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Call For Entries: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition
03 Feb 2009
PRESS RELEASE
Deadline: 09 February 2009
Amazon.com, the Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace are accepting submissions for the second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition.
The competition aims to find the next popular novel, with the winner to receive a publishing contract with Penguin Group (USA), which includes a $25,000 advance.
The winner will be announced in May 2009.
For complete details, click on the banner above.
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Amazon.com’s ‘Best Of 2008’ List Topped By Jarden Products
Amazon.com & Universal Music Enterprises Partners Up
Amazon.com Books Recognizes Independent Publishers Group
Deadline: 09 February 2009
Amazon.com, the Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace are accepting submissions for the second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition.
The competition aims to find the next popular novel, with the winner to receive a publishing contract with Penguin Group (USA), which includes a $25,000 advance.
The winner will be announced in May 2009.
For complete details, click on the banner above.
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HP Blade Servers Power Next Generation Of Visual Entertainment
03 Feb 2009
PRESS RELEASE
February 2009
Visual effects companies, Animal Logic and Paprikaas, have selected HP Blade Server technology to increase production of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and drive cost-saving data center initiatives.
CGI development of a typical 90-minute film often requires the production and storage of more than 2 million hours of digitally created content. These extreme performance and storage requirements, coupled with the rising demand for visual effects, have put competitive pressure on companies to increase production on low operational costs at the same time.
Turning to HP for its Blade Server technology, both Paprikaas and Animal Logic are realising that requirement.
Australia-based Animal Logic, visual effects creator for motion pictures “Happy Feet,” “300” and “Australia” will be developing its next animated film, “Guardians fo Ga’Hoole” using 1,000 HP ProLiant HP ProLiant BL2x220c server blades housed within HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures.
“Creating award-winning digital imagery requires incredibly powerful, efficient computing technology,“ said Alex Timbs, Head of Information Technology at Animal Logic.
“The HP BL2x220c delivers the same peak performance of our previous system, but utilizes only a fraction of the power and physical space. HP’s two-in-one blade packs double the compute power in our existing space, allowing us to keep up with the demands of our business without physically building out our data center. We are achieving significant advantages in terms of cost benefits–both capital and operational–by moving to HP blade servers.”
Paprikaas, part of the global Technicolor business and a strategic partner of DreamWorks Animation, chose HP ProLiant BL460c G5 servers to increase performance and establish an energy-efficiency standard in its data center.
“The production demands of our business were pushing the power and space limits of our current data center, so we faced a significant challenge–either build out another data center or find an energy-efficient server alternative,” said Nandish Domlur, Chief Executive Officer, Paprikaas.
“With the HP Proliant BL460c, we’ve increased our available compute capacity significantly without increasing our total power draw a single watt. We also have the compute power required to create the next blockbuster animation.”
Powered by 240 ProLiant BL460c servers, Paprikaas’ production system was placed on the recent TOP500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Its system delivers 23 teraflops/sec of performance, which enables Paprikaas to significantly increase CGI production and gain a competitive advantage.
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Complete HP ProCurve Expands Adoptive Networks Vision And More
HP Delivers BladeSystem Solution Blocks For Microsoft Technologies
HP And Cisco Help Quebec Modernize Airport To Draw More Travelers
February 2009
Visual effects companies, Animal Logic and Paprikaas, have selected HP Blade Server technology to increase production of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and drive cost-saving data center initiatives.
CGI development of a typical 90-minute film often requires the production and storage of more than 2 million hours of digitally created content. These extreme performance and storage requirements, coupled with the rising demand for visual effects, have put competitive pressure on companies to increase production on low operational costs at the same time.
Turning to HP for its Blade Server technology, both Paprikaas and Animal Logic are realising that requirement.
Australia-based Animal Logic, visual effects creator for motion pictures “Happy Feet,” “300” and “Australia” will be developing its next animated film, “Guardians fo Ga’Hoole” using 1,000 HP ProLiant HP ProLiant BL2x220c server blades housed within HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures.
“Creating award-winning digital imagery requires incredibly powerful, efficient computing technology,“ said Alex Timbs, Head of Information Technology at Animal Logic.
“The HP BL2x220c delivers the same peak performance of our previous system, but utilizes only a fraction of the power and physical space. HP’s two-in-one blade packs double the compute power in our existing space, allowing us to keep up with the demands of our business without physically building out our data center. We are achieving significant advantages in terms of cost benefits–both capital and operational–by moving to HP blade servers.”
Paprikaas, part of the global Technicolor business and a strategic partner of DreamWorks Animation, chose HP ProLiant BL460c G5 servers to increase performance and establish an energy-efficiency standard in its data center.
“The production demands of our business were pushing the power and space limits of our current data center, so we faced a significant challenge–either build out another data center or find an energy-efficient server alternative,” said Nandish Domlur, Chief Executive Officer, Paprikaas.
“With the HP Proliant BL460c, we’ve increased our available compute capacity significantly without increasing our total power draw a single watt. We also have the compute power required to create the next blockbuster animation.”
Powered by 240 ProLiant BL460c servers, Paprikaas’ production system was placed on the recent TOP500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Its system delivers 23 teraflops/sec of performance, which enables Paprikaas to significantly increase CGI production and gain a competitive advantage.
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