On 16 July, 2010 the AUT (Auckland University of Technology) radio telescope took part in joint VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) observations of IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun), the first ever solar wind sail, which was launched in May this year. VLBI allows radio telescopes to combine their observations producing much higher resolution images.

KAREN's international capacity is set to leap forward to an impressive 1Gb/s. This is one of the features of KAREN's new international connectivity to be provided by TelstraClear from November 2010.

The road to eResearch Australasia has begun with the issuing of a call for papers. If you're keen to participate in this year's event, the KAREN Capability Build Fund could help you get there.

eResearch SA, the South Australian provider of high performance computing, data management and storage, research collaboration, and visualisation services for researchers in SA, are looking for a Director for their eResearch Group.

Connection details are now available for tomorrow's virtual seminar with Gordon Cook.

The time is nigh to book your place at APAN29, Asia Pacific's premier advanced network technologies and applications conference - Sydney, 8-11 February 2010.

Yesterday AARNet, the Australian advanced network, celebrated 20 years of the Internet in Australia. This milestone is celebrated in a fantastic video produced for the occasion.

Recordings from the Fall 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting on network-based collaboration are now available for your viewing pleasure.

The Square Kilometre Array project has been all over the radio (and air) waves during the past few days, and KAREN is there.

Watch a free virtual seminar on Astrophysics data exploration and visualisation using advanced technologies.

REANNZ has decided not to go ahead with issuing an RFP for a new trans-Tasman cable.

Witness history in the making. You can watch a multicast stream of the US Presidential Inauguration over KAREN.

A group of research libraries from USA universities have launched a new online shared digital repository called the HathiTrust.

HathiTrust (pronounced "hah-tee") pulls together the digital collections, including millions of books, of research libraries from 25 American universities. Materials in the public domain will be available for reading online in full.

Physicist or interested individual? You can view the startup of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tonight in EVO or via satellite broadcast or a live webcast.

Media release

International connectivity

“REANNZ warmly welcomes the Government’s initiative to invest in additional international telecommunications capacity to meet the future needs of the research and education sector. This will provide a step-change in opportunities for the KAREN community to collaborate and innovate”, said Donald Clark, REANNZ Chief Executive, today after the Government budget announcements.

The National Information Society Agency (NIA) in Korea has issued an invitation for international partners in network technology and applications research and working groups.

ResearchChannel has invited New Zealand researchers to take part in the public beta test of Research1.

Mike Culver's visit to REANNZ is taking place at 1pm Tuesday 19 February.

Mike Culver an Evangelist for Amazon Web Services is visiting REANNZ as part of his February trip to Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand academics, researchers and repository managers are invited to take part in a short survey to develop a framework in the UK for the identification of versions of objects in digital repositories.

Building KAREN Communities for Collaboration 2 - 5 July 2007

Excitement is mounting as registrations for this forum pour in from wide and far across the research, education, innovation and government sectors.

Through REANNZ's international partnership with Taiwanese network, TWAREN, and Singaporean Network, SingAREN, KAREN members now have improved access to their peers in these countries. KAREN recently signed Memoranda of Understanding with TWAREN and SingAREN confirming peering arrangements, and as a result widening the reach of KAREN and speeding up access to international collaboration partners in these countries.

Peering is an interconnection of separate networks or groups of networks allowing the exchange of traffic between network customers.

The British Library has digitised and made available online two of Leonardo da Vincis' notebooks - called the Codex Leicester and the Codex Arundel.

Does all of the jargon that comes with eResearch confuse you?

APAC 07

The biennial Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch will be held in Perth, 8-12 October 2007.  This event is the biggest of its kind in Australia.

FP7 Global Information Day - 6 March 2007

FP7 (the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development) is an EU fund available to research communities in New Zealand.

Trip Report: APAN23 Manila, January 2003

Donald Clark and Julie Watson from REANNZ and Paul Bonnington from University of Auckland attended the 23rd Asia Pacific Advanced Networks meeting in Manila.  The meeting offered a chance to:

REANNZ staff were fortunate to undertake two international trips during 2006.

From Royal Society Alert No 144 

The latest edition of eJournal USA focuses on science as an international undertaking through a growing array of collaborative efforts, technical journals, conferences, the Internet, and dedicated high-bandwidth data networks for research and education.

REANNZ has signed its first two international partnership agreements with National Lambda Rail (http://www.nlr.net/) and Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/) in the USA. These memoranda of understanding (MoU) will enable New Zealand researchers and educators on these networks to interact and collaboarate seamlessly.