-- Continuing to build on the company's unparalleled leadership in HPC
innovation, at this year's SC14, DataDirect Networks (DDN) is revealing
broad customer adoption and latest performance testing of its Infinite
Memory Engine (IME(TM)) burst buffer and application acceleration
technology.
-- Ideal for a broad range of performance-hungry HPC applications, such as
real-time analytic processing and modeling of Big Data across Life
Sciences, Oil and Gas, Research and Financial Services industries among
others, where support for high bandwidth and high IOPS workloads is
essential, DDN is placing previews of IME technology into leading HPC
facilities around the world and currently has placed test beds in over a
dozen Top100 sites.
-- Planning for exascale, accelerating time to discovery and extracting
results from massive data sets requires organizations to continually
seek faster and more efficient solutions to provision I/O and accelerate
applications.
-- DDN's IME is the world's first, application-aware, non-volatile memory
enabled acceleration engine and buffer cache. IME resides between the
high-performance compute and parallel file system in an HPC environment,
and maximizes compute utilization without crippling the storage
back-end. By virtualizing SSDs across the entire environment into a
single fast tier of storage, users now can take advantage of the
declining price of commodity hardware and deliver near in-memory
performance to accelerate I/O, reduce latency and provide greater
operational and economic efficiency.
-- Providing multiple advantages over any competing technology, IME
delivers scale-out data protection with distributed erasure coding,
seamless integration with both Lustre® and GPFS(TM) environments,
intelligent adaptive data placement, POSIX compatibility and
standards-based HPC application interfaces.
-- IME is designed for HPC users looking to benefit from technology that
delivers orders of magnitude improvements in checkpointing and
I/O-intensive HPC application performance.
-- Heralding a major step forward in DDN's software defined storage
strategy, the new IME technology demonstrates DDN's focus on designing
state-of-the-art HPC and Big Data solutions, which also include WOS®
Object Storage technologies as well as DDN's highly optimized SFA
storage appliances.
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IME Decouples Physical Storage from Compute Resources to Redefine the I/O Provisioning Paradigm, Driving Increased I/O and Application Performance, Flexibility and Lower Total Cost of Storage
-- IME enables organizations to separate the provisioning of peak and
sustained performance requirements with up to 70 percent greater
operational efficiency and cost savings than utilizing exclusively
disk-based parallel file systems.
-- Inserting IME between the compute and parallel file system removes POSIX
semantics that bring cluster performance to its knees due to the
proliferation of small and mal-aligned I/O that can often make up 90
percent of the HPC workload. By shielding parallel file systems from
fragmented I/O in cache, with IME users now can run jobs at or near line
rate with more jobs in parallel resulting in faster time to insight.
-- Unlike simple burst buffer technologies that have been designed for
write-intensive, large file sequential operations such as
checkpoint-restart, IME enables acceleration across a wide array of HPC
applications and workloads with no application modifications required.
-- In addition, IME enables greater flexibility and choice for end users
due to its non-vendor-captive software-based approach. DDN's open, no
vendor lock-in solution provides extreme flexibility in how users can
architect their environments and a wide selection of specialty and
commodity hardware platforms and components.
Supporting Quotes
-- Molly Rector, CMO, EVP Product Management and WW Marketing at DDN
"DDN's IME delivers a wide range of advances that will enable the next generation of high performance computing capabilities. IME is a complete game changer in application acceleration, performance optimization, SSD utilization and high-performance storage. Years of development and investment from some of the greatest minds in high performance computing have delivered IME as a transparent solution to any data-intensive HPC application. Building on DDN's unparalleled leadership in delivering extreme performance, and with more than a dozen active test beds in use today, this announcement delivers once again on DDN's leadership in HPC."
-- Gilles Civario, Senior Software Architect, ICHEC
"DDN's IME can transform the I/O-bound problem back into a compute-bound problem. Using IME, ICHEC is seeing a 3x acceleration of the entire Tullow Oil production application -- not just the I/O portion. Clearly there is great potential for this technology in this and other sectors."
-- Tommy Minyard, Phd, Director of Advanced Computing Systems at TACC
"TACC is very excited to participate with DDN to perform large scale testing of DDN's IME on Stampede, currently one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This type of joint partnership testing enables TACC to prove powerful leading-edge advanced computing technologies for the open science community."
Availability
-- IME is available in limited release today as part of DDN's IME testbed
program.
Supporting Resources
-- Connect with DDN at SC14
-- More on IME
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a leader in data center infrastructure for Big Data and Cloud Storage applications. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver results from their information. Our customers include the world's leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's information powered enterprise. For more information, go to http://www.ddn.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE (837-2298).
Microchip Introduces New Low Cost PIC32MX1/2/5 32-bit Microcontroller Series With Feature-Rich Peripheral Mix and Large, Scalable Memory Configuration
Latest PIC32MX1/2/5 Series Enables a Wide Range of Applications, Including Digital Audio, Bluetooth®, Industrial Connectivity, USB and General-Purpose Embedded Control at Lower Prices
CHANDLER, Ariz., Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- [NASDAQ: MCHP] -- Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a new series of its low-cost, high pin count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs). By blending the key features of Microchip's existing PIC32MX1/2 and PIC32MX5 MCU families, this latest PIC32MX1/2/5 MCU series delivers designers the benefits of a rich peripheral set for a wide range of cost-sensitive applications that require complex code and higher feature integration at a lower cost.
With up to 83 DMIPS performance and large, scalable memory options from 64/8 KB to 512/64 KB Flash/RAM, these new PIC32MX1/2/5 MCUs are ideal for executing the Bluetooth(®) audio software required for low-cost Bluetooth audio applications, such as speakers, consumer music-player docks, noise-cancelling headsets and clock radios. Flexible, easy-to-use CAN2.0B controllers are also integrated into these MCUs, with DeviceNet(TM) addressing support and programmable bit rates up to 1 Mbps, along with system RAM for storing up to 1024 messages in 32 buffers. This feature allows designers to easily employ CAN communication schemes for industrial and automotive applications.
The new series boasts a wide variety of additional features, including four SPI/I(2)S interfaces for audio processing and playback, a Parallel Master Port (PMP) and capacitive touch sensing hardware for graphics and touch-sensing interfaces; a 10-bit, 1 Msps, 48-channel Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC); as well as a full-speed USB 2.0 Device/Host/OTG peripheral. To maximize data throughput, each MCU includes four general-purpose direct memory access controllers (DMAs) and two dedicated DMAs on each CAN and USB module.
In addition to their rich mix of integrated hardware peripheral features, these MCUs are supported by Microchip's powerful MPLAB(®) Harmony software development framework, which simplifies the software development process by integrating the license, resale and support of Microchip and third-party middleware, drivers, libraries and real time operating systems (RTOSs). Specifically, Microchip's readily available software packages, such as Bluetooth audio development suites, Bluetooth Serial Port Profile library, audio equalizer filter libraries, various Decoders (including AAC, MP3, WMA and SBC), sample-rate conversion libraries, CAN2.0B PLIBs, USB stacks, and graphics libraries can rapidly reduce the development time of applications, including Bluetooth connectivity, digital audio, consumer, industrial, medical and general-purpose embedded control.
"The smart peripheral mix and large, scalable memory options of this new 32-bit PIC(®) MCU series enables innovative solutions in the consumer, industrial, medical and general-purpose embedded control markets, at lower price points and with greater design simplicity," said Rod Drake, director of Microchip's MCU32 Division. "Additionally, our MPLAB Harmony software development framework makes it easy for designers to get their applications to market faster."
Development Support
The PIC32MX1/2/5 series is also supported by Microchip's free MPLAB X integrated development environment (IDE), the MPLAB XC32 compiler for PIC32, the MPLAB ICD3 in-circuit debugger and the MPLAB REAL ICE(TM) in-circuit emulation system. New development tools that were created to support this PIC32MX1/2/5 series include the PIC32MX1/2/5 Starter Kit (part # DM320100, $69.99), PIC32MX570F512L Plug-in-Module for Explorer 16 Development Board (part # MA320015, $25) and PIC32MX270F512L Plug-in-Module for Bluetooth Audio Development Kit (part # MA320017, $25).
Pricing & Availability
The new PIC32MX1/2/5 MCUs with the 40 MHz/66 DMIPS speed option are available now, in 64-pin TQFP and QFN packages and 100-pin TQFP packages. The 50 MHz/83 DMIPS speed option for this PIC32MX1/2/5 series is expected to be available starting in late January 2015. Pricing starts at $2.75 each, in 10,000-unit quantities.
For additional information, contact any Microchip sales representative or authorized worldwide distributor, or visit Microchip's Web site at http://www.microchip.com/PIC32MX-Page-110314a. To purchase products mentioned in this press release, go to microchipDIRECT (http://www.microchip.com/microchipDIRECT-110314a) or contact one of Microchip's authorized distribution partners.
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Radeeus Creates Peer-to-Peer Broadcasting With New Music Sharing App
DMI's Application Design Expertise Creates the Ultimate Shared Music Experience with Global Headphone Splitter
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The soundtrack to each person's life is ever-evolving based on mood, activity and environment. Allowing others to share and participate in these shifting experiences in real time makes music discovery that much more intimate, engaging and consistently fresh. Digital Management, Inc. (DMI) announced today the launch of a mobile app, Radeeus, a patent-pending social broadcasting platform designed to deliver a new level of social music sharing.
Music is more fun when experienced with others. This is the premise of Radeeus, an app that creates a shared music experience that is seamless, scalable and highly intimate.
-- Global headphone splitter: The Radeeus app provides users with their own
personal channels to play music for each other and listen together in
real time, no matter where in the world they are, acting as a global
headphone splitter.
-- Delivered by DMI: Radeeus chose DMI's full-service capabilities to bring
their dream of creating a seamless, shared music experience to life. The
app is available now at the iTunes App Store.
-- Universal social music promotion and sharing: For artists, celebrities,
athletes, brands, organizations and venues, Radeeus acts as a tool for
promotion, distribution, and sales, as each user now has a channel to
push a greater volume of digital content at a more rapid, fuller, and
easily consumable pace to directly engage with fans. Building on top of
streaming services like Spotify and Soundcloud, Radeeus is positioned as
a service-agnostic social layer, enabling users to search, access and
share all of their favorite tracks and playlists from their favorite
sources all in one place.
-- Easy to use, rich functionality: Users log into the app with Facebook
login; search and view music information; search, follow and listen in
to other users in real time; like and favorite songs; and receive
notifications from users they follow. Radeeus will soon add comments to
enhance the shared experience.
Ryan Rockefeller, CEO, Radeeus, said: "Our objective was to develop a backend platform capable of integrating with any kind of music streaming service, and then let users sync up with others in real time in order to create a uniquely intimate, human and hyper-social music discovery experience. DMI delivered an app with a rich feature set and an intuitive design. We are thrilled to offer this new way of connecting to the world."
Jay Sunny Bajaj, DMI founder and CEO, said: "Real time music sharing is a natural step in the progression of the social networking sphere. Radeeus captures the zeitgeist, both of this generation's ingenuity, and the desire for an engaging social media experience. Our development experts worked closely with the Radeeus team at every step to ensure that their vision was realized."
About DMI:
DMI is a leading provider of mobile enterprise and big data solutions and services, including mobile strategy, mobile UX and app solutions, omni-channel commerce, mobile brand and marketing, big data management and analytics, and secure mobile device, app and data management. The company's commitment to excellence in service delivery has resulted in dramatic growth and an expanding client base that includes hundreds of Fortune 1000 commercial clients and all fifteen U.S. Federal Departments. DMI is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, with satellite offices all around the world. Additional information is available at http://www.dminc.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
Innovative Devices Launches Next-Generation Device with Intuitive Full 3D Motion Control
BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The mouse created a revolution in computing upon its release, but little about the device has changed since then. The Mycestro, a wearable, wireless 3D mouse worn on the finger, delivers a groundbreaking product to this long stagnant market. Innovative Devices today announced the general availability of the Mycestro, delivering all of the same functionality as a traditional mouse with increased mobility. To learn more, visit: http://www.mycestro.com.
Using hand gestures and thumb actions, Mycestro wearers are able to enjoy:
-- Plug-and-play functionality: The Mycestro works with any software or
application that a person would normally use with a mouse on their
computer, tablet or other device. It works out of the box with Windows,
Apple, Linux and Android operating systems.
-- Compact, lightweight design: At only a half-ounce, the Mycestro will not
interfere with a user's typing or writing.
-- Unrestricted experience: The Mycestro is unrestricted to physical
surfaces, making it ideal for airplanes, hospital rooms, crowded
meetings and other cramped environments. The Mycestro will work up to 30
feet from its dongle, plugged into the USB port of the device under
control, and a full battery charge will last about eight hours of normal
use.
-- Good news for tired hands: The Mycestro has the potential to alleviate
some types of repetitive stress injuries associated with overuse of
traditional computer mice.
-- Ultimate control: Mycestro users are able to download the free Control
App for Windows or OS X operating systems to customize and fine-tune
control of their device. Updates to the firmware provide enhancements to
the battery life, improved cursor calibration and more. The Control App
is available at: http://www.mycestro.com/product-category/downloads/
Stephanie Takai, CEO, Innovative Devices, said: "Our founder and CTO, Nick Mastandrea, set out to create a more intuitive and less disruptive way of interacting with our computers after watching a businessman struggle to use his mouse on a plane. From our incredible reception on Kickstarter through the development process, it has been exciting for all of us at Innovative Devices to be participating in the launch of a transformative technology. We are thrilled to be making the Mycestro widely available, freeing people from their desks and improving how users interact with their devices."
