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In Bologna, a two-day event with the TeRABIT project, one year after its launch. On 25th June, a public conference entitled "Networks, HPC and Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges created by the National Research Infrastructures" is scheduled.
Read more: TeRABIT Conference: 25th and 26th June in Bologna!
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The Italian Ministry of University and Research has appointed Maurizio Tira as a new member of the ICSC Foundation Board of Directors.
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Registration is now open for the GARR Conference 2024, taking place in Brescia from 29th to 31st May.
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The next edition of the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop 2024 (NPAPW24) will take place in Lithuania, at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), from September 11th to 13th, 2024.
Read more: Open the call for proposals for the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop 2024
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From 16th to 21st April 2024, the Rome Science Festival returns to the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone for its 19th edition.
Read more: Errors and Wonders: GARR at the Rome Science Festival 2024
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On April 9th, GARR Scholars' Day 2024 will take place in Rome, an event dedicated to the winners of the eleventh edition of the Orio Carlini scholarships and their research projects.
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The acquisition of optical spectrum in the BlueMed submarine cable marks the first step towards the complete integration of Sardinia's university and research network into the national backbone of GARR.
Read more: Submarine connections with Sardinia: the TeRABIT project enters full swing
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With the installation of the first optical equipment, the NRRP-funded projects TeRABIT and ICSC officially enter the implementation phase for the network component.Given the tight deadlines and administrative tasks required by the NRRP, this is an important initial achievement.
Read more: NRRP: the implementation phase begins for the TeRABIT and ICSC projects
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The upgrade of the link between the GARR network and the European research network GÉANT has been successfully completed. The entire Italian scientific and academic community can now rely on an international connection of 600 Gbps in total, thanks to the double link with a single capacity of 300 Gbps.
Read more: The connection to the European Géant network reaches 600 Gbps.
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The new edition of GARR NEWS is now online. The main theme of this issue is participation, one of the characteristics that strongly define the research and education community. Through the active engagement of all community members, researchers and students can create new opportunities, overcome obstacles, and, why not, breake away from traditional patterns to drive innovation.
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After the successful experimentation with DCI solutions in recent months, the connection, operating at a capacity of 1.6 Tbps, between CERN in Geneva and the CNAF of INFN in Bologna is now fully operational on the national GARR network.
Read more: Data Centre Interconnection goes operational on the GARR Network
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From today the new study and research projects financed by the GARR Orio Carlini scholarships officially begin.
Read more: The new Orio Carlini scholarship projects are officially underway!
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Submit contributions to speak at the forthcoming GARR Conference, which will be held at the University of Brescia from 29 to 31 May.
Read more: GARR Conference 2024: Call for Proposals is Now Open
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Registrations are now open for TNC24, the international conference dedicated to R&E networking and connectivity. The event will take place in Rennes, France, from June 10 to June 14, 2024.
Read more: Registrations are open for TNC24 10-16 June, in Rennes
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The 2024 edition of the GARR Conference is entitled "Navigating complexity - Digital infrastructures and skills for research"; the event will be hosted by the University of Brescia, in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and it will take place from 29 to 31 May 2024.
Read more: Brescia to host the GARR Conference 2024 from 29 to 31 May
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We are looking for 4 graduates who are interested in networking and IT and want to improve their technical skills and to support the Italian research and education community.
Read more: New job opportunity available at GARR for Network Engineers and DevOps Engineers!
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The GARR Conference 2023 proceedings are now available online. The event was held at the University of Florence from June 14 to 16, and it featured several renowned speakers who spoke on various topics, fostering cross-cultural mingling and collaboration.
Read more: GARR Conference 2023: the Selected Papers are now online
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The call for proposals for the GÉANT Innovation Programme has been launched, a financing opportunity for initiatives in the research and education community that has already rewarded 9 Italian institutes in the previous two editions.
