| PrimeurWeekly 02 July 2007 |
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| Austria's fastest vector supercomputer unveiled at Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics |
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The Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna (ZAMG) has officially commenced operation of its new high-performance computer on June 19th. The meteorologists are particularly pleased with the SX-8R vector computer from NEC since it will enable them to produce even more accurate weather forecasts in future.
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| Software error in card readers for unique-use Public Transport tickets allows unintended free travelling |
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During their thesis research students at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered a bug in the security software for paper unique-use Public Transport tickets. Due to this bug, certain tickets could be re-used. The Public Transport companies concerned are now taking measures.
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| Cineca, Italy's largest computing centre, expands research and accelerates projects with Cisco and IBM high-performance computing |
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Research projects that impact peoples' lives, such as predictions of volcanic eruptions or the development of new medicines and treatment, could soon be completed faster and at a lower cost. Italian universities and research organisations that use Cineca, the largest computing centre in Italy and one of the largest in the world, will benefit from the recent deployment of high-performance computing (HPC) technologies from Cisco and IBM. HPC will help researchers accelerate projects, make better investment decisions, and reduce research and development costs. For example, projects such as forecasting the odds that Mount Vesuvius will erupt would have been impossible or far too expensive to achieve, due to the huge computing power required. Cineca also believes that the Cisco and IBM technologies will help it cut its return-on-investment period by almost 50 percent, from three years to just 18 months.
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| Humboldt University in Berlin and IBM introduce new educational offer with focus on supercomputers for IT students |
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The Humboldt University in Berlin and IBM will provide IT students in this year of the newly-established "Berlin Mainframe Summit 2007" with a qualitative supplementary educational programme addressing supercomputers and mainframes. This programme will allow IT students from the Berlin and Potsdam Colleges to increase their professional opportunities in the labour market.
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| Callidus Software selects Sun platform for its On-Demand Sales Performance Management solution |
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Callidus Software Inc., specialized in Sales Performance Management (SPM), is extending its relationship with Sun Microsystems to provide and manage Callidus Software On-Demand service solutions. With over 8500 subscribers since the launch of Callidus On-Demand in 2006, Callidus is now expanding its relationship with Sun into Europe. Callidus will offer a Sun-managed data centre in Europe to serve its clients in EMEA with the next generation of mission-critical on-demand enterprise applications. The Sun solution provides greater security, scalability and reliability than traditional on-demand offerings.
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| IBM establishes Global Center of Excellence for Nuclear Power |
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IBM is establishing a Global Center of Excellence for Nuclear Power in La Gaude, France, to support safe, reliable and efficient electricity generation by energy companies worldwide. The new Center extends IBM's on-going work with leading nuclear power companies to support improved design, construction, safety and operation of power plants based on IBM software, hardware, consulting, and services industry offerings. These include IT systems design and architecture consulting, high performance computing, advanced simulation/modelling capabilities, plus Enterprise Asset Management and Plant Lifecycle Management solutions aimed at both the extension of existing nuclear power plant life, as well as streamlining new plant construction.
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| Central Europe's largest Internet exchange tacles increasing traffic demands with Force10 Networks Terascale E-Series switch/routers |
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DE-CIX, the largest Internet exchange in Central and Eastern Europe, is leveraging the scalable capacity of the TeraScale E-Series family of Force10 Networks' switch/routers to meet the rapidly increasing bandwidth demands. The Force10 TeraScale E-Series has helped DE-CIX scale its network and services to support nearly 200 Gigabits per second of traffic, an increase of 140 percent over the past 12 months.
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| Industry's first multi-node Grid architecture-based e-mail archiving solution introduced by Mimosa Systems |
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Mimosa Systems, an expert in Live Content Archiving solutions, is bringing the promise of Grid computing to e-mail archiving environments with the release of Mimosa NearPoint 3.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server software. The multi-node Grid architecture is the most scalable architecture in the e-mail archiving industry - enabling support for hundreds of thousands of mailboxes in a single system. Other industry-firsts in NearPoint 3.0 include version history for Active Directory, plus the combination of archiving, continuous data protection, and disaster recovery for public folders.
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| IBM triples performance of world's fastest, most energy-efficient supercomputer |
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IBM has launched Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. Blue Gene/P nearly triples the performance of its predecessor, Blue Gene/L - currently the world's fastest computer - while remaining the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing package ever built.
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| Researchers at Rice University use Cray supercomputer to unlock biomedical mysteries and aid future diagnostics |
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Research teams using a Cray supercomputer at Rice University's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) have developed computational techniques that will eventually assist medical workers in diagnosing and treating some of the most devastating diseases afflicting humans - ranging from cerebral aneurysms to illnesses such as bacterial/viral infections and cancer.
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| Sun Project BlackBox executive joins Liquid Computing to lead Service Provider Sales |
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Liquid Computing Inc., a developer of an industry leading fabric computing system, has appointed Michael Bohlig as Vice President of Service Provider Sales. Michael Bohlig will be driving the company's efforts with service providers, including managed services providers, hosting providers, and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions providers.
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| Inaugural IBM Blue Gene/P system to expand Argonne leadership-class computing facility |
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IBM will soon be shipping its first external Blue Gene/P system to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). This state-of-the-art system will provide the computational science community with a leading computing capability dedicated to advancing knowledge and solving the most challenging scientific problems facing the United States, including predicting climate change or understanding complex biological systems.
