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2012/06/03

[san-tech][03558] Slide: 16th Workshop on Distributed Supercomputing (SOS) 2012 (March 12-15, 2012) and 2012 Salishan (April 23-26, 2012)

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:46:22 +0900
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HPC関連ですが、2012年 3月、4月に開催された伝統ある HPCワークショップの
資料が (一部) 公開されています。

SOS16 Workshop, March 12-15, 2012
Theme: Quantifying the Cost of Exascale
  http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Conferences/SOS16/

2012 Salishan Conference Conference on High-Speed Computing,
April 23-26, 2012
Theme: 2015 Petascale Systems: Next Steps
  http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/salishan/

2012/04/23

[san-tech][03538] Report: "NSF Report on Support for Cloud Computing", Feb 6, 2012.

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:13:11 +0900
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2012/04/23
[san-tech][03539] Slide: NSF Workshop on Security for Cloud Computing (March 15-16, 2012)
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US NSF (National Science Foundation) から Cloud Computingに関する
レポートが公開 (合衆国議会に提出) されていました:

"NSF Report on Support for Cloud Computing"
 In response to America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524
 Document History: Posted: February 6, 2012, (21 pages)
  http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12040
  http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12040/nsf12040.pdf

2012/04/10

[san-tech][03517] Re: "The Magellan Report on Cloud Computing for Science", Dec 2011 (Re: Magellan, US DOE Cloud Project)

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:59:25 +0900
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2012年 3月 27, 28日に開催された DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory
Committee(ASCAC) Meetingでの発表資料です (44 Pages):

"Final Report on Magellan and Update on Advanced Networking Initiative"
 Kathy Yelick
 Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences Lawrence Berkeley
 National Laboratory
 Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley
  http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/meetings/Mar12/ANI-Magellan-ASCAC12.pdf

2012/04/01

[san-tech][03502] US Gov. $200M Big Data R&D Initiative, March 29, 2012 & IPA報告書

Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:49:35 +0900
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2012/04/18

"SDSC Announces 'Center of Excellence' for Predictive Analytics"
 April 17, 2012, UCSD News Center
  http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/sdsc_announces_center_of_excellence_for_predictive_analytics/

 PACE to Bridge Gap Between Academia, Industry, and Government
  "... is launching a new "center of excellence" aimed at leveraging
   SDSC's data-intensive expertise and resources to help create
   the next generation of data researchers by leading a collaborative,
   nationwide education and training effort among academia, industry,
   and government.

   SDSC is providing seed funding for the program, called PACE
   for Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence. ..."
.....
  "While education and training initiatives are a large part of PACE,
   the project will also be open to collaborations and projects
   with industry and government, especially using Gordon, a unique,
   data-intensive supercomputer recently introduced by SDSC
   and which currently ranks among the 50 fastest supercomputers
   in the world."
.....
Federal Focus on Big Data
  "SDSC's PACE program comes as the administration's Office of Science
   and Technology Policy (OSTP) last month announced $200 million in
   funding for new investments in big data research and development
   projects with the announcement of its Big Data initiative"

PACE (Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence)
  http://pace.sdsc.edu/
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[san-tech][03521]"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs", April 10, 2012, Datanami (Re: Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets)
  Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:29 +0900 
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2012/04/06

"7 Big Winners in the U.S. Big Data Drive"
 April 05, 2012, Datanami
  http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-05/7_big_winners_in_u.s._big_data_drive.html

#1 DARPA XDATA Program
#2 The Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (SDAV) Institute
#3 An Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) for Climate Research
#4 Big Data for Earth System Science
#5 Department of Homeland Security
   & Center for Excellence on Visualization and Data Analytics (CVADA)
#6 Big Data for the CDC
#7 The Machine Reading Program, DARPA

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2012年 3月 29日に、米国オバマ政権から $200 Million規模の Big Data
Research and Development Initiativeが発表されました:

Press Video (116:36):
"Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data"
 Thursday, March 29, 2012, from 2-3:45 pm ET
"NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data", March 29, 2012
 All Images (真ん中あたり)
  http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=123607
  "Broadcast of OSTP-led federal government big data rollout
   March 29, 2012, in the AAAS Auditorium in Washington, DC"
"Video from Thursday's Big Data R&D Initiative Launch Posted"
 March 31st, 2012, CCC Blog
  http://www.cccblog.org/2012/03/31/video-from-thursdays-big-data-rd-initiative-launch-posted/
※解説付き

Press Release:
"OBAMA ADMINISTRATION UNVEILS "BIG DATA" INITIATIVE:
 ANNOUNCES $200 MILLION IN NEW R&D INVESTMENTS"
 March 29, 2012
 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
 Executive Office of the President
 The White House
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release_final_2.pdf

2012/03/28

[san-tech][03495] Re: $1,5B Data Center (National Security Agency: NSA)

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:04:26 +0900
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以前紹介した、NSA (National Security Agency) データセンターに関しての記事です:

