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| Commission puts Europe's supercomputers on the path to sustainable energy sources |
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Europe's nuclear fusion researchers have been granted access to the network of Europe's most powerful supercomputers, the European Commission has announced. The hope is that access to the immense processing power of DEISA - 'Distributed European infrastructure for supercomputing applications' - will enable scientists to carry out complex simulations of the processes taking place inside a fusion reactor.
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| New IBM Petaflop supercomputer at German Forschungszentrum Juelich to be Europe's most powerful |
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The German research centre Forschungszentrum Juelich has selected IBM to develop the first supercomputer in Europe capable of one Petaflop/s. IBM will partner with Juelich-based Gauss Centre for Supercomputing to install the new IBM Blue Gene/P System in the first half of this year.
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| Bull supercomputer for Jülich Research Center provides research into nuclear fusion access to European computer simulation resources for the first time |
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Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany has chosen Bull to supply a 100 Teraflops-capacity supercomputer to host applications for the European Union's Fusion project. The main aim of the EU Fusion project is to speed up research into nuclear fusion - a high-potential way of generating energy which should, in the long-term, enable us to meet the challenges both of sustainable development and the disappearance of fossil fuels.
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| 24th ORAP Forum issues Call for Participation |
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The 24th ORAP Forum will be organized in Lille, France on March 26, 2009. The principal theme will be "Data and High Performance Computing". Registration is requested but free of charge.
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| Mellanox delivers high-performance end-to-end connectivity for Europe's leading supercomputing clusters |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s ConnectX 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters, 40Gb/s InfiniBand switches and cables will provide the high-performance, low-latency interconnect foundation for the new compute clusters being built at Forschungszentrum Jülich in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the largest interdisciplinary research centres in Europe.
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| Dolphin opens on-line store for United States customers |
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Dolphin Inc. has opened its first on-line store, enabling customers to browse on-line, select the appropriate Dolphin solution and complete their purchases at their convenience. All of Dolphin's products from the Application Acceleration and Embedded product lines are available through the new web store. The store is currently accepting orders from customers in the United States, while the company plans to include other parts of the world shortly.
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| Cray and atsec achieve CC Security Certification of Cray Linux Environment |
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The Cray Linux Environment (CLE) has been certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership's (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme as conformant to EAL3+ (enhanced with Flaw Remediation ALC_FLR.1). This evaluation took into consideration a number of new functionalities: the Lustre network file system, Portals high-speed Remote DMA and the application placement scheduler ALPS. The evaluation covers Cray Linux Environment 2.1 running on the Cray XT4 and Cray XT5 computer systems.
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| HP Blade servers power the next generation of visual entertainment |
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Two world-leading visual effects companies have selected HP blade server technology to increase production of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and drive cost-saving data centre initiatives. CGI is used as visual effects in films, television programmes and video games. With CGI, development of a typical 90-minute film often requires the production and storage of more than 2 million hours of digitally created content.
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| TotalView supports the HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System |
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TotalView Technologies' TotalView debugger now supports the HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System for midsize customers. TotalView provides users with the ability to debug parallel applications running on the HP system, which offers affordable, high-performance computing without the hassle, complexity and expense of an enterprise-level system.
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| ReplayEngine 1.1 and TotalView 8.6.2 just released |
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TotalView has released Replay Engine 1.1.0 with support for record and replay debugging of 32 bit executables on 64 bit Linux x86 operating systems. TotalView 8.6.2 was also released, with a number of bug fixes.
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| Sun Microsystems supports European Code of Conduct for Data Centres |
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Sun Microsystems intends to become an endorser of the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres, an initiative designed to inform and stimulate data centre operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without hampering mission critical functions. As an endorser of the Code of Conduct, Sun will leverage its leadership in this space to promote data centre best practices throughout the European Union.
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| ISC'09 gradually deploys Conference programme |
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While the International Supercomputing Conference 2009 (ISC'09), to be held in Hamburg, Germany, June 23-26, 2009 is introducing a number of new ideas, one tradition remains constant: presentations by some of the top names in HPC from industry and academia and the opportunity to meet with them in a colleague-like setting. In addition, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions provide opportunities for conference attendees with common interests to come together for an informal discussion and sharing new ideas and information on HPC topics. Submission deadline for BoF sessions is April 12, 2009.