About Innovative Devices Inc.
Innovative Devices Inc. (formerly Innovative Developments, LLC) is the home of the Mycestro, a wearable human-computer interaction device capable of gesture control and 3D motion. Launched on Kickstarter in February 2013, the Mycestro raised the largest fund at the time for an Ohio project. The Mycestro is compatible with Windows, OS X, Linux and Android operating systems. Innovative Devices is proud to be headquartered in the greater Cleveland area of Northeast Ohio. For more information please visit http://www.mycestro.com or call 216-916-1100.
Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses Exclusively Available on Amazon.com
Company's Award Winning M100 Smart Glasses Available for Pre-Order Now
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation for the holiday season, Vuzix® Corporation (OTCQB: VUZI), a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses in the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets, today announced that a special prosumer version of its award-winning M100 Smart Glasses will initially be exclusively available on Amazon.com.
"This marks a major milestone for us and increases our ability to sell our products directly to consumers," stated Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix. "We are thrilled with the opportunity to offer our M100s--exclusively on Amazon--as the technology is really gaining traction and people are seeing the benefits of what our hands-free smart glasses have to offer." Vuzix' M100 Smart Glasses are available for purchase through Amazon's Wearable Technology store.
The M100 Smart Glasses include custom eyeglass frames made for the M100 by Rochester Optical, an accessory battery and a premium leather carrying case. The eyeglasses can be upgraded to match the user's prescription at one of the more than 13,000 optical partner stores of Rochester Optical.
The M100 Smart Glasses is a cutting-edge hands-free wearable computing device that pairs with a user's smartphone or available WiFi connection, offering text, video, email, mapping, and augmented reality through its personal display and computing system. The Vuzix M100 contains a virtual display with integrated camera for videos and snapshots. Running an Android OS the voice and hand gesture controlled M100 is designed to run applications in standalone operation or when connected to the internet, and works with thousands of existing applications with many more native applications in development.
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets. The Company's products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and virtual and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 39 patents and 10 additional patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation every year starting from 2005 to 2015 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (VUZI.QB) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK and Tokyo, Japan.
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Free mobile game gives players a chance to win gold worth $500!!
TORONTO, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Canada is all set to witness the launch of a brand new mobile gaming concept, with a game which gives you a golden opportunity to win real gold!
Way To Gold is a game with a golden twist, this strategic puzzle game, and promises to deliver addictive fun. A select user group has been testing the game for the past few months and can vouch for the game being super addictive and thrilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X19CM4plLw8
Way To Gold involves a plot four like game play. The user needs to drop and arrange gold nuggets (called nuggies) in sequence of four or more. Trick Shots are there to help blast away roadblocks created by chunks of coal. The main objective of the coal chunks is to outsmart your attempt to plot sequences. Way to Gold is a game of wits and tactics.
The players advance through each level by connecting pieces, till they make it to the end and win the grand prize, a 24K gold coin worth Up To $500 or cash equivalent.
The game is based on the Freemium model and can be enjoyed by players of all ages. It does give users the option to make in app purchases for trick bombs, to advance levels quicker and reach higher scores. But at no point is the user under any obligation to do so, they can play from first to the last level and never have to worry about paying. The power ups can also be obtained by breaking the barrels, which show up during the game. The game and ability to win is the same whether you earn power ups or purchase power ups.
Way to Gold has already created a significant fan following on Social Media. To follow the game please visit https://www.facebook.com/WayToGoldGame.
Way to Gold marks the foray of RKTOnline in the mobile gaming industry. RKTOnline Inc is a Silicon Valley based mobile gaming company. For more information on the game or the company visit our website http://waytogold.com.
Infortrend Launches SSD Cache for EonStor DS 1000/ DS 3000 Series
- Delivers better performance, quicker response, and more intelligent deployment
TAIPEI, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Infortrend® (Public TPE: 2495) today announced a new SSD Cache for EonStor DS 1000 and EonStor DS 3000 systems. The feature allows SSD cache capacities of up to 3.2TB, improving performance by up to 16 times while response time is lowered by as much as 88%. The Infortrend SSD Cache is easy to install and manage, offering a convenient tool for SMBs to gain better performing storage.
Cache is fundamental to storage, especially read-intensive applications. SSD Cache allows fast SSD to be used to extend the cache pool capacity of storage systems so that vital (or high "hotness") applications run faster. Infortrend's EonStor DS 1000/DS 3000 systems tested with SSD Cache technology show up to a 16-fold increase in cache IOPS figures, while saving as much as 88% on response time.
Infortrend's SSD Cache moves copies of the most frequently-accessed data from HDDs to SSDs automatically. This intelligent deployment makes SSD Cache implementation seamless. Thanks to the simple and intuitive GUI, virtually no effort is required for maintenance or additional management.
"SSD Cache adds to a range of SSD-optimized features offered by Infortrend systems, enabling the future of better performance and improved efficiency customers demand. This is particularly important for SMBs," commented Thomas Kao, Senior Director of Product Planning at Infortrend.
SSD Cache is now available for the EonStor DS 1000/DS 3000 Series.
About Infortrend
Founded in 1993, Infortrend Corporation (Public TPE: 2495) is a leading provider of high performance networked storage solutions focusing on quality, reliability, choice, and value. Fueled by technological expertise, Infortrend storage has been widely deployed in demanding applications by users across commercial and industrial markets. Core brands include the ESVA, EonStor DS, EonStor, and EonNAS product families. For more information, please visit http://www.infortrend.com.
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Ultratech Introduces Superfast 4G Low-Cost In-line Inspection System For Patterned Wafers
Building on the Field-Proven Superfast 3G, Ultratech's 4G Inspection System Provides the Industry's Lowest-Cost, Highest-Productivity 3D Topography Solution for Advanced Lithography
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultratech, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTEK), a leading supplier of lithography, laser-processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), today introduced the Superfast 4G high-volume, in-line, 3D topography inspection system. Ultratech's new 4G system builds on the field-tested capability of the Superfast 3G, providing the industry's highest-productivity and lowest-cost solution compared to competing systems. The Superfast 4G system's patented coherent gradient sensing (CGS) technology provides a high degree of flexibility that enables Ultratech customers to use a single type of wafer inspection tool to measure the front side of patterned wafers across the entire fab line at the lowest cost. Ultratech plans to begin shipping the Superfast 4G systems in the first quarter of 2015.
The Superfast 4G leads the industry:
-- Direct, front-side 3D topography measurement for patterned wafers
-- Highest throughput for in-line, patterned wafer system--125 wph
-- Lowest cost-of-ownership?3x to 5x lower compared to competing systems
-- Flexibility to measure front side of patterned wafers anywhere in the
production line, (front-, middle- and back-end-of-line)
-- Open-architecture inspection platform can improve lithography
performance
-- Small wafer-shaped inspection footprint significantly reduces customer
production costs compared to competing systems
Ultratech Vice President, Marketing Inspection System & Technology Transfer, Shrinivas Shetty explained, "By working with leading-edge memory and logic customers using Ultratech's 3G systems, we were able to successfully implement the industry's requirements for 3D topography with in-line inspection tools. Ultratech invested heavily in the algorithm and factory automation capabilities, expanded manufacturing capacity in Singapore and developed regional senior applications managers to help ensure a smooth ramp to volume production. Ultratech also made significant improvements to the new Superfast 4G inspection system, resulting in increases of 2.5x in performance and 65 percent in throughput, as well as a 30 percent reduction in edge exclusion, compared to the 3G system. Moreover, the two inspection systems have identical process modules retaining all critical optical components ensuring a smooth transition from the 3G to the 4G system for high-volume production. The Superfast 4G is an example of Ultratech's commitment to providing leading technology that cost-effectively addresses the critical needs of its global customers for high-volume manufacturing."
Ultratech's Superfast 4G Inspection System
Based on patented coherent gradient sensing (CGS) technology, Ultratech's Superfast 4G inspection system for patterned wafers provides the industry's highest throughput (125 wph), with the lowest cost-of-ownership (3x to 5x lower) compared to competing systems. The direct, front-side 3D topography measurement capability is well suited for patterned wafer applications such as feed-forward overlay distortion control, 3D topography measurement for focus control, and high-stress process control (bow, warpage, breakage). The Ultratech Superfast 4G inspection system provides leading technology to address the critical needs of its global customers in a cost-effective solution.
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About Ultratech: Ultratech, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTEK) designs, builds and markets manufacturing systems for the global technology industry. Founded in 1979, Ultratech serves three core markets: front-end semiconductor, back-end semiconductor, and nanotechnology. The company is the leading supplier of lithography products for bump packaging of integrated circuits and high-brightness LEDs. Ultratech is also the market leader and pioneer of laser spike anneal technology for the production of advanced semiconductor devices. In addition, the company offers solutions leveraging its proprietary coherent gradient sensing (CGS) technology to the semiconductor wafer inspection market and provides atomic layer deposition (ALD) tools to leading research organizations, including academic and industrial institutions. Visit Ultratech online at: http://www.ultratech.com.
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NCS Technologies Announces Cirrus LT, the Industry's First PCoIP Zero Client Laptop Computer, Is Generally Available
GAINESVILLE, Va., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- NCS Technologies, Inc. (http://www.ncst.com), a leading domestic computing systems manufacturer, today announced general availability of the Cirrus LT zero client laptop, a compact notebook that is highly secure and delivers all the functionality of a traditional PC. The laptop comes with a 14-inch screen, docking station, battery, integrated smart card reader and optional Wi-Fi capability. Cirrus LT delivers key innovations including patented mobility technology, ease of use and management.
Cirrus LT uses Teradici PCoIP(®) technology. This protocol compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience at the data center and transmits only pixels across the IP network. Users have secure, fully functional, and effortless access to all applications. Cirrus LT takes advantage of the strongest security protocols, AES-256 cryptography and NSA Suite B ciphers, when used in conjunction with a PCoIP Remote Workstation Card. The laptop doesn't retain any user data because it doesn't have local storage, hard drive or an operating system. That means secrets won't be compromised if the device is lost, broken into or stolen.
Engineered for low cost of ownership, Cirrus LT works in VMware Horizon View and Amazon WorkSpaces environments - delivering a highly efficient IT administrative experience. The laptop supports copper, fiber and optional Wi-Fi. Cirrus LT can be implemented as a part of an NCS VDI Stack, a purpose-built converged storage and computer hardware appliance solution that delivers simplicity, scalability and cost efficiencies to virtual desktop deployments.
Cirrus LT is distributed by Ingram Micro and Carahsoft Technology Corp. in North America, with distribution being developed for EU markets. Cirrus LT was developed for vertical markets, including government, education, finance, healthcare and manufacturing - any vertical that needs security, mobility and efficiency.
For more information, contact our distributors or NCS at 703-743-8548, or visit http://www.ncst.com. NCS Technologies has won Microsoft US OEM Partner of the Year and the Intel Client Solution Innovation Award.
Contact:
John Callahan
jcallahan@ncst.com
703.743.8586
Seattle studio currently hiring for multiple positions
SEATTLE, November 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Gameloft, a leading publisher of digital and social games, today announced the opening
of a new studio in Seattle, WA.
Gameloft Seattle will develop new projects for the Gameloft catalog, creating the next
generation of free-to-play games. Gameloft Seattle joins the Gameloft U.S. studio group -
responsible for the recent blockbuster success of Spider-Man: Unlimited and Cars: Fast as
Lightning - alongside New York and New Orleans, headed by Samir El-Agili, Vice President
of Production for the U.S. and Latin America. The studio has already begun work on new
titles with a focus on mid-core, social games.
The studio will be led by Studio Manager Michael Fitch, who brings to Gameloft a deep
knowledge of online, social, and mid-core gaming. Fitch has a storied background in the
industry at Atomic Games, Red Storm Entertainment, THQ, and, most recently, Tencent.
"Our vision for this studio is to create a higher standard for the intersection of
online, competitive, and socially integrated games," said Michael Fitch, Studio Manager.
"The mobile platform brings unique opportunities with its always-available experiences. We
look forward to bringing great games to market."
Gameloft Seattle is currently recruiting for many positions, looking for passionate
people excited to build the next big mobile hit.
A leading publisher of digital and social games, Gameloft(R) has established itself as
one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital
platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple(R) iOS,
Android(R) and Windows(R) devices), set-top boxes and connected TVs. Gameloft operates its
own established franchises such as Asphalt(R), Order & Chaos, Modern Combat or Dungeon
Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including Universal, Illumination
Entertainment, Disney(R), Marvel(R), Hasbro(R), Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel(R) and
Ferrari(R).
Gameloft is present on all continents, distributes its games in over 100 countries and
employs over 5,200 developers.
Gameloft is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris (Euronext: GFT.PA, Bloomberg: GFT FP,
Reuters: GLFT.PA). Gameloft is traded OTC in the US (sponsored Level 1 ADR ticker: GLOFY).
Media contact:
Mandy Paez
U.S. PR Manager
+1-(415)-852-7209
Mandy.paez@gameloft.com
Best-ever images from Fluke, with the Fluke TiX Expert Series Infrared Cameras
EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Fluke Corporation launches its highest resolution infrared camera ever: the Fluke(®) TiX Series Infrared Cameras. The TiX1000 (with 1024 x 768 resolution), TiX660, and TiX640 (both 640 x 480) feature up to ten times the on-camera pixels as are available on standard 320 x 240 cameras and a large 5.6-inch articulating display to help quickly identify issues while still in the field. The TiX Expert Series delivers highly detailed image quality, the most advanced focusing options available on one infrared camera, and the versatility to capture accurate measurements from targets that are challenging, dangerous, or moving too fast.
