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The DICE Program uses Compilers from the Portland Group to Successfully Complete Parallel File System Comparison Project |
Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program is announcing their continued success using compilers from the Portland Group (PGI), an independent supplier of high-performance scalar and parallel compilers and tools for workstations, servers and high-performance computing systems.Read more... |
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The DICE Program Releases Report on the Evaluation of eXludus MCOPt Multicore Manager Technology |
Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program recently conducted an in-depth investigation of the eXludus MCOPt Multicore Manager technology. eXludus MCOPt multicore management software is an intelligent middleware layer that manages available core and memory resources while preventing contention for shared resources. Read more... |
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The DICE Program Releases SCinet Report Featuring Research Sandbox Results |
Today, Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program, along with their partners including NASA Goddard and Obsidian Strategics, Inc., is releasing the results of the DICE-SCinet Research Sandbox (System Area Network Demonstration) conducted at the Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) conference. Read more... |
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The Network Based Computing Lab Uses DICE Test Bed to Successfully Complete Performance Evaluation of Obsidian Longbow Routers |
Avetec’s DICE program, along with their partners at the Network Based Computing Lab at the Ohio State University and Obsidian Strategics, Inc., has successfully completed a study on 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... |
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DICE Program Announces Success using Compilers from the Portland Group |
Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program is announcing their success using compilers from the Portland Group (PGI), an independent supplier of high-performance scalar and parallel compilers and tools for workstations, servers, and high-performance computing systems. Read more... |
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DICE Program Validates Bright Computing's Cluster Management Solution |
The Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program, the HPC research division of the non-profit research corporation Avetec, performed an in-depth investigation of the Bright Computing Cluster Manager™ 5.1 software. Read more... |
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DICE-SCinet Research Sandbox Investigation of Effective Encrypted Data Movement at Supercomputing Conference |
At the Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) conference that took place November 16-18, 2010, Avetec’s DICE program, through partnership with government, academic and HPC vendors, demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of applications and file systems using Obsidian Strategics’ Longbow™ InfiniBand range-extension. Read more... |
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SCinet Research Sandbox to Demonstrate Unprecedented HPC Industry Collaboration |
At the Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) conference, Avetec’s DICE program will demonstrate through collaboration with government, academic and HPC vendors the performance and effectiveness of applications and file systems utilizing InfiniBand over the, real-world wide-area networks (WAN). Read more... |
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Near Perfect Use of a 10GE WAN with Longbow Encryption Fully Enabled |
Dr. DK Panda, professor of computer science with The Ohio State University's Department of Computer Sciences, has released preliminary study results that show significant advancement in researchers' ability to send high performance computing data with Obsidian's Longbow(tm) InfiniBand range-extension, routing and encryption products. Read more... |
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Team Will Demonstrate Encrypted Data Movement Between HPC Clusters at SC‘10 |
Avetec's Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE), along with its partner, Obsidian Strategics, the makers of the Longbow™ InfiniBand range-extension, routing and encryption products, will conduct a Sandbox (System Area Network Demonstration) of encrypted data movement between high performance computing clusters during the November Supercomputing 2010 Conference (SC10) in New Orleans. Read more... |
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Avetec Interns Present Research Findings at Showcase |
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... |
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DICE Partners with Obsidian Strategics for Secure Large-Scale Data Migration Study |
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... |
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Microsoft and Intel to Support Local College Internship Program with Avetec's DICE Program |
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... |
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DICE Program's Wilson Featured in International Science Grid |
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... |
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Avetec Announces DICE Awards for High Performance Computing Innovation |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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... |
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DICE Alliance 2010 |
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... |
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DICE Releases Phase 2 of Power and Cooling Study |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |