HP will collaborate with SAP AG on research aimed at improving the flexibility, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of IT systems for businesses of all sizes.
HP Labs and SAP Research, the central research facilities for the two companies respectively, will work together on technologies designed to exploit synergies between HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure management technologies and SAP’s Enterprise service-oriented architecture (Enterprise SOA). Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The Adaptive SAP project could help customers use hardware and software when and where they need it rather than gearing systems to run full force at all times. The companies aim to develop a model for choreographing IT systems so that hardware and software continually adapt to the varying daily workloads and changing business process needs of enterprises.
The project is designed to combine powerful technologies in model-based automation, virtualization and policy-based adaptation, with secure, compartmentalized deployment and execution environments. Such flexible, adaptable and cost-effective systems are expected to open up sophisticated business process solutions to small- and mid-size enterprises.
The project will be the first under a global agreement between the two companies covering collaborative research in areas that are changing the face of enterprise IT. As a result, HP Labs and SAP Research are also exploring topics such as SOA semantics, business process analytics and asset tracking based on RFID technologies. The aim is to help joint customers gain further flexibility in business processes and deploy their systems in innovative ways.
The global research will initially include HP Labs teams in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as SAP Research in Germany, Northern Ireland and Australia.
With more than 50,000 installations for mutual customers, HP and SAP have been collaborating for 17 years on complementary hardware and software solutions. Nearly half of all SAP software installations worldwide are powered by HP technology.
The Cybermedia Center (CMC) at Osaka University has purchased 20 SX-8R vector supercomputers from the NEC Corporation. The new system has a peak performance of 5.3 TFLOPS and will be the largest SX series system acquired in Japan.
CMC plans to add a next-generation SX system in two years, whose peak performance is expected to exceed 20 TFLOPS (one trillion floating-point operations per second), a performance enhancement of 16 times that of the current system of SX-5/12M8 (peak performance: 1,280GFLOPS).
Geoscience measuring networks have gaps, for where there is no electricity, no data can be collected. Many remote regions are still white spots on the data landscape. A new energy system will soon remedy the problem.
Weather forecasts, disaster warnings, traffic reports – no-one today is willing to go without up-to-the-minute information. Residents want to find out how high a flood will rise, scientists track the development of earthquakes, and investors call for wind data from the site of a projected wind farm. All of these data can only be determined if a close-meshed network of automatically operating measuring stations is in place. But the network is patchy, for in many places there is no power to operate the equipment. In places where no power cables have been laid, the measuring stations have to operate self-sufficiently. At present, the necessary electricity usually comes from solar cells, but these are not always able to meet the energy requirements. Especially in winter, when the modules are covered with snow and ice and additional energy is needed to heat the sensors, the sun’s energy is not sufficient. Sometimes it is simply too expensive to generate electricity using photovoltaics alone.
A Delta IV evolved expendable launch vehicle carrying a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite was launched from the Space Launch Complex-6 here Nov. 4 at 5:53 a.m.
"I'm extremely proud of the precision with which the base and Vandenberg launch team planned and executed this Delta IV mission," said Col. Terry Djuric, the 30th Space Wing vice commander. "This west coast launch helped kick off the Air Force's yearlong 60th anniversary celebration."