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Press releases

07-06-2010
Establishment of 'Consortium Green-IT Amsterdam Region' on June 8.
See press release (Dutch text only)

14-01-2010
"25 jaar rekenmeesters in meesterwerk" – NCF and SARA celebrate 25 years of supercomputing in the Netherlands.
See press release (Dutch text only)

26-11-2009
SARA organizes 25th Superdag on December 3.
See press release (Dutch text only)

25-11-2009
Dutch Tier-1 site receives data of first LHC collissions.
See press release (Dutch text only)

22-09-2009
SARA again qualified as zorgserviceprovider.
See press release (Dutch text only)

27-07-2009
Solar eclipse Asia via superfast network live at SARA.
See press release (Dutch text only)

22-05-2009
DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 attracted almost 200 participants from more than 20 countries and four continents.
See press release

08-05-2009
Symposium 'HPC Infrastructures for Petascale Applications' 11-13 mei in Amsterdam.
See press release (Dutch text only)

05-03-2009
Amsterdam to host EGI.org.
See press release

25-02-2009
French software and Dutch national Supercomputer Huygens establish a new world record in Go.
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25-02-2009
HPC Infrastructures for Petascale Applications – DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009.
See press release

26-01-2009
Commission puts Europe's supercomputers on the path to sustainable energy sources.
See press release

01-10-2008
3 October 2008: LHC Computing Grid goes live!
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03-09-2008
Minister Plasterk will unveil new Dutch national supercomputer Huygens at SARA on September 11.
See press release (Dutch text only)

13-08-2008
Dutch national supercomputer Huygens beats human Go professional at 24th US Go Congress in Portland (Oregon, US).
See press release

03-07-2008
SARA's New IBM POWER6 Supercomputer Will Increase the Dutch Researchers Competitive Edge.
See press release

07-05-2008
Call Me! SAGE Visualcasting Enables Gigabit-Linked Collaborators to
Link-up and Work Together in High-Definition.

See press release

11-03-2008
CENIC 2008 award for SARA's contribution to CineGrid @ Holland Festival.
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06-02-2008
SARA acquires ZSP qualification.
See press release (Dutch text only)

15-11-2007
High Performance Digital Media Using Optical Multicast Demonstrated at SC07 Conference in Reno, Nevada.
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31-10-2007
DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative awards 2008.
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03-07-2007
CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007.
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14-06-2007
GÉANT2 helps drive high-speed supercomputer projects.
See press release

11-06-2007
SARA sponsors World Computer Chess Championship that will take place on Science Park Amsterdam from 11-18 June.
See press release (Dutch text only)

08-06-2007
Official opening of new Dutch national supercomputer Huygens on June 13, 2007.
See press release (Dutch text only)

29-03-2007
SARA to deploy IBM POWER-based System as new Dutch National Supercomputer for scientific research.
See press release.

14-02-2007
SARA premieres 4K digital cinema technology.
See press release.

29-05-2006
Primary schools in Tilburg will get super-fast Internet.
See press release (Dutch text only)

15-02-2006
Global Grid service for LHC computing succeeds in gigabyte-per-second challenge.
See press release.

13-12-2005
American and European supercomputing infrastructures linked through a common wide-area global file system.
See press release.

05-12-2005
Global Crossing Network Supports World Record in International Visualization from the Netherlands.
See press release.

17-11-2005
SURFnet and SARA realize uncompressed HDTV videoconference between eleven locations worldwide for the first time in history from the Netherlands.
See press release.

31-10-2005
SARA and EMC ratify partnership agreement.
See press release. (Dutch text only)

30-09-2005
SARA establishes world record in transatlantic visualization at iGrid 2005.
See press release.

21-09-2005
SURFnet and SARA have successfully sent uncompressed High-Definition TV to Japan.
See press release.

14-09-2005
SARA will demonstrate unique transatlantic visualization at the biennial network event iGrid2005 in San Diego (California, USA).
See press release.

01-06-2005
Telindus and SARA win contract for management of SURFnet6.
See press release.

26-04-2005
LHC Computing Centres Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

07-04-2005
National e-Science Support Center SARA opens new HPC facilities in Almere.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

25-01-2005
Amsterdam hospitals choose SARA for the management of their shared dark fiber ring.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

26-10-2004
SARA installs new National Compute Cluster in Almere.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

26-11-2003
SARA opens new national supercomputer ‘Aster’.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

20-11-2003
SARA’s supercomputer Aster on high position in Top-500.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

18-11-2003
SARA and SURFnet realize collaborative virtual reality for bioinformatics.
See press release. (Dutch text only.)

22-05-2003
416-processor SGI Altix 3000 Supercluster to augment Netherlands National Supercomputing facility at SARA.
See press release.