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Organisation Members list Organisation Members list
The following organisations are already member of the International Desktop Grid Federation:
- ABC@home (The Netherlands)
- Academica Sinica (Taiwan)
- Advanced Network Technologies (Hungary)
- Agro-Know Technologies (Greece)
- AlmereGrid (The Netherlands)
- Atos (Spain)
- Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Budapest University of Techology and Economics - BME IK (Hungary)
- Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
- Charity Engine (United Kingdom)
- Citizen Cyberscience Centre (Switzerland)
- CloudTrust Ltd. (Hungary)
- CNRS (France)
- E-Group (Hungary)
- G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics (Ukraine)
- Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology - HIAST (Syria)
- Holografika Ltd. (Hungary)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)
- INRIA (France)
- Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia)
- Institute of High Energy Physics - Computer Center - IHEP-CC (China)
- Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (Armenia)
- Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
- Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAMR) (Russia)
- Institute of Computational Technologies - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
- Institution of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
- Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) - Astrophysical Observatory (Italy - Sicily)
- Kazakh-British Technical University (Kazakhstan)
- Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
- Madre Acqua (Switzerland)
- MTA SZTAKI (Hungary)
- Niko Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of Georgian Technical University (Republic of Georgia)
- NovaGlobal (Singapore)
- Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Perdana University - Centre for Bioinformatics (Malaysia)
- Rechenkraft.net e.V. (Germany)
- Sony Computer Science Laboratory (France)
- Unilever Research and Development (Global)
- Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
- Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brasil)
- Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) - BIRUNI Grid Computing Centre (BIRUNI Grid) (Malaysia)
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) (Malaysia)
- University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) - haute écoles du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de genève (hepia) (Switzerland)
- University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)
- University of Paderborn (Germany)
- University of Seville (Spain)
- University of Westminster (United Kingdom)
- University of Zaragoza (Spain)
- Vladimer Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics of the Georgian Technical University (Republic of Georgia)
ABC@home ABC@home
ABC@home is a project of volunteer computing in mathematics that aims to promote mathematics, and to shed light on the ABC conjecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture). This conjecture is one of the main open problems in number theory. The project was initiated in 2006 by the Mathematical Institute of the Universiteit Leiden and kennislink.nl, a Dutch language popular science website.
Academia Sinica Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica is a leading scientific organization in Taiwan. AS will be presented in the project through ASGC (www.twgrid.org), one of its institutes, established as a leading high performance computing and communication centre in Taiwan, which provides advanced services for Grid Computing. Since 2005, ASGC has formally become one of the 11 WLCG Tier-1 Centres (the only Tier-1 in Asia) providing services, coordination and support to HEP scientists worldwide. Based on these experiences, ASGC joined the EGEE and EUAsiaGrid projects extending grid services to many other fields such as Biomedical, Earth Science, and Digital Archives as well as disseminating grid services/applications to the Asia Pacific countries. Serving as the APROC (Asia Pacific Regional Operation Centre) and the Chair of APGridPMA, ASGC has deployed, certified and provided operations support to 29 resource centres Asia Pacific. Acting as the Asia Federation Coordinator in EGEE-II and Deputy Project Manager, ASGC not only provides WLCG/EGEE global grid operation and CA services, but also participates in WLCG/EGEE technology development. From 2008, ASGC also introduced the volunteer computing model and Desktop Grid computing environment to support scientific computing and regional collaborations.
Advanced Network Technologies (ANT) Advanced Network Technologies (ANT)
Advanced Network Technologies (ANT) was established as a Swedish-Hungarian joint venture in 1990, now the SME is wholly owned by Hungarian private persons. ANT has been focusing on IT since the company was incorporated, covering product distribution, services, systems integration, and development. The client base primarily includes large and medium-sized corporations as well as educational institutions and public administration bodies. ANT offers and supports a wide range of products (among others) from NetApp or VMware (for virtualization solutions), and contributed to the creation of several cloud computing systems. ANT is one of the largest Hungarian distribution partners of Fujitsu Technology Solutions, awarded as "Select Expert". The company operates a proprietary services centre (both IaaS and PaaS). ANT has participated in several projects that aim to spread future technologies on the Hungarian market. The R&D activities of the company include security systems related efforts, and set up a novel business line concerning accredation service center for cloud providers. ANT regularly applies for funds (co-financed by the European Union) to enable these development efforts.
Agro-Know Technologies Agro-Know Technologies
Agro-Know Technologies is a young start-up company that has a clear research focus on knowledge-intensive technology innovation for agriculture and rural development. Agro-Know develops systems and services for agricultural knowledge organization and delivery, using Semantic Web technologies and Web 2.0 tools. It also explores their deployment and testing in sectors such as education & training, commerce, and public administration. Agro-Know is following European and international standardization initiatives in relation to the agricultural data representation and storage, with involvement in fora such as the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) initiative of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).
AlmereGrid AlmereGrid
Stichting AlmereGrid - Foundation AlmereGrid operates the first City Grid in the world. Currently it operates a service that enables citizens, SMEs and other organizations to donate unused computing cycles to scientific programmes. As the world's first, it especially addresses "early majority" people and organizations.
Many companies have signed a partner agreement with AlmereGrid. They contribute resources, such as systems, software or services, and participate in the developments. AlmereGrid partners include: SARA, Oracle, Rabobank, IBM, NWO/NCF, LogicaCMG, ALCA, Foundry, ALCA, Engage Technology.
AlmereGrid is working on a test for a Grid based back-up for SME's. Part of an SME's hard disk will be used by back-up for other SME's. Just as with more traditional Grids, security is paramount in this type of resource sharing. The test is part of a European IST project BEinGRID, Business Experiments in Grids.
Another innovative use of the City Grid that is in the planning phase, is to provide a "Grid based building assistent" for people who want to build their own home (about 25.000 in the coming years).
Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania is a modern institution which has gained a solid national and international reputation thanks to its achievements down through the decades. With 21 faculties, more than 45,500 students and with an experienced teaching staff of 1700, BBU is now an active participant in most of the European and American academic associations. BBU aims to promote and sustain the development of specific cultural components within the local, regional, national and international community, based on systematic and innovative knowledge, a permanent and innovative learning culture, multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue.
The Business Information Systems (BIS) department is part of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and hosts 26 academic staff and 11 full-time PhD students. The expertise of the department includes various areas like collaborative systems, software engineering, information security, databases, e-commerce and e-business etc. The department has a long-term experience with running and managing research projects, being the most active entity in the faculty in participating to research initiatives. The research group lead by Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi investigates resource management in untrusted distributed computing environments, tackling problems like sabotage tolerance and dependability in volunteer computing, service level agreement negotiation and business models in computational grids, resource aggregation in P2P systems etc.
