Intel® Xeon® E5 Processor Debuts on TOP500 List; First Intel® Many Integrated Core Co-processor Demonstrated to Deliver Performance Above 1 TFLOPS

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family, world’s first server chip to support the PCI Express* 3.0 I/O integration, debuts on TOP500 list, powering 10 supercomputers.
• Intel’s “Knights Corner” product, the first commercial co-processor based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC) architecture was demonstrated for the first time breaking the barrier of 1 TFLOPS double precision performance**.
• Intel announced additional investments and new partner projects with R&D laboratories to pursue the goal of achieving Exascale performance by 2018.
• Intel processors power 85 percent of all new entries to the latest TOP500 list of supercomputers, with Intel Xeon processor 5600 series being most popular selected for 223 systems. 

SEATTLE, Nov. 15, 2011 – At SC11, Intel Corporation revealed details about the company’s next generation Intel Xeon processor-based and Intel Many Integrated Core (Intel MIC)-based  platforms designed for high performance computing (HPC). The company also outlined  new investments in research and development that will lead the industry to Exascale performance by 2018. 

During his briefing at the conference, Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Technical Computing, Intel Datacenter and Connected Systems Group said that the Intel Xeon processor E5 family is the world’s first server processor to support full integration of the PCI Express 3.0 specification**. PCIe 3.0 is estimated** to double the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe* 2.0 specification** while enabling lower power and higher density server implementations. New fabric controllers taking advantage of the PCI Express 3.0 specification will allow more efficient scaling of performance and data transfer with the growing number of nodes in HPC supercomputers.

The early performance benchmarks revealed that the Intel Xeon E5 delivers up to 2.1* times** more performance in raw FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second as measured by Linpack*) and up to 70 percent more performance using real-HPC workloads compared to the previous generation of Intel Xeon 5600 series processors.

“Customer acceptance of the Intel Xeon E5 processor  has exceeded our expectations and is driving the fastest debut on the Top500 list of any processor in Intel’s history,” said Hazra. “Collecting, analyzing and sharing large amounts of information is critical to today’s science activities and requires new levels of processor performance and technologies designed precisely for this purpose.”   

The Intel Xeon E5 processors made their way onto the TOP500 list in the year of the 40th anniversary of availability of the world’s first microprocessor (the Intel 4004 processor) and on the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Intel Xeon brand. Since the introduction of Intel Xeon processors in 2001, Intel estimates that Xeon processor performance has increased by more than 130 times***.

Two months since its initial shipments to supercomputer centers, Intel Xeon E5 processors now power 10 systems on the Top500 list. More than 20,000 of these processors are in operation, delivering a cumulative peak performance of more than 3.4 Petaflops.

As previously announced, the upcoming Intel Xeon processor E5 family will power several other future supercomputers, including the 10 PFLOPS “Stampede” at Texas Advanced Computing Center, the 1.6 PFLOPs “Yellowstone” at The National Center for Atmospheric Research, the 1.6 PFLOPS “Curie” at GENCI, the 1.3 PFLOPS system at International Fusion Energy Research Center (IFERC) and more than 1 PFLOPS “Pleiades” expansion at NASA.

Intel started shipping the Intel Xeon processor E5 family to a small number of cloud and HPC customers in September, with broad availability planned in the first half of 2012. Intel is tracking more than 400 design wins for the Intel Xeon processor E5 family, nearly double the amount at time of launch of the Xeon 5500/5600 generation. Demand for initial production units is approximately 20 times greater than for previous generations of the Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 series processors.

During SC’11 Intel also provided details on its greatly expanded lineup of server boards and chassis, including products specifically optimized for HPC, which will be ready to support the launch of the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5.  

First Teraflops Intel Many Integrated Core Co-Processor Demonstrated
Intel also reiterated its commitment to delivering the most efficient and programming-friendly platform for highly parallel applications. The benefits of the Intel MIC architecture in weather modelling, tomography, proteins folding and advanced materials simulation were  shown at Intel’s booth at SC’11.

The first live demonstration of the Intel MIC architecture “Knights Corner” co-processor showed that Intel architecture is capable of delivering more than 1 TFLOPs of double precision floating point performance (as measured by the Double-precision, General Matrix-Matrix multiplication benchmark – DGEMM*). This was the first demonstration of a single processing chip capable of achieving such a performance level. 

“Intel first demonstrated a Teraflop supercomputer utilizing 9,680 Intel® Pentium Pro® Processors in 1997 as part of Sandia Lab’s “ASCI RED” system,” Hazra said. “Having this performance now in a single chip based on Intel MIC architecture is a milestone that will once again be etched into HPC history.”

