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ISC'07 - Exploring the Frontiers of Supercomputing
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<b>June 27 – 29, 2007, Dresden, Germany:</b> The International
Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is the leading Supercomputing
Conference and Exhibition in Europe. Since its beginning in 1986, ISC
has provided a unique platform for connecting the HPC community on a
global scale. A four-day top-flight conference features an ideal mix
of high-level research presentations, talks on business and industry
topics, a huge number of exhibitors, various industry events and
scientific sessions as well as after-hour social events. For
information, please visit: <a
href="http://www.supercomp.de/isc2007/index.php5">www.supercomp.de/isc2007/index.php5</a>
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13490
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ORNL, Air Force agreement leverages R&D capabilities
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An agreement between the Air Force Research Laboratory and Oak Ridge
National Laboratory promises to save taxpayer dollars and speed the
delivery of technological advances to U.S. air, cyber and space
forces.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13474
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REN-ISAC and CSI2 Leverage Joint Expertise to Advance Network Security
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This week at the annual EDUCAUSE and Internet2 Security Professionals
Conference, the Computer Security Incidents-Internet2 Working Group
(CSI2) and the members of the Research and Education Networking
Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) are meeting to
develop a set of strategies that will facilitate the development of
new methodologies and technologies to better anticipate and resolve
network security issues affecting backbone networks, campus networks,
and individual computers.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13475
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LCI early registration closes Friday, April 13
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The 8th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered
Computing is the one conference where you'll simultaneously solve your
problems, expand your knowledge base, and make valuable professional
contacts.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13476
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Mercury Wins IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award
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<b>Collaboration with Mentor Graphics delivers innovative Cell-based
platform for the electronic design automation industry:</b> Mercury
Computer Systems has been named winner of the "Best IBM Embedded Power
Architecture Solution" award in the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon
Awards competition. The competition recognizes IBM Business Partners
for their ingenuity, innovation, customer satisfaction, and for
outstanding achievements in providing on-demand business solutions.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13477
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Macaque genome analysis will help find human disease genes
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Cornell experts in computational biology and bioinformatics have made
key contributions to the analysis of the genome of the rhesus macaque,
better known as the rhesus monkey. The Cornell researchers were part
of a consortium of some 200 scientists around the world whose work is
reported in a special section of the April 13 issue of the journal
Science.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13478
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LSU professors monkey around with the Rhesus Macaque genome
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Since the 2001 launch of the Human Genome Project, which released a
first draft of the entire sequence of human DNA, many researchers have
dedicated themselves to creating a library of comprehensive,
species-specific genetic sequence "maps" available for study.
Scientists at LSU recently took part in the International Rhesus
Macaque Sequence and Analysis Consortium, which successfully detailed
the full DNA sequence of the rhesus macaque, the third primate -
including humans - to undergo sequencing. The results will be
published in the journal Science on Friday, April 13.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13479
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Cambridge Display Technology Awarded DTI Grant for Work On Fluid Modeling
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<b>Project Will Benefit the Development of Low-Cost Flexible
Displays:</b> Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), a pioneer in the
development of polymer light emitting diode (P-OLED) technology, has
announced that it has been awarded another grant by the UK Department
of Trade and Industry (DTI). This grant will part fund a project which
will be important in the field of low-cost organic electronic devices,
and especially in the development of low-cost flexible displays. The
total value of project is around $500k.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13481
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IU’s REN-ISAC and Microsoft work to enhance network security
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Microsoft Corp., along with the Research and Education Networking
Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC), established in
2003 by Indiana University, announced a new alliance this week that
will extend the reach of the Microsoft Security Cooperation Program
(SCP) to include higher education institutions in its mission to
enhance security measures worldwide.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13482
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SC07: International Conference for HPC, Networking, Storage & Analysis
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<b>November 10 - 16, 2007, Reno, Nevada, USA:</b> SC07, the premier
international conference on high performance computing (HPC),
networking, storage, and analysis will convene November 10-16, 2007,
in Reno, NV. Following the traditions set with the first SC conference
in 1988, SC07 is expanding the frontiers of High Performance
