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NS1 Provides Increased Control and Visibility into Application Delivery at the Edge with New Pulsar Traffic Analysis Dashboards

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

NS1 , the leader in application traffic intelligence and automation, today unveiled Traffic Analysis Dashboards for its Pulsar Active Traffic Steering solution.

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  • NS1 , the leader in application traffic intelligence and automation, today unveiled Traffic Analysis Dashboards for its Pulsar Active Traffic Steering solution.
  • Organizations require modern solutions that provide continuous visibility into the performance of their application delivery infrastructure at every point where applications and audiences connect.
  • Pulsar Traffic Analysis Dashboards provide insights into the data used to make decisions and how Pulsar actioned that data.
  • Pulsars decisions are now displayed along with deep insights in traffic analysis dashboards, improving visibility into network conditions and making Pulsar data more actionable.

Apache Pulsar Adoption Skyrockets and Pulsar Summit 2021 Takes Off This Week

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Monday, June 14, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, a cloud-native messaging and event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced today the release of the Apache Pulsar User Survey Report 2021 .

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, a cloud-native messaging and event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced today the release of the Apache Pulsar User Survey Report 2021 .
  • The Apache Pulsar User Survey 2021 release coincides with the Pulsar Summit Virtual North America 2021, June 16-17th.
  • The release of the Apache Pulsar User Survey 2021 coincides with the Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 .
  • Apache Pulsar adoption has been rapid over the past few years and recently, Apache Pulsar surpassed Apache Kafka in the Monthly Active Contributors .

Quasar Capital Partners Announces John Center as President

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

AUSTIN, Texas, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Quasar Capital Partners, a provider of customized lending solutions for small businesses in the US and Canada with facility sizes ranging from $1,000 to $5M, today announced that John Center has been named as President.

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  • AUSTIN, Texas, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Quasar Capital Partners, a provider of customized lending solutions for small businesses in the US and Canada with facility sizes ranging from $1,000 to $5M, today announced that John Center has been named as President.
  • Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Blacksail Capital Partners and prior to that as Vice President of client relationship management of Far West Capital.
  • I want to make Quasar Capital something the industry has never seen before, with long lasting relationships and passion for the art of factoring," said John Center.
  • "I believe Quasar Capital has a talented team that uniquely positions it to capitalize on the changing commercial finance environment.

ASC20-21 Finalists Will Search for Pulsars from FAST Data - World’s Largest Single Aperture Radio Telescope

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Monday, April 26, 2021

28 teams, which qualified out of over 300 teams from universities all over the world, will face a challenging task - pulsar search.

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  • 28 teams, which qualified out of over 300 teams from universities all over the world, will face a challenging task - pulsar search.
  • They will use the open-source software, PRESTO (PulsaR Exploration and Search Toolkit), and real observational data gathered by FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope) to search for pulsar signals within the shortest time possible.
  • This task is supported by the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).\nRadio telescopes are used to search for pulsars by detecting radiation emitted by pulsars.
  • FAST is the world's largest single-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope.

NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

For their research, Kerr and the team were recognized by the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize for a discovery that improved the understanding of FRBs in distant galaxies.

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  • For their research, Kerr and the team were recognized by the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize for a discovery that improved the understanding of FRBs in distant galaxies.
  • Kerr said the international team and NRL team really made this prize possible.
  • The Newcomb Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science's oldest award, recognizes the author or authors of an outstanding paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science.
  • Tags/Key Words: VLITE; American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize; AAAS; Newcomb Cleveland Prize; fast radio burst; FRB; NRL; VLA

CMB Announces Repayment in Three More EB-5 Partnerships

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Monday, February 8, 2021

In January, three CMB EB-5 partnerships saw the commencement of repayment of their EB-5 loans.

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  • In January, three CMB EB-5 partnerships saw the commencement of repayment of their EB-5 loans.
  • CMB Group 29, CMB Group 35 and CMB Group 46 mark the 15th, 16th and 17th CMB EB-5 partnerships featuring Hillwood project developments to receive loan repayment, each across a wide range of asset types.
  • These figures represent over 1,850 individual EB-5 investors who have had success at all levels in CMB partnerships.
  • CMB Group 75 carries forward the same time tested structure that has been utilized in each of our previous CMB partnerships featuring Hillwood projects.

ASC20-21 Student Supercomputer Challenge: Search for Pulsars and Inspire the Universe Exploration

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Monday, December 21, 2020

This task is designed for university students to directly assist FAST in searching for pulsars while igniting their passion to explore the mystery of universe.

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  • This task is designed for university students to directly assist FAST in searching for pulsars while igniting their passion to explore the mystery of universe.
  • Since scientists cannot calculate in advance the exact distance, spin, and trajectory of pulsars, the search for pulsars is essentially a "blind search" in the dataset.
  • The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge is the worlds largest student supercomputer competition, sponsored and organized by Asia Supercomputer Community and supported by Asian, European, and American experts and institutions.
  • The first ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge was held in 2012 and since has attracted nearly 10,000 undergraduates from all over the world.

Galaxy Survives Black Hole's Feast - For Now

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Friday, November 27, 2020

and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put an end to the life of their host galaxy.

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  • and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put an end to the life of their host galaxy.
  • "If this tandem growth continues both the black hole and the stars surrounding it would triple in size before the galaxy reaches the end of its life."
  • They form when an especially active black hole consumes huge amounts of material from its surrounding galaxy, creating strong gravitational forces.
  • The short window of joint black hole and star growth represents an early phase in the death of a galaxy, wherein the galaxy has not yet succumbed to the devasting effects of the quasar.

Algonquin Radio Observatory Co-Detects Source of Fast Radio Burst

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

The co-detection of this event, twenty thousand light years from Earth, is a remarkable achievement given the history of our 10 meter dish, said Brendan Quine, a co-author, Thoth CTO, and the director of ARO.

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  • The co-detection of this event, twenty thousand light years from Earth, is a remarkable achievement given the history of our 10 meter dish, said Brendan Quine, a co-author, Thoth CTO, and the director of ARO.
  • FRBs are extremely bright cosmic flashes, emitted from point sources in the galaxy that last only milliseconds and appear to repeat.
  • First discovered in 2007, their source has remained a mystery until now.
  • ARO and DRAO have done it again, said Caroline Roberts, President and CEO of Thoth, referring to the sites invention of Very Long Baseline Interferometry in 1967.

Pulsar Adoption Continues & Free 'Pulsar as a Service' Launches

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

In fact, at last week's Splunk annual conference, conf20 , Splunk CPO Sendur Sellakumar talked about Splunk's adoption of Apache Pulsar for the Splunk DSP (Data Stream Processor).

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  • In fact, at last week's Splunk annual conference, conf20 , Splunk CPO Sendur Sellakumar talked about Splunk's adoption of Apache Pulsar for the Splunk DSP (Data Stream Processor).
  • The free offering will allow users to quickly start exploring Pulsar and the ability to run a small scale production Pulsar in just a few clicks.
  • "When we launched StreamNative Cloud, we wanted to remove barriers to adoption for Pulsar.
  • StreamNative's new Free Cloud Offeringis just another way that StreamNative is helping to support Pulsar adoption.