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Super Micro Computer Announces Quarterly Revenue of $105.7 million, up 39%
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Super Micro Computer, a leader in application optimized, high
performance server solutions, today announced financial results for
the third quarter of fiscal year 2007. This marked the Company’s first
reporting of quarterly financial results since its initial public
offering on March 29, 2007.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13702
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Accelerator Awards Give Commercialization Boost to University's Technologies
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Three recipients of fast-track commercialization funding were
announced Thursday, May 10 at the Accelerator Awards Workshop at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13703
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Cray CEO Peter Ungaro to Deliver Keynote at LCI Conference
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Cray today announced that Cray President and CEO Peter J. Ungaro will
be a keynote speaker at the 8th LCI International Conference on
High-Performance Cluster Computing to be held May 14-17, 2007 in South
Lake Tahoe, California. Ungaro's address, scheduled for May 17, will
discuss the demands placed on Linux clusters when they are extended to
supercomputing scale.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13704
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QLogic 10Gb Backbone Qualified by EMC as E-Lab Tested
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<b>Customers Can Now Deploy Scalable, High Performance, Core-to-Edge
Fabrics from QLogic:</b> QLogic, the leader in Fibre Channel host bus
adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today
announced that EMC Corp. has qualified 10Gb powered QLogic SANbox
Fibre Channel switches as EMC E-Lab Tested for use with EMC CLARiiON
and EMC Symmetrix DMX networked storage systems. With E-Lab
qualification of the QLogic 10Gb backbone between SANbox 9000 Series
core switches and SANbox 5000 Series stackable switches, EMC customers
can now deploy highly scalable, high performance, core-to-edge storage
networks from QLogic. The highly comprehensive E-Lab qualification
process tests configurations that replicate real-world environments to
help ensure customer satisfaction.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13705
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HP Advances Deployment of Microsoft BI Platform Technologies
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HP today introduced data warehouse reference configurations that help
simplify deployment of the latest releases of Microsoft technologies
targeted for business intelligence. The company additionally announced
plans for a portfolio of services and solutions to help ensure
customers experience a seamless transition to the next planned version
of Microsoft SQL Server, code name “Katmai.”
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13706
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Dr. Orbach Identifies Areas Essential To Maintaining American Leadership
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Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), presented the
keynote address “From Data to Discovery” at the DICE Alliance 07
conference in Springfield, Ohio on May 8.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13707
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PSC Provides Major Support for Unprecedented Storm-Forecast Experiment
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<b>PSC improved performance of the forecast model, automated the daily
runs and coordinated a dedicated high-bandwidth link:</b> Spring on
the Great Plains brings one of nature's most awesome performances of
fierce weather, as the May 5th weekend in Kansas tragically
demonstrated. Many residents of Greensburg, Kansas credited the
National Weather Service, which gave a half-hour advance warning, with
preventing an even worse disaster. Nevertheless, tornados are
notoriously hard to predict, and better warnings -- hours in advance,
instead of minutes, with greater reliability in the prediction --
could save countless lives.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13710
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Early Bird Registration to the BELIEF-EELA Conference open until 15th May 2007
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<b>The <a href="http://www.belief-eela.org/">BELIEF-EELA
e-Infrastructures Conference</a> will be held on 25-28 June 2007 in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</b> e-Infrastructures are the instruments of
knowledge generation and dissemination. They allow research that was
previously impossible, even giving birth to new scientific
disciplines. They are proving fundamental to innovation and impart new
benefits to science, economy and society the world over. The
e-Infrastructures linking Europe with Latin American are powerful and
in dynamic evolution.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13708
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Science on The Grid – Live
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The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project will award a prize to the
best live demonstration of a Grid application shown at the 2nd EGEE
User Forum. Scientists in more than 200 Virtual Organizations from
fields as diverse as Biomedicine, Earth Sciences, Nuclear Fusion and
High-Energy Physics are now using the distributed computing
infrastructure of EGEE, which shows the wide adoption and versatility
of this new technology.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13709
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HP Introduces On-site Service to Help Customers Optimize Blade Technology
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HP today announced a blade-specific service that pairs customers with
on-site technical experts who work closely with IT departments to
develop customized plans and recommendations for application and
business needs.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13711
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MNB Technologies Announces Navy R&D Contract for Portable HPC
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MNB Technologies announces the receipt of a U.S. Navy research
contract to develop a new class of field-portable “supercomputer”
based on conventional notebook computers equipped with plug-in
reconfigurable accelerators and a revolutionary new use model.
