| PrimeurWeekly 18 June 2007 |
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| Peter Michielse predictions of computational breakthroughs at official opening of new Huygens supercomputer |
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The current Huygens supercomputer is about a million times faster than the first supercomputer in Amsterdam: a Cyber 205 installed in 1983, 25 years ago. What will happen when we have 1 million times faster computers 25 years from now? The Amsterdam supercomputer will have a performance of about 50 Exaflop/s (an Exaflop/s is million Tfop/s) of raw computing power. Peter Michielse, from NCF, presented an informal survey of breakthroughs that could be possible with this type of computer power at the inauguration conference of the Huygens supercomputer.
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| Anders Dellson, Chief Executive Officer of Mitrionics Inc. interviewed by Christopher Lazou |
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At supercomputing events the focus in the media is often on large companies, their latest products and their share of the market. The smaller companies and their contribution to product innovation are often ignored in the melee. This year I decided to try and redress the balance a little. (Chris Lazou)
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| Mystery of earth's innermost core solved |
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New studies show that iron, the principal constituent of the innermost parts of the earth's core, becomes unusually 'soft' at the extreme pressures and temperatures that prevail there. The findings, now being published in Science, enhance our possibility of understanding the innermost parts of the earth and how earthquakes occur, for example. In a more immediate perspective, scientists will have new tools for developing better materials. The findings were attained by a team of Swedish and Russian researchers, who used advanced simulations on Swedish supercomputers. This new knowledge explains some of the seismic data-signals from earth tremors that stations around the world gather and that have puzzled scientists until now.
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| The German federal scientific computing network - D-Grid - now features a Bull NovaScale supercomputer |
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The Regional Computer Center for Lower Saxony (RRZN - Regionales Rechnenzentrum für Niedersachsen) has invested in a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, putting new levels of computing power at the disposal of the D-Grid community at federal level. RRZN is one component in the intra- and inter-regional networks that have been created to supply German higher education establishments and research centres with state-of-the-art high performance computing resources. In order to achieve this, the Leibniz Universität Hannover is now hosting the NovaScale supercomputer.
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| GÉANT2 helps drive high-speed supercomputer projects |
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The speed of collaborative research using Europe's network of supercomputers will be advanced by a major upgrade. The Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), has increased connectivity speeds ten-fold to 10 Gbit/s, through the GÉANT2 pan-European research and education network, managed by international research and education network provider DANTE.
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| Dolphin announces 'Dolphin Express' interconnect for maximum Oracle RAC performance |
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ASA has made available its 'Dolphin Express' database cluster interconnect architecture for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) at the 2008 Oracle North America Sales Kick-off in Las Vegas, Nevada. Developed to accelerate database cluster performance, Dolphin Express has been tuned to maximize the transaction throughput of Oracle clusters. Recent benchmarking done in conjunction with major server OEMs with Oracle RAC show over 2 times greater transaction throughput for similar cluster configurations using Dolphin Express than those based on Ethernet. Dolphin Express is a layered software and hardware interconnect architecture enabling highly available, high throughput, low latency, scalable database clusters with standard low cost servers.
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| BT selects 3Tera's AppLogic operating system to power new Utility computing services |
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BT has signed a multi-year deal to use 3Tera's AppLogic Grid operating system. 3Tera's AppLogic Grid operating system eliminates the need for co-location, private racks and managed services by enabling the assembly, deployment and management of infrastructure and applications using only a browser and basic IT skills.
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| Cray wins University of Bergen procurement with 50-Teraflop Cray XT4 supercomputer system |
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The University of Bergen will acquire one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers. The contract calls for a Cray XT4 supercomputer system with peak performance of 50 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second) to be installed later this year at the Bergen Center for Computational Science (BCCS). The supercomputer will be used for advanced research in fields including marine molecular biology, large scale simulation of ocean processes, climate research, computational chemistry, computational physics, computational biology, the geosciences, and applied mathematics.
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| SGI Technology powers l'Ecole Gobelins Final Push for 31st Annual Annecy International Animation Festival |
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To render millions of high-definition image files in time for opening night festivities of the famed Annecy 2007 International Animation Festival, June 11-16 in Annecy, France, Gobelins, l'école de l'image ("school of the image"), utilized a powerful combination of servers, cluster management software and render management software from SGI and SGI partners.
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| Bull and AVL together help to reduce the effectives of vehicle emissions |
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The pressure on the automotive industry to increase both the efficiency and the mileage of their vehicles while reducing the environmental impact of vehicles, especially in the area of emissions, has led AVL LIST GMBH in Austria to strengthen its business partnership with the European IT company Bull in the area of advanced simulations.
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| Borsa Italiana deploys HP high-performance solution to manage soaring market data and control energy costs |
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Borsa Italiana, the Italian stock exchange, has deployed an HP Cluster Platform supercomputer to reliably distribute trading information to financial institutions, consolidate its server systems and lower energy costs. The no. 1 exchange in Europe by turnover velocity, Borsa Italiana is an electronic, order-driven, full-service stock exchange trading both stocks and futures. Borsa Italiana’s high-performance computing (HPC) solution includes 130 HP BladeSystem BL series servers powered by AMD Opteron multi-core processors in data centres in Milan and Turin.