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| CiRBA Version 5.1 enables collaborative enterprise capacity management through a centralized capacity repository and advanced analytics |
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CiRBA Inc., an expert in capacity management analytics software, has released CiRBA Version 5.1. With Version 5.1, CiRBA provides advanced analytics and collaborative capabilities that enable enterprise views of capacity health for both physical and virtual infrastructure.
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| NNSA awards IBM contract to build next generation supercomputer |
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The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has signed a contract with IBM to bring world-leading supercomputing systems to its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to help continue to ensure the safety and reliability of the United States' aging nuclear deterrent.
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| Sjur Fjellbirkeland joins ClusterVision as Manager Nordic Area |
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Sjur Fjellbirkeland has joined ClusterVision's European sales force as Manager Nordic Area. Sjur Fjellbirkeland will be driving sales in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, leveraging his extensive network of contacts in the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. He will be based at ClusterVision's Nordic head quarters in Oslo.
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| OptimaNumerics and Clustertech sign Reselling Agreement |
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OptimaNumerics Ltd, a provider of high performance numerical software, has signed a Reselling Agreement with Cluster Technology Limited (Clustertech). Cluster Technology Limited specializes in Grid and high performance computing (HPC) technologies.
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| New CU-Boulder computer cluster to aid in earth-modelling research |
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder-based supercomputer will vastly extend the ability of scientists across the globe in modelling and predicting many important aspects of Earth's surface processes, from glacial melting and flooding to coastal erosion and tropical ocean storms.
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| Aldert Groenenberg joins ClusterVision as Manager Benelux |
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Aldert Groenenberg has joined ClusterVision's European sales force as Manager Benelux. Aldert Groenenberg will be driving sales in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, leveraging his extensive network of contacts in the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. He will be based at ClusterVision's headquarters in Amsterdam.
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| QualiPSo project opens new four Competence Centres on Free Open Source Software |
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The Qualipso project funded by the European Commission is establishing a worldwide network of Competence Centres, starting in early 2009 with four centres located in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and São Paulo, Brazil. The goal of the Qualipso Network of Competence Centres is to provide to Free Open Source Software (FOSS) users, developers, and consumers, high-quality resources and expertise on the various topics related to open source software.
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| Serbia joins the PRACE initiative |
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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has a new member country - Serbia - which joined the initiative on 16 December 2008. The overall number of countries in the initiative has increased to 18 as Serbia signed the Memorandum of Understanding. Several additional countries have also expressed their interest in the initiative. Thus, the coverage of PRACE is getting wider in Europe.
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| Voltaire to deliver 40 Gb/s switch for IBM BladeCenter |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centres, will design a next generation high-performance 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch module for IBM BladeCenter. The new IBM custom switch will deliver 100% faster InfiniBand connectivity to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter.
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| University of Cambridge to apply SiCortex high-productivity computer to advanced chemistry research |
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SiCortex Inc., maker of high-productivity computing (HPC) systems, and Streamline Computing, its partner in the United Kingdom, have been selected to install and support a SiCortex HPC system at the University of Cambridge.
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| Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to deploy SiCortex high-productivity computer to advance scientific research in multiple fields |
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MEGWARE Computer GmbH, the SiCortex partner in Germany, has been selected to install and support a SiCortex HPC system at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). On the heels of the company's recent partnership announcement with Germany's University of Magdeburg, this installation underscores the growing global receptivity to SiCortex's promise of enabling breakthrough delivered performance at the lowest power consumption, as compared to any HPC system currently available on the market.
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| Multi-teraflop computer system targets large-scale discovery projects |
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Penn State's Institute for CyberScience will target large-scale modelling, simulation and data analysis with a terascale advanced computing system, funded by the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Programme.
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| 'Petascale computing' may improve storm predictions, AAAS Annual Meeting speakers report |
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Scientific computing is rapidly moving to the petascale according to speakers at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held 12-16 February in Chicago, Illinois. Thomas H. Dunning, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, discussed a supercomputer called Blue Waters during the AAAS Annual Meeting.
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| Super Micro Computer to unveil 2U Twin2 (Twin Squared) server at CeBIT 2009 |
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Super Micro Computer Inc. will unveil its new 2U Twin2 (Twin Squared) family of servers at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany, March 3-8, 2009. Building upon its innovative 1U Twin server technology, Supermicro's high-density 2U Twin2 architecture achieves breakthrough x86 server performance-per-watt (353 GFLOPS/kW) and performance-per-dollar while facilitating easy maintenance.
