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Avetec interns

Avetec Interns Present Research Findings at Showcase
August 12, 2010

Twelve Clark State Community College and Central State University interns presented research project findings on high performance computing, convergence technologies and simulation projects during an intern showcase at Avetec today. Read more...

Obsidian Longbow E100

DICE Partners with Obsidian Strategics for Secure Large-Scale Data Migration Study
July 22, 2010

Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) Program has partnered with Obsidian Strategics, Inc., maker of Longbow™ InfiniBand range-extension, routing and encryption products, to study the effectiveness and efficiency of Longbow E100 devices for encrypted data movement between high performance computing clusters using a file-level data migration tool called 'dsync.' Read more...

DICE Program interns

Microsoft and Intel to Support Local College Internship Program with Avetec's DICE Program
June 30, 2010

This summer, a dozen Clark State Community College and Central State University students will take part in a new model of computer science internship training led by Clark State Community College and Avetec. The internship is being supported by Microsoft®, Intel®, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions and the National Science Foundation (NSF-ATE Award #0903228).   Read more...

Tracey Wilson

DICE Program's Wilson Featured in International Science Grid
April 28, 2010

Tracey Wilson, Program Manager for DICE was published in the "Back to Basics" section of International Science Grid This Week, April 28, 2010. "As the amount of data we generate grows, so does our need for data management," Wilson said in the article. "Data management (the effective control of data throughout its entire lifecycle) is getting more important every day as systems become increasingly complex, software demands increase, and the size and number of data files generated continues to grow exponentially." Read more...

DICE Alliance awards

Avetec Announces DICE Awards for High Performance Computing Innovation
April 15, 2010

Avetec’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Division – the Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) – today awarded the 2nd annual DICE Data Intensive Impact Awards to showcase products and technologies that have enabled progress in HPC data management in locality, movement, manipulation and integrity, as well as power and cooling efficiencies. Read more...

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DICE First to Study Power & Cooling Requirements and Planning at Data Centers
March 30, 2010

The explosive growth in the number and size of data centers and computing power is creating an unsustainable demand for power and cooling requirements. At the current rate, America’s power infrastructure will not be able to support the growth in computing to maintain – let alone grow – America’s global competitiveness. Read more...

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A Testimonial
March 3, 2010

Nirvana, a Division of General Atomics, last year refocused its Nirvana Storage Resource Broker (SRB) on the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. A thorough evaluation in the Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE Program) test bed helped validate product capabilities and ultimately positioned the company for a $22.5 million Department of Defense (DoD) contract. Read more...

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DOE’s Reis and Weigand to Headline 2010 DICE Alliance
February 16, 2010

Two top officials for the U.S. Department of Energy’s  (DOE) Office of Science and its largest national laboratory will present the keynote presentations for the Data Intensive Computing Environment’s DICE Alliance 2010 Conference for High Performance Computing (HPC) April 14 and 15 in Dearborn, Mich. at the historic Dearborn Inn. Read more...

The Dearborn Inn

DICE Alliance 2010
December 8, 2009

April 14-15, 2010, the DICE Program will host its fifth annual DICE Alliance Conference at the historic Dearborn Inn in Dearborn, Michigan. DICE Alliance is a premier conference where the high performance computing (HPC) community – government, vendors and academia from all over the U.S. – meet to learn and network on current and emerging technologies in the area of data management. Read more...

Power & Cooling Report

DICE Releases Phase 2 of Power and Cooling Study
November 16, 2009

Avetec’s HPC Research Division, the Data Intensive Computing Environment, has released Phase 2 of its study Power and Cooling Solutions for Data Centers, which surveyed administrators representing more than 170 data centers and vendors worldwide and explored the status of testing and validation related to energy efficiency, along with data centers' and their vendors' expectations for emerging technologies.

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U.S. Department of Energy Awards $3.3 Million Contract to DICE Program
October 20, 2009

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded a $3.3 million contract to Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) Program for research on high performance computing (HPC) data management technologies. The contract is directed through Sandia National Laboratory and will help fund the testing and evaluation of new and emerging technologies that address the issues related to distributing large sets of data across geographically dispersed HPC sites around the world. Read more...

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DICE to Exhibit at SC09 in Booth 3073
October 1, 2009

The DICE program will head to Portland, Oregon Nov. 14-20, 2009 to participate in the supercomputing industry’s leading educational and trade show event, Supercomputing '09. DICE will exhibit in Booth 3073 during the conference trade show, Nov. 17-19, as a way to highlight the program’s accomplishments and activities. Read more...

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Avetec Announces Data Intensive Impact Awards for HPC Innovation
May 20, 2009

At its fourth annual DICE Alliance Conference, Avetec’s HPC Research Division – the Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) – awarded the first-ever 2009 DICE Data Intensive Impact Product of the Year Awards to showcase products and technologies that have impacted HPC data management by applying the latest technologies and capabilities to enable progress in data locality, movement, manipulation and integrity. Read more...

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Nationwide Test Bed for Data Management Innovations Available to Industry
November 17, 2008

Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment, or DICE Program, is now providing a wide range of high performance computing (HPC) data management technology and product testing and validation for industry, government and academic organizations.

"Managing and manipulating the explosion of high-end computing data is a growing challenge for HPC centers and solution providers," said Al Stutz, Avetec Chief Information Officer and Principle Investigator for the DICE Program.

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DICE to Exhibit at SC08
September 30, 2008

The DICE Program will exhibit at the industry's leading conference, Supercomputing, or SC08 in Austin, Texas the week of November 14.

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Data Intensive Computing Environment and Obsidian Strategics Partner
August 26, 2008

Avetec's Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) has partnered with Obsidian Strategics Inc. to bring long-haul InfiniBand to real-world networks on the DICE test bed.