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transtec.de RSS-Feed http://www.transtec.co.uk/ News: en transtec.de RSS-Feed http://www.transtec.co.uk/fileadmin/templates/images/favicons/favicon1.gif http://www.transtec.co.uk/ News: TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 02 May 2013 16:20:00 +0200 Senyo 700MP im Test http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=190 Computerwoche hat unseren Senyo Mini PC 700MP auf Herz und Nieren getestet. Lesen Sie den ganzen... Computerwoche.de]]> 2013 Thu, 02 May 2013 16:20:00 +0200 Mark Kenton http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=83 New colleague for HPC at transtec

Mark's CV "at a glance" and why transtec was a good fit:
"Deciding on a career in Technical sales, my Solution sales journey and experience took me through Intel / DEC / Fairchild Development Systems - Industrial Automation Solutions based on Omron technologies - IBM Manufacturing / CRM based on AS/400, S/38 & S/36 Platforms using JBA's Business/400 & IBM's Maapics - Workflow Solutions using Plexus FloWare workflow engine & latterly Cimage NovaSoft - CMM Solutions for the Middle East Oil and Gas / Utility sector using Indus Empac & Empower.

2006 was my inauguration into HPC was pleased to join SGI to manage their Partner network. HPC fires my passion, as it made extensive use of my Engineering knowledge & technical understanding to ensure solutions delivered benefits at a competitive price point; I am delighted to have won the trust of many Customers, both from SGI, Streamline Computing, Boston & Adaptive Computing.

transtec was always a highly regarded and much revered competitor & latterly customer, as our mutual customers were always very complimentary of transtec's professionalism & after sales service - transtec has audited high Customer satisfaction an I am delighted to be part of the Team."

Contact

Phone: 01295 814508 - DDI
Email: mark.kenton@transtec.co.uk

With the HPC Market continuing to grow at pace, as Head of UK Operations finding the right candidate was paramount to the continued success transtec has experienced in the HPC environment. Mark is well respected within the market place and in 2013 we are looking forward to build on our success of years gone by. ]]> 2013 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100 CERN: Searching for the Higgs particle http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=174 with IT solutions from transtec CERN" in Geneva and delivers HTC solutions for fundamental research activities. More than 25 Petabytes of experiment data is accumulated each year at CERN. Over 900 of transtec's special systems for high throughput file computing and CPU-intensive data analyses support CERN by saving and analysing this enormous volume of data and for accessing it in the international LHC Computing Grid. The full reference story
More about CERN]]> 2013 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:51:00 +0100 transtec realisiert erstes HPC-Cloud-Projekt http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=154 zusammen mit der TU Clausthal

Es handelt sich um Infrastucture as a Service (IaaS) mit dynamischem und automatischem Deployment von Ressourcen für Anwendungen mit mittlerem bis hohem Rechenbedarf

Es handelt sich um ein HPC-System, bei dem es auf Performance ankommt

Das gesamte System soll in die vorhandene Infrastuktur des Rechenzentrums eingebunden werden

Es handelt sich um eine zentrale Ressource, bei der Ease-of-Use und Ease-of-Administration von hoher Wichtigkeit sind

Des weiteren wird die Möglichkeit angestrebt, externe Ressourcen bei Bedarf mit verwenden zu können, konkret Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) oder andere, vergleichbare Public Cloud Systeme.

Die in den Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbereichen der TU Clausthal eingesetzten Applikationen sind zum größten Teil kommerzielle Programme, im wesentlichen Software zur Simulation komplexer Sachverhalte oder zur Auswertung größerer Datenmengen oder komplex strukturierter Daten. Darunter sind bekannte Programmpakete wie Abaqus, Moldflow oder Ansys für die Simulation. Andere Programme wie Matlab, Mathematica oder Maple sollen vor allem interaktiv, aber mit guter Performance betrieben werden. Zur Auswertung dienen Pakete wie Statistica oder SPSS.