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| TotalView Technologies and James River Technical sign partnership to serve higher education in North America |
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TotalView Technologies Inc. and James River Technical Inc. (JRTI) have signed a partnership to serve the Higher Education market with professional sales and support, effective immediately.
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| Arkeia Software delivers industry's first virtual appliance for back-up |
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Arkeia Software, a worldwide provider of back-up and disaster recovery software, has launched Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 which delivers the first true virtual appliance for back-up that gives customers free choice of hardware.
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| Brocade extends its industry-leading backbone-class family with the Brocade DCX-4S Backbone |
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Brocade has introduced the Brocade DCX-4S Backbone, a multipurpose core and edge network switching platform designed to facilitate server, storage area network (SAN), and data centre consolidation while helping to reduce infrastructure and administrative costs for IT environments.
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| Cisco and Dell to Deliver Combined Next Generation Data Center Solutions |
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Cisco and Dell will collaborate to deliver next-generation IT solutions that help customers simplify their data centre infrastructure by pooling storage, computing and networking infrastructure resources to more rapidly support business applications in virtual data centre environments.The companies expanded their existing global Solution Technology Integrator agreement to include Cisco's Nexus 5020 data center switching systems as part of the Dell enterprise infrastructure solutions with Dell servers and storage solutions.
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| OptimaNumerics to integrate with HP Mathematical Software Library |
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OptimaNumerics will integrate OptimaNumerics Libraries with HP Mathematical Software Library (HP MLIB) to develop future versions of OptimaNumerics high performance numerical libraries. The integrated product, tentatively called OptimaNumerics MLIB, will be made available to all customers in need of numerical libraries.
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| Acumem introduces support for new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
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Acumem, a provider of intelligent performance optimization software for single- and multi-core environments, now has full support for AMD's new quad-core AMD Opteron processors in its Acumem ThreadSpotter and Acumem SlowSpotter performance optimization tools.
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| Rackable Systems launches global Eco-Partner Programme |
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Rackable Systems I has launched the Rackable Eco-Partner Programme to engage its growing number of worldwide channel partners. The strengthened channel programme and new Web portal will help Rackable Systems offer its partners expanded access to the company's Eco-Logical data centre solutions.
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| Rackable Systems to support new Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE and SE processors |
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Rackable Systems Inc. has made available servers with the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE and SE processors - formerly codenamed "Shanghai".
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| Rackable Systems launches groundbreaking Microslice architecture |
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Rackable Systems Inc. has made available a broad portfolio of servers based on its new MicroSlice architecture, which eliminates the need for costly virtualization software and sets a new standard for price performance-per-watt.
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| IBM offers enhanced storage software that boosts scalability and addresses performance |
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IBM has launched Tivoli Storage Manager 6, software designed to help customers reduce operational costs by improving scalability and addressing the performance of their storage management assets, cut capital expenditures by reducing duplicate data to lower storage capacity needs, and simplify the overall management of their data protection infrastructure.
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| U.S. Courts select LeftHand Networks Solutions to ensure reliable access to records |
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More than 20 of the United States Courts have selected LeftHand Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions over the past year and a half to reduce the business risk of storing millions of court records.
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| Brocade brings to market a new class of high-performance server connectivity solutions to innovate data centres |
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Brocade and IBM have successfully completed systems integration testing of the Brocade 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel HBAs with the IBM System x server family. The Brocade Fibre Channel HBAs are an ideal complement to the IBM System x family, which includes a spectrum of powerful, scalable, efficient systems for every environment from a small office to high-performance data centre. IBM has made the Brocade Fibre Channel HBAs available as a peripheral option for IBM System x servers
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| Sun boosts enterprise storage leadership with new high-performance, energy efficient disk arrays |
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Sun Microsystems has announced new high-performance disk storage arrays that provide up to three times better price/performance than the competition and enable customers to consolidate workloads within the same data centre footprint for greater efficiency. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arrays complement a range of server architectures, including Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 systems running the Solaris Operating System (OS).