Sponsored by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) at the Naval Air
Warfare Center, Pawtuxent River Maryland, this contract will result in
a new class of high‐performance computer that is equally at home
in both military and civilian applications. Intended for
“disadvantaged” users, the new system will capture the power of
high-performance reconfigurable computing while maintaining very
reasonable overall cost by heavily using commercial off the shelf
(COTS) systems and major components.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13712
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Blue Gene, Progeny of IBM's Deep Blue, Becomes an Engine of Scientific Discovery
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Ten years ago today, IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to win
a chess tournament against a reigning world champion chess master.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13713
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Full Speed Ahead For the Grid
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With the final plenary session, Europe's biggest Grid event ever comes
to an end, with more than 900 participants gathering for the 20th Open
Grid Forum (OGF20) and the 2nd Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)
User Forum. End-users, Grid experts and business representatives
shared their experiences and thought about the future of the Grid,
impressively demonstrating how far Grid technology has come.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13714
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MCNC Announces New President and CEO
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MCNC, which developed and operates the nationally recognized North
Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) and a catalyst for
technology based economic development in North Carolina for the last
27 years, today announced that Joseph A. (Joe) Freddoso will become
the organization's CEO on July 1. Freddoso most recently was Senior
Director of Community Relations for Cisco.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13715
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Supercomputer Shows That Nanolayers Have Turning Sense
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<b>A team of researchers from Jülich and Hamburg have discovered a
homochiral magnetic structure in thin metal layers:</b> Physicists
from Research Centre Jülich and the University of Hamburg have
discovered that on the atomic level nature differentiates between the
image and mirror image of magnetic structures. With the aid of
computer simulations in Jülich and experiments in Hamburg, they
detected a so-called "homochiral" magnetic structure in a thin metal
layer, as described in an article published in the current edition of
the high-impact journal "Nature". There is no version with
mirror-image spin. The researchers found this surprising selectivity
very exciting since, on the one hand, it opens up a whole new research
area and, on the other hand, it may also lead to applications in
"spintronics", a promising field of future technology.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13716
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ESI Group Presents Computational Capability in NAFEMS World Congress
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<a href="http://www.esi-cfd.com">ESI Group</a>, the technology leader
in the field of multiphysics simulation is to exhibit and present in
NAFEMS World Congress in Vancouver from May 22nd to 25th 2007. The
congress features workshops, training classes, roundtables and more
than 130 presentations on analysis and simulation technologies.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13717
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Hitachi Announces a New Dimension in Storage Virtualization
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<b>Hitachi Places Thin Provisioning at the Virtualization Services
Layer, Provides Substantial Reductions in Space, Power & Cooling
Across the Enterprise: Introduces Major Software Breakthroughs with
New Flagship Storage Services Platform:</b> Hitachi Data Systems
Corporation, the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions,
today announced a multitude of significant storage software
innovations, including the world’s first implementation of a
large-scale, enterprise-class virtualization layer combined with thin
provisioning software — representing the first time that customers can
obtain the consolidation benefits of external storage virtualization
and the power and cooling advantages of thin provisioning, in one
integrated solution. This announcement is core to the company’s newly
announced Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy, long-awaited
industry breakthroughs that enable storage to be provisioned and
charged back according to business needs, not technology constraints.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13718
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Hitachi Introduces Services Oriented Storage Solutions
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<b>Ultra-Intelligent Architecture Enables IT to Tailor Services Based
on Value to the Business, Take Charge of Chargebacks by Ensuring that
Business Units Pay for Functionality According to Services Used:
Hitachi Points the Way for the Future of Storage Services by
Delivering Radical Improvements in Business Value, Today:</b> Hitachi
Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, today
announced the industry’s first Services Oriented Storage Solutions,
long-awaited industry breakthroughs that enable storage to be
provisioned and charged back according to business needs, not
technology constraints. Based on the all-new Hitachi Universal Storage
Platform V and a multitude of new Hitachi Storage Software
innovations, this announcement marks a new era in storage where the
historical norm of locking in data, function, personnel and operations
to rigid structures, and forcing users to pay for services that go
unused, is replaced by the emergence of storage services that directly
tie resources and functionality to business demands.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13719
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Industry Thriving Through Math
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Professor Robin Batterham, Global Practice Leader - Innovation, Rio
Tinto, and CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Geoff Garrett, will speak at the
opening of a new building for CSIRO Mathematical and Information
Sciences in Melbourne on Tuesday, 15 May 2007.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13720
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HP Lowers Cost and Risk of Data Storage with New High-end Array
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HP today introduced a high-end, environmentally responsible disk array
for enterprise computing environments that require 24x7 business
continuity.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13721
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DOE JGI Sets 'Gold Standard' for Metagenomic Data Analysis
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With the advent of more powerful and economical DNA sequencing
technologies, gene discovery and characterization is transitioning
from single-organism studies to revealing the potential biotechnology
applications embedded in communities of microbial genomes, or
metagenomes. The field of metagenomics is still in its infancy -- the
equivalent of the early days of the California Gold Rush, with labs
vying to stake their claim.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13722
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Dalhousie University, Liquid Computing Partner on Advanced Data Warehousing
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Liquid Computing announced today that it has partnered with Dalhousie
University’s Faculty of Computer Science to advance parallel On-line
Analytical Processing (OLAP) on Very Large Databases (VLDB). The
partnership project, which began in January of this year, has already
demonstrated the dramatic performance advantages of applying new
computing architectures to data warehousing problems.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13723
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MSC.Software Signs Agreement with CEI
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<b>Integration of APEX Visualization and Results Processing Technology
Allows for Comprehensive viewing of Multi-Disciplinary
Simulations:</b> MSC.Software today announced a signed agreement with
Computational Engineering International (CEI). Under this agreement,
utilizing the Service Oriented Architecture of SimEnterprise,
MSC.Software will integrate CEI's advanced APEX visualization and
results processing technology into MSC.Software's recently-announced
SimXpert product line. This technology will be delivered to customers
as a part of the MSC SimEnterprise solution set.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13724
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GemStone Systems, Rogue Wave Software Partner
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<b>Partnership Combines Advanced Data Fabric Technology with
Concurrent Computing:</b> GemStone Systems and Rogue Wave Software, a
division of Quovadx, providing enterprise-class software components
and services that facilitate high-performance application development,
today announced a technology and business partnership that will allow
customers to increase application performance and scalability while
lowering operating costs.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13725
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Nallatech, Impulse Announce the Availability of the Impulse C Compiler
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Nallatech, the leader in high-performance FPGA computing solutions and
Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the availability of
the Impulse C compiler for the Nallatech H100 series of FPGA
accelerator products.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13726
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Idaho National Labs Reduces Costs, Increases Productivity with SGI
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<b>Larger, More Complex Simulations Done on SGI Altix and
InfiniteStorage Systems Reduce Expensive Physical Experiments and Labs
Costs:</b> The need for high-performance computing has been growing at
a very fast pace at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the U.S.