Budapest University of Technology and Economics - BME IK Budapest University of Technology and Economics - BME IK
The Centre of Public Administration's Information Technology is an IT institution at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME IK) that has strong research program in the areas related to grid and cloud computing. BME IK has significant experience in research and development infrastructure services in the filed of service grids. The centre was member of the EGEE-I, EGEE-II and EGEE-III projects. BME IK is a founding member of the Hungarian Grid Competence Centre (HGCC), which was established in 2003 in order to coordinate Grid activities in Hungary. BME IK is active member of the Hungarian NGI (National Grid Initiative).
Charity Engine Charity Engine
Charity Engine® is a not-for-profit volunteer computing grid, owned and operated by the Worldwide Computer Company Ltd, Manchester, UK (Company No. 6723910). Charity Engine harnesses surplus home PC resources to create the world's cheapest and most eco-friendly 'virtual supercomputer', rents it to science and industry, then splits
the proceeds 50-50 between its official charity partners and prize draws for the the volunteers.
Citizen Cyberscience Centre Citizen Cyberscience Centre
The mission of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre is to: (1) Promote citizen cyberscience applications by targeting research on humanitarian and development issues as well as fundamental science, by coordinating collaborative projects between scientists from North and South. (2) Organise hands-on workshops for scientists in developing countries in order to spread know-how about citizen cyberscience and its benefits for their research. (3) Provide online educational material about the research challenges addressed by citizen cyberscience projects, encouraging greater public participation.
E-Group E-Group
E-Group delivers secure payment, workflow, document and transaction management solutions for large organizations. These applications generally require a high level of data and operational security, as well as extensive interfacing and real time data exchange. We have an extensive track record on integrating solutions with legacy systems, as well as complying with relevant internal standards and methodologies of large corporates and government organization. Through company innovation and our access to European R&D resources, E-Group is a recognized competence center in European identification and digital signature applications, as well as related technologies. We act as value add specialist or outsourcing partner for industry leading software vendors and system integrators, in selected technologies. The company's home market is Hungary and EU countries, but actively develops in overseas markets in Asia Pacific and US, with 50% of revenues coming from foreign markets. E-Group has today over 25 employees, project references cover 17 countries.
Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology - HIAST Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology - HIAST
HIAST is an educational establishment founded in 1983 in Damascus, Syria. It provides high standard education to undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students in different disciplines including Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electronic Systems, Mechatronics, and Aeronautics. It provides also Master and PhD degrees; a Master in "Material Science and Engineering" is running since two years, a new Master in Telecommunication has opened in 2010, and a Masters in "Information and Decision Support Systems", "Automation and Robotics" and "Optoelectronics" are planned for next years. Moreover, HIAST runs short course seminars and workshops to keep the staff and other interested parties up-to-date with technical developments worldwide. In addition to education, technological development has assumed a dominant role at HIAST. Since 1983 major projects have been carried out, leading to a large set of electronic and software products already marketed in Syria and abroad. HIAST conducted a national poject to test the solar panels fabricated or commercialized in Syria. Research laboratories at HIAST have successfully combined the efforts of researchers, experienced engineers, and graduate students to significantly boost the applied research programmes designed to strengthen the overall technological infrastructure in the country. The main research activities at HIAST are in the areas of Computer Science and Software, Communication, Electronics and Automatics, Mechanics, Material Science, Solar energy, Optoelectronics, Sensors, and Mathematics. The total number of HIAST staff is roughly 420 persons, including 60 research professionals, 120 engineers, 90 technicians, 50 administrative staff, and 100 others. HIAST has approximately 350 full-time students each year.
Holografika Ltd. Holografika Ltd.
Holografika Ltd. is a private company (SME), founded in 1989. As an R&D company, Holografika has been focusing on real-time holography and other photonic technologies from the early 90s. Holografika, empowered by its strong connection to university research groups, follows a unique research path in 3D display technology, and was the first in realising a real 3D Light-Field Display system. Holografika research team has been actively involved in the continuous development of the theory and practice of 3D displays. Along with the technologies used in the successive 3D display generations the company has started to develop related 3D technologies, like 3D acquisition, 3D compression and possible 3D formats. In 1995, the R&D team developed the basic prototype of a 3D display, which showed wire frames in three dimensions with red laser beams. Holografika presented its 3D display technology first in 1997. The 3D monitor developed was a monochrome 21" monitor applying red laser beams and acousto-optic scanners to create moving 3D images on a flat holographic screen. At the end of 2001 Holografika demonstrated the working technology for moving, white light based, colour, 3D display prototype. In 2006, the prototype of a large-scale 3D display was presented.
In 2005 Holografika Ltd. was a recipient of Red Herring 100 Europe award, a selection of the 100 private companies in Europe and Israel that play a leading role in innovation and technology. In 2006 The World Economic Forum has announced Holografika as a Technology Pioneer. The company has also been nominated to the World Technology Award 2006 and The European 2007 ICT Prize. Holografika has won the Silver Prize of the Best Exhibit Award at the ICT Event in Lyon in 2008.
Institut Teknologi Bandung Institut Teknologi Bandung
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) or Bandung Insitute of Technology or Institute of Technology Bandung, was founded on March 2, 1959. The present ITB main campus is the site of earlier engineering schools in Indonesia. Although these institutions of higher learning had their own individual characteristics and missions, they left influence on developments leading to the establishment of ITB. In 1920, Technische Hogeschool (TH) was established in Bandung, which for a short time, in the middle forties, became Kogyo Daigaku. Not long after the birth of the Republic of Indonesia in 1945, the campus housed the Technical Faculty (including a Fine Arts Department) of Universitas Indonesia, with the head office in Jakarta. In the early fifties, a. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, also part of Universitas Indonesia, was established on the campus. In 1959, the present lnstitut Teknologi Bandung was founded by the Indonesian government as an institution of higher learning of science, technology, and fine arts, with a mission of education, research, and service to the community. Government Decree No. 155/2000 pertaining to The Decision on ITB as Legal Enterprise (Badan Hukum) has opened a new path for ITB to become autonomous. The status of autonomy implies a freedom for the institution to manage its own bussiness in an effective and efficient way, and to be fully responsible for the planning and implementation of all program and activity, and the quality control for the attainment of its institutional objective. The institution has also freedom in deciding their measures and taking calculated risks in facing tight competition and intense pressures.
Institute of High Energy Physics - Computer Center - IHEP-CC Institute of High Energy Physics - Computer Center - IHEP-CC
The Computer Center of Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP-CC) is one of the biggest computer centers of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) institutes and aims at providing high throughput computing and massive storage solutions to various scientific research projects. IHEP-CC has been a pioneer in IT applied technologies in China since early 1970s. Researchers from IHEP-CC conduct research projects on distributed computing, cloud storage, massive storage system, database technologies, network security, etc.
