29 August, 2007
University of Ghent chooses Bull's HPC Solution
Within the framework of the medical imagery and signal processing research (MEDISIP), the group of the Professor. I. Lemahieu, dr. S. Staelens and dr. S. Vandenberghe chooses Bull HPC Nodes.
This product will be used for the simulation of medical scanners with an aim of optimizing the process of early cancer detection. The choice is made of the NovaScale series type NS421, made up of two chips quad core Intel last generation, optimized to carry out parallel calculations.
NovaScale HPC nodes have an excellent value for money/performance/consummation, which is ideal for large scale parallel clustering systems. This reference proves Bull's expertise and its know-how in High Performance Computing, and reinforces its position among the leaders of the market in the field of parallel systems of cluster.
About MEDISIP
MEDISIP is a research group f of the department for Electronics and Information Systems of the Faculty of engineer Sciences at the University of Ghent. MEDISIP is mainly based on the digital signals research and image processing for the medical sector.
Some examples:
- The image rebuilding of PET and SPECT acquisitions
- The modelling and simulations of the scanners FART and SPECT
- Magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) and design of gradients sequences
- Material of nervous tractography using diffusion tensor images.
- Treatment of the biomedical signals (ECG, EEG, ERP,…)
URL: MEDISIP
19 July, 2007
The Agence pour l'Informatique Financière de l'État (AIFE) has awarded Bull,
and its partners Atos and Accenture, one of the largest infrastructure and security
contracts in France, to develop and maintain operational status for section 4 of the Chorus
program.
Chorus will handle government budget expenditures, non-tax receipts and accounting
functions. It will be deployed in all the French government's centralized and local
administrative organizations by the year 2010.
As prime contractor, Bull's mission is to design, construct, integrate and validate the Chorus
architecture technically and in terms of security, working closely to integrate with the other
sections of the program, in order to underwrite the various performance warranties and to
assure fully secure operating at both industrial and 'auditable' levels.
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18 July, 2007
Infrastructure simplification: Bull's Storeway solutions
Growth in complexity is inherent in storage infrastructures. Faced with rapidly growth in storage capacity requirements, evolving application requirements, and changing technology - complexity and operational costs will tend to escalate if unchecked.
Storage infrastructure complexity can manifest itself in many ways; multiple and incompatible storage technologies, poor utilization of storage assets, interoperability issues, and multiple storage administration and management tools.
Bulls infrastructure simplification solutions focus on a number of areas that work directly to reduce complexity and IT costs:
- Consolidating storage assets to increase utilization levels and to reduce the number of active storage components in the infrastructure
- Virtualizing disk and tape storage assets in order to increase flexibility, pool storage resources, and reduce the number of administration and data management tools
- Implementing tiered storage architectures to reduce cost by storing data on different media according to performance, availability and recovery requirements
- Aligning storage costs with actual storage usage in order to reduce capital and operation costs
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July, 2007
With IAM Suite 8, Evidian places identity and access management at the heart of business processes
A new Role Management console for unifying and managing administration functions according to business views. An integrated and modular suite structured around three major components: access, identity and role management. An innovative infrastructure using existing directories to speed up return on investment on identity-management projects.
Bull Evidian, European leader in Identity and Access Management, announces today the release of IAM Suite 8, its new modular and integrated solution that secures information system accesses and controls the user-identity lifecycle.
Extending the functions of previous Evidian IAM versions, IAM Suite 8 offers the following features in a single integrated software suite: identity management, access control with enterprise SSO, and RBAC-type role management. It thus helps organizations to create the internal audit reports required by laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel lI, and even laws on the confidentiality of medical information (HIPAA, others), while cutting the costs of providing these audits. Thanks to an innovative, user-rights-related role management model, IAM Suite 8 simplifies identity management and prevents the proliferation of users security profiles that can complicate and increase the cost of audit operations.
June 5, 2007
Bull launches a new initiative, to "accelerate innovation"
As part of its 7i program, Bull is launching its latest initiative to democratize high-performance computing (HPC), with the aim of helping enterprises and research centers accelerate the process of innovation.
Bringing together its experience gained in building some of the biggest supercomputers in the world, and its know-how in enterprise-class open systems, Bull is setting out to support research centers and businesses in their efforts to innovate, so they can design and develop tomorrow's products more rapidly.
"Enterprises and research centers are currently facing a real challenge: they need to be able to innovate faster, and at a lower cost. Bull and its partners have developed a new range of high-performance computing solutions for just these kinds of organizations," explained Benoît Hallez, Director of High-Performance Computing solutions at Bull. "Democratizing HPC is a major issue for our society today. With our new solutions, we are bringing down the total cost of ownership. And with predefined 'turnkey' clusters and powerful system administration tools, we are putting supercomputers within the reach of smaller and medium-sized businesses and research centers."
May 22,2007
Bull launches its 7i program
Seven key initiatives designed to help businesses reap the benefits of an open world. Combining the best in services and technologies, the 7i program aims to help businesses turn their information systems into drivers for creating value in a connected world, by facilitating growth, competitiveness and sovereignty. More openness means better performance. To help businesses dare to be different, reinvent themselves, perform beyond the limit.
Bull has brought together the very best of open technologies to ensure that its customers can leverage the full power of IT to deliver their strategies. Focusing on telecoms, servers, large-scale IS projects, business intelligence, High-Performance Computing, storage and security: in each of these areas Bulls solutions will drive businesses as they develop and grow.
Today an open approach to information systems is vital if enterprises are to be as powerful, creative and flexible as their business demands, explains Didier Lamouche, Bulls Chairman and CEO. Delivering the most effective combination of interoperability, flexibility, power and security is our constant concern. Bull has established an ambitious offering to help customers turn their information systems into drivers for growth and innovation in the business ecosystems of tomorrow.
By co-ordinating Bulls expertise, services and solutions in seven key areas for tomorrows information systems, the 7i program is setting out to help enterprises and CIOs benefit from a networked world, by building bridges between heterogeneous worlds, and by encouraging the ability to interconnect, mobilize collective intelligence, and foster synergies.
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