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Scali Delivers Record LS-DYNA Results
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<b>Results submitted on TopCrunch Cement Scali’s Leadership in
Simulation and Analysis Application Performance:</b> Scali today
announced that Scali MPI Connect has delivered record performance on
LS-DYNA, the widely used impact simulation and analysis software from
LSTC. In a full range of benchmarks, Scali, partnering with Linux
Networx, consistently delivered the fastest results on standard
hardware solutions.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13763
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UK Supercomputing Integrator OCF Further Targets Mainstream Businesses
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OCF plc, the UK’s premier High Performance Computing (HPC) integrator,
appoints Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard (HP) veteran Paul
Gwyther to lead its support for customers in mainstream business
environments requiring HPC solutions. As Industrial Sales Engineer,
Gwyther will look to support customers in the financial services, life
sciences and general industrial markets using OCF plc’s new HPC
solutions based on Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13764
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Myricom Presents First End-to-End 10GE Solution at LCI Conference
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By Allan Torres, Founder, The Torres Group, LLC -- Myricom's Tom
Leinberger, a speaker at the 8th LCI International Conference on
High-Performance Cluster Computing May 15 in South Lake Tahoe,
California, offered conference participants a fascinating look at the
Myri10G, the HPC community's first seamless, end-to-end clustering and
connectivity solution, in a talk titled "A Technically Superior
Interconnect for HPC Clusters."
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13765
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Fujitsu and Industry Leaders Collaborate to Deliver HPC Solutions
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<b>Best Practice Installation Guide Provides Granular Details for
Unassisted Clustering Implementations:</b> Fujitsu Computer Products
of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of innovative
computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and Ethernet
switches, today announced the availability of the Best Practice paper
for High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. With the needs of HPC
and advanced data centers converging, Fujitsu has bridged wire-speed
10-Gigabit performance with Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server
(CCS) 2003, to enable HPC supercomputing power for a maximum of 254
nodes.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13766
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AEgis Technologies Releases the Microsoft Excel Add-in for acslXtreme
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<b>The acslXtreme Excel Simulation Interface is an add-in utility for
Microsoft Excel which allows models created in acslXtreme to be
controlled and analyzed using Microsoft Excel.</b> The AEgis
Technologies Group, a leading supplier of simulation software,
training, and engineering services to the international modeling and
simulation community, announces the release of the Microsoft Excel
Add-in for acslXtreme. The acslXtreme Excel Simulation Interface is an
add-in utility for Microsoft Excel which allows models created in
acslXtreme to be controlled and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. This
utility works by associating cells in an Excel workbook with specific
model variables. In particular, cells associated with model constants
can be used to specify the values of those constants prior to a
simulation run; model outputs of interest may similarly be collected
and inserted into specific cells at the conclusion of the run. Since
the model inputs and outputs are simple Excel cells, the complete
mathematical, plotting and data import/export facilities provided by
Excel may be used in the analysis of acslXtreme simulation data.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13767
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Universities Prepare as Physicists Plan to Pop Protons
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The world's largest science experiment, a physics experiment designed
to determine the nature of matter, will produce a mountain of data.
And because the world's physicists cannot move to the mountain, an
army of computer research scientists is preparing to move the mountain
to the physicists.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13768
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Force10 Focuses On Resiliency & Scalability for Clusters at LCI Conference
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by Allan Torres, Founder, The Torres Group, LLC -- Ethernet is the
ubiquitous connectivity fabric required in nearly every cluster,
providing some or all of the four types of connections -- I/O,
out-of-band management, storage, and inter-processor communications
(IPC) interconnects -- depending on the cluster architecture. Ethernet
is even being emulated by other HPC interconnect technologies, so
Ethernet is here to stay. Force10's center of attention has been 10GE
ahead of the pack of many other switch vendors, says Debbie Montano,
director of research & education alliances for Force 10 Networks, Inc,
during her presentation "Ethernet Resiliency & Scalability for Cluster
Computing" May 15 at the 8th LCI International Conference on
High-Performance Cluster Computing in South Lake Tahoe, California.
Half of the listed systems (255) are utilizing Gigabit Ethernet as the
internal system interconnect technology "Top 500 2006."
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13769
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LCI Conference Continues with Hardware and Software Sessions
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By Gary Montry -- One more issue pertaining to large I/O systems:
"operability" is not a synonym for "capability." An interesting talk
by Andrew Uselton and Brian Behlendorf from Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory discussed the difficulties they had with the I/O
system delivered with BlueGene/L. They "sweated bullets" (their term,
not mine) for six months trying to get the I/O system to perform up to
design specs. Internally, they referred to it as "the death march."
