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The University of Southampton and the University of Oxford have agreed to partner in the establishment of a joint Institute for Web Science.

The Institute, which was announced by the Prime Minister today (22 March), will ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of developments in the World Wide Web, and understands, anticipates and fully exploits the economic potential that emerges from the evolution of the Web.

Details at : http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2010/mar/10_30.shtml

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World-class research at the University of Southampton is getting a multi-million pound boost with the purchase of a new supercomputer, built using IBM iDataPlex server technology and capable of over 74 trillion calculations per second.

The new supercomputer, containing more than 8000 processors, will be used by leading-edge researchers across the University to make highly complex computations in fields ranging from cancer research to climate change. It will be the first IBM System iDataPlex in a UK university and one of the 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world (based on the June 2009 Top 500 list at www.top500.org).

“The University of Southampton is one of the UK’s leading research universities and one of the top 100 in the world. To ensure that we remain at the cutting-edge of research, we must invest in the best facilities for our research staff,” comments the University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Philip Nelson.

“This significant investment will ensure that our researchers have computing facilities to rival the best in the world.”

The computer, which was custom-designed and will be built, rapidly implemented and configured for the University by UK high-performance computer and storage integrator OCF plc (www.ocf.co.uk), has a capability equivalent to around 4,000 standard office computers, running simultaneously.

It will greatly assist the University’s medical researchers. Geneticist Professor Andrew Collins comments: “We need extremely high levels of computing power in our work mapping the disease genes implicated in breast cancer and glaucoma. With the volume of genome data increasing hugely each year, its analysis requires the most highly-sophisticated facilities.”

One of the key engineering groups using the computer will be the University Technology Centre for Computational Engineering, where director Professor Andy Keane and colleagues will be using its power to improve the design of aero engines and aircraft.

Other major users will be researchers in the University’s Complex Systems Simulation Doctoral Training Centre, which carries out high-quality, sophisticated simulations in research areas such as climate, pharmaceuticals, bioscience, nanoscience, medical and chemical systems, transport, the environment, engineering and computing.

“Using these new facilities we will see simulation modelling used to drive the design of new drugs tested on simulated organisms, to shape our response to climate change, to redesign our transport systems, and even to explore the origins of life on earth. The quality of simulations such as these is becoming crucial in the modern world,” says the Centre’s director Dr Seth Bullock.

The University and OCF signed their contract in July 2009. IBM will receive £1.8m from its sale into OCF.

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EPrints helps create world’s first repository for the visual arts

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A repository which will make it possible for colleges and individuals in the arts to store and present their work in a creative way will be unveiled tomorrow (Wednesday 3 June) at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.

Kultur, a project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has used the world-leading EPrints software from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton to develop a joint pilot repository for the University of the Arts London, the University for the Creative Arts and Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. The project will be officially completed tomorrow and an event to mark the occasion will be held at Whitechapel Art Gallery.

‘Up to now, the focus of most repositories has been science and engineering and published articles,’ said Dr Leslie Carr of ECS. ‘Kultur has provided us with an opportunity to use EPrints to develop the first comprehensive institutional repository for the arts.’

The Kultur project provides a flexible, multimedia pilot repository capable of showcasing a wide range of outputs from digital versions of paintings, photography, film, graphic and textile design to records of performances, shows and installations.

The three institutions involved will now develop their own open repositories to store and showcase their creative work.

‘This will make an immense difference to our institutions,’ said Andrew Gray, Kultur Project Officer, University of the Arts London. ‘It is the first repository of its kind in the arts world; there are others but there hasn’t been a visual one. The benefit of Kultur is that it will enable us to share our practice-based research across our colleges and with other institutions.’

‘It will also open up the art world, which will link up the often lone artist with the wider arts community,’ Dr Carr added.

The pilot repository will be showcased at Whitechapel Art Gallery between 6-8pm on Wednesday 3 June. The event will include presentations from Andy McGregor, JISC, Seymour Roworth-Stokes, Pro Vice Chancellor of Research at the University for the Creative Arts, Andrew Carnie, Researcher at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and Pat Christie, Director of Library and Learning Resources, University of the Arts London.

Kultur was a collaboration between all three arts institutions in partnership with the Visual Arts Data Service and EPrints.

EPrints software, developed in 2000 by the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science, is used in hundreds of institutional repositories (IRs) around the world.

Images of the pilot repository are available at:

http://www.eprints.org/kultur/FrontPage.png

http://www.eprints.org/kultur/Hackney.pdf

http://www.eprints.org/kultur/Hackney.pdf

http://www.eprints.org/kultur/MiniFlux.pdf

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Following is the list of Top Electronic and Electrical Engineering Schools in the UK. Southampton is ranked 1st nationally, followed by UCL and Imperial.

Ranking - Scores /100

1. University Of Southampton - 100.00

2. UCL - London’s Global University - 92.70

3. Imperial College London - 92.00

4. Queen’s University Belfast - 91.50

5. University of Edinburgh - 89.20

6. University of Sheffield - 87.10

6. University of Surrey - 87.10

8. University of Strathclyde - 85.90

9. University of Manchester - 85.20

10. University of Glasgow - 85.00

11. Loughborough Uni- 84.70

12. Uni of Leeds - 93.10

13. Cardiff Uni - 80.00

14. Uni of Essex - 80.00

15. Aston Uni - 79.90

16. Uni of Newcastle - 77.50

17. Uni of Sussex - 76.00

18. Uni of Birmingham - 74.20

19. Uni of Bath - 74.00

Source: Guardian Ranking 2008

The other Rankings for Southampton:)

http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/gug/gooduniversityguide.php?sort=TOTAL&subject=ELECTRICAL

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/single.htm?ipg=6643

http://browse.guardian.co.uk/education?SearchBySubject=&FirstRow=&SortOrderDirection=&SortOrderColumn=&Subject=Engineering%3A+electronic+and+electrical&Institution=Southampton