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. Osborne insisted that the government has tried to overcome this lack of awareness...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
UK Scientists Complete Grid Foundations
News The results were announced at the fifth Global Grid Forum, taking place this week in Edinburgh, hosted by the National E-Science Centre. The National E-Science Centre, officially opened in April, coordinates projects with a network of eight...
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
Grid Computing 'vital To Europe's Future'
News Meanwhile, the UK National Grid Service (NGS), the UK's e-Science Grid, gained two new members in the shape of Cardiff and Bristol universities. Cardiff's Welsh e-Science Centre hooked up its Silicon Graphics Irix cluster to the network, while the...
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
An Implementation Of OGSI On Microsoft .NET
White Papers This is a portion of the work of the MS.NETGrid project undertaken at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) between March 2003 and March 2004. MS.NETGrid is a project to demonstrate the relevance of the Microsoft .NET suite of technologies to e...
[July 4, 2007, 0:00]
IBM: Research Is The Key
News Anant Jhingran served as director of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Centre and the senior manager for e-commerce and data management at the company's Watson Research Centre before jumping to product development a few years ago.
[June 17, 2004, 16:20]
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]
Gymnasts Limber Up For The Next Olympic Games With Online Video Analysis Site
News The new site's video-on-demand service has been customised for sports training, according to Dan Hardie, methodologist and sports science coordinator at British Gymnastics. Thus is providing gymnasts with email accounts, and will provide a 2Mbps...
[April 25, 2003, 15:35]
Printable Semiconductors Move A Step Closer
News The National Science Foundation funded the project. The Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox, has already created a functioning electronic array that serves as a backplane for a display, said Ong.
[April 19, 2004, 11:35]
Politician Slams Broadband Uncertainty
News Sir George Young made his comments at a parliamentary forum held following the publication of a report from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology called "e is for everything? E-commerce minister Douglas Alexander has rejected the idea...
[January 18, 2002, 16:47]
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, based at the University of Edinburgh and jointly run with the...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
'Zombie Attacks': Web Crackdown Widens
News The operation involves "tracking down a lot of leads, and it is frustrating", he said Friday after a session on cyberterrorism at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[February 21, 2000, 9:06]
Government Pledges Boost For Grid Technology
News Science and innovation minister Lord Sainsbury, who has been leading a review of innovation policy, said the government will have increased funding of Research Councils to scientific and engineering research from £1.3bn in 1997 to nearly £3bn by...
[December 17, 2003, 12:55]