The SuperResolution mode feature on the TiX1000 and TiX660 cameras increase image resolution, when viewed in the included SmartView(®) software, four times more than what you get on camera. For example, SuperResolution reveals HD quality in the TiX1000 images with 3.1 million pixels. The TiX660 SuperResolution images have 1.2 million pixels. This higher resolution helps better identify potential issues that might have been missed with other infrared cameras.
The TiX Series can also be sub-windowed to 240 Hz frame rate to capture and analyze sudden temperature changes that occur within a second for advanced research and development applications.
With eight lens options (two telephoto, two wide angle, three macro, and one standard), the TiX Series can capture images from very close up to long range to meet a wide variety of applications.
The combination of high resolution and telephoto lenses captures detailed thermal images from a safe distance for oil and gas, utilities, and preventive/predictive maintenance applications. The super telephoto lens enables users to inspect areas that they could not get close to before and still capture spectacular, detailed infrared images.
At the other end of the spectrum, these cameras, combined with a macro lens, deliver extreme close-up views in extraordinary detail making them ideal for inspection and analysis for the research and development engineer.
The TiX Series cameras feature the most advanced focus options available on a handheld infrared camera for consistently in-focus images. The EverSharp multifocal recording mode utilizes the focus motor to capture multiple images from varying focal distances with the push of a button. Using advanced algorithms, Fluke SmartView(®) software combines the images taken from multiple focal distances and creates an image that sharpens the detail of not just the initial focal point, but the elements around the focal point, providing an in-focus image for objects at different distances. This along with LaserSharp(®) Auto Focus, auto focus, and manual focus provides a variety of methods to capture consistently in-focus images.
Fluke Connect System
TiX Series Infrared Cameras are part of the Fluke Connect system -- the world's largest portfolio of connected tools -- which allows technicians to wirelessly transmit measurement data from their test tools to their smart phones and tablets for secure storage on the cloud and universal team access from the field. With Fluke Connect, teams can easily access past infrared inspections on the go and look at trends over time. The Fluke Connect app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
The new Fluke TiX Expert Series with its premium viewing experience, extensive feature set, and highly detailed images, along with the affordable Fluke Performance Series and advanced Professional Series, provide infrared solutions for every application and budget. For more information about the Fluke TiX Series Infrared Cameras, visit: http://en-us.fluke.com/products/infrared-cameras/tix1000-infrared-camera.html.
Fluke Corporation
For information on Fluke tools and applications, or to find the location of a distributor, contact Fluke Corporation, P.O. Box 9090, Everett, WA USA 98206, call (800) 44-FLUKE (800-443-5853), fax (425) 446-5116, e-mail fluke-info@fluke.com or visit the Fluke Web site at http://www.fluke.com.
About Fluke
Founded in 1948, Fluke Corporation is the world leader in compact, professional electronic test tools. Fluke customers are technicians, engineers, electricians, and metrologists who install, troubleshoot and manage industrial, electrical and electronic equipment and calibration processes.
Fluke is a registered trademark of Fluke Corporation. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. For more information, visit the Fluke website.
For more information:
Leah Friberg
Public Relations Manager
(425) 446-5905
leah.friberg@fluke.com
Pratt Institute Student Chantal Galipeau Wins Contest To Design New Earphones For Audio Accessory Brand me.u
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Design-driven audio accessory brand me.u today announced the winner of its earphone design contest with Pratt Institute, a global leader in higher education. Ten Pratt students - five in its Fashion program and five in its Industrial Design program -- participated in the "sponsored studio" that challenged them to develop designs for the next generation of me.u's high-quality earphones. The winning design was created by 21-year-old Tiverton, RI native Chantal Galipeau, a senior Fashion major.
"It was a difficult decision for us, as the Pratt students presented so many exciting designs," said Johan Persson, Creative Director, C'Monde Studios, an award-winning Swedish industrial design studio based in Hong Kong that is the creative force behind the me.u brand. "But Chantal's design stood out for its boldness and innovation. It fits well with our brand's style aesthetic, and we feel it will speak to today's young creatives."
"I draw a lot of my inspiration from the vibrancy of New York City," Galipeau explained. "I live in Brooklyn and am surrounded by rich colors and textures every time I walk down the street. So I tried to embody that energy in my design."
As part of the contest, Pratt students were tasked with choosing materials and selecting color palettes and finishes for their new earphone design. Galipeau opted for a slick teal color scheme, inspired by Adelphi St. in Brooklyn and made from brushed aluminum with a silver plastic finish.
The student designs had to fit the aesthetics of me.u's original product line, which was introduced earlier this year. The company's earphones embrace a colorful and bold street style that appeals to its target market of students and young creatives. Pratt faculty members provided guidance to the students, as did designers from C'Monde Studios.
"We were proud of the work each of our students accomplished," said Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, the adjunct associate professor of Industrial Design and Fashion who supervised the project for Pratt. "They approached the challenge like professionals and delivered creative concepts that made it tough to pick a winner."
Galipeau's design is currently in production and will be commercially available in Q1 2015. Like me.u's current earphone line, the new design will be available in college bookstores throughout the country. The me.u line is distributed by HPI International, Inc., a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based, value-added wholesale distributor of technology, hardware, and technology accessories.
Galipeau is currently interning at Alder New York, a Brooklyn-based lifestyle brand founded by Pratt alumni and instructors David J. Krause and Nina Zilka. When she graduates in 2015, Gallipeau hopes to work in the New York fashion design industry with leading designers. She aspires to run her own small business in Brooklyn.
About Pratt Institute:
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is a global leader in higher education dedicated to preparing its 4,700 undergraduate and graduate students for successful careers in art, design, architecture, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.
About C'Monde Studios
C'Monde Studios is a Swedish award-winning industrial design studio based in Hong Kong, specializing in industrial design, design concepts, branding, and visual identities. The company, which is frequently names as one of the top design studios in the region and is known for its iconic designs and advanced manufacturing skills, is famous for creating designs that take their shape where business, technology, and culture intersect. For further information, visit http://www.cmonde.com.
About HPI International, Inc.
HPI is a value-added re-seller of technology, hardware, and tech accessories, catering to the U.S. college bookstore market. The company offers exclusive high-end, popular products from manufacturers who are recognized for product lines that create buzz, giving today's college bookstore a strong competitive edge over traditional big box retailers. For further information, visit http://www.hpi.com.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
FOR ME.U
Adam Sohmer, Sohmer Associates LLC
adam@sohmerassoc.com or 347-497-4965
FOR PRATT INSTITUTE
Regine Labossiere, Goodman Media International
pratt@goodmanmedia.com or 212-576-2700
New Android OSIGUARD App Tackles Smartphone Thefts with patented Biometric authentication
App powered by OS New Horizon first ever to use unique 3D in-air movement signature to protect against smartphone theft & block access to private data
NEVE ILAN, Israel, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OS New Horizon, the leading developer of biometric-biology authentication and management technology to protect and secure personal and portable data on Smartphones today launched OSIGUARD, the first combined anti-theft & biometric app that protects your smartphone from being stolen while ensuring all of your data remains secure at all times. OSIGUARD is currently available for download on the Google Play store.
In recent years, smartphone thefts have been on the rise. Last year more than 2.3 million Americans had their smartphones stolen. Smartphone thefts account for 40% of all robberies in major US cities, and smartphone owners spend an estimated $30 billion each year replacing lost and stolen devices. OSIGUARD enables users to be fully protected from theft without having to install any hardware add-on. Activating OSIGUARD is simple; a short authentication process captures your unique anti-theft & biometric ID signature via an in-air movement. The app provides a step by step guide to create a unique 3D in-air signature, remembering and saving the personal air-movement enrollment pattern, keeping users completely secure.
OSIGUARD is the first biometric-based app that protects your Smartphone with all of your most valuable personal digital assets and your privacy. If anyone attempts to steal your phone, a loud alarm will sound - and only your in-air-movement can shut it down.
OSIGUARD - Key Features:
-- Initial Registration enables via 3-D phone movement a unique in-air
signature
-- PIN Code provides an additional 4-digit alarm release
-- Alternate ID provides an alternative method of identification
-- Alert Mode enables to trigger phone to shift into Alert Mode, ready to
detect a potential thief, by tapping a dedicated widget on the phone's
main screen
-- Switch between modes from the widget
-- Option for Suspected Theft generated alarm will trigger a very
high-pitch siren
"We are really excited to launch OSigard, the first ever anti-theft biometric app that serves as a complete safeguard against theft, blocks any attempt at physical probing into users' data on their smartphones, and secures complete privacy on mobile devices," said Gila Fish, Founder & CEO, OS New Horizon. "Our company's vision from day one has been based on developing a completely Personalized Central Authentication System (PCAS). We have developed state of the art biometric technology - in cooperation with the Polytechnic University of Madrid - to provide users an all-encompassing protection of their smartphone by authenticating smartphone owners in a smart and unique way, making it virtually impossible to forget or steal the biometric password. Our technology is not affected by light or dark environments or loud voice surroundings. OS New Horizon is a leading pioneer applying biometric technology to deliver full smartphone and personal data protection. In the near future we will launch the first hardware component from our proprietary POMM (Privacy on my Mind) eco-system."
About OS New Horizon Ltd.
OS New Horizon Ltd. is a global technology leader specializing in biometric authentication and management of highly-secured personal and portable data storage on Smartphone applications & mobile devices. Osiguard is the first Android app to be released, independent of any hardware, protecting your smartphone and your personal data privacy.
OS New Horizon is part of a $4.5 million EU funded FP7 project (7thFramework Program for Research and Technological Development) in collaboration with a consortium of international leading institutes across Europe, developing cyber security and privacy solutions in both (cloud) computing and mobile services, specifically addressing the pressing issues of identification, authentication and data management. The joint venture is developing the PCAS (Personal Centralized Authentication System) platform for an innovative, trustworthy, handheld device, known as the Secured Personal Device (SPD), enabling users to securely store their data, share the data with trusted applications, and to easily and securely authenticate their identity. OS New Horizon is developing the POMM (Privacy on my Mind) eco-system which is entirely based on biometric authentication, preserving all bio-ID data in a safe repository, protecting and securing data privacy. The POMM Biometric ID components will be used to authenticate money transfers, digital signatures and enable physical logins to the device. In addition, the platform will also enable biometric tokens for authenticated entry within secured corporate and enterprise level information systems and corporate digital signatures.
OS New Horizon is headquartered in Neve Ilan near Jerusalem, Israel and was founded in 2010.
Win up to $25,000 Playing Booty Chaser Linked Bingo
Charities will be able to play Booty Chaser, Electronic Game Solutions (EGS's) new linked bingo game at the Allied Charities of Minnesota (ACM) Convention & Expo November 20th-21st, 2014 at the Rivers Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- For a $3.00 bet, players receive nine cards and seven chances to win up to $25,000. Players can win consolation prizes that vary based on the number of people playing, along with jackpots of $100, $250, $500 and the $25,000 progressive jackpot. Since the game's soft release in August, it has paid out thousands of dollars in consolation prizes including two $500 winners, one $250 winner and one $100 winner.
Booty Chaser Linked Bingo was designed to play like a real bingo game, linking hundreds of players and locations. Booty Chaser Linked Bingo is currently installed in 22 locations, and is already generating prizes for players and profits for Minnesota charities. For their $3.00 bet, the player receives nine cards for a bingo game that lasts 8-10 minutes. New locations are signing up daily. As more locations join the link, the bigger the prizes will become and the faster the progressive jackpot, currently set at $25,000, will be awarded. The $25,000 progressive jackpot can grow up to $74,000 and will become a "must go" as more players play the game and the win balls are increased.
EGS has been in the bingo electronics industry for 12 years, and currently has over 16,000 globally-distributed handsets. EGS operates in sixteen different U.S. markets and has a number of commercial cruise lines as customers, including Disney. EGS's Xtreme® handset is not an "off the shelf" electronic device, but rather it is a commercial grade device manufactured in the U.S.A. by American citizens. EGS's core business is with veteran, fraternal and charitable organizations and it was imperative to EGS's owners to make sure revenue generated by these American charities helped generate more American jobs.
Electronic Game Solutions will be participating at the Allied Charities of Minnesota Convention & Expo November 20 - 22, 2014 in St. Cloud. Please stop by our booth to learn more about how EGS is changing the world of gaming.
Huawei Introduces New FusionServer Products at Supercomputing 2014
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SC14 -- Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced US availability of its FusionServer X6800 Data Center Server and a liquid cooled version of its FusionServer E9000 blade server at Supercomputing 2014 (SC14). Huawei will also demonstrate a wide array of next-generation server, storage and networking products in Booth 550 at SC14, which runs from November 17-20.
"Historically, the main challenges of HPC have been computational performance, memory and storage improvement, simplified installation and deployment," said Jun Xu, Vice President of Marketing for Huawei Enterprise USA. "At SC14 we will be showcasing products that help solve these challenges and meet the requirements of intelligent system management and green energy efficiency for mission-critical applications such as databases, virtualization, business intelligence (BI), and HPC."
The Huawei FusionServer X6800 is a next-generation data center server optimized to support all business in one solution. This X6800 provides a broad portfolio of server nodes to flexibly meet elastic configuration requirements of differentiated services for computing, storage, and I/O resources. It also supports simplified system management and efficient operation and maintenance (O&M). The X6800 is ideal for various service applications such as - cloud computing, big data, and HPC applications - and is an optimal choice for the IT infrastructure of cloud data centers.