IHEP-CC has been a pioneer in China in applied IT technologies and also participating widely in international collaborative projects. IHEP-CC serves as a WLCG Tier2 Site for both CMS and ATLAS, and also hosts a volunteer computing project CAS@home to harness distributed volunteer computing resources and help scientists from CAS with their computing needs.
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
The Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (IIAP NAS RA) is a leading institution in computer science and information technologies, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (www.sci.am). The main field of activities is the theoretical and applied investigations in the area of computer science and informational technologies. Since 1994, IIAP NAS RA responsible for Academic Scientific Research Computer Network of Armenia (ASNET-AM - www.asnet.am) unifies academic, scientific, research, educational, cultural and other organizations (more than 40 organizations), which are engaged in scientific and educational activity. IIAP NAS RA has been involved in coordinating Grid activities in Armenia for the past 8 years through a series of projects including framework programmes funded by EC and three phases of Projects funded by the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC - www.istc.ru). IIAP NAS RA coordinates the Armenian National Grid Initiative - ArmNGI (www.grid.am) with the participation of state governmental units (Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, State Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia), leading universities (State Engineering University of Armenia, Yerevan State University), research institutions (Yerevan Physics Institute) and an Armenian e-Science Foundation (Armenian CA). ArmNGI provides major core services to the users and consists of 6 Grid sites (about 500 cores). IIAP NAS RA is currently coordinating the nascent Armenian HPC initiative, and pilot state target project for HPC user communities' assessment in the country.
Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISDCT SB RAS) was established in November, 1980 as the Irkutsk Computing Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Nowadays principal research areas of the institute are: scientific foundations of control theory and methods of control; mathematical methods and information technologies for investigation of dynamical systems. The Institute supports an integrated information-computing network of Irkutsk scientific-educational complex and a supercomputer center for shared use. ISDCT has many years of successful experience in the use of parallel and distributed computing for solving computationally hard problems. In collaboration with Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Science a project SAT@home (http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/) was created and now is being developed. The project uses a volunteer Desktop Grid based on BOINC platform to solve hard instances of Boolean Satisfiability problems that arise in various practical and scientific applications.
Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAMR) Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAMR)
The Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAMR) traces its history back to 1975. Research areas in IAMR include:
- game theory methods and approaches in applied mathematics;
- probabilistic and statistical methods;
- mathematical modeling of informational systems;
- mathematical models of new constructional materials;
- expert systems development;
- high-performance programming, mathematical modeling and analysis of high-performance systems.
The Institute consists of 5 laboratories. The staff numbers 37 persons including 29 research scientists. IAMR hosts the high-performance computing center of KRC RAS, which main areas of activity include Desktop Grids, Service Grids, Cloud computing and High-performance computing.
Institute of Computational Technologies - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Computational Technologies - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Computational Technologies is a non-profit public research institute responsible for the maintenance and development of the infrastructure of the Regional Scientific Network of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute of Computational Technologies was established in 1990 at Novosibirsk Scientific Centre, Russia. The Institute has been founded and since then leaded by academician (full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Yuri Shokin. Currently academic staff of the Institute includes 1 full and 1 corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Professors, and 29 Doctors of Philosophy (PhD). The Institute of Computational Technologies is now conducting both fundamental and applied research on the cutting edge of informational and computational technologies. Main directions of research are design and implementation of the informational-telecommunication technologies in decision making problems; mathematical modelling and computational algorithm development applied to a wide range of problems arising in mechanics of continuous media, physics and ecology. The Institute is a leading organization on informational-telecommunication technologies within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS). Its staff has implemented and is now maintaining a regional SB RAS data exchange network. This network covers scientific centres in Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk and other cities in Siberia. The network serves more than 150 research, educational and social organizations with more than 40 000 active users. This network is the biggest academic network in Russia. Design and implementation of an Integrated Distributed Informational System of SB RAS has begun recently. The system will provide a unified access tool to various informational resources using the Grid technology.
Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) - Astrophysical Observatory Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) - Astrophysical Observatory
The Catania Astrophysical Observatory is one of the twelve observatories which together with some former CNR Institutes, forms the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF). The Observatory carries out researches and studies in the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics and performs an instensive educational program both for schools and public. The privileged geographical position in Catania, a sunny town in Southern Italy (Sicily) at the feet of Mt. Etna (3340 m. a.s.l.), the largest active volcano in Europe, has made possible an almost 100-year long uninterrupted patrol of the solar activity, which is still carried out today.
Laurea University of Applied Sciences Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Laurea University of Applied Sciences has around 600 personnel and 8 000 students. Its international cooperation network includes 180 institutions around the world. Laurea offers Master's degrees, among others, in the fields of ICT and Business Management (specifically in Service Innovation and Design, SID). Since 2007, the LaureaSID Networks laboratory located in Espoo, Finland has been doing applied R&D in the field of volunteer based desktop grids. These efforts ultimately led to the development of the world's largest volunteer based desktop grid for rendering 3D graphics: Renderfarm.fi. In 2011 the service was chosen to be one of the winners of the "E-science and Technology" category in the UN, Unesco and Internet Society backed World Summit Award. Laurea UAS is currently a member of the EU FP7 SCI-BUS (SCientific gateway Based User Support) project consortium, aiming - among other things - to further develop both the desktop grid based rendering of 3D graphics and any related user experience.
Madre Acqua Madre Acqua
Madre Acqua is an international non-governmental organisation, established in Geneva, to promote and defend the human right to water by means of projects of interdisciplinary research and development.
The Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems of MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute plays a leading role in the research of cluster and grid technologies in Hungary.
MTA SZTAKI has significant experience in doing research and providing infrastructure services in the filed of service grids. MTA SZTAKI was a member of the European DataGrid project and was leader of the Grid Monitoring workpackage of the European GridLab project and the Automatic performance Analysis and Grid Computing WP of the European APART-2 project. MTA SZTAKI participated in the EGEE project as the Central-European Regional Training Centre of EGEE and contributed to the NA4, NA2 and SA1 WPs. It led the Grid Middleware WP of the SEE-GRID project. Currently, LPDS is a partner in the EGEE-II, SEE-GRID-2, ICEAGE and CoreGrid FP6 projects. It was also member in the GridCoord projects.
