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Mannheim Linux Switch Underway
News The city of Mannheim will have completed the first phase of its migration to Linux by the end of 2005, and is on target to have transferred all of its systems within five years, according to German media reports.
[October 17, 2005, 13:25]
Open Standards Push Mannheim To Linux
News "We want to decide our IT strategy in Mannheim and not have Microsoft make the decision for Mannheim," declares Gerd Armbruster, the IT infrastructure manager at the German city. For in Mannheim, open standards - not cost - is the main driver of...
[November 29, 2005, 17:15]
Open Standards Push Mannheim To Linux
Talkback Good advise would be to invest in web portal based solutions (applications and all) that work with true open industry standards.
[November 30, 2005, 21:30]
User Acceptance 'key' In Desktop Linux Migrations
News Mannheim's IT department is offering incentives to employees to get them more interested in open source software. Gerd Armbruster, the IT infrastructure manager at Mannheim, said in an interview published on ZDNet UK on Tuesday that one of the most...
[November 30, 2005, 11:05]
GaVI Puts Three Into One With Help From IBM And Morse Technology Solutions GmbH
White Papers Created in October 2002 and headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, GaVI's function is to unite the IT management and infrastructure of their founders. GaVI is faced with the enormous task of bringing together three disparate IT infrastructures serving...
[October 25, 2004, 3:00]
Flachdach Technologies Implements ESafe Anti-Virus And Anti-Spam Solution At The Gateway
White Papers KG (FDT) is a mid-sized company located in Mannheim, Germany. Flachdach Technologie GmbH & Co. It specializes in the production of overhead rails, light-plates and acid protection. The company wanted to enhance protection with an appliance solution...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
SAP Case Study: BP Oil/Mobil
White Papers To realise this innovative solution, BP Oil/Mobil tapped the expertise of SAP Labs Mannheim, which assumed responsibility for analysing, developing, and coordinating the implementation of the system. The European subsidiaries of BP Oil/Mobil have...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
New Transparency With SAP Business Information Warehouse
White Papers SAP Labs Mannheim, the implementation and support specialist for sales, service and marketing solutions within the SAP group and syskoplan, Gutersloh, provided expert assistance for the project. The Swiss company Clariant is a leading producer of...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
German Linux Migration Not A Taxing Decision
News A number of German cities are using, or planning to use, open source software, including Schwäbisch Hall, Mannheim, Treuchtlingen, Leonberg and Isernhagen. Schwäbisch Hall switched to Linux on more than 400 workstations and Mannheim plans to deploy...
[June 9, 2006, 11:50]
Ruprecht-Karls-University's Medical Research Center (ZMF) Uses SAS To Take A Closer Look At Microarray DNA Research Data To Find New Targets
White Papers The Medical Research Center (ZMF), part of the Faculty for Clinical Medicine, Mannheim, a faculty of Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, is a central service-provider for research units at the Faculty.
[September 27, 2006, 0:00]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News The Top500 ranking of supercomputers, released twice a year by researchers at the universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, experienced heavy turnover, with faster new arrivals bumping 220 lesser systems off the list.
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
IBM Cements Its Supercomputing Dominance
News The Top500 list is updated twice yearly by researchers at the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and the US Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Building one of the world's 10 fastest supercomputers takes a...
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News Capable of churning 19.94 trillion operations per second, it would have ranked second in the Top 500 list of supercomputers published bi-annually by the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News Capable of performing 19.94 trillion operations per second, it would have ranked second in the Top 500 list of supercomputers published bi-annually by the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Berkeley National...
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
IBM Gives Power5 Servers Dual-core Boost
News The company announced the systems in conjunction with the International Supercomputer Conference 2005 in Mannheim, Germany. IBM will boost the processing power of its p5-575 server, a machine geared for high-performance technical computing tasks...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
HP Dominates Supercomputing Leaderboard
News The Top500 list is released twice each year by researchers from the University of Mannheim and the University of Tennessee. IBM and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers.
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
Linux And IBM Big Winners At SC2004
News The Top500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim in Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee.
[November 9, 2004, 13:33]
New Entries Join Supercomputing Top 10
News The Top500 list is compiled by researchers at the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The supercomputer gene pool has expanded. Of the top 10 systems on a list of the 500 most powerful...
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
HP Moves Up In Supercomputer List
News The list is compiled by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of Mannheim and is updated twice a year. A supercomputer for simulating nuclear explosions has advanced Hewlett-Packard's position in a ranking to be released...
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
Linux Wins Approval From The Taxman
News The German city of Mannheim is replacing its Windows NT servers with 110 Linux servers. Linux is proving increasingly popular with governments across the world, with New Zealand's Inland Revenue becoming the latest government department to test the...
[October 24, 2005, 18:10]
