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| Fujitsu commits to provide petascale solutions based on leading edge technologies |
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In the first Hot Seat Sessions at ISC'09 Motoi Okuda from Fujitsu talked about Fujitsu's approach towards petascale computing. The company tries to implement the most flexible solutions according to application types and operations. Fujitsu has installed over 1200 TC systems for over 400 customers, among which the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, RIKEN and Nagoya.
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| New evolutionary computing developments optimize complex problem solving |
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A group of researchers from the Department of Computer Systems Architecture and Technology (DATSI) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's (UPM) School of Computing has for several years been working, in partnership with Madrid's Supercomputing and Visualization Centre (CeSViMa), on the design and implementation of an evolutionary computing platform capable of integrating classical and new techniques to together optimize complex problem solving.
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| Improved techniques will help control heat in large data centres |
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Approximately a third of the electricity consumed by large data centres doesn't power the computer servers that conduct on-line transactions, serve Web pages or store information. Instead, that electricity must be used for cooling the servers, a demand that continues to increase as computer processing power grows. And the trend toward Cloud computing will expand the need for both servers and cooling.
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| "Earth Simulator System" achieves world's top computing efficiency on the LINPACK benchmark |
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The renewed "Earth Simulator System", which NEC deployed for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), an independent administrative organisation, on March 1, 2009, achieved sustained performance of 122.4 Tflop/s and computing efficiency of 93.38% on the LINPACK Benchmark.
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| Largest Sun supercomputer In Europe starts operation at Jülich Research Centre |
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The supercomputer JuRoPA2 went on-line last week at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. The new high-performance computing (HPC) system at Jülich Supercomputing Centre is the most powerful Sun technology-based computer in Europe, featuring 2208 nodes supported by the Sun Constellation System and Sun Blade X6275 server modules. The Sun Constellation Systems operate with record-setting Intel Xeon processor 5570 series and communicate with each other via six newly developed "Project M9" InfiniBand switches from Sun. The "Project M9" switches supply quad data rate (QDR) and up to 648 ports while slashing the amount of complex cabling required. Like the Sun Constellation System, they are part of Sun's open PetaFLOP architecture, a package of integrated components for HPC applications.
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| Swiss National Supercomputing Centre upgrades its Cray supercomputer to boost scientific and industrial research |
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The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has taken a significant step forward to petascale computing by upgrading its current Cray XT3 system to a Cray XT5 supercomputer. The recently completed 20-cabinet upgrade resulted in a system that is the most powerful supercomputer in Switzerland and one of the largest high performance computing (HPC) systems worldwide.
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| Bull SAS and Foster Findlay Associates Ltd have entered into a partnership agreement |
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Bull SAS and Foster Findlay Associates Ltd (ffA) have entered into a partnership agreement to deliver ffA GPU-enabled 3D seismic analysis software to the oil and gas community on Bull High Performance Computing systems.
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| Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics collaborates with IBM in large scale study of "space weather" |
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IBM and Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics are planning a major new Stream Computing project to analyse massive volumes of information in real time to better understand "space weather". By using IBM InfoSphere Streams to analyse data from sensors that track high frequency radio waves, endless amounts of data can be captured and analysed on the fly. Over the next year, this project is expected to perform analytics on at least 6 gigabytes per second or 21,600 gigabytes per hour - the equivalent of all the Web pages on the Internet.
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| Darkstrand and Ohio Supercomputer Center join forces for corporate supercomputing access |
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Darkstrand, a pioneer in corporate high-speed connectivity bridging research and commercialization, has signed a strategic alliance with the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus with the mutual objective of bringing the research and development capabilities of the Center to the national commercial marketplace.
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| PRACE to organize industry seminar, September 7-8, Toulouse, France |
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On September 7-8, 2009 with the sponsorship of Airbus and Grand Toulouse, GENCI and GAUSS will organize in Toulouse the PRACE's second industry seminar. Close to 150 invited attendees, especially decision makers are expected to attend the event.
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| Tech-X selects Terascala RTS 1000 Storage Appliance |
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Tech-X Corporation has chosen the Terascala RTS 1000 Storage Appliance to speed code development and to enable large simulations. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Tech-X develops software solutions for research, engineering and education to aid with specific scientific challenges. Tech-X Corporation offers commercial products as well as collaborates with government and private institutions on research projects. Products and services from Tech-X help solve difficult technical problems, increasing design and development productivity and accelerating project deployment for scientists and engineers.