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| A novel approach to create high-density magnetic data storage |
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In order to achieve higher storage densities on computer disks, the last decades were dominated by optimization of magnetic materials, i.e. the magnetic particles (grains) were gradually shrunk while, at the same time, the magnetic stability (magnetic anisotropy) was increased. Usually, about 100 to 600 grains form one bit, i.e. the nowadays smallest storage unit. Each grain is about 10 nanometers in size. These grains are arranged next to each other on glass substrates that are plated with cobalt, chrome, and platinum. Both the size and amount of the grains necessary for one bit could not be decreased further without decreasing the signal/noise ratio. Weaker signals could even be accompanied by loss of information. Therefore, new concepts of magnetic storage have to be found.
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| HP ProCurve expands Adaptive Networks vision with multi-vendor programme and data centre solutions |
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HP ProCurve has expanded its Adaptive Networks vision by announcing two initiatives that enable customers to address rapidly changing enterprise data centre needs and improve the efficiency of their network applications.
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| SGI Altix systemsto 21 terabytes of globally addressable memory |
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Silicon Graphics SGI Altix 4700 systems now shows 21 TByte of globally addressable main memory at customer sites. . The system is designed to accommodate 128 Tbyte of globally shared memory under the control a single instance of the Linux operating system.
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| Cray reports 2008 annual and fourth quarter results |
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Cray Inc. has issued 2008 financial results for the full-year and fourth quarter. For 2008, Cray reported revenue of $282.9 million and a net loss of ($31.3 million), or ($0.96) per share. The results include a $54.5 million non-cash goodwill impairment taken in the fourth quarter; without the goodwill impairment, the company would have been solidly profitable for 2008. For 2007, revenue was $186.2 million and net loss was ($5.7 million), or ($0.18) per share. Gross profit for the year was $111.1 million, surpassing the company's previous high of $98.8 million for 2003.
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| HP bundles blade PC and Citrix XenDesktop offering |
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HP has developed with Citrix a simplified solution that integrates affordable, high-performance HP Blade PCs and Citrix XenDesktop 3 to help businesses reduce costs and enjoy better manageability, scalability and security than with traditional PCs.
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| Silicon Graphics deploys Ireland's fastest supercomputer in just one day |
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Ireland's most powerful computer was installed in three hours and powered up in just one day by SGI.
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| University of Magdeburg in Germany to deploy SiCortex high productivity computer to resolve key physics research gaps |
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MEGWARE Computer GmbH, the SiCortex partner in Germany, has been selected to install and support a SiCortex SC5832 system at the University of Magdeburg.
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| Synopsys delivers multicore support with the latest PrimeTime release |
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Synopsys Inc., an expert in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, has unveiled two key improvements to its PrimeTime static timing analysis (STA) suite. The latest release includes a flexible multicore processing technology that makes more effective use of both single-core and multicore CPUs across today's compute server farms, harnessing their compute potential.
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| With Silicon Graphics, Roshydromet improves accuracy and speed of weather forecasts to save lives and property |
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Around the world, efforts are intensifying to provide early and accurate warning of severe weather systems. In Russia, meteorologists are pursuing this potentially life-saving goal with world-class computing and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI).
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| Christopher Huggins becomes ClusterVision's Sales Manager EMEA |
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Christopher Huggins as been appointed as Sales Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Christopher will be managing ClusterVision's rapidly growing sales team across EMEA, as well as a number of international partner relations. He will be based at ClusterVision's head quarters in Amsterdam.
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| John Morelle joins ClusterVision as Manager France |
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John Morelle has joined ClusterVision's European sales force as Manager France. John Morelle will be driving sales in France, leveraging his extensive network of contacts in the French High Performance Computing (HPC) market. He will be based at ClusterVision's French head quarters in Paris.
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| New University of Louisville supercomputer to advance research |
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The University of Louisville and IBM have delivered a 25 Tflop/s supercomputer on the university's Belknap campus. The University of Louisville will use the computer to help solve complex research problems in areas such as cancer research, materials science, atmospheric modelling, visualization and bioinformatics.
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| IBM helps HFCL Go Green and reduce operational cost with IBM BladeCentre technology |
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The HFCL Group, a major player in the telecom sector in India, has selected IBM to integrate and implement innovative blade server technology to help reduce its operational costs and "Go Green" while increasing efficiency. This three-year agreement includes the deployment of IBM BladeCentre technology and X3650 servers that will provide significant savings on power and cooling, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), and increasing productivity, making IBM's infrastructure technology the right choice for HFCL to go green.