Huawei's latest version of its FusionServer E9000 blade server now comes with a cutting-edge heat dissipation design and fully redundant architecture, ensuring energy efficiency and high reliability. The E9000's industry-leading hardware computing platform improves competitiveness based on its availability, computing density, energy consumption, low emissions, midplane bandwidth, intelligent management and services, elastic configuration, flexible computing and storage expansion capabilities, low network latency, and acceleration functions.
Huawei will also conduct demonstrations on its latest ICT innovations at SC14, including:
SfN14: SMI Launches Eye Tracking Upgrade Package for the Oculus Rift DK2 HMD
BOSTON and TELTOW, Germany, November 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) raises the value of HMD based studies and applications
by launching the world's first eye tracking upgrade package for the Oculus Rift DK2 HMD
SensoMotoric Instruments [http://www.smivision.com ], technology leader in eye
tracking solutions, today launches a unique eye tracking upgrade package for the leading
Oculus Rift DK2 virtual reality headset [http://www.smivision.com/eyetracking-hmd ].
Adding SMI's leading mobile eye tracking technology enables scientists, VR developers and
application providers to gain new insights and explore new possibilities for VR based
applications and studies such as training, performance assessment and optimization as well
as visual orientation. SMI's Eye Tracking HMD integration is available for Oculus Rift DK2
customers and comes with an C/C++ SDK and support for popular VR engines such as Unity and
Vizard. Benefits can be experienced hands-on at the Society for Neuroscience 2014 (SfN
2014) meeting in Washington D.C., USA (November 15-19, 2014, SMI booth 2906).
Watch video of SMI Eye Tracking HMD demo:http://youtu.be/cx-8Xp1fxgA
Earlier this year, SMI already showed prototypical integrations of eye tracking into
the Oculus Rift DK1 at the Vision Science Society (VSS) and Siggraph conferences. The
feedback was so overwhelming that SMI developed the Oculus Rift DK2 integration as soon as
possible. With hundreds of real human eyes already tested in the HMD setup, the SMI
package aims to provide excellent measurement quality for all relevant eye and gaze data.
The C/C++ SDK supports integration into a broad range of VR-solutions and makes all
important eye and gaze data available online.
With SMI Eye Tracking, scientists can add visual perception analysis to their research
with the Oculus HMD. VR developers can create gaze interaction scenarios for VR training
and education applications. Furthermore, the solution provides measures on the individual
eye data such as eye and gaze position and eye screen distance. With these unique
measures, the 3D visualization in the HMD can be personalized producing less nausea and
optimized 3D vision for participants.
Eberhard Schmidt, Managing Director SMI: "SMI has always been leading in mobile and
medical eye tracking applications. The upcoming VR and AR applications and the associated
head mounted displays will benefit immensely from well integrated high performance eye
tracking. They are a natural field of application for SMI's technology. Our latest
generation modular eye tracking platform allows fast integration and excellent performance
in various environments. The Oculus Rift DK2 upgrade package is just the first of a number
of groundbreaking solutions we are making available soon."
The SMI ET-HMD upgrade package is based on SMI's Eye Tracking Glasses technology.
SMI's leading wearable eye tracking has been proven with more than 100,000 users and
provides unmatched robustness. Also debuting at SfN: The next generation SMI Eye Tracking
Glasses2Wireless with a slimmer Natural Gaze[TM]head gear
[http://www.eyetracking-glasses.com ].
Supermicro® Exhibits the Industry's Broadest Range of HPC Optimized Platforms and New Ultra SuperServer® Solutions at Supercomputing '14
1U/2U/4U GPU Servers Support New Tesla K80 GPUs, New Ultra Architecture Maximizes Performance, Density and Efficiency with 160W CPUs, GPU/Xeon Phi Support, 100Gb/s EDR IB, NVMe and Titanium Level Power Supplies
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing highlights new HPC optimized high-density 1U/2U/4U SuperServers supporting the new NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 GPUs (2x memory/up to 2x performance) at Supercomputing 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana this week. These new systems provide industry leading parallel compute performance and density with support for up to 3x GPUs in 1U and 4x GPUs in 2U and 4U/Tower solutions. Supermicro's new 1U/2U Ultra SuperServer® solutions are also on exhibit integrating best-in-class features including hardware accelerated dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 CPUs (160W), 24x DIMMs supporting up to 1.5TB 2133MHz DDR4 memory, Intel® Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessor or NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU support, flexible integrated networking options (1G, 4x 1/10GbE or 10Gbase-T, 2x 10G SFP+) and up to 8x PCI-E 3.0 expansion slots. These innovative server platforms also support the industry's only hot-swap NVMe, 12Gb/s SAS3 and Titanium Level high-efficiency (96%+) digital power supplies.
Additional, exhibits will showcase the latest low-latency, high-bandwidth server/storage solutions supporting Mellanox® EDR 100Gb/s ConnectX-4(TM) InfiniBand, the industry's widest selection of hot-swap NVMe SSD enabled solutions, servers featuring SanDisk® ULLtraDIMM(TM) memory channel storage (MCS) technology, SuperStorage clusters supporting Intel® Lustre and high-density compute SuperBlade® and MicroBlade solutions.
"Supermicro is advancing the field of HPC with our new K80 GPU optimized SuperServers and growing line of Ultra series SuperServers featuring industry leading compute, storage and networking technologies," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our latest solutions are delivering greater performance per watt, per square foot with advanced thermal and efficiency design as well as leading edge acceleration technologies such as NVMe and 100Gb/s interconnectivity. Our wide array of complete HPC optimized GPU and Xeon Phi server solutions enable engineering, scientific and research communities with the most sophisticated supercomputing platforms."
-- 1U SuperServer® (SYS-1028GR-TR) - up to 3x NVIDIA Tesla K80 or Intel®
Xeon Phi(TM) CoprocessorHigh density form factor supporting dual Intel®
Xeon® E5-2600 v3 (up to 145W), up to 1TB ECC, up to DDR4 2133MHz in 16x
DIMMs, 4x hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 drive bays, dual port GbE LAN, Redundant
1600W Platinum Level High-Efficiency (94%) Digital Power Supplies
-- 2U SuperServer® (SYS-2028GR-TR) - up to 4x NVIDIA Tesla K80 or Intel®
Xeon Phi(TM) CoprocessorSupports dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600
v3, up to 1TB ECC, DDR4 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 10x hot-swap 2.5" SATA
drive bays, 4x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16) low-profile
slot, dual GbE LAN, 2000W Redundant Platinum-Level high-efficiency
(94%+) Digital Power Supplies
-- 2U TwinPro(TM) (SYS-2028TP-DTR) - 1x NVIDIA Tesla or Intel® Xeon
Phi(TM) Coprocessor per node2x DP hot-plug nodes each supporting dual
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3, up to 1TB ECC LRDIMM, 512GB ECC
RDIMM, up to 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 8x 2.5" hot-swap SATA HDD bays, 1x
PCI-E 3.0 x16, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slot and 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16, dual GbE LAN,
mSATA (full size) support, 1280W Redundant Platinum-Level
high-efficiency (95%) Digital Power Supplies
-- 2U Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB) Storage Server (SSG-2027B-CIB020H) - Microsoft
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard2x hot-pluggable systems (nodes),
each supporting dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2403 (1.8GHz), 20TB raw
storage capacity in 24x hot-swap 2.5" SAS1/SAS2 drive bays populated
with 4x SSDs and 20x 1TB nearline SAS HDDs, 32GB up to 192GB DDR3
1600MHz ECC reg. DIMM; 6x DIMM sockets (3 per CPU), 3x PCI-E 3.0 slots
per node (can be used for host or storage expansion), 2x GbE LAN, SAS
2.0 (6Gb/s) JBOD ports, dual-port 10GBase-T (AOC-STG-i2T) or SFP+
network (AOC-STGN-i2S) Add-on-Card options, 1x 64GB SATA DOM for Windows
Server OS boot drive, 920W Redundant Platinum Level high efficiency
(95%+) Power Supplies
-- 4U FatTwin(TM) (SYS-F628R3-FT)4x DP hot-plug nodes each supporting dual
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 (145W), up to 512GB ECC DDR4 2133MHz
in 8x DIMMs, 4x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA HDDs, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 (LP) slot,
front I/O ports; 2x GbE LAN, 2x USB 2.0, 1x VGA connector, 1280W
Redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%) Digital Power Supplies
-- 4U/Tower SuperServer® (SYS-7048GR-TR) - up to 4x NVIDIA Tesla K80 or
Intel® Xeon Phi(TM) CoprocessorDual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (up to 160W),
up to 1TB ECC DDR4 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 8x 3.5" hot-swap, 3x fixed
5.25" and 1x fixed 3.5" drive bays, optional Thunderbolt 2.0 AOC, 1x
PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot, 4x heavy duty fans, 2x exhaust fans,
Redundant 2000W Platinum Level High-Efficiency (94%) Digital Power
Supplies
-- 2U EX DP 32 DIMM (SYS-2028UT-BTNRT)Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800
v2 / E7-4800 v2 / E7-2800 v2 family (15-Core), 2x 2.5" NVMe HDD bays and
8x hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 HDD bays, up to 2TB ECC DDR3, up to 1600MHz in
32x DIMMs, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16 FH/HL slots, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 MicroLP card,
dual 10GBase-T ports, Redundant 1280W Platinum Level High-Efficiency
(95%+) Digital Power Supplies
-- New 4U X10 4-Way (SYS-8018B-TF) 32x DIMMs (SYS-8048B-TF) 96x DIMMs, 3.5"
HDDsSupports quad Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8800/4800 v2 family up to
15 cores, SAS3 up to 48x 2.5" (available) HDD or 24x 3.5" HDD, up to 11x
PCI-E slots (4x memory riser cards installed on slot 2,3,6,7), up to 6TB
DDR3 RDIMM/LRDIMM in 96 memory DIMM sockets
-- 4U Double-Sided Storage® Server (SSG-5048R-E1CR36L) - 36x 3.5"
Hot-Swappable HDD BaysSupports single Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600
v3, up to 512GB ECC DDR4 2133MHz in 8x DIMMs, 1 PCI-E 3.0 x4 (in x8), 1
PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16), 2 PCI-E 3.0 x8, 1 PCI-E 2.0 x2 (in x4), 1 PCI-E
2.0 x4 (in x8), quad GbE LAN ports, 36x 3.5" hot-swap SAS3 HDD Bays (24
front + 12 rear); optional 2x 2.5" Hot-swap HDD bays (rear), dual JBOD
expansion ports, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (94%)
Power Supplies
-- 6U X10 MicroBlade
-- UP Module (MBI-6118D-T2/-T4)Intel Xeon E3-1200 V3 ( up to 82W) , Up
to 32GB ECC DDR3 1600/1333 MHz VLP UDIMM in 4x DIMMs , 2x 3.5 SATA3
HDD (-T2 SKU) , 4 x 2.5 STAT3 HDD/SSD (-T4 SKU), Onboard 2x GbE
Network Communication
-- 28x Modules, 112x nodes (MBI-6418A-T7H/T5H1x Intel® Atom(TM) C2750
(8-Core, 2.4GHz) (-T7H SKU) or 1x Intel® Atom(TM) C2550 (4-Core,
2.4GHz) (-T5H SKU), 2x 2.5Gb/s network connectivity per node, up to
32GB ECC DDR3 1600/1333MHz SO-DIMM in 2x DIMM sockets per node, 1x
2.5" 6Gb/s SATA3 HDD/SSD and 1x SATA3 DOM per node
-- 7U SuperBlade®
-- 3x NVIDIA Tesla GPU Blade (SBI-7127RG3)Dual Intel Xeon processor
E5-2600 v2, up to 512GB RDIMM or 64GB UDIMM in 8x DIMMs, 3x NVIDIA
Tesla Kepler K20X/K40x SXM GPUs, 1x SSD or 1x SATA-DOM, dual port
GbE LAN, FDR/QDR InfiniBand, 10GbE
-- 2x NVIDIA Tesla GPU/Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Blade
(SBI-7127RG-E)Dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2, up to 512GB
RDIMM or 64GB UDIMM in 8x DIMMs, 1x SSD or 1x SATA-DOM, dual port
GbE LAN, FDR/QDR InfiniBand, 10GbE/FCoE
-- TwinBlade® (SBI-7228R-T2F/T2X2x DP nodes, each node supporting dual
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (up to 145W), up to 512GB reg. ECC LRDIMM,
dual port GbE LAN, 2x 2.5" hot-swap SATA3 drive bays, FDR InfiniBand
onboard (-T2F SKU) or 10GbE onboard (-T2X SKU)
-- Processor Blade (SBI-7147R-S4X/S4F)Quad Intel® Xeon® E5-4600 v2
processors, up to 1TB LRDIMM, 512GB RDIMM or 128GB UDIMM in 16x
DIMMs, 4x 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDD bays, SAS2 RAID 0, 1, 10, dual-port
GbE LAN, Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro EN dual-port IC 10GbE (-S4X SKU) or
Mellanox ConnectX-3 single-port FDR 56Gbps InfiniBand, 40/10 GbE
support (-S4F SKU)
-- Storage Blade (SBI-7128R-C6)Dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2, up
to 1TB LRDIMM, 512GB RDIMM in 16x DIMMs, 6x 2.5" hot-swap HDD/SSD
bays, up to 3x NVMe (option), HW RAID 0, 1, 5, 2G Cache, dual port
GbE LAN,FDR/QDR InfiniBand or 10GbE mezzanine HCA
-- 10/1GbE Top-of-Rack Network Switches
-- Layer 2/3 Ethernet Switching, link aggregation (LACP), Jumbo frames,
VLAN support
-- SSE-G24-TG4 - 24x RJ45 1Gbps Ethernet ports with 4x SFP Combo ports,
4x 10Gbps Ethernet (CX4, XFP, or SFP+) ports
-- SSE-G48-TG4 - 48x RJ45 1Gbps Ethernet ports with 4x SFP Combo ports
-- SSE-X3348T(R) - 48x RJ45 10Gbps Ethernet ports, (R) reverse airflow
model
-- SSE-X24S / SSE-X3348S(R) - 24x/48x 10Gbps Ethernet (SFP+) ports, (R)
reverse airflow option
-- 1U A+ 4-Way Server (AS-1042G-TF)Supports quad AMD Opteron(TM) 6000
series (6300P* ready) processors (Socket G34) 16/12/8/4-Core ready;
HT3.0 Link support, up to 1TB DDR3 Registered ECC 1600/1333/1066 SDRAM
in 32x DIMMs, 3x hot-swap SAS/SATA Drive Bays, 1x PCI-e Gen 2.0 x16 slot
(Low profile add-on card), dual-port GbE LAN, 1400W high-efficiency
Power Supply
-- 2U A+ 4x DP Hot-Plug Node Server (AS-2122TG-HTRF)Each node supports dual
AMD Opteron(TM) 6000 series (6300P* ready) processors (Socket G34)
16/12/8/4-Core ready; HT3.0 Link, up to 512GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC
Registered DIMM in 16x DIMMs, 6x 2.5" hot-swap SATA drive bays, 1x
Low-profile PCI-E 2.0 in x16 slot, dual-port GbE LAN, 1400W Redundant
High-efficiency Power Supplies
Visit Supermicro at SC14 in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 16-21 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Booth #1515. For more information on Supermicro's complete range of high performance, high-efficiency Server, Storage and Networking solutions, visit http://www.supermicro.com.