MTA SZTAKI plays a leading role in Grid Computing in Hungary. MTA SZTAKI participated in the vast majority of Hungarian Grid projects (DemoGrid, ClusterGrid, SuperGrid, Chemistry Grid, Hungarian Grid, SuperClusterGrid, etc.) and led several of them. MTA SZTAKI is a funding member of the MGKK (Hungarian Grid Competence Centre) consortium (http://www.mgkk.hu/), established in 2003 in order to coordinate Grid activities in Hungary.
Niko Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of Georgian Technical University Niko Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of Georgian Technical University
The institute, founded in 1956, as the first to have implemented informatics in Georgia, successfully fulfilled its nature-imposed mission. It was to have launched the first computing machine in the country, issued the first scientific papers on informatics and applied electronic computing equipment to solve practical problems. Nowadays there are 4 research departments and a Computer Center: Department of Computational Methods,Department of Probability and Statistical Methods, Department of Mathematical Modeling, Department of Informatics, and the Computer Center. The fields of research include: Programming and Information Technology, Computational Methods, Fundamental and Applied Problems of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Functional Analysis, Coding Theory, Game Theory, Operation Research, Numerical Methods of Optimization Theory, Approximation Theory, etcetera.
NovaGlobal NovaGlobal
NovaGlobal Private Limited is a Singapore-based company operating primarily in the ASEAN region including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand & Vietnam. NovaGlobal was formally established in 1996. With AlphaSTORM line of high performance workstation and server systems based on the 64-bit Alpha CPU architecture the first product had substantial success in both academic and research communities, as well as important wins among local 3-D engineering (CAD) and multimedia rendering users. The customized embedded Alpha configurations had also found their way to overseas research deployment as well. NovaGlobal was one of the earliest companies to deploy a Beowulf cluster in Singapore way back in September 1997, with the Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology (IMCB) being its first customer. The company is a leading system integrator for HPCC (High Performance Computing Clusters) by using cutting-edge technologies such as xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) and GPFS (General Parallel File System). The company is a pioneer in deploying Infiniband-based clusters in the region. As a leader in providing solutions for computational science, with the acquired expertise in building and managing HPC systems, the company is positioning itself to be an early adopter of Cloud Computing technology. In 2011, NovaGlobal established NVG Scientific Sdn Bhd as its subsidiary in Malaysia. Currently NVG Scientific works closely with Malaysia National Grid Computing Initiative to actively promote distributed computing infrastructure to Malaysian academia and also introducing any cutting-edge technologies to the communities.
Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford
The Oxford e-Research Centre leads digital research and drives innovation in technology. The Centre connects disciplines, applications and computation to accelerate national & international research and collaboration. It provides a globally leading environment to enable collaborative research, interfacing innovative research through academic & commercial partnerships to address the grand challenges of today and the future. The Centre houses multidisciplinary researchers committed to accelerating research through innovative technology and hosts a portfolio of research projects in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, technology and research infrastructure development. Within the centre the Volunteer Computing Group, led by Dr. David Wallom supports the technical infrastructure that underpins the Climateprediction.net and Weather@Home projects, both dependent on the BOINC infrastructure group runs.
Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi) was established in June 2014. The mission of the Centre is to help promote and develop bioinformatics education, research and services excellence in Malaysia. The Centre aims to merge bioinformatics-led innovation with applied clinical and epidemiologic research efforts to address some of the most pressing medical challenges. This includes a commitment to provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists being trained at the two medical schools of Perdana University.
Rechenkraft.net e.V. - Society for Facilitation of Education, Research and Science by Employment of Networked Computers Rechenkraft.net e.V. - Society for Facilitation of Education, Research and Science by Employment of Networked Computers
Rechenkraft.net e.V. is world-wide the first and so far only officially registered non-governmental organization founded by volunteer computing enthusiasts to support distributed and grid computing. With over ten years of practical experience in supporting, developing and maintenance of distributed computing projects, Rechenkraft.net e.V. unifies layman people as well as specialists in a versatile, multifaceted community to demonstrate the power and creativity of cooperative efforts in tackling apparently intractable scientific problems. Rechenkraft.net e.V. is a charitable, non-profit organization with international members that is located in Germany and, among many other activities, currently operates the RNA World distributed supercomputer, the Yoyo@home umbrella project and actively helps establishing the aerospace project Constellation. Our goal is to help solve scientific problems by (1) offering practical know-how required for setting up distributed computing projects, (2) recruiting volunteer compute resources and (3) supplying educational background information in a format understandable by anyone. We are convinced that the combined computing capabilities of home computers by far outperform any supercomputer that has operated on this planet so far and these mainly idle resources we aim to recruit for the good of science.
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Sony Computer Science Laboratory
The Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris engages in fundamental research in cutting edge areas of science that are relevant for pushing the state of the art in computing. It is a sister laboratory of the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo and directed by prof. Dr. Luc Steels. Sony CSL Paris was involved in large-scale climate simulations in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the U.K. Met Office and developed technologies for minimizing energy usage in volunteer computation projects such as ClimatePrediction.net.
Unilever Research and Development Unilever Research and Development
Unilever works to create a better future every day. We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others. Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods. Consumers buy 170 billion Unilever packs around the world every year, and our products are used over two billion times a day. Our portfolio includes some of the world's best known and most loved brands including: Knorr, Hellmann's, Lipton, Omo, Dove and Vaseline.
R&D in Unilever involves over 6,000 professionals, six strategic centres for global R&D and 31 major product development centres. The strategic centres are located in Trumbull, US, Port Sunlight and Colworth in the UK, Vlaardingen in The Netherlands, Bangalore in India and Shanghai in China. Open Innovation is an increasingly important part of how we work. Nearly half of Unilever's 'pipeline' of innovations now utilises open innovation. In 2010, our investment in R&D was around €1bn.
Universidad de los Andes Universidad de los Andes
Uniandes is a non-profit private university founded in 1948. Currently, Uniandes has a population of 16.973 students of which 12,502 are undergraduate and 4.471 are graduate students. There are 9 faculties: Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, Medicine, Social Sciences, Sciences, Art, Law and Economics, with 31 undergraduate programmes, 37 specialisation programmes, 36 master programmes and 17 doctoral programmes.
The Faculty of Engineering is constituted by six departments. Among them, the Systems and Computing Engineering Department. The department offers an undergraduate programme in Systems and Computing Engineering, a Doctoral programme, and a Master programme on Systems and Computing Engineering also. The population of the department is composed of 441 undergraduate students, 20 doctoral students and about 160 master students. The Systems and Computing Engineering Department hosts various research groups, including COMIT: Communications and Information Technology. The group is composed of 9 professors (6 with a Ph.D. degree) and seven doctoral students. COMIT focus its research on distributed systems (Grid, Cloud and Mobile computing), Information integration and Information Security. Grid and Cloud computing is one of the main topics of research as they appear in the centre of different research activities. COMIT leads grid computing activities not only at Uniandes but in Colombia as well (leaders of the Grid Colombia initiative). COMIT's director is Harold Castro, Ph.D. In 2006 COMIT and other Uniandes' dependencies (Technology Office and the Faculties of Science and Engineering) defined a Campus Grid Uniandes project aimed to establish a common grid infrastructure for research projects. As a result we have now a 200 cores cluster fully dedicated to grid activities. Uniandes participated as JRU coordinator for Colombia in EELA-2 and Gisela EU co-founded projects.
