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| IBM opens Latin America's first mainframe software centre |
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IBM has opened a mainframe software competency centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil, enabling local companies to build, test and run applications on the IBM mainframe without impacting their current technical environment or requiring crucial resources to be assigned toward pilot programmes.
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| GENCI launched as the large French national equipment for high performance computation |
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In order to have France provided with a computing power in range with its scientific and industrial power and to face international competition, Fran&vmp:ccedil;ois Goulard from the French Ministry of Education and Research has ordered the creation of an organisation allowing to establish the strategic orientations and to achieve the necessary investments.
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| National Science Board approves funds for petascale computing systems |
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The National Science Board (NSB) approved a resolution authorizing the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful "leadership-class" supercomputer, proposed in response to NSF's "Track 1" supercomputing solicitation. This "petascale" system is expected to be able to make arithmetic calculations at a sustained rate in excess of a sizzling 1,000-trillion operations per second (a "petaflop" per second) to help investigators solve some of the world's most challenging science and engineering research problems.
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| Dolphin announces PCI Express Expansion Product Line |
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ASA has unveiled and demonstrated the first members of its new PCI Express IO expansion product line at the Linuxworld/Next Generation Data Center Conference. Complementing its recently announced Dolphin Express enterprise cluster solutions, these products are designed to meet the IO scaling requirements of enterprise and high speed embedded applications. Dolphin's expansion products provide new levels of distance scaling, enabling high performance IO to be located up to 300 meters from a host system.
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| New technology has dramatic chip-cooling potential for future computers |
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Researchers Purdue University have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a looming threat to future advances in computers and electronics. The Purdue University researchers, in work funded by Intel Corporation, have shown that the technology increased the "heat-transfer coefficient", which describes the cooling rate, by as much as 250 percent.
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| Quantum light beams good for fast technology |
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Australian and French scientists have made another breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation computers and teleportation. The researchers have successfully superposed light beams, which produces a state that appears to be both on and off at once. Light beams that are simultaneously on and off are vital for the next-generation supercomputers which should be faster than current computers based on bits, that are either on or off.
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| Mitrionics names HPC industry veteran Mike Calise as Executive Vice President and U.S. General Manager |
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Mitrionics has named Mike Calise as executive vice president and head of its U.S. operation. Mr. Calise will be responsible for developing and managing a global sales organisation, implementing strategic plans for vertical and horizontal market development, and building industry alliances with leading system vendors, microprocessor, and FPGA manufacturing companies. Mitrionics received $6M in venture capital funding in May 2007 and is utilizing the financing to further enhance its technological and market leadership in FPGA-based accelerated computing by expanding its international sales and support operations and increasing its research and development efforts.
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| University of Alabama employs Blue Gene supercomputer to study tumour formations |
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has acquired an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer for biological research, tripling its computing power. The new supercomputer will allow the university to enhance its capabilities in computational biology and molecular simulations.
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| Mercury Computer Systems releases software development kit for PLAYSTATION3 for high-performance computing |
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Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has released its MultiCore Plus SDK for PS3 - Base Package, which enables application developers to unleash the powerful Sony PLAYSTATION3 (PS3) game console for low-cost, high-speed computing.
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| Cray Supercomputer at Sandia helps researchers discover origin of mysterious glass found in King Tut's tomb |
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Researchers running simulations on the Cray supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories have re-created what could have happened 29 million years ago when an asteroid explosion turned Saharan sand into glass. The greenish natural glass, which can still be found scattered across remote stretches of the desert, was used by an artisan in ancient Egypt to carve a scarab that decorates one of the bejeweled breastplates buried in King Tutankhamen's tomb.
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| PathScale compiler team joins SiCortex |
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SiCortex has acquired the PathScale compiler business from QLogic Corp. PathScale's compiler team, along with certain intellectual property and business agreements, will join SiCortex. Fred Chow, who heads up the PathScale team at QLogic, will join SiCortex as director of compiler engineering.
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| PGI compilers target Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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The Portland Group's PGI compilers and development tools now generate code targeted at Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, code-named "Barcelona". PGI and AMD are co-operating to provide these compilers to independent software vendors and customers interested in migrating and tuning applications for AMD's upcoming native quad-core processor.