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| COPAN Systems enters 2009 with strong market momentum driven by increased customer demand for Persistent Data storage |
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COPAN Systems Inc., an industry expert in cost-effective storage solutions for the protection and management of Persistent Data, has achieved strong results for year end 2008 in multiple areas of its business including: customer growth, vertical markets expansion, partner ecosystem growth, and massive growth in volumes of storage under management. The company also received $18.5 million in new capital funding.
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| UK's Institute of Cancer Research and Silicon Graphics establish long-term alliance to design and outfit world-class Network Biology Lab |
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As part of a multi-year collaboration, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) will provide the high-productivity solutions needed to outfit a new world-class cancer research facility in the United Kingdom. Silicon Graphics has been selected to equip, over the next five or more years, an initiative in integrative network biology at London's renowned The Institute of Cancer Research. Expected to open in spring 2009, the initiative in integrative network biology at The Institute will arm a team of cancer research pioneers with advanced compute, storage and visualization solutions built, implemented and optimized by Silicon Graphics.
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers' PRIMERGY TX120 S2 shows that the best things come in small packages |
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Small businesses looking for a well-mannered server need look no further than the new PRIMERGY TX120 S2 from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Whisper quiet in operation and consuming less energy than a desk lamp, the latest version of the entry-level server takes up no more space than an A4 folder.
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| Appro launches open, green and affordable Blade solution for mid-size businesses |
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Appro, a provider of supercomputing solutions, has launched and made available the new Appro GreenBlade System based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors. The Appro GreenBlade System is a solution building block offering a modular, affordable, energy-efficient architecture that addresses today's natural business growth of small and mid-size high performance and high-density computing applications.
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| Quantum dance: Discovery led by Princeton researchers could revolutionize computing |
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An international team of scientists, led by a Princeton University group, has observed an exciting and strange behaviour in electrons' spin within a new material that could be harnessed to transform computing and electronics.
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| 'Quantum data buffering' scheme demonstrated by NIST/Maryland researchers |
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Pushing the envelope of Albert Einstein's "spooky action at a distance", known as entanglement, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a "quantum buffer", a technique that could be used to control the data flow inside a quantum computer. Quantum computers could potentially speed up or expand present capabilities in decrypting data, searching large databases, and other tasks. The new research is published in the February 12 issue of the journalNature.
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| Second EDGeS Grid training workshop on XtremWeb issues Call for Participation |
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The EDGeS project team is organizing a second EDGeS Grid training workshop for XtremWeb middleware on February 23-24 at the University Paris XI in Orsay, Paris-Sud, France at the Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL). EDGeS, which stands for Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science, is a European project with the aim of creating an integrated Grid infrastructure across Europe that seamlessly integrates a variety of Desktop Grids with EGEE type of service Grids.
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| Second EDGeS Grid training workshop on XtremWeb issues Second Call for Participation |
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The EDGeS project team is organizing a second EDGeS Grid training workshop for XtremWeb middleware on February 17-18 (so NOT February 23-24, as mentioned in last week's EnterTheGrid/Primeur issue) at the University Paris XI in Orsay, Paris-Sud, France at the Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL). EDGeS, which stands for Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science, is a European project with the aim of creating an integrated Grid infrastructure across Europe that seamlessly integrates a variety of Desktop Grids with EGEE type of service Grids.
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| BOINC to present Extremadura@home and the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud |
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Extremadura@home is a new kind of account manager in which the choice of projects is a group decision. It's targeted at Spanish computer owners but is open to everyone. And scientists should know that it's easier than ever to create a BOINC project. You don't even need a server. Instead, you can use the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud, with a virtual machine image created by Derrick Kondo of INRIA.
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| Version 4 of Frontier Grid Platform released enabling browser-based extreme-scale computing across all major platforms |
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Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale Grid computing software and services, has released version 4 of its flagship software product: the Frontier Grid Platform. The newest version adds a wealth of usability enhancements to the already-formidable capabilities of Frontier, which has revolutionized high-performance computing (HPC) by securely and unobtrusively virtualizing the idle capacity of thousands of computers and delivering it as a high-powered utility computing service.
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| Asia@Home issues Call for Participation |
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Asia@Home, a workshop on Volunteer Computing, will be held April 16-17, at the Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. The objective of the two-day Asia@home workshop is to introduce the technologies underlying volunteer computing to scientists in Asia, who are interested to use volunteer computing as a tool in their future research.
