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University of Surrey Speeds-Up Research with Supercomputer
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The Department of Computing at the University of Surrey in the UK will
use a High Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC) to advance research in
areas such as multimedia security; complex, intelligent and adaptive
systems and applications for the financial services industry.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13810
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HP Expands HPC Offering with InfiniBand Solutions from Cisco
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HP today announced two agreements with Cisco that target the
fast-growing market of high-performance computing with HP hardware and
Cisco's InfiniBand solutions. First, HP will offer Cisco double data
rate (DDR) InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switches (SFS) as part of
HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio. Additionally, HP BladeSystem c-Class
servers are now supported with Cisco's standards-based InfiniBand host
driver software.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13811
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The Need for Increased Bandwidth & Capacity Will Drive InfiniBand Adoption
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The need to handle expanding server and storage workloads and provide
critical business services beyond traditional interconnect
capabilities is driving IT executives to seriously examine their
existing network environments and the future viability of InfiniBand
adoption. According to new research from IDC, high-performance
computing (HPC), scale-out database environments, shared virtualized
I/O, and increasing demands from financial applications will propel
worldwide InfiniBand host channel adaptor (HCA) factory revenues from
$62.3 million in 2006 to $224.7 million in 2011. Additionally, factory
revenue from InfiniBand switch port sales is expected to grow from
$94.9 million in 2006 to $612.2 million in 2011.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13812
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Volvo Group Standardizes on MD Nastran
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<b>Integrated multidiscipline simulation technology delivers for
Europe's leading truck producer.</b> MSC.Software has announced that
Volvo 3P, the design and development holding for the Volvo Trucks
companies, will standardize their simulation processes on
MSC.Software's multidiscipline solution, MD Nastran. Delivering the
most comprehensive set of simulation and analysis capability available
anywhere, MD Nastran, the underlying solver technology of
MSC.Software's SimEnterprise solution environment, offers a true
multidiscipline simulation in a fully-integrated, single data model
system. Volvo 3P (Product Development, Purchasing, and Product
Planning) is the common development company for the Volvo truck brands
Volvo, Renault, and Mack, and as part of the overall Volvo Group, has
interest in truck design quality, safety and environmental impact.
Widening European markets are driving high and rapidly changing demand
for heavy commercial vehicles, and the pressure for technological
innovation is driving Volvo 3P to replace existing truck
configurations with ultra-modern and newly competitive designs.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13814
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Internet2, Microsoft Collaborate to Develop Interoperability of Authentication
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<b>Shibboleth Project to Develop Interoperability with Microsoft's
Windows CardSpace:</b> Internet2 today announced its plans to develop
new extensions to Shibboleth to support Microsoft's Windows CardSpace
and other compatible identity selectors. Adding information card
support to Shibboleth, the most widely-deployed federated
authentication architecture, would enable interoperability with
Windows CardSpace which provides critical support for secure
user-centric authentication and identity information exchange for
web-based applications. By enabling this interoperability, Microsoft
and Internet2 aim to help users exchange personal identity information
more safely and easily. In doing so, institutions can more effectively
leverage their existing and future investments in their identity
management solutions and build a closer, safer relationship with their
users.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13815
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Alinghi Teams Up with Swiss DALCO to Double Supercomputing Power
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Swiss DALCO, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of high-performance
computing solutions, has doubled the computer power for Alinghi,
Defender of the 32nd America's Cup. The Supercomputer was designed and
custom-built by DALCO to meet Alinghi's demand for increased computer
power to best evaluate the latest design developments, to simulate
their effects and to adapt and integrate them as fast as possible
during this critical phase of the competition.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13816
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Supercomputer to Support Climate Change Scientists in Queensland
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A new state-of-the-art "super-computer" is being purchased to support
the work of climate change scientists in Queensland, Australia,
Premier Peter Beattie and Natural Resources Minister Craig Wallace
announced. Speaking at the Natural Resources Conference on Climate
Change in Brisbane, Mr Beattie said the new computer would replace the
existing high-performance computer system, which is no longer up to
the job ahead. "We have allocated some $3 million towards the cost of
replacing the existing technology located at the Queensland Climate
Change Centre of Excellence at Indooroopilly," Mr Beattie said.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13817
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A Mighty Number Falls
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<b>Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And an
international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive
feat of calculation.</b> On March 6, computer clusters from three
institutions – the EPFL, the University of Bonn and NTT in Japan --
reached the end of eleven months of strenuous calculation, churning
out the prime factors of a well-known, hard-to-factor number that is a
whopping 307 digits long.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13818
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European Grid Technology Project Banks On Open Source
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As Europe pursues its goal of becoming the most competitive and
dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, it is seeking to develop
the infrastructure needed to power the next generation of Grid
technologies.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13820
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HP Names New Head of Storage Business
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HP today announced the appointment of David E. Roberson to senior vice
president and general manager of the company’s enterprise storage
business, effective May 30.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13821
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eXludus Offers Free Trials Of Grid Optimization Software
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eXludus Technologies today announced that it is offering free 30-day
trials of its new Grid Optimizer software, which is designed to be
used with popular cluster workload managers including OpenPBS, PBS Pro
and Torque. The free downloads for the Job Array edition of <a
href="http://www.exludus.com/download.php">Grid Optimizer</a> are
available for up to 32 cluster nodes.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13822
