Stories about: Australian National University

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Antarctic satellite broadband wins $2.1m in funding 28 February, 2010 09:00

A project to enable satellite-based broadband communications technology for use in the Antarctic is one of four projects to win the first round of $10 million in funding under the Australian Space Research Program (ASRP).
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Biometric visas enlisted to help fight terrorism 23 February, 2010 16:25

The Federal Government has tipped $69 million into a new biometric visa system which will screen visitors entering Australia from a secret list of 10 countries.
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APNIC chief scientist: The industry is going to get a bit of a shock 03 December, 2009 07:00

AARnet's first employee and the chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Geoff Huston has warned the internet industry not to be complacent when it comes to IPv6 implementation.
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AARNet looks back 20 years 30 November, 2009 17:09

AARNet has commissioned and launched a book to celebrate 20 years of the Internet in Australia. It’s hard to put a hard and fast figure on the age of the Internet in Australia. Rather than a single moment, the Internet began as a series of events, headed up by some of the country’s most pioneering computing scientists. In June 1989, however, the first international Internet connection was placed through a 56 kilobit per second satellite link that connected the University of Melbourne and the University of Hawaii. It the first known direct live overseas link with Australia. The same connection to the United States today is 200,000 times faster, operating at 10 gigabits (Gbps) per second.
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CSIRO beefs up research with GPU cluster 25 November, 2009 11:03

A supercomputer which combines the central processing units (CPUs) found in traditional PCs, with more powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) will be launched by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra today. The first of its kind in Australia, the GPU cluster contains 61,440 compute cores and will help scientists to explore the use of GPU technology for parallel processing.
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Australia's supercomputer ranking slipping 17 November, 2009 12:02

Only one Australian supercomputer has made it onto a list of the Top 500 announced at the SC09 forum in US this week.
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New supercomputer to boost Aussie research (updated) 16 November, 2009 10:30

Australia's newest and most powerful supercomputer, set to rocket into the world's top 40, will be launched in Canberra today.
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Government: Come hack our data 26 October, 2009 12:01

This week the Federal Government will open its data to web developers during its first hack day.
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CSIRO sells Funnelback search engine 03 July, 2009 13:51

CSIRO has sold its Funnelback search engine technology business to open source content management company Squiz.
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Racial hate groups erupt on Facebook 12 June, 2009 12:31

Racist Facebook groups have sprung up in the wake of ethnic violence in Sydney's West.
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NSC deploys new Avaya technology for ANU 06 April, 2009 11:55

Communications integrator, NSC Group, has upgraded the Australian National University (ANU) network to the new Avaya Aura architecture.