Computation by introducing a new cluster challenge that combines the
computation, networking, storage, and analysis elements into a single
competition. For details, please visit: <a
href="http://sc07.supercomputing.org/index.php">http://sc07.supercomputing.org/index.php</a>
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Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13483
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OGF20 and EGEE User Forum
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<b>May 7 - 11, 2007, Manchester, UK:</b>OGF20 and the 2nd EGEE User
Forum will be jointly hosted by UK e- Science and the University of
Manchester, and will bring together more than 800 grid enthusiasts
from around the globe for one week. This combined event will further
strengthen the links between EGEE and the Open Grid Forum, bringing
users and standards bodies together to ensure that the future of the
Grid is complemented by the establishment of key standards. The event
also features a two day enterprise program that will focus on real
world case studies and practical grid solutions. <a
href="http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_ogf20.php">Click here for
details.</a>
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13484
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HP-CAST: HP Consortium for Advanced Scientific & Technical Computing Users Group
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<b>May 6 - 9, 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany:</b> The Hewlett-Packard
Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing
users group works to increase the capabilities of HP solutions for
large-scale, scientific and technical computing. HP-CAST provides
guidance to HP on the essential development and support issues for
such systems. HP-CAST meetings typically include corporate briefings
and presentations by HP executives and technical staff (under NDA),
and discussions of customer issues related to high-performance
technical computing. For information about current, as well as past,
HP-CAST user group conferences and meetings, please visit: <a
href="http://www.hp-cast.org/">www.hp-cast.org</a>
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13485
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ESI Accelerates Mechanical Simulations with Windows Compute Cluster Server
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<b>Friday, April 27, 2007 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada), Live HPC
Webcast:</b> Crashworthiness simulation software is an essential
element of the crash and safety value chain. Join us to learn how
Microsoft partner, ESI Group is making strides in simulation testing
with Windows Compute Cluster Server. ESI's PAM-CRASH 2G and Microsoft
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 accelerates calculation speed and
provides a powerful and cost-effective platform for running crash
analysis simulation. Learn how this technology combination offers a
cost- effective parallel processing solution for testing that would
otherwise require large system resources. <a
href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032334439&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US">Click
here for registration options and event overview.</a>
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13486
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SEC SERVIZI Goes Live With Data Warehouse Solution Based on Microsoft Technology
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<b>Microsoft and leading financial IT outsourcing consortium
collaborate to implement Basel II solution for the Italian and
European banking and financial services market.</b> Microsoft Corp
today announced that SEC SERVIZI, a leading IT outsourcing consortium
to the Italian banking and financial market, has gone live with a new
data warehouse solution in compliance with the Basel II directive,
fully meeting the deadline set by the Bank of Italy.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13489
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Companies Join With Isilon to Power Breakthroughs in Media & Entertainment
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Isilon Systems today announced more than 20 companies have joined
Isilon's alliance ecosystem to power the next generation of media and
entertainment by advancing the creation, management, delivery and
archival of digital media. Spanning the entire digital media workflow,
Isilon IQ delivers a record of up to one Petabyte of capacity and 10
Gigabytes per second of performance in one single file system;
creating a single shared pool of easily scalable storage, accelerating
media and entertainment companies' ability to create, access, deliver,
and archive on consumer demands for next-generation digital video and
audio content while minimizing the complexity of digital content
storage.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13491
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Isilon Systems Announces Multi-Year Agreement With NBC Universal
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<b>NBC Universal Deploys Isilon IQ to Archive and Access Growing
Stores of Digital Media During Period of Profound Change in Media and
Entertainment Industry: NBC Deploys Isilon IQ as Part of Its Broadcast
Infrastructure for the 2008 Olympic Games:</b> Isilon Systems today
announced that NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and
entertainment companies, has chosen Isilon IQ to archive and access
growing stores of media programming including entertainment TV and
production, movies, news, and sports. Under the multi-year agreement
with Isilon, NBC Universal plans to deploy multiple Petabytes of
Isilon IQ clustered storage in its main production and broadcast
operations to maximize the value of their media assets across NBC
Universal's media properties. Isilon also announced today that NBC is
deploying Isilon IQ to facilitate its coverage of the 2008 Olympic
Games in Beijing.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13492
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Swiss National Supercomputing Centre to Nearly Triple Cray System
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<b>Upgrade Will Boost Computing Power to Almost 23 Teraflops for
Scientific Breakthroughs and International Collaborations:</b> The
