Stories about: APAC

Advocates of free and open source software (FOSS) in the Philippines are aspiring for a larger and active local community with the upcoming Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) slated on June 23 to 24 in Cebu City.

Although it has, for some time, been known as a global open source database systems provider, MySQL has not been actively marketing in the Philippines until recently. During the release of MySQL Enterprise Server 5.0 in the country, APAC senior vice president Larry Stefonic said they believe the Philippines is a strong market as evident in downloads being made from the country, even when they have not been heavily marketing in the country yet.

Linux and High Performance Computing go hand in hand. So to see what Australian users have been doing with Linux and HPC, this year's linux.conf.au is holding a Birds of a Feather session on the topic. Before the session kicks off we take time to speak to the BoF coordinator Anthony David. During the working day David works for SGI as the onsite engineer for the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). Here, we ask him about the state of HPC in Australia and where it is heading. The following responses are his own personal beliefs and not that of his employer.

Analyst firms Gartner and IDC both released reports on the Asia Pacific server market this week but with different results.

US database vendor, EnterpriseDB, wants to carve a swath through the Australian market during the remainder of 2007 using a two-pronged channel approach.

Red Hat and the Australian Computer Society (ACS) have formed a training partnership which will see ACS members receive a 16 percent discount for Red Hat Certified Engineer qualifications.

Western Australia's Interactive Virtual Environment's Centre (Ivec) has purchased a 160-processor supercomputer bringing it in line with other facilities in the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing's (APAC) national grid.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) has announced details of its next generation supercomputer, which according to executive director John O'Callaghan, has a chance to be one of the top 30 in the world.

Aggressive acquisitor Oracle Corporation has reshuffled its top antipodean management with current Australian and New Zealand MD Brian Mitchell dispatched to Asia to "lead merger and acquisition activity and integration across the Asia-Pacific".

In what appears to be a coup for the IBM-born Eclipse open source Java development framework, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has started using it to build a Linux-based desktop application for controlling laboratory instrumentation.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) is working to establish a national grid to integrate eight supercomputing facilities around the country.