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NICE EnginFrame 2013 Redefines Management of 3D and 2D Remote Visualization Sessions in the Technical Cloud

NICE, leading developer of HPC and Technical Cloud solutions, today announced the release of EnginFrame 2013.0, the new enhanced version of its popular high-performance computing (HPC) application portal. 

Based on the solid foundations of the previous versions and on the outcomes of several Enterprise-class customers projects, EnginFrame 2013.0 now offers built-in management of 3D and 2D remote visualization sessions, improved data transfer capabilities and a great number of new features and enhancements addressing both end users’ and system administrators’ needs.

Designed for technical computing users in a broad range of markets (Oil&Gas, Automotive, Aerospace, Medical, Finance, Research, and more), EnginFrame simplifies engineers’ and scientists’ workflows through its intuitive, self-documenting interfaces, increasing productivity and streamlining data and resource management. 

Leveraging all the major HPC job schedulers and remote visualization technologies, EnginFrame translates user clicks into the appropriate actions to submit HPC jobs, create remote visualization sessions, monitor workloads on distributed resources, manage data and many more.

Among the new version's highlights are:

  • Creation, management and sharing of 2D/3D Remote Visualization Sessions: enables enterprises to deploy “engineering-friendly” virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) throughout their organization.
  • Multi-cluster and multi-scheduler support: connects the same EnginFrame server to multiple clusters, even running heterogeneous job schedulers.
  • Integrated service scheduler: allows the unattended execution of EnginFrame services.
  • Multi-protocol, parallel and reliable file transfers: allows the users to efficiently and reliably upload huge files from their client to the data center.
  • Automated management of included files: parses the input data to discover and automatically upload included files.
  • Improved “Remote File Browser” functionality: enables the user to efficiently browse their remote data.
  • Enhanced administration portal: enable the administrators to monitor server load, license usages and other usage statistics.

 Furthermore, two important new components have been added to the EnginFrame product:

  • EnginFrame Views: a powerful but intuitive VDI broker, perfectly integrated with NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) and other popular remote display protocols.
  • NEUTRO: a flexible remote task executor for Windows visualization clusters.

 In addition, EnginFrame 2013.0 includes several bug fixes and usability enhancements. 

With EnginFrame 2013.0 we have further strengthened our technology leadership in the HPC Portal market” , said Giuseppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE. “NICE EnginFrame is a critical component for anyone who wants to create a technical Cloud that can run at the same time both HPC and interactive workload.

Customers with current support and maintenance coverage are eligible for a free upgrade.

For further information please visit:

 You can download this new product release and the release notes at the NICE download center:

 

About NICE

NICE delivers comprehensive Technical Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control, delivering CPU and graphics intensive applications to global user communities. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Financial Services, Universities and Scientific Research.

Running FEKO remotely in the "3D Cloud" - Asti/Stellenbosch (December 10, 2012)

Asti, Italy & Stellenbosch, South Africa – December 10th, 2012. NICE and EM Software & Systems – S.A. (Pty) Ltd announce the qualification of FEKO to run on NICE DCV platforms.

Users of graphic, CPU and memory intensive applications such as FEKO often express the need to share high end computer resources located in a remote data centre. It is with this requirement in mind that NICE and EMSS S.A. are very excited to announce that EMSS S.A. has been working with NICE to bring FEKO users an advanced solution for remote access to FEKO 3D simulations and models. Through the use of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), FEKO users now have the possibility to access their FEKO application and 3D model over LAN, WiFi and WAN from a broad range of clients including standard PCs, laptops tablets and Mac OS X devices.

 NICE DCV Architecture

EMSS S.A. thus leverages DCV to deliver a fluid, seamless, remote visualization experience directly from the FEKO instance to a user without the need to install graphics cards or other expensive hardware on the local client. This means FEKO can be manipulated while being run in a remote data centre.

DCV will take advantage of shared, powerful, Nvidia GPU-enabled hardware in the data centre while customers use a simple thin client to view, modify and interact with the FEKO models remotely. The combination of virtualization and remote access allows FEKO users to take advantage of powerful high-end Nvidia GPUs for the most complex models and effects and leverage the high speed network of the data centre.

NICE DCV is the only technology on the market that allows users to share the same GPU among different clients, both on Linux or, using multiple VMs, on Windows. In addition, multiple users can collaborate directly on a FEKO model using DCV to share sessions.

Thanks to the extensive testing carried out by EMSS S.A. and NICE, EMSS S.A. is confident and pleased to recommend DCV as a tool to run graphics-intensive FEKO models on a cluster while visualizing such models directly on a desktop (Mac, Windows or Linux), laptop, tablet or iPad.

