A decision has been made to integrate the Education3DGrid services into the virtual networking platform provided by the 3D Association. In essence this will mean that Edu3DGrid shall become a brand name for the service rather than a supply organisation in its own right. The contract for supplying this service has been taken up by [...]
Apr
8
2012
8
2012
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 [...]