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Samsung Techwin Announces Retail Availability Of SmartCam HD Outdoor Wi-Fi IP Camera
Samsung brings peace-of-mind to consumers by staying connected to their homes and property from anywhere
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Techwin America, a leader in consumer video monitoring and security products, today, announced the availability of its next generation Wi-Fi IP outdoor camera, the SmartCam HD Outdoor. The camera is now available at major retailers including Best Buy, Fry's Electronics and major online retailers such as Amazon.com and Newegg.com.
The newest addition to Samsung's robust IP camera lineup outshines other outdoor video surveillance options, boasting simple setup and installation, full 1080p HD streaming video (up to 720p on handheld mobile devices) and a 128-degree ultra-wide angle field of view allowing consumers to monitor a wide perspective of daytime and nighttime outdoor activity via website or mobile device. The most unique feature of the SmartCam HD Outdoor camera is the dual component design in which the camera and lens stay outside (IP 66 weatherproof) while the Wi-Fi module and power supply are placed inside, connected by a cable. This ensures a strong Wi-Fi signal reaches the device and solves the problem of powering the camera since in most cases power is not readily available outside. The SmartCam HD Outdoor also features a built-in microSD memory card slot, which allows for secure video storage while eliminating any monthly cloud recording fees.
"Having the ability to monitor activity occurring outside of the home or business in real- time is important to ensuring a safe environment indoors," said Mike Palazzolo, VP of Marketing and Sales, Samsung Techwin America. "In the connected world we live in, being able to receive motion detection alerts and check in on your home via a mobile device is a necessity; the SmartCam HD Outdoor allows for users to ensure their home, family and pets are safe and secure from anywhere in the world."
Advanced Features
The SmartCam HD Outdoor brings advanced features and specifications to consumers, ensuring a vastly superior viewing experience, providing peace-of-mind for monitoring property, pets and family from afar:
-- Dual Component Design: The device has been designed to withstand the
elements and has been engineered by Samsung with a discreet and
sophisticated dual-component design. The IP66 weather-resistant camera
can be placed anywhere outside while the power and Wi-Fi module remains
inside, connected with a single network cable connection. This
innovative design allows for placement anywhere outside while
maintaining a sleek profile, resists tampering, eliminates the need for
an electrical outlet outside and allows for the Wi-Fi module to remain
indoors for a stronger signal.
-- High-Quality Video: With a 2MP, 1/2.8-inch CMOS sensor, the SmartCam HD
Outdoor offers superb detail no matter how dimly lit the environment may
be. The large CMOS sensor allows more amounts of light to be captured,
yielding more dynamic colors and details in the video compared to a
smaller size sensor.
-- Night Vision Capability: Infrared LEDs provide true day and night
viewing to the user and comes with a night vision mode, providing a
range of up to 50 feet.
-- Local Storage on MicroSD card: Video can be recorded directly to the
camera via a microSD slot, which can support a card up to 32GB.
Depending on efficiency and viewing habits, recording can be set for
continuous or based on motion triggered events. The locally saved video
can also be accessed and viewed remotely from a mobile device.
-- Live Video Monitoring: The free SmartCam app allows users to view live
footage of their home or business from anywhere in the world.
-- Real-Time Alerts: The device can also be set up to automatically record
video when motion is detected within the frame, or through a
user-defined area. Users can select to have alerts of motion detection
sent in real time via email or push notifications to their mobile
device. A truly valuable feature, this notification technology keeps
safety and security paramount as it allows users to instantly respond to
any events, such as a criminal break in or a child waking up, while
providing stored video footage of events that can be reviewed and
shared.
-- Low Bandwidth Usage: With Samsung's highly efficient bandwidth
utilization, and by applying advanced compression technology, the
SmartCam HD Outdoor's video is streamed using only 30 percent of the
network bandwidth of other IP cameras. This highly efficient method of
transmitting video combined with the fact that Samsung SmartCam HD
cameras only transmit video and use bandwidth when an event occurs or
the camera is being viewed from a mobile device, ensures much less
strain on the network as well as seamless video transfer even when there
is limited network bandwidth available.
-- Easy to use and quick set-up: The SmartCam HD Outdoor allow for simple
setup using Wi-Fi Direct which can be accomplished on any an Android®
or iOS® device in a matter of minutes. Customers only need to download
the free SmartCam app and follow the simple wizard?like process.
The Samsung SmartCam HD Outdoor is now available at all Best Buy stores, Fry's Electronics, Newegg.com and Amazon.com and retails for $229. The SmartCam app can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store or Google Play Store.
For additional information regarding Samsung Techwin America consumer video monitoring and security products, please visit http://www.samsung.com.
About Samsung Techwin America
Samsung Techwin is a leading supplier of advanced video surveillance solutions. Building on the company's history of innovation, Samsung Techwin is dedicated to providing system solutions with the highest levels of performance, reliability and cost-efficiency. As a subsidiary of a $117 billion international market maker, Samsung Techwin is committed to the continued development of innovative products for professional and consumer security applications.
Supermicro(R) Exhibits the Industry's Broadest Range of HPC Optimized Platforms and New Ultra SuperServer(R) Solutions at Supercomputing '14
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing highlights new HPC optimized high-density 1U/2U/4U SuperServers supporting the new NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 GPUs (2x memory/up to 2x performance) at Supercomputing 2014 inNew Orleans, Louisiana this week. These new systems provide industry leading parallel compute performance and density with support for up to 3x GPUs in 1U and 4x GPUs in 2U and 4U/Tower solutions. Supermicro's new 1U/2U Ultra SuperServer® solutions are also on exhibit integrating best-in-class features including hardware accelerated dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 CPUs (160W), 24x DIMMs supporting up to 1.5TB 2133MHz DDR4 memory, Intel® Xeon Phi⢠coprocessor or NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU support, flexible integrated networking options (1G, 4x 1/10GbE or 10Gbase-T, 2x 10G SFP+) and up to 8x PCI-E 3.0 expansion slots. These innovative server platforms also support the industry's only hot-swap NVMe, 12Gb/s SAS3 and Titanium Level high-efficiency (96%+) digital power supplies.
Additional, exhibits will showcase the latest low-latency, high-bandwidth server/storage solutions supporting Mellanox® EDR 100Gb/s ConnectX-4⢠InfiniBand, the industry's widest selection of hot-swap NVMe SSD enabled solutions, servers featuring SanDisk® ULLtraDIMM⢠memory channel storage (MCS) technology, SuperStorage clusters supporting Intel® Lustre and high-density compute SuperBlade® and MicroBlade solutions.
"Supermicro is advancing the field of HPC with our new K80 GPU optimized SuperServers and growing line of Ultra series SuperServers featuring industry leading compute, storage and networking technologies," saidCharles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our latest solutions are delivering greater performance per watt, per square foot with advanced thermal and efficiency design as well as leading edge acceleration technologies such as NVMe and 100Gb/s interconnectivity. Our wide array of complete HPC optimized GPU and Xeon Phi server solutions enable engineering, scientific and research communities with the most sophisticated supercomputing platforms."
Solution Highlights
* 1U SuperServer® (SYS-1028GR-TR <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/1028/sys-1028gr-tr.cfm>) â up to 3x NVIDIA Tesla K80 or Intel® Xeon Phi⢠CoprocessorHigh density form factor supporting dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 (up to 145W), up to 1TB ECC, up to DDR4 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 4x hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 drive bays, dual port GbE LAN, Redundant 1600W Platinum Level High-Efficiency (94%) Digital Power Supplies * 2U SuperServer® (SYS-2028GR-TR <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/2028/sys-2028gr-tr.cfm>) â up to 4x NVIDIA Tesla K80 or Intel® Xeon Phi⢠CoprocessorSupports dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3, up to 1TB ECC, DDR4 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 10x hot-swap 2.5" SATA drive bays, 4x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16) low-profile slot, dual GbE LAN, 2000W Redundant Platinum-Level high-efficiency  (94%+) Digital Power Supplies * 1U Hyper-Speed Ultra SuperServer® (SYS-1028UX-CR-LL1 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/1028/sys-1028ux-cr-ll1.cfm>/-LL2 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/1028/sys-1028ux-cr-ll2.cfm>)Dual accelerated Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2643 v3 (-LL1 SKU) or E5-2687W v3 (-LL2 SKU), 64GB DDR4 in 8x +2133MHz DIMMs, 10x 2.5" hot-swap drive bays, 8x 12Gb/s SAS3, 2x SATA3 (Optional 2x NVMe via AOC-URN2-i2XT), 2x PCI-E 3.0 (x16), Full-height Full-length, 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x8), Low-profile, 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x8) SAS3 integrated, 4x Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports, Integrated IPMI 2.0 with KVM and Dedicated LAN, 750W Redundant Platinum Level High-Efficiency (94%+) Power Supplies * 2U Ultra SuperServer® (SYS-6028U-TR4+ <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/6028/sys-6028u-tr4_.cfm>)Supports dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3, up to 1.5TB ECC, DDR4 2133MHz in 24x DIMMs, supports SanDisk® ULLtraDIMMâ¢, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot (FH, 10.5" L), 7x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots (5x FH, 10.5" L, 1x LP, 1x Internal LP), 4x GbE ports, 12x Hot-swap 3.5" Drive Bays; 10x SATA3 ports by default, optional 12x SAS3, redundant 1000W Titanium Level high-efficiency (96%) Digital Power Supplies * 2U TwinPro⢠(SYS-2028TP-DTR <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/2028/SYS-2028TP-DTR.cfm>) â 1x NVIDIA Tesla or Intel® Xeon Phi⢠Coprocessor per node2x DP hot-plug nodes each supporting dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3, up to 1TB ECC LRDIMM, 512GB ECC RDIMM, up to 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 8x 2.5" hot-swap SATA HDD bays, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slot and 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16, dual GbE LAN, mSATA (full size) support, 1280W Redundant Platinum-Level high-efficiency (95%) Digital Power Supplies * 2U Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB <http://www.supermicro.com/CiB>) Storage Server (SSG-2027B-CIB020H <http://www.supermicro.com/solutions/datasheet_CIB020H_SSG-2027B.pdf>) â Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard2x hot-pluggable systems (nodes), each supporting dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2403 (1.8GHz), 20TB raw storage capacity in 24x hot-swap 2.5" SAS1/SAS2 drive bays populated with 4x SSDs and 20x 1TB nearline SAS HDDs, 32GB up to 192GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC reg. DIMM; 6x DIMM sockets (3 per CPU), 3x PCI-E 3.0 slots per node (can be used for host or storage expansion), 2x GbE LAN, SAS 2.0 (6Gb/s) JBOD ports, dual-port 10GBase-T (AOC-STG-i2T) or SFP+ network (AOC-STGN-i2S) Add-on-Card options, 1x 64GBSATA DOM for Windows Server OS boot drive, 920W Redundant Platinum Level high efficiency (95%+) Power Supplies * 4U FatTwin⢠(SYS-F628R3-FT <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/f628/sys-f628r3-ft.cfm>)4x DP hot-plug nodes each supporting dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 (145W), up to 512GB ECC DDR4 2133MHz in 8x DIMMs, 4x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA HDDs, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 (LP) slot, front I/O ports; 2x GbE LAN, 2x USB 2.0, 1x VGA connector, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%) Digital Power Supplies * 4U/Tower SuperServer® (SYS-7048GR-TR <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/7048/sys-7048gr-tr.cfm>) â up to 4x NVIDIA Tesla K80 or Intel® Xeon Phi⢠CoprocessorDual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (up to 160W), up to 1TB ECC DDR4 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 8x 3.5" hot-swap, 3x fixed 5.25" and 1x fixed 3.5" drive bays, optional Thunderbolt 2.0 AOC, 1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot, 4x heavy duty fans, 2x exhaust fans, Redundant 2000W Platinum Level High-Efficiency (94%) Digital Power Supplies * 2U EX DP 32 DIMM (SYS-2028UT-BTNRT <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/2028/SYS-2028UT-BTNRT.cfm>)Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 v2 / E7-4800 v2 / E7-2800 v2 family (15-Core), 2x 2.5" NVMe HDD bays and 8x hot-swap 2.5" SATA3 HDD bays, up to 2TB