Wide range of topics at day 2 of the NORDUnet conference 2012

The city of Oslo welcomed the 200 NORDUnet participants at the beautiful City Hall Tuesday evening. Fine architecture, impressive murals, Spanish tapas and chilled refreshments all created a perfect venue for the opening reception and some informal social networking. Wednesday morning the plenary session made room for some futuristic perspectives on the NRENs and their […]

Meet the future NRENS at the NORDUnet conference 2012

The NORDUnet conference 2012 opened today in Oslo, Norway with about 200 participants from the international networking community, especially the Nordic NRENs and universities.  The conference was opened by Petter Kongshaug, chairman of the NORDUnet board and CEO at UNINETT.  Last time UNINETT was hosting the NORDUnet conference it marked the opening of the sea […]

Nordic NREN community IaaS workshop, Copenhagen, September 12, 2012

Location: NORDUnet office, Kastruplundgade 22, 2770 Kastrup, Denmark – Time: 10:00 – 16:00 CET. IaaS – A service provided by a company, group, community, or government that provides basic computing, networking, data storage, and virtualized operating system hosting. Background With in the Nordic research and higher education community there is a growing interest in using […]

Register for the NORDUnet Conference 2012

The 27th NORDUnet Conference in Oslo, Norway, 18-20 September. This year’s conference is hosted by UNINETT and NORDUnet liaising with the Oslo and Akershus university college of applied sciences that also offers the venue for the event.Overall the conference focuses on Nordic and North-Atlantic collaboration with emphasis on current challenges and future technologies. Plenary sessions […]

NorthernLight Open Lightpath Exchange in London

NORDUnet has extended the NorthernLight Open Lightpath Exchange with a facility in London to provide OLE acces to Nordic and North Atlantic R&E resources, including the North Atlantic Green Computing Facilities on Iceland. The NorthernLight OLE facility in London is operational and is interconnected with NortherLight facilities in Nordic countries through the high performance NORDUnet […]

NORDUnet launches peering service

Copenhagen, Denmark The NORDUnet Community Peering Service provides the European Research and Education Networking community with a neutral, high quality, IP service towards the commodity internet, content- and cloud providers. Built on the fully redundant NORDUnet IP backbone and the NORDUnet peering fabric the service is optimized for the unlimited capacity, quality and speed required […]

Merger of data storage, processing power and network connections to strengthen Danish research

Danish Center for Scientific Computing (DCSC) and the Danish research network Forskningsnettet has merged into Danish e?infrastructure Cooperation (DeIC). This has been done in order to strengthen the Danish effort in the e?science area, and thereby ensuring Danish research prominence internationally. In all areas of modern research there is a need to collect, process and […]

NORDUnet 2012 Conference – Call for presentations

  Dear Colleagues, The Programme Committee for NORDUnet 2012 invites you to propose presentations for the 27th NORDUnet conference. NORDUnet 2012 is the Nordic networking meeting place, bringing together the networking community from Nordic universities and NRENs, along with their European and global colleagues. Our aim is to showcase Nordic, European & global collaborations, as […]