Department of Energy's lead lab in developing the next generation of
more efficient, safer nuclear power plants. INL doubled its aggregate
computing capability over the last year via the purchase of a strong
complement of high-performance computing and data storage and
management technologies systems, and the acquisition of a
high-performance SGI Altix 4700 system from SGI was a key part of this
advance. The SGI system, which will be used for a variety of nuclear
energy and security applications, will enable INL to substantially
increase productivity and save money.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13727
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NOAA Hosts Hazardous Weather Forecasting Experiment
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More than 60 researchers and forecasters from government agencies,
academia, and the private sector are expected to visit the National
Weather Center on the University of Oklahoma's Norman campus, this
spring to work towards improving forecasts of severe weather.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13728
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OpVista Joins Internet2
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<b>OpVista to collaborate with members of Internet R&E consortium on
high spectral efficiency GbE, 10GbE DWDM transport and ROADM
applications:</b> OpVista has announced that the company has joined
Internet2, an advanced networking consortium led by the research and
education community. OpVista joins a pre-eminent group of, service
providers, other networking technology companies, and Internet2's
university and government members to develop the most cutting-edge
networking technologies.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13729
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AMD Releases Expanded Tools and Support for Developers
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<b>AMD’s Developer Center offers Smith v2.0, PGI compilers, and robust
tier one testing systems including native quad-core “Barcelona”
processors:</b> AMD today announced new and upcoming upgrades to its
AMD Developer Center facility. Beginning this quarter, AMD will offer
customers and technology partners easier-than-ever access to a testing
environment that will span all three generations of multi-core AMD
Opteron processors including the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor,
code-named “Barcelona.”
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13730
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ANSYS Announces 2-for-1 Stock Split
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ANSYS announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 2-for-1
stock split of the Company's common shares. The stock split will be
in the form of a stock dividend to be distributed on June 4, 2007 to
holders of record at the close of business on May 25, 2007.
Stockholders of record will be issued one additional share of common
stock for every share of common stock held. ANSYS currently has
approximately 38.8 million shares of common stock issued and
outstanding. The number will increase to approximately 77.6 million
shares as a result of the stock split.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13731
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Tricom Geophysics Deploys Isilon IQ to Transform Seismic Data Into Breakthroughs
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Isilon Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced that
Tricon Geophysics, Inc. has deployed Isilon IQ to power new
breakthroughs in seismic data processing. Using Isilon IQ, powered by
Isilon's OneFS operating system software, Tricon Geophysics has
unified vast stores of seismic data into one, seamlessly expandable,
shared pool of high performance storage to streamline workflows and
dramatically accelerate seismic processing operations in the global
race to discover new sources of energy.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13732
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Seismic Exchange Uses Isilon IQ to Advance Oil & Gas Discovery
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<b>Isilon IQ Enables Leading Seismic Data Exchange Company to Maximize
the Value of Critical Data Assets in the Highly Competitive Oil and
Gas Market:</b> Isilon Systems today announced that Seismic Exchange,
Inc. (SEI) has deployed Isilon IQ as the central repository for its
massive library of proprietary 3D seismic data. SEI is using Isilon
IQ, powered by Isilon's OneFS operating system software, to unify more
than 30,000 total square miles of 3D seismic imaging data into one
seamlessly expandable pool of high-performance storage. Using Isilon
IQ, SEI has dramatically accelerated the delivery of its vital stores
of seismic information, providing its customers with a competitive
advantage in the high-stakes race of oil and gas exploration.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13733
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Steve Reinhardt Joins Interactive Supercomputing
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<b>Former Cray and SGI Innovator Heads Funded Research Efforts:</b>
Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) announced today that Steve
Reinhardt, a former Cray Research and SGI veteran, has joined the
company as vice president of joint research.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13734
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ISC’07 Announces Scientific Day Schedule and Award Winning Papers
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Sixteen scientific papers from research teams in Europe, Asia and the
U.S. will be discussed at Scientific Day, a new conference feature at
the 2007 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’07).
