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• UK High Performance Computing Award

  Hello Everyone, The Windows Server HPC team have created a special award for UK Software Design competitors who use the Windows HPC Server in their Software Design solution of the Imagine Cup. Microsoft want to stimulate the thinking of UK students about how HPC can change the world.  We want students to think big, and to use the world’s fastest systems to solve the world’s biggest problems.  That’s what the HPC prize in the Imagine cup’s about. You know how mutli-core is about writing a program that uses more than one cpu?  Well HPC (High Performance Computing) is the next step up: it’s about programming for hundreds or thousands of CPUs.  This is for all the stuff that needs more compute than you can get from a single server.  Think about online gaming, when you have hundreds of people simultaneously modifying a visual database – that needs more power than you can get one a single CPU.  Think about calculating the temperature over 20,000 land sites in the UK and then projecting that forward into the future, one minute at a time, for 500 years.  This all needs heavy duty computing – and that’s HPC.  It’s the A380 of the computing world. To win the HPC prize you don’t need to have a working system – but tell us how your design would scale-out from one CPU to a thousand.  And explain how all that power would help.  The award will be given to the Software Design teams who demonstrate technical competency with HPC,  have a real world need for high performance computing and present the commercial viability of their implementation. HPC is used in lots of places – last year the two winners used HPC for genetic engineering and motorway design.  People in the UK use HPC for everything from theology to thermodynamics, archaeology to aerodynamics, gaming to genetics.  How could you use it? If you’ve got questions please contact your local HPC or SuperComputing Centre.  Or email Michael... Good luck and hope to see you at the finals. Best, Allison Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:11 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, Technology, Student, Software, Microsoft

• ITA Student Pass

  Hello, I’d like to tell you a little about the ITA Student Pass which gives students access to a large number of e-learning courses free of charge. The e-learning materials will provide your students with access to training on real-world technology and industry-recognised certification. You might even envisage an opportunity to incorporate some of the e-learning into the curriculum for new courses or simply to replace existing materials. If you would like your students to have access to Microsoft e-learning materials I can supply, upon request, a series of unique codes for you to distribute to them. To see a demonstration of what e-learning has to offer please click demo. For the codes themselves, please email i-allmc@micrsoft.com with a subject header of ITA Student Pass. With Best wishes, Allison Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 11:00 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Technology, Teaching, Student, Microsoft, Software design

• Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass

  In an earlier blog I directed you toward the free Preparation Kit for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam 70-571 and, following on from that, today I’d like to introduce you to the Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass which provides free e-learning courses to verified university students and is an excellent way for them to supplement their degree studies with additional learning on Microsoft technologies. Your students may also want to explore Microsoft technical certifications, and the IT Academy Student Pass is a perfect entry point to five different certification paths. Please encourage your students to visit the site and learn more. Best wishes, Allison Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:54 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Students, Careers, Training, Technology, Teaching, Student, Microsoft, Graduates

• Pixel Poetry

  Hi, It was our very great pleasure to sponsor and support the Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering 2008, at the University of Cambridge. Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel If proof were needed, these photographs exemplify the strong connection between art and science and that engineering particularly, has an inner beauty. The winning photograph, Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel, together with other stunning entries can be viewed at Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering. Which puts me in mind on Imagine Cup 2009 and the category for best photo story. It isn’t too soon to get your students involved and thinking about the competition.  You never know, the lucky winner could be from your university and joining us in Cairo for the world finals. The next set of photographs could be of the pyramids and feluccas on Nile. For an overview of the photo story competition please visit Photo Story. All the best, Allison Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:14 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, competitions, Academics, Student, Games, Microsoft