Please contact your local FEKO distributor or NICE for more information if you are interested in exploring NICE DCV as virtualisation option.

About NICE and NICE DCV:

NICE delivers Cloud and Technical Computing / HPC solutions for companies and institutions. This includes the industry leading EnginFrame web portal, the CloudFrame solution and the Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) remote 3D protocol. NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) addresses computer limitations leveraging the power of server-side GPUs, and delivering hardware-accelerated 3D graphics over a standard TCP/IP network using dynamically adjustable image quality to allow users to experience fluid 3D interaction over LAN, WiFi and WAN, from standard PCs or mobile devices. The combination of virtualization and remote access allows off-the-shelf 3D applications to be consolidated in a Public or Private "3D Cloud", rendering the most complex models and effects with negligible overhead compared to native GPU performance, while leveraging the high speed network of the data center to work faster, leaving the data where it's best managed and performing.

Further information is available at www.nice-software.com/solutions/remote-visualization
Request a trial license of DCV to run with FEKO:
www.nice-software.com/contacts/send-a-request?DCV

About FEKO and EM Software & Systems – S.A. (Pty) Ltd

FEKO is a comprehensive computational electromagnetics code (CEM code) used widely in the telecommunications, automobile, space and defence industry. FEKO offers several solution techniques (MoM, MLFMM, PO, GO (Ray Launching), UTD and FEM) under a single licence. Hybridisation of these techniques enables the efficient analysis of a very broad spectrum of EM problems e.g. 3D antenna design, antenna placement on electrically large structures, microstrip antennas, microstrip circuits, EMC, biomedical and scattering. With the MLFMM, and the true hybridisation of the solvers, FEKO is considered the global market leader for antenna placement analysis. FEKO has a well‐established global distribution and technical support network with subsidiary companies in North America, Europe and China and representatives in various other countries. EMSS was started in 1994 as an engineering company consulting in general electromagnetic problems.

Further information is available at www.feko.info

NICE at SC12 Receives Honors from HPCwire

NICE Receives Honors in 2012 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards

Annual HPCwire Awards Demonstrate Achievements of Excellence Within the HPC Community

PROVO, Utah November 13, 2012 – NICE has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2012 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), in Salt Lake City, Utah. The list of winners were announced live from the HPCwire booth at the event, and are listed on the HPCwire website, located at www.HPCwire.com. NICE has been selected to receive the following award:

 

The highly-coveted HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience for the Readers’ Choice Awards, combined with a rigorous selection process for the Editor’s Choice Awards, where winners have been selected by a panel of editorial and executive staff, recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from across the industry. The awards are revealed during the Monday opening reception at the Supercomputing Conference each year, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis. The awards hold the unique distinction of being recognized as the most prestigious recognition given by the HPC community to its own each year.

"It’s an honor and a privilege to take time during the most important supercomputing conference globally to acknowledge the organizations and the individuals behind them who exemplify the hard work, dedication, and effort that has taken place the past year to develop new technologies that ultimately benefit mankind”, said Jeff Hyman, president and group publisher of Tabor Communications Inc. "The awards represent the highest level of recognition to the leaders and luminaries in the high performance computing industry by our HPCwire readers and the community alike. Our warmest congratulations go out to all the recipients of this year’s awards.”

More information on the awards can be found at the HPCwire website www.hpcwire.com

About HPCwire

HPCwire is the #1 news and information portal covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy dating back to 1986, HPCwire continues to be the publication of choice globally by business and technology professionals from academia, government, science, and industry who are interested in high performance and computationally intensive computing. For topics ranging from the latest developments in systems, software, tools and applications, to middleware, networking and storage technologies, HPCwire delivers it all and remains the HPC communities’ most reliable and trusted resource. For additional information, visit: www.HPCwire.com

About NICE

NICE delivers comprehensive Technical Computing Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control, delivering CPU and graphics intensive applications to global user communities. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research. For further information please visit: www.nice-software.com

New NICE DCV 2012.2 enables the HPC/CAE and CAD Cloud, from any device

NICE is pleased to announce the immediate availability of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) version 2012.2. This release improves performances and compatibility with the major technical computing applications and provides a broader client support, including tablets and Mac OS X.

NICE DCV provides efficient remote access to graphic-intensive, professional 3D applications running on Linux and Windows desktop environments.

