EMC has transformed its entire portfolio of content management applications to provide customers with a clear path to confidently pursue their Cloud strategies. With the latest enhancements across the Documentum portfolio, including the availability of EMC Documentum Enterprise Migration Appliance (EMA), EMC continues to deliver technologies and services designed to increase productivity, improve collaboration, and assure governance in the Cloud. EMA is a fast and cost-effective solution to support migration projects, enabling customers to transition smoothly to EMC Documentum 7.0, the most trusted content management platform for the Cloud. Read further...

EMC has increased storage flexibility and control for EMC Syncplicity enterprise file sync and sharing solution. Available in 2H2013, EMC Syncplicity policy-driven hybrid Cloud will allow customers to utilize both private and public Clouds simultaneously, automatically optimize storage utilization and performance, and adhere to security and regulatory compliance requirements based on user and content types. Read further...

McMaster University and Cisco Canada have established a long-term relationship which will see the university increase research activities in Integrated Health Biosystems and Bioinformatics. McMaster and Cisco will also establish a university-wide research Cloud computing environment and infrastructure. This relationship will see McMaster build on its renowned research successes and strengthen its links with national and international partners from academia, government and industry. Read further...

The Human Brain Project, recently awarded a 10 year grant by the EU Commission, will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. In a special session at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference, scientists working on the Human Brain Project will discuss their vision and roadmap for computing. ISC'13 will be held June 16-20 in Leipzig, Germany. The session on "Supercomputing & Human Brain Project - Following Brain Research & ICT on 10-Year Quest" will be held Tuesday, June 18. Read further...

On April 2nd 2013 the Netherlands eScience Center organized a Visualization Experts Meeting. The meeting was organized around the question whether the formation of an expert's platform for the visualization domain could serve the purpose of bringing visualization for science at a next level. Co-operations, cross learning, common interests and more could be achieved through strengthening the community. The event itself started with six pitches from different angles of visualization, from visualization as a science up to practical service delivery. Read further...

At the 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications conference in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, the Irish500 project has been launched to raise the profile of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Ireland. The project is aimed at finding the fastest computers in Ireland and placing them in a performance-based league table. Read further...

The first issue of the e-IRG Newsletter of 2013 has been published. The latest e-IRG Newsletter keeps you up to date of the ongoing activities and plans of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group and other initiatives. Read further...

There is still time to apply for the 3.3 million euro European Commission funding Multi-Domain Network R&D activities. Interested parties have less than three weeks to apply for this call. The deadline for submissions is 29 May, 2013. Read further...

During the last week of September 2013 from 23 till 27 September, PRACE will organise training courses on industry oriented HPC simulations at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hands-on courses with ANSYS, optiSLang, AVBP, elsA, (rbf-morph) software and lectures will be given by 12 lecturers (CADFEM, SimTeC, CERFACS, ONERA, CINECA, rbf- morph, ...) from the fields of Structural Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD and BIO-CFD) and Electromagnetics (HFSS and Maxwell). The school is offered free of charge to industrial users, researchers and academics residing in PRACE member states and eligible countries. Registration is open as long as seats are available. Read further...

The DECI-11 call is managed by the PRACE-3IP project, which receives EC funding (RI-312763) and enhances the implementation of the HPC Research Infrastructure PRACE. PRACE-3IP is responsible for the Tier-1 access through the DECI calls. Read further...

Researchers from IMDEA-Nanociencia Institute and from Autonoma and Complutense Universities of Madrid in Spain have managed to give graphene magnetic properties. The breakthrough, published in the journalNature Physics, opens the door to the development of graphene-based spintronic devices, that is, devices based on the spin or rotation of the electron, and could transform the electronics industry. Read further...

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, was at Oxford University on May 3, 2013 to mark the launch of a centre that will put the UK at the forefront of revolutionising health care through 'Big Data' and better drug discovery. The new Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery is supported by a GBP20 million gift from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and GBP10 million for Big Data research from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Read further...

IBM has signed a 49-million euro agreement with CESCE Group to help CESCE further develop its business model and spur international expansion. A new jointly formed innovation lab will bring Big Data and analytics capabilities to the global commercial risk management firm. Under the new agreement, IBM will become a strategic partner of the CESCE Group and will help manage its business model transformation. IBM will manage CESCE's IT infrastructure and data center with the aim of standardizing CESCE services and optimizing cost. Read further...

In a joint project between the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, Imperial College London and the National Physical Laboratory, researchers have developed a portable way to produce ultracold atoms for quantum technology and quantum information processing. Their research has been published in the journalNature Nanotechnology, where it is featured on the front cover. Read further...

The University of Florida (UF) has unveiled the state's most powerful supercomputer, a machine that will help researchers find life-saving drugs, make decades-long weather forecasts and improve armor for troops. Read further...

At the 2013 Cray User Group (CUG) meeting in Napa Valley, California, Cray Inc. has introduced the Cray XC30-AC supercomputer - the company's new addition to its series of Cray XC30 systems. Shipping now, the new Cray XC30-AC supercomputer includes all of the advanced high performance computing (HPC) technologies offered in the Cray XC30 system, and features aggressive price points intended to attract a new a class of HPC users - the technical enterprise. Read further...

Teradata, an analytic data solutions company, has introduced Teradata Intelligent Memory, an innovative database technology. Teradata Intelligent Memory creates the industry's first extended memory space beyond cache that significantly increases query performance and enables organisations to leverage in-memory technologies with big, diverse data. Teradata's innovations help results-oriented organisations to use all their data to know more about their customers and business - so they can do more to drive profitability. Read further...

EMC is preparing the next version of its EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system. Building on the successful late-2012 launch of OneFS 7.0 ("Mavericks"), the next version of Isilon's industry-leading operating system will extend customers' ability to harness the transformational power of Big Data. The new version will include data deduplication capabilities, audit and security features, as well as enhancements for object-oriented storage, Hadoop HDFS 2.0 and Syncplicity enterprise file sharing. These new capabilities will enable enterprises to extend the unmatched scalability and efficiency of Isilon's solutions to meet an ever-broadening range of next-generation Cloud-based, Big Data analytics and mobile work flows and applications. Read further...

EMC has introduced EMC ViPR, the world's first Software-Defined Storage platform. As service provider and enterprise data centres grow to tens and hundreds of petabytes, the cost and complexity associated with managing them becomes untenable. By using EMC ViPR to manage storage infrastructure and the data residing within that infrastructure, organisations can both drive groundbreaking improvements in automation and lay down a modern storage architecture for future application deployments. Using EMC ViPR, service providers and IT departments can drive towards the operational model of web-scale data centres without hiring thousands of technical experts to build a custom environment. Read further...

The University of Florida (UF) is the first university to fully connect to the Internet2 Innovation Platform's three components, an achievement that will transform research at UF and provide a national model for research computing. The move will allow UF researchers to easily share enormous amounts of data at ultrahigh speeds in collaborations with scientists worldwide. Read further...

HP is highlighting the outcomes achieved by three data-driven organisations that chose HP Networking data centre solutions to make better IT decisions, improve operational efficiencies and enhance business continuity, while laying the foundation for future growth. According to Gartner, the benefits to organisations for adding Big Data to their information management and analytics infrastructure will force a more rapid cycle of replacing existing solutions. Additionally, the recent economic downturn has increased the pressure on organisations to focus on better decision making. Read further...

Security First Insurance, a homeowners insurance firm based in Florida, is using smarter content software from IBM and partner Integritie to collect and analyze Big Data including social media and e-mail to quickly begin the claims resolution process for customers who have been impacted by a storm. Headquartered in Ormond Beach, Florida, Security First Insurance serves nearly 180,000 customers. Florida has more people and property exposed to hurricanes than any state in the country. Read further...

Intel Corporation has taken the wraps off its brand new, low-power, high-performance micro-architecture named Silvermont. The technology is aimed squarely at low-power requirements in market segments from smartphones to the data centre. Silvermont will be the foundation for a range of innovative products beginning to come to market later this year, and will also be manufactured using the company's leading-edge, 22nm Tri-Gate SoC manufacturing process, which brings significant performance increases and improved energy efficiency. Read further...

From brain to heart to stomach, the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses, trace drugs - and maybe even read minds. Sensors no bigger than a thumbnail could map gas deposits underground, analyze chemicals, and pinpoint explosives that hide from other probes. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley, working with colleagues from Harvard University, have improved the performance of one of the most potent possible sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale - a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms, called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) centre. Read further...

Eurocom Corporation's award winning Panther series supercomputer laptop is fully customizable to allow users to choose the exact components to meet their needs whether it is for server, workstation or gaming applications. Read further...

Michael Vasilyev's goals in his research are simply stated: increase by tenfold the amount of information that can be securely transmitted via the Internet and the distance over which that data can be transmitted. Michael Vasilyev, a UT Arlington associate professor of electrical engineering, is participating in an $8 million research project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that enlists five universities and three companies to study advanced quantum communications. Read further...