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DeISa dishes out scientific supercomputing awards
Forty-two scientific them to run more detailed lattice spacings to obtain concerning implementation
projects have been and accurate simulations of relevant results. Also, the and optimisation of our program
awarded supercomputing scientific problems than was support of our calculations codes, is of very high value for
resources through DEISA, previously possible. Multi- by DEISA staff members, our project.’
the EU’s infrastructure of national proposals are especially
supercomputing systems. encouraged and the latest
Banks looking to HPC, says survey
The awards, totalling more projects to be supported include
than 49 million processor hours, collaborations involving a new survey reveals financial majority of banks (54 per cent) in
collectively comprise the largest scientists from three continents, services firms are set to invest 2009 compared to hPc (17 per
amount of supercomputing although the vast majority
heavily in hPc in 2009, with cent), cloud computing (14 per
resources ever allocated at a of the participants are based
virtualisation a key focus area. cent) and SOa (12 per cent).
pan-European project call. in Europe. Staff from DEISA
The survey of senior IT With regards to cloud
These DEISA Extreme will work closely with the
executives at 35 leading financial computing, the majority of
services firms, carried out by respondents (51 per cent) said
Computing (DECI) projects researchers.
Platform computing, highlights they didn’t think that 2009 would
will each have access to Professor Gernot Muenster,
that cost reduction (54 per cent) be its year. along with the 31
resources at one or more of the principal investigator of
and meeting the increased risk per cent that didn’t know, the
the 11 DEISA partner sites, the Nf1 DECI project to study
management need (23 per cent) respondents cited 2010 as the
including 12 of the Top 100 fundamental issues in quantum
are the primary reasons for banks year of cloud computing.
most powerful supercomputers field theory, said: ‘In order to to invest in hPc solutions in 2009. What is preventing firms from
in the world. Through DECI, attain the goals of our project This highlights how banks adopting cloud computing is the
now in its fourth year, scientists and to arrive at conclusive
recognise the benefits of hPc fact it is at early stage adoption
are tackling a wide range of results, we need computational
to improve capacity/utilisation (29 per cent) and also because it
scientific challenges. resources which exceed our
of existing assets and use of is still an ill-defined term (29 per
Successful projects are previous approvals.
virtualisation, especially in the wake cent). Security (17 per cent) was
of the financial crisis. Interestingly, then cited as the next major barrier
chosen for their potential ‘Thanks to DEISA, we will
virtualisation is the ‘watch-word’ for for adoption, especially as banks
to achieve ground-breaking be able to perform simulations
banks in 2009 as it is considered look to external clouds, and lack of
scientific results through the in sufficiently large lattice
the infrastructure priority by the management buy-in (9 per cent).
use of supercomputers, enabling volumes and sufficiently small
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