DG Connect (Unit E2) launches a web-based Public Consultation with a view to defining future research priorities in Cloud Computing, Software and Services, ahead of the H2020 ICT Work Programme 2014-15. All interested stakeholders - industry, research centres, academia, SMEs and users - are invited to contribute. The consultation will run from February 27th until April 2nd 2013. Read further...

HP has introduced new offerings that enable organisations to use unique contextual understanding to gain actionable security intelligence from Big Data to better detect and prevent threats. For the first time, organisations can automatically apply sentiment analysis and event information to their Big Data and security event platforms to gain real-time visibility into the internal and external threat landscape. Read further...

Oracle has launched the February 2013 release of Oracle RightNow Cloud Service, which includes new capabilities to help organisations automate the management and deployment of complex business policies that are required to support customers. Part of the Oracle Cloud, the February 2013 release of Oracle RightNow Cloud Service is the only cross-channel Cloud service and support solution on the market that offers this level of rapid delivery and easy maintenance of highly complex business policies. Read further...

BOINC Monitor, an add-on for Linux/KDE, lets you monitor the activities of BOINC directly on your desktop. Read further...

Altair has announced the keynote presentations for the 6th European Altair Technology Conference, one of the premier product lifecycle management (PLM) technology events in the advanced manufacturing community. Eight keynote presentations from several industries including automotive, heavy machinery, shipbuilding, and aerospace, will give insights into development strategies, software tool harmonization, and enterprise simulation. Read further...

Altair, a global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, has made available a connector that more deeply integrates its leading workload management product, PBS Professional, with the HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (CMU) for cluster lifecycle management. Read further...

As part of a wholesale technological overhaul in one of Europe's most evocative museum spaces, projectiondesign has supplied 40 of its high-performance DLP projectors to the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, Italy. The projectors were provided by and supported by Italian distribution partner, AGMULTIVISION and installed by Italian System Integrator OVRIT VIDEO. Read further...

Continuing the initiative to reduce the cost of flight simulation implementation, a further three F22 projectors from Norway's projectiondesign have been supplied to Dutch-based technology manufacturer MPS for use in its latest Flight Simulation Training Device (FTSD) qualified Airbus A320 flight simulator. Read further...

The ISC'13 HPC in Asia Session is inviting researchers and engineers to submit research posters to be displayed during the session. The session, which is now incorporated into the main conference programme, is to be held on Monday, June 17, 2013. Read further...

The VSB-Technical University of Ostrava and Bull signed a contract for the supply of a bullx supercomputer, which represents the first step in the creation of the Ostrava-based national supercomputing centre. The system, code-named "small cluster", will be delivered at the end of March 2013 and will be available for production starting in May. With this system, Czech science and industry will have at their disposal a machine with a theoretical peak performance of 82.54 TFLOPS by this spring. It will help advance development in areas such as nanotechnology, engineering and the transportation industry. Read further...

PRACE awarded time on 6 Tier-0 HPC systems to 57 research projects, some of which have been allocated record amounts of core hours or have significant links to the most ambitious current European scientific efforts. One project feeds into the EU FET (Future & Emerging Technologies) Flagship "Graphene", two others are linked to ERC (European Research Council) grants and an additional one to the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Three awards were made to projects led by industrial researchers and a further two included collaborators from industry. Read further...

A revolutionary liquid-cooled computer server that could slash the carbon footprint of the internet is being tested at the University of Leeds. While most computers use air to cool their electronics, all of the components in the new server are completely immersed in liquid. The power-hungry fans of traditional computing are replaced by a silent next-generation liquid cooling process that relies on the natural convection of heat. But the significance of the new Iceotope server lies less in the novelty of its design than in the bite it could take out of the huge electricity demands of the internet servers that form the fabric of our on-line lives. Read further...

Bull has formally launched a Channel Partner Programme to market and sell bullion servers in the U.S. during VMware Partner Exchange 2013 in Las Vegas, February 25th through 28th, 2013. Read further...

AMD has introduced the AMD FirePro R5000 remote graphics card, a flexible, manageable solution designed and engineered to power remote 3D-graphics work flows and full computing experiences over IP networks. The energy-, space- and cost-efficient AMD FirePro R5000 is the ideal solution for IT managers operating in data centre environments where limited space, power budgets and cooling costs pose a constant challenge. Read further...

In what will be an Australian first, the CSIRO Geothermal Project will deliver a novel solution for cooling the Pawsey Centre supercomputer, an A$80 million facility currently under construction in Kensington, south Perth. Read further...

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has unveiled the hScaler appliance, a significant breakthrough over existing analytics applications. The industry’s first Apache Hadoop platform for Big Data with integration and flexibility optimized specifically for the enterprise, DDN's hScaler appliance is engineered to enable IT departments to power Hadoop-based analytics without the pain or learning curve which have typically limited mainstream Hadoop adoption in the market. Read further...

Cray Inc. will introduce a new solution combining the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel Distribution) with the Cray Xtreme line of supercomputers. The new offering will add to Cray's portfolio of "Big Data" solutions and give customers the ability to leverage the fusion of supercomputing and Big Data. Read further...

As part of its ongoing commitment to helping organisations in growth markets better manage their increasing Big Data challenges, IBM announced that two fast-growing businesses in Azerbaijan have selected IBM advanced systems and storage to help them more effectively process, manage and store their mounting data volumes. Read further...

Rackspace Hosting has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. With ObjectRocket's open source-based MongoDB solution, Rackspace will broaden its OpenStack-based open Cloud platform to offer customers a NoSQL DBaaS. The ObjectRocket offering also immediately expands Rackspace's capability to help customers shoulder Big Data in the Cloud for today's most demanding applications. The acquisition will close February 27, 2013. Read further...

Univa's Univa Grid Engine software will support ARM, a global semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier. ARM designs the technology that is at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. With Univa Grid Engine supporting ARM, dynamic workloads are automatically placed, enabling ARM to perform tasks far more quickly and efficiently. Univa Grid Engine for ARM Beta is available immediately. Read further...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is making plans for a community-based effort to create the BigData Top100 List, the first global ranking of its kind for systems designed for Big Data applications. The BigData Top100 List will rank systems according to their performance on an application-level workload specification, while also reporting on system efficiencies in terms of price/performance. As an application-level benchmark, the list will complement other rankings of high-performance computing (HPC) systems, such as the Top500 and Graph500. Read further...

South Korea's Meteorological Administration (KMA) and IBM have launched a project to help KMA and its affiliate, the National Meteorological Satellite Center (NMSC), tackle Big Data for better, more accurate and predictive environmental forecasting. Read further...

Australian HPC company VPAC, La Trobe, and RMIT Universities have announced that the new HPC Cluster, Trifid, is available for use from 22nd of January, 2013. Trifid is located at and operated by VPAC on behalf of La Trobe, RMIT, and other VPAC Member institutions. Read further...

Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally. University of Pittsburgh and Delft University of Technology researchers reveal in the February 17 on-line issue ofNature Nanotechnologya new method that better preserves the units necessary to power lightning-fast electronics, known as qubits (pronounced CUE-bits). Hole spins, rather than electron spins, can keep quantum bits in the same physical state up to 10 times longer than before, the report finds. Read further...

IBM has given its support for the virtualization of network infrastructure that will extend the benefits of a Cloud delivery model to communications networks through its PureFlex platform. Read further...