Video: Behind The UK's Green Supercomputer
News Commercial director Mark Parsons explains the thinking behind it, and its implications for high performance computing. Innovative use of reprogrammable chips has given Edinburgh University's Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) a uniquely efficient...
[March 21, 2007, 16:24]
UK E-science Centre Pushes Grid Computing
News What scientists want to do now is collaborate globally, and not just sending attachments to emails," said Dr Mark Parsons, NeSC's commercial director. Scientists have dreamt of grid-style collaboration for a long time, but this time networks have...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
AOL: Old Media Eats New Media
News Richard Parsons' ascension to the chief executive throne of AOL Time Warner shows how fast and hard the fortunes of the new-media revolution have fallen. What the AOL-ers have to understand, and are beginning to understand, is that when they did...
[December 7, 2001, 9:12]
Grid Software Project Widens Scope
News Now there is an official board that includes those four as well as Malcolm Atkinson and Mark Parsons of the University of Edinburgh and Olle Mulmo and Lennart Johnsson of the Swedish Centre for Parallel Computers, Globus said.
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
VMware Launches $200,000 Challenge For Virtual Appliances
News The judging panel also includes Jason Brooks, senior analyst at eWeek, Stephen Elliot, research manager of enterprise systems management software at IDC, Roger Howorth, enterprise editor at IT Week, Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, Dave...
[February 27, 2006, 16:00]
Microsoft Extends Software Assurance To Disasters
News Additional reporting by Michael Parsons. It's worldwide, it's a part of our software assurance programme, and it will enable customers to use server disaster technology in the workplace," said Mark Buckley, licensing marketing manager for the UK.
[May 20, 2004, 9:00]
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]
Green Supercomputer Unveiled In Edinburgh
News Mark Parsons, commercial director of the EPCC, which co-developed Maxwell, admitted: "It's still difficult for commercial use. But Parsons added that once this problem is cracked — in the next two to three years — FPGA tech could really take off.
[March 21, 2007, 9:22]
Government Backs Grid Computing With £1m
News Osborne says "too much hype" around grid technology is one reason why business has remained sceptical, echoing comments made by another leading light of the UK grid community, Mark Parsons. Parsons, of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
Most UK Web Sites Break Accessibility Laws
News The initiative could lead to the development of a European-wide "e-accessibility" mark or logo for Web sites, similar to the RNIB's See it Right Accessible Website logo, but applied throughout Europe by members of the Consortium.
[March 23, 2004, 12:25]
