Altix XE cluster, and SGI InfiniteStorage technology.
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| Grids for e-Science in Europe at a crossroad - e-Infrastructure reflections Groups meeting in Heidelberg |
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Last month, the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) had its open workshop in Heidelberg in Germany. e-Infrastructures - supporting e-Science with Grids, has come to a crossraod. Until now, the e-Infrastructure world in Europe has been dominated by many large and small e-Infrastructure projects, ranging from small local projects, through projects at a national scale, such as BEGrid in Belgium and D-Grid in Germany, through regional e-Infrastructures such as the Baltic Grid and the South East Europe Grid (SEE-GRID) to large scale efforts such as EGEE and DEISA. Most are funded as projects for a number of years, not aimed at long-term sustainability. To be useful in the long term e-Infrastructures have to be embedded into long term sustainable policies and procedures. At the e-IRG meeting one possible view of a sustainable e-Infrastructure in Europe became visible.
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| EU-US Consortium Developed Leading Cluster Computer |
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Forschungszentrum Jülich has developed a next generation high-performance cluster computer in close cooperation with companies from Germany and USA. With this system, a new cost-efficient performance class is realized. A balanced combination of the hardware and software components optimizes the communication between the high-performance processing units. After one year of development the JULI-Project has now been completed successfully.
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| Sun expands Sun Grid service to 24 Countries |
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Sun Microsystems has provided wider international availability and addition of new features to the Sun Grid Compute Utility available from Network.com. In addition to the United States, the $1/CPU-hr, pay-per-use Network.com utility offering is now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
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| Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology expands HP supercomputer to advance scientific research |
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Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has octupled the processing capacity of its HP Cluster Platform supercomputer to advance its scientists' research in micro and nanotechnology, Grid computing, material and energy technology. KIT has added 15.6 teraflops (15.6 billion floating point operations per second) to its previous high-performance computing (HPC) processing capacity of 2 teraflops, making it no. 50 among the world's top 500 supercomputer sites.
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| Europe develops new meteorology and environment information system |
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As weather, climate and water-related hazards account for nearly 90% of all natural disasters, meteorological systems are needed to provide the vital information for the advance warnings that save lives and reduce damage to the environment. The EU-funded SIMDAT project is developing a meteorological database or Virtual Global Information System Centre (VGISC), to provide the services to support the research and operational activities of the meteorological community in the domains of meteorology, hydrology and the environment.
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| Sir Alan Sugar unveils new high-performance computer cluster |
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Sir Alan Sugar, Chairman of Viglen Ltd, has unveiled a new high-performance computer cluster at Queen Mary, University of London. In the month that marks Sir Alan's 23rd anniversary in the UK computer market, Sir Alan opened the cluster - a high performance computing suite which will play a leading role in international scientific research - at the College's Mile End campus.
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| IBM introduces new Grid Medical archiving; Orlando regional healthcare early adopter |
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At the American Telemedicine Association show today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced its new Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), a cross-IBM offering comprised of storage, software, servers and services. The GMAS solution provides hospitals, clinics, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies with a multi-tier, multi-application and multi-site enterprise storage archive for delivering medical images, patient records and other critical healthcare reference information on demand.
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| Altair Engineering and Wolfram Research integrate Mathematica with PBS |
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Altair Engineering has formed a partnership with Wolfram Research to integrate PBS Professional with Mathematica. The collaboration will create an optimized parallel Mathematica environment for clusters and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Mathematica seamlessly integrates a numeric and symbolic computational engine, graphics system, programming language, documentation system and advanced connectivity to other applications.
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| GridGain systems releases java based GridGain 1.0 |
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GridGain Systems announced today availability of the first public release of GridGain project, an enterprise open source grid computing platform for Java. This release culminates 18 months of development and presents a software product with unique set of grid computing features, open source LGPL licensing and clear focus on high-performance Java-based development.
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| Adopting e-Infrastructures: Business Challenges and User Needs |
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The next BELIEF Networking Workshop will take place on 7 June 2007 in Hamburg, which will be an opportunity to explore examples, benefits and opportunities of harnessing global e-Infrastructures for business.