Read more: New GÉANT Innovation Program call: funds available for original projects
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The GÉANT association, which oversees the European research network, has elected new members to its Board of Directors. Claudio Allocchio, Senior Technical Officer GARR, was also elected for a three-year term.
Read more: Claudio Allocchio elected to the Board of Directors of the European GÉANT network
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GARR NEWS 28 is available online, delving into diverse themes associated with the continually evolving concept of the frontier, which is a mission central to GARR's goals.
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The creation of the new, powerful, widespread and flexible network is complete. Now, throughout Italy, the optical fiber backbone exceeds a capacity of 20 Terabits per second.
Read more: Introducing GARR-T: the new ultra-fast network for universities and research
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Financing innovative research activities on ICT topics is the objective of the GARR scholarships intended for young graduates under 30.
Read more: Opportunities for research activities: 10 new GARR scholarships available
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Registrations are now open for the new edition of the GARR 2023 workshop “Net Makers” which will take place at the National Central Library of Rome from November 8th to 10th. November 7th will be dedicated to training sessions.
Read more: Registration open for GARR 2023 Workshop “Net Makers”
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The official dates and location for the upcoming GARR "Net Makers" Workshop are out. This annual gathering takes place from Tuesday, November 7th (a day dedicated to training) to Friday, November 10th, at the National Central Library in Rome, located at Viale Castro Pretorio 105, 00185.
Read more: Workshop GARR 2023: 7 -10 November t the National Central Library in Rome
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Today, on September 28th, the first dedicated network connection was initiated for the innovative SAR-GRAV laboratory, located in the former Sos Enattos mine area in Lula (NU), Sardinia. This site is Italy's candidate to host the future large research infrastructure in Europe for the study of gravitational waves, known as the Einstein Telescope.
Read more: Einstein Telescope: ultra-fast connection for SAR-GRAV
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On the occasion of European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), GÉANT organises the Become a Cyber Hero campaign, which includes a series of training activities, including webinars and online panels, held in English by security experts from the research community across Europe.
Read more: Cybersecurity training: GÉANT webinars for the EU cybersecurity month
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The world of Open Science and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is gearing up for two prominent events to be held in Madrid, as part of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union's events, and the Skills4EOSC project, coordinated by GARR, will play a central role in both of these prestigious occasions.
Read more: Madrid: double appointment with Open Science - EOSC Symposium and Open Science FAIR
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GARR offers a new training opportunity on the ACME protocol dedicated to all those in the GARR CS community who manage SSL certificate renewals. Certificate renewals occur with increasingly frequent deadlines, and the ACME protocol is a valid ally.
Read more: Certificate management: training courses on the ACME protocol
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The Open Science Café, the monthly appointment with Open Science, is back. The first date of this new edition is Thursday 14 September with "Generative artificial intelligence and copyright", a webinar held by the lawyer Simone Aliprandi on the topic of applied copyright to creative productions generated by artificial intelligence.
Read more: New edition of the Open Science Café webinar series!
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Thanks to an innovative multi-domain spectrum sharing, GARR and GÉANT have connected two data centers over 1000 km apart at 1.6 Tbps: the CNAF in Bologna and the CERN computing center in Geneva.
Read more: Data Centre Interconnection: 1.6 Tbps between CERN and Bologna thanks to spectrum sharing
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Do you want to design a tailor-made network for researchers across Italy? Be a driving force in technological innovation!
Read more: Job opportunity at GARR: looking for 2 network engineers
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GARR 2022 Annual Report is now available online, providing an overview of the network's developments, services and activities carried out by the entire team throughout the year.
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A new multimedia gallery on the 2023 GARR conference is now available online. It contains photos, interviews and complete videos of the presentations held at the event that took place from 14 to 16 June at the Novoli campus of the University of Florence.
Read more: GARR Conference 2023: the multimedia gallery is now online!
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GARR has released the Gender Equality Plan 2023-2025 (GEP) to actively support gender equality and promote the evolution of an increasingly inclusive organization.
