Hardware/Infrastructure
- ASU Campus Nixes Fiber; Chooses Gigabit Wireless for Network Connectivity
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11/17/2008
The Mesa-based Polytechnic Campus of Arizona State University (ASU) has deployed BridgeWave's gigabit wireless radios to extend campus network connectivity to a nearby academic partner.
- Caltech Completes Parking Structure Solar Array
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11/11/2008
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) recently became the latest of several higher education institutions to deploy a solar array in a campus parking structure. The newly completed system is expected to produce about 320,000 kilowatt hours in its first year of operation with the aim of improving sustainability in research projects, according to Caltech.
- ASU and Obsidian Collaboration Seeks to Boost Long-distance Bandwidth
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11/10/2008
Arizona State University (ASU) and Obsidian Strategics have announced a partnership to explore faster, more efficient data server/transfer technologies for use at ASU's Fulton High Performance Computing Initiative (HPCI) facilities, on the ASU campus in downtown Tempe.
- Blue Coat Integrates Network Appliances
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11/10/2008
Blue Coat Systems has released a new software plugin that will integrate two of its network appliances--ProxySG and PacketShaper--to allow them to share information to improve efficiency and security.
- Lyon College Plans Student Laptop Rollout
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11/6/2008
Lyon College has gone public with plans to lease and deploy about 550 Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs over the next three years.
- Small College Makes Big Leap in Wireless
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11/6/2008
Small colleges can often be just an innovative and leading-edge in their technology rollouts as large ones, or even more so, with the right approach and know-how.
- Bryant University Takes On-Demand Approach to Multimedia Delivery
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11/5/2008
Extending classroom walls through educational videos and other multimedia offerings has become common in higher education but often brings its own set of challenges. Managing the increasing amount of multimedia content, along with cataloging new material, such as live recordings, can be costly.
- Washington U Healthcare Researchers Turn to Virtual Storage
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11/5/2008
The Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR) within Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University's School of Medicine in St. Louis is using BlueArc's Titan to provide back-end storage for a VMware virtual server environment serving the Center's bioimaging research. CCIR is using Titan as the backend for 60-plus VMware ESX virtual machines.
- Cedarville U Overhauls Campus-wide Wireless Network with 802.11n
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11/4/2008
Cedarville University in southwestern Ohio has embarked on a program to upgrade its campus-wide wireless network to 802.11n. Approximately 90 of the university's 500 wireless access points have been upgraded so far; the remaining 30 buildings on Cedarville's 400-acre campus will be upgraded over the next several years.
- Cornell Hardens Campus Network with Gigabit Wireless Radio Links
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11/4/2008
Cornell University has deployed several gigabit wireless radio links from BridgeWave Communications as part of its network hardening strategy.
- Apple Refreshes Entire Notebook Line
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10/14/2008
Apple has refreshed its entire notebook lineup--including the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air--adding in expanded graphics capabilities, greater storage capacities, and, in some cases, faster CPUs. Al of the new models are available now, except for the MacBook Air, which will ship in November.
- iStor Software Update Brings High Availability to iSCSI Storage
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10/13/2008
iStor Networks has recently released an update to its iSCSI software. The new 2.5 release adds high availability capabilities for iStor's iS512 family of iSCSI storage systems and is available as a free upgrade.
- Unisys Unveils New Mainframe-Class Servers
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10/13/2008
Unisys has recently announced the addition of several new systems to its ClearPath line of mainframe-class servers. Among the new offerings are the high-end ClearPath Dorado 700 Series, as well as the mid-range ClearPath Dorado 4000 and ClearPath Libra 4000 Series.
- Michigan State Managing MRI Images from Africa with Acuo Tech DICOM Services Grid
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10/9/2008
Doctors at Michigan State University have begun using the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Services Grid from Acuo Technologies to transport and manage magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results from a hospital in Malawi, Africa in order to monitor the impact of malaria on children.
- Louisiana Researchers Connect with 600 Megabit Ethernet Deployment
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10/8/2008
TW Telecom is helping connect 12 research universities in Louisiana through a 600 megabit Ethernet connection, recently deployed as a part of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI).
- AVerMedia Rolls Out 1080p Visual Presenter
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10/7/2008
AVerMedia Technologies has launched a new model in its Digital Presenter line of high-resolution document cameras for classroom presentations. The latest model, the AVerVision SPB370 Platform Visual Presenter, offers a 5 megapixel document/object camera and 1080p HD output coupled with networking capabilities.
- Red Hat Expands HPC Solution Availability
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10/7/2008
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product Thursday. An announcement issued by the Raleigh, NC-based company claims that the Red Hat HPC Solution product is the "first" integrated Linux-based HPC platform.
- WoW: Microsoft, Cisco Continue to Cozy Up
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10/6/2008
The ongoing relationship between Cisco Systems and Microsoft has become even closer, according to recent news that the Windows Server on WAAS (WoW)-- an appliance that merges Cisco's Wide Area Applications Services with Microsoft Windows Server 2008--is available to order.
- China's Southeast University Upgrades Wireless LANs Across 6 Campuses
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10/1/2008
Southeast University in Nanjing, China has deployed Aruba Networks WiFi networks across its six campuses. The university, with 26,000 students and 5,600 faculty members, wanted to upgrade wireless service for its many libraries and teaching facilities, but its legacy network was unable to cope with the traffic presented by the fast-growing number of users.
- Purdue Team Driving SiCortex Low-power Supercomputer in 2008 Cluster Challenge
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9/25/2008
A team of student engineers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN will be using technology from SiCortex, a Massachusetts company that makes lower-power supercomputers, for its cluster computing entry in an upcoming competition. The Boilermaker Cluster Challenge team will be entering its design at SC08, a supercomputer conference put on in November by IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.
- U Arizona To Optimize Wireless Networks on Campus
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9/24/2008
The University of Arizona in Tucson said it has begun using wireless LAN tools from AirMagnet, including Survey and Planner, to help optimize and plan wireless networks throughout the campus. The campus includes approximately 115 core buildings and more than 35,000 students. Of those 115 buildings, 70 are currently wireless enabled, encompassing more than 7.5 million square feet. It has 5,000 wireless access points.
- King Abdullah U and IBM Join To Build Middle East's Most Powerful Supercomputer
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9/24/2008
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and IBM have announced a joint project to build and conduct research on one of the most complex, high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the world. The new system, named Shaheen, will serve the university's scientific researchers across multiple disciplines, advance new innovations in computational sciences, and contribute to the further development of a knowledge-based society in Saudi Arabia.
- HP Debuts Hardware, Software To Support VMware Environments
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9/19/2008
At this year's VMworld, HP announced a series of new offerings designed to help organizations simplify the implementation and management of VMware-based virtual environments.
- Cray Unveils CX1 Supercomputer for Office Use
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9/18/2008
Cray Inc., in conjunction with Intel and Microsoft, this week unveiled a relatively low-cost supercomputer that works in office environments. The Cray CX1 high-performance computing (HPC) machine features the use of Intel processors for the first time and comes with Windows HPC Server 2008 preinstalled. It also works with Red Hat Linux Version 5.
- VMware Fusion 2 Expands Hardware Support, Improves Networking
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9/16/2008
VMware has released VMware Fusion 2.0, a major update to the desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X that has been in public beta since back in July. The new version, a free upgrade for users of VMware Fusion 1.x, focuses on expanded support for Mac hardware configurations, including additional graphics capabilities, as well as networking, security, storage, and application sharing improvements.
