ICT KTN

What it is about

•Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is the Device Centric part of the Consumerisation of IT (COIT). BYOD unblocks many opportunities for significant Productivity gains for both large companies and small companies. The low cost of developing an App for a Smartphone or a Tablet can make the payback time very attractive. Allowing it to run on the employee’s preferred personal platform guarantees a higher take-up and usage of the app and allows a reduction in the replacement costs of PCs .

•Attempting to achieve these gains without a methodical approach to evaluating the risks to the business might cause the company to fail to meet its compliance requirement, whether you are a Solicitor, a Financial Services company, or a Manufacturer supplying to a Defence Ministry or Government supply chain

•60% of UK businesses are believed to be implementing BYOD either formally or informally but less than 40% are taking adequate security precautions. New Generation Viruses can bypass traditional Firewalls and Virus Protection and are targeted to steal Trade Secrets and High Value Financial Information from industry generally. The employee’s own Tablet or Smartphone with all their games and social networking might be the carrier that infects the network.

•Companies need to protect themselves against the bad apple Insiders who will use the technology change to commit fraud or to steal the company’s trade secrets, source code, commercial information, without restricting their employee’s ability to carry out their day to day job.

The Benefits of Watching

•Find sources for more information about the implementation of BYOD.
•Discover a framework for evaluating the decision to introduce, restrict or forbid the technique
•Discover a framework for a sensible decision on how much to spend on securing the network in order to use it
•Discover some of the existing resources to support introduction of the technique

Cloud Computing is a relatively new and innovative area of business activity in the IT industry. The delivery of network based services is not a new idea, but the recent advances in network capabilities, the commoditisation of computing equipment and rapid advance of software as a service has taken this to a new level of business utilisation affecting all sectors and all types of business. What are the building blocks for these services? How are they regulated and controlled? How will the market continue to develop? A key element in the answers to these question are standards.

John Easton is from IBM, a company which requires no introduction. However, you may not be aware of the extent of IBM investment in applied research in areas such as HPC and multicore. John Easton will guide you along this path.

The term “multicore” is increasingly misunderstood and over-simplified, as many still think this simply refers to having more than one conventional CPU. In this seminar, we’ll explain how Imagination uses the concept of multiple datapaths and execution units utilising range of different hardware and software architectures to implement high performance, highly scalable IP (Intellectual Property) cores covering graphics (GPU), video (VPU), communications (RPU) as well as CPU functionality. Tony will also explain how Imagination uses this to deliver much more than just performance scaling, including power management, product portfolio, and application software flexibility.

: In the past five years, NVIDIA has driven the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general-purpose computing tasks from nowhere to a mainstream technology. Today, three of five most powerful supercomputers in the world are powered by GPUs and we see many examples where new science and technology is enabled by faster, better, more accurate simulation applications running on GPU accelerated computers.

How can a working computational engineer or scientist take advantage of this new computing paradigm? The simplest way is to use an application that has been ported to GPUs; more and more commercial applications in the fields of structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, etc. are being ported to GPUs. For those using high-productivity scripting languages like MATLAB and Mathematica, the latest releases of these packages are accelerated by GPUs.
Libraries offer a route to exploit the benefits of a GPU with minimal effort. NVIDIA and our partners provide a broad spectrum of libraries for dense and sparse linear algebra, Fourier transforms, random number generation, image processing, video encoding and decoding etc. Simply replacing calls to libraries running on a CPU with calls to libraries written for the GPU will give an immediate boost in performance.

From multicore to many-core: How to write portable, scalable, parallel applications that take advantage of the mushrooming number of cores.
In the session we will look at some of the programming tools and parallel programming models that you can use to make your code parallel. We present an overview of Intel Parallel Studio XE, along with a discussion on what methodology to use when adding parallel code to existing programs.

John Fruehe will be presenting the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series CPU and providing an overview of the features and benefits of the new Bulldozer architecture. In particular, how the core count and power saving features provide advantages to real world applications in terms of scalability and performance.

This is an essential presentation for all organisations involved in research and the supply chain relating to Smart Energy and in particular the Smart Meter roll out.

Scalability is everyone’s problem. Designing for scale is more of an art than science. And, very few people understand scalability well-enough to design highly scalable systems and organisations. Is there an authoritative guidebook that can lead you through the process of building scalable systems? There seems to be one and here is an opportunity to listen to its authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher
Marty Abbot is an inventor, entrepreneur, technologist and business leader with executive experience with Quigo,which was sold to AOL. Prior to Quigo, Marty served as the SVP of Technology at eBay. His full profile can be found here: http://akfpartners.com/about/marty-abbott
Michael Fisher is an inventor, entrepreneur and veteran software and technology executive with Quigo (as CTO) and Paypal (Vice President, Engineering & Architecture). His full profile can be found here: http://akfpartners.com/about/michael-fisher
Ian Osborne (Project Director, Intellect and ICT KTN, http://www.intellectuk.org/spokespeople/580), will engage the two authors on topics such as how to design scalable systems, associated challenges and a few ways to deal with them. Feel free to send your questions before the webinar to ian.osborne@ictktn.org.uk or Mahesha.Pandit@ictktn.org.uk
This webinar is an initiative of Scalable Computing track of the ICT KTN.

A briefing event for innovation driven businesses, academics and others working in ICT and its applications in the areas of:

•Cloud computing, Internet of services and advanced software engineering
•Trustworthy ICT
•Research enabling the Future Internet
•Advanced nanoelectronic components: design, engineering technology and manufacturing
•Micro-Nano Bio Systems
•Core and disruptive photonic technologies
•Intelligent information management
•Smart energy grids
•ICT for efficient water resources management
•Systems for energy efficient and sustainable mobility
•Technology enhanced learning

Participants will receive an introduction to the availability of this major funding for collaborative research announced by the European Commission on 20 July. The webinar is designed to provide understanding of the opportunities how to access these funds and access the benefits offered by European collaborative research,

The FP7 UK ICT National Contact Point and the ICT KTN are pleased to invite you to join this event and will help you to understand the call contents and the support available to proposers from ICT KTN and elsewhere.

The webinar will be presented by Peter Walters UK NCP, and Eddie Townsend, Collaboration Delivery Manager ICT KTN.

The webinar presentations will last for approximately 40 minutes followed by a further 20 minutes for questions.

This event is part of an ICT KTN programme designed to assist UK organisations benefit from the Framework programme and leading edge research networks.