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SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, today announced that Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) has installed Panasas® ActiveStor(TM) 11 to deliver high performance parallel storage as part of its newly upgraded high performance computing (HPC) facilities for advanced computational science and engineering. CACR operates...
MILPITAS, Calif., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) announced it will demonstrate high-availability direct-attached storage (HA-DAS) solutions for Microsoft® Corp.'s Windows® Server platforms at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase taking place May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. LSI's HA-DAS solutions are designed to provide small and medium-sized business (SMB) and cloud datacenter customers with continuous application...
BEIJING, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation and advanced computing software solutions, announced today that Beijing Aokai Fuhui Technology Co., Ltd (AKFH), the former LSF main distributor has become the primary distributor for Altair's PBS Works software in China. "We are enthusiastic that this strategic partnership will enable Altair to efficiently promote the development of the high-performance computing industry in...
TROY, Mich., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, a leading global provider of simulation and advanced computing software solutions, has received two bronze Telly Awards in recognition for its visual campaign production of a promotional video highlighting its high-performance computing workload management solution, PBS Professional®. Altair created its promotional video for PBS Professional in an effort to share with potential customers the key benefits of its...
TROY, Mich., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., announced today that MTU Aero Engines, a leading provider of aero engines for the civil and military aircraft industry, has selected HyperWorks as its primary strategic solution for CAE pre- and post-processing and PBS Professional® for high-performance computing (HPC) tasks. HyperWorks is Altair's comprehensive simulation platform for rapid design exploration and decision-making. MTU selected...
TROY, Mich., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering today announced two advancements in the field of high-performance computing (HPC), with the release of its Compute Manager and PBS Desktop applications. Compute Manager is the first foundational block in Altair's plans to build a modern, Web-based enterprise simulation platform, providing an affordable solution to increase HPC productivity. Offered as part of Altair's HyperWorks Enterprise(TM) service-oriented...
Researchers at International Business Machines (IBM) have discovered how to store a bit of information in just 12 atoms, a process that usually requires the use of a million or more atoms. The technique, reported in the journal Science, is based on ferromagnetism and could allow for even smaller, faster and more energy-efficient devices in the future. “The chip industry will continue its pursuit of incremental scaling in semiconductor technology but, as components continue to shrink,...
Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a machine that placed the university among the world's top computational research facilities. Now comes HokieSpeed, a new supercomputer that is up to 22 times faster and yet a quarter of the size of X, boasting a single-precision peak of 455 teraflops, or 455 trillion operations per second, and a double-precision peak of 240 teraflops, or 240 trillion operations per second. That's enough computational capability to place...
TROY, Mich., Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., today announced the opening of an exceptionally high-powered data center in Troy, Mich., this month to house and manage its growing HyperWorks On-Demand cloud-based computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution for customers who rely on high-performance computing. HyperWorks On-Demand (HWOD) is a high-performance computing (HPC) solution for design innovation in the cloud. HWOD leverages Altair's patented licensing...
STERLING, Va., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IceWEB, Inc.(TM) (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that its new Model 6500 High Performance and High Availability Cluster Unified Storage Platform was reviewed on December 6, 2011 by CRN.com. The entire review can be viewed at: http://www.iceweb.com/product_pdf/CRN-IceWebUnveils6500.pdf Edward J. Correia, the CRN reviewer...
