Voltaire, a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments, is hosting a live webinar event with NYSE Technologies on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 11:00 am ET (4:00 pm GMT) detailing how the solution slashes end-to-end trading latency for financial services institutions. To register for the event [...]
Voltaire Ltd. announced the industry’s first 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch with a built-in low latency Ethernet gateway for seamlessly bridging traffic to and from Ethernet-based networks. The Grid Director 4036E features thirty-four, fully non-blocking 40 Gb/s InfiniBand ports (delivering 2.72 Tb/s), less than 100 nanoseconds of port-to-port latency, and two 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet [...]
According to analysts of Market Research Media Ltd the governmental High Performance Computing markets shift from Vector to Cluster, from Custom Supercomputer to COTS (see COTS Is the Name of the Game for Defense HPC Market), with parallel designs based on “off the shelf” server-class microprocessors, such as the PowerPC, Opteron, or Xeon, and most [...]
As U.S. government agencies and departments evaluate the potential cost savings, service level improvements and greater resource utilization offered by various cloud computing models, there is a recognized need for a technology-agnostic platform that can support and integrate legacy, heterogeneous HPC environments while also managing a wide-range of hardware, operating systems and virtual machines. In [...]
IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire National Interest Security Company, LLC (NISC), a provider of information technology, information management and management technology consulting services. The agreement includes the acquisition of Technology and Management Services, Inc., an NISC affiliate. Following the completion of the transaction, NISC will be integrated with IBM’s global business services [...]
HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 15-17, 2010. The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications.
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today that it had received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Oracle expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to close the transaction shortly.
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