ORION is leading the way in helping its users adopt the next generation Internet protocol, and extending IPv6 peering beyond the research and education community to other networks and commercial providers.

As a result, it is providing an incentive to migrate to the new protocol and addressing what some say is a looming crisis.

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses, which connect computers and other devices to the Internet, are widely expected to run out by 2012. The Internet…

Blogs
The blogs page now features the ability to create an article before delving into a channel. After selecting "Add Article" from a drop down menu you will select which channel to post your article in. When viewing a blog article, additional author information is now available below a post, this feature offers you the ability to view their profile and other articles. When the author of a post comments on their post, those comments will appear highlighted, this only applies to blogs.

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TORONTO - Ontario researchers, processing multiple terabytes of raw data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment transmitted over ORION and other advanced networks, report new world records in the search for new particles.

University of Toronto (U of T) physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS project colleagues, announced the first findings from the LHC at CERN in Switzerland, which confirm the Standard Model of physics is working as expected. This allows the LHC to move on to its…

Kingston, Ontario, July 26, 2010 - Colleges and polytechnics across Canada will soon have a greater opportunity to conduct leading-edge research and help local businesses bring new innovations to the marketplace thanks to Canada's Economic Action Plan. This new initiative launched today by the Government of Canada was announced by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), speaking at St. Lawrence College in Kingston. Minister of State Goodyear was joined by Guy …

August 10, 2010 | The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has awarded its highest honour, the William D. Coolidge Award, to David Rogers, Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics at Carleton University.

Founded in 1958, AAPM promotes the application of physics to medicine and biology. The Coolidge Award is presented to a member who has exhibited a distinguished career in medical physics, and who has exerted a significant impact on the practice of medical physics.

Rogers has made…

Kingston, ON -- A team of Queen's University researchers has received $450,000 to study a gene mutation common to breast cancer patients. The three-year funding supports research aimed at developing an inexpensive diagnostic tool for identifying individuals with the gene mutation.

"In the long term, we hope to identify people early who are at risk of developing breast cancer - before they get cancer - so they have the best possible surveillance and treatment options," says Scott Davey.

The…

Internet2 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today announced a partnership to deploy a highly reliable, high capacity nationwide network that will serve to significantly enhance the capabilities of NOAA's researchers and their partners across the country.

Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new high capacity research network called "NWave" will be built on a set of 10-Gigabit per second dedicated waves on the national Internet2…

Via Bill St. Arnault's: Green IT/Broadband and Cyber-Infrastructure Blog:

A proposed $ 60 million which consists of structuring a partnership between government and business leaders in this field. This project enable the development and demonstration of new products or systems that promote the reduction of consumption energy or the development of other systems have a positive effect on the environment.

This initiative, which aims to share the risk with the companies in the ICT sector, will…