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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]
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 project was carried out by scientists from the UK's E-Science Centres and was co-funded by IBM and Oracle, rival powers in the database market, which contributed both funding and the efforts of their own researchers.
[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]
Jodrell Bank radiotelescope spared the axe
News The future of the research centre has been assured for the "medium and long-term future" after the government's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) agreed to contribute towards the running costs of the centre in Cheshire.
[July 10, 2008, 16:50]
Chips, the Universe and Everything
News Each of the blobs on the map is a computing centre working on CERN experimental data sent out over two grids, EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE) and the Open Science Grid (OSG). It's switching on next year, when it'll become out of bounds to...
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
Grid computing to solve Big Bang queries?
News Central Laboratory of the Research Councils e-Science Centre at RAL. Although the LHC won't be up and running until 2007, work has already begun on the grid, with the UK being one of the largest contributors.
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
E-crime unit 'on track' despite funding delay
News It comes after Home Office minister Vernon Coaker told a House of Lords science and technology committee that the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC) could take the lead on co-ordinating e-crime investigations nationwide.
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
Is AMD losing its supercomputing lustre?
News The cluster is connected to the UK's e-Science Grid, a project sometimes referred to as Internet 2, which is designed to give scientists high-speed access to computing resources across the UK and, ultimately, across Europe.
[April 18, 2002, 16:55]
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. Other new site features include chat rooms for gymnasts and coaches and an...
[April 25, 2003, 15:35]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News My concern is that when the Department of Trade and Industry is in a fight with another department, such as Health, Education or the Treasury, it lacks the weight needed to get its way," explained Taylor, who was minister of science and technology...
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
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]
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]
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]
Events Diary
News Information Communications Technology and Science Education: Reading University. E-Tel '99: Wembley Conference and Exhibition Centre. Business Computer Systems Show '99: Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre.
[December 19, 1998, 5:57]
Norwich Union moves 2,500 jobs to India
Talkback For any who don't realise it, in India you get a graduate with a degree (maths, computer science, business etc) for a fraction of the cost that you get in Europe/US. We can either try and drive wages down - with the same inevitble result as in...
[January 5, 2004, 20:46]
No remedy in sight for denial of service attacks
News said Stefan Savage, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, and co-founder of security company Asta Networks. If you disrupt e-business enough, then you do some lasting damage to people's trust in that part of...
[June 4, 2001, 9:13]
The messaging diplomats: Can they bring peace?
News For example, Saraswat, a computer science Ph.D.who worked at Silicon Valley's famed Xerox PARC research centre for nine years before joining AT&T, foresees the day when a real-time digital communications technology will allow people to share their...
[August 3, 1999, 13:19]
'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]
Lacey's Paper Round
News In a series of reports from the Cardiff Science Festival, The Guardian highlighted the work of Igor Aleksander of Imperial College which it ran under the headline: "Paranoid android could be reality. There is a lot of talk about e-Commerce in...
[September 15, 1998, 7:29]