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Mercury Computer Systems Names Terry Ryan to Senior Management Team
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Mercury Computer Systems named Terry M. Ryan as Senior Vice President
and General Manager of the Federal Government Businesses for Mercury.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13824
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Cluster Allows University Lab to Cut Costs, Time & Errors in Research
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Leading edge research requires the latest technology, and nowhere is
this more evident than at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta,
Canada. A cluster of lightening-fast Dell machines compute over five
trillion complex mathematical operations a second - calculations that
are taking chemical research to a new level.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13826
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Electronic Visualization Laboratory Director Discusses Advanced Techniques
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Sight is a person’s primary sense, and one-third of a person’s
brainpower is spent processing visual images. Therefore, visualization
is becoming a primary means for scientists and researchers to explore
new territory and show new concepts to the general public.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13830
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Mainframe Migration Alliance Passes 100-Member Milestone
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<b>As organizations migrate from mainframes, Windows solution
ecosystem flourishes.</b> The Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) today
announced that over 100 organizations have joined since its founding.
The MMA originated in 2004 as a response to the need for education and
coordinated alternatives to legacy systems. Organizations now face
rapidly evolving business and technical challenges, which legacy
systems were not designed to handle. As the relative strengths of
legacy systems diminish compared with the innovation of newer
platforms, organizations that belong to the MMA offer the expertise
and knowledge to modernize their infrastructure and generate value.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13831
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Award-Winning Digital Preservation Prototype Extended to West Virginia
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The Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype (TPAP), a testbed
for preserving electronic records collections from the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that must be maintained for
"the life of the Republic," has announced the addition of a sixth
partner site at the U.S. Navy's Allegany Ballistics Laboratory near
Keyser, West Virginia. The TPAP project, whose sites nationwide are
linked by data preservation technology developed by the San Diego
Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, is addressing key challenges in
safeguarding, preserving, and providing access to authentic electronic
records as the nation’s information becomes increasingly digital.
Along with SDSC in San Diego, the six project sites include two NARA
sites in or near the nation's capital, the University of Maryland,
Georgia Tech, and the new site in West Virginia. A key aspect of the
Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype is the collaborative
nature of the research.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13832
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Altair Engineering Unveils Breakthrough On-Demand Computing Business Model
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<b>New Software Strategy is First to Tackle Challenges of Multi-Core
Licensing, Enabling Broader Adoption of Grid, Utility and On-Demand
Computing:</b> Altair Engineering unveiled today its new software
business model to enable the first on-demand computing software
environment that tackles the challenges of multi-core processor
licensing. In response to industry changes, Altair's innovative and
patented software licensing model for PBS Professional allows users to
only pay for what they use, thus powering a pure on-demand computing
environment.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13833
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IC Source Swaps HDDs for RamSan SSD to Keep Records Up to Date
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<b>After hard drive RAID system fails to deliver needed performance,
electronic component clearinghouse IC Source, turns to Texas Memory
Systems' RamSan solid state disks to keep 40 million SQL Server
database records and 3,000 customers up to date.</b> Texas Memory
Systems announced that IC Source, a major clearinghouse for electronic
components, has accelerated its SQL Server database with a RamSan
solid state disk to give over 3,000 customers instant access to 40
million inventory records.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13835
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ISC '07 Offers Visitor Passes to Europe's Most Prestigious Supercomputing Event
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The 2007 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '07) will offer
two types of visitor passes, giving the public the chance to view
Europe's largest exhibition of innovations in supercomputing, advanced
networking, and data, visualization and storage technologies.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13836
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DOE Launches First Segment of its Next-Generation Nationwide Network
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and Internet2
announced today that the first segment of a next-generation,
nationwide network has gone live, marking a key step in significantly
upgrading networking services to thousands of scientific researchers
across the country and around the world. The first complete national
ring of DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet4) will be rolled out
segment by segment from the east coast to the west coast and is
expected to be fully operational by September, 2007.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13837
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Woes for 3 DOE Programs, Report Finds
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Nuclear weapons, while simple in principle, are technically complex
devices with a multitude of components. As with any complicated piece
of equipment, there may be concern that, over time, a weapon’s
reliability could decline. To coordinate efforts to maintain the
nation's existing nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy developed
a Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP). A recently released Federation
of American Scientists Occasional Paper, The Stockpile Stewardship
Program: Fifteen Years On, by FAS analysts Anne Fitzpatrick and Ivan
Oelrich, reviews the status of the experimental devices that support
the SSP, describes how each experiment is supposed to work, and
identifies the problems that have been encountered.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13838
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Registration now open for RSSI'07
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Registration is now open for the 2007 Reconfigurable Systems Summer
Institute (RSSI'07), which will be held July 18-20 at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the Urbana-Champaign
campus of the University of Illinois.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13845
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International Affiliates Visit NCSA to Discuss Collaborative Projects
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Representatives from NCSA's international affiliate institutions in
Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Korea, South Africa and Taiwan will visit
the center June 6 to 8 to discuss potential collaborative projects.