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| Current and future HPDC developments at the International Symposium High Performance Distributed Computing |
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170 scientists from more than 20 countries participated in the International ACM Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2009) at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Science in Garching near Munich during 11-13 June 2009. The current scientific developments in parallel and distributed computing, high-speed networks and related software solutions have been discussed by renowned international experts.
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| Special session on "Cloud Computing & HPC - Synergy or Competition" at ISC'09 |
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On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, the International Supercomputing Conference'09 (ISC09) in Hamburg, Germany will feature a special session on "Cloud Computing & HPC - Synergy or Competition", chaired by Dr. Martin Anthony Walker and Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller from the Department of Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). The session features a series of talks by experts from different Cloud providers, e.g. HP, IBM, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, ..., and a panel discussion.
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| Visualizing the future of scientific discovery |
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As computational scientists are confronted with increasingly massive datasets from supercomputing simulations and experiments, one of the biggest challenges is having the right tools to gain scientific insight from the data. A team of Department of Energy (DOE) researchers recently ran a series of experiments to determine whether VisIt, a leading scientific visualization application, is up to the challenge. Running on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, VisIt achieved unprecedented levels of performance in these highly parallel environments, tackling data sets far larger than scientists are currently producing.
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| Korea Meteorological Administration selects Cray to negotiate multi-year supercomputer contract |
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The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has selected Cray as the preferred bidder for a multi-year contract to provide KMA with a next-generation supercomputer.
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| Defense Department High-Performance Computing Centers extend their contract with Altair for a third year |
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The U.S. Department of Defense has exercised its option to continue using Altair's PBS Professional software as the standard workload management solution for its High-Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP).
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| Birth of a star predicted |
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The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless cloud Barnard 68" is to collapse and give rise to a new star, according to an article which has been published recently inThe Astrophysical Journal. Barnard 68 (B68) is a dark nebula located in the constellation of Ofiuco, around 400 light years away. Nebulae are interstellar clouds of dust and gas located within the Milky Way, and some of these are the so-called 'dark' nebulae, the silhouettes of which block out the light of the stars and other objects behind them.
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| Biomedical Research Institute deploys Force10 Networks to deliver high bandwidth network services |
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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) has deployed the Force10 C-Series family of resilient switches and the S-Series family of access switches to serve as the backbone of its campus and data centre networks. With Force10, FMI is interconnecting researchers throughout the facility with a high-performance network supporting instruments that generate as much as one terabyte of data per day.
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| Eurotech presents Aurora, the new Petascale supercomputer that sets a landmark in high performance computing |
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Eurotech, a provider of special purpose computing platforms, has unveiled Aurora, a revolutionary supercomputer that sets the pace for performance and efficiency. Aurora is packed with the most advanced solutions, such as quad-core high performance Intel Xeon 5500 processors series, 100Gbps per node bandwidth capacity, programmable on-node acceleration, multi-level synchronization networks and direct liquid cooling. Aurora sets a new standard of excellence in high performance computing.
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| SGI introduces X86 servers with on-board Quad Data Rate InfiniBand |
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SGI has launched the first Rackable x86 scale-out servers to support both on-board Quad Data Rate (QDR) 40Gb InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet connections. Available immediately, the new servers also leverage advanced memory capabilities and Intel Xeon 5500 series processors to deliver advanced processing performance for applications that demand higher performance.
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| Dot Hill secures six new patents, bolstering heritage as a trailblazer in storage innovation |
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Dot Hill Systems Corp., a world-class provider of entry-level and midrange storage solutions for OEMs and system integrators (SIs), has demonstrated its continued focus on technology innovation, with the announcement of six new patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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| Quantum bits - Experiment proves theory of Dortmund physicist Uhrig to be right |
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As early as 2007 the physicist Prof. Dr. Götz S. Uhrig, chair holder of Theoretical Physics I at Technical University (TU) Dortmund, devised a method to keep the fragile states of quantum bits stable for as long as possible. The method is based on a universal optimization of a sequence of pulses controlling the quantum bit. But until now it was not possible to experimentally prove his theoretical proposal. Now scientists from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted an experiment to verify the theory of their Dortmund colleague. In the latest edition ofNaturethey describe how they were able to keep the specifically induced states in atomic nuclei stable longer than before by means of a sequence of laser pulses calculated by Dr. Uhrig.
