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Education and Research
10 Sep 2001
#4639
Back to School with Sun
Education Initiative Opens a New Chapter

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.
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    10 Sep 2001
    #4640
    Sun Academic Initiative Program Overview
    Resources

    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.
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      10 Sep 2001
      #4646
      Britain's Biggest Academic Supercomputer
      High Speed Calculations

      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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