TROY - Altair Wednesday released Compute Manager 12.0, an even faster version of its software for running, monitoring, and managing workloads and results on distributed resources in high-performance computing environments. Compute Manager is a Web-based job portal that serves as a simple but powerful interface for submitting and monitoring jobs in PBS Professional complexes. Compute
LANSING - All of the state's universities show a gap in six-year graduation rates between white students and minorities, some of them significant, a report released Wednesday by the Education Trust showed. The report, which looked at higher education institutions across the country based on data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education for 2011,
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Wednesday said he believes it is probable that the Senate Medicaid workgroup will have a proposal ready by mid-week next week, and the full chamber would vote on the proposal in late August. "My guess is that if things come out of committee, and it's possible that
STERLING HEIGHTS - Apex Digital Solutions was named the Microsoft Community Connections Partner of the year and Cloud Partner of the Year during the 2013 Central Region SMB Partner Awards. These awards highlight and recognize the excellence and achievement of Central Region SMB value-added resellers. ?The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute researchers have mapped the complex molecular structure of a folate receptor, a drug target for a number of cancers and other diseases, a first-of-its-kind discovery that may lead to the development of more precise, consistent and effective treatments. In an international collaboration published online this week in the journal
ANN ARBOR ? Supply chain design software solutions provider, LLamasoft, has released Data Services, a new product that provides reference and benchmark data to LLamasoft customers and others in the supply chain design community. By providing easy access to this data, LLamasoft Data Services provides significant reduction in model building time and validates model outputs
LANSING - As the Michigan House Education subcommittee begins hearings on the Common Core State Standards, one business group is pushing its members to reach out to legislators and others on the importance of maintaining the standards. Business Leaders for Michigan sent an email Tuesday touting the standards as an economic development tool. "As a
LANSING - The revelation that Iowa-based Midwest Living magazine writes the state's Pure Michigan Travel Guide prompted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer to question why Governor Rick Snyder's administration did not pick a Michigan-based company for the job. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Saturday that Des Moines, Iowa-based Midwest Living publishes the guide, which is
SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless continues to expand its 4G LTE wireless network in Michigan, adding the greater Sault Ste. Marie area in the Upper Peninsula. With the expansion, the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network is available in more than 500 markets across the United States covering more than 99 percent of its 3G coverage area.
DETROIT ? In a filing disclosed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Compuware and a New York investment fund have extended a standstill agreement between them to Sept. 15. New York based Elliot Management and its subsidiaries said the agreement was to have expired Monday, but the parties agreed Friday to extend it