Stories about: University of Melbourne

The annual linux.conf.au conference, now in its ninth year, kicked off at the University of Melbourne this week, and is on track to top all expectations with a record number of attendees and a bigger-than-ever program of mini-conferences, keynote addresses and open day surprises.

Twenty-one year old John Leung was awarded a $US25,000 first prize by Bill Gates himself last week, in Microsoft's annual Next-Gen PC Design Competition. An undergraduate architecture student at the University of Melbourne, Leung's MADE in China submission took a novel approach to computing products and services, with the aim of bringing PCs to the emerging Chinese market.

The University of Melbourne's University Systems Project is set to undergo its largest transformation since its launch four years ago with the core Unix systems to be replaced by Linux by the end of the year.

Since its inception in the early nineties, Linux has achieved a significant share of the server operating system market. The desktop, however, has largely been the domain of Windows since the advent of Windows 95 more than a decade ago. Rodney Gedda looks at the changing tide of the enterprise desktop

Hope of Linux tackling the desktop market has suffered a reality check with the University of Melbourne's Trinity College dumping the penguin in favour of Unix cousin Mac OS X, not x86-based rival, Windows.

Kazaa users were warned of potential copyright infringement issues before they used the system, a witness for the record companies conceded on Tuesday.

Kazaa could be designed to block unauthorised file sharing and warn users of copyright infringement, according to a Melbourne professor who will take the witness stand in the Federal Court on Tuesday afternoon.

If Novell has its way, Melbourne will become the Linux capital of Australia with students across the state using Linux on the desktop.

Data-intensive research fields such as physics and life science will soon benefit from grid computing technology, a new method for analyzing massive amounts of data demonstrated in Australia for the first time at the recent ICCS 2003 (International Conference on Computational Science) in Melbourne.

The amount of computing power available to Australian bioinformatics researchers continues to climb, with the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) this week switching on a massive $1 million clustered server from IBM that will more than double the organisation's computing power.