New and improved features of NICE DCV 2012.2 include:

  • Improved 3D/OpenGL performance and robustness for applications running in Windows VMs, including leading CAD applications and Oil&Gas interpretation software
  • Better 2D user experience and broader client support with the adoption of the latest RealVNC Enterprise engine, with reduced network bandwidth usage
  • iPad, Android, Java applet support with automatic fallback to the standard VNC protocol for viewers without a DCV end station
  • The frame limiter functionality is now available on all platforms, to reduce network bandwidth usage and compression overhead
  • Support to take server-side screen snapshots on Linux
  • Preview of the new accelerated end station for Mac OS X

With this new release, NICE effectively enables CAD/CAE and HPC Clouds to become mainstream. Supporting all leading CAD/CAE and PLM packages, Public and Private Cloud providers can offer Virtual Workstation and 3D VDI services to a broad audience, with cost-effective sharing of GPU resources. Scalability tests show very promising consolidation capabilities, enabling 8-10 users to be hosted on a single server.

"NICE DCV is the only technology on the market that allows to share the same GPU among different users, both on Linux or, using multiple VMs, on Windows" - said Paolo Maggi, NICE R&D Manager - "Thanks to the increased application compatibility offered by this new release, today we can proudly say that, if you want to create an HPC/3D Cloud, NICE DCV 2012.2 is definitely the way to go."

When coupled with NICE EnginFrame Web front-end, NICE DCV provides a first-in-class VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution specifically designed and optimized for technical computing users (e.g. CAE, CAD, Oil&Gas, Scientific Visualization).

"The integration with NICE DCV and Adaptive Computing’s Moab HPC Suite allows HPC Cloud users to maximize resource utilization by placing and packing visualization workloads on the optimal resources using policies to ensure 3D application success", says Michael Jackson, President of Adaptive Computing. "We are pleased to add the new features to our joint solution which will better meet workload demand and maximizes resource utilization and availability."

Customers with current support and maintenance coverage are eligible for a free upgrade.

For further information please visit:

You can download this new product release and the release notes at the NICE download center:

Moreover, NICE is pleased to announce the availability of a preview release of NICE DCV integrated with NVIDIA Monterey/VGX technology featuring support for DirectX applications.

About NICE

NICE delivers comprehensive Technical Computing Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control, delivering CPU and graphics intensive applications to global user communities. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.

 

NICE at SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah (Nov/10-16)

Once again, NICE will have a booth at the International Conference & Exhibition for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis - SuperComputing 2012 in Salt Lake City.

 

SC12

 

If you plan to be at the show, please stop by booth #2231 (near NVIDIA booth) and speak with the NICE team, learn more about the new versions of NICE EnginFrame and NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), and enjoy our remote, collaborative visualization demos at various locations of the show.

... and we still have some free entrance tickets available, so if you need one please contact us immediately!

 

L'intervento è stato realizzato con il contributo della Regione Autonoma della Sardegna e del POR FESR 2007-2013

NICE at CAE Conference 2012, Verona - (Oct 22, 23)

CAE Conference 2012 is the biggest appointment in Italy and one of the most important in Europe dedicated to the Computational Technologies. The place were you can meet the CAE experts, attend to the technical sessions with important speakers from key companies, visit the exhibition area dedicated to the CAE supplier.

caeconference

During the conference NICE staff will be on hand to give any information, demos and all you need to know on our Cloud and Grid portals solutions.

Join NICE at TeraTec Forum 2012, Paris - (Jun 27, 28)

TERATEC 2012 Forum is an international Meeting for High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, Paris area)

Teratec Forum

At TeraTec NICE (booth# 28) will be showcasing the advances and applications of NICE DCV and demonstrating how easy it is to deliver efficient and optimized remote access to graphic-intensive, off-the-shelf 3D applications. Running on both Windows and Linux desktop environments.

NICE at ISC 2012 in Hamburg (Jun/17-21)

International SuperComputing ’12 is being held in Hamburg, Germany, from June 17 - 21. The NICE team will be attending and meeting customers and partners at the event. We will also be presenting in our partner’s booths.

 

 

Contact us to set up a conversation or meeting about EnginFrame, HPC in the Cloud, or our Remote Visualization solutions for graphics intensive application.

NICE at Best of MoabCon 2012 Europe, Hamburg - (Jun 16-17)

NICE personnel will be on-hand at the Radisson Blu – Hamburg, Germany - for the Adaptive Computing 'Best of MoabCon 2012.

During the event, on Sunday - June 17th,  Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO), will have a technical session about:

11:30 – 12:15 pm - "Application Integration Portal/Visualization"

Best MoabCon 2012 Agenda

NICE at HP-CAST 2012, Hamburg - (Jun/16)

NICE is pleased to participate to the next HP-CAST meeting and conference in Hamburg, Germany from (June 15 - 16, 2012) at the Radisson Hotel.