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| Univa launches open source cluster solution |
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Univa Corporation, a provider of open source software, support and services for cluster and Grid computing, has made available Univa Globus Cluster Edition 2.0, a comprehensive cluster software solution for high performance computing. Univa Globus Cluster Edition is a bundled offering of "best-of-breed" open source software products, backed by support and services from the recognized industry thought leaders in Grid computing. It provides an integrated solution that reduces costs for cluster management and software licensing while improving cluster utilization and accessibility.
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| Paremus and QuIC partner to deliver innovative Distributed Financial Analytics solution |
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Paremus, developer of the distributed OSGi and SCA-based Infiniflow service platform, and QuIC Financial Technologies Inc., a global solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics solutions, have launched a combined offering that provides financial customers with a standards-based, highly scalable and resilient distributed services platform for analytics solutions including complex portfolio simulation, instrument pricing and modelling. Paremus' Infiniflow Enterprise Service Grid (ESG) has been integrated with the QuIC Product Suite to provide an exceptionally fast Grid distribution solution.
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| Marcin Plociennik wins prize for best demonstration of a Grid application at OGF20 |
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With the final plenary session, Europe's biggest Grid event ever comes to an end, with more than 900 participants gathering for the 20th Open Grid Forum (OGF20) and the 2nd Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) User Forum. End-users, Grid experts and business representatives shared their experiences and thought about the future of the Grid, impressively demonstrating how far Grid technology has come.
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| CDO2 partners with University of Surrey to develop next generation Financial Grid |
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Financial analysis company CDO2 has recently partnered with the University of Surrey to work on a three-year research project aimed at improving CDO2’s service offering. London-based CDO2 develops pricing and risk technology for banks, hedge funds and investment firms involved in trading structured credit products, specifically collateralised debt obligations (CDOs).
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| GemStone Systems and Rogue Wave Software partner to deliver high-performance business applications |
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GemStone Systems, a provider of distributed data management and virtualization solutions, and Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx Inc. providing enterprise-class software components and services that facilitate high-performance application development, have signed a technology and business partnership that will allow customers to increase application performance and scalability while lowering operating costs.
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| GaimTheory uses Oracle Database Standard Edition to drive the evolution of on-line multiplayer games |
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GaimTheory seeks to revolutionize the red-hot on-line gaming market by transforming the experience for players and developers alike. The performance, scalability and reliability of Oracle Database is a key to PurePressure, the proposition GaimTheory is now setting before the world's game development studios and publishers - to increase the speed and efficiency of game development as well as to make massive improvements to the on-line gamers' experience.
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| Open Eye software integrated with PBS |
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Altair Engineering has formed a partnership with OpenEye Scientific Software to integrate several of OpenEye’s applications with Altair’s PBS Professional grid technology. The partnership will ensure that applications such as FRED, Omega and ROCS run efficiently with PBS Professional.
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| Patsystems selects GigaSpaces to develop next-generation Eeectronic trading system |
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Patsystems has selected GigaSpaces' Infrastructure Software to build its next-generation global electronic trading system. Patsystems will use GigaSpaces Space-Based Architecture approach to deliver a scalable, high-performance system that offers advanced global connectivity and exchange support.
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| MobileStorm enables its marketing focused Software as a Service through Layered Technologies Grid computing |
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Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of next generation, self-managed, dedicated server products and services has been chosen by mobileStorm Inc. to enable its marketing focused Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. Layered Technologies' The GridLayer Virtual Private Datacenters will remove the heavy lifting of system administration, networking, and load balancing techniques inherent in running mobileStorm's high volume computing environment.
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| United Devices announces Insight 4.0 |
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United Devices (UD) today announced general availability for the latest version of Insight, an application-centric analysis and reporting product that leverages real-time capacity and utilization information to optimize application performance across data center infrastructure.
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| Bull announces NovaScale R422 HPC system |
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Bull has announced a new addition to its NovaScale Universal range. This new server combines an outstanding computing density and space efficiency, an eco-friendly energy efficiency and an efficient cluster administration.
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| Steven Rudich to share ACM's 2007 Gödel Prize with Russian colleague |
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Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Russian Academy of Science will share the Association for Computing Machinery's 2007 Gödel Prize for their seminal work on what many consider the most important unresolved question in theoretical computer science.
