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LELANTOS programme to deliver technical innovation
IT solutions specialist CDW announced an agreement with the Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) and NATO ’ s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps ( ARRC ) headquarters in Gloucester , UK , to deliver a two-year agile technical innovation contract for a Command , Control and Communication ( C3 ) programme named LELANTOS .
ARRC is NATO ’ s rapidly deployable headquarters that acts as a nerve centre for operations and crisis response . CDW – one of the world ’ s largest IT technology enablers – and Viasat UK Ltd , a global leader in communication technologies , have partnered on the two-year programme , which will enable a more survivable , manoeuvrable and deployable HQ .
Programme LELANTOS will involve regular technological innovation , as well as the wider Digital Transformation of HQ ARRC and is part of a range of initiatives that demonstrate the UK ’ s continued commitment to the NATO alliance .
The programme will exploit multiple streams of state-of-theart and SME technology and will deliver enhancements to the battlefield both at home and deployed .
Over the course of the programme , decision-makers and technicians at the MOD , ARRC , CDW and Viasat will collaborate and develop integrated systems , making use of agile technical and commercial processes .
NEC to launch PCIe-based vector engine card
NEC Corporation has announced the global launch of a PCIe-based Vector Engine card ( Vector Engine ) to tap into the growing demand for High Performance Computing ( HPC ) from small and mediumsized enterprises ( SMEs ). The shipment of the Vector Engine will start from January 2021 .
The Vector Engine is the core component of NEC ’ s SX-Aurora TSUBASA vector supercomputer , which has been deployed to more than 100 customers worldwide since 2018 . The Vector Engine provides a 2.45 TeraFlops computation capability and a 1.53 TeraBytes / second memory bandwidth with around 200W power consumption for processing scientific applications .
This high computation capability and power efficiency are enabled by eight powerful cores , making it possible to accelerate data intensive scientific applications with lower power consumption .
Sourcing the Vector Engine from NEC allows system integrators to offer vector computing systems by combining the Vector Engine and general x86 servers from other IT vendors , while enabling server manufacturers to develop and market their own-branded vector computing servers using the Vector Engine .
OU receives £ 1 million funding to support Scottish SMEs
A £ 1 million grant has been awarded to The Open University in Scotland to support small to medium-sized businesses with skills training to boost productivity and growth in response to Covid-19 .
The new funding announced by Scottish Government Business , Fair Work and Skills Minister Jamie Hepburn , will enable small to mediumsized businesses ( SMEs ) to access up to £ 5,000 of online training delivered by The Open University in Scotland .
The OU programme is part of the Scottish Funding Council ’ s Flexible Workforce Development Fund Phase 2 to help businesses to continue to upskill and reskill existing workforces . Phase 1 focused on delivery for levy payers in partnership with Scotland ’ s colleges .
This is the first time the fund is being made available to SMEs across the private , public and third sectors and the OU in Scotland is the first university training partner . �
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