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| New Star-P for Financial Services brings supercomputing to Wall Street |
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Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) has launched a new version of its Star-P software designed to make high performance computing (HPC) easier and more accessible to financial services organisations. Star-P 2.5 for Financial Services enables analysts to work with their familiar desktop financial modelling tools while gaining quantum leaps in computational performance and programming productivity. They can do better forecasting, risk analysis and trading by creating more complex financial algorithms and working with much larger data sets than current desktop computers allow. And they can do it faster: Star-P's interactive environment allows continual feedback and refinement of algorithms and models, resulting in applications developed in days, not months or years.
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| Sun Microsystems adds low-cost Virtual Tape Library for Open Systems to leading storage line-up |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has made available the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value ("VTL Value") System, the first storage offering built upon the revolutionary Sun Fire X4500 server. This latest addition to the Sun StorageTek VTL product family is powered by the Solaris Operating System (OS) and optimized by ZFS, Sun's powerful new file system.
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| Earth Simulator Center Division of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology selects Blue Coat SG Client to accelerate data globally |
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The Earth Simulator Center (ESC) of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has selected Blue Coat SG Client software to accelerate the distribution of large data files generated by supercomputer simulations to affiliated, but independent, scientists and organisations around the world.
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| IBM collaborates with clients and business partners to bring Blade computing to smaller firms |
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IBM has launched new initiatives to prepare business partners for the availability of BladeCenter S,a blade computing system designed to help smaller firms simplify the management of their technology. In addition, IBM will enable select clients, IBM Business Partners and independent software vendors to provide feedback on final product development for BladeCenter S through a beta programme.
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| IBM Award to help establish multicore Supercomputing Center at UMBC |
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The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and IBM have set up a new collaboration to create the Multicore Computing Center (MCC), a unique facility that will focus on supercomputing research related to aerospace/defense, financial services, medical imaging and weather/climate change prediction. IBM awarded UMBC a significant gift to support the development of this new centre, which researchers describe as an "orchestra" of one of the world's most powerful supercomputing chips.
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| Bull announces its results for the first six months of 2007 |
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Revenues of Bull for the first half of 2007 totaled 550.2 million euro, representing a fall of 1.6% compared with the published figure for the same period in 2006. Nevertheless, at comparable structure, revenues grew by 4.6%. Gross margin was 135.1 million euro, representing 24.6% of revenues, versus with 141.3 million euro, or 25.3% of revenues for the same period in the previous year.
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| Rocketing into HIPerSpace: new visualization system at UC San Diego |
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Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world - with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels. The system located at the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is also linked via optical fiber to Calit2's building at UC Irvine, which boasts the previous record holder. The combination - known as the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space (HIPerSpace) - can deliver real-time rendered graphics simultaneously across 420 million pixels to audiences in Irvine and San Diego.
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| Credit modelling with supercomputing |
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Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P software is helping Julius Finance bring new computational techniques to one of the most challenging analytical problems in institutional finance: credit modelling. Julius Finance is a private research company that is using high performance computers (HPCs) to analyse credit derivative products. With Star-P, the firm's researchers are able to rapidly develop new algorithms to create realistic credit models from which banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions can make more accurate predictions about a portfolio's potential.
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| HP extends lead in blade server market, growing factory revenue by 72 percent in second quarter |
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HP extended its lead in the worldwide blade server market in both total blade server units shipped and factory revenue, according to second calendar quarter 2007 server market figures released today by industry analyst firm IDC. HP significantly increased its lead as the no. 1 blade server vendor in the period with 47.2 percent total factory revenue share, a year-over-year factory revenue growth rate of 71.9 percent.
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| Scientists create their own Web 2.0 network with nanoHUB |
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nanoHUB.org, a so-called science gateway for nano-science and nanotechnology housed at Purdue University, is taking the tools of Web 2.0 and applying them, along with a few tricks of its own, to further nano-scholarly pursuits. It is very popular with scientists and engineers.
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| IBM's project Big Green spurs global shift to Linux on mainframe |
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IBM will consolidate about 3900 computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes running the Linux operating system. The company anticipates that the new server environment will consume approximately 80 percent less energy than the current set up and expects significant savings over five years in energy, software and system support costs.
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| Intel endorses industry specification to simplify blade server design |
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Intel Corporation has joined more than 40 server technology providers in support of the new Server Systems Infrastructure (SSI) industry specification for modular server platforms.
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| Cray Inc. reports second quarter 2007 financial results |
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Cray Inc. has announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007. Revenue for the quarter was $26.6 million compared to $38.5 million in the prior year period. Net loss for the quarter was ($6.4 million) or ($0.20) per share compared to a net loss of ($7.2 million) or ($0.32) per share in the second quarter of 2006.