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) - BIRUNI Grid Computing Centre (BIRUNI Grid) Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) - BIRUNI Grid Computing Centre (BIRUNI Grid)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) is a leading research intensive public university located in central Peninsular Malaysia, close to the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. UPM is a research university offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses with multidisciplinary research focus. UPM participation in the e-infrastructure community was realized by establishing BIRUNI Grid Computing Centre (BIRUNI Grid) in 2008, lead by Associate Professor Dr. Suhaimi Napis, Director, InfoComm Development Centre (iDEC) of Universiti Putra Malaysia. BIRUNI Grid's mission is to create an e-infrastructure to support the project that benefits everyone, especially Malaysia and UPM academia. BIRUNI Grid has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid foundation for scientific research other than facilitate the familiarization and deployment of GRID best-practise and take the lead in activities aimed to ensure high percentage of use, acculturation and awareness. BIRUNI Grid also actively involved in many international grid computing communities such as the EUAsiaGrid, APGridPMA, and IDGF.
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) was established on January 10, 1997 when PETRONAS was invited by the Malaysian government to set up a university. The campus is built on a 400 hectare (1,000 acre) site strategically located at Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia. The University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia. UTP offers a wide range of engineering and technology programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels complemented with a strong focus on Research and Development. The programmes are designed with high industry relevance to provide a dynamic learning environment. High-Performance Computing (HPC) Service Center, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), is a service center that provides computing services for high-end engineering and the physical sciences. The mission of the HPC Service Center is to develop, promote and facilitate the use of HPC environments in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to address problems in the engineering and physical sciences fields. The objectives are to:
- encourage the use of cutting edge computational techniques in engineering research.
- develop expertise and facilities for developing HPC-based solutions to engineering problems that could not otherwise be resolved.
- work together with UTP's Mission-Oriented Research (MOR) in acquiring fund to ensure a continual upgrade of HPC-related facilities.
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) - haute écoles du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de genève (hepia) University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) - haute écoles du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de genève (hepia)
The University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Haute Ecole Spécialisée-Suisse Occidentale: HES-SO) has over ten campuses in the French speaking part of Switzerland. A total of 16'000 students are currently studying at the HES-SO, which offers Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering, Business and Management, Healthcare, Design and Art, Social sciences and others. The main mission of HES-SO is to provide applied professional science-based education and carry out R&D activities with tight partnership with industry and SMEs. hepia - haute écoles du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève - is part of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO).
University of Maiduguri - UNIMAID University of Maiduguri - UNIMAID
Established in 1975 as a division of the Third Development Plan by the Federal Government of Nigeria, the University of Maiduguri is located in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the north-eastern corner of Nigeria. The contiguity of the state's boundaries with those of three countries, Cameroun, Chad and Niger, has ensured constant trans-border human traffic to Maiduguri for purposes of trade, study and settlement. The university now boasts over 25 000 students from around the world, specialized centres and units, a College of Medicine and eight faculties. This international presence, when added to the attraction Maiduguri has for Nigerians, makes the city quite cosmopolitan.The autochthonous and majority population in the city are the Kanuris.
Maiduguri is served by an airport, which places it one hour away from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and two hours away from the commercial centre of Lagos. A network of Federal and State roads places such other Nigerian cities as Kano, Jos and Yola some 5-6 hours away. The University is residential for both staff and students, although privately arranged off-campus accommodation is increasingly being resorted to as a result of the increase in staff and student population. Students come from information technology schools around the globe including London and France. Municipal services provided on campus include banks, clinic, post-office, retail outlets, pharmacy and schools (nursery, primary and secondary).
Several recreational facilities exist for the community on campus: sporting arenas (with provision for soccer, basketball, etc.), the Senior Staff Club (which also has squash and lawn-tennis courts), the "Love Garden" (ideal for picnics, walks). All through the academic year, but particularly at the beginning and at the end of the academic session, Departmental and ethnic-based student associations spice up life on campus with parties and cultural shows. Spiritual needs are catered for in three magnificent places of worship: the central mosque, the All-Saints Catholic Chapel, and the protestant Chapel of Grace.
University of Seville University of Seville
The University of Seville is an institution that provides the public service of superior education by means of studies, teaching, and research, as well as the generation, development and diffusion of knowledge to serve citizens and society. It is the main public university in Andalusia, with the highest number of students. It is a great team of more than 70000 members. More than 500 years of experience in knowledge management, with studies adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). More closely knit than ever due to our clear commitment to new technologies and communication.Committed to quality and excellence. With the European Certificate of Quality for the EFQM model of Excellence, and distinction as a Campus of International Excellence. Closely linked to the history of Seville and Andalusia, the University of Seville combines the values of tradition with being an innovative institution of quality and excellence. It is a university as cutting edge and cosmopolitan as the city of Seville itself. Visit us at http://www.us.es/eng
University of Westminster University of Westminster
The University of Westminster's Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) is focused on research and application of distributed and parallel computation technologies. CPC is engaged in research on Grid computing including its Web services-oriented approach based on OGSA/WSRF platforms. CPC was involved in the "OGSI Testbed" e-Science project to evaluate the OGSI platform and its GT3 implementation on a UK multi-site testbed. Within the framework of the project the research team developed the Grid Execution Management for Legacy Code Applications (GEMLCA). GEMLCA supports migrating legacy code applications to the Grid using legacy code as Grid compliant Grid service. Users can either access pre-defined Grid services through a Grid portal or dynamically create and deploy new Grid services.
The current research activities of CPC cover both computational and desktop Grid, for example: automatic service deployment, Grid registries and repositories, interoperability in Grid computing, service-oriented approach in desktop Grids, performance management, workflow design and its execution in Grid, development of Grid user environments to support both design and execution of Grid-based applications. CPC has installed and runs a BOINC-based Westminster desktop Grid in 2006 using 500 computers as workers. The desktop Grid has 35 registered users and runs the DSP sampling frequency calculation project. Currently, we are working on migrating two projects – health service data mining and image rendering- to the desktop Grid.