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13735
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San Diego Supercomputer Center's TeacherTECH Program Receives Education Award
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SDSC TeacherTECH, which helps educators bring new technology tools and
technology-enabled science concepts into K-12 curriculum, has been
presented with a Partner of the Year Award by the San Diego Science
Alliance.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13736
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OpenEye Scientific Software Applications to be Integrated with PBS Professional
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<b>Grid technology will manage HPC workloads for molecular modeling
and cheminformatics:</b> Altair Engineering today announced that it
has formed a partnership with OpenEye Scientific Software to integrate
several of OpenEye's applications with Altair's PBS Professional grid
technology. The partnership will ensure that applications such as
FRED, Omega and ROCS run efficiently with PBS Professional. Joint
customers will benefit from an enhanced ability to solve complex
research problems more quickly and efficiently by distributing their
computational workload across a grid managed by PBS Professional.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13737
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Mitrionics Secures $6M in VC Funding
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<b>Accelerated Computing Market Growth fuels demand for Advanced
Computing Technologies:</b> Mitrionics AB today announced it has
closed $6 million of venture capital funding from three investment
firms: Grande Ventures, LLC, is a United States based firm and lead
investor in this round, and Creandum and Teknoinvest, are Scandinavian
based firms and share holders in Mitrionics based on previous
investments. Mitrionics will utilize the funding to further enhance
its technological and market leadership in FPGA-based accelerated
computing by expanding its international sales and support operations
and increasing its research and development efforts.
Mitrion-accelerated applications provide a dual customer benefit by
increasing application performance up to 20x or greater over
traditional processors, while enabling hardware to execute the
applications using only a fraction of the power consumed by
traditional processor clusters.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13738
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Dassault Systèmes Announces New Release for Unified FEA from SIMULIA
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<b>Version 6.7 of Abaqus FEA Software Delivers Enhanced Performance,
Innovative Functionality, and Expanded Application Coverage:</b>
Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) solutions, announces the release of Abaqus Version
6.7, its technology-leading finite element analysis (FEA) software
suite.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13739
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Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Achieves Record TPC-H Three TB Benchmark
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<b>Database Leader Sets New Record for Data Warehousing Performance on
Microsoft Windows:</b> Oracle today announced a record breaking TPC-H
Three Terabyte (TB) benchmark for a database running on the Windows
operating system, demonstrating the superior performance of Oracle
Database 10g Release 2 running on Microsoft Windows and an HP
Integrity Superdome Server. With this latest achievement, Oracle now
holds nine of the top 10 performance world record benchmark results
for the TPC-H 3TB scale factor.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13740
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Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Selects Ciena for Advanced Optical Switching
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<b>CoreDirector to Support Optical Network Automation in Research
Networks:</b> Ciena Corporation today announced that Mid-Atlantic
Crossroads (MAX) has selected the CoreDirector Multiservice Switch for
use in the organization’s production and research networking efforts.
Ciena’s CoreDirector will support MAX’s operation and management of
the Next Generation Internet Exchange (NGIX) and Dynamic Resource
Allocation over GMPLS Optical Network (DRAGON) research test bed to
further collaboration between networks in the metropolitan Washington,
D.C. area and national and international research and education
initiatives.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13741
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ESI Group Launches a new CFD Customer Portal
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<strong>ESI Group</strong>, the pioneer in multiphysics modeling today
announces the launch of its new <strong><a
href="http://www.esi-cfd.com">CFD Portal</a></strong>. The new portal
has been designed for their customers and provides a wealth of
information on ESI Group's CFD products (all of it <a
href="http://www.esi-cfd.com/index.php?searchword=&option=com_search&Itemid=5&searchphrase=all">searchable</a>).