The system, as delivered, "worked." However, the severely
oversubscribed network design left them with an initial performance
deficit of 50 percent of the target of 30+ GB/sec. This seems to be
akin to spending two hundred grand on a Ferrari and discovering that
it won't get you to the market faster than your neighbors' Buick
without considerable tuning. Not that I'm blaming IBM. This talk could
have addressed systems from every other manufacturer. There was no
sensible way to build the I/O system without oversubscription at that
time. It just points out that these complex systems which push the
state of the art do not come out of the box ready for prime time.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13770
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Cray's Peter Ungaro Kicks Off Last Day of LCI Conference
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By Gary Montry -- The morning began with the keynote presentation from
Peter Ungaro, titled "From Beowulf to Cray-o-wulf - Extending the
Linux Clustering Paradigm to Supercomputing Scale." In this
presentation Peter unveils Cray's view of cluster computing and how
they are going to compete in the HPC marketplace with future
generations of clusters containing ten thousand to one million cores.
He predicts a one million core system within five years. For scale,
today's entire Top 500 list represents less than one million cores!
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13771
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HP & AMD Provide Technology Fit for a King in "Shrek the Third"
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HP and AMD today announced that their technology helped DreamWorks
Animation SKG create the digital magic audiences will experience in
"Shrek the Third," released in U.S. theaters today. HP ProLiant
servers and workstations powered by AMD Opteron processors enabled the
creation of technically challenging, detail-rich images and effects in
the latest film in the successful Shrek series. Additionally,
producers benefited by using HP Halo Collaboration Studios to connect
DreamWorks teams from across the globe in a live virtual environment.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13772
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Rensselaer, IBM, and New York State Unveil New Supercomputing Center
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<b>Partners provide sneak preview of powerful university-based
computing facility:</b> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today offered
the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world's most powerful
university-based supercomputing center.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13773
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HPC/LifeSciences Program Manager - Academic Relations
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Microsoft Research is looking for a talented program manager to work
on a variety of technical and policy issues specific to the academic
research and education community. The mission of our team is to build
links between academic researchers and Microsoft. Specifically,
supporting academic research in areas where high performance computing
could advance basic scientific research such as biology, astronomy,
physics and chemistry. We are looking for a program manager capable of
determining the opportunities for Microsoft in this space and making a
strong contribution to our industry-leading program of academic
engagement.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13774
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Panasas to Open Source DirectFLOW Client Software
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<b>Panasas to be First Storage Vendor to Release Parallel NFS
Compatible Storage Systems:</b> Panasas, Inc., the leader in parallel
clustered storage solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC)
market, today announced the planned source code release of key
components of its industry leading parallel file system client
software, DirectFLOW, to accelerate the adoption of Parallel Network
File System (pNFS), which is to be released as part of the NFS version
4.1 standard. This open source initiative continues the company’s
leadership role in shaping the pNFS standard which was originally
initiated by Dr. Garth Gibson, Panasas founder and chief technology
officer.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13775
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FPGA Processor Demonstration Heralds Ubiquitous Supercomputing
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<b>Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA-based hardware acceleration opens door to
high-resolution 3-D video in real-time:</b> At the IFSEC show today,
Xilinx, in collaboration with Dimensional Imaging, Ltd., and the FPGA
High Performance Computing Alliance (FHPCA), showcased its latest
Virtex-4 FPGA based technology demonstration for high-speed computing.
