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Tradie marketplace operator hipages Group has promoted Jeremy Burton to the role of CTO, allowing former chief product and technology officer Herry Wiputra to focus his efforts are chief product officer.

DCI Data Centers has appointed Chris Clarkson as head of business development for South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Scientists at the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) in Denmark have used advanced genetic algorithims processed on a SGI supercomputer to discover how genetic diseases such as cancer systematically attack the networks controlling human cells.

Arcitecta, the company behind Mediaflux – the metadata management platform for complex, distributed data management – is developing a product to improve the capture and management of data from clinical research worldwide.

Intersect Australia will install an SGI supercomputer at one of Macquarie Telecom's Sydney data centres and make it available to Australian researchers.

Queensland's University of Technology has deployed SGI systems as part of a significant upgrade to its high performance computing system and to support its research in areas ranging from avionics and smart transportation to biomedical engineering.

University and research supercomputing is being revolutionised by the march of platforms built using commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines and mobile phones. Queensland University of Technology and the University of Melbourne are the latest to take the plunge.

The Australian National University in Canberra has completed the installation of a high performance private data cloud storage solution from SGI tailored for the needs of its research and corporate users, and for its national computing role in National Computational Infrastructure, Australia's national peak computing partnership which includes CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and Geoscience Australia.

SGI will ship server clusters with Cloudera's distribution of Apache Hadoop preinstalled.

Seeking to replace its existing SGI Altix supercomputer with a new model powered by 64-bit Intel processors, Australia's science organisation has gone to tender to double its supercomputing power.