RSC Group, a Russian developer and integrator of innovative HPC and data centre solutions, demonstrated a revolutionary RSC PetaStream ultra-high density solution with massive-parallel architecture, direct liquid cooling and the newest Intel Xeon Phi 7120D setting one more world record of computing density of 1.2 PFlops peak performance per rack within just 1 m2, or 11 ft2, footprint. It happened at PCT-2014, a major Russian HPC conference. RSC PetaStream became even 20% more powerful versus its first announcement with the previous world record of 1 PFlops per rack at SC'13 in Denver, USA. RSC's new technology breakthrough was achieved with the newest Intel Xeon Phi 7120D coprocessor just launched in March, 2014. RSC PetaStream is the world's first HPC solution with Intel Phi 7120D. Read further...

"Establishing a Trusted Cloud Europe" is a European Commission policy vision document that has been set up after more than one year of regular co-operation of the European Cloud Partnership Steering Board gathering leading players from private and public organisations in Europe. Read further...

Red Hat Inc., a global provider of open source solutions, is collaborating with Google that will enable Red Hat customers to move eligible Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to Google Compute Engine using Red Hat Cloud Access, reinforcing the flexibility and choice afforded by the open hybrid Cloud. Google joined the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider programme in November 2013, joining a group of technology industry leaders who offer tested, proven solutions that extend the functionality of Red Hat's open hybrid Cloud solutions. Read further...

IBM has launched a series of new enterprise Cloud offerings for the mainframe which will help clients and service providers reduce the cost of operations and rapidly deploy trusted Cloud services with mainframe technology. The announcement includes the first System z-based integrated system offering, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System. Read further...

Bright Cluster Manager is now certified on Cloudera Enterprise 5. Bright and Cloudera will continue to work together to enable enterprise customers to deploy and manage Big Data projects with ease. Read further...

Cray Inc. has been awarded a contract to deliver a Cray Tiered Adaptive Storage (TAS) solution to the North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN). Cray TAS is an open storage and archiving solution for Big Data and high performance computing environments, and gives HLRN a long-term data management solution for its High Performance Computing Center (RRZN) located at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. Read further...

The European Commission will initiate a study, called SMART 2014/0021, about the progress on the implementation of the European HPC strategy. The aim of the study is to follow the progress on the implementation of the European HPC strategy, to present the evolution of the European HPC ecosystem, e.g. investments, governance, market, usage, etc., to collect data and provide evidence of the impact and the return on HPC investments in innovation and economic progress in the EU, and to provide additional actions and ideas to complement or support the implementation of the European HPC strategy. Read further...

ADVA Optical Networking has successfully completed its acquisition of Oscilloquartz SA from the Swatch Group. The acquisition is a major milestone for ADVA Optical Networking as it continues its rapid expansion into the synchronization business. The acquisition now provides ADVA Optical Networking with a complete end-to-end solution for the delivery and assurance of highly accurate timing - a first within the industry. This end-to-end solution is of vital importance to an increasingly broad market. It's not only critical in the development of mobile broadband networks but also to a wide range of enterprises, including financial organisations, utility companies and government institutions. Read further...

Erik Huizer, CTO of SURFnet and professor of Internet applications at Utrecht University, was inducted into the prestigious Internet Hall of Fame on April 8, 2014. Erik Huizer now holds the title of Global Connector. Read further...

A new high-performance computer at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz gives the state of Rhineland-Palatinate more profile in the area of nationwide high-performance computing. A total of 8.7 million euro will be invested by the federal government, the state government and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the new high-performance computer in the period 2015-2017 to support the Rhineland-Palatinate scientists with processing power of German top quality under the "Alliance in High Performance Computing Rhineland-Pfalz" (AHRP) up to 2019. The Science Council has decided positively to the request of the Johannes Gutenberg University to promote a new high-performance computer, and thus laid the foundation for the further development of scientific computing in Rhineland-Palatinate. Read further...

