News archive for February 2012

Google Summer of Code 2012: get involved through OGSA-DAI

21st February 2012. Filed under: News

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects for three months under the guidance of an Open Source organisation. This year the OGSA-DAI open source project plans to participate as a mentor.
OGSA-DAI is a product that allows data in distributed databases to be accessed, […]

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Minister launches next generation of supercomputers for UK researchers

13th February 2012. Filed under: News, Announcements, Hardware, Press releases

Imagine if every person on the planet were able to carry out 250,000 calculations per second simultaneously. This is the combined capability of the next stage of development, announced today, of two giant computers, HECToR and BlueGene/Q, based at the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility (ACF). It marks the next chapter in the UK’s […]

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BonFIRE opens €600,000 call for Future Internet experiments and Cloud provider

02nd February 2012. Filed under: News

BonFIRE is looking for Testing Experiments that want to trial on the Cloud software prototypes or results of services R&D Internet of Services projects. The experiments should exploit the unique features of BonFIRE facility within one or more of the three usage scenarios. Experiments shall propose innovative usage scenarios exploiting the multiple dimensions and […]

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