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| UCSB researchers describe breakthrough in the quantum control of light |
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually have implications in banking, drug design, and other applications.
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| RAID Incorporated announces line of customized server solutions based upon Nehalem CPUs |
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RAID Incorporated, a customized storage, services, and HPC solutions provider specializing in leading-edge technologies, has made available their Fusion family based upon Intel's Nehalem CPU technology.
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| A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip |
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When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions - the greater the density the shorter the durability. For example, information carved in stone is not dense but can last thousands of years, whereas today's silicon memory chips can hold their information for only a few decades. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have smashed this tradition with a new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips and retain this data for more than a billion years.
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| NTI Newmerical Inc.'s President awarded the prestigious Killam Prize in Engineering |
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Dr. Wagdi Habashi, President and CEO of NTI Newmerical Inc., has been recently awarded the very prestigious Killam Prize for Engineering. The Killam prizes, worth $100,000 each, honour outstanding career achievements in health sciences, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.
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| Bull equips several French Ministries with globull, the leading mobile security platform |
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The French Defense Ministry's Inter-Forces Infrastructure, Networks and Information Systems Department (DIRISI) has signed a four-year framework agreement with Bull to supply several government ministries and other public sector bodies.
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| HP advances scale-out computing with breakthrough data centre solution |
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HP has launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio designed to deliver a new magnitude of cost and resource savings for businesses involved in Web 2.0, Cloud and high-performance computing.
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| Computing in the quantum dimension |
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A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum computer.
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| The dawn of quantum applications |
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Technologies that exploit the unique weirdness of quantum mechanics could debut in the very near future, thanks to the groundbreaking work of a huge European research consortium. Unbreakable cryptography, unimaginable simulations of profoundly complex problems and super-fast networks are just some of the promise held out by quantum computing. And now European scientists are poised to deliver on that promise, thanks to the work of the Qubit Applications (QAP) project.
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| Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies |
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A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements. The Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics has demonstrated precise control of four photons using a microscopic metal electrode lithographically patterned onto a silicon chip.
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| CNRS 2009 Gold Medal: Serge Haroche, physicist and explorer of the quantum world |
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The CNRS 2009 Gold Medal has been awarded to the physicist Serge Haroche. The distinction rewards a scientific personality whose work has made an exceptional contribution to the vitality and influence of French research. Serge Haroche is a specialist in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is one of the founders of cavity quantum electrodynamics, a field which uses conceptually simple experiments to shed light on the fundamentals of quantum theory and develop prototype quantum information processing systems. Serge Haroche, who has been a Professor at the Collège de France since 2001, leads the Electrodynamics of Simple Systems group at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (École normale supérieure/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS).
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| DreamWorks Animation gets "Extreme" with HP scale-out storage |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG, the computer-generated animation company that introduced the world to "Shrek", has selected HP scale-out storage technology to more cost-effectively store and easily access the data behind its cutting-edge visual productions.
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| NCSA and I-CHASS provide 1 million hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts and social sciences |
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The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA will provide 1 million hours of time on NCSA's supercomputers to five projects that are pushing the boundaries of humanities, arts, and social science discovery.
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| Scientists create first electronic quantum processor |
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A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer. They also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary algorithms, such as a simple search, demonstrating quantum information processing with a solid-state device for the first time. Their findings will appear inNature's advanced on-line publication June 28.
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| SGI InfiniteStorage 6120 delivers best-in-class density and performance in a mid-range storage system |
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SGI has made available the SGI InfiniteStorage 6120, a new storage product designed for superior density, high capacity, IOPs performance and multiple drive options at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2009. Developed to deliver enterprise-level data services, the SGI InfiniteStorage 6120 is ideal for small- to medium-sized data warehouses, corporate HPC, video surveillance and rich media applications.
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| Lasers can lengthen quantum bit memory by 1000 times |
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Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers. These precarious bits, formed in this case by arrays of semiconductor quantum dots containing a single extra electron, are easily perturbed by magnetic field fluctuations from the nuclei of the atoms creating the quantum dot. This perturbation causes the bits to essentially forget the piece of information they were tasked with storing. A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that is one candidate for creating quantum bits.
