Atrato Names Dr. Sam Siewert CTO

Dec 11, 2008 | Atrato, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Sam Siewert as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Dr. Siewert joined Atrato in 2005 and previously held the position of Principal Software Architect.
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A*Star Intros 13 Technologies at Siggraph 2008

Dec 11, 2008 | The Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) will be introducing 13 new technologies in areas of 3D graphics and animation, intuitive human-computer interaction technologies and neural signal processing, at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.
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SDSC Director Offers Tips on Data Preservation

Dec 11, 2008 | In the December 2008 edition of Communications of the ACM, the monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, provides a guide for surviving what has become known as the "data deluge."
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Digipede, Lockheed Martin Partner on Geospatial Applications

Dec 10, 2008 | Digipede Technologies, provider of distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform, announced that Lockheed Martin a global security company, has grid-enabled its TOPSCENE mission rehearsal applications using the Digipede Network.
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SFI Welcomes the Establishment of IBM 'Collaboratory'

Dec 10, 2008 | SFI welcomes the recent decision by IBM to establish a "collaboratory" with Irish Higher Education Institutions, in which IBM researchers will share skills and resources with university researchers to develop knowledge and skills relating to exascale stream computing.
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Wolfram Releases Free Mathematica Player 7

Dec 10, 2008 | Wolfram Research announced the release of Mathematica Player 7, a free download that allows anyone anywhere to interact with dynamic documents and applications using new Mathematica technology.
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18th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop: Call for Papers

Dec 10, 2008 | The 18th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2009) has issued a Call for Papers.
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ESI Group Announces CFD-ACE+ V2009.0

Dec 10, 2008 | ESI Group, a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes, announced the release of CFD-ACE+ V2009.0.
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NCSA Resources Available to Illinois Humanities Researchers

Dec 10, 2008 | The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in collaboration with the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) will provide 1 million hours of time on NCSA's supercomputers to researchers who are pushing the boundaries of humanities, arts and social science knowledge discovery.
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GSI Utilizes Foundry to Power Particle Accelerator

Dec 10, 2008 | Foundry Networks announced the German-based Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) has selected its high-performance computing networking solution for its a uncompromised performance, efficiency and value.
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SC08 Education Committee Announces Education Award Winners

Dec 10, 2008 | Educators and students from Ohio, Oregon, Maryland, Illinois, Iowa and New Jersey were honored at the recent SC08 conference for their outstanding accomplishments in computational science among undergraduate faculty, K-12 teachers and students at all levels.
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Fusion-io ioDrive Achieves IBM ServerProven Designation

Dec 10, 2008 | Fusion-io announced that its ioDrive has become the first solid-state storage solution to achieve IBM ServerProven designation.
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Fujitsu Receives Supercomputer Order from Riken

Dec 10, 2008 | Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has received an order from Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as Riken, for a new supercomputer system with a peak theoretical performance of 108 teraflops, approximately 9 times the performance of the existing system.
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DICE Group Announces iRODS Version 2.0

Dec 10, 2008 | The Data-Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group has announced the release of version 2.0 of iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System.
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Sun Launches Latest Version of OpenSolaris

Dec 10, 2008 | Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the global OpenSolaris community announced today the immediate availability of OpenSolaris 2008.11.
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EDUCAUSE, Internet2 Join U.S. Broadband Coalition

Dec 10, 2008 | EDUCAUSE and Internet2 announced that they have joined the U.S. Broadband Coalition.
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Altair Announces Web site for RADIOSS Users

Dec 09, 2008 | Altair announced today a new Web site that allows Altair hardware partners and RADIOSS users to download and run four separate typical RADIOSS models, and then post the results on the Web site, making them available for customers to view.
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Physics Team Sets Data-Transfer World Records

Dec 09, 2008 | Building on seven years of record-breaking developments, an international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) -- with partners from Michigan, Florida, Tennessee, Fermilab, Brookhaven, CERN, Brazil, Pakistan, Korea, and Estonia -- set new records for sustained data transfer among storage systems during SC08.
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Sun Upgrades Sun Fire x64 Servers

Dec 09, 2008 | Sun Microsystems has announced an enhanced line of Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade systems that deliver up to 35 percent better performance over previous generations.
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Caringo Announces CAStor Content File Server

Dec 09, 2008 | Caringo has announced the CAStor Content File Server (CFS), which provides standard file system access to CAStor content storage that can start at small capacities and scale out to meet the rampant growth of file-based data.
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Fixstars, Mitsubishi Research Develop Inventory Data Monitoring System

Dec 09, 2008 | Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) and Fixstars have cooperatively developed an inventory data monitoring system utilizing the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) for asset-based lending (ABL).
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Carnegie Mellon Student Team Excels in Supercomputing Contest

Dec 09, 2008 | Competing against four other teams, a team from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh took top honors in the SC08 Student Competition Program held in November at the SC08 Conference.
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SGI Receives NASDAQ Delisting Notification

Dec 09, 2008 | Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) announced that it received a notification letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market on December 2, 2008, indicating that, for 10 consecutive trading days preceding the date of the letter, the market value of the SGI's listed securities had been below the minimum $35 million requirement for continued inclusion on The Nasdaq Stock Market pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(3)(B) (the "Market Value of Listed Securities Requirement").
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Glimmerglass Adds SNMP Functionality to Optical Switches

Dec 09, 2008 | Glimmerglass has announced availability of SNMP trap reporting in all of its photonic switching products.
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Benchmark Electronics Teams w/ SGI and NASA

Dec 09, 2008 | Benchmark Electronics announced that, through a strategic alliance with Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), it helped create the computer system for which NASA achieved the ranking of third fastest supercomputer in the world.
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