This month the International Development Council for Academic Studies (IDCAS) has generously released a significant amount of additional funding to a number of non-profit organisations. These organisations include the International Health Research Institute (IHRI) and the 3D Grid Association. Today the 3D Grid Association has issued a press release stating that a portion of these [...]
Feb
24
2011
24
2011
Nov
8
2010
8
2010
Upgrade of ICMS Backbone Servers
The last of the ICMS backbone servers were upgraded today to use the ext4 filesystem. Prelimilary testing shows that the time required to perform fsck’s has been reduced by almost 90% across the service. All servers will need to run a full filesystem check to reduce the time of subsequent checks. Many servers performed [...]
Oct
16
2010
16
2010
ICMS / Port 4486 Lecture
Today Mark Bannon provided a lecture on the topic of ICMS. His lecture outlined the history of the project and how he feels it will develop into the future. “Integrated Client Message Service is relatively as concepts go, a new one. Initial development started in late June 2008, this led to an alpha release [...]