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| AccessData selects Parabon's Frontier Grid Platform to power extreme-scale decryption across the enterprise |
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Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale Grid computing software and services, has signed an alliance with AccessData, a provider of state-of-the-art computer forensic and decryption solutions. Under an OEM arrangement, AccessData has integrated Parabon's industry-leading Frontier Grid Platform into its existing Distributed Network Attack (DNA) decryption application - a reliable and robust passcode cracking solution that can scale across thousands of computers. AccessData will market the software to law enforcement, government agencies and private businesses in need of an in-house decryption solution.
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| EGEE 4th User Forum, OGF25 & OGF-Europe 2nd International Event issue Call for Participation |
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The latest findings from EGEE's user community will be on display at the upcoming EGEE User Forum, 2-6 March 2009, in Catania, Sicily, Italy. This event is being co-hosted and located with Open Grid Forum 25 & OGF-Europe's Second International Event. The event will be held at Le Ciminiere Congress Centre, Le Ciminiere, Viale Africa, 95100 Catania, Sicily, Italy.
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| EGI Blueprint endorsed by the EGI Policy Board |
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The EGI Blueprint, which details the implementation of the EGI Organization's activities and the first phases of the development of a sustainable Grid infrastructure in Europe, has been endorsed by the EGI Policy Board, which consists of representatives of National Grid Initiatives from 39 countries.
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| DataSynapse to support Amazon Web Services and Beta Programme to advance enterprise adoption of Cloud computing |
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DataSynapse, a provider of dynamic application service management (DASM) software, will provide support for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the market leading Cloud computing platform. Also, DataSynapse is announcing a beta programme for DataSynapse Federator 1.5, new software that enables DataSynapse customers to seamlessly bridge traditional data centres resources and the Amazon EC2 Cloud.
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| Indian Grid Certification Authority (IGCA) gets accreditation from APgridPMA |
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The Indian Grid Certification Authority (IGCA), a certification authority for Grid, has received accreditation from Asia Pacific Grid Policy Management Authority (APgridPMA) to provide access of worldwide Grids to Indian researchers. Indian researchers can now request user and host certificates to IGCA, part of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and get access to worldwide Grids. Indian researchers mainly constitute users of GARUDA Grid, Foreign collaborators or institutes related to Grid research and scientific collaborations from India that allows researcher to access the Grid.
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| IBM advances research through Cloud computing to help solve real-world problems |
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IBM is working with six universities to leverage IBM Blue Cloud solutions to speed up projects and research initiatives that were once constrained by time, limited or unavailable resources, or overloaded IT systems.
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| Nakashima Propeller selects Voltaire to expedite ship propeller design |
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Nakashima Propeller has implemented Voltaire Grid Director switches as the interconnect for a clustered system to speed up the design and manufacture of ship propellers. Nakashima Propeller is among the world's major suppliers of ship propellers.
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| Altair's new Personal PBS turns personal computers into powerful compute clusters for free |
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Altair has unveiled Personal PBS, a free turnkey application that leverages multi-core CPU technology to easily transform any desktop computer into a miniature compute farm or cluster system. For a nominal fee, Personal PBS also provides an easy upgrade path that enables customers to submit jobs from their personal desktop to back-end server systems running PBS Professional. Altair expects this new product to appeal to the open-source community, academia, small and medium-size businesses, and corporate clients who want to maximize local desktop performance. Personal PBS is available for download at no charge.
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| GNi partners with 6fusion for Utility computing |
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6fusion USA Inc. and GNi have partnered to co-deliver utility computing infrastructure nodes around the world. GNi, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) firm based in San Jose, California, was selected as one of the first global 6fusion partners because of their agility and creativity as a solutions provider.
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| Biomed Grid School issues Call for Participation |
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The third edition of the Biomed Grid School will be held in Varenna on Lake Como, Italy, 10-15 May 2009. Deadline for registration is March 31, 2009.
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| Right Servers to launch new Grid hosting services, leveraging 3Tera's AppLogic Cloud computing platform |
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Grid computing utility solutions firm, 3Tera Inc., recently welcomed Right Servers, in its launch of new Grid hosting services, through leveraging 3Tera's AppLogic Cloud computing platform.
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| IBM to deliver software via Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services |
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IBM has signed a new agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver IBM's market leading software to clients and developers. The new "pay-as-you-go" model provides clients with access to development and production instances of IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment, providing a comprehensive portfolio of products available on AWS.
