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© The HOISe-NM Consortium 1997 | This section provides you with up to date news on HPCN in relation to programmes
from the European Commission (EC).
March 1997
- 27-03-97 Broadband R&D testbed to develop applications is key for Europe - an interview
with Thierry Van der Pyl
- Peter Chapman
- In the first part of a two part news feature by Peter Chapman, Thierry Van
der Pyl, head of unit in charge of high performance computing and networking
R&D in the European Commission warns that we must match U.S. ambition in
networking or face the consequences.
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- 26-03-97 European HPCN tool developers have to cross several barriers
- Ad Emmen
- European HPCN tool developers are facing several barriers which they have
to cross before product prototypes are put successfully in the market. This
is the conclusion of a survey conducted amongst 120 European tool developers.
At a meeting in Brussels, with the European Commission, several actions
were proposed to improve the situation.
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- 14-03-97G7 Electronic Commerce conference in Bonn
- The G7 Initiative "A Global Marketplace for SMEs" organises an Electronic Commerce for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Conference in Bonn, April, 7-9, 1997
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- 13-03-97 Seminar on European supercomputing codes in Japan
- Smith System Engineering is organising a three day seminar in Kobe Japan
19-21 May 1997 to present the results of EUROPORT and related work under
the European Commission's Esprit programme. In the Europort project, 38
large serial commercial and in-house codes were ported to parallel supercomputers.
This demonstrates the maturity of European industry in parallel high-performance
computing.
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- 13-03-97 The Future of the Internet -What Role for Europe?
- An Interim report of an Advisory Group with leading interntional experts
makes several recommendations to the European Commission: It is important
that the European Union should recognise the key role that the Internet
is likely to play in the economic development of Europe over the coming
decades. Specific recognition is needed that now is a critical moment for
the evolution of the Internet towards Electronic Commerce. These acts of
recognition must be followed by urgent and effective action, and appropriate
budgetary commitments, aimed at ensuring that Europe reduces the extent
to which it is lagging behind the USA in the development and application
of the Internet.
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- 03-03-97Esprit encourages R&D to detect and identify anti-personnel landmines
- The IT research programme from the European Commission, Esprit, is encouragingR&D
proposals on technologies for the detection and identification of landmines.
This was revealed at the Esprit Information Day in Brussels on 3 March.
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