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| Mellanox Technologies to present at the 9th Annual Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum and at the RBC Technology Conference |
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Michael Gray, chief financial officer at Mellanox Technologies, will present at the 9th Annual Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum on Monday and Tuesday, August 6-7 at the Sonnenalp Resort in Vail, Colorado, and at the RBC Technology Conference on Thursday, August 9 at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, California.
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| TotalView Debugger & MemoryScape Individual Developer Editions now available from Programmer's Paradise |
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TotalView Technologies, a provider of scalable debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core age, has partnered with industry-leading software reseller Programmer's Paradise to market its TotalView Debugger Individual Edition and powerful new MemoryScape memory analysis and debugger product. Programmer's Paradise will resell both TotalView Technologies software products, as well as maintenance, documentation and training sessions for each in North America, South America and the Caribbean.
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| RENCI assists State in floodplain remapping |
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Residents living in flood-prone coastal areas of North Carolina can rest a little easier knowing that state emergency managers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will soon have new state-of-the-art storm surge models to help them determine the best flood response to storms.
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| SGI technology accelerates rendering and effects processing for Vanguard/Starz CG Feature Film |
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To successfully create and complete Space Chimps, a computer generated (CG) animated feature film due to be released in theatres by Twentieth Century Fox in Summer 2008, Vanguard Animation has purchased high-performance server technology from SGI. SGI delivered a proven rendering solution that managed the complexity of handling multi-megabyte files throughout the process while delivering breakthrough performance.
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| Dot Hill reports second quarter 2007 results |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp. has announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007. For the second quarter of 2007, net revenue was $56.2 million, compared to $66.3 million for the second quarter of 2006 and $53.4 million for the first quarter of 2007. Net loss for the second quarter of 2007 was $3.7 million, or $0.08 per fully diluted share. This compares to a second quarter 2006 net loss of $6.6 million, or $0.15 per fully diluted share, and a first quarter 2007 net loss of $6.0 million, or $0.13 per fully diluted share.
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| Sun Microsystems enters commercial silicon market with world's fastest commodity microprocessor |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has launched the UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor with eight cores and eight threads per core, formerly known as the "Niagara 2" project. With each thread capable of running its own operating system, the chip delivers a 64-way system on a single chip. Sun will provide the UltraSPARC T2 processor design to the free and open source community via the GPL license.
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| University of Tennessee at Chattanooga SimCenter implements IPMI for dramatic improvement of cluster node management |
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) SimCenter has implemented the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) - reducing their operational costs by about $60,000 per year. The UTC SimCenter uses a high performance scientific supercomputing server cluster to run a computational engineering research and education centre. Avocent IPMI technology pre-integrated within the majority of SimCenter servers allows IT staff to more rapidly access information about system components, manage power control, and monitor overall system hardware health remotely - increasing server availability for their clients - all from a single interface.
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| Antelope Valley Hospital gets a healthy dose of data centre technologies from IBM |
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Antelope Valley Hospital is migrating from 70 Dell systems to just four virtualized IBM System x servers to dramatically improve data centre performance and reduce energy costs. With fewer physical servers, the hospital's data centre will run cooler and energy costs will be significantly reduced.
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| IBM expands support for the Solaris OS on x86 Systems |
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IBM will distribute the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM's routes to market. The agreement is an extension of IBM's existing support for the Solaris OS on select IBM BladeCenter servers. IBM and Sun's support of interoperability via open standards also means that customers will be able to extend their infrastructure by connecting new platforms easily, while preserving their initial investments.
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| TACC launches Global Academic Supercomputing Consortium |
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has launched an international collaboration created to support the use of advanced computational technologies in solving the world’s most challenging science and engineering problems. The Global Academic Supercomputing Consortium (GASC) will create strategic alliances that build and strengthen global research and development, and promote educational collaborations in advanced computing. In addition to TACC, the inaugural members of the consortium are: High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart, Germany; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Centro Nacional de Supercmputo, Instituto Potosino de Investigacin Cientfica y Tecnolgica (IPICyT), Mexico; Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland; Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC), Spain; Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC), UK; and Centro Nacional de Calculo Cientfico (CeCalCULA), Venezuela.
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| Processor design gets mathematical sweetener |
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A breakthrough microchip specification language will allow ambiguous English to be replaced by a mathematically precise description of processor functions and design. Better yet, it applies to every stage of microprocessor design. The upshot could be millions of euros saved by microchip producers.