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13742
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GridGain Systems Releases GridGain 1.0
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GridGain Systems announced today availability of the first public
release of GridGain project, an enterprise open source grid computing
platform for Java. This release culminates 18 months of development
and presents a software product with unique set of grid computing
features, open source LGPL licensing and clear focus on
high-performance Java-based development.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13743
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Media Temple Grid Service Blasts through 100k Domains With BlueArc
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BlueArc Corporation today announced that (mt) Media Temple, an
innovative Web hosting and application services leader, has benefited
from the significant performance and scalability offered by the
company's Titan 2000 series as the backbone of its breakthrough Web
hosting platform, the (gs) Grid-Service. With its innovative hosting
service, Media Temple has introduced a platform that is the envy of
the Web hosting world, and BlueArc's performance, throughput and
reliability are the foundation of its rapidly growing base of more
than 100,000 hosted domains.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13744
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Scientific Application Computational Scientist
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NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California: The AMTI
contract at NASA Ames Research Center is seeking two highly qualified
candidates with distinguished accomplishments and expertise in
Computational Sciences. These Positions offer an opportunity to
implement, develop, and perform scientific applications to work with a
highly motivated and skilled team on NASA’s Columbia supercomputer-the
fastest super operational supercomputer in the world.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13745
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Java Standard Edition to be Supported for Itanium 2-based Systems
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<b>Development Environment and Application Availability Broadens for
Intel Itanium 2 Architecture:</b> The Itanium Solutions Alliance
commends Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation, a Founding Sponsor of
the Itanium Solutions Alliance, on their cooperation to deliver Sun's
Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for Itanium 2-based
solutions. Intel is porting and optimizing the code, and support is
expected to be included as part of a standard update for Java SE 6
available from Sun next year.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13747
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Portable Batch Systems (PBS) Administrator
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NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California: We are seeking
an experienced system administrator with software engineering
background to become a member of the High-End Computing Systems group
at NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) division of NASA Ames, where we
support one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, known as
Columbia. This position is in a fast-paced, ever-challenging
scientific computing environment. The NAS systems team is responsible
for monitoring, managing and upgrading system resources and
performance.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13746
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Energy Dept. Invites Research Proposals for Tapping Supercomputing Resources
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The U.S. Department of Energy is inviting proposals for innovative,
large-scale computational science projects. Researchers will be able
to use some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at DOE
national laboratories. The advanced computers are not commonly
available in academia or the private sector.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13748
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Perils and Pitfalls of HPC Leads Off LCI Conference
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By Gary Montry -- The LCI Conference focus this year is on big
clusters. Not necessarily on raw performance per se, but on every
other factor required to acquire, host, provision, maintain, and
achieve scalable performance for systems as a whole.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13750
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Q&A: Microsoft Partners Embrace Windows Server 2008 at WinHEC
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The general manager of Microsoft's Windows Server Division, Bill
Laing, highlights Windows Server 2008, which is feature-complete and
scheduled for release to manufacturing in 2007. One of the stars of
the 16th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in
Los Angeles this week is Windows Server 2008 (formerly code-named
Windows Server "Longhorn").
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13749
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UCSD Selected to Design, Build Cyberinfrastructure for Ocean Observatories
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What we know about the world’s oceans comes largely from ship-based
scientists taking samples and making measurements at periodic
intervals. Now researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography
at the University of California, San Diego will create a blueprint for
digital infrastructure that will allow ocean observatories to collect,
process and transmit data 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Ocean Observing Contracts Awarded to UCSD and UW
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Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), a consortium of leading U.S.
oceanographic research institutions, has awarded multimillion dollar
contracts to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the
University of Washington (UW) to support the development and
operations for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The OOI is a
U.S. National Science Foundation investment to advance scientific
understanding of the oceans, transforming research by establishing a
network of interactive, globally distributed sensors in the ocean.
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I-CHASS names Kevin D. Franklin executive director
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The Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social
Science (I-CHASS) has named Kevin D. Franklin its new executive
director. Franklin is known for his major contributions at the
interface of high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and
social sciences (HASS) with his research focused on grid computing,
distributed knowledge systems, and virtual collaborative research
environments.
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New Australian Technology Paves the Way for Safer, Lighter Aircraft Design
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RMIT University PhD student Mr Adrian Orifici has developed
cutting-edge technology that means tomorrow's aircraft can be designed
safer and lighter than ever before. Since commencing his thesis in
March 2004, Mr Orifici has been working with the Cooperative Research
Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS) in Melbourne,
Australia. His research is a featured highlight at the 2007
Cooperative Research Centres Association Conference's Early Career
Scientists Presentations.
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Altair Engineering Collaborates with Wolfram Research
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<b>Partnership provides new job monitoring and batch queuing options
to customers:</b> Altair Engineering today announced that it has
formed a partnership with Wolfram Research to integrate PBS
Professional with Mathematica. The collaboration will create an
optimized parallel Mathematica environment for clusters and
high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Mathematica seamlessly
integrates a numeric and symbolic computational engine, graphics
system, programming language, documentation system and advanced
connectivity to other applications.