Vladimer Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics of the Georgian Technical University Vladimer Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics of the Georgian Technical University
The Institute of Cybernetics (IC) was established in 1960 within the Division of Applied Mechanics and Control Processes of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and until today counts to the most prominent Georgian research institutes in the priority area of information technologies. The Institute consists of 7 Departments (and 2 independent laboratories with department status) employing about 90 scientists with Dr.Sc. and PhD degrees.
Main areas of expertise are problems of informatics, complex information processing, quantum computations, automated systems of pattern recognition, fuzzy logic, methods of modeling and prediction of stochastic processes, artificial neural networks, photo-physical effects in photonics and quantum optics, optical and photo-electrical properties of nano-structures, and optical chemistry.
IC has been actively engaged in international research exchange and collaborations. International scientific contacts include Technical University, Berlin; Karlsruhe University's Institute of Applied Physics; Lebedev Institute of Physics; Napoli University's Mathematical Institute; University of Calabria; Oxford University's Mathematical Institute; Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science. Several projects have been supported by the ISTC, STCU, CRDF, GNSF, etc.


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The School & Public Health Nurses Association Annual Conference - Enabling school and public health nurses to rise to the changing needs of children and young people, is taking place in Birmingham on Tuesday 8th October 2013.
In this special event preview video, watch programme convenor Sharon White from SAPHNA talk about the challenges facing school & public health nurses today:
Ahead of the conference, Sharon said: "The School and Public Health Nurses Association's annual conference aims to provide a programme which recognises the impact of austerity both on the workforce and children, young people and families. Alongside this it also will highlight the changing public health priorities of this population and where the emphasis of service delivery needs to be.
"This year's programme will include update on policy, research, evidence and examples of best practice provided by School Nurses, statutory and voluntary sector partners as well as the Department of Health.
"Demonstrating their ongoing commitment to the advancement of the school nursing profession, Professor Viv Bennett, Director, Nursing at Public Health England (PHE) and Director, Nursing at the Department of Health alongside Wendy Nicholson, Department of Health Professional Officer for Nursing (School Nursing), will bring us up to date with the vision and ongoing development of School and Public Health Nursing.
"There will also be a presentation by Jo Yarwood, Department of Health Programme Manager for Immunisations, who will speak on the multiple changes and additions to the childhood immunisation programme and the crucial role that school nurses play in health protection.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama returned to Washington Friday night after discussing Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit.
Air Force One touched down outside Washington at 9:40 p.m. EDT and by 10:04 p.m. Obama, accompanied by press secretary Jay Carney and a handful of other staffers, had taken the Marine One shuttle to the White House South Lawn, officially ending his trip.
The president, wearing a dark suit and tie, waved to nearby reporters but had nothing to say to them as he walked into the White House.
Obama spent part of his time on his trans-Atlantic flight phoning members of Congress from both parties but no names were provided.
Earlier in the day in St. Petersburg, Russia, the G-20 leaders were meeting in plenary session when Putin approached Obama and the two moved to a corner of the room, sat down and spoke for 20-30 minutes.
Evidence shows the Syrian regime was responsible for the "horrific chemical attack" in August, several G-20 summit participants said in a statement.
The White House released a joint statement by leaders and representatives of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States attending the summit that condemned the chemical weapons attack Aug. 21 in rebel-controlled suburbs of Damascus.
"The international norm against the use of chemical weapons is longstanding and universal. The use of chemical weapons anywhere diminishes the security of people everywhere. Left unchallenged, it increases the risk of further use and proliferation of these weapons," the statement said.
"We condemn in the strongest terms the horrific chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21 that claimed the lives of so many men, women, and children," the statement said. "The evidence clearly points to the Syrian government being responsible for the attack, which is part of a pattern of chemical weapons use by the regime."
During a news conference at the summit, Obama said he will take his case for a military response in Syria to the American people with an address Tuesday.
He said he and Putin -- who has backed Syria, Russia's long-time ally -- discussed the situation, noting that the two leaders agree on some issues while disagreeing on others.
Obama said he told Putin he didn't expect the two leaders to see eye to eye, "although it is possible that after the U.N. inspectors report it may be more difficult for Mr. Putin to maintain his current position."
"But we both agree that the underlying conflict can only be resolved by a political transition" that a delayed international forum in Geneva, Switzerland, sponsored by Russia and the United States needs to move forward.
"Even if we disagree on this important issue," Obama said, "we must remain together to urge all parties in conflict" to try to resolve it through political measures, not military ones.
The joint statement called for a "strong international response to this grave violation of the world's rules and conscience that will send a clear message that this kind of atrocity can never be repeated."
It said its signers consistently supported a strong U.N. Security Council resolution on the situation, but recognized that the panel has been "paralyzed" and the world cannot wait.
"We support efforts undertaken by the United States and other countries to reinforce the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons," the statement said, noting the signing countries are committed to seeking a political solution.
During his news conference, Obama said he wasn't interested in a "long, drawn-out" presence in Syria, only enforcing international norms banning the use of chemical weapons.
Syrian President Bashar Assad must understand that "gassing innocent people ... delivering chemical weapon against children is not something we do."
"It's prohibited in active wars between countries. We certainly don't do it against kids. We've got to stand up for this principle," Obama said.
The U.S. State Department said Friday it withdrew non-emergency workers and families from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Lebanon, because of safety and security concerns in Lebanon.
"U.S. citizens living and working in Lebanon should understand that they accept risks in remaining and should carefully consider those risks," the department said in an alert posted on its website.
The alert noted the conflict in Syria resulted in "numerous security incidents between the border regions between Lebanon and Syria and coincides with an increasing number of security incidents around the country."
Another State Department alert said the department ordered the drawdown of non-emergency government personnel and their families from the U.S. Consulate General in Adana, Turkey, and alerted Americans traveling to or living in Turkey to the "potential for violence."
In St. Petersburg, Obama dismissed a report that the Pentagon was expanding its list of feasible Syria targets and may conduct airstrikes with France in addition to firing cruise missiles.
"That report is inaccurate," Obama said. "I'm not going to comment on operational issues that, you know, are sourced by some military official. One thing I've got a pretty clear idea about is what I talk with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about. And what we have consistently talked about is something limited and proportional that would degrade Assad's capabilities."


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"She approached the universe with real simplicity, and, consequently, with real fear and delight. She was, so to speak, shy before the multitude of the stars, and in this she had possessed herself of the only force which can prevent enjoyment being as black and barren as routine. The faculty of being shy is the first and the most delicate of the powers of enjoyment. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of pleasure."
by G.K. Chesterton, from Twelve Types, 1902
"Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points which are unimportant. It reveals and asserts and insists on exactly those things in a man's life of which the man himself is wholly unconscious; his exact class in society, the circumstances of his ancestry, the place of his present location. These are things which do not, properly speaking, ever arise before the human vision. They do not occur to a man's mind; it may be said, with almost equal truth, that they do not occur in a man's life. A man no more thinks about himself as the inhabitant of the third house in a row of Brixton villas than he thinks about himself as a strange animal with two legs. What a man's name was, what his income was, whom he married, where he lived, these are not sanctities; they are irrelevancies.
