Registration has opened for the 8th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop. This will be held on 1-2 October 2008 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, USA.
Information about this event and online registration can be found at http://www.glif.is/meetings/2008/.
Please note that the special rates in the Mayflower Park Hotel and Edgewater Hotel are applicable until 9 September 2008. More information on how to book can be found on the event website.
Promoting a culture of security: mitigating risks through awareness. ENISA and FORTH-ICS invite you to the 1st Network and Information Security (NIS) Summer School, to be held in Crete, Greece.
To register visit: http://www.nis-summer-school.eu
The ORIENT project is playing a vital role in the analysis of destruction and aiding post-disaster reconstruction in the Sichuan earthquake zone in China. The high-bandwidth link is being used to transport high-resolution satellite images of the areas devastated by the earthquake from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Italy, directly to those leading relief work in China.
Network upgrades result in increased bandwidth and connectivity speeds to benefit European researchers in GÉANT2-connected countries. The planned upgrades are taking place on a number of connections between specific NRENs on the GÉANT2 backbone. Particular regions that will benefit from improved high speed routes include the Baltic States, south east Europe and Iberia.
GÉANT2 has extended its reach by providing connectivity to the University of Andorra, which now represents the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Andorra, via RedIRIS, the Spanish NREN, and the Anella Científica, the Catalan Regional Research and Education Network. This new high bandwidth connection will enable collaboration and data transfer between Andorran research groups and associated European academia.
RIES (Rijnland Internet Election System), a system used for electronic elections via the Internet, has become open source software.
The source code and other documentation have been made public via www.openries.nl.
RIES was initially developed for the Dutch Disctrict Water Control Boards and has also been used for expatriates in national parliament elections. SURFnet has been involved in the development of RIES from the very beginning.
The release of RIES as open source software is a result of a report by a government committee. The Dutch parliament concluded that software used in elections should always be open source in order to comply with the recommendations of the report.
Most information is available in Dutch. A report by the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information is available in English.
All objectives were met during a recent training course on 'Setting up an eduroam Service Provider', attendees agreed. Fourteen participants from a variety of national research and education networking organisations (NRENs) and some campuses took part in the event in Amsterdam on 12-13 June 2008.
Bandwidth-on-demand creates dedicated, global, high bandwidth links, using the GÉANT2 network, for the research and education community. Researchers across the globe can create their own dedicated, high speed links to each other in minutes, as shown by a recent demonstration of the AutoBAHN service at the TNC 2008 conference.
GÉANT2, the high bandwidth, pan-European research and education network, has released the latest software bundle that is used to deliver the perfSONAR multi-domain monitoring (MDM) service across a number of key European National Research and Education Network (NREN) sites. The perfSONAR MDM service enables fast troubleshooting by providing secure, user-friendly access to standardised network performance metrics from multiple domains.
The GÉANT2 network helped create the successful demonstration to generate a real-time virtual telescope 11,000 km in diameter at the recent TERENA Networking Conference in Bruges. Telescopes from Chile, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Sweden were connected in real time, enabling astronomers from the EXPReS project to simultaneously observe active galaxies in the distant universe.