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), which put Europe's first
Cray XT3 supercomputer into production in January 2006, has signed an
agreement with Cray to upgrade the system in order to meet growing
demand for advanced scientific research and higher-resolution weather
forecasts.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13493
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COPAN MAID First Storage to Qualify for PG&E Energy Efficiency Incentive
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COPAN Systems, the leader in persistent data storage based upon its
intelligent, enterprise-class enhanced MAID (Massive Array of Idle
Disks) platform, has announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company
(PG&E), one of the largest public utilities companies in the United
States, has qualified COPAN’s Cool Bytes Enhanced MAID storage
solutions for its energy efficiency incentive program. Enhanced MAID
devices are the first enterprise storage devices to qualify for the
incentive program as part of PG&E’s Non-Residential New Construction
program. The incentive applies to both replacement and new storage
purchases.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13494
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SGI Enables Broadcasters to Increase Productivity and ROI
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<b>New SGI Digital Content Management Solutions For Production and
Archive To Showcase at NAB 2007:</b> To deal with soaring amounts of
data in an industry where accessing, moving and monetizing content is
key, SGI is helping broadcasters and leading production facilities
efficiently manage massive amounts of data. SGI is extending this
capability beyond the media industry to the enterprise and government
agencies facing daunting data content management challenges.
Leveraging its IT expertise, high-performance server and storage
arrays and integration with third party hardware and application
software, SGI is providing customers with digital content management
solutions for production and archive that increase productivity,
accelerate time-to-air, time-to-screen and result in greater ROI.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13495
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National Geographic's Digital Asset Management Workflow, Accelerated by SGI
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<b>SGI InfiniteStorage Systems Transform Analog Archive into Web-based
Digital Powerhouse:</b> To completely transform a prestigious analog
video archive and licensing business into a streamlined digital
workflow, National Geographic Digital Motion, the archive and stock
footage licensing agent for all National Geographic Television film
and video, selected technology from SGI as the major storage and
file-sharing component of their new digital asset management system.
Powered by SGI technology, the new system installed last Fall
dispenses with time-consuming on-premises videotape selection, editing
and shipping of stock footage by providing fast and easy Web-based
customer clip selection and ordering.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13496
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Force10 Joins With Isilon to Deliver High Performance Data Center Solutions
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Force10 Networks, the pioneer in building and securing reliable
networks, today announced that it is joining with Isilon Systems, the
leader in clustered storage, to bring optimized high performance
networking solutions to the data center. The Force10 purpose-built
data center ecosystem allows customers to use their own evaluation
criteria to deploy the network services that best suit their
requirements.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13497
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Mellanox Demonstrates 40Gb/s Connectivity with PCI Express 2.0
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<b>Technology Demonstration on Intel Servers Showcases Fastest
Interconnect and Storage I/O Performance:</b> Mellanox Technologies
announced the demonstration of a 40Gb/s (Gigabit-per-second)
InfiniBand server-to-server connection over a copper cable using
advanced versions of the recently announced ConnectX IB Host Channel
Adapter (HCA). These are the first I/O adapters to support the
increased performance of PCI Express 2.0 – a doubling of bus speeds
expected to be integrated in server and storage platforms over the
next year.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13498
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Mellanox Promotes Marc Sultzbaugh to VP of Worldwide Sales
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Mellanox Technologies today announced the promotion of Marc Sultzbaugh
to vice president of worldwide sales, reporting to Eyal Waldman,
chairman, president and CEO. Sultzbaugh is replacing Dave Sheffler,
former vice president of worldwide sales who is retiring from Mellanox
effective Aug. 31, 2007 due to personal reasons.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13499
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Verari Systems Unveils The World's Highest Density Storage System
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Verari Systems, developers of platform-independent blade-based
computing and storage solutions, today announced new innovations and
advanced capabilities in its BladeRack 2 VB5150 Storage Subsystem for
network-attached storage (NAS) requirements in HPC and enterprise
markets. This second-generation product features improved capacity,
performance and functionality and the industry’s most efficient use of
floor space, power and cooling. Up to 12 VB5150 subsystems can be
housed in a BladeRack 2 frame for a single rack density of 576 drives
- making it the world’s highest density storage system.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13500
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Linux Networx Names Bobbi Hazard Senior Vice President, Sales and Channels
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<b>Former Dell, Sun Microsystems and Cray Research Executive to Drive
Growth in Industrial and Government Supercomputing Markets:</b> Linux
Networx, The Linux Supercomputing company, today announced that it has
named high-performance computing (HPC) industry veteran Bobbi Hazard
as its new senior vice president (SVP), sales and channels. Ms.