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| IBM is number one server Vendor by revenue in 2Q07, says analyst report |
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IBM was the number one server vendor in the second quarter, posting growth in x86, UNIX and System z servers, according to analyst firm IDC. According to IDC, IBM had a 31 percent share of overall servers in the quarter, increasing year-to-year revenue 17 percent in x86 servers, seven percent in System p UNIX and four percent in the System z servers.
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| DataDirect Networks extends lead as top supplier of high performance storage to the world's fastest computing clusters |
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DataDirect Networks, an expert in high performance, high capacity storage solutions, has extended its leadership role with the recent release of the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites List. The company continues to be the largest supplier of high performance storage to the world's top 100 cluster sites, powering 6 of the top 10, 24 of the top 50, and 53 of the top 100 fastest machines in the world.
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| Photon-transistors for the supercomputers of the future |
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Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describes how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future may be created. The research has just been published in the scientific journalNature Physics.
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| Terra Soft and Power.org host Hack-a-thon II |
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Terra Soft Solutions is organizing Hack-a-thon II, to be held in Austin, Texas, September 22-25, two days prior to and then in conjunction with the Power Architecture Developer Conference. In this 4 day event, Terra Soft will host a 6 node PS3 cluster and hands-on workshop for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux, compute image deployment via Y-HPC, and use of Torque and Moab for job management. Hack-a-thon attendees will be invited to working hands-on with the cluster to test their own parallel and distributed code.
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| Sun Microsystems completes next-generation, energy efficient datacentres in US, UK and India |
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Sun Microsystems has publicly unveiled three active, new datacentres in Santa Clara, California; Blackwater, U.K.; and Bangalore, India. Put into operation between January and June of this year, all three datacentres were built using breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient systems, power and cooling. Sun estimates that the company's datacentre efforts will save the planet nearly 4100 tons of CO2 per year and trim 1% from Sun's total carbon footprint.
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| DAUM Communications to use Force10 TeraScale E-Series |
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Force10 Networks announced that DAUM Communications Corp. has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and S50N data center switches in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network to power the second largest online portal in South Korea. The Force10 end-to-end high performance data center solution delivers the long-term scalability DAUM requires to support its expanded Web service offerings.
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| Oracle announces general availability of Oracle Coherence 3.3 |
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Building on its commitment to deliver a foundation for a modern application infrastructure, Oracle has made available Oracle Coherence 3.3, an in-memory data Grid and the latest hot-pluggable component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. To address growing Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) requirements, this release features enhanced performance, Quality-of-Service and clustering capabilities, tighter integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware and support for Microsoft's .NET Framework. Oracle Coherence 3.3 is now available in three editions - Standard, Enterprise and Grid.
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| Results from a UK e-Science project are helping to solve two pressing environmental problems |
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Results from a UK e-Science project are helping to solve two pressing environmental problems. One finding could help to avoid arsenic contamination of drinking water extracted from man-made wells. Another could lead to improved methods of removing the now-banned industrial chemical, dioxin, from soil. The results were obtained using e-Science techniques and Grid computing to simulate all the possible interactions between these contaminants and rock or soil.
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| GridGain 1.5 - Open Source Grid computing for Java |
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GridGain Systems has made available GridGain 1.5 release, an enterprise open source Grid computing platform for Java. This release presents a continuation of 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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| Indiana University research labs receive $1.9 million for Polar Grid research |
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Despite the August heat, researchers from Indiana University (IU) are about to get a whole lot cooler. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an IU-led team $1.96 million to create a cyberinfrastructure that will help scientists better understand the current and future state of polar ice sheets. Under the leadership of Geoffrey C. Fox, director of Pervasive Technology Labs' Community Grids Lab and IU professor of informatics, the project team includes partners from Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) and the University of Kansas' Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets.
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| New release of Grid software brings significant benefits for end users |
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In science and industry today, computing and data resources are often widely distributed across different systems, sites or even countries. To make effective use of such a distributed infrastructure, end users rely on tools that provide easy and uniform access. The new release of UNICORE, the well-established European Grid middleware, provides a modern, lean software stack that implements an extensible service-oriented architecture compliant to current Web Service standards. UNICORE 6 will be officially released next week at the UNICORE Summit 2007 at Rennes, France, on 28th August 2007.
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| World Community Grid stops with United Devices client - migrates to BOINC |
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World Community Grid announced it will completely migrate to BOINC. World Community Grid members currently have the option of using either the United Devices (UD) or BOINC clients to participate in World Community Grid: 67% of these computers are running on UD and 33% on BOINC. But for new computers this is already reversed to BOINC (80%) and UD (20%).