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Save the date for the new edition of the GARR Workshop. The annual meeting organised by the Italian research and education network will be held from 7 to 10 November in Rome.
Read more: See you at GARR Workshop 2023 in Rome in November!
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This year, TNC, the main international conference dedicated to networking and connectivity in the research and education field, organized by GÉANT, is hosted from June 5th to June 9th in Tirana by RASH, the Albanian National Research and Education Network (NREN).
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The IT security awareness course developed by the University of Ferrara is now available for everyone thanks to the collaboration with GARR.
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Claudio Allocchio, Senior Technical Officer of GARR, was awarded for the second time with the e-Culture Award, a recognition for the important collaborative and co-creative work in advanced Internet networks in the cultural field in art, science, technology and society.
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GARR President, Maurizio Tira, was elected to the Board of Directors of the European University Association (EUA) on the occasion of the General Assembly of the association, which was held in Gdansk (Poland) on April 20th.
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In the framework of the TeRABIT project, funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP - NextGenerationEU funds), INFN, Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics is hiring 1 staff unit as Infrastructure Manager (deadline for applications: 8th May).
Read more: The TeRABIT Project is hiring 1 Infrastructure Manager
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In the frame of the TeRABIT project, financed by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR - NextGenerationEU funds), the research group in Dynamics of Ecosystems and Computational Oceanography of the Oceanography Section of OGS is hiring 12 staff units for researchers and technologists (deadline for applications: 4th May).
Read more: The TeRABIT project is hiring data scientists and researchers
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The survey aims to identify the presence of Data Stewards in Italian Universities and Research Institutions.
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The migration to the new GARR-T network infrastructure has entered a new phase. With Phase 3, activities in the Northwest regions have been completed, and the new network has arrived in Rome and Florence.
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The IDEM Federation's scientific technical committee and the IDEM GARR AAI Service have collaborated to create a shared document on digital identity assurance profiles, a system of rules for verifying and asserting the quality of digital identities within the IDEM Federation.
Read more: IDEM public consultation on digital identity assurance profiles
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The GÉANT General Assembly has recently renewed the composition of the GÉANT Project Planning Committee (GPPC), the body of NREN representatives which oversees and guides the planning and submission of proposals that the GÉANT Association engages in.
Read more: Fabio Farina elected to the GÉANT Project Planning Committee
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The Rome office of GARR is looking for a communication specialist. Applications must be submitted by 12.00 on April 11, 2023.
Read more: One new vacancy at garr: we are looking for a communications specialist
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About cloud technology, many institutions are currently debating whether to rely entirely on public cloud services (managed by the major international market players) or to build and maintain their ownh cloud infrastructures, maybe considering the federation of resources as with the GARR Cloud.
Read more: About cloud technology and the European R&E communiy
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The Horizon 2020 project NEANIAS, which began at the end of 2019 with the goal of developing prototypes of innovative services in the EOSC context, particularly for the submarine, atmospheric, and space research sectors, has been completed. The project's Italian scientific partners are GARR, INAF, and UNIMIB, while ALTEC (an ASI subsidiary) and MEEO participated as SMEs (small and medium-sized companies).
Read more: With NEANIAS new services for open science are now available
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On 14 March 2023 a new project was launched in Italy: TeRABIT. Supported by the EU funds of Italy's recovery and resilience plan, the project aims to build by 2025 a next-generation integrated computing and network infrastructure to improve collaboration and information exchange among Italian scientific communities.
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Two vacancies are now open as Junior Network Engineer for GARR Rome office. Applications must be submitted by by filling in the form by 12.00 on 23 March 2023.
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The installation and configuration of the new computing and storage resources were completed successfully.
Read more: A new high-performance hardware for GARR Cloud services
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The Scholars’ Day 2023 takes place on February 27 at the GARR headquarters in Rome: an opportunity to get to know the new winners of the Orio Carlini scholarships and their research projects.
Read more: Orio Carlini Scholarships: let's find out the winning projects at Scholarship Day!