| PrimeurWeekly 08 January 2007 |
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| FP7 takes off |
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The EU's largest ever funding programme for research and technological development, the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), was launched on 1 January. The programme cleared its final hurdle when it was adopted by the Council on 18 December 2006. The decision was widely expected following an agreement on a common position between the Parliament and Council in November. The common position meant that the decision could be adopted by the Environment Council without discussion.
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| ESFRI Roadmap taken as starting point for EU FP7 Infrastructures objective |
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For the first call of the Infrastructures objective of the programme, 164,4 million euro is available. Project proposals must be submitted by May 2nd 2007, latest. A big part of the funding is intended for the preparation of new infrastructures. The ESFRI Roadmap is taken as the starting point.
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| Grid as part of Service and Software Architectures FP7 objective |
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In the first call for the new Framework 7 programme, there are two places were Grid computing is explicitely mentioned. Hence one can put in project proposals. eInfrastructures has a very strong Grid computing and supercomputing component. For commercial and enterprise computing, the objective "Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering" includes a Grid component. In the first call about 120 million euro is available for this objective. This objective is part of the "ICT - Information and Communication technologies" programme of FP7.
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| Grid Computing, Health Grids, and EHR Systems |
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This article provides a high level overview of grid computing in healthcare at this point in time. In addition, the article also tries to bring into focus the relationship grid computing has to electronic health records (EHR) systems.
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| ISC'07 issues Call for Papers |
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The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is the leading Supercomputing Conference and Exhibition in Europe. Since its beginning in 1986, ISC has provided a unique platform for connecting the HPC community on a global scale. With the Scientific Day on Tuesday, June 26, 2007, ISC'07 provides an open forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss issues, directions, and results that will shape the future of high performance computing and networking.
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| Banesto Bank uses Condor Grid |
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One of the three major banks in Spain, Banesto, has installed a Condor based Grid. The Grid is used for financial computing at the treasure department. The major application software used is based on Montecarlo simulations.
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| New Chicago-Indiana computer network prepared to handle massive data flow from CERN |
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Massive quantities of data will soon begin flowing from the largest scientific instrument ever built into an international network of computer centres, including one operated jointly by the University of Chicago and Indiana University. The first phase of the Chicago-Indiana centre is now up and running, crunching test data in preparation for the real thing. The Chicago-Indiana system is one of five Tier-2 (regional) centres in the United States that will receive data from one of four massive detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. When the new instrument begins operating late next year, beams of protons will collide 40 million times a second.
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| Grid computing moves from research to industry according to CoreGrid |
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From 27th November to 1st December, ETSI, INRIA and the European Network of Excellence CoreGRID, led by ERCIM, co-organised at ETSI the third "GRIDS@WORK" event and Grid Plugtests. Over 200 delegates, representing 25 countries from all over the world, came to Sophia Antipolis, France, to discuss research projects and industrial requirements towards the implementation of Grids as a key driver of tomorrow's 'Network-of-networks'.
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| Two years of CoreGRID, from integration towards sustainability |
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At the IST Event 2006 in Helsinki, Finland, CoreGRID has presented the primary results of its first two-year activity of integrating and co-ordinating Grid research efforts in close cooperation with industry, aligning both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable European Research Area.
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| Tyan and Chenbro to ship parts for fastest supercomputer in Russia |
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Taiwan-based Tyan Computer and Chenbro Micom were chosen as component suppliers for a new supercomputer project in Tomsk, Russia, which is expected to become the fastest across not only the country, but Eastern Europe as a whole and all countries of the CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States - region.
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| GPU - a Global Processing Unit on top of Gnutella |
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Do not have enough CPU power? Turn to GPU instead. GPU is a small project aimed at generating a client for distributed computing over P2P. More notabebly, it is based on Gnutella, a well know file distribution P2P system.
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| Proteins@Home 7.17 now available on server |
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The new release Proteins@Home 7.17 with better CPU efficiency, is available on the server.
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| DALCO delivers Supercomputer "Albert2" to the BMW Sauber F1 Team |
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Swiss DALCO, a major company for high-performance computing systems in Europe, has successfully delivered "Albert2" - the fastest Supercomputer in Europe and the third-fastest worldwide used in industry - to the BMW Sauber F1 Team for their demanding work in aerodynamics. With over 12 Tflop/s peak performance the system ranks 60th on the Supercomputer TOP500 November 2006 list.