NICE will be at the Tutorial and SIG meeting where Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO) will present the following talks:

  • 10:30 am – 11:30 am - Running CAD, CAE and Other 3D Applications in your Technical Cloud
  • 13:30 pm – 14:30 pm - The Technical Computing Eco-system for the HPC Cloud Era


HP-CAST Agenda

NICE at HealthGrid 2012 and IWSGLife 2012 in Amsterdam (May/21-25)

NICE is pleased to announce its participation and sponsorship of two important events: the Tenth HealthGrid Conference and the Fourth International Workshop on Science Gateways for LifeSciences (IWSG-Life).

   HealthGrid 2012                            iwsglife2012

During demonstration session, we will be showcasing the Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) technology, our 3D remote visualization solution enabling users to connect to OpenGL applications running in remote data centers. Life Sciences case studies will be presented to demonstrate the benefits of DCV in biomedicine (http://amsterdam2012.healthgrid.org/content/accepted-demos).

Our contribution will be published in PubMed-referenced proceedings in the IOS Press book series.

Stop by the NICE booth at the Academic Medical Center of University of Amsterdam . We will be pleased to give you more information about Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) and its new features!

NICE Solutions for CAE presented inside ANSYS Webcast Series 2012 - (May 15th, 17th)

Thanks to its partnership with Ansys, NICE will have a Webcast inside the "IT Solutions for ANSYS Webcast Series 2012"

 

During the webcast, Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO), will talk about:

Optimizing Remote Access to Simulation

Centralized deployment of the IT infrastructure used for simulation has many potential benefits, including the ability to scale up high-performance computing resources, centrally manage the IP associated with simulation data and increase operational efficiency. This webcast will explore the solution architecture for collaboration hubs consisting of centrally deployed computational power and data storage, and effective remote/mobile access. Moving beyond simple “remote batch” job submission, we’ll examine an optimized IT environment in which globally distributed or mobile end users can work interactively and perform visualization on a centralized infrastructure,to avoid the network bottlenecks and data integrity issues associated with moving files between local user machines and central/cloud resources.

Date & Time:

May 15 at 9:00 AM US EDT register
May 17 at 4:00 PM US EDT register

 

Visit NICE at Eurographics 2012 in Cagliari - Italy (May/13-18)

This year, for the first time, NICE will have a booth at Eurographics 2012, the 33 annual conference of the european association for computer graphics, from May 13-18.

During the conference, on Thursday May 17th 16:00-17:00 in Room B, Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO), will have an industrial talk about:

Running 3D applications remotely in the "3D Cloud"

Visualization of large volumes of data, stored or generated in remote data centers or cloud infrastructures, is an increasingly common requirement. Moving this data to the workstation is unpractical and time consuming and implies security risks and management headaches. In the last years IT departments took advantage of virtualization and remote access to overcome these problems, but such technologies are not broadly applied to 3D applications because the GPU cannot be effectively virtualized and accessed remotely with the proper performance. NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) addresses these limitations leveraging the power of server-side GPUs, and delivering the hardware-accelerated 3D graphics over a standard TCP/IP network using dynamically adjustable image quality to allow users to experience fluid 3D interaction over LAN, WiFi and WAN, from standard PCs or mobile devices. The combination of virtualization and remote access allows off-the-shelf 3D applications to be consolidated in a Public or Private "3D Cloud", rendering the most complex models and effects with negligible overhead compared to native GPU performance, while leveraging the high speed network of the datacenter to work faster, leaving the data where it's best managed and performing.

Video of NICE DCV demonstration at Moab.con 2012

Rich Brueckner of InsideHPC interviews NICE CTO Andrea Rodolico at Moab.con 2012 about remote visualization with NICE DCV.

NICE at COE 2012 in Las Vegas - (Apr/22-25)

For the first time NICE is pleased to participate in the COE 2012 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair. 

During the conference, Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO) and Keith Horton (NORDAM Group), will talk about:

Running CATIA Remotely in Your Own "3D Cloud"

Rapid obsolescence, heat, noise, replacement cycles, software stack updates, PDM access speed are just some of the issues of current workstation-based CAD users face. In other IT domains, virtualization and remote access today address most of these issues, but it is not broadly applied to 3D CAD because the GPU cannot be virtualized and shared among users.

NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) 2012 address this limitation by allowing multiple VMs, running different flavors of Windows Operating Systems, to share one or more GPUs and run fully accelerated in a right-sized "virtual workstation".

NICE DCV was born as a remote display tool specifically focused on 3D applications, using dynamically adjustable image quality to allow users to experience fluid 3D interaction over LAN, WiFi and WAN, from standard PCs or mobile devices.

The combination of Virtualization and remote access allows off-the-shelf 3D applications, including Catia, to be consolidated in a datacenter, rendering the most complex models and effects with negligible overhead compared to native GPU performance, and leveraging the high speed network of the datacenter to work faster.