Hazard, a 25-year technology industry veteran, has held senior sales
and marketing positions at Dell, Sun Microsystems and Cray Research. A
proven sales executive with both HPC and broader IT industry
experience, Ms. Hazard will drive continued growth in the industrial
and government markets and will focus on expanding the company's
channel program.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13502
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European Computing Grids Gearing Up for LHC Launch
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The UK's largest computing grid recently received further funding in
the run up to CERN's launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), slated
to come online at the end of 2007. The funding is earmarked for the
GridPP project building a grid capable of synthesising the enormous
amounts of data expected to be generated by LHC. The amount of
information generated by LHC will require the close collaboration of
experts throughout Europe and the recent grant by the UK’s Particle
Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) to the tune of €44
million will help ensure UK physicists stay connected with colleagues
on the other side of the Channel.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13503
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HiCLAS1 Joint Venture Formation
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<b>Beta release of AERMOD-HPCS:</b> HiPERiSM Consulting, LLC, (Durham,
North Carolina) has linked with AS1MET Services (Blanco, Texas) to
form a joint venture, HiCLAS1, dedicated to bringing High Performance
Computing (HPC) capability to Environmental Modeling. The HiCLAS1
mission is to develop (or enhance) software and improve performance on
current and future computers for legacy Air Quality Models (AQM). This
joint venture brings half a century of unique experience in regulatory
modeling and high performance computing to focus on issues that will
meet the needs of the AQM community. There is a latent (and
suppressed) need for reduced time to solution in computer models of
environmental phenomena as model complexity has increased and regional
scope has expanded to meet ever-increasing demands from legislative
and policy requirements in support of legislation such as the Clean
Air Act (<a
href="http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaq_caa.html">www.epa.gov/oar/oaq_caa.html</a>).
It is in response to this requirement that HiCLAS1 is motivated to
attack the causes of performance limitations in legacy code currently
in use by modelers and regulatory personnel.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13504
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High-Performance Computing Sites Unite To Form The Dell XL HPC Consortium
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<b>Inaugural Meeting Held at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in
Austin:</b> The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the Maui
High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) last week hosted the
inaugural meeting of the Dell XL HPC Consortium (Dell XL), the first
user group of its kind to focus on the large-scale use of Dell HPC
solutions. The meeting took place on April 10 and 11 in TACC’s new
building in Austin.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13505
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Univa Joins Red Hat ISV Partner Program
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<b>Grid pioneer becomes Red Hat Ready Partner and validates open
source software stack on the leading open source operating system:</b>
Univa Corporation, the leading provider of commercial software,
support and services for grid solutions based on open source Globus
software, today announced it has joined the Red Hat ISV Partner
Program, which offers software vendors the opportunity to easily
access the tools and resources necessary to develop and test their
applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the leading platform for
open source computing. Univa joined as a Red Hat Ready Partner.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13506
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Elektrofilm Digital Studios Selects Sun Microsystems
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<b>Sun Storage, Solaris 10 Operating System Powers Digital Archiving
Solution Offering End-To-End Services For Entertainment Industry:</b>
Sun Microsystems today announced that Elektrofilm Digital Studios, a
premier digital media services provider to the entertainment industry,
has selected Sun's storage, servers, software and services to build a
high-speed, open standards database for digital content ingesting,
archiving and management.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13508
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8th LCI conference kicks off May 14 with tutorials
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The LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered
Computing kicks off May 14 with a full day of tutorials. The
conference proper starts Tuesday, May 15 and runs through Thursday,
May 17. Anyone interested in cluster computing will find this event
worth attending.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13509
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Fujitsu and Sun Set the Standard for Open Systems Computing
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<b>Co-Developed “SPARC Enterprise” Servers To Be Co-Marketed By
Fujitsu and Sun:</b> Fujitsu Limited and Sun Microsystems today
unveiled a new line-up of co-developed servers that hold the promise
of dramatically reshaping the computing market by delivering
mainframe-class reliability with open systems advantages. The new
