Organization: IBM

IBM invests in oil sands research centre

IBM, Armonk NY, is investing US$1.4 million to establish the IBM Oil Sands Centre of Excellence in Calgary. The Centre is seeking oil sands firms and other industry partners to jointly develop business and technology projects addressing construction, project management, process optimization and environmental management challenges. Oil sands development is expected to require $70 billion…

CLS link to CA*net 4 allows remote research

Researchers will be able to access the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron remotely from their desktops through a new link to CA*net 4, CANARIE Inc‘s broadband research network. The technology was developed by the Alberta Synchrotron Institute, facilitated by the use of lightpaths provided by CANARIE, Netera Alliance, SRNet and BigBangwidth. The new link will…