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| Evergrid previews beta version of new Enterprise Global Management Software |
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Evergrid has launched the beta version of its upcoming Data Center Resource Manager (DCRM) product. The software will feature server power management coupled with load balancing and live migration of multi-tier on-line applications from one server to another, without interruptions to in-flight transactions and without breaking client or file connections. This level of functionality has not been commercially available until now.
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| World Scouting launches technology partnership with World Community Grid |
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As part of its Centenary celebrations, World Scouting has launched a partnership with World Community Grid in a joint effort to create a better world through information technology. Scouts with access to the Internet are to be encouraged to sign-up as members of the new 'SCOUTS' team created on World Community Grid, contributing their computers' unused processor cycles to the global effort.
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| WestGrid integral to award-winning research |
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A project led by Queen's University researcher Dr. Robert Thacker won the Discovery Award of Merit at the Research and Education Summit on June 4 in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Thacker credits WestGrid as an integral part of the project's success.
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| Grid helps find one picture in a million |
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Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, you're dependent on people to describe the images on their web pages. Now Imense Ltd., a high-tech Cambridge start-up, has announced new investment to help them become the Google of image searching, using their revolutionary technology. To test their software, they've made an unexpected partnership with a group of particle physicists using a massive computer Grid.
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| NCAR adds resources to TeraGrid |
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Researchers who use the TeraGrid, the United States' most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific research, can now leverage the computing resources of a powerful, 2048-processor BlueGene/L system at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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| GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform powers Sun's low latency Market Data solution |
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GigaSpaces Technologies has successfully integrated its high performance eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) into Sun Microsystems' strategic Market Data solution to help capital markets customers process high volumes of market data in extremely short processing times, and scale to meet the volumetric growth of market data that is doubling each year.
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| Updates to Co-ordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS) |
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TeraGrid resources have recently received upgrades and documentation enhancements designed to improve usability. The updates include new features and documentation describing CTSS capabilities, and offering dynamic views of these capabilities on each resource. The new features include Expanded Documentation; Software and Service Updates; and Information Services.
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| Tilera now shipping the TILE64 processor: the world's highest performance embedded processor |
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Tilera Corporation has launched the TILE64 processor, the first in a family of Tile Processor chips based on a novel architecture that can scale to hundreds and even thousands of cores. The TILE64 processor contains 64 full-featured, programmable cores - each capable of running Linux - and delivers 10X the performance and 30X the performance-per-watt of the Intel dual-core Xeon, and 40X the performance of the leading Texas Instruments DSP. Initial target markets for the TILE64 processor include the embedded networking and digital multimedia markets.
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| Promia Raven network security appliances now shipping |
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Promia Incorporated, a developer of Information Security and Network Monitoring products, has made available its new Promia Raven product line. The Raven appliances are based on the very successful military products known as the "Intelligent Agent Security Manager" system (IASM) and are designed as defensive units to protect data and communication networks in either standalone mode or interconnected in larger enterprise information Grids.
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| Data Expedition Inc. introduces SyncDat 'rsync' alternative for wide area networks |
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Data Expedition Inc. (DEI) has launched SyncDat, the first automated directory synchronization utility designed specifically to overcome the challenges of Wide Area Networking. DEI's Multipurpose Transaction Protocol (MTP/IP) software technology allows SyncDat to scan hundreds of thousands of remote files in minutes and move changed data up to seven times faster than traditional "rsync" or CIFS based solutions.
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| Red Lambda revolutionizes security risk management automation by delivering industry's first truly distributed network security solutions |
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One of the biggest challenges facing network administrators today is the dilemma of efficiently connecting their best-of-breed point solutions within their existing infrastructure, while simultaneously assuring top-level security risk management. Red Lambda, a technology expert in the development of distributed network security solutions, is receiving wide spread industry attention for their suite of solutions which integrate seamlessly into IT environments to deliver new levels of automation in security risk management while leveraging existing point solutions.
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| Grid specialist one of the world's most influential computer scientists |
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Grid specialist Ian Foster of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been recognized as one of the top three most influential computer scientists worldwide, according to a new formula that measures the impact of a scientist's work from Nature.
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| Access Grid connects collaborators and earns R&D 100 Award |
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After a vision nearly 10 years ago to build a system to enable group-to-group collaboration using scalable computing and networking technology, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been honoured with an R&D 100 Award for their resulting product, Access Grid 3.0.