Die in der transtec-Lösung zum Einsatz kommende Hardware besteht aus insgesamt 24 Rechenknoten mit insgesamt 384 Cores auf 12 Höheneinheiten und 2,25 TB Hauptspeicher. Für die Realisierung der IaaS-Lösung kommt der Cloud Management Stack von IBM Platform zum Einsatz:

IBM Platform LSF Express bildet die Basis der Software-Lösung. Als Workload-Manager für verteilte HPC-Umgebungen bietet es eine Reihe von Features, die Ressourcen bestmöglich ausnutzen und so für eine optimale Auslastung des Systems sorgen.
IBM Platform Application Center ist das flexible, leicht zu bedienende Interface für den Benutzer. Die vielseitige Oberfläche kann für einzelne Benutzer oder für Benutzergruppen angepasst werden. Darüber hinaus ist die Unterstützung für viele kommerzielle Applikationen bereits eingebaut.
IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition sorgt dafür, dass die bestehende Infrastruktur tatsächlich „as a Service“ verfügbar wird. Es ermöglicht Konfiguration und Bereitstellung virtueller und physikalischer Maschinen oder ganzer Cluster aus einem zuvor definierten Hardware-Pool, komplett virtualisiert mit KVM.

]]> 2013 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100 Netzwerksicherheit und private WLAN-Cloud Lösungen http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=151 für Ihr Unternehmen mit Sophos/UTM Sophos sichert Ihr Netzwerk!
WLANs sind fast überall vorhanden, die Anforderungen an Verfügbarkeit und Sicherheit steigen ständig, vor allem durch den Einsatz von mobilen Geräten wie Smartphones und Tablets im geschäftlichen Umfeld. Mit der UTM 9 Version wird die WLAN-Hotspotfunktion (max. 128 Accesspoints) und Anbindung von Heimarbeitsplätzen mit der RED Technologie vereinfacht und zentralisiert. Sicherheitskonzepte für Ihr Unternehmen
Die Firewall Systeme]]> 2013 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100 Intel zeichnet transtec aus http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=147 mit dem Intel Cluster Ready Explorer Award "Our 2012 Explorer Award goes to transtec. transtec has earned Intel’s thanks for their lead work in helping prepare for Intel Xeon processor E5 time-to-market. At transtec, Intel Cluster Ready is a well-integrated part of their technical production workflow—from beginning to end. And this year transtec submitted the highest number of customer oriented, Intel Cluster Ready, certified cluster designs, for the widest range of customers. The representative for transtec is Dr. Oliver Tennert, the Director of Technology Management & HPC Solutions."
Kathleen Ellertson, Intel Cluster Ready Partner Relations at Intel Corp. Die enge Partnerschaft mit Intel und der hohe Qualitätsanspruch von transtec an gelieferte HPC-Lösungen führten dazu, dass transtec diesen renommierten Award im High Performance Computing gewann.]]> 2013 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100 Plug and Print: Print from iPhone and iPad in any network http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=172 transtec offers Lantronix xPrintServer for iOS-based systems
iPhone has proven its value as a business tool. In Germany, its market share is above twenty percent. Now the iPad is enjoying similar success.
Increasing numbers of companies are using tablet computers in their day-to-day operations. But most networks are still based on Microsoft servers, so integrating iPhones and iPads is a bit like putting a square peg into a round hole.

xPrintServer from Lantronix offers an elegant solution to this problem. It is easily integrated into existing networks where it detects all printers in the network and then makes them accessible via WiFi to mobile devices running iOS 4.2 or higher. The device is managed through the print menu provided in iOS itself. It is no longer necessary to download and install additional drivers or printer applications. Lantronix xPrintServer is the size of an iPhone. It is compatible with all common printer types and is available immediately from transtec.]]> 2012 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100 Analyzing Big Data Almost Real Time http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=127 transtec Includes HPC-Database ParStream into their Portfolio
ParStream makes efficient use of the high degree of parallelism of current multi-processor architecture – ranging from standard CPUs to highly parallel NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. It also uses a novel indexing method, the Highly Parallel Compressed Index. Furthermore, ParStream can also execute queries on data immediately after a continuously running import, offering near real-time results, also with petabytes of data.

“Data volumes are increasing rapidly in most companies,” says Jörg Bienert, ParStream’s founder and CEO. “Classical database systems are not equal to this challenge. Algorithmic procedures for indexing large amounts of data have seen relatively few innovations in the past years and decades.”

“We are convinced that we are revolutionizing the database market and will help customers transform their data into knowledge and, ultimately, into capital,” says Michael Hummel, co-founder and joint CEO of ParStream. “Data has become an extremely important resource for companies and scientists in the 21st century and that is why developing instruments for managing and analyzing Big Data is one of the biggest challenges facing IT in the near future. With transtec as our partner who is highly experienced in HPC projects, we will deliver on this promise.”