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| Commercial Grid service provider NewMedia Express in Singapore integrates CM4all's OnlineDrive |
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NewMedia Express, an Asian hosting provider and member of Singapore's ambitious National Grid (short: nGrid) has successfully integrated CM4all's OnlineDrive. NewMedia Express, founded in 2002, has serviced hundreds of clients in Asia and received accolades for their premium service. Today the company is further expanding into the Asian-Pacific region while forging stronger relationships and alliances with partners from all over the world.
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| San Diego Supercomputer Center begins Cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster |
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Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets hosted on massive, Internet-based commercial computer clusters, or what have become known as computing "Clouds".
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| Cerelink Digital Media Group to explore Cloud computing services for CG film production |
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Cerelink DMG, a New Mexico company, has entered into an agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. to explore the development of technology and infrastructure that would enable computer generated (CG) film rendering as a Cloud computing service.
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| IBM Blue Cloud initiative advances enterprise Cloud computing |
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IBM plans to reveal a series of new products, services, clients and partnerships for its Blue Cloud initiative - through which IBM is collaborating to develop and test integrated Cloud solutions for businesses. Built from extensive experience working with hundreds of clients in its 13 worldwide Cloud centres, IBM today has a cross-company portfolio of Cloud computing offerings for business, such as server capacity on demand, on-line data protection, and Lotus e-mail and collaboration software. Analyst firm IDC predicts that Cloud computing services will represent a $42 billion market by 2012.
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| Bull launches myVMBox: a virtualization solution for VMware environments |
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Bull is launching myVMBox, a virtualization solution designed for public and private sector organisations who want to rationalize their IT infrastructures and applications cost-effectively, using VMware. Thanks to myVMBox, businesses now have access to a comprehensive and flexible virtualization solution that is easy to implement.
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| LeftHand Networks, an HP company, delivers entry-level SAN for virtualized environments |
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LeftHand Networks, an HP company, has launched an entry-level storage area network (SAN) solution that improves performance and reduces storage costs within virtualized server environments for midsize businesses.
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| The Green Grid to launch new data centre energy efficiency reporting guidelines and Data Center 2.0 Programme at its 2nd Annual Technical Forum |
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At its second annual Technical Forum, The Green Grid has launched new programmes, tools and metrics and reporting guidelines designed to help data centre managers worldwide improve the efficiency of their facilities and operations. The event featured a keynote by Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Strategist at Microsoft.
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| Netfirms presents their Enterprise Grid Platform at the Cloud Computing Conference |
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Netfirms Inc., an expert in web hosting, domain names and a pioneer in Grid hosting, will showcase its innovative Enterprise Grid Hosting Platform at the Cloud Computing Conference on February 11, 2009. The premiere event brings industry experts and customers together to explore Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and the future of this market. The Conference will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
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| Voltaire announces 40 Gb/s InfiniBand director switches and software for ultimate performance and management of scale-out data centres |
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Voltaire Ltd. has launched a 40 Gb/s InfiniBand director-class switch, the Grid Director 4700, which offers the lowest latency in the industry. This switch, and Voltaire’s new advanced management software, Unified Fabric Manager software, provide blazing performance, scalability and ease-of-use for large, high-performance clusters.
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| Lamar University taps into supercomputing with TeraGrid |
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Lamar University's (LU) faculty in the US will connect to TeraGrid, an open scientific infrastructure combining 11 university and governmental sites across the USA to create an integrated computational resource.
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| Memopal to release Memopal Cloud Search |
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Memopal has released Memopal Cloud Search, the new tool that simplifies and speeds up on-line file search. Searching dozens and dozens of folders in your remote archive to find the document you need out of hundreds of thousands of other files may be difficult and time consuming.
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| KNIME and Zementis announce strategic partnership |
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Zementis Inc., a provider of predictive analytics solutions, and KNIME.com GmbH, a software company focused on work flow tools for data mining, have signed a strategic partnership to deliver standards-based solutions across the data mining industry.
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| IBM delivers software to Ontario universities via Cloud computing |
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IBM and the Ontario Centres of Excellence have launched a pilot project that gives university students, professors, and other researchers anytime, anywhere access to some of IBM's leading business software via Cloud computing.