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| Cartesian Gridspeed opens subsidiary operation in North America |
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Supporting the growing demand for its innovative genomic search technology in North America, Cartesian Gridspeed Ltd. has opened its new sales, marketing and technical support subsidiary, SLIM Search Inc. in Mission Viejo, California. SLIM Search Inc. is a genomic research pioneer marketing its SLIM Search genomic search tool to universities, government research, and research and development departments of biotechnology corporations and individual contributors. SLIM Search provides more speed, flexibility and sensitivity for the genomic researcher.
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| Neil Chue Hong new Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK |
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Neil Chue Hong is the new Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK), a collaborative e-Science project between the University of Southampton, the University of Manchester, and the University of Edinburgh (where he is based). Neil Chue Hong a member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF).
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| OMII-UK 3.4.0 Released |
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OMII-UK has released version 3.4.0 of its software suite for Grid computing. New in this version is the Open Grid Manager 1.0.0 (OGM) This is a a lightweight open source grid management framework that provides a cohesive solution for monitoring and managing arrays of heterogeneous Grid resources deployed within live production Grid. Also new is GridSphere 2.2.8 that provides an open-source portlet based Web portal.
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| EnterpriseDB named finalist in two categories for LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards |
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EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company, has been selected as a finalist in two categories for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2 is a finalist in the Best Database Solution category for the third straight year, and GridSQL for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is a finalist in the Grid Computing Solution category. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has won the award for Best Database Solution for the past two years at LinuxWorld.
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| Advanced credit derivatives solution for banks, asset managers and insurance firms in new version of Misys Summit FT |
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A new solution with powerful tools for trading and managing increasingly complex credit derivatives has been launched by Misys, the global software and solutions company. Misys Summit FT V5.2 will enable financial institutions to scale-up and meet evolving market demands in both complexity and volume as credit derivatives markets develop at a rapid pace. Misys Summit FT V5.2 is the product of over 100 projects and more than 10,000 days of development and includes several innovations across the asset class range.
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| Asia Pacific customers and partners prepare for release of Oracle Database 11g |
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Hundreds of organisations in Asia Pacific have tested or participated in previews of the latest release of Oracle Database 11g. With more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development, Oracle Database 11g is the most innovative and highest quality software product Oracle has ever announced.
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| Oracle Fusion Middleware demonstrates exceptional momentum |
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It is an exceptional year for Oracle Fusion Middleware, a new leader in middleware. Today, a majority of the world's leading organisations use Oracle Fusion Middleware to run, secure, adapt and expand their businesses, including: 90 of the Fortune 100 companies and 29 of the 30 companies making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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| IBM unveils information Server Blade to help enterprises manage information overload |
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IBM has launched the industry's first integrated, blade server-based data virtualization offering that allows companies to quickly gain more intelligence from massive volumes of complex information spread across businesses of all sizes. The new IBM Information Server Blade is a completely integrated offering comprised of IBM blade hardware, the IBM Information Server data integration software platform, and implementation services including financing. It consolidates and moves massive amounts of data to increase business insight and manage growing information overload problems.
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| ISV Companies introduce best-of-breed solutions to market with XenEnterprise v4 |
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XenSource Inc., a provider of enterprise-class virtualization solutions based on the high-performance open source Xen virtualization platform, has launched several new integrated solutions made possible by the release of XenEnterprise v4. With the secure, remoteable XenAPI feature, XenSource partners are provided with an SDK and DDK, as well as a storage back-end SR API for vendor specific enhanced storage functionality.
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| Layered Technologies announces availability of industry's largest virtual private datacentre |
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Layered Technologies, a provider of reliable, affordable, and scalable on-demand, self-managed utility hosting services, has made available the industry's largest virtual private datacenter (VPDC) - the Super Grid. Controlled with just a browser, the VPDC is comprised of 443 CPUs, 920GB RAM, and 47 terabytes of storage utilizing AMD platforms coupled with 3tera’s Applogic software. The VPDC is a cost-effect alternative for enterprises considering building out new facilities or leasing colocation space.
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| The Grid Layer will provide NeXplore with an efficient and cost effective solution |
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NeXplore Corporation has chosen Layered Technologies Inc., a provider of next generation, self-managed utility computing and hosting solutions, to host NeXplore Search, an innovative search destination slated for launch during Q3 2007. NeXplore will utilize The Grid Layer hosting solution from Layered Technologies, in combination with 3Tera Inc.'s virtualization software AppLogic. The bundled solution provides NeXplore with a virtual private data centre for efficiently and cost-effectively operating and managing NeXplore Search, as well as future NeXplore Web 2.0 products and destinations.