servers, based on the SPARC architecture and running the Solaris 10
operating system (OS), are the fastest SPARC servers ever, and will be
marketed by both companies and affiliates under the “SPARC Enterprise”
product brand. The systems are ideal for customers requiring highly
scaleable, reliable servers, and needing to achieve increased system
utilization and performance through virtualization. The servers
leverage the powerful combination of Fujitsu’s expertise in
mission-critical computing technologies and high-performance processor
design, and Sun’s expertise in open, scaleable, network computing.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13510
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Intel Talks 45nm Chips at IDF Beijing
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At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Intel executives today
detailed more than 20 new products, technology innovations and
industry initiatives -- many of them industry firsts -- aimed at
making the World Wide Web, computers and consumer electronics devices
much more responsive, friendlier and secure. Under the backdrop of
Intel’s leadership in 45nm Hi-k metal gate silicon technology and how
it will ignite new innovation and growth opportunities, Intel
executives disclosed new performance details for its next-generation
“Penryn” processor family. The company also unveiled two product
roadmaps for Intel architecture (IA)-based System on Chip (SOC) and
business uses.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13511
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Xilinx Demos Highest Performance FPGA-Based Acceleration Module at IDF Beijing
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<b>At 6.4 Gbyte/s data transfer speeds, Xilinx achieves fastest
processor system interface of any FPGA to date with a new accelerated
computing platform:</b> Xilinx today announced it will demonstrate the
world’s highest performance FPGA-based acceleration module at the
Intel Developer Forum China this week. The Xilinx Accelerated
Computing Platform (ACP) targets Intel Front Side Bus (FSB)-FPGA
accelerator modules and features an FSB-capable VirtexTM-5 FPGA module
as a plug-in to an Intel Xeon CPU socket.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13512
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Honors Six Altix Users for Innovative Use of Itanium
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SGI today announced that several researchers honored in the Itanium
Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest conducted their acclaimed work
on SGI Altix systems.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13513
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Utah Researchers to Improve Productivity with SGI Storage
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<b>Virtualized Data Management Solution to Put Data on Most
Cost-Effective Storage While Speeding Results for Most Complex
Problems:</b> Scientific and engineering problems are growing more
complex, and that means faster computational power alone cannot always
deliver results sooner. Facing this productivity stalemate,
researchers at the University of Utah's Scientific Computing and
Imaging (SCI) Institute discovered their problem had only one
solution: a world-class storage and data management system from SGI.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13514
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SARA to deploy IBM POWER-based System as new Dutch National Supercomputer
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SARA and IBM have announced that IBM has been granted the contract to
build the Dutch National Supercomputer devoted to solving grand
challenges of science. The new system will be hosted by SARA Computing
and Networking Services; the National Supercomputing Center and one of
Europe's most advanced ICT service centers.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13516
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EMC Reports Record First-Quarter Results
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<b>Delivers 15th Consecutive Quarter of Double-Digit Revenue Growth,
Q1 EPS increase of 36%:</b> EMC Corporation, the world leader in
information infrastructure solutions, today reported record
first-quarter revenue and strong profit growth. Highlights of the
quarter included increased demand for VMware virtual infrastructure
solutions and RSA information security software and accelerating
growth in the company's Asia-Pacific and Japan operations. Total
consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2007 was $2.98 billion,
17% higher than the $2.55 billion reported for the first quarter of
2006.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13517
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BlueArc Introduces New Storage System, Featuring 10GbE, Protocol Acceleration
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<b>New Model Enables Customers to Achieve Higher Application
Performance and Enable Consolidation, Reducing Complexity of
Next-Generation Network Infrastructures:</b> BlueArc Corporation today
announced the introduction of the Titan 2500 storage system as the
flagship model in the company's Titan 2000 storage system family,
joining the Titan 2100 and Titan 2200 systems. In addition to the
market-leading performance, scalability and software suite offered by
BlueArc's Titan 2000 family, the Titan 2500 model features a new dual
10-gigabit network module, offering customers the option to reduce
complexity and recognize the full potential of their next-generation
networks, and BlueArc's protocol acceleration module, enabling Windows
server consolidation.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13518
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15 European Countries Sign Pact to Develop High-Performance Computing
