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ZDNet DE posted an article today detailing a new joint venture supercomputing project between the Society for scientific computing Göttingen (IT Center), the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the Institute of Geophysics, Georg-August University in Göttingen. The new machine was built using NEC LX-2200 nodes, anchored by Intel [...]

Earlier last month Intel put a new tool up on its public idea test drive site at WhatIf.intel.com. The Energy Checker SDK is designed to help data center managers and application developers with an early tool to help match software function to the energy it uses. Something interesting about the approach is that it relies [...]

SpectraLogic today announced that the Switzerland-based Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) has purchased a pair of T950 tape libraries for their critical biomedical research data archival and backup duties.  More than 10TB of data are written to the libraries each week from a myriad of biomedical and bioinformatics projects at FMI. Data volumes [...]