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| Supermicro displays performance-per-watt leadership at International SuperComputing 2009 |
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Super Micro Computer Inc., an expert in application-optimized, high performance server, blade, and workstation solutions, has demonstrated its 2U Twin2 server with four hot-pluggable, dual-processor (DP) nodes and record x86 server performance-per-watt (375 GFLOPS/kW) at ISC '09. In addition to the 2U Twin2, Supermicro's award-winning 1U Twin and SuperBlade servers, SAS2 storage systems as well as a new 1U server supporting up to five add-on cards were also on display. Featuring the most efficient power supplies (93%+), cooling subsystems and motherboard designs in the industry, Supermicro solutions deliver the industry's best performance-per-watt, performance-per-dollar and performance-per-square-foot.
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| Supermicro showcases world's densest and greenest HPC solutions at ISC '09 |
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Super Micro Computer Inc. has showcased the world's densest and greenest HPC solutions optimized for the new Six-Core AMD Opteron processors (code-named "Istanbul") at International SuperComputing 2009. Rackmount servers on display include 1U Twin and 4-way 1U servers which support 24 processing cores in a 1U form factor as well as the new 2U Twin2 with four hot-pluggable DP computing nodes which supports 48 processor cores. For those seeking even higher compute density, Supermicro's 4-way SuperBlade features 240 processor cores in 7U.
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| Supermicro and NVIDIA smash 1U server performance records at ISC'09 |
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Super Micro Computer Inc. has showcased the fastest 1U server on the planet, its new, 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016GT-TF-TM2, at ISC'09 in Hamburg, Germany. This massively parallel processing dual-GPU server is the first 1U multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) system with a fully non-blocking architecture. Optimized for performance and reliability, the 6016GT-TF-TM2 supports dual Nehalem CPUs and features two NVIDIA Tesla M1060 GPUs via two Gen2 PCI-Express x16 connections
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| Registration still open for "Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science and Industry" Forum |
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You can still register free of charge for the Third EDGeS User and Industry Forum at ISC'09 in Hamburg, Germany on Friday 26 June, 2009. The forum will address the topic "Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science and Industry". Among the speakers are Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA; Damien Hubaux, CETIC & BEinGRID; Mark McAndrew, The Charity Engine; Bernard Schott, Platform Computing; Mike Pidgeon, Datasynapse; Steve Armentrout, Parabon.
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| Rapid resource expansion for UK researchers |
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The UK National Grid Service (NGS) has undergone a period of rapid expansion this year with a total of six new resources becoming NGS members. This means that the NGS, the UK's primary computation and data resource for all UK academic researchers, now offers access to a far greater selection of resources than ever before allowing users to perform cutting edge research better and faster.
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| Grid enables one of the world's fastest wide-area vector supercomputing environments |
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The Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, National Institute of Informatics (NII) and NEC Corporation jointly have successfully demonstrated of one of the world's fastest vector supercomputing environments by creating a single virtual system through the connection of two remotely located vector supercomputers on NAREGI - the National Research Grid Initiative - middleware developed by NII.
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| EDGeS team calls for participation to joint EDGeS and EGEE Summer School on Grid Application Support |
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The Joint EDGeS and EGEE Summer School on Grid Application Support will be held in Budapest, Hungary June 29 to July 4, 2009. Registration is still possible till June 18, 2009.
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| Yahoo! raises commitment to Cloud computing with the availability of Yahoo! distribution of Hadoop |
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Yahoo! has made available the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop at the Second Annual Hadoop Summit. The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop is based on code available from the Apache Hadoop project, an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase the pace of innovation around open and collaborative research and development. The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been tested and deployed at Yahoo! on the largest Hadoop clusters in the world.
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| Mezeo helps ThinkGrid launch Cloud storage service |
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ThinkGrid, provider of business IT on demand, has launched its Cloud storage service for organisations that need to retain ever-increasing amounts of data, but lack the capital to invest in high-cost, on-site storage. Customers can now benefit from this enterprise-class data storage solution on a pay-as-you-go basis. The service is based on the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform and offers a range of advantages, including back-up and disaster recovery as well as business collaboration.
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| HP helps Verizon Business build best-in-class Cloud computing solution for medium-to-large-sized companies |
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HP plans to collaborate with Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, to bring to market the company's new Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution, offering enterprises a flexible, secure and cost-effective way to manage IT resources. HP is providing Verizon Business with a combination of professional services expertise, enterprise server hardware and automation software. HP's integrated support provides Verizon Business the foundation to deliver one of the industry's most comprehensive Cloud computing solutions.
