May 2010


Study shows ORION helps support over 2,100 jobs and provides other major economic benefits
A new study indicates Ontario's ORION network helps support over 2,100 jobs, and contributes an estimated $147 million to Ontario GDP annually.
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ORION traffic tripled over last three years
Massive spike in research and collaboration on provincial research network
ORION is reporting phenomenal growth in the Ontario research network's traffic, pointing to increasing activity and applications, ranging from cancer and medical research, advanced technologies in the classroom, to global science collaborations..
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Successful testing of HD IP broadcast over ORION
Ryerson University has successfully completed testing of high definition IP video technology over ORION that broadcasters, such as TVO and TFO, could use to stream high definition live interview video content from remote sites to production studios over IP networks, instead of satellites.
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Summit a success - Baker honoured by peers
Ontario research, education and technology innovators converged at the MaRS Centre in Toronto recently, joining ORION and its partners at the annual ORION Summit.
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Canada's HPC community descends on HPCS
Canada's high performance computing (HPC) community are converging in Toronto for the High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS) 2010.
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ORION shares expertise at Internet2 meeting
Cloud computing and shared resources dominated much of the discussions at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting in Arlington, Virginia recently, where ORION was invited to update members on the new value-added services ORION is deploying to Ontario institutions.
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  • CAMH connects to ORION
  • CANARIE $2M call for proposals
  • ORION welcomes new research tower at SickKids
  • HPCVL researchers achieve breakthrough computations
  • NOSM, UofT collaborate to provide enhanced medical training
  • York, OCAD researchers developing next generation of data analysis and visualization tools
  • ORION at Discovery 2010
  • First O3 case study published
  • People News
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