News archive for December 2005

New consortium aims to give the UK a world lead in research using high performance computing

09th December 2005. Filed under: Announcements, Press releases

The largest ever consortium to support UK academic research using high performance computers (HPC) is being established by the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester and the Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils’ (CCLRC) Daresbury Laboratory.

Professor Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Alan Gilbert, President and […]

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OGSA-DAI receives 1.86million follow-on funding

09th December 2005. Filed under: Announcements

An Edinburgh research team that created software used by scientists worldwide has received follow-on funding of £1.86million.

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Australia, China & United Kingdom linked by world’s longest computing grid

09th December 2005. Filed under: Announcements

Software developed by EPCC is supporting a computing grid that stretches across three continents.
The grid is part of the INWA (Innovation Node: Western Australia) grid project, which is investigating the suitability of existing grid technologies for secure, commercial data mining. The project underscores the notion that sharing and collaboration in technology can result in tremendous […]

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DEISA: TeraGrid, DEISA Linked Via Wide-Area Global File System

07th December 2005. Filed under: Media coverage

TeraGrid and DEISA, the European supercomputing Grid infrastructure, have been linked, for the purposes of a technology demonstration, by a common, scalable, wide-area global file system spanning two continents.
GRIDToday article

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EPPC@15

02nd December 2005. Filed under: Announcements

By Arthur Trew
Director of EPCC
This year marks the 15th birthday of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). This is, for us a significant milestone and I wanted to take this opportunity to review the past decade and a half, not only in terms of the changes we have seen as an organization, but also to […]

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EPCC@15: This year marks the 15th birthday of EPCC

01st December 2005. Filed under: Media coverage

This is, for us a significant milestone and I want to take this opportunity to review the past decade and a half, not only in terms of the changes we have seen as an organization, but also to reflect on the revolution that has taken place in the HPC arena more generally.
HPCWire article

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DEISA: The benefits of a virtual European supercomputer

01st December 2005. Filed under: Media coverage

The DEISA Consortium… a major step towards an integrated European HPC infrastructure.
Scientific Computing World article

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