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| How to cut processing costs with grid computing |
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At the recent OGF/EGEE User Forum conference in Manchester, Pawel Plaszczak, President of GridwiseTech explained strategies for scaling processing capabilities to cut costs, including hooking up to external resources. The session “How Can Business and Industry Profit from Using the EGEE Grid” took place on the fourth day of Europe’s largest Grid event. The conference gathered more than 900 end-users, Grid experts and business representatives.
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| Panasas open sources parallel storage client software |
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Panasas announced the source code release of key components of its industry leading parallel file system client software, DirectFLOW(R), to accelerate the adoption of Parallel Network File System (pNFS), which is to be released as part of the NFS version 4.1 standard.
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| Oracle launches Oracle Universal Content Management 10g Release 3 |
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Oracle has launched Oracle Universal Content Management 10g Release 3, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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| Cartesian Gridspeed of New Zealand launches revolutionary genomics sequencing software in US market |
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Cartesian Gridspeed, a New Zealand bioinformatics software developer, will officially launch its SLIM Search product to the US market at the BIO 2007 Convention in Boston.
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| Christopher Smith of Platform Computing elected Vice President of Standards for the Open Grid Forum |
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Christopher Smith, Principal Product Architect of Platform, has been elected by the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Board as its Vice President of Standards. OGF is a non-profit consortium of public and private organisations and individuals dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Grid computing worldwide.
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| Science on the Grid - EGEE demonstrations |
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The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project has awarded a prize to the best live demonstration of a Grid application shown at the 2nd EGEE User Forum. Scientists in more than 200 Virtual Organisations from fields as diverse as Biomedicine, Earth Sciences, Nuclear Fusion and High-Energy Physics are now using the distributed computing infrastructure of EGEE, which shows the wide adoption and versatility of this new technology.
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| Oracle Application Server 10g earns best single node result for x-86 based systems |
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Oracle Application Server 10g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux, and HP BladeSystem server blades powered by AMD Opteron processors set a best in class single node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark by delivering the highest performance for x-86 based systems. This achievement builds on Oracle's commitment to providing customers with the highest performing and most scalable Java Application Server.
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| Oracle Application Server 10g outperforms IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic |
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Oracle Application Server 10g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 10g, set a record-breaking result in the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark by delivering the highest performance per core across all platforms and application servers. Surpassing the best per core performance of IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic, these results continue Oracle's excellence in setting world records in Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server benchmarks.
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| Oracle unveils next-generation architecture for Oracle Fusion Middleware |
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Oracle has unveiled the architecture for its next-generation middleware. Designed to provide the industry's first unified infrastructure for Grid computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), the next generation of Oracle Fusion Middleware will provide a foundation for event-driven composite applications and applications with extreme scalability and performance requirements.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers launches new promotional activities to support ongoing demand for SAP Discovery System |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched several new promotional activities to better help customers realize the benefits of the SAP Discovery System. SAP Discovery System provides a range of new and unique features which facilitate, secure and accelerate the transition from traditional architecture to the new and exciting world of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA).
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| Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Structural Engineering Group chooses Altair Engineering's HyperWorks OptiStruct software for structural development |
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The Structural Engineering Group of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has chosen Altair's OptiStruct and other HyperWorks tools to provide advanced optimization technology for the structural development of its landmark buildings.
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| The GridLayer by Layered Technologies runs advanced marketing SaaS applications for mobileStorm Inc. |
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Layered Technologies Inc., a provider of next generation, self-managed, dedicated server products and services has been chosen by mobileStorm Inc. to enable its marketing focused Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. Layered Technologies' The GridLayer Virtual Private Datacenters will remove the heavy lifting of system administration, networking, and load balancing techniques inherent in running mobileStorm's high volume computing environment. This will help facilitate the sending of millions of e-mails and other electronic messages. It is SaaS simplified - utility computing where starting and scaling on-line services happen without owning infrastructure and the innovation of rich Web applications can evolve fluidly.
