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DataSynapse, Sophis Deliver Grid Solution

Dec 05, 2005 | DataSynapse will partner with Sophis to bundle an interface to its flagship GridServer software with Sophis RISQUE, a solution that enables portfolio and risk management across a broad range of OTC and listed market instruments, and is used globally by many of the powerhouses in derivatives and structured products trading.
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InforSense Customers Showcase ROI

Dec 05, 2005 | InforSense Ltd hosted customers, partners and investors at the company's London headquarters last week to hear how their flagship integrative analytics platform, InforSense KDE, is successfully providing new information-driven insights across a wide...
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Sun Builds Momentum for Sun Grid, Adds New Services

Dec 05, 2005 | Sun Microsystems in partnership with InTechnology Plc, a data management company headquartered in the United Kingdom, unveiled two new services for the upcoming Sun Grid Storage Utility: Sun Grid Remote Backup and Restore Service (RBR) and Sun Grid Remote File Vault (RFV).
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VMware Announces Workstation 5.5

Dec 05, 2005 | VMware Inc. announced the general availability of VMware Workstation 5.5, the newest release of its desktop virtualization software. VMware Workstation 5.5 has numerous new features and significant platform enhancements that provide unmatched flexibility for...
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Fortinet Releases New FortiAnalyzer Appliances

Dec 05, 2005 | Fortinet enhanced and expanded its security management functionality to provide comprehensive reporting, vulnerability scanning and other features that let IT organizations obtain increased visibility into their networks and address governmental regulatory compliance requirements. ...
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Infoblox, Lucent Announce IP Address Management Solution

Dec 05, 2005 | Infoblox Inc., a developer of infrastructure for identity-driven networks, and Lucent Technologies announced that the two companies have teamed to deliver a highly scalable, secure and easy-to-deploy IP address management...
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Navy Uses SGI Solutions

Dec 05, 2005 | Silicon Graphics announced that the Warhead Performance and Target Response Branch at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Indian Head, Md., has purchased SGI Altix server and SGI InfiniteStorage solutions to provide reliable quantitative...
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Latest Companies Pass SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing

Nov 28, 2005 | The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity and Web services standards, announced that products from IBM, NEC, NTT and RSA Security passed interoperability testing at Liberty's recent conformance event. These...
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IDC Forum to Explore How SOAs Bridge Business Objectives, IT

Nov 28, 2005 | IDC announced plans for the inaugural "IDC Service-Oriented Architecture Forum: Enabling IT and Business Alignment," to be held Jan. 25 in New York City. The forum will be dedicated to providing proven approaches for cutting costs, generating new business streams and driving dynamic business.
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Verari Announces Native InfiniBand Attached Storage Array

Nov 28, 2005 | Verari Systems announced the VS7000i native InfiniBand attached storage system. The VS7000i is based on the Verari Systems VS7000 controller technology sourced from Engenio Information Technology. The storage processors and four...
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Oracle Announces 10g Seminar Series for ISVs

Nov 28, 2005 | Responding to strong interest from independent software vendors (ISVs), Oracle announced a series of seminars on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g specifically tailored to the ISV community. Beginning in North...
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AMD to Introduce Quad-Core Processors in 2007

Nov 28, 2005 | According to AMD executives, the Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker is going to roll out a quad-core-capable processor family during 2007. The new core design will be similar to the core used by the...
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Super Network Supported Supercomputing 2005

Nov 28, 2005 | For the first time ever in a real-world environment, Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) and its strategic partners brought together more than one-half terabit per second (500 Gb per second)...
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Ohio Bank Handles Billions of Transactions on Oracle Grid

Nov 21, 2005 | Ohio Savings Bank is one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders. In 2004, the bank adopted an Oracle Database 10g Grid computing infrastructure to improve its information technology utilization and deliver a higher quality of service.
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Unify Announces Unify NXJ 11

Nov 21, 2005 | Unify Corp., a provider of business process automation solutions including specialty insurance risk management applications, announced the immediate availability of Unify NXJ 11. Unify's award-winning integrated application platform unifies people, processes and information for...
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3PAR Certifies QLogic SANbox Switches

Nov 21, 2005 | 3PAR announced that the QLogic SANbox 5200 (2 Gbps) and 5600 (4 Gbps) stackable switches have earned compatibility certification with 3PAR InServ Storage Servers. The certification of the QLogic SANbox switches, together with past...
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Moab Grid Suite Advances Resource Control

Nov 21, 2005 | Cluster Resources Inc. announced the release of Moab Grid Suite 4.5, its new Grid management solution that lets organizations consolidate management of multiple clusters to create usable, affordable Grids while maintaining local cluster...
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Internet2 Demos Optical Networking Firsts at SC'05

Nov 21, 2005 | For the first time, three radio telescopes distributed around the world will be connected via dynamically provisioned dedicated optical circuits for an electronic Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) observation. Internet2 announced this scientific and networking achievement...
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OptimaNuerics, eXludus to Boost Grid, Cluster ROI

Nov 21, 2005 | OptimaNumerics and eXludus Technologies announced a long-term agreement, effective immediately, to co-market eXludus' RepliCator software product and OptimaNumerics Libraries. The two complementary products enhance different aspects of workload performance.
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Absoft Announces HPC Development Kits for Parallel Apps

Nov 21, 2005 | Absoft Corp. announced at SC'05 in Seattle new additions to its family of High Performance Software Development Kits. The Absoft High Performance Computing Software Development Kits (HPC SDK) are complete...
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IBM Announces BladeCenter Solutions for Financial Industry

Nov 21, 2005 | IBM announced new solutions to allow financial services and banking customers to centralize operations and reduce overhead costs. The new IBM Systems Solutions for Branch Banking leverages IBM's growing ecosystem...
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Egenera Announces Solaris 10 for PAN Architecture

Nov 21, 2005 | Egenera Inc. announced that it has added support for the Solaris 10 operating system to its Egenera BladeFrame system. With this addition, the Egenera BladeFrame can dynamically and automatically deploy and...
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Forum XWall Integrated with CA's eTrust TransactionMinder

Nov 21, 2005 | Forum Systems announced that the Forum XWall Web Services Firewall is now integrated with CA's eTrust TransactionMinder. Forum XWall Web Services Firewall Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) security solution integrates market-leading Web services security policy enforcement...
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Terrascale Intros Fastest Clustered Storage Solution

Nov 21, 2005 | Terrascale Technologies will demonstrate its new Storage Brick hardware platform -- for the first time ever -- at Supercomputing 2005. Storage Bricks are data servers loaded...
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CA Delivers on EITM Vision with Service Availability

Nov 21, 2005 | CA introduced a Service Availability solution that helps IT organizations ensure the delivery of critical business services by unifying and simplifying the management of the complex, heterogeneous technology infrastructure that supports those services.Read more...

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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services

The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud

In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a unified programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

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