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| Evergrid and Platform Computing to advance the state of high performance computing worldwide |
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Evergrid, a provider of global resource management software for next generation data centres, has signed a partnership with Platform Computing through the Platform Alliance Network partner programme. This partnership will allow Evergrid to integrate its patent pending high availability and resource management software, Evergrid Availability Services (AvS-Batch), with Platform's flagship LSF workload manager. The resulting solution will allow massively parallelized distributed applications and single process applications, such as Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications, to run at near 100-percent reliability in high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
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| Evergrid launches global resource management solution for next generation data centres |
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Evergrid has launched the Evergrid Cluster Availability Management Suite (CAMS), a new continuous availability and resource management software solution for High Productivity Computing Grid environments and the Utility Enterprise data centre. CAMS manages server clusters from power-on through operating system provisioning and application scheduling to load management. CAMS is integrated with Evergrid's Availability Management Service (AvS) to provide checkpoint/resume capabilities for applications, including massively parallel distributed applications. With CAMS, batch applications run at near 100-percent reliability.
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| Stony Brook and Brookhaven Lab unveil New York Blue supercomputer |
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Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have unveiled one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, named New York Blue and located at Brookhaven Lab, is the world's fastest supercomputer for general users and is expected to rank among the top ten fastest computers in the world.
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| SDSC helps researchers reveal structure of autism-related protein |
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As a result of mapping the structure of the protein complex implicated in autism spectrum disorders, a research team led by scientists at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and aided by computational modelling at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD, has discovered how particular genetic mutations affect this complex and contribute to the developmental abnormalities found in children with autism.
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| New theory aims to explain recent temperature and climate extremes |
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Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are putting climate models to the test with particular focus on weather extremes.
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| University of Tennessee deploys Force10 C-Series to analyse data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider |
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The University of Tennessee physics department has deployed the C300 resilient switch to analyse data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator that will collide beams of protons and gather data that is produced during the collisions. The Force10 C300 is at the foundation of the university’s new high energy physics cluster, which will have the processing capability to efficiently analyze the massive amounts of data produced by the LHC.
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| SGI joins BioIT Alliance to help advance scientific discovery |
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To spearhead new ways of sharing complex data in the bioinformatics market, SGI has joined the BioIT Alliance, a group of organisations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine. The Alliance unites the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams to speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences.
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| Verari announcs a consolidated desktop solution |
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Verari Systems, developer of platform-independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, has launched the VerariIP consolidated desktop solution. Ideal for data-intensive environments requiring a rich user experience such as financial services and entertainment, VerariIP overcomes the graphical drawbacks of traditional thin client solutions.
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| IBM strengthens database portfolio with new Informix Dynamic Server |
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IBM has unveiled Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11 - code-named "Cheetah" - a next-generation data server which, for the first time, brings mainframe-like continuous availability and disaster recovery capabilities to global data centres. The new IDS 11 is tuned to deliver a combination of increased performance, reliability and scalability, along with the ability to handle massive volumes of complex data at very high speeds - essential capabilities in today's demanding, time-sensitive information management environments.
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| Oracle Database Standard Edition One and Oracle Enterprise Linux on HP set new world record for price performance with TPC-C Benchmark |
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Oracle has achieved a new TPC-C benchmark result on an HP ProLiant ML350 with the best ever price/performance. This result sets a world record in the price/performance category, which measures the cost per transaction of the configuration benchmarked. It demonstrates that Oracle Database not only provides customers with a highly performant and scalable data management solution, but can also deliver unparalleled cost savings with record-breaking performance on HP ProLiant systems, ideally suited to small and medium sized businesses (SMB).
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| Dangerous summer heat to increase as Mediterranean region warms |
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The number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean region could increase by 200 percent to 500 percent in this century, if current rates of greenhouse gas emissions continue, a new analysis finds. Of nations covered by the study, France would undergo the greatest upswing in high-temperature extremes.
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| New US nationwide Internet2 network deployment reaches major milestone |
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The first East to West Coast span on Internet2's new nationwide 100 gigabit per second network has been completed and is providing production IP and circuit services. This deployment marks another major milestone in bringing leading-edge networking resources to the research and education community in the United States.
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| MSC.Software accelerates product innovation and delivery through the release of SimEnterprise R2 |
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MSC.Software Corp., a global provider of enterprise simulation solutions and services, has released SimEnterprise R2, the newest installment of the company's integrated, enterprise simulation solutions. SimEnterprise R2 includes the SimXpert, SimDesigner, and SimManager applications, providing advanced capabilities to capture and reuse expert knowledge across engineering disciplines, user communities, and organizational boundaries in order to accelerate product development through enhanced productivity.
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| NCF in search of staff member |
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The Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) has a vacancy for a staff member (m/f) who is able to help shape the Dutch and European ambitions in the areas of e-infrastructure and e-science. The candidate has the competency to build a bridge between the worlds of technological potential and scientific needs from an international perspective. Candidates should apply before June 30, 2007.
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