The new technology leverages the high-performance features of Xilinx
Virtex-4 devices to accelerate compute-intensive 3D and 4D digital
imaging algorithms by up to 12 times, enabling supercomputing
performance in a compact platform that communicates with a host PC
through a PCI Express(R) interface. Target applications include
facial analysis and recognition, biometrics, digital entertainment and
advanced orthodontics. Today's news opens the door for non-computer
specialists to take advantage of the performance of supercomputer
clusters and provides tremendous improvement in multiple applications
including homeland security, motion picture production, digital
gaming, and advanced medical treatments. Attendees of this week's
IFSEC can view the demonstration in action at Silica's Stand #18177,
Hall 12, at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, United
Kingdom.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13776
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Workshop on Software & Applications for the Cell BE Processor
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Georgia Tech will be hosting a two-day workshop on software and
applications for the Cell Broadband Engine, (<a
href="http://sti.cc.gatech.edu/">http://sti.cc.gatech.edu/</a>) to be
held on Monday, June 18 and Tuesday, June 19, at the Klaus Advanced
Computing Building, (<a
href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/">www.cc.gatech.edu</a>) at Georgia
Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, GA, United States. The workshop
is sponsored by Georgia Tech and the Sony, Toshiba, IBM, (STI) Center
of Competence for the Cell BE.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13777
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Protects the Amazon With SGI
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<b>SGI Delivers Up To 5X Speed-Up on Large Ocean and River Model
Simulations for Petrobras Environmental Containment Strategies:</b>
For projects ranging from protecting the Amazon to international grid
computing, the Center for Parallel Computing (NACAD) at the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro:
UFRJ) has added to its existing SGI computational resources with the
purchase of SGI Altix 450 server, SGI Altix XE cluster, and SGI
InfiniteStorage technology.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13778
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MSC.Software Solutions Play Critical Role in Design & Development of THEMIS
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<b>MSC Nastran and MSC Adams Eliminate the Need for Physical Testing
of Probes in the Historic 5-Satellite Simultaneous Deployment
Occurring From a Single Launch Vehicle:</b> MSC.Software today
announced that Swales Aerospace successfully utilized MSC Nastran and
MSC Adams to eliminate the need for system level deployment testing in
the design and development of the NASA satellite constellation THEMIS
(Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms)
Probe Bus & Probe Carrier.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13779
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Altair Engineering Announces Global 2007 HyperWorks Technology Conference Series
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<b>Events in Asia/Pacific, Europe and North America will focus on the
role of enterprise simulation in the development of innovative
products:</b> Altair Engineering today announced that it will host its
2007 Global HyperWorks Technology Conference (HTC) Series later this
year. The three regional events will focus on "Driving Innovation with
Enterprise Simulation," and are expected to draw a total of more than
1,000 engineering professionals to see presentations highlighting the
latest trends, developments and applications in the important field of
enterprise computer- aided engineering (CAE).
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13780
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Mellanox Delivers Single-Chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
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<b>New Adapter Provides Exceptional Ethernet Connectivity Performance
Optimized for Low-Power, Multi-Core CPUs, and Virtualized Server and
Storage Data Center Infrastructure:</b> Mellanox Technologies today
announced the immediate availability of ConnectX EN Dual-Port 10
Gigabit Ethernet adapter chips and NICs (Network Interface Cards)
which optimize data center productivity with leading throughput and
latency performance. Applications such as clustered databases, web
infrastructure and virtualized solutions that utilize ConnectX EN
deliver an enhanced user experience while reducing data center
infrastructure power and complexity as compared to multiple, slower
speed Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections. Because no
external memories or interface support devices are required, ConnectX
EN is the most integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter - ideal for low
power blade servers and volume LAN on Motherboard designs.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13781
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NCSA Embarks On Diverse Projects with 17 Fellows
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Eleven researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and six scholars for other institutions across the country will
receive fellowships enabling them to work closely with the expert
staff at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
These collaborative projects will tackle problems including improving
understanding of dangerous blood clots, designing of virtual worlds,
and developing the next-generation computers and applications that
will operate at the petascale.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13782
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HP Advance Enables Clusters to Visually Render Complex Data
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HP today announced a development that allows high-performance
computing customers to interactively render and visualize the huge
data sets created by complex simulations and models. By adding the HP
Parallel Compositing Library to its Scalable Visualization Array
offering, the company has tapped the inherent performance scalability
of clusters for network-based pixel compositing. The combined
technology will greatly enhance the visualization capabilities for
complex scientific and engineering applications such as seismic
analysis, engineering design and simulation, medical imaging, weather
models and animation that demand more performance than a single
graphics system can deliver.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13783
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Panasas' Len Rosenthal Speaks On the Plans to Open Source DirectFLOW
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By Chris O'Neal – Today Panasas announced plans to open source a key
component of its PanFS parallel file system, specifically the Panasas
DirectFLOW client software. Their goal is to advance the development
and encourage the adoption of an emerging standard known as parallel
NFS, or pNFS. We sat down with Chief Marketing Officer Len Rosenthal
to talk about the standard and why Panasas is making the move now to
open source some of its "family jewels."
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IBM Introduces Power6 Chip
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<b>Processor doubles speed without adding to energy 'footprint,'
enabling customers to reduce electricity consumption by almost half;
Enough bandwidth to download entire iTunes catalog in 60 seconds:</b>
IBM today simultaneously launched its new Power6 microprocessor and an
ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip's many
breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology.
