Primeur talked with Tomi Ilija from the Arctur HPC centre in Slovenia near the Italian border in area where also bears are still abundant. So no place to wander around during the night. Arctur has several large laboratories as customers. They provide not only HPC infrastructure, but also application porting services.   Read further...

Fujitsu has launched FEFS - derived from Fujitsu Exabyte File System, a scalable file system software package for building file systems for x86 HPC clusters in Japan. FEFS is software for x86 HPC cluster systems that enables high-speed parallel distributed processing of very large amounts of read/write transactions from the compute nodes. Read further...

Bull has launched its bullion Cloud platform, designed to help enterprises build and implement private Clouds at VMworld 2011,. bullion Cloud platform is a comprehensive solution combining the strength of servers that are designed and built in Europe, with the best of a broad range of partner offerings and Bull's own security technologies. bullion Cloud platform meets the most demanding requirements in terms of security, scalability and performance. Read further...

Bull, expert in mission-critical digital systems, is launching Le Cloud by Bull: the first structured approach to achieving a smooth transition to secure, made-to-measure enterprise Cloud computing, and ensuring that the Cloud is a positive driver for business performance. Read further...

In the largest update to its systems portfolio this year, IBM has introduced 55 new and updated server and storage technologies that can help clients gain actionable insights from data, increase IT capacity and deliver new services faster to create profitable business opportunities. The new and enhanced offerings include affordable business analytics systems, automated tools for implementing security and compliance standards, and starter kits for establishing private Clouds. Read further...

HP has launched new services and solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure that empower service providers and enterprises to rapidly deliver Cloud services while leveraging existing investments, minimizing risk and lowering costs. Read further...

EMC Corporation has introduced several key enhancements to the VMAXe enterprise storage system - announced in July - delivering customers with limited storage expertise and IT resources even more powerful, trusted and efficient enterprise storage. Read further...

VMware Inc., a global expert in virtualization and Cloud infrastructure, has unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of Cloud computing. Read further...

American Diversified Holdings Corporation's Rebel Networks is expanding its applications hosting capacities by adding more Dell Servers and Storage into the Cloud Grid. Read further...

At VMworld 2011 Europe, EMC Corporation, the number one choice of customers in VMware virtual and Cloud environments according to a recent Wikibon survey, announced that EMC VPLEX is now certified by VMware to implement vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC). Now organisations can realize even greater IT efficiency and flexibility with the ability to manage and move data between stretched VMware vSphere clusters in different geographic locations. Read further...

HP has launched a new global HP CloudSystem Financing offer for qualified customers transitioning to the Cloud. This set of offers is made available through HP Financial Services, the company's leasing and asset management subsidiary. Read further...

OpenNebula is being used by many leading supercomputing (SARA, CESGA, CESCA, PDC-KTH, PIC ...) and research centres (ESA, CERN, FermiLab, CSIRO, KIT, Harvard SEAS ...) to build HPC and science Clouds for hosting virtualized computational environments, such as batch farms and computing clusters, and for providing users with new "HPC as a service" resource provisioning models. One of the recent invited talks in this field, at ISC Cloud Computing 2011, illustrates the benefits of using OpenNebula both as an infrastructure tool, to build private Clouds, and as a provisioning tool, to build public Clouds. Read further...

The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) will be held in Melbourne, Australia during December 5-7, 2011. Read further...

A 2 year position for a researcher in distributed, Grid and Cloud computing is available at the University of Wetminster London at the Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. Read further...

Installed in France at the Très Grand Centre de Calcul (TGCC) operated by CEA near Paris, CURIE is the second PRACE Tier-0 system. Funded by GENCI, as the French representative in PRACE, designed and built by Bull, CURIE has general purpose modular architecture, based on a mix of thin and fat nodes. Read further...

PRACE Research Infrastructure appointed Dr. Maria Ramalho as Managing Director of the Association with office in Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Ramalho is an expert in the field of telecommunication networks and a skilled project co-ordinator. Read further...

Ryohin Keikaku, manufacturer and retailer of the popular MUJI brand, has expanded its deployment of Altair’s HiQube simulation-driven business intelligence and data analytics solution throughout all 268 MUJI retail stores as of August, 2011 in Japan, as well as its head office. The HiQube expansion reduces reporting time by 50 percent and shares tailored, Web-based analytics of all stores across the entire organisation, speeding communication and decision-making Read further...

Scientists at the Technische Universität Darmstadt are utilizing a superfast computer system for simulating lightning strikes. Their objectives are arriving at better understandings of the effects of lightning strikes on humans and machinery and better predictions of those effects. Read further...

Scientists at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have for the first time simulated critical phenomena that occur during nova explosions. Their work has made it possible to precisely characterise the physical properties and chemical composition of the material ejected in novae, and this has yielded the solution to an enigma that has puzzled experts for over 50 years: the origin of the irregular, inhomogeneous distribution of nova ejecta. The paper, to be published inNature, has facilitated analysis of the role these thermonuclear explosions play in the chemical enrichment of the galaxy. Read further...

The service provider customer base for 3PAR Utility Storage has more than doubled in the first three fiscal quarters since the company acquired 3PAR in September 2010. This rapid customer adoption has contributed to HP 3PAR's triple-digit revenue growth year over year for the quarter ending July 31. Read further...

A group of Kansas State University scientists is boosting research across campus by making the largest supercomputer in the state even larger. The project also will benefit researchers at other schools in Kansas. The scientists, led by Daniel Andresen, associate professor of computing and information sciences, have recently received a three-year $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Programme to upgrade the university's research computing cluster, called Beocat. The scientists also received $300,000 in matching funds from the university. Read further...

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a Kepler Scientific Workflow System module. Researchers will develop new tools to help manage ever-growing data sets used in next-generation DNA sequencing. Read further...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Indiana University (IU) a $1.5 million grant to establish the National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS). Genome analysis can help scientists discover new medicines, improve crops, understand diseases and create personalized treatments for various illnesses. Read further...

Exa Corporation, a global innovator of fluids simulation solutions for product engineering, has released PowerFLOW 4.3c with support for the Cray XE6 line of supercomputers. This newest release of PowerFLOW allows customers to minimize their simulation turnaround time by scaling to a larger number of cores than any other platform. Read further...

Dr. Thomas J. Bogdan has been named the next president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), following an extensive international search. He will join UCAR from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), where he is director. Dr. Bogdan will take over the reins at UCAR on January 9, 2012. Read further...

The 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing - CCGrid 2012 - will be held May 13-16, 2012 in Ottawa, Canada. The deadline for paper submission is November 25, 2011. Read further...

Three universities have chosen HP Converged Infrastructure solutions to improve educational programmes and manage the spike in on-line information consumed by students and faculty. Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia; University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida; and Florida's University of Tampa chose HP networking, storage and server solutions to better meet its data bandwidth demands. With more responsive infrastructures, the universities can serve their growing, technology-savvy populations who are often scattered across multiple campus locations. Read further...

Vertica, an HP company and provider of real-time analytics platforms, has launched the Vertica Community Edition, a free version of its Vertica Analytic Database software. Read further...