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| NIST defining the expanding world of cloud computing |
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A working definition for Cloud computing - a new computer technique with potential for achieving significant cost savings and information technology agility - has been released by a team of computer security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Since the federal government is considering Cloud computing as a component of its new technology infrastructure, it is NIST's role to evaluate it and then promote its effective and secure use within government and industry by providing technical guidance and developing standards.
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| Platform Computing appoints Ram Gupta to Board of Directors |
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Platform Computing, an expert in Grid and Cloud computing software, has appointed technology industry veteran Ram Gupta to its board of directors. In this role, Mr. Gupta will be responsible for overseeing Platform's strategy as the company implements its go-to-market initiative for the Cloud computing market.
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| Verizon Business unveils enterprise-class Cloud-based 'Computing as a Service' solution |
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Verizon Business introduced on June 3 the industry's most comprehensive on-demand, "Cloud-based" Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution designed to meet the stringent security and performance requirements of enterprise customers. Verizon CaaS is helping businesses and government agencies take advantage of Cloud (IP-based) computing to more efficiently and securely manage IT resources - server, network and storage - to meet day-to-day business demands.
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| Voltaire and NYSE Technologies deliver industry's lowest latency solution to speed up financial market data applications |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out data centre fabrics, is working with NYSE Technologies to deliver an end-to-end, standards-based messaging solution that speeds performance of automated trading environments and financial market data applications. As the industry's first solution for market data based on 40 Gb/s InfiniBand, the solution delivers the industry's lowest latency - 4X lower latency than alternative offerings that supply a 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect fabric - with very low power consumption.
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| Mac GUI and on-line poll for BOINC |
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Mac users can now check out BOINCMenubar 2, an alternative to the BOINC Manager for Mac OS X. And ICVolunteers is conducting an on-line poll to study motivation in volunteer computing. Volunteers are encouraged to complete this poll.
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| Oracle Fusion Middleware delivers world record dual-node result with SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark on Dell PowerEdge server |
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Oracle WebLogic Server, a strategic component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database 11g running on a Dell PowerEdge server, set a world record dual-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark. With this result, Oracle WebLogic Server holds the world record in multiple SPECjAppServer2004 categories: single-node, dual-node and multi-node.
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| HP, Intel and Yahoo! attract leading research organisations to collaborative Cloud computing test bed |
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Three new research organisations will join Open Cirrus, a global, multiple data centre, open source test bed for the advancement of Cloud computing research. The new entities, which include the Russian Academy of Sciences, South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and MIMOS, a strategic research and development organisation under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Malaysia, were revealed at the first Open Cirrus Summit.
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| Voltaire announces Vantage 8500 Ethernet switch for scale-out data centres and Cloud computing environments |
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Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out data centre fabrics, has launched the Vantage 8500, a high-performance, high density, scale-out, Layer 2 core 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch optimized for enterprise data centres and Cloud computing environments. The Voltaire Vantage 8500 is the industry's largest non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching platform and enables users to benefit from new levels of efficiency, scalability and lower latency, while simplifying and consolidating network tiers to lower infrastructure expenses.
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| RedPeak Solutions to partner with 3Tera to provide Cloud computing services for enterprise customers |
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RedPeak Solutions, a Cloud computing consulting expert and managed services provider, has signed a strategic partnership with 3Tera Inc., an innovator of Cloud computing technology and utility computing services, to provide consulting, implementation and deployment services enabling companies to accelerate time to market by combining the right type of Cloud solution - internal, public or hybrid - to fit their business needs. Target customers include enterprises, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, Web 2.0 companies and software development and quality assurance organisations that are moving to Cloud environments using 3Tera's award-winning AppLogic Cloud computing platform.
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| Layered Technologies broadens services available on rapid deployment platform to include Virtual Firewall Solutions |
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Layered Technologies Inc., a worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has expanded offerings available via Astro to include Virtual Firewall Solutions from Fortinet, a highly regarded and respected provider of Unified Threat Management solutions.
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| One-stop shop for Grid computing |
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From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere, Grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited Grid resources is not always a simple task. European researchers are making it easier.
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| Proteins are molecular machines |
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Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmueller from the Max Planck Institute in Germany introduced the attendants of the HPC and Bioinformatics Session at ISC'09 into the fascinating world of proteins so they could literally watch the biological nano-machines at work. Since the sequence structure and dynamics are strongly interwoven the elementary steps are conformational motions, according to the speaker. Therefore supercomputer simulations are highly needed to detect the motions.
