New Jersey signs $2.23 Million Contract Renewal for Disaster Recovery Service
The State of New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT) has signed a 3-year contract renewal with Bull for Disaster Recovery services valued at $2.23 million. OIT, which is New Jersey’s centralized information technology agency, operates a GCOS 8 Olympus II system in support of numerous business applications for the State’s Department of Human Services (DHS), which serves more than one million of New Jersey’s most vulnerable citizens. (Read more >>)
Mulzer Orders New Bull Escala System
Mulzer Crushed Stone has ordered a new Bull Escala PL460 system with EMC CX3-20 Disk Array Subsystem, Storage Area Network (SAN), new NEO2000 Tape Library, new software and services. The new systems will provide Mulzer with more contemporary platforms and the performance improvements afforded by the new POWER6™ technology available on Bull’s Escala systems. Mulzer has been a valued Bull customer since 1976 when they purchased their first system, a Honeywell Level 62. (Read more >>)
Bull announces dates for Summit 2009
Bull will hold its Summit 2009 Conference on May 5-7, 2009 at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Summit 2009 will be held at the Pointe Hilton. Summit 2009 will be held at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort — one of Phoenix’s premier meeting facilities and a recent recipient of the distinctive AAA Four-Diamond award. (Read more >>)
Spanish Chamber of Deputies chooses Bull to design and implement its high-security wireless network
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the Spanish parliament) has chosen Bull to design and implement a wireless network linking all its sites. As part of its network infrastructure renovation initiative, the Chamber of Deputies has chosen to install a wireless network so users can access services and applications from any parliamentary site, so enhancing their real mobility. (Read more >>)
PRODUCT NEWS
Bull enhances Green Computing offerings
As part of its initiative aimed at combining performance, flexibility, and sustainable development through a Green Computing approach, Bull has launched the first ever single-socket blade server on the market. The NovaScale B240 blade server features either dual-core or quad-core single-socket Intel® Xeon® 3000 series processors. (Read more >>)
EVENTS
Bull at SuperComputing 2008
Austin, Texas, November 15-21, 2008
SC’08 is the premier international event for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. SC’08 marks its 20th birthday this year and the conference will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and business decision-makers, SC’08 will be the forum for demonstrating how these developments are driving new ideas, new discoveries and new industries. The eagerly-awaited TOP500 list of Supercomputers will also be announced at the show. Bull experts will demonstrate the company’s latest HPC solutions at Booth #211.
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CORPORATE NEWS
Bull acquires science + computing ag, a leading HPC solutions and services company in Germany, the largest HPC market in Europe
Bull — an expert in open, flexible and secure information systems, solutions and services and a leading player in the IT industry — announced that it is making a major investment in one of its flagship core businesses — High-Performance Computing (HPC) — with the agreement to acquire science + computing ag (s+c), a German company with significant expertise in HPC solutions and services, particularly for major clients in the automotive and aeronautical and related industries. This acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval, and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Bull and the CEA to develop Petaflops-scale Supercomputer
Bull and CEA sign a collaboration contract for the design and acquisition of a Petaflop-scale supercomputer that will process One Million Billion Operations per Second. Petaflop-scale technologies have strategic importance not only for university research but also for industry. High-performance computer simulation has become essential when it comes to modeling and simulation, particularly in areas such as aeronautics, energy, climatology, life sciences, finance and information processing, and for sustainable development and energy savings.
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Bull in Fortune Magazine
Bull is featured in a Fortune Magazine Supplement, entitled: “The New Secret Weapon.” This Special Advertising Supplement discusses how Supercomputing has become part of the corporate arsenal to beat rivals by staying one step ahead of the innovation curve. It allows companies to design products and analyze data in ways once unimaginable. Didier Lamouche, Bull’s Chairman and CEO, tells how Bull is making supercomputing more accessible by making it more familiar and easier to use.
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