New NICE DCV 2012.1 release improves usability, performance and security - Asti (April 5, 2012)

NICE is pleased to announce the release of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) version 2012.1

NICE DCV provides efficient remote access to graphic-intensive, professional 3D applications running on Linux and Windows desktop environments.

"This new release includes an exciting number of new features focusing on usability, performance and security. This version represents a very important step forward for our product, we are very proud of it" - said Beppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE.

New features of NICE DCV 2012.1 include:

  • A client-side console allows the user to improve the quality of experience by fine-tuning the image compression level according to network conditions and client device capabilities and to monitor the actual bandwidth usage and frame rate.
  • A new server side component provides diagnostic information and allows the user to easily enable or disable DCV on the current desktop.
  • A high performance lossless compression algorithm has been implemented for such applications requiring pixel-perfect remotization (for example in the medical sector). The same algorithm has been used to improve the quality boosting of static images.
  • A mechanism limiting the number of frames sent on the network has been introduced which reduces bandwidth utilization on LAN and WAN environments (Linux only).
  • Furthermore, while providing secure access to remote resources without transferring any sensitive data, the new version of DCV ensures confidentiality by encrypting the image stream using the standard AES algorithm (128 or 256-bit keys).

 

With this new release, NICE further extends its lead in the remote visualization market.  Leveraging its unique  technology, NICE DCV is the first product on the market to allow the sharing of physical GPUs between multiple VMs (running Microsoft Windows) while maintaining full OpenGL acceleration and workstation-class performance.<

“DCV is the only remote visualization product supporting GPU sharing on both Linux and Microsoft Windows, allowing a better utilization of available hardware resources.” - said Paolo Maggi, NICE R&D Manager.

When coupled with NICE EnginFrame, NICE DCV provides a first-in-class VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution specifically designed and optimized for technical computing users (CAE, CAD, Oil&Gas, Scientific Visualization, etc.).

Customers with current support and maintenance coverage are eligible for a free upgrade.

 For further information and release notes please visit:

About NICE

NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Technical Computing Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.

NICE at Moabcon 2012 in Park City - (Apr/9-12)

Thanks to its partnership with Adaptive Computing, NICE will participate as a sponsor to Moabcon 2012, in Park City, Utah.

During the conference, NICE will show how to use NICE DCV, EnginFrame and Moab to consolidate expensive high-end GPU workstations providing users greater access to high-performance visualization of complex 3D interactive application alongside traditional HPC workload.
 

NICE announcement about the recent acquisition of Platform Computing by IBM

Dear Customer,

NICE s.r.l, the developer of EnginFrame, the world’s first grid portal, would like to reconfirm its commitment to EnginFrame customers in light of the recent acquisition of Platform Computing by IBM

Platform has been an authorized reseller of EnginFrame.  NICE does not expect this to change in the foreseeable future, and our longstanding relationship with IBM should only be strengthened by this acquisition.

However, NICE would like to reassure all customers that we will continue to develop and provide support for EnginFrame.  Should Platform or IBM choose to change strategy related to our products, customers are welcome to purchase our products and support from another authorized resellers or directly from us.  

NICE continues to develop new features for EnginFrame with new versions being introduced on a regular basis.  In addition, we develop complimentary products like EnginFrame Views that delivers load-balanced session management of 2D/3D sessions for remote visualization and collaboration.  NICE has also recently introduced our new Desktop Cloud Visualization product, the first remote display protocol that supports multiple OpenGL-enabled sessions on a single server and with one or more GPUs.

We would be happy to provide additional information regarding any of these products.  You can contact us through our web site, and should you plan to attend the upcoming SC11 show in Seattle, we would be please to invite you to our booth, #2541.

NICE DCV 2012 enables the 3D Cloud - Asti (Nov/11)

NICE is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2012.0 release of its Desktop Cloud Visualization (NICE DCV) product.

This new release represents a breakthrough in remote 3D visualization, as it is the first product in the market to perform GPU sharing across multiple Microsoft Windows and Linux Desktops.

Extending existing support for Linux and Windows running on physical nodes, NICE DCV is now bringing full GPU acceleration to Virtual Machines, therefore enabling Companies and Cloud providers to deliver Virtual Workstations services to their users.

Therefore, the new version of NICE DCV allows multiple users to run OpenGL applications served by a Private or Public Cloud configuration, or just simply remotely access their own dedicated workstation sitting in their office or datacenter, via LAN or WAN.

Leveraging partnerships with leading technology providers and OEMs, NICE DCV has been tuned to get the best performance on NVIDIA high-end Quadro and Tesla GPUs running major CAD applications, as well as many Technical Computing applications.