“Knights Corner”, the first commercial Intel MIC architecture product, will be manufactured using Intel’s latest 3D Tri-Gate 22nm transistor process and will feature more than 50 cores. When available, Intel MIC products will offer both high performance from an architecture specifically designed to process highly parallel workloads, and compatibility with existing x86 programming model and tools. 

Hazra said that “Knights Corner” co-processor is unique as, unlike traditional accelerators, it is fully accessible and programmable like fully functional HPC compute node, visible to applications as though it was a computer that runs its own Linux*-based operating system independent of the host OS. 

One of the benefits of Intel MIC architecture is the ability to run existing applications without the need to port the code to a new programming environment. This will allow scientists to use both CPU and co-processor performance simultaneously with existing x86 based applications, dramatically saving time, cost and resources that would otherwise be needed to rewrite them to alternative proprietary languages.

Intel Increases Investment in Exascale Computing
As previously announced at the International Supercomputing Conference 2011  in Hamburg, Germany, Intel’s goal is to deliver Exascale-level performance by 2018 (which is more than100 times faster performance than is currently available) while only requiring two times the power usage of the current top supercomputer. Fundamental to achieving that goal is working closely with the HPC community, and today Hazra announced several new initiatives that will help to achieve that goal.

Intel and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have signed a multi-year agreement to create the Exascale Laboratory in Barcelona, Intel’s fourth European Exascale R&D lab that joins existing sites in Paris (France), Juelich (Germany) and Lueven (Belgium). This new laboratory will focus on scalability issues in the programming and runtime systems of Exascale supercomputers.

Additionally, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Intel have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop and test technology that will be required to power the supercomputers of tomorrow. Under this initial agreement, STFC’s computational scientists at its Daresbury Laboratory in England and Intel will work together to test and evaluate Intel’s current and future hardware with leading software applications to ensure that scientists are ready to exploit Intel’s supercomputer systems of the future.

TOP500 supercomputers
The 38th edition of the Top500 list, which was announced at SC’11, shows that the world’s leading scientists and institutions continue to base their supercomputers on Intel Xeon processors. Out of all new entries to the list compared to last edition, Intel-powered supercomputers accounted for close to 85 percent. The Intel Xeon 5600 series processor is the top processor on the list, powering 223 systems. Intel Xeon processor E5 family made its introduction in 10 systems on the list with record breaking 152 GFLOPS per socket and 91 percent efficiency. Intel processors also power five systems in the top 10 and almost 77 percent of all listed supercomputers. The complete report is available at www.top500.org.

More information on SC’11, including Hazra’s presentation and pictures, are available at www.intel.com/newsroom/sc11.
 
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16 November 2011 – Microsoft has today announced the launch of Zune Music Pass¹ and Zune Marketplace giving Australians access to 13 million tracks across their Xbox², Windows Phone and PC.

Zune Music Pass is an ‘all-you-can-eat’ subscription service where people have unlimited access to explore the entire catalogue of Zune music tracks and also music video streaming on Windows-PC and on Xbox LIVE later this year.  

Also launching today is Zune Music Marketplace⁴ which will allow music fans to purchase and download their favourite songs and albums to own, without a Zune Pass subscription, accessible across their Windows Phone and PC.⁵

“We are giving Australians the option to choose how they want to organise their music collections. They can stream unlimited songs across their favourite devices with the Zune Music Pass or buy tracks to own and collect with the Music Marketplace, so whichever their preference we have an option for them,” said David McLean, Director Consumer Channels Group, Microsoft. 

The Zune Music Pass subscription will be AUD $11.99 per month or AUD $119.90 per year and allow people to access Zune’s entire music library across multiple devices. Zune Music Marketplace will allow people to use their credit card or Microsoft Points to purchase individual tracks or albums.⁵ 

“Australians have such a strong passion for music and it is an important part of the entertainment mix – we are thrilled to bring this service to Australia and give people alternatives in how they wish to play their favourite songs,” said David. 

Australians have had access to Zune Movies for nearly two years and will be able to access Zune Music from today via Zune.net, their Xbox or Zune on their phones.

SYDNEY & AUCKLAND – November 16, 2011 –Bitdefender, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, has found a recent video post by the hacktivist group, Anonymous Central, saying it intends to attack Facebook accounts with a ‘highly sophisticated’ piece of malware, codenamed Fawkes Virus. Allegedly, the malware – which was ‘fully written’ by Anonymous’ programmers – has already been tested.

