• Lenovo Launches New Monitor Series for small business computing

Today (2nd August 2011), Lenovo announced in a press release that they have launched a new monitor series for small business computing. Entitled "Lenovo Launches New Monitor Series Tuned to Small Business Computing", the press release is available below :-


RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – August 2, 2011: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced a new series of Lenovo monitors - the LS Series - to give small-to-medium (SMB) businesses a line of monitors crafted to their unique needs with large screens, bright and brilliant image presentation and touch-enabled navigational control. The 21.5-inch LS2221 wide and 23.6-inch LS2421p wide full HD monitors are perfect deskside companions for Lenovo’s series of ThinkCentre Edge desktops. Also today, Lenovo introduced the new ThinkCentre Edge 71 desktop, designed for mainstream SMB users with image-raising style, advanced performance and simple-to-use features without breaking the bank.

“The new ThinkCentre Edge 71 and Lenovo LS Series monitors are designed from the ground up for small-to-medium businesses, giving them the style, features and functionality they need,” said Tom Shell, vice president and general manager, Worldwide ThinkCentre Business Unit, Lenovo. “Our LS Series monitors include everything customers need: a large screen that displays eye-popping graphics, reliable technology that just works and convenient extras like touch-enabled buttons to easily adjust hardware settings.”

Lenovo LS Series Eyes Crystal Clear Computing
When it comes to a visually rich multimedia LED display, the Lenovo LS monitors offer a visible difference with their 10 million to one dynamic contrast ratio. For such large screen real estate, the monitors are extremely energy efficient, exceeding the requirements for Energy Star 5.1 and meeting TCO 5.2. The LS2221 wide comes with VGA and DVI connections for displaying digital video, while the LS2421p wide offers greater functionality with VGA and HDMI outputs, a four-USB port hub and up to 300 brightness level. Additionally, the monitors are equipped with capacitive touch buttons for a clean and minimalist appearance, tilt stand, modern, slim bezel design and the same three year warranty available on the premium ThinkVision monitors.

Professional-Grade Image & Performance with ThinkCentre Edge 71
The glossy, polished front of the ThinkCentre Edge 71 in tower and small form factors gives business desktop computing a stylish flare. Additionally, there are no legacy ports, giving the desktop a cleaner appearance. For the total Edge computing experience, users can pair the desktop and monitor with an optional wireless Lenovo Ultra Slim Plus Wireless Keyboard and Mouse that reflects the clean and modern island-style keyboard used on ThinkPad Edge laptops.

Without a doubt, the ThinkCentre Edge 71 desktop can double as an SMB’s power-pounding, number-crunching productivity machine during the day and as a perfect entertainment device for watching movies/TV, listening to music and relaxing online off the clock. Equipped with up to Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core processors (65 watts), users have tons of performance at their fingertips, and the desktop boots extremely fast, thanks to Lenovo’s Enhanced Experience 2.0 for Windows 7.(1)


Features include:

• Large storage capacity: up to 1 TB HD or optional SSD storage and up to 8 GB DDR3 memory
• Rich and robust graphics: integrated Intel graphics or choices of optional AMD discrete graphics up to Radeon Caicos with 1 GB of dedicated memory
• Range of productivity tools: DVD player/burner, Gigabit Ethernet, six USB ports, security via USB port disablement and HD password protection in BIOS

The new desktop solves everyday computing hassles to make the experience more enjoyable and productive. Upgrading storage and memory requires no tools and only a few minutes. A hidden, rubber grip handle makes moving the desktop (2) no big deal. With no expansion graphic card required, the ThinkCentre Edge 71 desktop offers an unbeatable value for users who need to work with two displays via VGA and DVI.

The desktop comes equipped with Lenovo’s suite of ThinkVantage Technologies, including Rescue and Recovery, Power Manager and System Update to restore, manage and update the PCs easily. For times when SMBs need IT support, they can turn to Lenovo’s ThinkPlus Priority Support program that offers a variety of services from damage and accident protection to technical assistance to online data backup.


Pricing and Availability (3)
Pricing for the Lenovo LS2221 wide and LS2421p wide monitors is $229.99 and $299.99, respectively. They will be available starting in August through business partners and www.lenovo.com. Pricing for models of the ThinkCentre Edge 71 desktop starts at approximately $369. The desktop will be available starting in October through business partners.



1Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0 for Windows® 7 uses RapidBoot technology to start your PC on average 20 seconds faster than a typical Windows® 7 computer. Compares averaged data from Lenovo EE 2.0 PCs with averaged data from 42 competitor products of similar configuration. Testing conducted by CNET Labs, Beijing in November 2010, using the independent Microsoft VTS tool to measure start-up, shutdown, resume and other Windows® 7 performance measurements. Data from competitor and Lenovo PCs were averaged and compared to calculate the claims used. Performance will vary by model and configuration.

2Available on tower models.

3Prices do not include tax or shipping and are subject to change without notice and is tied to specific terms and conditions. Reseller prices may vary. Price does not include all advertised features. All offers subject to availability. Lenovo reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice.