The new server is the first ever to hold all four major benchmark
speed records for business and technical performance.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13785
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TACC Summer Supercomputing Institute
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas
at Austin will host a five-day Summer Supercomputing Institute from
Aug. 13-17. The Institute will provide researchers with an intensive
introduction to using TACC's computing resources, including high
performance computing (HPC) systems, visualization systems and
advanced display environments, massive storage systems, and grid
computing technologies.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13786
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Evergrid Secures $10 Million in Private Funding
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<b>Menlo Ventures and Acartha Group Invest in Management Software for
Next Generation Global Data Centers:</b> Evergrid, a provider of
global resource management software for next generation data centers,
today announced that it has secured $10 million in a Series B funding
round led by top-tier venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. Also
participating in the new funding is current investor Acartha Group
LLC.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13787
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Three Wishes for a Future Internet? GENI Project Will Be at Your Command
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<b>NSF awards tech firm BBN Technologies funds to establish GENI
project office:</b> If the proverbial genie gave Internet users three
wishes for an improved network what would they ask for? Peace of mind
about secure financial transactions? Protection from hackers?
Inventive new applications that improve the quality of life?
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13788
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Sun Microsystems Expands Leading Storage Virtualization
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<b>Sun StorageTek 9990V Enterprise Storage System Complements the
Solaris Operating System (OS), Affirms Ongoing Relationship with
Hitachi Data Systems:</b> Sun Microsystems today announced the
expansion of its leading storage virtualization portfolio with the
introduction of the Sun StorageTek 9990V Enterprise Storage System,
concurrent with its technology partner Hitachi Data Systems, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi. Today's announcement further
drives the development of the OpenSolaris storage community and is the
latest in a long and successful partnership between the two companies
that has yielded some of the industry's most important storage
technology breakthroughs to help enterprises solve complex data
management challenges.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13789
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Airbus Selects Dassault Systèmes' SIMULIA Realistic Simulation Solutions
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<b>Abaqus Finite Element Analysis Software Chosen as Preferred
Solution for Nonlinear FEA of Aircraft Structures:</b> Dassault
Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM) solutions, today announced that Airbus has adopted the Abaqus
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA, the Dassault
Systèmes brand for realistic simulation, as its preferred solution for
static nonlinear FEA.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13790
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Michael C. Thurk Named to ANSYS Board of Directors
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ANSYS, a global innovator of simulation software and technologies
designed to optimize product development processes, today announced
that its board of directors has elected Michael C. Thurk, Chief
Operating Officer of Avaya Inc., to the ANSYS board. He also has been
appointed to the Audit Committee.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13791
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Woven Systems Demonstrates 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch at Interop 2007
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<b>EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch Delivers Breakthrough Performance,
Scalability, and Lowest Power Consumption at 1/5 the Price of
Alternative Switch Solutions:</b> Woven Systems today announced that
it will be demonstrating its flagship product -- the EFX 1000, 10
Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Fabric Switch -- at Interop 2007 Las Vegas: IT
Conference and Exposition (booth 2449). The EFX 1000 switch, based on
Woven's patented vSCALE technology, delivers highly scalable 10 GE
performance for server clustering and storage applications at 1/5 the
price point of alternative switch offerings.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13792
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Emulex Gains Market Share
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Emulex Corporation today announced that it has achieved market share
gains in its sale of Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBA) and
blade server HBA ports and in overall revenue market share, according
to Dell'Oro Group's first quarter SAN Infrastructure market analysis
report. Emulex has gained nearly five percentage points of FC HBA and
blade server HBA ports over the last year and has gained three
percentage points of revenue market share for the first quarter of
2007 over the same period last year. In addition, Emulex has more than
tripled its FC mezzanine card port market share during just the last
two quarters and now has over 15 percent market share.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13793
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University of Sunderland Leads the Way in Greener Grid Computing
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One of world's first environmentally friendly grid computers has been
designed by experts at the University of Sunderland, UK. The new
computer system will not only offer the processing power of a
multi-million pound computer at an affordable price to small
businesses, but will do so without damaging the environment.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13794
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Xen 3.1 Delivers Advanced Enterprise Virtualization Features
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<b>New Release Includes Full Support for 32 and 64 Bit Guests, SMP for
Windows and an Advanced Management API:</b> XenSource today announced
the release of Xen 3.1. The latest release of the Xen hypervisor
delivers features to support the most demanding enterprise
virtualization use cases, and open, standards-based management
interfaces for the ISV ecosystem.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13795
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'Not so fast, supercomputers,' say software programmers
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The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national
research centers, research universities and major corporations - will
soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore
computing. Despite the promise of almost unimagined computing power,
however, even computing experts wonder whether this time the hardware
developers have raced too far ahead of many programmers' ability to
create software.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13796
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HP Maintains No. 1 in the High-Performance Computing Market