According to the message, the Fawkes Virus consists of “a highly sophisticated worm, with advanced network self-replication and remote abilities. It sends out malicious links and gains access of your account.” 

Razvan Livintz, Antimalware team member at Bitdefender commented: 

“If it’s not a hoax, it appears to have the characteristics of 2008’s KoobFace, but unlike its predecessor it should also receive commands from a remote attacker and simulate basic actions on Facebook accounts, such as sending a friend request or a message.” 

Bitdefender recommends Facebook users download the Bitdefender Safego security application to protect themselves from malicious content spread by friends using the social network. Bitdefender Safego protects user’s social network account from all sorts of e-trouble: scams, spam, malware and private data exposure. 

Over the past two weeks, Bitdefender has seen an increasing number of threats spreading across Facebook, based on the statistics provided by the Bitdefender Safego security app. However, George Petre, product manager, Social Media Security at Bitdefender, says that these threats are not related to the Fawkes Virus and most of the threats contain pornography or shocking images. 

“Since this outbreak followed a relatively quiet period for Facebook threats, and considering the Anonymous video, we believe that these threats are not related to the Fawkes Virus.” 

Razvan Livintz speculates that the Fawkes Virus worm will be more sophisticated and could be carried onto other account with little or no interaction, as it allegedly bypasses user’s application security and automatically sends infected links to the unsuspected contacts in the list of friends. 

George Petre lists the following reasons why these recent threats are not the Anonymous Fawkes Virus: 

1. The threats look like other Facebook outbreaks
2. The threats are occurring before Black Friday, and in the past we’ve seen this kind of threat correlate with important shopping events
3. Some of the URLs used to spread this kind of worm contained a domain name related to the idea of shopping ( laptop-rental-store.info ) 

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A major new touring exhibition showcasing stunning artefacts from one of the world’s great ancient civilisations will open at Melbourne Museum on 4 May, 2012. 

In The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia, Melbourne Museum presents a magnificent exhibition exploring an era of extraordinary invention and innovation, the impact of which is still shaping our lives thousands of years later. 

Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu said the exhibition is set to be another stunning success for the Museum, which this week received the award for Major Tourist attraction at the RACV Victorian Tourism Awards – for the second year in a row.

“In one trip to Melbourne Museum, visitors can see everything from prehistoric fossils to Australia’s first computer. Following on from the current blockbuster Tutankhamun exhibition, The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia will be another Australian first for Melbourne Museum. The exhibition will explore an era that has had a profound influence on modern civilisation and is sure to be yet another great drawcard for both locals and visitors,” Mr Baillieu said. 

“We’re delighted to be following the record-breaking success of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs with another exhibition of extraordinary archaeological treasures – this time from one of the world’s most esteemed institutions, The British Museum,” said Dr Patrick Greene, CEO, Museum Victoria. 

“Mesopotamia played an extraordinary role in the development of human civilisation. The art and literature, reliefs and ritual objects recovered from the region provide a remarkable record of how great knowledge has been passed from the ancient to the modern world.” 

Mesopotamia – the ‘Land between the Rivers’ – occupies what is now modern Iraq, north east Syria, and south east Turkey. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, it was home to a succession of great cities and empires from which emerged many of the fundamentals of contemporary civilisation, in particular in areas of science, art, law and government. 

The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia focuses on three of the great centres of ancient civilisation – Sumer, Assyria and Babylon – bringing their rich history to life through objects and multimedia. Themes in the exhibition include palaces and royal power, religious beliefs and rituals, burial practices and royal tombs, and the myths and legends that surround ancient Mesopotamia. 

For about 2000 years, the cities of Mesopotamia were lost and forgotten until the discovery of major archaeological sites in the mid 19^th century. “The excavation of the ancient cities of Ur, Nineveh and Nimrud were rivalled in significance only by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb,” said Dr Greene. 

“These discoveries revealed Mesopotamia’s forgotten wonders – from the massive Ziggurat of Ur and the palace of the legendary king Nebuchanezzar to the royal graves at Ur, filled with exquisite artefacts of gold, silver and bronze.”

Visitors to The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia will see more than 170 artefacts that reveal many aspects of Mesopotamian culture, from massive carved stone reliefs depicting scenes of battles and hunting to items of gold jewellery. 