ECC DDR3, up to 1600MHz in 32x DIMMs, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16 FH/HL slots, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 MicroLP card, dual 10GBase-T ports, Redundant 1280W Platinum Level High-Efficiency (95%+) Digital Power Supplies * New 4U X10 4-Way (SYS-8018B-TF) 32x DIMMs (SYS-8048B-TF) 96x DIMMs, 3.5" HDDsSupports quad Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8800/4800 v2 family up to 15 cores, SAS3 up to 48x 2.5" (available) HDD or 24x 3.5" HDD, up to 11x PCI-E slots (4x memory riser cards installed on slot 2,3,6,7), up to 6TB DDR3 RDIMM/LRDIMM in 96 memory DIMM sockets * 4U Double-Sided Storage® Server (SSG-5048R-E1CR36L <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/5048/ssg-5048r-e1cr36l.cfm>) â 36x 3.5" Hot-Swappable HDD BaysSupports single Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3, up to 512GB ECC DDR4 2133MHz in 8x DIMMs, 1 PCI-E 3.0 x4 (in x8), 1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16), 2 PCI-E 3.0 x8, 1 PCI-E 2.0 x2 (in x4), 1 PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8), quad GbE LAN ports, 36x 3.5" hot-swap SAS3 HDD Bays (24 front + 12 rear); optional 2x 2.5" Hot-swap HDD bays (rear), dual JBOD expansion ports, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (94%) Power Supplies * 6U X10 MicroBlade <http://www.supermicro.com/MicroBlade> * DP Module (MBI-6128R-T2 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/microblade/module/mbi-6128r-t2.cfm>)Dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (up to 120W), 8x VLP DDR4 RDIMMs (up to 2133 MT/s), 2x 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA3 HDDs/SSDs, Onboard quad-port 1GbE NIC, 1x SATA-DOM * UP Module (MBI-6118D-T2 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/microblade/module/mbi-6118d-t2.cfm>/-T4 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/microblade/module/mbi-6118d-t4.cfm>)Intel Xeon E3-1200 V3 ( up to 82W) , Up to 32GB ECC DDR3 1600/1333 MHz VLP UDIMM in 4x DIMMs , 2x 3.5 SATA3 HDD (-T2 SKU) , 4 x 2.5 STAT3 HDD/SSD (-T4 SKU), Onboard 2x GbE Network Communication * 28x Modules, 112x nodes (MBI-6418A-T7H <http://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/module/MBI-6418A-T7H.cfm>/T5H <http://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/module/MBI-6418A-T5H.cfm>1x Intel® Atom⢠C2750 (8-Core, 2.4GHz) (-T7H SKU) or 1x Intel® Atom⢠C2550 (4-Core, 2.4GHz) (-T5H SKU), 2x 2.5Gb/s network connectivity per node, up to 32GB ECC DDR3 1600/1333MHz SO-DIMM in 2x DIMM sockets per node, 1x 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA3 HDD/SSD and 1x SATA3 DOM per node * 7U SuperBlade® <http://www.supermicro.com/SuperBlade> * 3x NVIDIA Tesla GPU Blade (SBI-7127RG3 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/module/SBI-7127RG3.cfm>)Dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2, up to 512GB RDIMM or 64GB UDIMM in 8x DIMMs, 3x NVIDIA Tesla Kepler K20X/K40x SXM GPUs, 1x SSD or 1x SATA-DOM, dual port GbE LAN, FDR/QDR InfiniBand, 10GbE * 2x NVIDIA Tesla GPU/Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Blade (SBI-7127RG-E <http://www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/module/SBI-7127RG-E.cfm>)Dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2, up to 512GB RDIMM or 64GB UDIMM in 8x DIMMs, 1x SSD or 1x SATA-DOM, dual port GbE LAN, FDR/QDR InfiniBand, 10GbE/FCoE * TwinBlade® (SBI-7228R-T2F <http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade/module/SBI-7228R-T2F.cfm>/T2X <http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade/module/SBI-7228R-T2X.cfm>2x DP nodes, each node supporting dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (up to 145W), up to 512GB reg. ECC LRDIMM, dual port GbE LAN, 2x 2.5" hot-swap SATA3 drive bays, FDR InfiniBand onboard (-T2F SKU) or 10GbE onboard (-T2X SKU) * Processor Blade (SBI-7147R-S4X <http://www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/module/SBI-7147R-S4X.cfm>/S4F <http://www.supermicro.com/products/superblade/module/SBI-7147R-S4F.cfm>)Quad Intel® Xeon® E5-4600 v2 processors, up to 1TB LRDIMM, 512GB RDIMM or 128GB UDIMM in 16x DIMMs, 4x 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDD bays, SAS2 RAID 0, 1, 10, dual-port GbE LAN, Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro EN dual-port IC 10GbE (-S4X SKU) or Mellanox ConnectX-3 single-port FDR 56Gbps InfiniBand, 40/10 GbE support (-S4F SKU) * Storage Blade (SBI-7128R-C6 <http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade/module/SBI-7128R-C6.cfm>)Dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB LRDIMM, 512GB RDIMM in 16x DIMMs, 6x 2.5" hot-swap HDD/SSD bays, up to 3x NVMe (option), HW RAID 0, 1, 5, 2G Cache, dual port GbE LAN,FDR/QDR InfiniBand or 10GbE mezzanine HCA * 10/1GbE Top-of-Rack Network Switches <http://www.supermicro.com/Networking> * Layer 2/3 Ethernet Switching, link aggregation (LACP), Jumbo frames, VLAN support * SSE-G24-TG4 â 24x RJ45 1Gbps Ethernet ports with 4x SFP Combo ports, 4x 10Gbps Ethernet (CX4, XFP, or SFP+) ports * SSE-G48-TG4 â 48x RJ45 1Gbps Ethernet ports with 4x SFP Combo ports * SSE-X3348T(R) â 48x RJ45 10Gbps Ethernet ports, (R) reverse airflow model * SSE-X24S / SSE-X3348S(R) â 24x/48x 10Gbps Ethernet (SFP+) ports, (R) reverse airflow option * 1U A+ 4-Way Server (AS-1042G-TF <http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/system/1u/1042/as-1042g-tf.cfm>)Supports quad AMD Opteron⢠6000 series (6300P* ready) processors (Socket G34) 16/12/8/4-Core ready; HT3.0 Link support, up to 1TB DDR3 Registered ECC 1600/1333/1066 SDRAM in 32x DIMMs, 3x hot-swap SAS/SATA Drive Bays, 1x PCI-e Gen 2.0 x16 slot (Low profile add-on card), dual-port GbE LAN, 1400W high-efficiency Power Supply * 2U A+ 4x DP Hot-Plug Node Server (AS-2122TG-HTRF <http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/system/2u/2122/as-2122tg-htrf.cfm>)Each node supports dual AMD Opteron⢠6000 series (6300P* ready) processors (Socket G34) 16/12/8/4-Core ready; HT3.0 Link, up to 512GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC Registered DIMM in 16x DIMMs, 6x 2.5" hot-swap SATA drive bays, 1x Low-profile PCI-E 2.0 in x16 slot, dual-port GbE LAN, 1400W Redundant High-efficiency Power Supplies Visit Supermicro at SC14 in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 16-21 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Booth #1515. For more information on Supermicro's complete range of high performance, high-efficiency Server, Storage and Networking solutions, visitwww.supermicro.com <http://www.supermicro.com/>.
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
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Kalray revs up industry-leading Turbocard2 at SC14
High-performance computing gets big boost with world's first 1000+ CPU acceleration board
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kalray, the inventor of supercomputing on a chip(TM) for intensive and embedded high-performance computing applications is demonstrating its Turbocard2 acceleration board at the 2014 Supercomputing Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 17-20.
Available now, Turbocard2 is based on Kalray's innovative MPPA® 256 manycore processors, running an unprecedented 1024 C/C++ fully programmable cores.
Kalray's acceleration board provides the highest computing performance for a sub-80W power budget, boasting nearly one teraflops (TFLOPS) of processing power and 500 giga instructions per second (GIPS). The result is the industry's best solution for boosting servers and workstations specifically used in oil & gas, computational finance, cryptanalysis, numerical simulation and bio-computing applications.
"We are excited to be demonstrating Turbocard2 at SC14," said Eric Baissus, CEO of Kalray. "Customers have been looking for an acceleration solution that meets their heavy and increasing computational demands while effectively managing power consumption, and now it is here.
"Performance is not all," continued Baissus. "The Kalray solution also dramatically reduces the complexity of adoption and time-to-market by providing a standard C/C++ development environment. We are proud to bring a revolutionary acceleration board to the market and invite everyone to see it."
Kalray at SC14
-- Visit us at the Kalray booth #2815
-- Join us during HP-CAST 23, where Laurent Julliard, Director of Solutions
and Software Services, will present Turbocard2 and Kalray's product
roadmap
-- Attend an SC14 workshop for an introduction on Turbocard2 by Benoit
Ganne, HPC expert
About Kalray
Kalray is a fabless semiconductor company and pioneer in developing many-core processor solutions. Kalray's supercomputing on a chip technology(TM) is a unique architecture for a new generation of high-performance, low-power, real-time C/C++ processors. The company's IP, processors and acceleration boards ideally address the growing needs of large and important markets such as cloud computing, automotive, telecom and aerospace. Learn more at http://www.kalrayinc.com
Kalray, MPPA and Turbocard are registered trademarks of Kalray or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.
Marvell Launches Octa-Core 64-bit 5-Mode 4G LTE ARMADA Mobile PXA1936 System-on-Chip for High Performance Smartphones and Tablets Globally
Marvell's new 5-mode 4G LTE ARMADA mobile PXA1936 SoC features 8Ã ARM Cortex A53, advanced graphics and security functions, high performance image processing, and integrated sensor fusion capabilities
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in providing complete silicon solutions from mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery and Kinoma® software enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle," today announced the octa-core 64-bit 5-mode 4G LTE ARMADA® Mobile PXA1936 system-on-chip (SoC) targeted for high performance smartphones and tablets globally. Marvell's new 5-mode 4G LTE mobile processor features 8à ARM Cortex A53, advanced graphics and security functions, high performance image processing, and sensor fusion capabilities. The PXA1936 solution is a part of Marvell's 64-bit mobile LTE SoC family which also includes the ARMADA mobile PXA1908. The ARMADA mobile PXA1936 maintains complete software compatibility with the PXA1908 SoC, enabling OEMs and ODMs to quickly and seamlessly launch a higher performing octa-core mobile phone. Supporting today's most popular wireless protocols, the ARMADA Mobile PXA1936 addresses the following wireless communications: TD-LTE, FDD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and GSM.
"4G LTE is such a critical technology to enable mobile computing, social networking, cloud gaming and other data intensive applications that are part of our daily lives. I believe our single-chip octa-core ARMADA Mobile PXA1936 delivers best-in-class 5-mode 4G LTE connectivity and industry-leading processing, security, graphics and sensor fusion capabilities that will enable mobile products with outstanding performance, long battery lifetime, affordable price point and superior total user experience and empower global mobile operators and tier-one OEMs for the rapid deployment of 4G LTE high performance smartphones and tablets to the mass market around the world," said Weili Dai, President and Co-Founder of Marvell. "At Marvell it is our mission and passion as a global leader to provide the benefits of our great innovations and inventions to better peoples' lives. I am very proud of our talented engineering teams for once again raising the technology bar in advancing the mobile industry."
"Mobile processors continue to innovate rapidly. In the smartphone market, I expect the biggest growth will be in affordable phones using highly integrated processors. The 64-bit ARMADA Mobile PXA1936 extends Marvell's success in this market with a higher-performance octa-core architecture," said Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst of The Linley Group.
The ARMADA Mobile PXA1936 features Marvell's low-power sensor hub technology delivering unprecedented sensor fusion capabilities. As part of Marvell's 64-bit family of mobile SoCs, it also paves the way for device makers to release 64-bit tablets and smartphones with the Android L operating system. The processor will soon be available for the smartphone and tablet market and is expected to ship in devices by early 2015.
Key features of the Marvell ARMADA Mobile PXA1936 include:
-- Octa-core Cortex A53, up to 1.5GHz clock speed
-- Supports 1080p display, and video encoding and decoding
-- Improved image processor to support 13 to 16MP camera
-- Advanced power management and audio codec for power efficiency and audio
performance
-- Enhanced security processor
-- Integrated location and sensor hub functionalities for better usability
-- Field proven DSDS software for 5-mode modem
To learn more about the Marvell ARMADA PXA1936 processor visit http://www.marvell.com/communication-processors/pxa1936
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global leader in providing complete silicon solutions and Kinoma® software enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle." From mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery, Marvell's diverse product portfolio aligns complete platform designs with industry-leading performance, security, reliability and efficiency. At the core of the world's most powerful consumer, network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers partners and their customers to always stand at the forefront of innovation, performance and mass appeal. By providing people around the world with mobility and ease of access to services adding value to their social, private and work lives, Marvell is committed to enhancing the human experience.
As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit http://www.Marvell.com.