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| tyBit redefines Internet search |
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AIT - Advanced Internet Technologies - has released tyBit (Beta 2). tyBit was officially debuted by long-time web hosting provider, AIT, at the 2007 ISPCON held in Orlando Florida in June where Clarence Briggs, Founder and CEO of AIT delivered the key note address. Prior to that tyBit won Best Product runner-up at the Channel Partner Expo Show in Las Vegas. To date tyBit has filled a partner pipeline with over 30 Telcos, Carriers, ISPs, media companies, OEMs and various other subscriber-based organisations seeking to be strategic partners and representing 46 million potential subscribers. The first production release of the tyBit application is calendared for 2nd quarter 2008 when channel partners and advertisers will be able to sign up and begin using the application.
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| Independent analyst firm reports on Oracle Database 11g |
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Oracle is offering complimentary copies of a Gartner report on Oracle's forthcoming database release titled "Oracle Database 11g Could See Early Adoption", written by Donald Feinberg, Gartner Inc., July 17, 2007.
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| Syncsort's new release of DMExpress found to be twice as fast as competitors |
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Syncsort's newest release of DMExpress represents the latest in a 40 year tradition of providing high-speed, innovative solutions to customers' performance problems. DMExpress 4 combines performance, reliability, and functionality in a data management solution designed to speed ETL, data warehousing, BI, and other mission-critical applications. One enhancement - Grid computing - provides a high-performance architecture for CPU-intensive applications by enabling users to harness the collective processing power of multiple computers.
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| Oracle announces general availability of Oracle Database 11g |
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Oracle Database 11g is now generally available on the Linux platform. Oracle Database 11g delivers the next-generation of enterprise information management, helping customers tackle the demands of rapid data growth, changing environments, and the need to deliver higher quality of services while reducing and controlling IT costs.
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| GDI-Grid to provide efficient access and processing of geodata for the geosimulation of sound wave expansion and catastrophies |
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The need for calculation performance and IT resources is constantly increasing in society, economy and research. This is especially true for the geo-informatics economy and in particular for the domains of security, catastrophy management and processing of country-wide geobasic databases. Existing resources must be regularly made up to date and be replaced with new capacities. An important goal of the geodata infrastructure Grid (GDI-Grid) is the effective and efficient access of existing resources and the optimization of their use. The three-year project is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and started on July 1, 2007.
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| IBM and university scientists launch global computing effort to find cures for dengue, West Nile, and hepatitis C diseases |
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In an effort to halt the spread of deadly infectious diseases now threatening to reach epidemic proportions around the world, an unprecedented research effort was launched today by IBM, the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and the University of Chicago to discover drugs to treat and cure dengue fever, West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and a host of related diseases including yellow fever.
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| IBM Federal SOA Institute launches IT Certification Programme |
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IBM has launched the first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) certification and training programme for Federal IT professionals. The programme was established to provide knowledge, and share important skill sets needed, for SOA development and adoption.
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| BLUElink: a triumph of scientific collaboration |
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Users of the vast ocean areas around Australia will be able to obtain broad-scale information on ocean currents, temperature and salinity for the first time following the launch of BLUElink - a new ocean forecast system. BLUElink provides a seven-day forecast of sea temperature, salinity and currents reflecting the complex movement of Australia's offshore and coastal waters. Bluelink has been developed by CSIRO through its Wealth from Oceans Flagship, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Royal Australian Navy.
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| Swimming in an ocean of data: biodiversity, greenhouse gases and art |
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The Global Ocean Survey, a recent scientific voyage of discovery, has acquired the largest metagenomics data set in existence to date, giving scientists unprecedented amounts of data to sift through in exploring a radical new view of life on Earth, one that is genetic sequence-centric rather than organism-centric. Now ATLAS in silico, an ambitious art-meets-technology project presented on the world's only 100-million-pixel autostereographic display, allows the public to swim virtually in the data and experience first-hand this radical new view of the world.
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| IBM Supercomputer to power official weather forecasts for Beijing |
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The Beijing Meteorological Bureau (BMB) has acquired a new IBM supercomputer to aid in weather forecasting and air-quality control. The system is capable of sweeping an area up to 44,000 square kilometers to provide hourly numerical weather forecasts for each square kilometer. The new computer, an IBM System p575, will provide ten times the computational power of the BMB's current weather forecasting system. In addition to providing up-to-the-hour forecasts, the supercomputer will also be used to help predict air quality in Beijing. The system will be employed by BMB to improve the accuracy of forecasts in the regions surrounding Beijing.