When NICE DCV is complemented with our flagship EnginFrame HPC and Remote Visualization gateway, customers can enjoy Web based access to the most demanding batch and interactive applications, boosting data access performance, model scalability and overall user productivity compared to traditional desk-side based computing.
 

To learn more:

About NICE

NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Technical Computing Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.

NICE at SC11 in Seattle, WA (Nov/12-18)

At SC11, NICE (booth# 2541) will be showcasing the advances and applications of NICE EnginFrame the leading Grid Portal that enables user-friendly and application-oriented HPC job submission, control and monitoring. 

 

 

Stop by the NICE booth speak with NICE qualified personnel can provide about and NICE EnginFrame Views  and Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), our 3D remote visualization solution enabling users to connect to OpenGL applications running in remote data centers.

 

NICE at EnginSoft 2011 in Verona - (Oct/20-21)

This year NICE is once again pleased to participate in the Enginsoft conference, the must-attend event for advanced numerical modeling technologies and software. This year Enginsoft will be held in Verona, Italy so if you are attending please drop by to our stand in the sponsor exhibit area during the show.

 

 


Our staff are on hand to give any information, demos and all you need to know on our Cloud and Grid portals solutions. Plus you will have the chance to view and use our latest release of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) for 3D remote visualization.

See you in Verona!

NICE announcing the new Desktop Cloud Visualization for 3D remote visualization

Asti,  – June 18th,  2011: NICE, pioneer in Grid/Cloud portals and computing services access solutions, today announced the new NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) software system, that enables remote 3D visual interaction and collaboration over networks. Available on Microsoft Windows and Linux, DCV allows organizations to consolidate 3D applications, their massive datasets and powerful GPUs into the datacenter, and provide an outstanding user experience. DCV can run multiple sessions on a physical node, as well as run on multiple VMs, still leveraging the physical GPU of the hosting machine.

3D visualization is pivotal for innovation and efficiency in many fields, including Engineering CAD/CAE, Energy, Oil&Gas, Life Sciences, Health Care, Research and Scientific Visualization. A rich and fluid remote 3D visualization experience enables enterprises to make timely decisions that involve large data volumes that would be impractical to deliver to a user’s workstation.  The ability for multiple  users to access the same visual image, separately or in collaboration, around the globe improves  organizational coordination, quality of results and speeds time to market.

For example, the Aerospace and Automotive industries can consolidate expensive and power hungry workstations into a flexible and efficient data center, allowing designers in multiple locations to work and collaborate on new product designs via a private Cloud. Similarly, Medical and Health Care organizations can benefit from real time access and collaborative analysis of 3D medical images to improve patient care.

As the Cloud paradigm is gaining momentum, 3D visualization is a key element to enable many desktop applications (including CAD/CAE, productivity or authoring tools) to be delivered as a service at the necessary speed.

Based upon the former IBM Deep Computing Visualization technology, DCV has been significantly  improved and now supports virtualization technologies, NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) uses high performance workstations or visualization blades with the latest generation of commodity graphics adapters to create an extraordinarily flexible and powerful visualization solution used by customers all over the world.

With today’s news, NICE  will deliver end-to-end, optimized solutions to enable 3D applications running on Linux® , Windows® and virtualized visualization servers to run in more  efficient and secure datacenters and become accessible from desktops or laptops,  with excellent responsiveness and performance on every network connection.

NICE plans to evolve and exploit its Desktop Cloud Visualization technology worldwide, enriching it with its EnginFrame Views, the worldwide leading Web 2.0-based remote visualization solution. DCV will then span from on-demand 3D enablement of Public Clouds all the way into scalable Private Cloud deployments, where DCV offers the most fluid 3D experience, helping the consolidation process of enterprises and scientific community.

"Nice has a clear vision on the next-generation high performance computing Grid and Cloud, enabling new services, new experiences and new business models based on 3D remote visualization," said Beppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE. "Incorporating NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) into NICE flagship product EnginFrame, we will deliver a new strategic value to our customers."

NICE EnginFrame solutions aims to empower user productivity with the Grid Portal and deliver user-friendly, highly customizable access to applications and infrastructures. With NICE DCV  users can remotely work on 3D interactive applications, fully accelerated by high end GPUs on workstations, blades or servers. No matter if users are accessing high-end OpenGL modeling applications or the simple viewers, NICE DCV enables users  to connect quickly and securely from anywhere and experience high frame rates, even with low bandwidth standard Internet connections.
With the planned release of NICE DCV for Virtual Machines on July 30, new key features will be added to the already available and delivered versions for Microsoft Windows and Linux.

NICE offers a fully integrated Enterprise solution based on EnginFrame, its open PaaS/SaaS Self-Service portal framework for Clusters, Grids and Clouds.