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European supercomputing made a great leap forward today after more
than a dozen countries signed a pact to create a pan-European
infrastructure for high-performance computing. These countries, which
include Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey
and the United Kingdom. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for
the new initiative, “Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe”
(PACE), to foster and develop this strategic area. This initiative
aims to strengthen European science, engineering and supercomputer
technologies.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13519
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Altera Announces FPGA-Based Accelerator Support for Intel Front Side Bus
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<b>XtremeData FPGA-based module to offer computing acceleration and
significantly lower power consumption for Intel Xeon-based
servers:</b> Altera today announced that XtremeData has chosen the
high-performance Stratix(R) III FPGA for their XD2000i plug-compatible
FPGA co-processor module supporting Intel's front side bus (FSB). This
high performance computing solution will supply additional processing
power to Intel Xeon processor-based servers. The module plugs directly
into the processor socket of dual- or quad-socket servers. It will
provide high performance application acceleration ranging from 10x to
100x compared to processors alone, while simultaneously reducing
overall system power consumption.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13520
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Nallatech, Intel Announce Agreement to Develop FSB FPGA Accelerator Modules
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Nallatech, the leader in high-performance FPGA computing solutions,
today announced at the Intel Developers Forum that it has signed an
agreement with Intel to develop socket-based accelerator modules which
support the Intel QuickAssist Technology accelerator strategy.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13521
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Rogue Wave Software Launches HydraSCA to Enable High Performance SOA
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<b>Rogue Wave HydraSCA First Commercially Available Product Based on
Service Component Architecture (SCA) Specification:</b> Rogue Wave
Software, a division of Quovadx, a supplier of software development
solutions for high performance business applications, today announced
the release of Rogue Wave HydraSCA, the first service grid for
deploying high performance Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
applications based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA)
specification. HydraSCA, the latest release in the Rogue Wave Hydra
Suite, allows developers to increase application performance and
scalability and reduce costs by taking full advantage of multi-core
hardware while preserving existing technology investments.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13522
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Shutterfly Chooses DataDirect Networks S2A9550 Storage Solution
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<b>Shutterfly Deploys 2.5PB of Primary Storage - Touts S2A9550's Fault
Tolerance:</b> DataDirect Networks announced today that it has
delivered and installed multiple S2A9550 storage solutions equal to
2.5 PB, to Shutterfly, an Internet-based social expression and
personal publishing service. DataDirect's S2A9550 is the industry's
highest performing and most dense storage solution.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13523
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Where mountain lions roam: Star-P helps decipher threatened wildlife migration
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<b>New field of "computational ecology" uses electronic circuit theory
to model wildlife habitat:</b> Researchers at the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) are harnessing supercomputers and
electronic circuit theory to help save wildlife from ever-shrinking
habitats in an emerging scientific field called "computational
ecology." The project is run by the University's National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).
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Emulex, LSI, Oracle and Seagate Collaborate to Reduce System Downtime
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<b>Companies to extend T10 Data Integrity Field (DIF) standard to
enable full end-to-end data integrity for enterprise storage
systems:</b> Emulex, LSI, Oracle and Seagate today announced the Data
Integrity Initiative (DII), an unprecedented technology collaboration
that leverages and extends the T10 DIF standard to enable complete
end-to-end data integrity for enterprise storage systems.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13525
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Allinea Software Announces Enhanced Version of Its Distributed Debugging Tool
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Allinea Software, an innovative tools company based in Warwick (UK),
today announced the launch of DDT 2.0. The latest version of its
popular Distributed Debugging Tool offers a number of new features and
improvements, many of which are aimed specifically at programmers of
today’s multi-core processors. These include the ability to control
individual threads, to examine and compare data across threads, and to
visualize the execution of different threads within single or multiple
processes. DDT 2.0 enhancements are relevant to the full variety of
threading models, including OpenMP, pthreads and hybrid multi-threaded
/ MPI programming.
