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RIPE 60 will take place on 3-7 May 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic. You can now register online for RIPE 60 at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/registration
Tickets: You can register for the full week (350 euro) or choose a day ticket for a particular day (125 euro). Discounted week tickets are available for students (175 euro). If you are a new LIR you may be entitled to free entry to the meeting. More information is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/introduction.html
Meeting Venue/Hotel: RIPE 60 will take place in the Prague Marriott Hotel. Discounted room rates have been negotiated for RIPE Meeting attendees. Instructions on how to book your hotel can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/venue.html
More information is available, and will be continually updated, at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/
The Japanese National Institute of Informatics (NII) and Livedoor, a Japanese provider of commercial WLAN services, have collaborated to create a region-wide eduroam service in the Kanto area of Japan.
As a result, eduroam is now available in over 130 access points ('hotspots') at cafes, convention centres and a few large shops in the area including Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama.
The third Slovenian IPv6 summit will take a step forward from an awareness phase to a more technical standpoint.
The event will start with two technical workshops. First workshop will provide theoretical insight into the IPv6 protocol while the second will be based on practical training in real networking environment. On the second day technical presentations will take place along the keynote by Daniel Karrenberg, chief scientist at the RIPE NCC. Summit will be wrapped up by the round-table discussion about the requirements for IPv6 support in the networking equipment and services.
Summit is organized by ARNES, Slovenian Go6 institute and the Laboratory for Telecommunications at Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana.
On Thursday 18 February the Dutch Minister Plasterk officially kicked off the GigaPort3 project. This project will enhance the network infrastructure for universities and research institutes in the Netherlands. SURFnet organised the meeting to exchange views with the attendees on the selected approach and the envisaged results of GigaPort3. The aim of the GigaPort3 project is to raise the SURFnet network infrastructure to a higher level and to integrate it seamlessly with other ICT infrastructure facilities. The innovative SURFnet7 network will be implemented to do just that.
The book has been written by Gordon Cook, who publishes exclusive interviews and commentary on strategic planning for the Internet policy 6 times a year.
In 'Building a national knowledge infrastructure’ Cook interviews a number of important players that are involved in the Dutch ICT infrastructure for education and research. One of these is Kees Neggers, director of SURFnet. The interviews show how the collaboration on the Dutch national knowledge infrastructure is being carried out.
The different parts of the book can be downloaded.
CESNET provided a live video transmission of minimally invasive thyroid surgery for the participants of the Stresovice Spring 2010 international medical discussion forum. HD transmission in the 1080p quality took place between the Otolaryngology Clinic of the Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the Central Military Hospital in Prague.
There is currently a public hearing opening on how individuals can register Norwegian domain names in the future. Everybody can speak their mind on these issues. The hearing is open for input until the 17th of May.
SC10, the premier international conference on HPC, networking, storage and analysis, is now accepting submissions for its technical program. The 23rd annual conference in the series, SC10 will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States from November 13-19, 2010. Over 11,000 attendees from industry, academia and government are anticipated.
Drawing on expertise from the international HPC community, SC10 will offer a broad spectrum of technical presentations and discussions including rigorously peer-reviewed papers, panels, tutorials, workshops and posters showcasing the latest findings from laboratories and research institutions around the world. This year, the program encourages participants to focus on one of three thrust areas to be featured prominently. These include: climate simulation, heterogeneous computing and data-intensive computing.
Immediate Deadlines:
Paper and ACM Gordon Bell Prize abstracts are due April 2.
Full Papers and submissions for Tutorials and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize are due April 5.
For more info: http://sc10.supercomputing.org
For all program deadlines: http://sc10.supercomputing.org/?pg=dates.html
Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
The CESNET association was the first to natively interconnect with Google in NIX.CZ peering centre in Prague via IPv6 protocol.
An international team of scientists has been able to make detailed observations of a supernova thanks to the high capacity pan-European GÉANT research network and the European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) that GÉANT interconnects. Astronomers at six telescopes throughout Europe collaborated to observe Supernova SN 2007gr, detecting outflow near the speed of light for the first time ever from this type of star and gaining vital insight into supernova behaviour.