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| Lattice introduces industry's first SERDES FPGA priced below $10 |
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In conjunction with the production release of the first devices in its acclaimed LatticeECP2M FPGA family, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has launched low-cost FPGAs to offer high-speed embedded SERDES I/O. Production volume prices have been reduced to as low as $9.95 for the 20K Look-Up-Table (LUT) LatticeECP2M-20, substantially below those of competitive SERDES-capable FPGAs and cracking the $10.00 price barrier for the first time. When compared to Lattice's previously announced pricing, these prices represent a price reduction of >20% in less than one year.
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| Oracle reports Q4 GAAP EPS up 27% to 31 cents and non-GAAP EPS up 28% to 37 cents |
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Oracle Corporation's fiscal 2007 Q4 GAAP earnings per share were up 27% to $0.31, compared to the same quarter last year. Fourth quarter GAAP revenues were up 20% to $5.8 billion, while quarterly GAAP net income was up 23% to $1.6 billion. Total GAAP software revenues were up 19% to $4.8 billion. GAAP new license revenues were up 17% with GAAP database and middleware new license revenues up 18% and GAAP applications new license revenues up 13%. GAAP services revenues were up 26% to $1.1 billion compared to the same quarter last year.
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| SGI unveils ultra-dense SGI Altix ICE blade platform purpose-built for high-performance computing |
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SGI has unveiled SGI Altix ICE, a next-generation platform that brings all the advantages of the company's expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a tightly integrated, cool-running blade solution. Designed by SGI to close the growing gap between performance and user productivity, SGI Altix ICE 8200 is the first in a new line of bladed servers purpose-built to handle true HPC applications and large scale-out workloads.
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| Sun donates high availability cluster code to the Open Source Community and enables accelerated innovation in scale out architectures |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. will release the Solaris Cluster source code through the High Availability (HA) Clusters community on the OpenSolaris site. Sun is releasing the Open High Availability Cluster in response to interest and feedback from the OpenSolaris community. For the first time, developers will be able to participate in the evolution of the software itself, as well as leverage the open source cluster technology to develop and support highly available application services.
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| Sun's Network.com powers Dynamic On Demand Financial Services software from CDO2 |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has made available a Dynamic On Demand financial risk simulation and pricing service from Network.com offered by CDO2, a provider of innovative pricing and risk technology for organisations trading structured credit products.
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| Force10 Networks awarded patent for advances in delivering reliable switching and routing performance |
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Force10 Networks was awarded a patent for innovations in congestion management that allow the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to deliver predictable performance and throughput regardless of traffic conditions. Force10 holds 16 U.S. patents protecting its innovations in switching and routing performance as well as backplane design and manufacturing.
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| Carnegie Mellon leads international team in conducting most detailed cosmological simulation to date |
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By incorporating the physics of black holes into a highly sophisticated model running on a powerful supercomputing system, an international team of scientists has produced an unprecedented simulation of cosmic evolution that verifies and deepens our understanding of relationships between black holes and the galaxies in which they reside. Called BHCosmo, the simulation shows that black holes are integral to the structure of the cosmos and may help guide users of future telescopes, showing them what to look for as they aim to locate the earliest cosmic events and untangle the history of the universe.
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| IBM introduces Metadata Workbench for SOA, compliance, business intelligence and master data integration projects |
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IBM has launched IBM Metadata Workbench, new data visualization and management software within IBM Information Server designed to deliver important insight about data and speed deployment of SOA, compliance, business intelligence and master data integration projects. Metadata is information embedded within data that describes its important attributes such as where it originated, what it means, where it has been, and how it can be used. It is becoming an increasingly important element of compliance initiatives, information integration efforts and electronic discovery for the Web.
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| IBM DB2 "Viper 2" data server prepares to strike |
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IBM has introduced open customer and business partner beta testing of an enhanced version of the DB2 9 "Viper" data server. The upgrade - code named Viper 2 - will build upon the success of DB2 9 by further enhancing the product's industry-leading security and workload management features. DB2 9 Viper is IBM's fastest-growing and most successful data server product in more than two decades. Less than a year after its introduction, DB2 9 has ushered in a new era in data management by seamlessly and simultaneously managing both XML and relational data, regardless of format, platform or location.
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| IBM expands high performance computing capabilities for clusters |
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IBM has made available Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for the IBM System Cluster 1350, to help enable more mid-market and enterprise clients - including those in life sciences, computer-aided engineering (CAE) and financial services - to take advantage of high-performance cluster computing. IBM also announced expanded server, storage and networking options for the cluster solution, to help provide unprecedented levels of speed, choice and flexibility for high performance computing environments.
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| Hilite International Division converts to Altair's OptiStruct/Analysis |
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The Northern Stamping Division of Hilite International has converted to OptiStruct/Analysis, Altair's next-generation finite-element (FE) solver technology for linear statics and dynamics applications. Northern Stamping is a supplier of precision, structural, stamped and welded assemblies to the automotive industry.9
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| Transvalor bundles Altair's PBS Professional with every software sale to deliver greater customer value |
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Transvalor, a simulation software company, plans to bundle Altair's PBS Professional on-demand computing software environment with every software sale for the cluster version. In an effort to deliver greater customer value, Transvalor decided to provide all of its cluster version customers with PBS Professional, because it helps improve the productivity of Transvalor's simulation software. Existing Transvalor customers will also receive PBS Professional as part of the decision.
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| HP and Microsoft Alliance continues to drive productivity in high-performance computing |
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HP and Microsoft Corporation have extended their worldwide sales and marketing agreement that addresses the high-performance computing (HPC) market. The companies have come together to drive high-performance computing into the mass market by delivering supercomputing clusters that are easier to deploy, support and manage for enterprise and mid-market customers.
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