Agenda

SuperComputing 2009 - Portland (USA), November 14-20

SC09 returns to Portland, Oregon for its 21st annual conference. Recognized globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC09 will feature the most interesting and innovative HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world.

No other conference brings together these many scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators, application developers, and program managers. SC09 will feature an exceptional program of technical papers, tutorials, and timely research posters with an impressive line-up of invited speakers and panel participants.

The SC conference is also respected as the premier global networking event for stakeholders throughout the HPC ecosystem. SC09's exhibition hall will be second to none – featuring exhibits from many international participants representing industry, academia and government research organizations.

Bull has been a regular SC exhibitor for several years, and will be exhibiting its new generation of supercomputers bullx™ (launched in June) on its booth (#1108). Visit us and discover all about our Extreme Computing solutions!
Experts from ServiWare and science + computing, two Bull Group companies specialized in Extreme Computing, will also be present on the Bull booth.

 

Launch of Digital Barnsley and opening of Bull data centre - Barnsley, 22 October 2009

Speakers
Didier Lamouche – CEO of Bull Group
Phil Coppard OBE – CEX Barnsley MBC
David Holt – CEX Digital Region
Iain Simpson – Voice and Data

How will digital region help my business?
South Yorkshire will be at the absolute forefront of broadband in Europe. It will provide you with a unique opportunity to grow your business both locally and in the global marketplace. It is your chance to exploit this world class infrastructure and position your business ahead of the game.

What is digital region?
The Digital Region Ltd. (DRL) project represents one of the largest public sector-led open broadband infrastructure initiatives in the world. It will give South Yorkshire motorway broadband speeds when the rest of the country is at best on A roads. It will cover the city, towns and villages of Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham and serve a population of over 1.3 million citizens, 546,000 homes and 40,000 businesses. This is a major opportunity to transform South Yorkshire. It will achieve a step change that will impact on the entire sub-regional economy and meet social objectives.

What is the new Bull data centre?
It is a state of the art data centre on Pontefract road representing a major investment by Bull, an international company, as part of the digital future of Barnsley.

 

GS Days 2009 – “Convincing people without constraining them” - Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1 December 2009

The French-speaking security event known as GS Days will be held on 1 December at the Palais des Arts et des Congrès in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, focusing on the theme of “Convincing people without constraining them”. The aim is to bring together some 500 security experts for a series of demonstrations and seminars, focusing on a number of organizational and technical issues.

Our security experts will be delighted to welcome you to the Bull stand, where they will be able to show you our TrustWay® solutions, which are designed to ensure data integrity and confidentiality and to protect sensitive networks, including the TrustWay VPN, TrustWay HSM box and TrustWay Crypto PCI, the secure TrustWay PPS USB device and globull™.

During the event, Alain Filée, Director of Bull’s TrustWay Business Unit, will be leading a seminar at 2.30pm: “Swords and Shields or How to stay one step ahead, faced with the growing sophistication of attack techniques”.

 

JONAs Day 5.1 - Grenoble,December, 1st

JOnAS, the OW2 open source application server with its LGPL license provides a right cost and comprehensive alternative for the critical services delivery in the enterprise information system. The JOnAS 5.1 release relies on a native OSGi architecture bringing the expected modularity and dynamicity in the lightweight and adaptable SOA platform. JavaEE5 standard ensures the applications portability and interoperability while greatly simplifying the development. The operational management tools such as clustering or monitoring provide all the mechanisms required in a production environment.
The seminar will enable you to discover new features of this release with presentations and demonstrations conducted by the core development team of the open source projects.

 

20th Machine Evaluation Workshop - Holiday Inn Runcorn/UK, 1-2 December 2009

The forthcoming 2009 Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop will be held on 1 and 2 December as part of the EPSRC's Distributed Computing Support Programme.

This Workshop is now established as a leading national event dedicated to distributed high performance scientific computing. The principle objective is to encourage close contacts between the research communities from the Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Materials Programs of EPSRC and the major vendors of workstations, software and peripherals.

The workshop includes a rich program of technical vendor presentations, user presentations, break-out sessions dedicated to HPC in Industry, Visualisation Services and High Performance Computing, Procurement, Open-Source Alternatives to Commercial Software, Real Life Applications of GPUs.

Important components of the workshop include the availability of systems for benchmarking evaluation purposes, plus the exhibition itself. Vendors are providing Internet access to these systems prior to the event, and the availability of products on the day will help delegates evaluate the machines.

Bull is a sponsor of the 20th MEW, and will provide access to its most recent bullx blade system. Bull HPC expert Denis Gutfreund will make a presentation entitled “I/Os in HPC, a practical case study”.

 

Bull Training - Green IT: a real necessity - Paris, Friday 4 December

Friday 4 December, Claude Marson, Consultant and Deputy Director of IT events firm Synthèse Informatique and seminar leader for the 'Computing trends' seminar, will be chairing a new seminar on "Green IT: a real necessity", at our Espace Italie/Paris premises. The main themes for the seminar will be:
1. The general context of Green IT: what it covers
2. IT's real footprint and its assets to save energy and 'clean' consumption
3. What advantages can we expect from 'greening' the Data Center
4. The methodological approach and quantitative evaluation of Green IT efforts
5. The Data Center
- Measurement
- Preferred hardware and processors
- Architectures that contribute to Green IT: virtualization of processors and storage, new devices in Storage Area Networks (SAN)...
- The influence of networks and the part they play in the overall equation
- Power supply problems
- Diversification of energy sources
- The evaluation of air-conditioning/cooling and organization of the machine room: hot and cold air flows, partner offerings
6.The workstation
- How can we reduce energy footprint?
- What about eco-friendly labels?
- Common-sense solutions and negative responses from users
- What is the real footprint of different types of terminals: Citrix, VDI…
7.Drivers for optimizing consumption of resources
- Remote working, reorganization of the occupation of premises, heating
- Reduction of printed status reports and restructuring of printing services
- Software solutions for administering Green IT
- Responsible behaviour and recommendations to make .