As the growth of the Internet of Things spikes so does the growth of data traffic in the Cloud, which requires data centres to deliver more performance and storage with less energy consumption. Today, 3M is launching the implementation of a fully functional supercomputer developed in collaboration with Intel and SGI that uses a revolutionary two-phase immersion cooling technology pioneered by 3M. Read further...

Based on Fujitsu's joint research with Tohoku University that began in 2012, the two partners have developed a 3D tsunami simulator that can replicate in fine detail the surge of water in urban areas as well as river surges caused by a tsunami. The joint research succeeded in combining a 2D tsunami-propagation simulation technology developed by Professor Fumihiko Imamura, director of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science in Tohoku University with Fujitsu's 3D fluid simulation technology. As a result, the researchers were able to accurately replicate the complex changes a tsunami undergoes as it interacts with coastal topography or buildings in urban areas, as well as the process of water surges in urban areas and rivers. Read further...

iVEC in Australia has a number of positions available in the Supercomputing Team. Due to Federal Government funding restrictions, these are 12-month appointments. Given this, iVEC is keen to consider secondment opportunities for staff from other HPC centres, and to use the positions to establish collaborations, where the application areas of the two centres overlap. Read further...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has implemented a new feature of the Globus software that will allow researchers using the Center's computational and storage resources to easily and securely access and share large data sets with colleagues. Read further...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has formally established a new 'center of excellence' to assist researchers in creating work flows to better manage the tremendous amount of data being generated across a wide range of scientific disciplines, from natural sciences to marketing research. Read further...

Organisations are struggling to capture and interpret data that is spread across various analytic systems, each system handling different types of processing and data. Teradata, the analytic data platforms, marketing applications and services company, has delivered the most complete Big Data solution in the industry with Teradata QueryGrid, the only software that optimizes analytics across the enterprise and beyond. Read further...

Millions of users worldwide harness the unmatched power of the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse platform line to support billions of business questions each and every day. Teradata, an analytic data platforms, marketing applications and services company, has unveiled its most powerful and performant enterprise-class Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750 platform - Teradata Active EDW. The Teradata Active EDW meets the largest, most demanding real-time workloads, with thousands of applications and the ability for virtually unlimited concurrent users to run queries against as much as 61 petabytes of data. Read further...

A seismic shift is moving the industry from a single data warehouse to a logical data warehouse with multiple systems, analytical techniques, programming languages, and diverse data types. Teradata has introduced the advanced Teradata Database 15, which delivers on the promise of a logical data warehouse. Read further...

IBM has launched new offerings for System z that will provide clients with a platform for the rapid development and deployment of mobile applications and the complete integration of these with their core business processes, applications and data. IBM is also unveiling a new flexible pricing model for mobile mainframe clients that will allow them to pay only for the computing capacity they need and use. Read further...

Fujitsu has made available in Japan new mainframe models, consisting of the super-scale Fujitsu Server GS21 2600 model group and the mid-, large-scale Fujitsu Server GS21 2400 model group, all equipped with newly developed processors. The company also made available Fujitsu Software GSS21sx, a new software that supports these models. Read further...

The Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet) has upgraded its infrastructure leveraging Fujitsu optical networking solutions. By evolving to a network providing 100G capacity today and up to 1T in the future, MOREnet is enabling scientists, researchers, educators, and physicians practicing in teaching hospitals, to advance their work by easily sharing very large data sets and images, participating in video conferencing, and downloading streaming audio and video, among other vital applications. Read further...

Fujitsu and Oracle have made globally available enhanced Fujitsu M10-1, M10-4 and M10-4S servers equipped with the new SPARC64 X+ processor, which has 16 cores and runs at speeds up to 3.7 GHz, providing up to 30 percent more processing power than the previous SPARC64 X processor. The enhanced servers provide a high-performance, scalable platform for server consolidation and modernization projects. To date, Fujitsu M10 servers have set 15 world records in major benchmark tests. Read further...