"The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)"
 March 15, 2012, Wired.com
  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

2012/03/22

[san-tech][03486] Re: DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR) Quest) Challenge

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:19:59 +0900
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チャレンジの結果です。解説記事から

"DARPA Challenge Doesn't Go Viral On Twitter"
 Agency ends two-week QR-related contest--promoted only through
 Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks--without anyone
 finding all 7 posters with special codes.
 March 19, 2012, InformationWeek
  http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/232602820

  "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently
   ended its CLIQR challenge without anyone successfully completing
   the contest's full task, giving the agency new insights into
   the effectiveness of social networks versus more traditional
   forms of online communications and media outreach to spread
   information."
.....
  "The idea behind the challenge was to get people to respond quickly
   to simulate how citizens might mobilize for aid and relief during
   a time of crisis, according to the challenge's website ..."
.....
  "The key to the challenge was that DARPA did not engage in its
   usual outreach strategy ... Instead, it used Twitter to announce
   the challenge and encouraged participants to use their own social
   networks as well, such as Facebook, to find the posters."

2012/03/06

[san-tech][03465] "Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan", February 2012, US NSF Report

Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:51:40 +0900
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US NSF (National Science Found) の新しいレポートです:

"Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan"
 Document History: Posted: February 22, 2012
  http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12051
  http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12051/nsf12051.pdf

Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21)
  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504730

2012/03/03

[san-tech][03460] DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR) Quest) Challenge

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:04:28 +0900
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DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) 懸賞金チャレンジです:

DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes
(CLIQR) Quest) Challenge
  https://www.cliqrquest.com/Default.aspx

".. DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response
 codes (CLIQR) Quest), a prize-based challenge that seeks to advance
 the understanding of social media and the Internet, and explore
 the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely
 communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required
 to solve broad scope, time-critical problems."

2011/09/21

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace", July 14, 2011

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"

  "The Department of Defense released today the DoD Strategy for
   Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC).  It is the first DoD unified strategy
   for cyberspace and officially encapsulates a new way forward for
   DoD's military, intelligence and business operations."
.....
  ""The cyber threats we face are urgent, sometimes uncertain and
   potentially devastating as adversaries constantly search for
   vulnerabilities," said Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III.
  "Our infrastructure, logistics network and business systems are heavily
   computerized.  With 15,000 networks and more than seven million
   computing devices, DoD continues to be a target in cyberspace for
   malicious activity.""


"Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"
 July 2011

2011/08/06

[san-tech][03330] カナダ政府 ITコストを削減:データセンター統合 (300 => 20)、E-mail system (100 => ONE) 等

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:48:18 +0900
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カナダ政府が、ITコストを削減を打ち出しました:

"Government of Canada to Reduce Information Technology Costs and
 Save Taxpayers' Dollars"
 August 4, 2011, Government of Canada

  "On behalf of the Government of Canada, the Honourable Rona Ambrose,
   Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for
   Status of Women, along with the Honourable Tony Clement, President
   of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Federal Economic
   Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, today announced
   measures to streamline and identify savings in
   Information Technology (IT) through Shared Services Canada."

2011/08/01

[san-tech][03320] Re: Open Cloud Principles by Open Cloud Initiative & CLOUD2 by TechAmerica Foundation

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:07:39 +0900
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VCE (VMware, Cisco EMC共同プロジェクト) は、Cloud2をサポートするそうです:

"VCE Helps Government Agencies Embrace the Cloud"

 VCE Chairman and CEO Michael Capellas Serves as Federal Cloud Commission
 Co-Chair, Offers Final Report on How the US Government Can Accelerate
 the Adoption of Cloud Technologies

 Jul 26, 2011
  http://www.vce.com/pdf/media/vce-pr-2011-07-26-federal-cloud-commission.pdf
  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vce-helps-government-agencies-embrace-the-cloud-2011-07-26
※↑HTML版

  "VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company, announces its support
   for the TechAmerica Federal CLOUD2 Commission report which was officially
   released today in Washington D.C. at the National Press Club.
   The TechAmerica CLOUD2 Commission is a group of over 70 thought leaders
   from industry, government and academia brought together to generate
   recommendations for accelerating adoption of cloud technologies in
   the US Government." ...


2011/07/31

[san-tech][03315] Open Cloud Principles by Open Cloud Initiative & CLOUD2 by TechAmerica Foundation

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:37:11 +0900
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Open Cloud Initiativeのプレスリリースです (後半は CLOUD2関連です):

"Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing"
 07/26/2011

  "Today the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization
   established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced
   its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its
   purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater
   cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus
   on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in
   the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those
   requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of
   community consensus."

2011/07/21

[san-tech][03289] "DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace", July 14, 2011

Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:02:30 +0900
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直接関わる可能性は低いと思いますが、米国防省から Cyberspace戦略が公開
されました:

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"
 July 14, 2011

  "The Department of Defense released today the DoD Strategy for
   Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC).  It is the first DoD unified strategy
   for cyberspace and officially encapsulates a new way forward for DoD's
   military, intelligence and business operations."

