Primeur -- CEC Update -- May 1997

News on HPCN and the European Commission
- May 1997

The electronic news and information service for the European HPCN community.

This section provides you with up to date news on HPCN in relation to programmes from the European Commission (EC).

May 1997

27-5-97 EU-China initative organizes workshops in Pisa and London: The EU-China HPCN initative organizes two workshops in Pisa (June 16) and London/ Abingdon (June 18) to bring together Chinese companies that are interested in possible cooperation, and their European counterparts. Experts from China and experts in trading and setting up joint-ventures with China will also be present.

20-5-97Unisource launches firts pan-European Internet service: Ad Emmen; After a successful testing phase Unisource officially launched its pan-European Internet backbone network (on which we reported in our February issue), which, as a services platform, forms an important part of the European Commission funded TEN-34 network.

29-4-97High telecoms charges damaging EU efforts to boost networking: Peter Chapman; In this second part of a news feature (first appeared in our March issue), Thierry Van der Pyl, chief of High Performance Computing R&D in the European Commission warns of the damage high telecoms charges are doing to EU efforts to boost networking. He talks further about HPCN's role in the next EU R&D programme which will merge the current Telematics, ACTS telecoms and Esprit R&D programmes into one "user friendly information society" programme. And Van der Pyl also describes how the commission is linking up with HPCN experts in the Far-East.