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SiCortex, Inc., a leading provider of energy-efficient, plug-in-anywhere high performance computers, today announced the appointment of Christopher Stone as president and chief executive officer. John Mucci, the founding CEO, will continue to serve on the SiCortex board of directors. "With nearly three decades of experience, half of which was focused on building technology businesses, Chris brings to SiCortex a wealth of expertise that is sure to translate technology differentiation into...
nCipher plc (LSE:NCH), a global leader in protecting critical enterprise data, and Nemonix(TM) Engineering, a provider of OpenVMS (Open Virtual Memory System) services, today announced a partnership in which Nemonix will sell and support nCipher's CryptoStor storage encryption appliance into organizations utilizing the OpenVMS platform. Today's security regulations and compliance mandates are driving the widespread deployment of encryption to protect sensitive information throughout the...
By Carol Park, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Jul. 12--The purchase of a $280,000 supercomputer has made UCR's Institute for Integrative Genome Biology more attractive to companies and researchers, a campus official said. Buying the computer was "required to stay current and competitive," Institute Director Natasha Raikhel said. "Now we can bring (in) large grants and do effective research." The Institute for Integrative Genome Biology was established in 2000 to pioneer...
The Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center will house a powerful new IBM supercomputer that will be used principally to support the oceanographic modeling and analysis needs of researchers at the Department of Defense. The supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, has a peak speed of 90 teraflops (90 trillion floating-point operations per second), making it one of the most powerful systems in the Department of Defense (DoD). The Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared...
The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) will house a powerful new IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer that will be used principally to support the oceanographic modeling and analysis needs of researchers at the Department of Defense. The supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, has a peak speed of 90 teraflops (90 trillion floating-point operations per second), making it one of the most powerful systems in the Department of Defense. The NAVO MSRC is one of four...
IBM has announced that Microsoft plans to implement IBM's iDataPlex system, a new category of server developed by IBM for internet-scale computing. IBM also introduced a new high performance computing option for iDataPlex, to bring supercomputing power to Cloud environments. iDataPlex helps relieve massive, sprawled out data centers that are pushing the limits of power and space available to them. Designed to increase compute density while decreasing energy consumption and associated data...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Microsoft is among the first clients to implement IBM's iDataPlex system -- a new category of server developed by IBM for Internet-scale computing. IBM also introduced today a new high performance computing (HPC) option for iDataPlex, to bring supercomputing power to Cloud environments. iDataPlex helps relieve massive, sprawled out data centers that are pushing the limits of power and space available to them. Designed to dramatically increase compute...
Appoints General Manager, Rolls out Reliance for Application Service Providers Univa UD Mary Bass, 512-299-2945 mary@univaud.com Logo: http://www.univaud.com/ Univa UD, a leading provider of data center automation and virtualization products, today announced it has named industry veterans Alex Brown and Kent Purdy to lead its data center automation business division and retool its product suite. The announcement comes as Univa UD officially launches Reliance as its cornerstone product...
DRESDEN, Germany, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, Microsoft Corp. debuted in the top 25 of the world's top 500 largest supercomputers with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), which ranked at No. 23 with 68.5 teraflops. The company also announced that the release candidate version of Windows HPC Server 2008 will be available for download in the last week of June. (Logo:...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Umea University announced today that the most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe is being installed at the supercomputer center known as HPC2N. Scientists at HPC2N will use the powerful system -- running on a beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008(R) -- for basic as well as applied research. The computer -- nicknamed "Akka" -- combines IBM Power(R) microprocesors and Cell Broadband Engines(R) with new energy-efficient Xeon(R) quad-core processors from Intel. Akka...