Marvell, the M logo, ARMADA, Kinoma are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Altera and IBM Unveil FPGA-accelerated POWER Systems with Coherent Shared Memory
POWER8 Systems that Leverage Reprogrammable FPGA Accelerators Gain Significant Improvements in System Performance, Efficiency and Flexibility
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperComputing 2014 -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the industry's first FPGA-based acceleration platform that coherently connects an FPGA to a POWER8 CPU leveraging IBM's Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI). The reconfigurable hardware accelerator features shared virtual memory between the FPGA and processor which significantly improves system performance, efficiency and flexibility in high-performance computing (HPC) and data center applications. Altera and IBM are presenting several POWER8 systems that are coherently accelerated using FPGAs at SuperComputing 2014.
Working together through the OpenPOWER Foundation, Altera and IBM are developing highly flexible heterogeneous compute solutions that bring new levels of performance and efficiency to POWER8 systems. FPGA-accelerated POWER8 systems are optimized to enable compute- and processing-intensive tasks required in next-generation HPC and data center applications, including data compression, encryption, image processing and search. Using CAPI to coherently attach FPGA accelerators to the fabric of a POWER8 processor and main system memory make the FPGA appear as simply another core on the POWER8 processor. This results in shortened development time by greatly reducing lines of software code and reduced processor cycles versus conventional IO attached accelerators. A single FPGA-accelerated POWER8 server is able to operate at industry-leading levels of efficiency, allowing system architects to cut their data center footprint in half.
"As today's high-performance computing applications evolve with rapidly changing workloads, it is imperative we build in flexible accelerators to make IBM POWER processors more efficient in IBM POWER Systems and all OpenPOWER compatible systems," said Brad McCredie, vice president of IBM Power development and OpenPOWER president. "The work Altera has done to provide FPGA-based reconfigurable hardware acceleration to our POWER processors enabled through CAPI allows software developers to build highly efficient, highly flexible, performance optimized systems."
Altera and IBM have worked with board partner Nallatech to develop an OpenPOWER CAPI Development Kit for POWER8 that features Nallatech's FPGA-based 385 card, the industry's first CAPI FPGA accelerator card. This off-the-shelf development platform allows designers to start using FPGA accelerators with POWER8 systems.
The Altera SDK for OpenCL provides developers the resources they need to develop their own custom FPGA-based accelerators and gain a time to market, power and performance advantage. The release of the OpenCL 2.0 specification supports shared virtual memory capabilities which enable programmers to address memory shared by the host and accelerator using CAPI.
"Our work with the OpenPOWER Foundation has enabled us to deliver highly flexible heterogeneous compute platforms that target POWER-based systems," said David Gamba, senior director of the computer and storage business unit at Altera. "Altera is at the forefront of supplying POWER users reconfigurable hardware accelerators based on CAPI that are supported with an OpenCL programming model. The result is highly optimized accelerators that deliver optimal FLOPs/Watt/dollar."
Live SuperComputing 2014 Demonstrations
Altera and IBM will be formally presenting POWER8 systems being accelerated by FPGAs at SuperComputing 2014, including:
-- IBM Data Engine for NoSQL: This solution enables a significantly lower
cost basis for deploying NoSQL data stores. The solution features
Altera's FPGAs and IBM's unique CAPI-enabled POWER System S822L with
IBM's FlashSystem 840 - demonstrating server consolidation by enabling
one POWER8 server to be used instead of 24 X86 servers for a well-sized
NoSQL store.
-- IBM Data Engine for Analytics: This solution is a customizable
infrastructure solution with integrated software optimized for big data
and analytics workloads. The IBM Data Engine features POWER8 CPU and
Altera FPGAs working together to manage efficient workloads and provide
flexible and adjustable storage and compute resources.
-- OpenPOWER CAPI Developer Kit for POWER8: This demonstration uses a
Nallatech OpenPOWER CAPI Development Kit to show how developers can get
started using FPGA-accelerated POWER8 systems.
About The OpenPOWER Foundation
OpenPOWER Foundation members include Altera, IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan. These companies are working together to build advanced server, networking, storage and hardware-acceleration technologies aimed at delivering more choices, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation hyperscale and cloud data centers. For information on the OpenPOWER Foundation visit http://www.openpowerfoundation.org
About Altera
Altera® programmable solutions enable designers of electronic systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs, and complementary technologies, such as power management, to provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide. Follow Altera via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and RSS, and subscribe to product update emails and newsletters. Visit http://www.altera.com.
ALTERA, ARRIA, CYCLONE, ENPIRION, MAX, MEGACORE, NIOS, QUARTUS and STRATIX words and logos are trademarks of Altera Corporation and registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other words and logos identified as trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective holders as described at http://www.altera.com/legal.
Keira Knightly and Benedict Cumberbatch Popularize Technology Used 300 Million Times a Day
New technology significantly improves usability of "reverse Turing test" to prove that internet users are human (CAPTCHA)
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- With the release of the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game in the US on November 21st, computational security just got sexy. And the computational security experts at FunCaptcha think it's about time.
The film stars Keira Knightly and Benedict Cumberbatch, with Cumberbatch as the legendary Alan Turing, who many regard as being the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence. The film explores his tumultuous boarding school years, his controversial post-WW2 life but most importantly -- his time during WW2 when he covertly lead a ragtag group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers in breaking the code generated from the infamous Nazi utilized "Enigma" machines. In so doing, Turing and his team effectively ended the war in favor of the Allies, saving countless lives and breaking the back of Hitler's regime.
The link between FunCaptcha and Turing comes in the form of CAPTCHAs - the much-hated obscure letters and numbers that must be typed out to separate spammers and their "bot" programs from legitimate users. CAPTCHA is an acronym that stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" and they've historically been used to defend websites and online services from hackers and spam by distinguishing genuine human users from malicious bots. But it comes at a cost. This cost, something which FunCaptcha aims to solve, is that the traditional CAPTCHAs are frustrating and difficult to complete, driving away up to 25% of potential users.
SwipeAds COO and Founder, Matthew Ford, a former game designer with Atari and Microsoft and Turing expert, said these tests to stop automated systems from accessing registration and comment forms were essential to stop cyber-fraud and help maintain the integrity of on-line transactions, but are extremely frustrating for users.
"Studies show one in four attempts failing a standard CAPTCHA. With more than 300 million tests served up every day, that's a lot of frustrated people. In trying to stop spam and other kinds of online fraud, our industry kills user conversion. We saw an opportunity to make the Internet even more secure while making the CAPTCHA test easier for genuine human users."
FunCaptcha uses gamified technology that is easy for humans but impractical for bots and automated systems to complete. SwipeAds CEO and Founder Kevin Gosschalk said the company's solution is proving to be of value to users and the sites that install it.
"We are serving up more than 30 million FunCaptchas a month with a conversion rate that is more than 20% higher than standard tests, which means more online users are doing business with our customers."
Ford sees a creative connection between Alan Turing and FunCaptcha. "Turing put the T into FunCaptcha, and that's so fitting. Alan Turing had a vast imagination about what computers would eventually become, and his vision is still ahead of our time. I think he'd believe as we do, that the urgent need to distinguish people from machine imitations will remain for centuries, and requires constant innovation."
The Imitation Game opens widely in the US on November 21(st).
About The Imitation Game
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of 'gross indecency', an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality -- little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, he was credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine. An intense and haunting portrayal of a brilliant, complicated man, The Imitation Game follows a genius who under nail-biting pressure helped to shorten the war and, in turn, save thousands of lives.
Produced by The Weinstein Company, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley and with a score composed by Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game releases in the US on November 21(st).
About FunCaptcha
SwipeAds is an interactive advertising company making unmissable online ads. SwipeAds grabbed attention last year by making a game called FunCaptcha. FunCaptcha is a new form of the human verification test known as CAPTCHA, the acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". CAPTCHAs are those much-hated obscure letters and numbers you must type out to prove you're a human when signing up to a new website. Over 300 million CAPTCHAs are solved each day -- taking over a million hours to execute. FunCaptcha replaces those with a small gamified visual puzzle which takes 5-7 seconds to solve and not only stops the bots, but also greatly improves user conversions by 20.4% from the old typed-in kind of CAPTCHA. FunCaptcha is free to install and use, can be customized to match a site's theme, and can even generate revenue for websites by showing optional ads.
indoona, the application developed by Tiscali, the Italian TLC operator, to send
messages, to call and videocall from smartphone and PC, is now available in the new 3.0
release, an enriched version with new interesting features.
Thanks to the success of indoona [https://www.indoona.com ], an innovative
application, Tiscali [http://www.tiscali.it ] has without doubt become one of the world's
first telecom companies to integrate traditional communication networks, fixed and mobile,
with the most advanced software based services, offering its users all the benefits of a
cloud architecture distributed geographically on different nodes worldwide.
The new indoona has completely new graphics as well as a more attractive, fast and
intuitive user interface, which integrates a new group calling feature. Focusing on the
sharing needs of users, it enables group calling amongst friends, thus expanding the group
chat concept, a tool for sharing part of everyday life. This free feature, unique in the
international scenario of chat and instant messaging services and applications, at last
reflects the need to virtually gather friends and family in a chat, and also provides
members of a team the ability to work together even when physically far apart.
indoona 3.0 also has a new improved chat feature: users can exchange all kinds of file
types: photos, music, videos, as well as documents, PDFs, presentations and many others.
This will make the user experience of the chat platform more complete both from
smartphones and PCs.
Thanks to indoona [https://www.indoona.com ], you can also make free calls both to
users of the platform and throughout Europe. And not only that: each customer has 100 free
minutes a month to landlines and mobile phones in Europe, the US, Canada and China. Beyond
the 100 minutes you can buy credit and call at less than one cent per minute.
Finally, thanks to the integration of WebRTC (Real Time Communication) technology,
indoona [https://www.indoona.com ] 3.0 can be easily used from the web without the need to
download any client by calling or sending messages directly from your own browser, with
the big advantage that it can be used from any device.
Lots of fun is offered by the opportunity to play and tell stories and show emotions
by sending original and funny stickers.
Tiscali S.p.A. (Italian Stock Exchange, Milan: TIS) is one of the leading
telecommunications companies in Italy. Tiscali provides its customers, individuals and
companies with a wide range of services: Internet access through dial-up and ADSL, voice,
VoIP, media, added-value services and other technologically advanced products.
On September 30, 2014, Tiscali had 483,800 ADSL clients. Of these, 360,700 are Dual
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Xilinx Announces Industry's First Low Latency 25G Ethernet IP for FPGAs to Address Throughput Challenges in Data Center Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the industry's first low latency 25G Ethernet IP for FPGAs to address throughput challenges in data center applications. The low latency 25G Ethernet MAC and PCS LogiCORE⢠IP solution helps to reduce data center CapEx by providing a migration path from 10G to 25G links and delivers a drastic increase in performance by more than doubling the front panel bandwidth between top of rack switches and servers (10G to 25G). This unique industry offering also supports the new 25G Ethernet Consortium specification and will be aligned with the industry's continuing advancements in next-generation processors, which are doubling their performance for tomorrow's data center servers.
Xilinx is demonstrating the 25G Ethernet MAC and PCS LogiCORE IP solution at Supercomputing,November 17-20, 2014, Booth #3903 and #4006, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center,New Orleans, Louisiana. The live demonstation utilizes two Virtex® UltraScale⢠VCU107 boards communicating over four channels of 25G Ethernet through 5 meters of direct attached copper cable and two QSFP+ modules.
Xilinx is the world's leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, and 3D ICs. These industry-leading devices are coupled with a next-generation design environment and IP to serve a broad range of customer needs, from programmable logic to programmable systems integration. For more information, visitwww.xilinx.com <http://www.xilinx.com/>.
TCL Multimedia Achieved a Staged Progress in its "Double+"Strategic Transformation
HONG KONG, Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited ("TCL Multimedia" or "the Group", HKSE stock code: 01070) announced today achievement of a staged progress in its "Double+"strategic transformation, and the launch of the Golive TV home theatre ("Golive") service and TCL Wechat TV 2.0.
TCL launched an innovative service, Golive. As the first application software in the world to be either embedded in or downloaded to an all-in-one TV set, Golive brings movies that are previously available only on theatrical showing trails in cinemas to TV home theatre, thereby created an innovative channel that allows movies to be distributed on TVs and providing TCL users the joy of watching blockbusters titles at home. Golive sources movies in three categories: movies that are on the current theatrical trails in cinemas, movies that fall short of making their way towards theatrical screening, as well as movies that have just finished screening yet still attractive enough for paid viewing. First, movies that have been debuted for theatrical screening for over a week will be available on TV home theatre with slightly cheaper fees than those showing in cinemas to avoid direct competition yet will accomplish the goal of achieving parallel screening with the cinemas. Second, since there are about 70% of the movies made in the global movie market that failed in making their ways towards screening on cinemas after the production, they have become a new source of movies for Golive since it was first to introduce to the system. Third, users can watch movies that have just finished screening but still attractive for paid viewing with Golive.
As households are the target customers of Golive, it is suitable for people of all age groups especially in those in non-Tier 1, 2 cities and rural areas where number of cinemas is not sufficient. Golive can penetrate into every household through TV home theatre and raise box-office revenue. In terms of TV sales, Golive can further promote the development of large-screen and high-definition TVs. In addition, built on the cloud service platform and technology, Golive has established a new business model by working with a manufacturing giant of terminals which is able to make available a large number of TV terminals. It is this critical mass that helps entice participation from movie distributors and filming studios to cooperate with TCL in a box-office revenue sharing model.
