| PrimeurWeekly 24 December 2007 |
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| 312 Tflop/s supercomputer for Northern-Germany |
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Six countries in the north of Germany, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein united in a collaboration for High Performance computing (HLRN) will get a new SGI supercomputer. Ultimately the system will have a peak-performance of 312 Tflop/s, making it one of the fastest systems in Europe at that time. The machine will be installed in three major upgrade phases and costs around 26 million euro. The machine will be distributed in two parts: one in Hannover and one in Berlin, with a 10 Gbit/s dedicated link between the two parts. Each part will have 12.500 processor cores. Primeur magazine talked to ZIB Berlin director Alexander Reinefeld about this new acquisition.
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| CMS tracking detector successfully installed |
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Installation of the world's largest silicon tracking detector was today successfully completed at CERN. In the early hours of Thursday 13 December the CMS2 Silicon Strip Tracking Detector began its journey from the main CERN site to the CMS experimental facility. Later that day it was lowered 90 metres into the CMS cavern. Installation began on Saturday 15 December and was concluded the morning of 18 December.
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| Omemo launches groundbreaking P2P network |
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MP2P Technologies has launched Omemo. The beta launch of Omemo creates a virtual hard drive in which users may save files, however, said files are stored in cyberspace rather than on the user's local hard drive. Omemo's distributed storage network is fast and scalable creating a nearly limitless supply of storage space and freely available, uncensored information. The subsequent repository of files includes digital music, video clips, images, software and documents.
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| Demandware expands European eCommerce operations |
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Demandware, developer of the breakthrough On-Demand eCommerce Platform, has expanded its European operations. Demandware has established a new European data centre, opened new offices in the UK and Germany, and formed new partnerships across Europe to facilitate retailers' international expansion. Demandware serves dozens of international brands, including $2 billion toy manufacturer Playmobil - running in 11 countries, House of Fraser - one of the UK's largest department stores, and U.S.-based Timberland, which recently expanded internationally.
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| IBM to acquire Solid Information Technology to broaden Information on Demand portfolio |
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IBM has entered into an agreement to acquire Solid Information Technology, a privately held company based in Cupertino, California, and Helsinki, Finland, that provides in-memory database software. Financial details were not disclosed.
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| ESI Group announces CFD-ACE+ V2008.0 Software for advanced CFD and multiphysics solutions |
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ESI has released version 2008.0 of its CFD-ACE+ software platform. CFD-ACE+ is the industry's most advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and multiphysics software, enabling coupled simulations of fluid, thermal, chemical, biological, electrical and mechanical phenomena for a variety of applications across a wide range of industries.
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| European Research Council awards its first prestigious grants to top researchers |
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The European Research Council (ERC), a new research funding body created under the EU's 7 th Framework Programme for Research, issued the outcome of its first competition for Starting Independent Investigators. About 300 up-and-coming research leaders, between two and nine years after their doctorate, will receive grants. The first Starting Grants will be signed in February next year.
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| OW2 releases JOnAS 5, a new-generation dynamic application platform for mission critical computing |
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OW2, a consortium in Open Source middleware, has released JOnAS 5.0, a new-generation release of its flagship application server. Already deployed in production for thousands of enterprises and government applications worldwide, JOnAS 5 represents a breakthrough in application platforms, fulfilling the needs of organizations seeking to deploy open and robust Java application services while preparing for tomorrow's flexible Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs).
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| Sun announces appointment of Alain Andreoli as Senior Vice President of EMEA region |
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has appointed Alain Andreoli as senior vice president of its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.
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| Northern California Power Agency teams with Oracle to streamline transition to market redesign and technology upgrade |
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Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) has introduced an innovative use of Oracle XML DB, a feature of Oracle Database 11g that provides high-performance XML storage and retrieval, to manage the very large and complex power settlements data that every California electric utility will receive starting early next year. NCPA will offer its Oracle XML DB research application and findings to other California utilities for free, which will save time and money for all ratepayers by facilitating implementation of this new technology.
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| Platform Computing adopting DRMAA standards |
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Platform Computing has signed a partnership agreement with FedStage Systems for the distribution of FedStage's Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) for Platform LSF. The FedStage DRMAA library for LSF is an open source implementation of the Open Grid Forum's DRMAA 1.0 specification.
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| Maplesoft announces the Grid Computing Toolbox for distributed computing |
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Maplesoft, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, has added a new toolbox to the Maple Professional Toolbox Series. The Grid Computing Toolbox enables distributed computing using Maple, the primary tool for engineers, to solve complex mathematical problems and create rich technical documents.
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| Computational mathematical sciences receives NSF grant for undergraduate research |
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Arizona State University's (ASU) computational mathematical sciences programme in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will power a new set of undergraduate research projects beginning in January with a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The programme, targeting juniors majoring in computational mathematical sciences, will initially offer interdisciplinary research experiences involving weather and climate forecasting, environmental fluid dynamics, math biology applications, and the efficiency of complex supply chain models.
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| xkoto delivers major new release of GRIDSCALE data virtualization solution |
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xkoto Inc., a provider of data virtualization solutions, has made available version 3.5 of its flagship middleware application, GRIDSCALE.
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| National Astronomical Observatory of Japan selects Cray supercomputer to study origin of solar system and star formation |
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Cray has been selected with a Cray XT4 system by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). With more than 27 teraflops of computational capability, the Cray XT4 system will be housed at the NAOJ's Center for Computational Astrophysics (CfCA) to aid scientists and researchers in the study of the origin of planetary systems and galaxies and the formation of stars and star clusters.
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| Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster |
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The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska, a century ago in Siberia, may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia supercomputer simulations suggest.
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| Amazon SimpleDB announced |
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Amazon Web Services has launched its newest service, Amazon SimpleDB, which will be made available as a limited beta sometime in the next few weeks. Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time.
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| LNXI announces new diskless cluster system that ensures secure and complete destruction of data from HPC non-volatile storage |
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Linux Networx has launched its LS-1 for Secure Environments (LS-1 SE), a diskless, clustered HPC system optimized for projects in which proper data destruction is essential. LNXI's innovative, elegant solution offers users a way to pool compute power for various secure environment projects without having to destroy entire systems to ensure all project-related data has been eliminated.
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| Oracle Fusion Middleware delivers world record clustered results in SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark with HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks EVA |
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Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters, running on HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays, delivered world record clustered performance results with the SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark. Reaching the highest performance ever achieved running a clustered database, this result surpassed the best SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark results from BEA WebLogic by 15 percent and IBM WebSphere with IBM DB2 UDB 9.1 by more than 116 percent.
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| Microsoft unveils virtualization technology called Hyper-V |
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Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology called Hyper-V, a feature with some versions of Windows Server 2008. Customers and partners can download Windows Server 2008 RC1 Enterprise with the beta version of Hyper-V to evaluate the new technology, test applications and plan future consolidation, business continuity and high-availability projects. The beta was previously expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2008 with the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008. The beta is available for download.
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