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National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News The National Open Centre (NOC) will aim to help set national policy on use of open source software. Research manager at the National Computing Centre, Ed Downs, said as several significant open source projects in the UK are based in the Birmingham...
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
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]
Cynicism noted
Talkback It looks like several of you have concerns about some underlying issues affecting the National Open Centre. We'll be following the National Open Centre as it tries to expand through 2007, and any feedback you have we'll bear in mind when we write...
[March 2, 2007, 16:21]
Say hello to the UK's 'open source dating agency'
News We had a look around the UK and the only other people who were thinking along the same lines were the National Business to Business Centre in Warwick University, which was using open source software, and the National Computing Centre (NCC) in...
[December 29, 2004, 11:40]
Shared source: Get a limited peek at the Windows source code
News The fact that Windows faces export restrictions (and open source does not) gives Microsoft's operating system the status of national treasure. Proprietary, open source, or national treasure? Addressing open source:
[May 29, 2003, 14:19]
Hacking is greater threat than military attack
News According to the foreign secretary, the government's "National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre" is already improving its ability to react to electronic attack. The purpose of the National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre...
[March 30, 2001, 7:14]
News Roundup: Attack on America
News Wednesday 12th September Rick Belluzzo to open an XML Web services centre in Singapore and tour other areas of Asia Monday 17th September The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has asked ISPs to retain communications data for the next month, to aid the US...
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Open source high on UK companies' radar
News In an online survey of 140 senior technology executives, conducted by the National Computing Centre, more than 50 per cent have either adopted or are planning to adopt open source. Open source offerings have already proved their viability in a...
[August 15, 2005, 16:00]
Free Software Offer Helps Child Internet Safety Web Site Promote Best Practice
White Papers The United Kingdom's National Internet Safety Centre and Cyberspace Research Unit (CRU) at the University of Central Lancashire launched a new Web site to improve awareness of child Internet safety in February 2006.
[March 24, 2008, 0:02]
Red Hat tips communal storage
News The software employs the open-source Lustre project, is geared for high-performance computing tasks and is used by a 4,096-processor Linux supercomputer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Lustre also is used on a 2,500-processor cluster...
[June 25, 2004, 14:45]
Highways Agency tech management criticised
News Another key area of the agency's work is the newly constructed National Traffic Control Centre. While the agency managed to set up a £160m centre five months ahead of schedule it will be delayed in going fully operational, says the report, and...
[November 29, 2004, 15:30]
Linux supercomputer to simulate space for NASA
News Until now, SGI's largest-announced Linux cluster had been a 1,024-processor system being built for the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. SGI said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to integrate 20 512-processor...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
US tech research faces crisis
News With more research focused on national security, programmes formerly open to academics are now classified. Asia and Europe, which could have a significant impact on the US economy as well as national security, they argue.
[November 10, 2005, 14:55]
China opens Windows code lab
News Called the Source Code Browsing Lab, it is part of the existing government-run software site, the China Testing and Certification Centre for Information Security Products, according a report in the People's Daily.
[September 29, 2003, 12:15]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
News SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Centre (NERSC).
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
IBM promotes open source innovation
News IBM on Wednesday announced new measures designed to promote open source innovation, including a job candidate database and an e-learning initiative. The database is scheduled to launch in the third quarter, cataloguing the resumes of university...
[March 3, 2005, 7:35]
US homeland security to police the Net
News Those are the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, the Defence Department's National Communications System, the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, an Energy Department analysis centre, and the Federal...
[November 21, 2002, 11:55]
Internet2 sets new speed record
News Caltech is involved in building the TeraGrid supercomputing network, which connects the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, the San Diego Supercomputer Centre, Argonne National Laboratory, the Caltech Centre for Advanced Computing...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
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]
Microsoft to open source? Not likely...
News Instead, the more than 50 licenses it has with universities and government labs -- including the Sandia National Laboratories and the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications -- have enabled researchers working on "cutting-edge computer...
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