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| University of Victoria researchers join giant computer Grid |
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Over CA$4.3 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) will link University of Victoria (UVic) researchers to a powerful computer consortium that spans Western Canada and connects to a national network providing high performance resources to member institutions. This investment will enhance UVic's existing high performance computing facilities used in research ranging from simulating the earth and its climate and probing the fundamental nature of matter and the structure of the universe to simulating fuel cell concepts for faster introduction of clean energy technologies and studying the computer Grid itself.
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| Cray to provide two of the world's most powerful supercomputers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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Cray has won an order to provide two supercomputers to the DoD supercomputing centre hosted by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 2007.
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| New partnership to further research in reconfigurable supercomputing |
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The George Washington (GW) University's School of Engineering and Applied Science has joined with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a national research centre at GW that will offer one of the most advanced research test beds in the world for high-performance reconfigurable computers. The NSF awarded GW funding creating a NSF Industry/University Center, named the National Science Foundation Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), effective December 1, 2006.
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| Gov. Schwarzenegger proposes $95 million to keep California at forefront of research, innovation, and green technology incuding petascale supercomputing |
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Governor Schwarzenegger of California will propose nearly $95 million in the state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative. This initiative provides funding for major projects that will grow California's economic strength in key innovation sectors, including cleantech, biotech and nanotech. The proposal also reaffirms California's position as a world leader in advanced research and innovation that creates jobs while preserving the environment. One project is the Petascale Supercomputer: The University of California leads the world in high-speed computer technology and is to debut the next generation of supercomputers. The Governor's budget provides the first $5 million increment in state matching funds to enhance the University of California's bid to build a $200 million Petascale computer.
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| SGI delivers blistering performance, leading density in Altix XE310 and Altix XE1300 cluster featuring new 'Atoka' board |
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SGI will deliver its new SGI Altix XE310 server and XE1300 cluster this quarter. First unveiled at Supercomputing 2006, the Altix XE310 server features the industry's first system with the innovative new "Atoka" motherboard design, developed in a collaborative effort between SGI and Intel Corporation.
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| SiCortex Inc. licenses MIPS64 architecture for low-power, high-performance Tflop/s computing |
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SiCortex Inc. has licensed MIPS Technologies' industry-standard 64-bit architecture for its new generation of high-performance, low-power Linux Tflop/s computers. The SiCortex SC5832 is an enterprise-class computer that features more than 5800 MIPS64 processors, eight Tbyte of memory, and 2.1 Tbiys of IO. Using power-efficient MIPS cores enables a system design that will save end users hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in energy costs.
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| ORNL team discovers new way to spin up pulsars |
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A team of scientists using Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputers has discovered the first plausible explanation for a pulsar's spin that fits the observations made by astronomers. Anthony Mezzacappa of the Department of Energy lab's Physics Division and John Blondin of North Carolina State University explain their results in the January 4 issue of the journalNature. According to three-dimensional simulations they performed at the Leadership Computing Facility, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the spin of a pulsar is determined not by the spin of the original star, but by the shock wave created when the star's massive iron core collapses.
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| System X used to model behaviour of entire structures |
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Elisa Sotelino is using Virginia Tech's squeaky clean supercomputer, System X, to learn how entire structures will behave under different circumstances such as a compartment fire or an earthquake.
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| General Atomics scientists use Cray X1E supercomputer at ORNL to make important advance in fusion research |
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General Atomics researchers using a Cray X1E supercomputer have made a significant breakthrough in their ability to predict what happens inside an experimental fusion reactor, a milestone on the way to developing a stable and efficient new power source. Fusion is the nuclear reaction that fuels stars like the sun and has the potential to produce clean, almost limitless power here on Earth.
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| Google joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project |
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Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, has joined a group of 19 universities, national labs and private foundations that is building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Scheduled to begin operations in 2013, the 8.4-meter LSST will be able to survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colours every week with its three-billion pixel digital camera. The telescope will probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, and it will open a movie-like window on objects that change or move rapidly: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids as small as 100 meters, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects.
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