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Marking its 20th consecutive quarter of server shipment leadership, HP
once again was No. 1 in total server units shipped, according to first
calendar quarter 2007 server market figures released today by industry
analyst firm IDC. In the high-performance computing market, HP
maintained its No. 1 spot for the first quarter of calendar year 2007
with 33.7 percent revenue share. While high-performance computing
industry revenue declined 4.7 percent quarter-over-quarter, HP
experienced 3.7 percent growth quarter-to-quarter.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13797
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ISC '07 Draws Record Number of Exhibitors
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<b>Advance registration for Europe's premier Supercomputing conference
ends May 26:</b> As many as 90 exhibitors representing industry,
universities and research centers from Europe, Asia, and North America
are expected to fill the Congress Center in Dresden when the 2007
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '07) convenes June 26 -
29.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13798
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Internet2, ProCurve Networking by HP collaborate on new Internet2 Observatory
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Internet2 announced it is collaborating with ProCurve Networking by HP
to upgrade the Internet2 Observatory, which provides real-time data
and insight into the Internet2 advanced multi-layer optical and
Internet Protocol (IP) research network.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13799
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CCT Hosts Electronic Visualization Laboratory Director for Distinguished Lecture
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The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will host
Professor Jason Leigh for a Distinguished Lecture Series on “Emerging
>From The CAVE: Advanced Visualization And Collaboration Research At
The Electronic Visualization Laboratory” on Thursday, May 24, at 2
p.m. in the Life Sciences Annex Room A101.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13800
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Atkins to Speak at TeraGrid '07
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The second annual TeraGrid conference, being held June 4-8 in Madison,
Wisconsin, will provide the scientific community with opportunities
for knowledge sharing, collaboration and technologies to enable
scientific discovery using the resources of the TeraGrid. Registration
is underway at <a
href="http://www.teragrid.org/events/teragrid07">www.teragrid.org/events/teragrid07</a>.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13801
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Chelsio Delivers Unified Wire for Gigabit Ethernet
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<b>Broad Family Enables Fabric Unification With Highest Transaction
Rate in Industry; Chelsio Also Establishes New Industry Price Points
for 10Gb Ethernet:</b> Chelsio Communications today announced a new
family of Unified Wire Adapters targeted at the massive installed base
of Gigabit Ethernet networking infrastructure. Chelsio's Unified Wire
Adapters enable the convergence of storage, clustering and server
networking applications onto a single unified fabric.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13802
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Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Targets More Interactive Research with SGI
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<b>Mounting Demand for More Processors Prompts World-Class Facility to
Upgrade Infrastructure with 2,048-Core SGI Altix XE Cluster:</b> On
any given day, hundreds of researchers may vie for access to the
computing systems housed at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation. Even with
some 2,000 processors at its disposal, the institute has sometimes
struggled to keep up with growing demand.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13803
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Supercomputing Now a Reality for SA Researchers
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South African researchers now have the advantage of using massive
computing power in their quest for new knowledge and application. The
Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is the first of its kind
in South Africa. Initiated by the Department of Science and Technology
(DST), hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT) and managed by the
Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR), the CHPC is making scientific 'supercomputing' a reality for
South Africa.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13804
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Sun Gains Market Share for Fifth Straight Quarter
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<b>Sun is the Top Unix Server Vendor as Solaris Momentum
Continues:</b> Sun Microsystems saw its year-to-year total server
revenue market share grow for the fifth straight quarter in Q107,
according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, which was
released today.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13805
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IBM, Universities Expand Grid Computing Partnership
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IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA),
announced today a major expansion of a partnership focused on
developing SURAgrid, a high performance grid computing infrastructure
for the southeastern US research and education community.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13806
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EU Extends Financing for RedCLARA Network
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Latin American scientists and researchers have for quite some time
been forging sound partnerships with their international peers,
including Europeans. The RedCLARA network, established through the
ALICE Project and coordinated by DANTE, is a fine example, as it is
intensifying its role to develop a strong foundation and expand its
activities. A nod from the European Union to extend funding for
RedCLARA until March 2008, further proves the significance of the
network.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13807
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KeyEye Plans for new develop of 10GbASE-T Copper Modules
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KeyEye Communications has an agreement to jointly develop the
industry's first 10GbE copper MSA pluggable modules compatible with
the short-reach, low-power mode of the IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T
standard. These new devices will allow data centers to dramatically
reduce cost and power consumption in a growing array of 10Gb servers
and switches.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13808
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United Devices’ Insight 4.0 Fuels Data Center Automation
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United Devices today announced general availability for the latest
version of Insight, an application-centric analysis and reporting
product that leverages real-time capacity and utilization information
to optimize application performance across data center
infrastructure.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13809
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