The Back to School Initiative from Sun offers schools all its technologies in
one program to help schools leverage Sun technology and expertise.
Sun's newly refocused education business unit matches academic
institutions with the appropriate technologies, including workstations,
information appliances, servers, and software.
The Sun Academic Initiative Program offers courses and creates a
collaborative relationship between Sun and academic institutions to
introduce students to Sun technologies, prepare them for
industry-leading certification, and equip them with marketable IT job
skills. The Sun Academic Initiative web page offers pdf brochures on
Sun and education, case studies, curriculum information, program
benefits, and certification.
Britain has launched its biggest academic supercomputer, nicknamed the
Cosmology Machine, based at the University of Durham Physics
Department. The Cosmology Machine gathers information about the
behavior of stars, gases, and enigmatic dark matter throughout the
universe and then calculates, at ultra high speeds, how galaxies and
solar systems evolved.
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