NCSA's International Affiliates Program promotes relationships with
organizations outside the United States that share the center's
interests in high-performance computing, networking, and storage;
visualization and data analysis; virtual organizations and
cyberenvironments; education and training for the next-generation of
researchers; and other computing and information technology topics.
The program provides opportunities for sharing information, joint
initiatives, and staff exchanges.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13844
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Platform Announces Symphony 3.1 Update Doubling Application Scalability
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Platform Computing today announced an update to its Symphony 3.1
software, a high performance, low overhead, high scalability solution
for grid computing in the financial services market. Symphony 3.1
allows customers to build a grid scalable up to 4,000 CPUs per
application while reducing latency and ensuring optimal utilization.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13839
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New Star-P for Python Makes Technical Computing Users More Productive
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<b>Seamlessly bridges Python desktops with powerful parallel
supercomputers:</b> Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) today
unveiled a new version of its Star-P software designed for users of
Python, an open source, high-level programming tool favored by
scientists, engineers and analysts. The new version of Star-P offers
huge productivity gains to the hundreds of thousands of Python users
worldwide who need to solve computationally intensive problems.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13840
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Consortium Proposed to Move N.Y. State to the Forefront of Computational Biology
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<b>Academic Leaders Seek Partnership with Industry at Life Sciences
Summit on June 14th, 2007.</b> Robert McGrath, Ph.D., Provost and Vice
President for Brookhaven Laboratory Affairs at Stony Brook University,
announced today a proposal by a consortium of major universities to
take a coordinated approach in the development and application of
computational sciences, especially computational biology, to make New
York a national leader in this rapidly emerging field. Computational
biology has the potential to vastly improve understanding of basic
biological processes and accelerate the discovery and development of
life saving drugs and diagnostics. The proposed consortium, which
currently includes Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Columbia University, New York University, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, University at Albany, University at Buffalo,
and Cornell University, will build upon major new supercomputing
systems installed at Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National
Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as the world
class technical expertise and resources that already exists at the
member institutions.