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ADVA Optical Networking Joins Great Plains Network
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<b>As First Corporate Member, ADVA Optical Networking Delivers
Expertise in Optical Networking Technologies to Midwestern
Universities Consortium:</b> ADVA Optical Networking today announced
it is the first corporate member admitted to the Great Plains Network
consortium of universities located in the Midwestern United States.
Member universities are dedicated to supporting research and education
through the use of advanced networking technology. Affiliated states
include Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma
and South Dakota.
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DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Launches Webzine
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The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) in the
Department of Energy’s Office of Science this week launched a new
online publication highlighting a range of computational research
efforts supported by the office. The first issue of the magazine,
called ASCR Discovery, includes articles about how HPC is being used
to understand the role of turbulence in combustion, a look at a new
computational chemistry software framework, news from ASCR-supported
research at two universities, and a profile of MPI, the technology
developed at Argonne National Lab that is essential to parallel
computing. ASCR Discovery can be found at: <a
href="http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/index.shtml">http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/index.shtml</a>.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13528
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Broadband Networks Transform Radio Astronomy
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Astronomers from CSIRO, the Swinburne University of Technology (SUT)
and the University of Tasmania have made the first broadband hook-up
between Australian radio telescopes, completing in just hours an
experiment that would previously have taken weeks.
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SGI Enables Fox Sports Australia to Meet Increased Bandwidth Demands
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<b>SGI Altix XE Servers Transcode Video Streams 2X Faster and SGI
InfiniteStorage Provides a Reliable Way to Archive.</b> To meet
anticipated bandwidth demands for two new 24/7 television channels,
Premier Media Group, operators of FOX SPORTS Australia, selected
technology from SGI to support its growth in digital program outputs.
SGI InfiniteStorage systems and SGI Altix XE ingest and transmission
servers are the backbone of Premier Media Group's complete digital
infrastructure for end-to-end D10/MXF operation. Installed in early
2004, the original SGI solution was purchased to overcome the workflow
restrictions of tape-based ingest. Due to SGI's highly scalable
architecture, Premier Media Group has been consistently -- and easily
-- adding to their infrastructure to support live ingest and
broadcast, SAN, archive and library management needs, as their growth
demands.
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Student travel scholarships to Tapia conference available to TeraGrid users
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Indiana University announces the availability of travel scholarships
for students to attend the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in
Computing in order to present technical posters based on use of the
TeraGrid. Up to four travel scholarships will be awarded.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13531
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CFP: Workshop: progress toward petascale applications in bioinformatics
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on progress toward petascale applications in
bioinformatics and computational biology, IEEE 7th International
Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE 2007).
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Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Breaks a Teraflop
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Yesterday, Sun Microsystems announced new Sun SPARC Enterprise
servers, highly scalable virtualization/consolidation systems with
mainframe-class reliability for the open systems market. The new
servers are already demonstrating their performance leadership. The
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000, using Sun Studio 12, topped the 1 TFLOP
barrier, delivering a score of 1.032 TFLOPS on the Linpack benchmark
(Highly Parallel Computing). This out-performs the best published
single system from IBM p5 595 (1.9GHz POWER5) by over 2X and tops the
high end single system Itanium 2 (1.6GHz/24MB) based box from HP
(Superdome, by nearly 38%).
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Sun Grid Engine Helps Find Fat Gene
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It's official; that Double Whopper with Bacon is not solely
responsible for your extra pounds. Scientists have identified the most
clear genetic link yet to obesity in the general population as part of
a major study of diseases funded by the Wellcome Trust, the UK's
largest medical research charity. People with two copies of a
particular gene variant known as FTO have a 70 percent higher risk of
being obese than those with no copies. The Sun Grid Engine (SGE) was
one of the enabling technologies in the work that produced the
discovery of a gene linked to human obesity.
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Penn Professor Awarded 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
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Sanjeev Khanna, professor of computer and information science at the
University of Pennsylvania, has been honored with a 2007 Guggenheim
Fellowship for his work in theoretical computer science.
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