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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. Thus is providing gymnasts with email accounts, and will provide a 2Mbps...
[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. Business Computer Systems Show '99: Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre. E-Tel '99: Wembley Conference and 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. And most are employed to do jobs (back-office functions, call centre etc) which...
[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. The denial-of-service attack flooded the centre's Web site with data requests and made the site -- and...
[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. Ireland already dominates Europe as a technology...
[September 15, 1998, 7:29]