The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia is presented in collaboration with The British Museum. Tickets will be on sale from 5 December 2011. Adults $24, concession $16, children $14, school groups, $10 per student (all tickets include entry to Melbourne Museum). 

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  Leave your Legacy with the next chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga 

Sydney, Australia – November 16, 2011 –Ubisoft has announced that the highly anticipated Assassin’s Creed Revelations is now available at retailers worldwide for the Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system. Assassin’s Creed Revelations marks the peak of the epic journey of master assassin Ezio Auditore in the age-old war between Assassins and Templars. Assassin’s Creed Revelations is an action-adventure game that blends thrilling combat, stunning hyper-realistic graphics and a gripping tale of intrigue and self-discovery.Developed and led by Ubisoft Montreal with the support and expertise of Ubisoft studios Annecy, Massive Entertainment, Quebec, Singapore and Bucharest, Assassin’s Creed Revelations presents the most immersive experience available in the series to date and the culmination of Ezio’s adventure. 

In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of the legendary assassin Altaïr on a journey of revelation. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region. 

In addition to Ezio’s award-winning story, the acclaimed online multiplayer experience returns, refined and expanded, with more modes, more maps and more characters that allow players to test their assassin skills against others from around the world. 

Also releasing today, Assassin’s Creed Embers, a new computer generated animated short movie, will expand on the final chapter of the life of master assassin Ezio Auditore and a journey that has spanned more than four decades. 

The animated short, developed by UbiWorkshop, will be available with the Assassin’s Creed Revelations Animus Edition, with the Collector Edition, for digital download on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation Network. 

The PC version of Assassin’s Creed Revelations will be released on December 1^st, 2011.  

For more information on, please visit: www.assassinscreed.com and www.facebook.com/assassinscreed.  

Follow http://twitter.com/assassinscreed for regular updates on Assassin’s Creed Revelations.

Sydney, Australia – November 16, 2011 – Today Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed Revelations will feature downloadable content following the game release, starting with The Ancestors Character Pack in December. The first new downloadable content features four new multiplayer characters: the swashbuckling Privateer, the devious siren Corsair, the battle-tested Brigand and the bloodthirsty Gladiator. Each character is personalised with unique taunts, weapons and stylised assassination moves. 

The Ancestors Character Pack will be available for download on December 13, 2011 on XBOX LIVE^® and December 14, 2011 on the PlayStation^®Network. The DLC will be made available for 320 Microsoft points. 

Assassin’s Creed Revelations marks the peak of the epic journey of master assassin Ezio Auditore in the age-old war between Assassins and Templars. Assassin’s Creed Revelations is an action-adventure game that blends thrilling combat, stunning hyper-realistic graphics and a gripping tale of intrigue and self-discovery.

In addition to Ezio’s award-winning story, the acclaimed online multiplayer experience returns, refined and expanded, with more modes, more maps and more characters that allow players to test their assassin skills against others from around the world. 

The PC version of Assassin’s Creed Revelations will be released on December 1, 2011.  

For more information on Assassin’s Creed Revelations, please visit: www.assassinscreed.com and www.facebook.com/assassinscreed.  

Follow http://twitter.com/assassinscreed for regular updates on Assassin’s Creed Revelations.

Sydney, Australia – November 16, 2011 – A new partnership is in place between QV Software and City Interactive as their exclusive distributor in Australia and New Zealand.

“Adding City Interactive to our established family of partners for the region is very exciting,” says Paul Elliot – Managing Director, QV Software. “We are looking forward to achieving great things through this mutually beneficial partnership.”

“QV Software has a strong track record in the region and we are very happy having QVS on board to market and distributed our next two big releases “Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 and Combat Wings: The Great Battles of World War II” – Martin Kwasnica International Sales Director, City Interactive.

Titles to look forward to include Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, the highly anticipated follow up of the top-selling Sniper: Ghost Warrior and the ultimate aerial combatexperience, Combat Wings.

Sleek, fast and easy-to-use, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 delivers powerful social experiences and best in class communications

Sydney, Australia, 16 November 2011 – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9360 is now available in Australia.

Adele Beachley, Managing Director for Australia at RIM commented, “We are excited to add the BlackBerry Curve 9360 to our portfolio in Australia. The Curve family of smartphones has always been popular in Australia and we think users will be very pleased with the significant performance enhancements in this model as well as the many benefits of the new BlackBerry 7 operating system. This smartphone is a great choice for both business users and socially-conected consumers who want a highly refined mobile experience for email, messaging, social apps and web browsing.”  

