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more academics to work on a greater number of projects, at faster speeds." In a deal worth £3.2m, Southampton's
new supercomputer is powered by IBM Intelligent Cluster solutions and designed, integrated and supported by HPC, data management, storage and analytics company OCF Plc. It is four times more powerful than its predecessor Iridis3 and has 12, 200 Intel Xeon E5-2670 processor cores, a petabyte (or one million gigabytes) of disc space, with 50 terabytes of memory. Iridis4 will mainly be used for
research by University staff and students across a wide variety of disciplines. It is estimated around 350 projects are likely to run on the machine in the first year.
FUTURELEARN ADDS MORE FREE COURSES
FutureLearn, the first UK-led provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), has added to its line-up of free courses. Developed by some of the world's leading universities, the nine new titles are all scheduled to begin in January and February. They join FutureLearn's existing
web-based offering, which covers a broad spectrum of disciplines, including science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), business and management, education and humanities. Learners can
sign up for the new courses now on
futurelearn.com. The website went live as an open
beta in September, offering free higher education-level study to anyone interested in learning, including current and prospective university students, working professionals and leisure learners. Together with previously released
titles, this new set brings the number of free courses currently available on FutureLearn to 29. Simon Nelson, chief executive of
FutureLearn said: "We'll be consistently building on our course line-up, working closely with our university partners to make sure that FutureLearn offers something for everyone."
signing event at the Google office in London, Dan Perry, director of product and marketing at Janet, said: "Over the years we've had huge interest from our members in moving to Google Apps for Education. Yet these same universities and colleges did not have the time nor resources to explore and understand the contractual complexities of cloud
“This agreement removes the need for colleges and universities to conduct their own due diligence, saving approximately £20,000 in time and cost”
security, safety and data protection. "So, we worked closely with
Google to create a Cloud Services for Education Agreement. This agreement removes the need for colleges and universities to conduct their own due diligence, saving approximately £20,000 in time and cost for each UK higher and further education organisations."
BCS boosts Liverpool’s IT credentials
The University of Liverpool's online information technology Masters programmes are the first suite of fully online postgraduate degrees to be awarded accreditation by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. The CITP standard is the benchmark of
IT excellence and has been developed in consultation with public and private sector employers and the academic community, to reflect today's IT profession. Professor Frans Coenen, director of studies
for online IT programmes at the University of Liverpool's Department of Computer Science, said: "Our programmes are at the forefront of academic development and my expectation is that this advancement will offer our students a professional advantage as well as providing the necessary knowledge to allow our students to apply for CITP registration."
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