2011/07/18

[san-tech][02255] "ESnet Reaches First Milestone in ANI...", April 26, 2010

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:18:35 +0900
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  Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:43:32 +0900
[san-tech][02202] Re: 米ネットワーク研究開発投資:$62M ESnet, 2009/08/10
  Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:58:59 +0900
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ESnetから、Infinera DWDM導入のプレスリリースです:

"ESnet Reaches First Milestone in ANI Deployment with Infinera DWDM 
 Installation", April 26, 2010

Next steps
  "In the next few months, ESnet will be issuing a call for proposals 
   for users to conduct research on the testbed. ESnet is also issuing 
   a Request for Proposals (RFP) for equipment vendors and service 
   providers to build the next phase of the ANI project; a planned 
   nationwide 100G prototype network that is slated to link three of 
   DOE's major supercomputing centers" ... "and MANLAN, the 
   international exchange point in New York."

[san-tech][02202] Re: 米ネットワーク研究開発投資:$62M ESnet, 2009/08/10

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:58:59 +0900
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[san-tech][01795] 米ネットワーク研究開発投資:$62M ESnet, 2009/08/10
  Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:43:32 +0900
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ESnetの方の発表資料を発見しました:

Winter 2010 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs
 January 31 - February 4, 2010
  http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-slc/
Agenda
  http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-slc/agenda.cfm

[san-tech][01795] 米ネットワーク研究開発投資:$62M ESnet, 2009/08/10

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:43:32 +0900
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以前紹介した、オバマ政権の景気刺激策 (The American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act of 2009) から、ネットワーク研究開発として $62M投資
されます ($62M = 58億円)

"Berkeley Lab's ESnet Receives $62 Million to Develop World's 
 Fastest Computer Network"
 August 10, 2009
.....
  "Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Advanced 
   Networking Initiative, will ensure that the United States stays
   competitive in science and technology. Specifically, ESnet will develop
   a prototype 100 gigbits per second (Gbps) Ethernet network to connect
   DOE supercomputer centers"
※プロジェクト名は Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI)

2011/07/16

[san-tech][03270] オーストラリアも炭素税導入 (2012/07/01 --)

Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:18:02 +0900
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2012年 7月 1日から、オーストラリアも炭素税を導入します:
※データセンターにも影響が出て来そう (既に出ているかな)。

"Australia puts a price on carbon"
 Jul 11, 2011, iTnews.com.au

  "The Australian Federal Government has announced a carbon tax of $23
   per tonne effective from July 1 next year.

   Designed to slash the nation's carbon emissions by 159 million tonnes
   a year, the tax will apply to Australia's top 500 polluters under
   a two-phase fixed and flexible scheme."

2011/07/10

"Appropriations Committee Releases the Fiscal Year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations", Updated 07/07/11

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"Appropriations Committee Releases the Fiscal Year 2012
 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations"
 Updated 07/07/11
  http://appropriations.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=250023

  "The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year
   2012 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill, which will
   be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill funds
   the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice,
   the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
   the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other related agencies.

2011/07/09

"A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics", May 21, 2009

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2011/06/27
"President Obama Launches Advanced Manufacturing Partnership ", June 24, 2011

> "Remarks by the President at Carnegie Mellon University's
> National Robotics Engineering Center"
> June 24, 2011, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/24/remarks-president-carnegie-mellon-universitys-national-robotics-engineer

> "President Obama Launches Partnership at CMU"
> 2011/06/24, CarnegieMellonU, 21:51, 720p
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfTY38Xg9bg

> The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)
> Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (RI)
> http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/
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"Robotics Research a Pillar of New $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership"
 June 24th, 2011, 
 Erwin Gianchandani, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog

  "In just a few minutes, President Obama will announce the launch of
   the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) in a speech on U.S.
   innovation and competitiveness at Carnegie Mellon University, saying
   his administration will provide $500 million to encourage the Federal
   government, industry, and academia to work together to develop new
   technologies that spur high-tech manufacturing and boost job creation."
   ..... "A key pillar of this new initiative is a $70 million investment
   for major advances in robotics being made available today."

2011/07/04

LLNL opens High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) for collaboration with industry, 6/30/2011

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LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) が、産業界との共同 HPC施設を
開所しました:

"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory opens High Performance Computing
 Innovation Center for collaboration with industry"
 6/30/2011
  https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2011/Jun/NR-11-06-08.html

  "In an initiative that aims to boost the nation's economic competitiveness,
   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory today announced the opening of
   the High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC).

   The innovation center will facilitate national lab/industry collaboration,
   applying high performance computing to product design, development and
   manufacturing, data management and the operation of complex energy and
   communication systems. Industries expected to benefit from the use of HPC
   range from aerospace, automotive and transportation to utilities, energy,
   health care, finance, materials manufacturing, nanotechnology and consumer
   electronics."