The new BlackBerry Curve smartphone is slim, stylish and simply beautiful. It is ergonomically designed with a comfortable and iconic keyboard for fast, accurate typing and an optical trackpad for easy, one-handed navigation. GPS and Wi-Fi® support are also included, as well as a 5MP camera with flash and video recording so that memories can be captured and instantly shared on social networks. The microSD/SDHC slot supports up to 32 GB memory cards for additional media storage.

Powered by the new BlackBerry® 7 OS, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone features a range of powerful hardware enhancements including an upgraded processor and display, more memory and built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications), a new technology that is enabling many exciting capabilities, including the ability to pair accessories or read SmartPoster tags with a simple tap of the smartphone.

BlackBerry 7 introduces a next generation BlackBerry browser which combines the dramatically improved performance of the advanced WebKit browser engine with the hardware enhancements in the new BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone to deliver a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience. Additional enhancements to this next generation BlackBerry browser have also enabled smoother navigation and optimised HTML5 performance for incredible gaming and video experiences.

Best In Class Communications and Social Experiences
The BlackBerry Curve 9360 delivers the world’s best mobile communications and social experiences with a highly refined and integrated suite of phone, email, messaging and social apps to keep users connected and productive throughout the day.

The latest release of BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) is pre-loaded and now extends the real time BBM experience to a range of other apps allowing users to easily interact with each other from within the ‘BBM connected’ app. In addition, BlackBerry Curve 9360 users can download BBM Music, which has recently become available in Australia, allowing user to build an evolving, community-based music library that starts with their own 50-song collection and quickly grows as they share tunes amongst their BBM Music friends.

The updated Social Feeds (2.0) app has been extended to capture updates from media and favourites all in one consolidated view. The new Facebook® for BlackBerry smartphones (2.0) app introduces features like Facebook chat and BBM integration that makes it easier for users to connect with their Facebook friends in real time utilising push notifications. Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones also delivers a deeply integrated experience including use of real time push notifications and Social Feeds integration.

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New experience site launches at HaloLivingMonument.com as legions of fans worldwide count down to the release of “Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary” at midnight 

To mark the highly anticipated arrival of “Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary” ¹ Microsoft and 343 Industries are inviting fans to commemorate the 10^th anniversary of a franchise that defined a decade of Xbox gaming by creating a living monument to the series’ iconic hero, Master Chief. 

By visiting HaloLivingMonument.com today, visitors can upload pictures of their favourite “Halo” memories from the last decade and watch as they seamlessly coalesce with images submitted by legions of other fans around the world to form an interactive, 3D mosaic image of Master Chief². Users can explore the content of the mosaic, rate their favourite submissions and share them with friends on Facebook and Twitter. Contributing to the mosaic is as easy as uploading an image from Facebook or leaving a comment about your favourite “Halo” memory. 

In addition, fans who add their photos to the interactive memorial can see their contributions immortalised in a personalised, live-action “Halo Tribute” video that honours the dedication and support of the “Halo” community over the franchise’s ten year history. 

Not forgetting local Halo enthusiasts, Microsoft and 343 Industries are rewarding Australian and New Zealand fans for their loyalty with the launch of a new Facebook Halo app, ‘Service to Halo Award’.  Aussie Halo heroes can celebrate by choosing from more than 75 customisable badge elements to create their own accolades and share with other Halo fans on Facebook. Go to facebook.com/XboxANZ to unlock your reward and start creating badges for you and your friends. 

Awards such as Mr. Moon Shoes: For services to the ever prevailing multiplayer strategy of jumping. And making it look like a fine art and Sir Camps-A-Lot: The patience demonstrated in your ability to sit and wait for respawn kills says as much about your character as it does your fine abilities, are just a taste of what’s on offer before fans start creating their own tributes to the game. 

Created in celebration of the 10^th anniversary of one of the most beloved franchises in gaming history, “Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary” is a spectacularly remastered version of the original “Halo” campaign, packaged with some of the most memorable multiplayer maps in “Halo” history.  With a bounty of new features, including cooperative play over Xbox LIVE³, six reimagined multiplayer maps and one new Firefight mission, a Classic graphics mode, Achievements, innovative Kinect and 3-D support, and new challenges and story to uncover, “Halo: Anniversary” is a must-have experience for veteran Spartans and new fans alike. 

For updates on “Halo: Anniversary” and the “Halo” franchise, visit HaloWaypoint.com and follow the 343 team on Twitter and Facebook at @HaloWaypoint and http://www.facebook.com/HaloWaypoint.