A very strong case of this is the case of the Brontës. The Brontë is in the position of the mad lady in a country village; her eccentricities form an endless source of innocent conversation to that exceedingly mild and bucolic circle, the literary world. The truly glorious gossips of literature, like Mr Augustine Birrell and Mr Andrew Lang, never tire of collecting all the glimpses and anecdotes and sermons and side-lights and sticks and straws which will go to make a Brontë museum. They are the most personally discussed of all Victorian authors, and the limelight of biography has left few darkened corners in the dark old Yorkshire house. And yet the whole of this biographical investigation, though natural and picturesque, is not wholly suitable to the Brontës. For the Brontë genius was above all things deputed to assert the supreme unimportance of externals. Up to that point truth had always been conceived as existing more or less in the novel of manners. Charlotte Brontë electrified the world by showing that an infinitely older and more elemental truth could be conveyed by a novel in which no person, good or bad, had any manners at all. Her work represents the first great assertion that the humdrum life of modern civilisation is a disguise as tawdry and deceptive as the costume of a 'bal masqué.' She showed that abysses may exist inside a governess and eternities inside a manufacturer; her heroine is the commonplace spinster, with the dress of merino and the soul of flame. It is significant to notice that Charlotte Brontë, following consciously or unconsciously the great trend of her genius, was the first to take away from the heroine not only the artificial gold and diamonds of wealth and fashion, but even the natural gold and diamonds of physical beauty and grace. Instinctively she felt that the whole of the exterior must be made ugly that the whole of the interior might be made sublime. She chose the ugliest of women in the ugliest of centuries, and revealed within them all the hells and heavens of Dante.
It may, therefore, I think, be legitimately said that the externals of the Brontës' life, though singularly picturesque in themselves, matter less than the externals of almost any other writers. It is interesting to know whether Jane Austen had any knowledge of the lives of the officers and women of fashion whom she introduced into her masterpieces. It is interesting to know whether Dickens had ever seen a shipwreck or been inside a workhouse. For in these authors much of the conviction is conveyed, not always by adherence to facts, but always by grasp of them. But the whole aim and purport and meaning of the work of the Brontës is that the most futile thing in the whole universe is fact. Such a story as 'Jane Eyre' is in itself so monstrous a fable that it ought to be excluded from a book of fairy tales. The characters do not do what they ought to do, nor what they would do, nor, it might be said, such is the insanity of the atmosphere, not even what they intend to do. The conduct of Rochester is so primevally and superhumanly caddish that Bret Harte in his admirable travesty scarcely exaggerated it. 'Then, resuming his usual manner, he threw his boots at my head and withdrew,' does perhaps reach to something resembling caricature. The scene in which Rochester dresses up as an old gipsy has something in it which is really not to be found in any other branch of art, except in the end of the pantomime, where the Emperor turns into a pantaloon. Yet, despite this vast nightmare of illusion and morbidity and ignorance of the world, 'Jane Eyre' is perhaps the truest book that was ever written. Its essential truth to life sometimes makes one catch one's breath. For it is not true to manners, which are constantly false, or to facts, which are almost always false; it is true to the only existing thing which is true, emotion, the irreducible minimum, the indestructible germ. It would not matter a single straw if a Brontë story were a hundred times more moonstruck and improbable than 'Jane Eyre,' or a hundred times more moonstruck and improbable than 'Wuthering Heights.' It would not matter if George Read stood on his head, and Mrs Read rode on a dragon, if Fairfax Rochester had four eyes and St John Rivers three legs, the story would still remain the truest story in the world. The typical Brontë character is, indeed, a kind of monster. Everything in him except the essential is dislocated. His hands are on his legs and his feet on his arms, his nose is above his eyes, but his heart is in the right place.
The great and abiding truth for which the Brontë cycle of fiction stands is a certain most important truth about the enduring spirit of youth, the truth of the near kinship between terror and joy. The Brontë heroine, dingily dressed, badly educated, hampered by a humiliating inexperience, a kind of ugly innocence, is yet, by the very fact of her solitude and her gaucherie, full of the greatest delight that is possible to a human being, the delight of expectation, the delight of an ardent and flamboyant ignorance. She serves to show how futile it is of humanity to suppose that pleasure can be attained chiefly by putting on evening dress every evening, and having a box at the theatre every first night. It is not the man of pleasure who has pleasure; it is not the man of the world who appreciates the world. The man who has learnt to do all conventional things perfectly has at the same time learnt to do them prosaically. It is the awkward man, whose evening dress does not fit him, whose gloves will not go on, whose compliments will not come off, who is really full of the ancient ecstasies of youth. He is frightened enough of society actually to enjoy his triumphs. He has that element of fear which is one of the eternal ingredients of joy. This spirit is the central spirit of the Brontë novel. It is the epic of the exhilaration of the shy man. As such it is of incalculable value in our time, of which the curse is that it does not take joy reverently because it does not take it fearfully. The shabby and inconspicuous governess of Charlotte Brontë, with the small outlook and the small creed, had more commerce with the awful and elemental forces which drive the world than a legion of lawless minor poets. She approached the universe with real simplicity, and, consequently, with real fear and delight. She was, so to speak, shy before the multitude of the stars, and in this she had possessed herself of the only force which can prevent enjoyment being as black and barren as routine. The faculty of being shy is the first and the most delicate of the powers of enjoyment. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of pleasure.
