At the EGI Community Forum 2014 in Helsinki, Finland, Primeur Magazine had the opportunity to talk with Jan Bot, Consultant at SURFsara, The Netherlands, and Cristina Aiftimiei from the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Italy, about the SURFsara MOOC - Massive Open Online Course, an on-line training on Grid computing. Read further...

At the EGI Community Forum 2014 in Helsinki, Finland, Primeur Magazine had the opportunity to talk with Yuliya Fetyukova, researcher at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and Peter Ittzes from the MTA Centre of Ecological Research in Hungary. Both researchers are using the BioVeL portal for their research. Read further...

At the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki, Finland, Yuliya Fetyukova from the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, in a lightning talk, presented her research in butterfly distribution modelling with use of the BioVeL portal. Read further...

Jan Bot, Consultant at SURFsara, The Netherlands, explained in a presentation in the Community Building and Engagement session at the EGI Forum in Helsinki, Finland, how you can teach Grid computing to the masses via a Massive Open Online Course or a so-called MOOC. Read further...

The Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) at the University of Indiana will organize a workshop to celebrate 20 years of Beowulf and to honour Professor Thomas Sterling for his 65th birthday. The workshop will be held October 13-14, 2014. Deadline for paper submissions is July 1, 2014. Read further...

IBM has opened the world's first dedicated System z Linux and Cloud Center of Competency in Beijing, designed to help customers take advantage of Linux and Cloud computing solutions on the mainframe, and help accelerate adoption of Linux on System z technologies in China. Read further...

High Performance Computing is reaching out of its traditional setting in large compute clusters and into embedded systems used to run the sophisticated applications required for modern signal processing applications in defense - and those systems need the same quality of debugging and profiling tools as today's modern HPC multi-process applications. Read further...

Allinea Software's latest version of its debugging tools, Allinea DDT 4.2.1, has been tailored to offer full support for NVIDIA CUDA 6, the latest release of the parallel computing platform and programming model. Read further...

Deputy Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Dmitry Svatkovsky; Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Alexander Povalko; Minister of Information Technology, Communications and Mass Media of the Nizhni Novgorod region, Sergei Kuchin; Rector of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), Evgeny Chuprunov; and President of UNN and Chairman of the Board of Rectors of the Volga Federal District Roman Strongin participated in the launch ceremony of the "Lobachevsky" supercomputer. Read further...

The PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2014 - PRACEdays14 - was held from 20 to 22 May 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Hosted by PRACE and supported by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, the conference attracted over 200 participants from academia and industry. Three Awards were presented to excellent scientific and industrial presentations. Read further...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market decreased -2.2% year over year to $10.9 billion in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14). This is the fifth consecutive quarter that the server market has experienced a year-over-year decline in worldwide revenue. Server unit shipments improved 2.1% year over year in 1Q14 to 2.1 million units as investments in hyperscale data centre capacity were largely offset by consolidation, which continued to be a strategic focus for many large and small customers around the globe. Read further...

Fujitsu's invention of high-dimensional interconnect technology, which is used in the K computer Fujitsu jointly developed with RIKEN as well as the company's own FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX10, was awarded the Imperial Invention Prize. This prize is given to the most outstanding invention at the National Commendation for Invention sponsored by the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held on July 8, 2014, at the Hotel Okura Tokyo. Read further...

NEC Corporation has received orders for the SX-ACE, a new vector supercomputer, from the Cyberscience Center of Tohoku University, a national university corporation, the Cybermedia Center (CMC) of Osaka University, also a national university corporation, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies, an independent administrative agency. This is the latest model of the NEC series of vector supercomputers that was released in November 2013. Read further...

Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation supercomputers to systems that learn on their own - new machines that do more while using less energy. Read further...

Ahead of its general product release, expected before the end of June, CAST Software has launched the distribution of the beta version of wysiwyg R33 design and previsualization software suite - the second instalment in the graphics upgrade - with three of its new and significant features, many of which were evaluated and requested by CAST Software's partner base. Read further...

The ability of CAST Software's wysiwyg pre-visualization solution to enable unique creative event ideas - while saving time and money - has been perfectly showcased by 'The Rhythm Of Life', a majestically colourful multimedia show held in Macao's ancient city centre. Read further...

Wayne State University (WSU) is the recipient of Silicon Mechanics' 3rd Annual Research Cluster Grant, a programme in which the company and its partners are donating a complete high-performance compute cluster. The university, located in midtown Detroit, is one of the nation's 50 largest public universities, with annual research expenditures of nearly $260 million, and among only 3.5 percent of U.S. universities with the Carnegie Foundation's highest research classification. The addition of the Silicon Mechanics cluster to the WSU facility is expected to provide a powerful and flexible new research tool. Read further...

Super Micro Computer Inc., a global expert in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing, brings to market a new, compact, cost-effective storage solution with its new SSG-5018A-A(R/S)12L SuperStorage Server. This specialized storage server minimizes power consumption and reduces cooling requirements by spinning down or powering off idle drives and managing data streams via Supermicro's compact, low-power Intel Atom C2750 based serverboard for cold storage. Read further...

Cirrascale Corporation, a premier developer of build-to-order, independent blade-based computing and storage data centre infrastructure for conventional and modular data centres, has expanded its CirraStor storage product line to include the SM4490D supporting NexentaStor 4.0, the latest Software-Defined Storage solution from industry expert Nexenta. Read further...

Scientists armed with a supercomputer and a vast trove of newly collected data on the body's most potent "tumor suppressor" gene have created the best map yet of how the gene works, an accomplishment that could lead to new techniques for fighting cancers, which are adept at disabling the gene in order to thrive. Read further...