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| The Finnish technology research facing the most challenging fusion energy project |
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Fusion is a promising option for a large scale energy production for the second half of this century and beyond. Fusion has practically unlimited fuel resources, and it is safe and environmentally sound. The global ITER-test power plant project can be seen as one of the most challenging energy projects of mankind and Europe has a significant role in it. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) are responsible for developing the maintenance of the critical parts of the fusion plant that is been built in Europe (France). A full-scale research platform to develop and test the maintenance robot and remote handling operations for ITER will be taken into use on January 29 in Finland.
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| Accelrys releases Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server 7.5 Platform for scientific research informatics |
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Accelrys Inc., a provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, has released Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server 7.5, the premier platform for the integration, analysis, and reporting of scientific data. This release introduces new functionality in the areas of analytical chemistry and collaboration required by the scientific community to increase research productivity.
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| Force10 Networks launches new terabit-enabled virtualization framework |
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Force10 Networks has introduced a new framework that makes virtualized environments easier to manage through a suite of advanced, terabit-enabled network virtualization and management software as well as enhanced architectural design elements. The new Virtualization Framework from Force10 offers unique features that enable network and data centre managers to build, design, troubleshoot and benchmark network and application performance in virtualized environments using open, standards-based data centre automation and orchestration technology.
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| Testbeds to breed next-generation systems |
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The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. European research has now made those key steps far easier. Two years ago, the European research programme UNITE took on the challenge of creating a virtual testbed that IT developers across Europe could use easily and effectively to fine-tune new devices and services, and make sure that they will interact smoothly with existing systems.
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| FEAST Project begins with request for input from stakeholders |
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Potential stakeholders are invited to contribute to a new study on the viability of interconnecting existing African research and education networking infrastructures and connecting them to the European backbone network, GÉANT. The feasibility study (FEAST) team welcomes contact from interested politicians, telecommunications regulators, heads of research and education institutes and other relevant stakeholders in the region, as well as from European NRENs wishing to support the initiative.
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| GÉANT2 issues improved perfSONAR MDM monitoring tool |
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GÉANT2, the high bandwidth, pan-European research and education network, has released the latest software bundle used for the perfSONAR multi-domain monitoring (MDM) service, perfSONAR MDM 3.1. This service allows the tracking of network performance and any issues to be quickly identified and resolved across multiple global networks. The latest software release is the result of collaborative efforts from 11 different organisations around the world.
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| De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second |
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Sliced light is how we communicate now. A new error-free speed-reading record using a compact ultra-fast component - 640 Gbits/second (Gbps, or billion bits per second) - has now been established by a collaboration of scientists from Denmark and Australia, who report their results in the journalOptics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal.
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| Semantic web promises a smarter electricity grid |
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Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people's homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web technology promises a solution. Working in the EU-funded S-TEN project, a team developed a generic framework for novel ICT architectures and applied semantic web technologies to make networks 'self-describing' so that each component - be it a volt meter on a wind turbine or a thermometer on a weather station - autonomously publishes information about what it is, where it is, and what it does.
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| Darkstrand adds technology luminary William R. Wing, Ph.D, to management team as CTO |
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Darkstrand, a pioneer in corporate high-speed connectivity bridging research and commercialization, has appointed William R. Wing, Ph.D. as Chief Technology Officer. With more than 20 years in the research community, and as one of the few individuals in the world who has successfully built a 10G fiber-optic network, Dr. Wing is uniquely positioned to apply that expertise in the commercial sector to drive innovation and enhance America's competitive advantage.
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| Spanish IT consulting firm selects Force10 Networks to power its on-demand network and application services |
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Degesys has deployed Force10 Networks' C-Series resilient switches at their data centre near Madrid, Spain. A major IT consulting firm, Degesys selected to deploy two Force10 C300 switches to support its Flexible Capacity on Demand services they provide to a diverse client base.
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| e-IRG White Paper draft released |
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The first public version of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) White Paper 2008 has been released and is now entering its consultation phase. The document invites policy makers, service providers and user communities to join in the discussion concerning the near future of e-Infrastructures.
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| Report on national-level research infrastructures in Finland |
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The Steering Group appointed by the Finnish Ministry of Education has released its report on research infrastructures in Finland. The document consists of a mapping of national-level research infrastructure in the country. It combines and summarizes three evaluation surveys conducted in 2008 by three International Experts Panels in the fields of Life Sciences & Medicine and Environmental Sciences (LME), Physical Sciences, e-Science and Engineering (PSE), and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH); and sets out key recommendations to further develop research infrastructures in Finland.
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