Upon the whole, therefore, I think it may justifiably be said that the dark wild youth of the Brontës in their dark wild Yorkshire home has been somewhat exaggerated as a necessary factor in their work and their conception. The emotions with which they dealt were universal emotions, emotions of the morning of existence, the springtide joy and the springtide terror. Every one of us as a boy or girl has had some midnight dream of nameless obstacle and unutterable menace, in which there was, under whatever imbecile forms, all the deadly stress and panic of 'Wuthering Heights.' Every one of us has had a day-dream of our own potential destiny not one atom more reasonable than 'Jane Eyre.' And the truth which the Brontës came to tell us is the truth that many waters cannot quench love, and that suburban respectability cannot touch or damp a secret enthusiasm. Clapham, like every other earthly city, is built upon a volcano. Thousands of people go to and fro in the wilderness of bricks and mortar, earning mean wages, professing a mean religion, wearing a mean attire, thousands of women who have never found any expression for their exaltation or their tragedy but to go on working harder and yet harder at dull and automatic employments, at scolding children or stitching shirts. But out of all these silent ones one suddenly became articulate, and spoke a resonant testimony, and her name was Charlotte Brontë. Spreading around us upon every side to-day like a huge and radiating geometrical figure are the endless branches of the great city. There are times when we are almost stricken crazy, as well we may be, by the multiplicity of those appalling perspectives, the frantic arithmetic of that unthinkable population. But this thought of ours is in truth nothing but a fancy. There are no chains of houses; there are no crowds of men. The colossal diagram of streets and houses is an illusion, the opium dream of a speculative builder. Each of these men is supremely solitary and supremely important to himself. Each of these houses stands in the centre of the world. There is no single house of all those millions which has not seemed to some one at some time the heart of all things and the end of travel."


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QOTW: Fall Sports!
- I don't watch sports- 183 (43%)
- Pro Football- 71 (16%)
- Other- 64 (15%)
- College Football- 57 (13%)
- Baseball (playoff)- 38 (9%)
- Nascar- 7 (1%)
Votes so far: 420 Poll closed
Can you tell that when I was trying to come up with a new Question of the Week, I asked Tyler for his suggestions on what would make a good question? LOL. My answer to this is definitely college football. There are a few reasons why I enjoy it more than pro- probably the tradition, the cheerleading (some of my fondest memories were from my college cheerleading days!), the great rivalries... I don't have any one team that I like watching above all else- I'll pretty much watch everything- especially if it's a close game. Naturally my favorite team is the Monmouth College Fighting Scots (my alma mater), but I also enjoy watching some of the exciting Big Ten and SEC matchups. Below is one of my best college football memories- the homecoming pep rally senior year when Tyler proposed to me in front of more than 1,000 people. It was magical! Below that one- a couple of basketball cheer pics- if you look closely at the pyramid pic- you'll see Tyler spotting the pyramid! He was among a group of football players recruited to stunt with us during basketball season :D
♥ Emily's Journal ♥
Journal time! How is everyone! I had an interesting day today- probably one of my favorite live reports EVER during our morning newscast. As you probably know- tonight is the season premiere of Dancing with the Stars- and to sort of commemorate the event- our ABC affiliated station put me to the test- learning the cha cha within about 2 hours! I paired up with a dance instructor from a local college... and I have NO formal ballroom dance training- but I had a blast and actually learned quite a bit! All throughout the newscast my co-anchor checked in with me live to see what kind of progress I was making. In the end I performed a small part of the routine. You can check it out by clicking here. Let's see what else is going on... OH. I am LOVING Robin Meade's (CNN Headline News Anchor) new book "Morning Sunshine!" I think I started reading it Thursday and I'm almost finished. It's the type of book you can't put down. Obviously I'd enjoy this book because I'm invovled in TV news and Robin Meade is a huge inspiration to me- but her message- "how to radiate confidence and feel it too"- is so great for absolutely anyone. Thank you so much to my sister for sending this to me! It's actually funny how it worked out- she had tweeted me that she was sending me a surprise in the mail. I had no idea what it was. Not long after- I had tweeted that I was headed to Barnes & Noble to pick up Robin's book! Went there- and couldn't find it! Meanwhile my sister (Pup) tweeted back- no don't get it! That was the surprise! LOL! I guess it all worked out in the end!
Have a great rest of the day! :D


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This macro determines whether the system supports the epoll I/O event interface. A neat usage example would be:
AX_HAVE_EPOLL( [AX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ENABLE(epoll)], [AX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DISABLE(epoll)]) AX_CONFIG_FEATURE( [epoll], [This platform supports epoll(7)], [HAVE_EPOLL], [This platform supports epoll(7).])
The epoll interface was added to the Linux kernel in version 2.5.45, and the macro verifies that a kernel newer than this is installed. This check is somewhat unreliable if <linux/version.h> doesn't match the running kernel, but it is necessary regardless, because glibc comes with stubs for the epoll_create(), epoll_wait(), etc. that allow programs to compile and link even if the kernel is too old; the problem would then be detected only at runtime.
Linux kernel version 2.6.19 adds the epoll_pwait() call in addition to epoll_wait(). The availability of that function can be tested with the second macro. Generally speaking, it is safe to assume that AX_HAVE_EPOLL would succeed if AX_HAVE_EPOLL_PWAIT has, but not the other way round.
Download the latest version of ax_have_epoll.m4 or browse the macro's revision history.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs said Friday that the team signed a deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev that could mean the Budweiser logo on a new sign in the right-field at Wrigley Field.
A team official said Anheuser-Busch InBev will be its "exclusive marketing partner" for beer and malt beverages at Wrigley Field. The deal also applies to the Cubs' spring training facility in Mesa Ariz.
Cubs officials said in a news release that the agreement means the team is ending its decades-long marketing relationship with Old Style in 2014, meaning signs touting the beer will be removed.
"This was a very difficult decision following a decades-long relationship we enjoyed with this great brand," the Cubs said of ending its partnership with Old Style. "We will continue to offer Old Style and Old Style Light to our fans for our remaining games."
The sign is part of a $500 million renovation project at the 99-year-old ballpark approved by the city of Chicago, which includes a massive Jumbotron in left field. The rooftop owners, who charge fans to sit on bleachers erected on top of their buildings, argue any sign that would cut into their views threatens the existence of their businesses.
The team previously threatened to put up the right-field sign immediately if disagreements with the rooftop owners weren't settled.
Terms of the deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev weren't disclosed. However, Cubs spokesman Julian Green says the new agreement means the Budweiser sign could go up as early as 2014.
According to Green, announcing the Budweiser deal is not a slap at the rooftop owners, who continue to oppose any signs.
"This is the time of year when every baseball team in the league is trying to renew corporate partnerships or go after new partnerships and sell all available assets to raise revenues for their ballclubs," Green told the Chicago Sun-Times. "This particular deal has absolutely nothing to do with the rooftops, and it has everything to do with us putting as much revenue back into this team to accomplish our goal of winning a world championship."
Old Style has the reputation of being a workingman's brew that has become as much part of the lore at Wrigley Field as bricks, ivy and the billy goat curse blamed for the Cubs' long championship drought. The brew and the Cubs have had a marketing agreement for 62 years.
(© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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In a mock courtroom at Birzeit University, a panel of three discussed with students what their rights were online, under Palestinian law. Two prosecutors and the chair of Birzeit University Department of Law spoke about ways to protect oneself from cyber crime and what their legal rights are if they ever were to be a victim.
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