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Sinopec Deploys Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters
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<b>All Three of China's Top Oil Production Companies Now Utilize
Panasas Storage Clusters:</b> Panasas, the leader in parallel
clustered storage solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC)
market, today announced that China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
(Sinopec), China's leading petroleum and natural gas producer, has
chosen ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters for seismic information
processing. The addition of Sinopec serves as milestone for the
company as all three of China's largest oil and gas exploration and
production companies, PetroChina, China National Offshore Oil Company
(CNOOC) and Sinopec, are now utilizing Panasas' high performance
parallel storage solutions.
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MSC.Software Names Randy Brinkley to Board of Directors
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MSC.Software has announced that Randy Brinkley has joined the
Company's board of directors. Mr. Brinkley is currently the CEO of
Rocketplane Kistler, a commercial space transportation company formed
in 2004. He was formerly President of Boeing Satellite Systems Inc,
the world's largest manufacturer of commercial satellite systems and
prior to that was Senior Vice President of Programs for Hughes Space
and Communications Company. Mr. Brinkley was the NASA Program Manager
for the International Space Station (ISS) and was responsible for the
integration of Russia's participation in the ISS Program. Prior to
this, he was the Mission Director of the Hubble Space Telescope Repair
Mission. From 1990 to 1992 he managed research and development
activities for advanced aircraft systems and technologies at McDonnell
Douglas Corporation.
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Sun Microsystems Announces $3 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization
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Sun Microsystems today announced that its Board of Directors
authorized the repurchase of up to $3 billion of the company's
outstanding common shares. The repurchase plan is designed to increase
shareholder value and reduce the dilutive effect of Sun's equity
compensation programs.
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HP Sales Climb 13%
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HP today announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter
ended April 30, 2007, with net revenue of $25.5 billion, representing
growth of 13% year-over-year, or 10% when adjusted for the effects of
currency.
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NCSA to host PRAGMA 13
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host the next
gathering of the Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly
(PRAGMA). PRAGMA 13 will be held Sept. 23-25, 2007. PRAGMA was formed
in 2002 to establish sustained collaborations and advance the use of
grid technologies in applications among a community of investigators
working with leading institutions around the Pacific Rim. The 29
PRAGMA institutions meet twice a year at workshops held around the
globe. Registration for PRAGMA 13 will open soon, and information on
the workshop can be found at: <a
href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/PRAGMA13/index.html">www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/PRAGMA13/index.html</a>.
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OIF Invites Industry to Help Shape 100G Interface
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<b>New SFI-X Project Extends Scalability of SERDES-Framer Interfaces
to 100 Gbps:</b> The OIF concluded their second quarterly meeting last
month with a new project and an open invitation to the industry to
join in paving the road to 100 Gbps. The OIF has launched a SERDES
Framer Interface SFI-X project that will define a scalable interface
from an optical module to a framer device for line rates from 40 Gbps
to 100 Gbps and beyond. The SFI-X project forms an important
contribution to the requirements for transport of high-speed data via
the OIF’s Common Electrical Interface (CEI). The current, ongoing
CEI-25 project establishes electrical signaling rates for high-speed
backplanes.
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DataSynapse Aligns Business and IT Through Application Virtualization
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<b>Enables Better Service, Economies of Scale and Business Agility to
Drive New Revenue for the Real-Time Enterprise:</b> Global enterprises
today demand “more, better, faster” – requiring critical applications
to meet evolving business requirements at the same rate and at a lower
cost. DataSynapse, the global provider of Application Virtualization
software, has laid out its vision of creating a real-time
infrastructure that helps large organizations align their IT resources
with their business objectives. By addressing the business issues of
both computing supply and application demand, businesses can improve
service quality to corporate end-users and customers, reducing
operating expenses and creating new revenue streams more quickly.
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