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Weather and climate leaders urge Washington to better protect US
Thursday, Aug 21 @ 08:38 EDT
Eight leading professional organizations in the field of weather and climate yesterday called on the next administration and Congress to better protect the United States from severe weather and climate change. They issued five recommendations to reverse declining budgets and provide needed tools, information, and leadership to decision makers. The recommendations and supporting information have been provided to the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama.
DOE's ESnet names Steve Cotter to head network serving scientists worldwide
Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 15:12 EDT
Steve Cotter, who has 10 years of experience in designing and deploying research and commercial networks at the national and international scale, has been named as the new head of ESnet, the Department of Energy's high-speed network supporting science around the world.
Brazilian university powers up SGI technology for increased oil & gas production
Tuesday, Aug 19 @ 09:01 EDT
Second largest supercomputer in any Brazilian university enables new models to improve production efficiency: To find new ways to solve complex multiphase flow problems in petroleum and gas resource exploration, the Federal University of Santa Catarina employs high-performance computing technology from SGI. With 512 processors, the SGI Altix ICE system in Brazil is the second largest supercomputer in any Brazilian university and the sixth largest supercomputer system in use throughout the country.
- SGI Altix ICE speeds computational results from two weeks to one or two days
- Features a total of 512 Intel Xeon processor cores and a NAS with 16 Terabytes (TB) of memory
- Expanded, more realistic multiphase flow models will increase oil and gas recovery efforts worldwide
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Mechdyne installs visualization systems for aerospace, defense supplier
Thursday, Aug 21 @ 09:35 EDT
Baltimore simulation center built for ATK includes 8 MegaPixel 3D visualization theater and team collaboration rooms: Mechdyne Corporation has announced that it has completed a multi-room computer simulation and visualization center for Alliant Techsystems, a premier advanced weapon and space systems company. The Simulation Center, installed at ATK's Mission Systems headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, features a 40-seat immersive visualization theater with an 8 megapixel (MP) projection system, two team collaboration rooms with stereoscopic display capability and a conference room with high definition (HD)-quality viewing.
Preferred Hotel Group chooses Terremark's Enterprise Cloud
Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 13:24 EDT
By Tyler O'Neal -- Terremark's Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing Platform to Provide Disaster Recovery Infrastructure for Global Hotel Company's Mission-Critical Applications: Terremark Worldwide today announced Preferred Hotel Group as a customer on The Enterprise Cloud. Preferred Hotel Group, a global leader in the hospitality industry, will leverage Terremark's Enterprise Cloud services to meet the disaster recovery needs of its mission-critical applications, including its online reservation system.
IBM commits $300 million to expand business continuity, resiliency services
Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 13:20 EDT
13 new delivery centers around the globe to keep businesses safe: Provide business continuity and recovery in cloud setting: IBM today announced it is investing US$300 million to construct 13 Business Resilience service delivery centers in 10 countries in 2008, increasing its ability to address surging demand from businesses and governments from around the world seeking to keep their operations safe from disruption. The massive infrastructure expansion is the largest of its kind and will permit IBM clients to access services that support business continuity for the first time from a cloud computing environment.
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Government News
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NSF announces Expeditions in Computing Awards
Tuesday, Aug 19 @ 09:36 EDT
New initiative provides substantial funding to pursue ambitious, fundamental research to define future of computing and information: The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established four new Expeditions in Computing. Each of these $10 million grants will allow teams of researchers and educators to pursue far-reaching research agendas that promise significant advances in the computing frontier and great benefit to society.
Voltaire switches drive world's most power-efficient supercomputers
Tuesday, Aug 19 @ 09:17 EDT
Voltaire solutions accelerate No. 1 and No. 3 supercomputers on Green500 list, underscoring the performance & power efficiency of InfiniBand: The high performance and power efficiency of Voltaire Ltd’s switching solutions are connecting the world’s most energy efficient supercomputers, according to the new Green500 list. Voltaire Grid Director InfiniBand switches are powering the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputer at IBM Boeblingen Lab and the world’s fastest Los Alamos Laboratory petaflops supercomputer, which took the No. 3 position for energy performance.