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Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13841
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CommVault & Bull Sign OEM Agreement
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<b>Relationship to Deliver Innovative Data Management Software to
Customers Looking for Alternatives to Proprietary Point Solutions:</b>
CommVault, a leading provider of Unified Data Management solutions and
Bull today announced the signing of a multi-year original equipment
manufacturing (OEM) agreement that will enable Bull to market and sell
Bull-branded versions of CommVault’s full suite of data management
software through its channels worldwide. Bull’s objective is to offer
a complete data management solution to customers with a single
interface to deploy and support the solution across heterogeneous
enterprise environments. The addition of CommVault software products,
which will be sold by Bull under the Calypso name, will also round out
Bull’s StoreWay line of storage offerings already popular among IT
enterprises in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13842
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Ethernet Alliance & Open Grid Forum Embrace Next Generation Data Center
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<b>Each to sponsor pavilions promoting the expansion of Ethernet and
adoption of Grid technology:</b> Next Generation Data Center (NGDC)
has announced that the Ethernet Alliance and Open Grid Forum (OGF)
have both signed on as sponsors. The networking and grid technology
focuses of the event will be further strengthened by the addition of
the Ethernet Pavilion, sponsored by the Ethernet Alliance, and the
Grid Pavilion, sponsored by the Open Grid Forum. NGDC is scheduled to
debut August 6-9, 2007, at the Moscone Convention Center, San
Francisco, CA. NGDC focuses on new technologies and their impact on
the data center, covering mission-critical applications and the
technology supporting those applications including storage, servers,
networking and communications.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13843
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Linux Networx Announces Enhanced Visualization Supersystem
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<b>Second Generation High Performance Visualization System Delivers
Greater Visualization Capability, Productivity, and Integration:</b>
Linux Networx today announces the immediate availability of its second
generation LS-V High Performance Visualization System, providing the
ability to render very large simulations in real time and delivering
insightful results quicker and more efficiently than ever before. The
enhanced LS-V delivers a system experience that uniquely balances ease
of use with compute, interconnect, high performance I/O, and
visualization based upon real-world, proven high-performance computing
(HPC) expertise.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13825
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Liquid Computing Demonstrates World Leading Results for STREAM Benchmark
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Liquid Computing Inc., a developer of a new class of scalable
computing system, announced today that its LiquidIQ server has
demonstrated world leading results for the STREAM Benchmark for 4
socket Second-Generation AMD Opteron processor-based servers. Using
the latest AMD Opteron processors Model 8220 from AMD, LiquidIQ's
Compute Modules can provide more than 20,000 Megabytes per second on
all of the STREAM Benchmark Bandwidth measurements, which exceeds the
best posted industry results.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13827
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CD-adapco Adopts PGI Unified Binary From The Portland Group
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<b>STAR-CD, built with PGI compilers, delivers optimum performance
across multiple x64 platforms:</b> The Portland Group, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and leading supplier of compilers for
high-performance computing (HPC), today announced that CD- adapco, a
world leader in full-spectrum flow, thermal, and stress simulation
software, is building the latest version of their flagship product
STAR-CD 4.0 using PGI Unified Binary technology.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13813
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Celoxica Quantifies Benefits of Accelerated Computing Vision
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<b>Seismic Algorithm Benchmarks and ROI Analysis Prove Value of the
Software, Hardware and Interconnect Technology Delivered in Celoxica
FPGA Co-Processing Solutions:</b> At the AMD Torrenza Initiative
seminar this week, Celoxica presented results of an oil-exploration
algorithm customer benchmark, achieving 28x performance improvement on
a forward wave migration algorithm. In addition, Celoxica presented a
financial analysis that showed a consistent 10x return on capital
invested on FPGA-enabled servers, and a 50% increase in return on
investment by adding one FPGA acceleration card to each server.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13819
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Xilinx Simplifies Memory Interface Designs With New Complete FPGA Solutions
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<b>Built-in features, easy-to-use software, free reference designs and
development kits enable users to quickly implement FPGA-based memory
interfaces with good design margin:</b> Xilinx today announced
immediate availability of its low cost Spartan-3A FPGA development kit
for DDR2 SDRAM interfaces, the Virtex-5 FPGA development platform
(ML-561) for multiple high-performance memory interfaces (I/Fs), and
the memory interface generator (MIG) software version 1.7. These
complete solutions enable FPGA users to quickly implement and verify
custom memory interface designs across various data rates and bus
widths thus accelerating time-to-market.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13823
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Brocade Increases Enterprise Data Center Efficiencies
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<b>New Brocade Capabilities Improve Performance, Security, and Data
Management:</b> Brocade today announced a wide range of new product
and service enhancements that enable greater efficiencies in
enterprise data centers and branch offices. The new capabilities
address customer challenges in the areas of performance, data
protection, and virtualization, and span the company's Storage Area
Network (SAN), File Area Network (FAN), and Professional Services
offerings.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13828
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MSC.Software Partners With AlphaSTAR
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<b>GENOA Software Enhances Accuracy of Non-Linear Composite Analysis
for Manufacturers in Aerospace and Automotive Industries:</b>
MSC.Software today announced that it has expanded its partnership with
AlphaSTAR Corporation (ASC) a leading provider of advanced engineering
analysis services and of specialized software for the analysis of
complex engineering material systems. Through this agreement,
MSC.Software will enable select capabilities from ASC's flagship
product, GENOA, to work as an optional module in the next release of
MSC.Software's leading multidiscipline simulation software -- MD
Nastran. Manufacturers in the aerospace and automotive industries
will now have access to a single, integrated solution that can improve
the accuracy of mission critical progressive failure analysis, thereby
enhancing quality and safety of next generation products.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13829
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