“We have a lot of customers from the scientific as well as financial or telecommunications areas, where analyzing huge amounts of data in the shortest period of time possible is a critical factor of success,” explains Dr. Oliver Tennert, Director Technology Management and HPC Solutions at transtec. “As a specialist for High Performance Computing we are now able to offer these customers ParStream as a database system, based on our powerful and high-quality HPC hardware components, as a total solution that is optimized for this challenge in the best way imaginable.”

Application scenarios for ParStream exist at companies in a wide range of industries where Big Data Analysis constitutes a challenge. Examples include network surveillance in the telecommunications industry, Web analytics in e-commerce, smart grid management in the energy sector, or the misuse of credit cards in the financial sector. ParStream is also suitable for use in research fields such as climate model analysis or genetic research.]]> 2011 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 transtec and Bright Computing http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=74 Enter Into Partnership for European HPC Market
Bright Cluster Manager, from Bright Computing, removes the complexity from deploying, monitoring and managing HPC clusters. The intuitive graphical user interface provides complete visibility and manageability to all aspects of the cluster, without the need for the administrator to understand Linux. Alternatively, the cluster can be managed at the CLI-level via Bright’s powerful cluster management shell. Productivity is also enhanced by its seamless architecture: a single process controls all provisioning, monitoring, health-checking and management of the cluster, minimizing system overhead and maintenance. This efficiency contrasts strongly to the toolkit approach offered by other commercially available and open source management software that relies on user-driven integration and version control for each tool, as well as multiple interfaces and databases.

“With Bright Cluster Manager, we are now able to provide our academic as well as our enterprise customers an all-encompassing HPC solution portfolio, fully consistent with our motto `easy to manage – easy to use‘,“ says Dr. Oliver Tennert, Director of Technology Management & HPC Solutions. “To maximize productivity of an inherently complex system like an HPC cluster, customers require individual consulting, highest-quality hardware, and a broad range of services, alongside with intelligent software and middleware. With Bright Cluster Manager as the technology leader in this area we are now able to round off our HPC portfolio and provide real high-productivity solutions to customers.”

In its latest incarnation 5.2, Bright Cluster Manager offers – besides its well-proven features for easy management and monitoring of HPC clusters – full CUDA 4.0 support, a tight integration of various job management systems like PBS Pro, Torque/Moab, SLURM, LSF or Grid Engine; a web-based user portal; a Python interface allowing for script-controlled administration of HPC clusters with Bright; as well as support for the latest Linux distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6, Scientific Linux 6 and SLES 11 SP1.

“transtec delivers an impressive range of HPC solutions and services,” said Dr. Matthijs van Leeuwen, CEO and Founder of Bright Computing. “Bright Cluster Manager is a good fit for transtec’s mission to provide their customers with the total HPC solution to meet their needs — while keeping usability and manageability as a priority.” ]]> 2011 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0200 transtec launches servers and workstations with new Intel Xeon http://www.transtec.co.uk/index.php?id=559&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=108 transtec has expanded its product portfolio
The technology and price of the Lynx models with Intel Xeon Processor platform are oriented towards the requirements of SMBs. Performance can be leveraged by 30 percent from the predecessor generation depending on the application. By deploying these new processors and optimised 80+ PSUs, transtec has managed to considerably reduce the power consumption and the TCO. All server models can be managed from a remote maintenance option by an external IT administrator. A guaranteed product cycle from transtec is valid for a minimum of 24 months and provides additional investment protection.

Quiet, powerful, efficient: Lynx CALLEO Silent Servers
Optimum stability and security in operation, convenient operability and high productivity with workgroup applications are combined with a minimal 30 decibel (A) noise emission in the Lynx CALLEO Silent Servers. The servers can be configured with up to 32 Gigabyte RAM and 24 Terabyte hard drive capacity. A maximum of 6 slots are available for extension cards to allow for an uncomplicated upgrade to new requirements.

Affordable IT backbone: Lynx CALLEO Infrastructure Servers
The Lynx CALLEO Infrastructure Servers are streamlined down to the basic functions to ensure that investment costs are also kept to a minimum. The dedicated single socket servers also meet demanding security and stability requirements. You can operate with a maximum of 32 Gigabyte RAM and with two to four 3.5 inch hard drives.

Graphics computing performance for all: Lynx Workstation 1610T
The graphics card and processor must deliver high performance to use current graphics, design and multimedia applications effectively. With the new Lynx Workstations based on Intel Xeon E3 1200 Processor Technology and powerful graphics cards, an extremely productive, high-performance workstation can be configured on a limited budget with which even demanding CAD/CAM and imaging applications can be efficiently used.]]> 2011 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200