Supercomputer for cutting edge R&D available to New York State
Thursday, Aug 14 @ 08:38 EDT
New York State will award 150 million CPU hours to industry, academia and government organizations on one of the world’s most powerful computers: The New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer and Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) and the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) today announced that public and private researchers and businesses in New York State have nearly 150 million CPU hours on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Businesses, universities and state agencies can apply for time on the supercomputer located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI).
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Academia News
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Rutgers sharing $10M grant for advanced computer science research
Thursday, Aug 21 @ 11:07 EDT
Princeton-led group chosen by National Science Foundation to unlock secrets of complex computational problems: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $10 million grant for innovative computer science and engineering research to a group of institutions that includes Rutgers University.
New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision
Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 15:40 EDT
Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer hard drives.
'Dream team' to tackle profound questions in computer science
Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 14:03 EDT
New $10 million NSF award for Princeton-led research: Princeton University is the lead institution for a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant that will fund research on "intractability" – a concept that has profound implications for a broad range of fields, from e-commerce to quantum computing.
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Financials and Personnel
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QLogic gains HBA market share for fifth consecutive quarter
Tuesday, Aug 19 @ 10:45 EDT
QLogic widens double digit lead in revenue and port share: QLogic today announced that QLogic once again ranked number one in every category of storage area network (SAN) host bus adapter (HBA) revenue and port market share, according to new data from the Dell'Oro Group Q2 2008 SAN Report. Dell'Oro reports that QLogic gained in overall revenue market share versus its primary competitor for the fifth consecutive quarter achieving 55 percent market share in overall ports and 53 percent of revenue share with a gain of 3.1 percentage points over the previous quarter. This increased the company's revenue lead over its nearest competitor to 15 percentage points and port share lead to 17 percentage points for the quarter. In addition, Dell'Oro Group has begun to record market data for 8Gb Fibre Channel; QLogic is the only company to show shipments for the second calendar quarter 2008.
Egenera strengthens West Coast presence
Friday, Aug 15 @ 12:46 EDT
Egenera today announced the opening of its new West Coast operations in Santa Clara, Calif. The Santa Clara headquarters will provide Egenera customers and partners with increased access to company resources, including sales and marketing, and business development.
Rackable Systems to divest RapidScale storage business
Thursday, Aug 14 @ 08:55 EDT
Rackable Systems today announced it intends to divest its RapidScale line of storage solutions. This business line includes patents, hardware assets, a development team and on-going business relationships. The RadipScale solution delivers high levels of performance while improving capacity and performance scalability, ease of data management and capacity utilization.
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Product News
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Amazon launches Amazon EBS
Thursday, Aug 21 @ 12:34 EDT
Amazon Web Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., today launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can be programmatically created, attached to Amazon EC2 instances, and if even more durability is desired, can be backed with a snapshot to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). To get started using Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS today, visit its Web site.
OptimaNumerics partners with NVIDIA to support NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform
Thursday, Aug 21 @ 08:50 EDT
OptimaNumerics today announces support for the NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform. “OptimaNumerics is excited to bring to market OptimaNumerics high performance numerical libraries to the NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform,” said Dr Kenneth Tan, founder and CEO of OptimaNumerics. “OptimaNumerics Libraries for NVIDIA Tesla will remove a key hurdle for software developers and end users to enable applications to run on NVIDIA GPUs without having to perform custom programming for standard numerical operations.”
Visual Numerics announces availability of PyIMSL
Wednesday, Aug 20 @ 08:56 EDT
New Python wrappers for the IMSL C library deliver powerful prototype to production numerical application development: Visual Numerics, a 37-year producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, announced the immediate availability of PyIMSL, a pre-built, fully-tested and documented collection of Python wrappers to the mathematical and statistical algorithms in the IMSL C Numerical Library. With PyIMSL, developers can use Python and the IMSL C Library for rapid prototyping of numerical applications. For production applications, they can then directly deploy the Python application into production or if they choose to rewrite the application in C/C++, use the same mathematical and statistical algorithms in both development environments. PyIMSL is unique in that developers get consistency between the algorithms used for prototyping as used for production, reducing the cost and time-to-market to move numerical applications from prototype to production.
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