To learn more, click here: http://www.nice-software.com/remote-visualization

About NICE

Capitalizing on 15 years experience in Industry & Research HPC implementations, NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Cloud Solutions for companies and institutions, increasing user productivity to access applications and computing resources. NICE products portfolio empowers Grid & Cloud infrastructures by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control.
NICE has hundreds of customers all over the world including top companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.
NICE has a dedicated, experienced team of experts that can assist throughout the deployment life-cycle, from software planning, implementation and testing stages, to performance tuning, and support in the production stage.

www.nice-software.com
 

NICE at TERATEC 2011- Paris (Jun/28-29)

Once again this year NICE will have a booth at the TERATEC 2011 Forum June 28 & 29, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, Paris area) 

This year TERATEC 2011 will focus on High Performance Computing and Systems Design bringing together top international experts in high performance numerical design and simulation, making it the major event in France and in Europe in this field. 

So please stop by and speak with a NICE representative  about the EnginFrame Grid-Cloud portal, including NICE DCV (Desktop Cloud Visualization) the remote 3D visualization technology that enables Technical Computing users to connect to OpenGL applications running in a data center.
See you in Paris

NICE at Sardegna Ricerche in Pula - Cagliari (Feb/18)

Obiettivo INNOVAZIONE (Objective INNOVATION) is an event organized by Sardegna Ricerche aimed at promoting companies, products and technologies developed inside the Technology Park.

NICE, after a brief presentation of the Company and its business lines, especially in Life Science markets, will unveil demos about the HPC/Cloud and Remote Visualization solutions.

NICE To develop Solutions with IBM Deep Computing Visualization Technology

NICE, a pioneer in Grid/Cloud portals and access solutions, today announced a source code licensing agreement with IBM that enables NICE to develop, sell and support NICE solutions that incorporate IBM Deep Computing Visualization (DCV) technology.

3D visualization is pivotal for innovation and efficiency in many fields, including Energy, Health Care, Engineering, Life Sciences, Research and Online Gaming. A rich and fluid remote 3D visualization experience enables enterprises to make timely decisions that involve large data volumes that would be impractical to deliver to a user’s workstation.  The ability for multiple researchers, engineers or different users to access the same visual image -- at the same time or on the next shift -- around the globe improves collaboration, quality of results and time to market.

For example, the Aerospace and Automotive industries can consolidate noisy and power hungry workstations into an energy efficient data center, allowing designers in multiple locations to work and collaborate on new product designs via a private cloud. Similarly, Medical and Health Care organizations can benefit from real time access and collaborative analysis of 3D medical images to improve patient care.

As the Cloud paradigm is gaining momentum, 3D Visualization is a key element to enable many desktop applications (including gaming, productivity or authoring tools) to be delivered as a service.

Developed by IBM, DCV uses high performance workstations or visualization blades with the latest generation of commodity graphics adapters to create an extraordinarily flexible and powerful visualization solution used by customers all over the world.

With today’s news and immediate availability, NICE can deliver end-to-end, optimized solutions to enable 3D applications running on Linux® and Windows® visualization servers to run in more  efficient, secure datacenters and become accessible from desktops or laptops, with excellent responsiveness and performance on every network connection.

NICE plans to evolve and exploit the DCV technology world wide, enriching it with its EnginFrame Views, the leading Web 2.0-based remote visualization solution. DCV will then span from on-demand 3D enablement of Public Clouds, through collaborative Hybrid Clouds, all the way into scalable Private Cloud deployments, where DCV offers the most fluid 3D experience.

"IBM and NICE share a common vision on the next-generation high performance computing Grid and Cloud, enabling new services, new experiences and new business models based on 3D applications," said Beppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE. "With NICE incorporating DCV technology in to its products, we will deliver even greater value to NICE customers, with a solid product roadmap and an efficient go-to-market strategy."

Besides marketing and supporting DCV as a standalone product, NICE plans to offer a fully integrated Enterprise solution based on EnginFrame, its open PaaS/SaaS Self-Service portal framework for Clusters, Grids and Clouds. 

To learn more, click here: Remote Visualization
 

Visit NICE at SC|10 in New Orleans (Nov/15-18)

Once again this year NICE will have a booth at the International Conference & Exhibition for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis - SuperComputing 2010 from November 15-18



At this year''s New Orleans event NICE will be on hand to unveil our latest product offering for the HPC sectors.
So please stop by booth # 2117  and speak with a NICE expert about the intuitive EnginFrame Grid-Cloud portal, including the NICE Remote 3D Visualization and smart Cloud computing offerings for High Performace Computing in the enterprise and research domains.

See you in New Orleans!

