NeIC2013: Nordic e-Infrastructure Conference, 15-16 May 2013, Trondheim

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The first Nordic e-Infrastructure Conference takes place in Trondheim, Norway on 15-16 May 2013, with preceding workshops 13-14 May. It marks the 10-year anniversary of Nordic collaboration in computing and storage services for science. The aim of the conference is to couple Nordic user communities with the skill base that exists within the national e-Infrastructure […]

EC GEANT Expert Group Releases report on “Knowledge without Borders – GÉANT 2020”

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Today at an event at the EU Commission in Brussels the report from the GEANT Expert Group  was presented to EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes. The GEANT Expert Group’s mandate from the Eu Commission was to: “The GÉANT Expert Group (GEG) will articulate a 2020 vision for European Research and Education networking and will identify an action […]

NORDUnet hosting GÉANT JRA1 Technical Workshop

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On 20-21 November Network Transport specialists from all over Europe come to Copenhagen to discuss trends in network transport technology and the impact on research and education networking. A technical workshop organized by the GÉANT “Future Networks” joint research activity (JRA1) sets the framework for these discussions. The GN3 project has been making great advances […]

SUNET launches national eduroam mobility

600,000 students and researchers in Sweden go mobile with eduroam and The Cloud. The Swedish education and research network SUNET and The Cloud have entered a partnership that gives researchers, students and staff at Sweden´s universities and university colleges access to wireless Internet connection off-campus vith eduroam authentication on The Cloud´s 4,500 or so access […]

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 […]