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| SDSC helps simulate the early universe in unprecedented detail |
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Unlike most scientists, astronomers have a way to do "time travel", literally seeing back into the universe's early history. A number of "red shift" surveys are taking this trip, recording objects in one section of the sky that are ever farther away - and therefore older - as their light travels billions of years to reach the earth. To help understand these observations, University of California San Diego cosmologist Michael Norman and collaborators are using the ENZO cosmology code to simulate the universe from first principles, starting near the Big Bang. In work submitted to theAstrophysical Journal, the researchers have conducted the most detailed simulations ever of a region of the universe 500 megaparsecs across (more than 1.5 billion light years).
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| Carnegie Mellon scientists investigate initial molecular mechanism that triggers neuronal firing |
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Carnegie Mellon University chemists have solved a decade-long molecular mystery that could eventually help scientists develop drug therapies to treat a variety of disorders, including epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. Using intensive theoretical and computational calculations, Carnegie Mellon researchers have modelled the initial molecular changes that occur when the neurotransmitter glutamate docks with a receptor on a neuron, which sets in motion a chain of events that culminates in the neuron firing an electrical impulse.
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| Reliable, fast simulations of complex events Virginia Tech mathematician's goal |
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Serkan Gugercin, an assistant professor of mathematics affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Center of Applied Mathematics at Virginia Tech, received the five-year CAREER grant worth $400,000 to do "Reduced-order modelling and controller design for large-scale dynamical systems via rational Krylov methods". The award is NSF's most prestigious for creative junior faculty who are considered likely to become academic leaders of the future.
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| Keeping an eye on the ice |
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What happens to ice and snow in the Arctic will have a direct effect on Europe's climate in the future. Keeping tabs on what goes on up north is therefore essential if the continent is to ready itself for the consequences of climate change. European research is helping keep an eye on the ice and snow.
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| Paris taxi customers call on SGI for fast, reliable service from Les Taxis Bleus |
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With more than 30 million visitors descending on Paris streets every year, the City of Light relies on its taxis to get people where they need to go. To ensure it can meet that demand, the city's leading taxi company is relying on a new enterprise-class compute and storage solution from SGI.
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| PNNL researchers are progressing towards description of heavy elements |
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are uniting theory, computation and experiment to discover exactly how heavy elements, such as uranium and technetium, interact in their environment. As part of that effort, scientists have combined sensitive experimental measurements with first principle electronic structure calculations to measure, and to really understand, the structural and bonding parameters of uranyl, the most common oxidation state of uranium in systems containing water.
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| Beacon Institute and IBM team to pioneer river observatory network |
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The Beacon Institute and IBM have set up a plan to create the first technology-based monitoring and forecasting network for a major American river and estuary.
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| Lola Group selects Altair's HyperWorks CAE Software Suite to streamline its design process for composite structures |
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Lola Group has chosen Altair's HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite of advanced software to streamline their product design process.
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| Altair Engineering launches industry's first crash environment to be integrated into CATIA V5 |
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Altair Engineering has launched HyperCrash/CATIA, the first crash environment integrated into CATIA V5. The new technology enables modelling of crash data and the capability to include non-linear material properties in a dynamic database. HyperCrash/CATIA is part of the HyperWorks suite of advanced CAE solutions and provides a seamless interface for CATIA users. However, separate usage licensing is required.
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| T. rex quicker than Becks, accordng to scientists |
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T. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world's most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, as recent research suggests. The University of Manchester study used a powerful supercomputer to calculate the running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs that varied in size from a 3kg Compsognathus to a six-tonne Tyrannosaurus.
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| Governor announces 'Broadband Ohio' Initiative |
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Ohio Governor Ted Strickland in the US has issued an executive order announcing the Broadband Ohio initiative to extend the reach of Ohio's broadband resources, further Ohio's leadership in network innovation and improve technology access for all citizens throughout the state.
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| Sprinting to the last mile |
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Broadband access for isolated communities is a long-standing, apparently intractable problem. But now one EU research team believes it has a promising, spontaneous, solution. Miles are a lot longer in the countryside. In cities, better broadband access focuses on Local Loop Unbundling, the famous 'last mile' between the telephone exchange and the web surfer. It introduces more competitors, lowers prices and raises quality and speed.
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