NICE with Alenia Improvement and CadLand at TechnologyBIZ - Naples (Oct/28)

Alenia Improvement will present together with NICE & CadLand an innovative solution that delivers remote access & management of CAD software through the NICE EnginFrame Grid-Cloud portal.

Alenia Improvement, after a brief presentation of the Company and its business lines, especially in HPC services, in conjunction with NICE & CadLand will unveil an innovative solution to enable remote access and management of CAD software platforms. The service offering is based on modern software platform EnginFrame Grid-Cloud portal developed by NICE. The presentation will emphasize the possibilities of on-demand using of parallel computing resources provided by the Alenia Improvement Data Processing Centre of Pomigliano d''Arco Naples. In this case by demonstrating remote processing of graphic objects in CATIA V5.

When: 28/10/2010 from 09:30 to 10:30
Where: Sala Accademiathe TechnologyBIZ event, Naples

NICE at 2010 MSC.Software Italian Users'' Conference in Torino (Oct/6 - Oct/7)

MSC.Software Italian Users'' Conference is an event organized by MSC.Software, CAE industry''s  leader, in order to provide users with a unique opportunity to share their own knowledge and experience about MSC.Software product and services.


NICE is sponsoring the event and our engineer Francesco Ruffino will present our solutions with a speech on Wednesday 6th October.

We look forward to meeting you and demonstrating our solutions at our stand.

To arrange an appointment during the event, write us at info@nice-software.com

Come and visit us! There is no registration fee.

NICE at ISC 2010 in Hamburg (May/30 - June/3)

International SuperComputing ’10 is being held in Hamburg, Germany, from May/30-June/3 2010. The NICE team will be attending and meeting customers and partners at the event. We will also be presenting in our partner’s booths. Contact us to set up a conversation or meeting about EnginFrame, HPC in the Cloud, or our remote visualization solutions for graphics intensive simulation application.

NICE at ICT Business in Torino (May/25-27)

TOSM (Torino Software and Systems Meeting) is an EXPO EVENT, arrived at 3rd edition and organized by Torino Chamber of commerce and ICT group of Unione Industriale of Torino. TOSM aims at promoting and improving the matching among ICT entrepreneurs and enterprises that search in ICT concrete answers for competitiveness.

NICE at CloudSlam 10 conference (March/23-25)

CloudSlam''10™ - a virtual conference, taking place via the internet March 23rd -- 25th 2010, is pleased to announce that NICE have been selected to present on Platform-as-a-Service.

Presentation on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) functionality and the values it delivers to Service Providers and ISV’s looking to build a self-service provisioning portal framework, or Public Cloud offering. With a look at the many components of the infrastructure (IaaS) layer, and how PaaS can abstract that complexity, to allow focus on user experience, pay-per-use software applications on-demand, and access to secure multi-tenant cloud resources.

Visit NICE at SC|09 in Portland (Nov/16-20)

Customers, friends, and prospects – we hope you will stop by the NICE booth at SuperComputing 2009 (SC|09) this year. The event is being held in Portland, OR  and you will find us at booth 254 in the Exhibit Hall. Learn about Cloud and Grid portals and how NICE can help you create a private cloud with your HPC and datacenter environments. Schedule some 1-on-1 time to discuss your unique environment; just complete the “Contact Us” form, or send an email request to sales@nice-software.com . We look forward to seeing you
 

NICE at ISC09 - International Supercomputing Conference - Europe\u2019s leading SuperComputing Conference and Exhibition

For the fourth year running, NICE will be at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). ISC''09 is Europe’s leading Conference and Exhibition on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.  ISC’09 will take place June 23 - 26 in Hamburg, Germany.

As always, our expert team will be on-hand to present and discuss our portfolio of solutions aimed at increased user productivity through highly customizable access to Grid-enabled applications and infrastructures. Our solutions enable institutes and companies to empower their current HPC, Grid & Cloud infrastructures without sacrificing flexibility and control.

We look forward to meeting you at stand 330/340 where NICE will be co-exhibiting with Microsoft.

To arrange an appointment during the event, write us at info@nice-software.com
 

Enhanced NICE corporate website launched

Today, 10th June 2009,  NICE s.r.l. unveiled its new corporate website at http://www.nice-software.com

The new website has been designed as  a comprehensive resource to obtain up-to-date company information about NICE and its entire line of services and products for the HPC, Grid and Cloud computing market.

The website features a completely new look and feel and a more user-friendly navigation that enables visitors to quickly access information regarding recent technology advances and strengths, including professional services & solutions, and new projects.

The webiste also features a library of technical papers and publications by NICE personnel that have been published at various international scientific conferences.

NICE has also introduced an e-mail newsletter subscription program to provide visitors with regular updates on the company and on its products.

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