Gaudi's Cathedral Gets Help from Dassault, IBM
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Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi's  unfinished Sagrada Familia cathedral is nearing completion  faster with the help of software from France's Dassault  Systemes and IBM, Dassault said on Tuesday.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced delivery of its quad core processor, Barcelona.  It also said 15,000 Barcelona processors will be used in one of the world's largest supercomputers now being built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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IBM and the Spanish government have introduced a new supercomputer they hope will be the most powerful in Europe, and one of the 10 most powerful in the world.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ is making another move to strengthen ties with global IT startups and their venture capital backers, providing special access to the technical experts and products housed in IBM Innovation Centers. The vendor is due to make the announcement Thursday at its Venture Capital Symposium at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. The symposium brings together venture capitalists (VCs), the startups they fund, and IBM staff. IBM runs 32 Innovation Centers worldwide, offering training, testing and support facilities for the company's partners and customers in relation to IBM hardware, software and services. The vendor has eight centers in the Americas, 18 in Europe and the Middle East, and six in Asia-Pacific, with the most recent opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. IBM plans to open its thirty-third Innovation Center in Dublin, Ireland, next week, according to Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's Venture Capital Group. The company will also open its European Venture Capital Center at the same time on the same site as the Dublin Innovation Center, he said. VC-backed startups gave IBM feedback that they wanted more access to the company's technologies, Clark said. The idea is to give the startups free access on the product side to emerging technologies such as IBM's blade servers and its Cell processor and to offer the companies ways to develop and test their software against IT set-ups that may not exist within their own regions. All the centers are linked via grid software so that once a developer's software has been uploaded to the IBM system in one location, it's easy to distribute to other centers. IBM can give startups free advice on how best to approach markets outside their home countries, for instance, how a company in China can sell its offerings in the U.S., Clark said. Startups also can talk to IBM's technical architects either face-to-face in the centers or remotely from their phones or computers to take advantage of their specific areas of expertise. What IBM gets out of theÂ tighter relationship with VC-backed startupsÂ is access to developing companies. "It's the sweet spot for IBM," Clark said. "It's early enough that we can have some influence over companies." IBM can encourage the startups to join its partner programs and to use more of its hardware, software and services. Another interesting benefit to IBM is seeing how different geographies adopt newer technologies. For instance, in China, the platform of choice to use Web 2.0 software like social networking, blogs and wikis is a mobile handset, not a PC running a Web browser as is the case in the U.S. "We can spot trends and understand very early on what the software's doing," Clark said. The early insight helps IBM get a better handle on which technologies it needs to make available to users in the future. "It's a very nice virtuous cycle," he added.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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IBM announced Monday a set of offerings from its Virtual Innovation Center for Hardware, including &quot;how-to&quot; guides and a solution sizing toolkit, all aimed at helping the company&#39;s business partners build and deploy applications on IBM technology.
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NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build    a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems.
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What may be the world's largest supercomputer is being built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center with AMD's Barcelona chips.
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The company is opening a technology center in France to showcase how mainframes can be used for back-office tasks such as account reconciliation and funds tracking.
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Company puts on a demonstration of promised 'Barcelona' quad-core Opteron chip.
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PC Magazine - IBM provides software, hardware and services to enable financial services firms to support high-performance computing and grid systems.
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Creating a defence and aerospace industrial champion centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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Partnership with Dassault Systemes on free online application will enable people to build and share virtual 3D structures.
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SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. will spend more than $1 million to help fund a Linux technology center in Brazil. The center, created in conjunction with the Brazilian government, aims to train 700 public service professionals on the use of Linux by year's end.
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The Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (BA), the federal government agency responsible for supporting Germany's labor market, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an innovative new project to improve the agency's procurement processes.
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The supercomputer was built as a result of an agreement between IBM and the Spanish Government and will be available for a wide range of high-level scientific research and for applications in several industrial sectors.
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The Spanish airline Iberia said that it had received information on a takeover bid led by the private equity group TPG and that its board would study the offer at its next meeting. TPG is working in a consortium with British Airways, which owns 10 percent of Iberia; an investment fund, Vista Capital; and two private equity firms, Ibersuizas and Quercus Equity, which holds 20 percent of Iberiaâs low-cost off-shoot Clickair. Iberiaâs board met on Thursday and had been expected to open its books to the bidding group. Iberia did not say when the board was to meet next.
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The resources IBM will provide include articles to help Java developers use the Cloudscape database in custom application development.