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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Breaking News -
General:
SCS Wins Singapore's National Grid
Pilot Platform Tender
Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) has won a National Grid Pilot Platform
(NGPP)
tender.
The NGPP was launched on Saturday to connect Singapore's computing systems
into a super network.
In the deal, SCS will provide manpower and managed services to the
Singapore
National Grid Office (NGO) over the next year.
These will cover Grid infrastructure, security and applications porting
services and the set up of a National Grid Operations Center (NGOC) to provide
operations support in the area of Grid and Cluster computing.
The NGOC comprises the National Grid Support Unit and the National Grid
Monitoring Unit.
Contributors to the Grid infrastructure include DELL and Intel, and SCS has
worked with DELL and Intel to provide the required infrastructure in terms of
servers and compiler tools for the NGOC.
More than 160 Intel processors are helping to power the NGPP which today
links
the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University,
Institute of High Performance Computing, Bioinformatics Institute,
Singapore-MIT Alliance and SCS via one Gigabit networks.
The Intel Itanium and Xeon processors are in addition to the other types of
processors made available by these institutes.
The NGO's mission is to facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber
infrastructure in a secure, effective and efficient manner to advance
scientific, engineering and biomedical research and development, with the
longer term goal of transforming the Singapore economy using Grid
technologies.
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