The news service by and for the Research and Education Networking Community in Europe
Two innovative computing systems, installed late last year at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), have recently been made available for the Polish scientific community.
The total computing power of both systems is more than 246 TFLOPS (246 trillion operations per second), equivalent to about 5,000 mid-range personal computers, using a high-performance water cooling system, innovative storage solutions and advanced networking technologies with the highest available bandwidth and lowest latency. Both systems purchased within the PL-GRID and POWIEW national projects will be used to conduct scientific research in such fields as: biochemistry, computational astrophysics, and solving the Grand Challenges.
TERENA has signed a new agreement to continue the TERENA Certificate Service (TCS) through Comodo CA Ltd for another year, through June 2013. The biggest change in the renewed agreement is that from 1 July 2012, the restriction that TCS certificates may not be used to secure online financial transactions will be lifted. This means TCS server certificates may be used for websites that handle credit card payments, for example.
Internet users in Switzerland and Liechtenstein will do well to check their PC on the
www.dns-check.ch website before 8 March 2012. If a PC is infected with the "DNS-Changer" malware, it will no longer be able to access the Internet as of 8 March 2012. With
www.dns-check.ch, SWITCH is thus offering an effective protection against surprises.
On 27 January 2012, research networking experts from across Europe assembled in a small workshop in Rome to provide feedback on plans to create a National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Albania. The event was organised jointly by CASPUR (the Italian Inter-University Consortium for the Application of Supercomputing for Universities and Research) and TERENA's Networking Development Support activity, which receives EU funding through the GN3 (GÉANT) project.
Researchers within Europe and Brazil will now find it much easier to share and access online resources, thanks to a single authenticated sign-on and a digital identity that works across the GÉANT and Brazilian RNP research networks.
This is through a new partnership that sees CAFe, the Brazilian identity federation, join the GÉANT eduGAIN service, which is being operated as part of the pan-European GÉANT project. It is the first eduGAIN partnership outside Europe, delivered as part of the service’s intercontinental strategy.
A video and presentations from CUDI's 'virtual day' about “Chemistry Education” are available online (in Spanish)
NORDUnet has issued a call for papers/presentations for this year’s conference, which will take place in Oslo, Norway, on 18-20 September 2012. The conference is a meeting place for the Nordic NRENs and other interested parties. The conference programme will be made up of keynote talks, invited and submitted presentations. The programme committee invites talks on technical developments, new services, advanced applications of research and education networks. The deadline for proposals is the 5th of March.
A new release of perfSONAR MDM means the monitoring tool can now be downloaded, installed and configured extremely quickly. In real world tests one of the three main components of perfSONAR MDM was installed and configured in just 15 minutes. This makes it seamless and straightforward for NREN operations staff to collaborate with their colleagues in other networks to easily monitor links and where necessary to rapidly identify, prevent and solve performance issues for network users.
Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012. Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.
ARNES celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012. We will mark this milestone by adding to our services, launching new features, and by focusing on what we see as our mission: the transfer of knowledge, combining experience and promoting the use of ICT in the community to which we belong.