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| Computer modelling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations |
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An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario - millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks. A group of Kansas State University engineers is finding that a truly disastrous epidemic scenario could also take place in the wide-open spaces of the Great Plains. Caterina Scoglio, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is leading an Epicenter research project called SGER: Exploratory research on complex network approach to epidemic spreading in rural regions.
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| Splash, babble, sploosh: Computer algorithm simulates the sound of water |
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Splash, splatter, babble, sploosh, drip, drop, bloop and ploop! Those are some of the sounds that have been missing from computer graphic simulations of water and other fluids, according to researchers in Cornell's Department of Computer Science, who have come up with new algorithms to simulate such sounds to go with the images.
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| Spain to pioneer the application of a nanotechnology microscope for brain studies |
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In a world first, Spain is to use a nanotechnology microscope for brain studies as part of the Blue Brain project. The initiative is CSIC researcher Javier de Felipe's brainchild, and researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's (UPM) School of Computing are developing a series of tools to analyse and interpret microscope data. About thirty Spanish researchers are participating in the international Blue Brain project. The project's aim is to build a functional model of the mammalian brain through computer simulations. Spain's project leaders are Javier de Felipe and UPM School of Computing professor José María Peña. The nanotechnology microscope to be applied to brain studies is to be set up at the Centre of Biomedical Technology based at the UPM's Montegancedo Campus and will operational as of June.
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| Justin.tv selects SGI to support booming Web traffic |
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Justin.tv has deployed SGI's Rackable 1U half-depth servers to support its increasing Web traffic demands. Rackable C1000 servers double the company's former compute capacity while maintaining the same data centre footprint, and halve its power usage, thereby reducing operating costs - all of which allow Justin.tv to manage a large amount of its Web traffic in-house.
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| Turbulence responsible for black holes' balancing act |
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New simulations reveal that turbulence created by jets of material ejected from the disks of the Universe's largest black holes is responsible for halting star formation. Evan Scannapieco, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) and Professor Marcus Brueggen of Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, present the new model in a paper in the journalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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| KAUST's IBM supercomputer is Middle East's fastest and most powerful system |
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and IBM's high-performance computing (HPC) system, named Shaheen, has placed 14 among the world's most powerful supercomputers, according to the latest TOP500 List of Supercomputers. The foundation of a joint research project launched by KAUST and IBM, Shaheen was developed to serve the University's scientific researchers across dozens of disciplines, advance new innovations in computational sciences, and contribute to the further development of a knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia.
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| Four supercomputers at Oak Ridge computing complex among world's 25 fastest |
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Jaguar XT5, a Cray high-performance computing system component at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, remains the world's fastest supercomputer for unclassified research, according to a roster released in Hamburg. The TOP500 list named four machines at the ORNL computing complex among the world's 25 swiftest. All told, five Oak Ridge machines made the list.
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| NWO Physical Sciences awards 1.6 million euro via Investment Subsidy NWO Medium |
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NWO Division for the Physical Sciences has announced which projects shall be awarded a grant from the programme Investment Subsidy NWO Medium. The division received six proposals for the subsidy. Three of these proposals were selected. A total of 1.6 million euro will be invested in the three projects, 0.1 million of which comes from the Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF).
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| NASA Ames uses cPacket for 10 Gigabit network monitoring and troubleshooting |
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The Emergent Network Technology Testbed group at NASA Ames Research Center is utilizing cPacket's cTap "intelligent network taps" for wire-speed monitoring of NASA links up to 10 gigabits per second. cTaps provide the group with real-time situational awareness of network behaviour and traffic, and a wide variety of troubleshooting and analysis capabilities not previously available at these data rates. cTaps support the agency's High End Computing Capability (HECC) project, which includes Pleiades, the world's third fastest supercomputer.
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| Network creates virtual super-telescope |
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Vast quantities of data are transferred in real time from telescopes around the world to a supercomputer in The Netherlands, where European researchers combine the information to create high-resolution images of distant objects in space. By pointing up to 16 radio telescopes from six continents at one source in space and combining the observation signals from the telescopes via a high-speed network, European astronomers have created a 'virtual telescope' that delivers better resolution than any single telescope on earth.
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