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Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics Boosts Supercomputing Power With Dell High-Performance Computing Cluster Based on PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations and Linux SuSe
White Papers Swinburne implemented a high performance computing cluster technology solution with 90 rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge 2650 Dual Xeon servers, 30 Dell Dual Xeon Precision 530s. The Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (SCAS), is host to...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
IBM splashes out on cloud-computing centre
News IBM has announced that it will spend $360m (£182m) on a new cloud datacentre facility in North Carolina, providing another indication that major vendors see cloud computing as the future for mainstream systems.
[August 1, 2008, 17:41]
Intel to set up visual-computing lab in Europe
News Intel has teamed up with the University of Saarland, Germany, to create a visual-computing research centre in Europe. The new centre will collaborate with Intel's tera-research programme, which explores how multiple computing cores can be used to...
[May 13, 2009, 15:55]
ICT suppliers face national accreditation
News The National Computing Centre is to accredit suppliers of ICT services, in an attempt to increase buying confidence among business customers. Accredit UK is being funded jointly by the National Computing Centre and the European Regional Development...
[November 23, 2006, 12:21]
Microsoft's Hyper-V boosts interest in virtualisation
News Businesses will increasingly turn to virtualisation technologies to get more out of their IT assets, according to the National Computing Centre. Speaking about virtualisation at the launch of Microsoft's latest server OS, Andrew Hopkirk, head of...
[March 3, 2008, 8:25]
UK e-science centre pushes grid computing
News The UK government on Thursday officially opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), devoting £5.5m over the next three years to boosting the UK's role in grid computing. The centre is part of an international effort to enable scientific...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
Government trails private sector in IT wages
News Government IT staff are still being paid less than their private-sector counterparts, according to research from the National Computing Centre. The findings are part of the National Computing Centre's (NCC's) latest Benchmark of Salaries and...
[February 12, 2008, 14:47]
Enterprise architects launch best-practice drive
News The National Computing Centre has launched an initiative to promote professionalism in enterprise architecture and systems engineering. Michael Dean, group marketing manager for the National Computing Centre, said that a lack of common business...
[June 1, 2007, 16:39]
Photos: Big Blue shows its green side
News The company is using the facility to show off its expertise in data-centre computing, focusing on the two hot issues of the day: power saving and "green computing". IBM has set up a state-of-the-art data centre at its London headquarters on the...
[May 29, 2007, 17:29]
Burglars plunder Verizon's London data centre
News Criminals posing as policemen conned their way into a data centre near London's King's Cross station, tying up staff and stealing computing equipment, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The men tied up five members of staff at the data centre...
[December 10, 2007, 12:12]
IBM floats vision of the cloud's future
News As part of this, IBM set up its first cloud-computing centre in Europe, in an existing company campus in Ireland, a year ago. Chui talked about his plans for the Cloud Computing Centre, which acts as a hub for research and services for Europe, the...
[March 16, 2009, 12:14]
OASIS enlarges specification tent
News Standards body OASIS will take on development of an existing utility computing specification for automating data centre operations. First published by data centre automation software company Opsware and EDS last year, the language is designed to...
[August 31, 2004, 10:00]
Grid computing 'overhyped'
News Mark Parsons, the commercial director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and the National e-Science Centre, said at an EPCC seminar in London on Wednesday that grid computing - where computing power and data storage capacity can be...
[May 19, 2005, 17:20]
Photos: Centre launched to promote open source
News The National Open Centre (NOC), backed by the National Computing Centre, has won the support of the European Commission and members of parliament. The concept of the NOC was originally touted in October, when the National Computing Centre outlined...
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
Sun wants to open up N1
News Sun Microsystems is working on a mechanism to connect its N1 utility computing software to existing systems management setups, in an early attempt to manage data centre gear from other providers. Creating a link between established systems...
[December 23, 2003, 11:10]
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which aims to build an IT future for a city with an industrial past.
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
Government backs grid computing with £1m
News IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project between IT industry body Intellect and the National e-Science Centre. Parsons, of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, summed the problem up in may...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
BT moves infrastructure into the cloud
News BT is about to formally launch a virtualised infrastructure service called BT Virtual Data Centre, which will form the basis of its cloud-computing strategy. VDC is the basis of our cloud-computing offering," Neil Sutton, BT Global Services's...
[June 18, 2009, 13:45]
IBM launches System S stream computing
News Also on Wednesday, IBM opened the IBM European Stream Computing Centre, headquartered in Dublin. The centre will serve as a hub of research, customer support and advanced testing for stream-computing applications.
[May 14, 2009, 16:39]
PC Expo: Where are the PCs?
News Despite the rise of new technologies, including wireless PDAs, Internet appliances and smart phones, the PC will remain, in the foreseeable future, at the centre of the computing universe. Networked computing appliances, which rely on the PC as an...
[June 30, 2000, 8:23]
