Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation, a provider of Cloud-based talent management for $46.00 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo's cash and debt. Taleo's Talent Management Cloud helps organisations attract, develop, motivate and retain human capital to improve performance and drive growth. Read further...

IBM has worked with Tulip Telecom Ltd. to design and help build the largest data centre facility in India to deliver new Cloud and networking services. Tulip Telecom is a telecommunications network and data service provider, reaching more than 2,000 cities and towns throughout India. With the number of people using mobile devices to access the Internet increasing dramatically, IDC estimates that the amount of information managed by enterprises will grow 50 times over the next decade, and in the next two years alone the number of servers installed will increase by 49 percent over those installed today. Read further...

HP has launched a new offering that allows partners to provide a branded solution for application performance testing in the Cloud, helping their customers to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver high-quality applications. Read further...

Desktop Grid resources can now be officially accessed as part of the German D-Grid infrastructure through UNICORE interfaces. The European Desktop Grid Initiative EDGI will therefore organize a two days' workshop from March 1st to March 2nd, 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz to give an introduction on how to build up Desktop Grids and how to port applications to be used in Desktop Grids. Read further...

The SAT@home project, from the Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, solves hard and practically important problems - discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc. - that can be effectively reduced to the Boolean satisfiability problem. Read further...

ATEME, a world expert in video compression solutions for the broadcast and broadband market, and Bull, a premier European provider of High Performance Computing systems, have broadened their co-operation to market ATEME video processing solutions on bullx blade systems. Read further...

Bull SAS recently achieved 'SAP-Certified Provider of Hosting Services' accreditation in France, for the fourth time in succession. This accomplishment is additional proof of Bull's ability to operate an SAP technical environment that meets SAP AG's exacting standards in terms of service quality and customer satisfaction, providing all the necessary tools, resources and know-how. Read further...

Altair, developer of the popular HyperWorks computer-aided engineering software, has partnered with Ontonix to offer OntoNet complexity management solutions in the HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA). The partnership will enable Altair HyperWorks customers to further optimize the product design process and analysis. Read further...

Digital Sports Group (DSG) have announced the imminent move to a supercomputer fueled Cloud for their football.co.uk football news website. Read further...

Computing technologies continue allowing for more powerful devices, but application requirements are growing faster, so more research is needed. The European Commission is aware of this and has been substantially increasing the research funding for computing since 2004. The High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers Network (HiPEAC) was created in 2004 as a means to organize the computing systems community in Europe. The HiPEAC network currently represents more than 1000 active researchers in computing systems in Europe and it is the biggest and most visible such network in Europe. Read further...

An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology. The researchers found they could record information using only heat - a previously unimaginable scenario. They believe this discovery will not only make future magnetic recording devices faster, but more energy-efficient too. Read further...

Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new nano-technology platform for the development of molecule-based electronic components using the wonder material graphene. At the same time, they have solved a problem that has challenged researchers from around world for ten years. Read further...

Cray has created a new division within the company focused exclusively on delivering solutions for the rapidly-growing, multi-billion dollar "Big Data" market. This division, called YarcData, will be led by Arvind Parthasarathi, who has been appointed to the new position of senior vice president and general manager of YarcData. Read further...

Oracle has made available Oracle Advanced Analytics, a new option for Oracle Database 11g that bundles Oracle R Enterprise together with Oracle Data Mining. Oracle R Enterprise delivers enterprise class performance for users of the R statistical programming language, increasing the scale of data that can be analyzed by orders of magnitude using Oracle Database 11g. Read further...

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global expert in enabling Business-Critical Continuity, has received ISO 13485 certification for the manufacturing of medical power supplies in its world class factories in the Philippines. ISO 13485 is an internationally recognized quality standard that requires an organisation to demonstrate that it has the comprehensive quality management systems in place to consistently meet the specific customer and regulatory requirements applicable to medical equipment. Read further...

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global expert in enabling Business-Critical Continuity, will support the new 28nm OCTEON III MIPS64 family of multicore processors from Cavium Inc., a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home. Read further...

The Advanced Systems Engineering and Integration Division of ARINC Engineering Services is offering an expanded supercomputing capability at its Annapolis, Maryland headquarters. A new Linux-based supercomputer has been installed and is now available to support a wide range of engineering analyses for ARINC's external customers. The company's previous supercomputer also remains available. Read further...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA chips. Although DNA has been used for encryption in the past, this is the first experimental demonstration of a molecular cryptosystem of images based on DNA computing. The study was published in a recent online-before-print edition of the journalAngewandte Chemie. Read further...

With SSD caching, the most frequently used data is stored on solid state memory placed between the system memory and hard drives. Because SSDs use no spinning disks and robotic arms, the storing and retrieving of data is accomplished with virtually no latency, speeding data access by orders of magnitude. In addition to the superior performance, SSD cache requires no separate tier to manage. Read further...

Dave Hart and Irfan Elahi from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will host a workshop on campus for University of Wyoming (UW) faculty interested in using the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) for research. Read further...

The University of Wyoming (UW) has been tabbed for select company: membership in the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). The affiliation will enable UW to form research partnerships with other universities, pursue federal research funding and even potentially be tapped as a computational sciences resource expert by President Obama and/or Congress. Read further...

A new supercomputer has been installed at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Called "Fornax" - Latin for "hot furnace" and named after a southern hemisphere constellation known as a birthplace of stars - the UWA installation consists of 96 nodes, each containing two Intel 6-core Xeon X5650 processors, a high-end GPU and 48GB of RAM. Read further...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate - boosting processor performance by an average of more than 20 percent. Read further...

Ohio will soon see a ten-fold boost to its broadband network speeds, which will benefit research and job-creating assets statewide. Governor John R. Kasich made the announcement at his State of the State address in Steubenville, highlighting the first ever state-led initiative that will leverage astonishing network speeds of 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to advance research and job growth across Ohio's medical research, higher education, manufacturing, engineering and technology networking corridors. Read further...