2008

World premiere of live concert with use of epigonion reconstructed over high-speed networks

The second eduPERT training course was held on 27-28 November in Zurich, Switzerland, to train staff to establish and operate national and local PERTs within the new eduPERT structure of federated PERTs.

Sign up to the GÉANT2 Security Toolset training course to be held in the SWITCH offices in Zurich, Switzerland on the 2– 4 February 2009.

Using the GÉANT2 network, Millennium Simulations reconstruct and predict climate change, by applying a comprehensive Earth System Model to reproduce the climate evolution from 800 AD to present and to provide projections of future climate development.

The project and technical achievements of the GÉANT2 network network will be showcased at the prestigious ICT event.

The FEDERICA project is creating 'slices' of network infrastructure that can be allocated to network researchers as virtual resources for experimenting with new networking technologies. GÉANT2 is a collaborating partner of FEDERICA.

GÉANT2 announced the release of GIdP (GÉANT Identity Provider), which enables safe, secure access to a number of GÉANT2 and related network services.

A new high speed computer network link, made possible by GÉANT, the advanced pan-European backbone network, and TEIN, the Asia-Pacific network, now connects scientists and researchers in Pakistan with colleagues across the globe.

Building on the success of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network 2 (TEIN2) research and education network the European Union (EU) and its partners today announced the launch date of its successor.

SimpleSAMLphp, part of eduGAIN, recognised at Identity Deployment of the Year Awards 2008

The GÉANT2 network, together with the National Research and Education Networks, are providing the high speed connectivity to underpin CERN’s new Worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment.

Using the GÉANT2 and EUMEDCONNECT networks, the sound of the Ancient harp-like Epigonion instrument has been recreated and has performed one of the oldest known musical scores

A federated Performance Enhancement and Response Team (PERT), eduPERT will combine a collaborative GÉANT2 community of knowledge to solve network issues.

The ORIENT high capacity data communication route, linking the research and education networks of China and Europe, is playing a fundamental role in analysis and reconstruction work following the Sichuan earthquake

Upgrades are taking place on a number of links between specific NRENs on the GÉANT2 backbone to result in increased bandwidth and connectivity speeds

University of Andorra joins the GÉANT2 research and education community, and forms the Andorran NREN. Connectivity is via RedIris, the Spanish NREN.

Successful eduroam training event held in Amsterdam to teach NRENs to install eduroam service provider software

Recent demonstration of the AutoBAHN end-to-end data communication service utilising the GÉANT2 network at TNC 2008 conference

GÉANT2, the high bandwidth, pan-European research and education network, has announced the release of the latest perfSONAR multi-domain monitoring software bundle.

A review of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” panel discussion at TNC 2008

GÉANT2 network helps create real-time virtual telescope with the EXPReS project at TNC 2008, under the coordination of the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)

Engineers from Europe and America are taking part in a beta testing program for the latest perfSONAR MDM bundle release, one of the network monitoring tools offered by GÉANT2, the high bandwidth, pan-European research network

GÉANT2’s knowledge transfer activity group is pleased to announce the release of the online, self-paced training for the perfSONAR User Interface (perfSONAR UI)

A total of 13 people from 11 different European countries became approved GÉANT2 Security Toolset Trainers last week after a pilot train-the-trainer course held at SWITCH's offices in Zurich

High bandwidth network and link to GÉANT2 will enable faster collaboration for South Caucasian researchers and students

Five NRENs and two projects granted urn:geant namespace

The EC issued a press release today at a press briefing in Brussels to celebrate the achievements of Europe's GÉANT, the most advanced research network in the world

GÉANT2 establishes research network link to the Ukraine with URAN connection