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| Appistry announces support for Spring Framework |
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Appistry, the pioneer and provider of application fabric software, and Interface21, a provider of open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications, has signed a strategic partnership and previewed Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF) for Spring.
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| Germany's BSH selects Altair's Advanced HyperWorks CAE Suite to enhance its product development process |
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BSH, Germany, Western Europe's number one domestic appliance manufacturer, has introduced the HyperWorks suite into its product development process.
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| Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieves record TPC-H Three TB Benchmark for Windows with HP Integrity rx8640 Server |
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Oracle has achieved a record breaking TPC-H Three Terabyte (TB) benchmark for a database running on the Windows operating system, demonstrating the superior performance of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 running on Microsoft Windows and an HP Integrity rx8640 Server. With this latest achievement, Oracle now holds nine of the top 10 performance world record benchmark results for the TPC-H 3TB scale factor.
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| AEgis released Excel add-in for acslXtreme |
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The AEgis Technologies Group announced the release of the Microsoft Excel Add-in for acslXtreme. The acslXtreme Excel Simulation Interface is an add-in utility for Microsoft Excel which allows models created in acslXtreme to be controlled and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. The latest version of acslXtreme 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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| Securent EMS v3.0 extends fine-grained access controls to key enterprise applications |
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Securent announced the next release of the Securent Entitlement Management Solution (EMS), further enabling organizations to meet their security and compliance requirements by securing access to sensitive applications and information with unmatched fine-grained controls and visibility.
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| HP to offer Cisco Infiniband |
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HP announced two agreements with Cisco that target the market of high-performance computing with HP hardware and Cisco’s InfiniBand solutions. First, HP will offer Cisco double data rate (DDR) InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switches (SFS) as part of HP’s Unified Cluster Portfolio. Additionally, HP BladeSystem c-Class servers are now supported with Cisco’s standards-based InfiniBand host driver software.
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| Three of China’s top oil production companies now utilize Panasas storage clusters |
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Panasas announced that China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), China’s leading petroleum and natural gas producer, has chosen ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters for seismic information processing. The addition of Sinopec serves as milestone for the company as all three of China’s largest oil and gas exploration and production companies, PetroChina, China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) and Sinopec, are now utilizing Panasas’ high performance parallel storage solutions.
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| New Australian supercomputer to support climate change science |
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A new state-of-the-art supercomputer is being purchased to support the work of Queensland’s climate change scientists, Queensland, Australie, Premier Peter Beattie and Natural Resources Minister Craig Wallace announced today. Speaking at the Natural Resources Conference on Climate Change in Brisbane, Mr Beattie said the new computer would replace the existing high-performance computer system, which is no longer up to the job ahead.
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| 'Not So Fast, Supercomputers,' say software programmers |
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The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore computing. Despite the promise of almost unimagined computing power, however, even computing experts wonder whether this time the hardware developers have raced too far ahead of many programmers' ability to create software.
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| CD-adapco adopts PGI Unified Binary from The Portland Group for STAR_CD |
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The Portland Group (PGI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and leading of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), today announced that CD-adapco, a world leader in full-spectrum flow, thermal, and stress simulation software, is building the latest version of their flagship product STAR-CD 4.0 using PGI Unified Binary technology.
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| Lonestar supercomputer used by Texas astronomes to discover multi-planet system |
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University of Texas at Austin astronomers William Cochran and Michael Endl, working with graduate students Robert Wittenmyer and Jacob Bean, have used the 9.2-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at McDonald Observatory to discover a system of two Jupiter-like planets orbiting a star whose composition might seem to rule out planet formation. This NASA-funded study has implications for theories of planet formation. Wittenmyer used the University of Texas at Austin supercomputer "Lonestar" to calculate the two massive planets' orbits 100 million years into the future. The planets' orbits are not circular, and they orbit close to each other and thus interact gravitationally—they push each other around.
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| International Grid projects for development at G8-UNESCO forum |
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The EUChinaGRID, EU-IndiaGrid, EUMEDGRID ed EELA projects on scientific distributed computing took part in G8-UNESCO World Forum on “Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development”, closing the 12 May after three days with high-level presentations including the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi.
