The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
Tags: LED, Gbit/s, optical networks, UKplc
Raytheon of Waltham, MA, USA has officially opened a new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide (SiC) foundry at Raytheon Glenrothes in Scotland (part of subsidiary Raytheon UK, a contractor to the UK Ministry of Defence). Developed ...
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Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage The University of Edinburgh-based HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer has had an HPC storage upgrade that includes 7.8 petabytes (PB) in a DataDirect Networks array ...
Tags: Academic supercomputer, HPC storage, DataDirect Networks, HECToR
Remote areas of Scotland are now able to access superfast broadband, thanks to a research project by two of the country's universities. The University of Edinburgh and the University of the Highlands and Islands have been working together ...
Tags: Scottish Universities, Rural Broadband, Tegola project, academic network
The FSA in Scotland has published a report identifying key knowledge gaps and recommending areas for future research on enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). The recommendations are a result of an international workshop held in ...
Tags: key knowledge gaps, recommending areas for future research
The University of Edinburgh played host to the second annual UKESF Summer Workshop, a joint industry-university engineering business skills initiative. Companies taking part included ARM, Dialog Semiconductor, Jaguar Land Rover, Linn and ...
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UK-The future development of the UK audiovisual industry will be at the top of the agenda for InfoComm's new UK Task Force.Appointed for a year's term by the InfoComm International Board of Directors,the UK Task Force will ...
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Charles Hendry today made a speech to the Business School at the University of Edinburgh.In it he stated that the security of UK energy is being challenged by: Declining domestic production,making us vulnerable to energy ...
Tags: University of Edinburgh, UK, energy, smart meter