On the other hand, TCL Wechat TV has become well sought-after in the market since the joint-debut withTencent in September. As of the end of October 2014, the number of TV+ Smart TVs with activated Wechat function has exceeded 51,000 sets with over 75,000 bound Wechat accounts, thereby substantiated the value of TCL Wechat TV operation. The newly launched TCL Wechat TV 2.0 will add a powerful voice search function, a custom programme playlist, as well as sharing and recommendation functions for programme playlists, etc. to provide users with a more exquisite experience. Meanwhile, the business model of TV+ Smart TVs Ecosystem has gradually taken shape, with a forecast income of overRMB30 million for 2015 from online video advertising revenue sharing alone.
Mr. Hao Yi, CEO of TCL Multimedia, said, "Golive is the only mobile Internet cinema platform in the world that covers numerous TV and mobile phone brands and involves direct cooperation with movie distributors, filming studios, major TV stations and advertisers. In the future, the critical mass of smart TV and mobile terminal users is expected to bring in high traffic and revenue to Golive, from which TCL Multimedia will benefit. In addition, TCL Wechat TV, as an important product for the Group, has started to see its value as a business model being realized. With further upgrades of its functions, Wechat TV will help broaden the Group's revenue sources while enhancing user experience."
This press release is also dispatched via official Wechat account "TCL Investor Relations." You are welcome to visit for more.
About TCL Multimedia
Headquartered in China, TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited (HKSE stock code: 01070) is one of the leading players in the global TV industry, engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of consumer electronic products. Through a new product-and-user-oriented business model that focuses primarily on a "double +" strategy which includes "intelligence +Internet" and "products + services" as the main direction, striving to become a global entertainment technology enterprise that provides integrated entertainment solution to users. According to the latest DisplaySearch report, the Group ranked No.4 in the global LCD TV market with a market share of 5.5% in the first half of 2014. The Group ranked No.1 in the PRC LCD TV market with a market share of 17.1%.
Mesh Networks Launches the HomeNet(TM) Intelligent Router into Consumer and Small Business Marketplace
The HomeNet(TM) Intelligent Router became available to the consumer and small business markets on November 15, 2014, via the website http://www.homenetrouter.com.
HOUSTON, Nov. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesh Networks (Mesh) announces the long anticipated launch of the "next generation" of network routers for the consumer and small business markets. The value added, feature rich HomeNet(TM) Intelligent Router launched on November 15, 2014.
Mesh Networks is a privately held bandwidth management solutions technology company. Mesh has developed and brought to market the NetProfit® and QuotaDefender® Systems, bandwidth management and optimization solutions built for the ISP, WISP, MDU, Student Housing, Enterprise, Hospitality, Healthcare, Educational, Civil, Government, 55+/Assisted Living and Executive Suites markets. Mesh has parlayed their multi-vertical success into a new consumer and business version of their proven, state-of-the-art bandwidth management and optimization solutions.
Leon Hubby, a co-founder of Mesh Networks and VP of Sales said, "The HomeNet(TM) Router was created to put network management into the hands of parents and users of the Internet. The HomeNet(TM) Router allows parents to determine how and when their children get to use the Internet. The home user can directly impact their quality of experience on the web, control access, enhance entertainment value, restrict or schedule media streaming, and more. The rich feature set and simple application allows the parent to manage the family's network experience." Mr. Hubby went on to say, "Imagine if you were across town, and your child was supposed to be home and completing homework. With the HomeNet(TM) Router you can check to see who is on your home network and what websites they are visiting. If your child is not visiting educational sites, you can deny access to the network right from where you are."
The HomeNet(TM) Router comes with such features as dynamic bandwidth management capability, network monitoring, scheduling, streaming video optimizer that eliminates that annoying buffering, as well as family safety features such as IP and website tracking, access control, notifications, and many more, plus additional upcoming features. All with an easy to use, friendly dashboard that allows the owner to manage their network by device. The software license for the value added feature activation is included free with purchase for the first year, then the owner can renew the license yearly. If the owner chooses not to renew the software license, the router will continue to function as a standard wireless router.
Martin Scheid, Mesh Networks CEO states, "We feel the HomeNet(TM) Router is a breakthrough in terms of managing the home and small business network. The HomeNet(TM) Routers value added features are free the first year. The software license is renewable at a low cost to keep expenses down and customer satisfaction up. It's an Internet world, and now the consumer and small business owner can control and monitor their home or small business networks from any other network. The HomeNet(TM) Router features great network tools that can be used for parental management for the home networks and network monitoring and administration tools that also add value and increase productivity for business."
Access to the network dashboard can be achieved using a computer browser or the HomeNet(TM) Router app which can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play store. Available now on iPhone® and select Android® phones, and support for tablets will be coming soon. The super-simple dashboard makes it easy for most anyone to understand and take an active role in managing their own network. Mesh has taken what used to require code configuration and brought it forward so the consumer with no IT background can set the network to meet the requirements of their family and small business and best of all, the intimidation factor seems to have been eliminated.
The HomeNet(TM) router is manufactured with a patent pending firmware overlaid on the award winning ASUS router platform, and will be available on both the iEEE 802.11n and the higher performance 802.11ac models. The new 802.11ac standard fulfills new requirements of the exponential growth of consumer demand for more connected devices and faster data rates. The new 802.11ac standard combined with the HomeNet(TM) Routers bandwidth management and parental management capabilities appears to make this "Intelligent" router truly state-of-the-art.
The BizNet(TM) Router is scheduled to be available late Q1 2015. The BizNet(TM) Router is set to boast value added features developed by Mesh Networks to enhance business productivity, reduce IT support and network administrative costs.
The HomeNet(TM) Router became available to the consumer and small business markets on November 15, 2014, via the website http://www.homenetrouter.com.
The Middle East region has been witnessing a steep rise in enterprise mobility
adoption and also complexities in process of customer experience management. Recent trends
have shown that in today's scenario, a lot is dependent on proper alignment of back-office
with front-office, and streamlined processes to manage customer experience better.
The Middle East is a major geography for Aspect, and the company plans to tap the
potential the region holds for Optimization Solutions. Commenting on the importance of the
region for the company and the growth prospects Mr. Sanjay Gupta, MD- India, ASEAN &
Middle East said: "Today consumer demands the correct information & expected resolution on
an immediate basis. Aspect Optimization Solutions helps enterprises manage this, deliver
exceptional customer experience and yet gain savings through improved employee
productivity and streamlined processes."
Aspect Optimization portfolio includes Aspect Workforce Management, Aspect Desktop
Analytics, Aspect Quality Management, Speech Analytics, Aspect Performance Management and
more. With an improvised customer value engines and cutting operational costs reduction up
to 50%, Aspect has delivered savings up to 40% in operational costs through the Back
Office portfolio itself and help improvise customer satisfaction.
About Aspect
Aspect's fully-integrated solution unifies the three most important facets of modern
customer engagement strategy: customer interaction management, workforce optimization, and
back-office. Through a full suite of cloud, hosted and hybrid deployment options, we help
the world's most demanding contact centers and back offices seamlessly align their people,
processes and touch points to deliver remarkable customer experiences. For more
information, visit http://www.aspect.com .
Globe Telecom Launches Philippines' First-ever Virtual Video Store on Mobile
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Telecom, one of the leading telecommunications networks inthe Philippines, is bringing its over 40 million prepaid customers a richer mobile data experience on the back of increasing affordability and availability of smartphones with the launch of the country's first-ever one-stop shop virtual video store.
Globe recently launched Piso Mall, a mobile video store which enables Globe prepaid and TM customers to watch videos on their mobile phones from a selection of over 200,000 videos, with each video available for as low as P1 orUS$0.02.
With Piso Mall, customers can enjoy their favorite TV shows, movie trailers and clips, music videos and video tutorials at a pocket-friendly price, anytime, anywhere via their mobile phones. Videos can be chosen from over 12 channels includingHollywood and News, Music, Kids, For Men, Lifestyle, Sports, Extreme, Technology, Cooking and Web Series.
There is no maintaining prepaid load balance required to access Piso Mall and no additional data charges are applied when browsing through videos.
"Strengthening our content play, Globe is bringing mobile entertainment to prepaid customers with the country's first-ever virtual video store Piso Mall, giving them access to hundreds of thousands of videos of various genres and categories. For as low asone peso (US$0.02), prepaid and TM customers can use their smartphones and its features fully, going beyond the usual calls and texts. With Piso Mall, we are changing the prepaid landscape once again by providing our customers easy, affordable and hassle-free access to video content, enabling them to live their digital lifestyle," saysIssa Cabreira, Senior Vice President, Globe Consumer Mobile Marketing.
Globe is a trailblazer in the Philippine mobile prepaid market as it pioneeredGoSAKTO, a service that allowed prepaid customers to create and customize their own prepaid promos based on their budget, needs, and lifestyle. The telecom company also bundled its core call and text promos with the world's top messaging apps such as Viber, FB Messenger, KakaoTalk, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Line, enabling customers to connect with their contacts from around the world. Proving its global impact, GoSAKTO was adjudged Best Network-based Solution for Serving Customers Award in the 19th Annual Global Mobile Awards by the GSMA inBarcelona, Spain for delivering innovative pricing features to the prepaid market that have previously been confined to the postpaid market -- giving many more customers the ability to personalize their services and tailor them to their needs.
During the third quarter of the year, Globe Telecom's prepaid business remained in full swing after its customer base breached the 40-million mark amidst intense competition and aggressive switching in the prepaid market.
As of end-September 2014, total prepaid base has grown to 40.7 million, up 18% from the 34.5 million customers as of the same period last year. The telco's digital brand for the youth Globe Prepaid grew its customer base to 18.9 million customers, a 12% increase from last year's customer base of 17 million, while TM, the company's value prepaid brand, increased its customer base to 21.8 million, a solid 24% growth from last year's 17.6 million customers.
Globe Prepaid gross acquisitions for the first nine months of the year grew to 11.6 million or 23% higher than the acquisition level in the same period last year of 9.4 million. Coming from strong gross acquisitions, net incremental subscribers likewise improved by 109% to 1.1 million from 523,797 in the same period last year.
TM, on the other hand, generated a total of 5 million new SIMs in the third quarter of 2014, bringing total gross acquisitions as of the end of September this year to 15.5 million, up 27% against the same period in 2013.
Globe Telecom Launches Philippines' First-ever Virtual Video Store on Mobile
Over 40 million prepaid customers get access to over 200,000 videos on their mobile phones for as low as US$0.02 each
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Telecom, one of the leading telecommunications networks in the Philippines, is bringing its over 40 million prepaid customers a richer mobile data experience on the back of increasing affordability and availability of smartphones with the launch of the country's first-ever one-stop shop virtual video store.
Globe recently launched Piso Mall, a mobile video store which enables Globe prepaid and TM customers to watch videos on their mobile phones from a selection of over 200,000 videos, with each video available for as low as P1 or US$0.02.
With Piso Mall, customers can enjoy their favorite TV shows, movie trailers and clips, music videos and video tutorials at a pocket-friendly price, anytime, anywhere via their mobile phones. Videos can be chosen from over 12 channels including Hollywood and News, Music, Kids, For Men, Lifestyle, Sports, Extreme, Technology, Cooking and Web Series.
There is no maintaining prepaid load balance required to access Piso Mall and no additional data charges are applied when browsing through videos.
"Strengthening our content play, Globe is bringing mobile entertainment to prepaid customers with the country's first-ever virtual video store Piso Mall, giving them access to hundreds of thousands of videos of various genres and categories. For as low as one peso (US$0.02), prepaid and TM customers can use their smartphones and its features fully, going beyond the usual calls and texts. With Piso Mall, we are changing the prepaid landscape once again by providing our customers easy, affordable and hassle-free access to video content, enabling them to live their digital lifestyle," says Issa Cabreira, Senior Vice President, Globe Consumer Mobile Marketing.
Globe is a trailblazer in the Philippine mobile prepaid market as it pioneered GoSAKTO, a service that allowed prepaid customers to create and customize their own prepaid promos based on their budget, needs, and lifestyle. The telecom company also bundled its core call and text promos with the world's top messaging apps such as Viber, FB Messenger, KakaoTalk, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Line, enabling customers to connect with their contacts from around the world. Proving its global impact, GoSAKTO was adjudged Best Network-based Solution for Serving Customers Award in the 19th Annual Global Mobile Awards by the GSMA in Barcelona, Spain for delivering innovative pricing features to the prepaid market that have previously been confined to the postpaid market -- giving many more customers the ability to personalize their services and tailor them to their needs.
During the third quarter of the year, Globe Telecom's prepaid business remained in full swing after its customer base breached the 40-million mark amidst intense competition and aggressive switching in the prepaid market.
As of end-September 2014, total prepaid base has grown to 40.7 million, up 18% from the 34.5 million customers as of the same period last year. The telco's digital brand for the youth Globe Prepaid grew its customer base to 18.9 million customers, a 12% increase from last year's customer base of 17 million, while TM, the company's value prepaid brand, increased its customer base to 21.8 million, a solid 24% growth from last year's 17.6 million customers.
Globe Prepaid gross acquisitions for the first nine months of the year grew to 11.6 million or 23% higher than the acquisition level in the same period last year of 9.4 million. Coming from strong gross acquisitions, net incremental subscribers likewise improved by 109% to 1.1 million from 523,797 in the same period last year.
TM, on the other hand, generated a total of 5 million new SIMs in the third quarter of 2014, bringing total gross acquisitions as of the end of September this year to 15.5 million, up 27% against the same period in 2013.