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| Biotechnology Center loans $175,000 to five companies in Durham, RTP, Wilmington |
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The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has awarded $175,000 to five research-based companies to boost their commercialization and product development activities. The Biotechnology Center conferred the maximum of $25,000 in Business Development Loans to Biolume and Cognosci, both of Research Triangle Park; to Agarigen of Durham; and to TeraDisc of Wilmington. Biomachines of Durham will work with a $75,000 SBIR Bridge Loan - the maximum amount available.
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| Digital preservation prototype TRAP extended to West Virginia |
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The Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype (TPAP), a testbed for preserving electronic records collections from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that must be maintained for “the life of the Republic,” has announced the addition of a sixth partner site at the U.S. Navy’s Allegany Ballistics Laboratory near Keyser, West Virginia.
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| linghi teams up with Swiss DALCO to double Supercomputing |
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Swiss DALCO, one of Europe’s suppliers of high-performance computing solutions, has doubled the computer power for Alinghi, Defender of the 32nd America’s Cup. The Supercomputer was designed and custom-built by DALCO to meet Alinghi’s demand for increased computer power to best evaluate the latest design developments, to simulate their effects and to adapt and integrate them as fast as possible during this critical phase of the competition.
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| Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis |
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During the cascade of events of photosynthesis, plants approach the pinnacle of stinginess by scavenging nearly every photon of available light energy to produce food. Yet after many years of careful research into its exact mechanisms, some key questions remain about this fundamental biological process that supports all life on earth. Now, a large research team led by Neal Woodbury, a scientist at Arizona State University (ASU)'s Biodesign Institute, has come up with a new insight into the mechanism of photosynthesis, which involves the orchestrated movement of proteins on the timescale of a millionth of a millionth of a second. Their findings are described in "Protein Dynamics Control the Kinetics of Initial Electron Transfer in Photosynthesis", in the May 4 issue ofScience.
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| Walk like an Egyptian - or a Roman - experience what the past really looked like |
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What was it like to walk round the Colosseum when the Roman Empire was at its height? How would the experience have differed from that of a tourist today? Our understanding of what life was like in bygone eras could be boosted, thanks to a new initiative aiming to depict more accurately and realistically how heritage sites may have looked in their heyday. Computer scientists and cultural heritage researchers are assessing whether today's increasingly sophisticated 3D computer technology can be combined with the most recent historical evidence to produce significantly improved visual reconstructions of churches, palaces and other ancient sites.
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| 3M Manchester research centre to develop vital new science |
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The University of Manchester is establishing a GBP3 million research centre dedicated to developing vital new science applicable to manufacturing processes, power station planning and analysis of the human body. The Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational And Dynamical Analysis (CICADA - pronounced SIKARDA) - which brings together computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers - is being established with a GBP1.75 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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| Terra Soft launches PS3 user showcase |
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Terra Soft today launched a program to engage its growing PS3 user base through the sharing of their stories on the Terra Soft Showcase web pages.
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| Sweden's SUNET deploys 10 GbE nationwide research & education network using Ciena solutions |
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The Swedish University Network (SUNET) has successfully rolled out its new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network, OptoSUNET, using Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture that includes optical transmission, multiservice transport, Ethernet services and network management solutions. Ciena's platforms were deployed as part of a turnkey solution by Imtech N.V., a pan-European systems integrator and Ciena Platinum partner.
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| NSF awards tech firm BBN Technologies funds to establish GENI project office for developig the next-gen Internet |
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NSF announced that BBN Technologies, under the leadership of Chip Elliott, has been selected to serve as the GENI Project Office (GPO). The office will work closely with the computing research community to create and develop the GENI design. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers are working together to design a bold new research platform called GENI, the Global Environment for Network Innovations. As envisioned, GENI will allow researchers throughout the country to build and experiment with completely new and different designs and capabilities that will inform the creation of a 21st Century Internet.
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| New CIR Report states that the transmission module market will reach $13.4 billion by 2012 |
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According to a new report from CIR, an industry analyst firm, the market for telecommunications and datacom transmission modules will reach $13.4 billion by 2012. The report is the next in a series from CIR that examines market and technology trends and opportunities in the optical communications sector.
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