• Lenovo Cloud Computing with Virtual Computer Desktop Virtualization

This press release was made on the 29th August 2011 by Lenovo and is about the extended Cloud computing platform Lenovo provides with the Virtual Computer Desktop Virtualization. Below is the press release:-


RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – August 29, 2011: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced today that customers are now able to buy Virtual Computer NxTop® directly through Lenovo sales and its network of business partners in North America. NxTop® 4.0 offers extreme flexibility, allowing IT to centrally manage images and use the same image templates for multiple deployment models, regardless of whether the data is hosted on a storage array network or locally on a fully encrypted hard drive. With NxTop® deployed on select Think-branded PCs, including models of ThinkPad laptops and ThinkCentre desktops, customers gain the unique benefits of NxTop®, including centralized PC management, greater mobility, remote support and a rich end-user experience.

“We chose Virtual Computer’s NxTop® virtualization platform as a key part of our focus on building a robust portfolio of virtualization and cloud computing solutions,” said Peter Schrady, vice president and general manager, Software & Peripherals Business Unit, Lenovo. “With NxTop, we’re combining our rock-solid, reliable PC hardware with multi-functional virtualization support to give business customers an affordable and easy-to-use computing solution.”

Lenovo and Virtual Computer previously collaborated to bring new NxTop® 4.0 capabilities to market. These capabilities include a flexible deployment option that leverages a centralized storage array to keep data off the endpoint device, while maintaining the advantages of local client execution. In addition, NxTop® 4.0 is optimized on select Think-branded PCs to deliver unique Lenovo capabilities, native PC performance, seamless user experience and zero-touch PC deployment through Lenovo’s custom factory installation.

“Client-Hosted VDI has become a mainstream solution, and hundreds of companies are already experiencing the unparalleled benefits of NxTop® installed on their Lenovo Think-branded PCs. This next stage of our relationship clearly demonstrates our collaboration and commitment to deliver a differentiated intelligent desktop virtualization solution. Customers can now get the powerful combination of local execution and centralized management directly from Lenovo or a Lenovo business partner,” said Dan McCall, CEO, Virtual Computer.

The global distribution agreement and the release of Virtual Computer NxTop® 4.0 advance the end-users’ ability to run multiple operating systems or personalities, including corporate and personal virtual machines, as well as enabling organizations to achieve greater manageability and cost savings than they can with server-hosted VDI.

NxTop® 4.0 will be demonstrated in Virtual Computers’ booth #1164 this week at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas.

• 5x Speedups with NVIDIA GPU Computing program

This press release was available on the 12/07/2011.


Hundreds of Researchers, Scientists Sign Up in Programs First Two Weeks

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/2011 -- NVIDIA today announced impressive results from the first wave of the new "2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed." program, which promotes that programmers can, within a month, at least double their speed in running applications by using The Portland Group (PGI) directives-based compiler and NVIDIA GPUs.

Hundreds of scientists and researchers around the world have registered for the program since it was announced two weeks ago. Some have achieved 5x application speed-ups in as little as one day of programming.

Directives enable parallel programmers to provide simple hints to the compiler, identifying which areas of code to accelerate, without requiring programmers to modify or adapt the underlying code itself. By exposing parallelism to the compiler, directives allow the compiler to do the detailed work of mapping the computation onto the accelerator.

The program allows users to accelerate their applications on NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs using the PGI Accelerator compiler, and guarantees at least 2x speed-up of their applications in four weeks or less. Interested developers can register for a free 30-day trial at the NVIDIA "2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed." web site.

Initial results reported by program participants include:

• A postdoctoral fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) and the University of Groningen is benefiting in his work to understand the origins of the universe using tens-of-thousands of low-frequency antennas of the LOFAR telescope. Within five days of using directives, he was able to accelerate his image-reconstruction application by 5.6x.
• A global manufacturer of navigation systems is speeding up its research involving algorithms for real-time object detection in image sequences. Using directives and GPUs, a developer accelerated the production application by 5x in one week.
• A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at San Antonio is on a mission to better understand the effects of solvents on proteins. By applying directives, he accelerated his application 5x in a single day.

The "2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed." program was designed to prepare developers for the coming wave of directives-based solutions based on the new OpenACC™ parallel programming standard. Announced at SC11 in November, the OpenACC program is designed to enable the millions of scientific and technical programmers to easily take advantage of the transformative power of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing systems.

The OpenACC standard is anticipated to benefit a broad range of programmers working in chemistry, biology, physics, data analytics, weather and climate, intelligence, and many other fields. Existing compilers from Cray, PGI and CAPS are expected to provide initial support for the OpenACC standard beginning in December 2011, and continuing into 2012.

For more information or to participate in the "2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed." program, visit the NVIDIA web site, or download the program FAQ. For more information about OpenACC, visit the OpenACC web site. To learn more about Tesla GPUs, visit the Tesla web site.



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